Resultados de búsqueda - "Nigeria"

Soil-plant spectral technology guiding soil fertility investments in Africa (WLE-ICRAF) por CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems

“…The Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS) is now being deployed for targeting soil fertility restoration strategies. Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, and Tanzania have established state-of-the-art soil information systems based on the technology. …”
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Aflasafe products protect maize and groundnut from aflatoxin contamination in more than 100,000 hectares in four countries in sub-Saharan Africa por CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health

“…Large-scale use of Aflasafe contributed to improve food safety [e.g. in Nigeria 91% of samples had less than 20 ppb] and increased the income of smallholder maize farmers (average 11.5% more than regular maize).…”
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Mapping of Rice Areas in Egypt using SAR Imagery por Mathieu, Renaud

“…Egypt is the second biggest rice producer in Africa after Nigeria and produces rice mostly during the summer season. …”
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Whole genome sequencing reveals genetic diversity and heatstress adaptation in Nigerian indigenous chickens por Gheyas, Almas A., Rachman, M., Bamidele, O., Dessie, Tadelle, Smith, J., Hanotte, Olivier H.

“…Poultry is a crucial sector for the livelihoods and food security of millions of people in Nigeria. Here we present the first large scale whole-genome sequencing analysis on Nigerian indigenous chickens from different agro-climatic conditions, investigating their genetic diversity and adaptation to tropical hotclimates. …”
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Contextualizing women's and men's trait preferences and choice options in the uptake of breeding products: a framework por Cavicchioli, M., Cole, Steven M., Teeken, B., Ashby, Jacqueline A., Polar, V., Kramer, Berber, Yami, M., Abdoulaye, T.

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IITA offers host community free medical care por International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

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Promoting sustainable forestry resource use and improved livelihoods in refugee settings: A CIFOR-ICRAF-UNHCR partnership to support communities affected by displacement in Cameroo... por Ojong, M., Awono, A., Tshilombo, C., Abdou, M., Ada, H.N.

“…This comprised 469,281 registered refugees, 8,825 asylum seekers, 1,066,254 internally displaced persons (IDPs), and 645,746 returnees arriving mainly from Central Africa Republic and Nigeria.…”
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Local food markets, healthy diets, and climatic shocks in Africa por Assefa, Thomas, Berhane, Guush, Headey, Derek D., Abay, Mehari H.

“…Results highlight substantial variations across communities, and agroclimatic settings in three countries in Africa, namely Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Nigeria.…”
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New podcast explores policy coherence and system transformation in food, land and water por Edmond, Luisa

“…To explore the policy processes shaping the sustainable development landscape, CGIAR’s National Policies and Strategies Initiative (NPS) commissioned reports in six countries – Colombia, Egypt, India, Kenya, Laos and Nigeria. As the reports make clear, policy coherence is hard, but essential to future food, land, and water security in a climate crisis. …”
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Food insecurity and COVID-19 risk in low- and middle-income countries por Mueller, Valerie, Grépin, Karen A., Rabbani, Atonu, Navia, Bianca, Ngunjiri, Anne S. W., Wu, Nicole

“…Using longitudinal data from Bangladesh, Kenya, and Nigeria covering a period from October 2020 to April 2021, the paper assesses whether knowledge of a person infected with COVID-19 is associated with food insecurity, job loss and business closures, and coping strategies to smooth consumption. …”
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Multidimensional Gender and Social Norms in Agrifood System Index por Seymour, Greg, Cole, Steve, Costenbader, B., Heckert, Jessica

“…The instrument was developed through an iterative process including extensive stakeholder consultation and cognitive testing, and was piloted in Tanzania and Nigeria with actors operating in or supporting/influencing the three AFS. …”
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Seed replacement in pulses and its impact on productivity por Joshi, Kuhu, Joshi, Pramod Kumar, Khan, Md. Tajuddin, Kishore, Avinash, Shivaswarmy, G. P.

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Transforming agriculture for improving food and nutrition security among Nigerian farm households por Ecker, Olivier, Hatzenbuehler, Patrick L., Mahrt, Kristi

“…This paper discusses the potential effects of changes in agricultural production practices due to these adjustments in strategy on food consumption, and, hence, on food security and nutrition in Nigeria. We outline the theoretical linkages between changes in agricultural production patterns by farm households and their food consumption decisions.…”
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Policy options for inducing a supply response por Takeshima, Hiroyuki

“…The chapter specifically focuses on irrigated and lowland production systems because, as shown in Chapter 3, these systems have the greatest potential for rice-production growth in Nigeria. Understanding the microeconomics of these systems can provide important insights into the constraints affecting rice-production growth, despite recent government efforts to introduce price incentives through higher import tariffs.…”
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Policy options for modernizing the milling sector por Johnson, Michael E.

“…The objective of this chapter is to assess the potential for transforming and modernizing the domestic rice milling sector in Nigeria using a mathematical programming model. More specifically, it seeks to address a number of key policy questions: Are there differential abilities and efficiencies among existing mill types (small to large) to supply the domestic market? …”
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Postharvest process, marketing, and competiveness of domestic rice por Johnson, Michael E., Ajibola, Akeem

“…The purpose of this chapter is to review the postharvest processing and marketing activities of domestic rice production in Nigeria in order to evaluate domestic production's ability to compete with imports. …”
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Sensitivity of computable general equilibrium models to macroeconomic closure rules: Evidence from the IFPRI standard mode por Laborde Debucquet, David, Traoré, Fousseini

“…In this paper, we study the sensitivity of computable general equilibrium (CGE) models to the choice of macroeconomic closure rule using the case of the standard IFPRI model for Nigeria and Tanzania. Two sets of simulations are performed: a 50 percent decrease in import taxes and a 10 percent increase in agricultural productivity. …”
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Private investment in agricultural research and technology transfer in Africa por Pray, Carl E., Gisselquist, David, Nagarajan, Latha

“…Modern poultry technology increased poultry productivity in Nigeria, and private sugarcane research in South Africa increased productivity there. …”
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Complementarity and sequencing of innovations: new varieties and mechanized processing for cassava in West Africa por Johnson, Michael E., Masters, William A.

“…We study the case of cassava in West Africa, where both mechanized processors and new varieties are more widespread in Nigeria than in neighboring countries. One explanation involves complementarity: mechanization may have induced new variety adoption, or vice-versa. …”
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The West African Semiarid Tropics por Matlon, Peter J.

“…The area encompasses all of Senegal, the Gambia, Burkina Faso, and Cape Verde; major southern portions of Mauritania, Mali, and Niger; and the northern portions of Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria. Except for Senegal, all are classified by the World Bank (1981b) as among the poorest third of the world's developing countries, with mean per capita incomes of $320 or less. …”
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