Search Results - "Reality"

Bridging policy and practice for inclusive climate adaptation in the Philippines: Insights from Quezon and Batangas by Gartaula, Hom Nath, Hellin, Jon, Eschavez, Chona, Raviz, Jeny, Bacud, Susan, Laborte, Alice, Rosimo, Magnolia, Datoon, Rodmyr, Gonsalves, Julian

“…It bridges the gap between policy frameworks and lived realities, ensuring that resilience is both climate-smart and socially just. …”
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Analyzing the enabling environment to enhance the scaling of irrigation and water management technologies: a tool for implementers by Minh, Thai Thi, Zwart, Sander J., Appoh, Richard, Schmitter, Petra S.

“…Agricultural innovation scaling approaches tend to be empirical but do not sufficiently take into account the complex realities of ‘softer elements’ such as people, supply chains, markets, financing mechanisms, policies and regulations, professional knowledge, power relations, incentives and history. …”
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Gender-Smart Investing for Food Systems Transformation Webinar Report by Koge, Jessica, Derenoncourt, Marie Ena

“…The presentations were followed by two concurrent breakout sessions, one on the realities for the supply of capital with a gender lens to agricultural value chain actors, and the other on the challenges of, and opportunities for, raising capital by climate innovators.…”
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Supporting collaborative action for sustainable solutions: Locally-led adaptation as a policy instrument for climate change adaptation practices by Habermann, Birgit, Crane, Todd A.

“…Such an approach to adaptation promises to find climate solutions that are effective in smallholder producers’ complex environmental and socioeconomic realities and support producers as agents of change. …”
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Learning at the Site of Doing; Building Women’s Climate Resilience through Gender-responsive CSA : Insights from AICCRA Ghana by Obeng, Adomaa. F

“…In AICCRA Ghana, gender responsiveness was anchored in intentionality in prioritizing and disseminating CSA and CIS innovations in ways that respond to the lived realities of women and other vulnerable groups. Through the implementation of AICCRA, it has been learnt that Intentionally designing CSA innovations to meet the specific needs of women farmers can build their resilience and ensure equitable adaptation that engenders empowerment outcomes for women. …”
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Decision Support Framework for Water Management to Enhance Resource Use Efficiency by Garg, Kaushal K., Singh, Ramesh, Anantha, K.H., Venkataradha, A.

“…Implementation across benchmarking clusters in Maharashtra, India, demonstrated that aligning interventions with local biophysical realities stabilizes groundwater levels and optimizes investment prioritization. …”
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Towards wellbeing: monitoring poverty in Malinau, Indonesia by Moeliono, M., Limberg, G., Gonner, C., Wollenberg, Eva Karoline, Iwan, R.

“…At the same time they could do so in accordance with local realities and development needs. Yet, there is little improvement in the wellbeing of rural people. …”
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Menuju kesejahteraan: pemantauan kemiskinan di Malinau, Indonesia by Moeliono, M., Limberg, G., Gonner, C., Wollenberg, Eva Karoline, Iwan, R.

“…At the same time they could do so in accordance with local realities and development needs. Yet, there is little improvement in the wellbeing of rural people. …”
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Financing sustainable small-scale forestry: policy issues and lessons from developing national forest financing strategies in Latin America by Boscolo, M., Dijk, K. van, Savenije, H.H.G.

“…Forest financing mechanisms for small-scale forestry need participatory diagnosis and flexible design in order to respond to diverse—formal and informal— local realities and build on existing livelihood strategies.…”
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Mobility, migration, and rural-urban changes by Garrett, James L.

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Human-centered design maturity assessment for CGIAR by Muller, Anna

“…Enabling responsible AI and digital transformation requires solutions grounded in the needs, contexts, and realities of the people affected by them. Human-Centered Design has become an approach that is increasingly promoted to address this challenge in digital transformation. …”
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Assessing needs for interdisciplinarity in agriculture, nutrition, and health education by Roshania, Reshma P., Yates, Joe, McIntyre, Lauren, Chancellor, Tim, Fivian, Emily, Hill, Michael, Isoto, Rosemary, Marinda, Pamela, Narayanan, Sudha, Whatford, Louise, Zotor, Francis, Khandelwal, Shweta

“…We present key aspects of an interdisciplinary educational model that consider systemic and institutional realities of specialized institutions and low funding.…”
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Animal-inclusive community-led total sanitation (A-CLTS) by IMA World Health

“…The project piloted an innovative WASH model that integrated animal waste management into CLTS based on extensive formative research to tailor interventions to the realities of rural Malian households. With partners USCET, the One Health Center at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), and leading academic research partners, IMA World Health implemented a community intervention trial and conducted a series of workshops with community members and other key stakeholders to identify A-CLTS behavior change strategies that community members felt they could adopt and that have been demonstrated to impact child and family health elsewhere. …”
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AICCRA Mali: Advancing Gender Equity in Climate-Smart Agriculture and Climate Information Services by Diabate, F, Mujawamariya, G, Gondwe, T, Huyer, S.

“…AICCRA Mali implemented gender-responsive solutions tailored to the realities of women and youth farmers. Saving-for-Change groups provided women with access to finance, enabling them to invest in innovations and diversify their crops. …”
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From new order to regional autonomy: shifting dynamics of "illegal" logging in Kalimantan, Indonesia by Casson, A., Obidzinski, K.

“…Rather, it should be viewed as a dynamic and changing system deeply engrained in the realities of rural life in Indonesia. Regional autonomy has also created a supportive environment for the "illegal" logging trade and allowed it to gain resilience.…”
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No farmer left behind in sustainable biofuel production by Lee, J.S.H., Rist, L., Obidzinski, K., Ghazoul, J., Koh, L.P.

“…Drawing lessons from existing certification programs, we argue that proponents of sustainable practices and standards must fully appreciate the complex realities of smallholder production systems. We provide policy recommendations for ensuring that no farmer is left behind in the quest to increase sustainable biofuel production.…”
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Radical adaptation in agriculture: tackling the roots of climate vulnerability by Vermeulen, Sonja J., Mason M, Dinesh, Dhanush, Adolph, Barbara

“…As climate change pushes livestock, crop and tree production systems towards new realities, societies may seek more comprehensive solutions. …”
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Moving away from gender blind tools: Engendering the livestock feed assessment tool by Lukuyu, Ben A.

“…The researchers want to keep the tool acceptable and popular while making it better at reflecting gender realities. Interview with Ben Lukuyu (ILRI) for the book "A different kettle of fish? …”
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Climate-smart agriculture: in need of a theory of scaling by Vernooy, Ronnie, Bouroncle, Claudia

“…Since 2011, the CGIAR program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) has supported research in different parts of the world on how climate-smart technologies, practices and information can address the challenge of transitioning to climatesmart agriculture at a large scale under the new realities of climate change. The working paper critically examines how CCAFS researchers have conceptualized and practiced the scaling of climate-smart agriculture interventions. …”
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A recipe for success? Learning from the rapid adoption of improved chickpea varieties in Ethiopia by Verkaart, S., Mausch, K., Claessens, Lieven, Giller, Kenneth E.

“…Our findings prompt us to stress the importance of tailoring agricultural innovations to the realities and demands of rural households, and the need to design and deploy interventions on the basis of ex-ante knowledge on factors potentially determining their success or failure.…”
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