Search Results - "Senegal"

Accelerating and scaling up Africa’s climate change adaptation and mitigation actions: Experiences and lessons learned by Majaliwa, Mwanjololo J.G., Nakayiwa, Florence, Waswa, Moses, Ekepu, David

“…The side event was attended by 42 people, including 8 women, from Ouganda, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Benin, Mali, Malawi, Senegal, USA, and Rwanda.…”
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Stakeholders’ Engagement Meeting for Developing “Remote sensing- based Information and Insurance for Crops in emerging Economies” (RIICE) in Kenya by Mathieu, Renaud, Satapathy, Sushree

“…It is currently piloted in Ivory Coast, Mali, Nigeria and Senegal. Through this workshop the Digital Innovation initiative sought to understand national needs and requirements in terms of crop production information and assess the national interest for the implementation of such satellite-based technology to monitor rice crop production in the context of climate change.…”
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Integrating fundamental model uncertainty in policy analysis: A Bayesian averaging approach combining CGE-models with metamodeling techniques by Ziesmer, Johannes, Jin, Ding, Mukashov, Askar, Henning, Christian

“…We demonstrate the effect of different metamodel types using a reduced model for the case of CAADP in Senegal. Furthermore, we explicitly show that ignoring model uncertainty leads to inefficient policy choices and results in a large waste of public resources.…”
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Contention over contagion: Citizen responses to COVID-19 policies by Resnick, Danielle

“…At the outset of 2021, COVID-19 continues to test the limits of state–society relationships in much of the developing world. On January 7, Senegal’s capital Dakar experienced violent demonstrations opposing a nighttime curfew imposed by the government under a new state of emergency law intended to limit the spread of the coronavirus (Ollivier 2021). …”
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Assessing the risk of COVID-19 in Feed the Future countries by Koo, Jawoo, Azzarri, Carlo, Ghosh, Aniruddha, Quabili, Wahid

“…The most widely used dataset by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering (Dong, Du, and Gardner 2020), for example, does not include subnational data for Feed the Future’s 12 target countries in Africa south of the Sahara (SSA) and South Asia: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Kenya, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Senegal, and Uganda. For this reason, the Gender, Climate Change, and Nutrition Integration Initiative (GCAN) was commissioned to correlate Demographic and Health Survey data from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) with geospatial data in order to develop a subnational dataset of key COVID-19 risk indicators based on which potential risk hotspots were identified. …”
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Agdata Hub: Plateforme digitale de conseil agro-climatique by Konte, Oumar

“…Présentée par Oumar Konte d'ANACIM, Chef du Département Recherche et Développement Direction de l ’Exploitation de la Météorologie de l'ANACIM, lors d'un atelier pour les agents du Ministère de l'Agriculture, cette plateforme vise à intégrer les données climatiques dans les décisions agricoles et pastorales au Sénégal. Agdata Hub facilite la collecte, l'analyse et la diffusion en temps réel d'informations climatiques et agro-météorologiques, améliorant la gestion des risques agricoles. …”
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Social equity, inclusiveness, gender, and climate change adaptation: Helping people and communities build climate resilience (A compilation of article abstract) by Soriaga, Rowena, Cabriole, Marie Aislinn, Marie, Aislinn, Oro-Monville, Emilita, Hellin, Jon

“…To address these challenges, the CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience (ClimBeR) promotes science-based innovations aimed at transforming the climate adaptation capacity of food, land, and water systems in six countries: Guatemala, Kenya, Morocco, the Philippines, Senegal, and Zambia. ClimBeR's goal is to enhance smallholder resilience while ensuring equitable outcomes and contributing to poverty reduction. …”
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IFPRI's Strategy for Africa by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…That first edition of the strategy was completed after a thorough review of the institute’s activities in the region and a series of consultations with policy researchers and analysts and other key stakeholder groups in Africa, including a major dissemination conference held in Dakar, Senegal in January 2007. The last edition was completed against the backdrop of several major initiatives that had brought renewed attention and commitment to economic development and food and nutrition security in Africa, and emergence of the longest economic and agricultural growth recovery in the continent since the 1960s. …”
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Improving Governance, Management and Restoration Practices by CGIAR Research Initiative on Livestock and Climate, International Livestock Research Institute

“…Focus countries were Colombia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Tunisia, with limited interventions in Senegal. Work package staff worked closely with national and local governments, with national NGOs playing a role in implementing innovations and building capacities. …”
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Do others’ health count for peanuts? Health, market returns, and pro-sociality by Abate, Gashaw T., Bernard, Tanguy, Deutschmann, Joshua, Fall, Fatou

“…We conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment with peanuts producers in Senegal to study the decision to invest in food safety information, exogenously varying the degree of private returns (monetary or health-wise) and welfare impacts on others. …”
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Diffusion de la vidéo didactique sur les bonnes pratiques d’élevage via le réseau APAFIL by Worou, Nadine, Ka, Fatoumata Sellé, Ka, Binetou, Diedhiou, Lamine

“…Cette fiche décrit la stratégie de diffusion de la vidéo didactique du projet AICCRA sur les bonnes pratiques d’élevage, menée par l’APAFIL, réseau regroupant plus de 50 associations locales de la filière lait à Linguère (Sénégal). Grâce à une approche en cascade via groupes WhatsApp et relais communautaires, la vidéo a touché entre 1 250 et 5 000 acteurs, majoritairement des femmes transformatrices et éleveurs. …”
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Baseline GHG emissions from the agricultural sector and mitigation potential in countries of East and West Africa by Brown, S., Grais A, Ambagis S, Pearson T

“…To address this question, we first estimated the business-as-usual emissions of greenhouse gases from the agricultural sector using the IPCC framework and land cover datasets based satellite imagery for the base year 2006 for four East African countries— Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, and five West African countries—Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger, and Senegal. We found the total emissions to be in the order of about 129 million t CO2e/yr., with emissions from activities related to livestock dominating (84% of the total). …”
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Who gets the information? Gender, power and equity considerations in the design of climate services for farmers by Tall, Arame, Kristjanson, Patricia M., Chaudhury, M., McKune, Sarah, Zougmoré, Robert B.

“…In 2011-2012, we tested this hypothesis in three climate-vulnerable farming communities in the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security semi-arid research site of Kaffrine, Senegal. Therein, we assessed gender-specific vulnerabilities to climate-related shocks, endogenous adaptation strategies, and coping mechanisms. …”
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Descriptors for baobab (Adansonia digitata L.) by Kehlenbeck, K., Padulosi, S., Alercia, A.

“…Baobab (Adansonia digitata L.) is an important multipurpose food tree of the semi-arid and sub-humid zones of sub-Saharan Africa, including countries in western Africa (e.g. Senegal, Mali, Niger, Benin), southern Africa (e.g. …”
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Evidence-Based Insurance Development for Nigeria’s Farmers: Briefing paper for Nigerian Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD)-CCAFS Knowledge-Sharing Worksh... by Hellin, Jonathan, Hansen, James W., Araba D

“…Experiences from India, Kenya, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Senegal suggest that there is demand for index insurance; that the bundling of insurance with key farm inputs e.g. improved seed and fertilizer, makes the insurance package more attractive to farmers; but that several challenges still to overcome, including data management, basis risk, logistical and client communication. …”
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Trade-offs in livestock development at farm level: Different actors with different objectives by Salmon, Gareth R., Teufel, Nils, Baltenweck, Isabelle, Wijk, Mark T. van, Claessens, Lieven, Marshall, Karen

“…Finally, a (partial) trade-off analysis is illustrated by use of a case study on household dairy cattle enterprises in Senegal. The discussion advocates for holistic approaches to agricultural development efforts, which include recognition of the multiple objectives and the associated trade-offs.…”
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Uptake of Climate-Smart Agriculture in West Africa: What can we learn from climate-smart villages of Ghana, Mali and Niger? by Ouédraogo, Mathieu, Partey, Samuel T., Zougmoré, Robert B., Nyuor, Anslem Bawayelaazaa, Zakari, Seydou, Traoré, Kalifa B.

“…In West Africa, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) has been working since 2011 with various local partners to develop Climate-Smart villages (CSV) through participatory action research (PAR) at pilot sites in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger and Senegal. Various CSA technologies and practices have been identified and tested in these CSVs. …”
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Suitable management options to improve the productivity of rice cultivars under salinity stress by Mel, V.C., Bado, V.B., Ndiaye, S., Djaman, K., Nati, D.A.B., Manneh, B., Futakuchi, K.

“…We conducted field experiments in the Africa Rice research field located in the Senegal River delta (16° 11ʹ N, 16° 15ʹ W) to study the effects of three management options of fertilization e.g. …”
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Systems and Operations of the Ghana Science-Policy Dialogue Platform on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security by Botchway, Vincent Ansah, Sam, Kingsley Odum, Karbo, Naaminong, Essegbey, George Owusu, Nutsukpo, Delali, Agyemang, Kingsley, Zougmoré, Robert B., Partey, Samuel T.

“…In response, the CCAFS programme in West Africa coordinated by ICRISAT, Bamako involving Ghana, Mali and Senegal was able to set up national multi-stakeholder platforms for information sharing and learning on climate change and related policy issues. …”
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Phenology, sterility and inheritance of two environment genic male sterile (EGMS) lines for hybrid rice by El-Namaky, R., Oort, P.A.J. van

“…A model was developed for this purpose and tested based on experimental data from Ndiaye (Senegal) in 2013-2015. For the two EGMS lines tested here, it was not clear if one or more recessive gene(s) were causing male sterility. …”
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