Resultados de búsqueda - "Scientist"

New grain fumigant por Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Australian scientists have found that carbonyl sulphide, known to science for many years, has the potential to replace methyl bromide as a grain and soil fumigant (see Spore 47 p10). …”
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Juergen Voegele, IPCC WGIII release, April 16, 2014 por CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…Juergen Voegele, Welcome Address Meeting global food needs with lower emissions: IPCC report findings on climate change mitigation in agriculture A dialog among scientists, practitioners and financiers April 16, 2014 World Bank, Washington, DC…”
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Big win: Soil Organic Carbon: absorbing carbon back into the soil por International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…Small changes in soil carbon can have a big impact on atmospheric carbon - according to recent analysis by scientists at CIAT and The Nature Conservancy…”
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Can Science Contribute to Smallholder Management of Complex Systems? Lessons from Agroecological Intensification of Multi-Strata Coffee with Banana por Staver, Charles, Siles, P., Bustamante, O., Castellon, N., Cerdan, C., Garming, H., Burkhardt, J.

“…Growers and scientists diagnosed the structure and function of the tree-bananas-coffee association, providing the basis for a work agenda which was implemented over three experimentation cycles. …”
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Prolific pigs por Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Scientists In the UK have launched a research programme to discover why the Chinese Meishan pig is so prolific; it produces an average of 14 to 16 piglets per litter compared to 10 to 12 in western breeds. …”
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Natural control for bee pest por Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Natural chemicals that draw the parasitic mite, Varroa, away from worker bees have been identified, and French scientists have isolated these chemicals from substances taken from bee larvae. …”
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Worm-free sheep por Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Within four to six weeks the lambs have developed almost complete resistance. Scientists at the Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville USA, have...…”
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A few cares too many por Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…The winds of trade, though, blew like a gale through a sedate encounter of scientists, producers and traders of medicinal plants, blowing...…”
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Making sandy soils fertile por Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Growing demand for land in dry tropical zones is increasing pressure to use sandy soils, despite their low fertility which is due to a lack of organic matter, minerals and moisture. Now scientists in Thailand have developed a new method to increase...…”
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Measuring land degradation needs to be done from the ground up por Mutua, John Y., Nijbroek, Ravic P.

“…It is crucial that local scientists are empowered to map and monitor the degradation process themselves, our authors maintain.…”
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The workshop on Gender and Plant Health: Sharing insights from case studies por International Potato Center

“…Over the past two years, CGIAR Plant Health Initiative has made a progress to bring natural and social scientists together to find common language and research agenda. …”
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Gender in livestock development: Julie Ojango por Ojango, Julie M.K.

“…Julie Ojango, scientists at ILRI, shares her ‘aha’ moment when she really understood the central importance of women in livestock development. …”
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Investing in Nature as the true engine of our economy: A 10-point Action Plan for a Circular Bioeconomy of Wellbeing por Palahí, M., Pantsar, M., Costanza, R., Kubiszewski, I., Potočnik, J., Stuchtey, M., Nasi, R., Lovins, H., Giovannini, E., Fioramonti, L., Dixson-Declève, S., McGlade, J., Pickett, K., Wilkinson, R., Holmgren, J., Trebeck, K., Wallis, S., Ramage, M., Berndes, G., Akinnifesi, F.K., Ragnarsdóttir, K.V., Muys, B., Safonov, G., Nobre, A.D., Nobre, C., Ibañez, D., Wijkman, A., Snape, J., Bas, L.

“…The 10-Point Action Plan to catalyse a Circular Bioeconomy of Wellbeing is a call for collective and integrated action to global leaders, investors, companies, scientists, governments, nongovernmental and intergovernmental organisations, funding agencies and society at large to put the world on a sustainable path.…”
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Exploring realist contribution analysis: a dive into data use and modelling por Fuchs, Lisa Elena, Urbani, Ilaria, Howland, Fanny

“…How can communities, scientists, development practitioners and policymakers better understand the impact of their interventions? …”
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New technique for producing hybrid seed por Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…American and Belgian scientists have developed a technique for making it easier and cheaper to produce hybrid seed from any crop. …”
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Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for DNA extraction por Olutegbe, A., Nnadi, A., Mbanjo-Edwige, G., Rabbi, I.

“…DNA extraction involves isolating DNA from the nucleus of a cell. Once purified, scientists can study individual genes, sequence the entire genome, modify sections of DNA, among others.…”
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Working with farmer innovators: A practical guide por Critchley, W.

“…Scientists and policy-makers need to embrace the concept that farmers can and do experiment and innovate, and that working with them will help increase agricultural productivity and reduce poverty. …”
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Bioversity and domestication of yams in West Africa: Traditional practices leading to Dioscorea rotundata Poir. por Dumont, R., Dansi, A., Vernier, Philippe, Zoundjihékpon, J.

“…Some are already being assessed, using the most advanced molecular markers analysis techniques, by joint teams of scientists from developed and developing countries.…”
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Evaluation de varietes de stylosanthes adoptees aux conditions de la zone subhumide du Nigeria por Mohamed-Saleem, M.A., Otsyina, R.M.

“…Because if this threat, ILCA scientists have screened a range of potentially useful Stylosanthes spp. that could either outperform, or substitute for Verano if its disease resistance breaks down. …”
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Agricultural greenhouse gas emission factors [SAMPLES Database] por Richards, Meryl, Costa Junior, Ciniro

“…SAMPLES was a digital platform launched in 2014 by CCAFS, SAMPLES aimed to address the dearth of reliable information about GHG emissions from agriculture in tropical countries. SAMPLES scientists work with developing countries to improve data on agricultural GHG emissions and mitigation potentials for smallholder agriculture. …”
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