Resultados de búsqueda - "Scientist"

Building gender considerations into livestock breeding in low- and middle-income countries por Galiè, Alessandra, Ojango, Julie M.K., Farnworth, C.R., Jumba, Humphrey, Roeven, L., Marshall, Karen

“…In each step, key gender questions are set out to help breeders and gender scientists think through and assemble the gendered information they need. …”
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One Health communication guidelines for Rwanda por University of Global Health Equity

“…Recognizing the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health, and the critical role of accurate and ethical journalism in informing and educating the public, the following guidelines have been developed to guide journalists and scientists in communicating One Health issues effectively. …”
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Agroforestry policy issues and research directions in the US and less develop countries, insight and challenges from recent experience. ( special issue on agroforestry science, pol... por Buck, L.

“…It is argued that social scientists might influence agroforestry policy most favourably at this critical juncture, as perceptions of inter-dependence increase among different stakeholders in the policy system, by employing interventionist, actor-orientated perspectives and participatory methods to facilitate policy innovation and evaluation. …”
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Breeding Climate Resilient and Future Ready Oilseed Crops por Pandey, Manish K., Mallikarjuna, M. G., Lohithaswa, H. C., Aski, Muraleedhar S., Gupta, Sanjeev

“…The book is exciting and valuable to national and international agricultural scientists, scholars and graduate students associated with oilseed crops improvement in specific and field crops in generic. …”
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Fortifying crops with micronutrients for sustainable global nutritional security por Gautam, Ashish, Sharma, Vinay, Chauhan, Charupriya, Thakur, Anamika, Pandey, Manish K., Priscilla, Kagolla, Dagar, Rinku, Jin, Xiaoli, Sukla, Pawan, Kumar, Anirudh, Kumar, Rakesh

“…Current efforts by scientists around the globe are aimed at bio-fortifying crops to meet present and future nutritional security needs. …”
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Forestry research in Sub-Sahara Africa: time for reflection por Temu, A.B., Kowero, G.S.

“…Economic policies imposed by global financial institutions constrain the recruitment of young scientists to undertake forestry research now and in the future. …”
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Market mechanisms and efficiency in urban dairy products markets in Ghana and Tanzania por Omore, Amos O., Staal, Steven J., Wanyoike, Francis N., Osafo, E.L.K., Kurwijila, Lusato R., Barton, David N., Mdoe, N.S.Y., Nurah, G.K., Aning, G.

“…The study was led by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). Scientists from the University and Technology (Kumasi, Ghana), the Animal Research Institute (Accra, Ghana), Sokoine University of Agriculture (Morogoro, Tanzania) and the Natural Resources Institute (UK) collaborated in implementing the study. …”
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Graduate students and knowledge exchange with local stakeholders: possibilities and preparation por Duchelle, Amy E., Biedenweg, K., Lucas, C., Virapongse, A., Radachowsky, J., Wojcik, D.J., Londres, M., Bartels, W.L., Alvira, D., Kainer, K.A.

“…We ask: (1) how can graduate students effectively engage in knowledge exchange during their research; and (2) how can university programs prepare young scientists to take on this partnership role? We present a conceptual framework with three levels at which graduate students can exchange knowledge with stakeholders (information sharing, skill building, and knowledge generation) and discuss limitations of each. …”
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Comparison of three maps at multiple resolutions: a case study of land change simulation in Cho Don District, Vietnam por Pontius, R.G. Jr, Peethambaram, S., Castella, J.C.

“…Pixel-by-pixel analysis of raster maps at a single resolution is useful for this task at a single scale, but scientists often need to consider additional scales. …”
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Integrating diverse methods to understand climate-land interactions in East Africa por Olson, J.M., Alagarswamy, G., Andresen, J.A., Campbell, D.J., Davis, A.Y., Jianjun, Ge, Huebner, M., Lofgren, B.M., Lusch, D.P., Moore, N.J., Pijanowski, B.C., Jiaguo, Qi, Thornton, Philip K., Torbick, N.M., Wang, S.

“…This paper discusses a methodological framework to quantify the two-way interactions between land use and regional climate systems, using ongoing work by a team of multi-disciplinary scientists examining climate–land dynamics at multiple scales in East Africa. …”
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Livestock in the livelihoods of the underprivileged communities in India: A review por Rangnekar, D.V.

“…Given the increasing demand for livestock products, this is an opportune time for animal scientists to make an impact on the livelihoods of the underprivileged by adopting this change in the research paradigm.…”
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Response to Hertz-Fowler and Berriman: Continuing tsetse and trypanosoma genome sequencing projects por Davila, A.M.R., Majiwa, Phelix A.O., Grisard, E.C., Aksoy, S., Hide, W.

“…While these genome initiatives and the potential for developing new drugs and vaccines are admirable, it is notable that scientists from developing and endemic countries have had very little participation in the process of developing genome resources that are important in their fight against disease. …”
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The challenges and uses of quantitative economic modeling of agricultural policy decision process in Africa: a case study of South African land redistribution por Olubode-Awosola, O. O., Schalkwyk, H.D. van

“…The ineffectiveness of policy advice in most African countries could be attributed to problem of scientists not being able to present a holistic solution to policy problems. …”
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Livestock and greenhouse gas emissions: The importance of getting the numbers right por Herrero, Mario, Gerber, Pierre J., Vellinga, Theun V., Garnett, Tara, Leip, A., Opio, C., Westhoek, H.J., Thornton, Philip K., Olesen, Jørgen E., Hutchings, N., Montgomery, H., Soussana, J.F., Steinfeld, H., McAllister, T.A.

“…This variability creates confusion among policy makers and the public as it suggests that there is a lack of consensus among scientists with regard to the contribution of livestock to global GHG emissions. …”
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Investing in water for food, ecosystems, and livelihoods: an overview of the comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture por Fraiture, Charlotte de, David, S., Wichelns, Dennis

“…This special issue highlights the analysis behind a number of policy options identified by the CA, a five-year multi-disciplinary research program involving 700 scientists. This introductory article sets the background and context of this special issue, introduces the key recommendations from the CA and summarizes the papers in this issue.…”
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Africa RISING West Africa 2014-2016 work plan por International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

“…Key amongst them is: building the capacity of young female and male scientists for data management and analysis and integrated crop‐livestock production.…”
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A framework for analyzing participatory plant breeding approaches and results por Sperling, L., Ashby, Jacqueline A., Smith, M.E., Weltzien, Eva, McGrath, S.

“…Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB) involves scientists, farmers, and others, such as consumers, extensionists, vendors, industry, and rural cooperatives in plant breeding research. …”
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Blending "hard" and "soft" science: The "follow-the-technology" approach to catalyzing and evaluating technology change por Douthwaite, Boru, Haan, Nicoline C. de, Manyong, Victor M., Keatinge, J.D.H.

“…This paper develops the "follow-the-technology" (FTT) approach to catalyzing, managing, and evaluating rural technology change as a framework that both "hard" and "soft" scientists can work with. To deal with complexity, INRM needs ways of working that are adaptive and flexible. …”
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Who is publishing on what subject in Ethiopian Society of Animal Production? Trends in the direction of research on animal production in Ethiopia por Tegegne, Azage

“…Few papers dealt with socioeconomic aspects of animal health. Scientists from Institute of Agricultural Research (IAR), Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), higher learning institutions (HLIs) and International Livestock Centre for Africa/International Livestock Research Institute (ILCA/ILRI) were major contributors with 277 papers. …”
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Reducing uncertainty in nitrogen budgets for African livestock systems por Rufino, Mariana C., Brandt, P., Herrero, Mario, Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus

“…We propose a nested systems definition of livestock systems to link local, regional level, and continental level and to increase the usefulness of point measurements of N losses. Scientists working at all levels should generate data to calibrate process-based models. …”
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