Search Results - "Southeast Asia"

Harnessing the diversity of wild relatives of tropical fruit tree species for sustainable livelihoods by Sthapit, B.R., Vasudeva, R., Idris, S., Changtragoon, S., Roongrattanakul, P., Limpiyaprapant, S., Winarno, W., Ramanatha Rao, V.

“…South and Southeast Asia is the center of origin for many tropical fruit crops. …”
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Collecting banana diversity in eastern Indonesia by Sutanto, A., Edison, H.S., Nasution, F., Hermanto, C., Cizkova, J., Hribova, E., Doležel, Jaroslav, Roux, N., Horry, J.P., Daniells, J.W., Langhe, E. de

“…It is just east of the 'Wallace Line', which is recognized as a transition zone for flora in southeast Asia, and had been little explored. Bioversity International funded a team of scientists from Indonesia and Australia to make collecting missions in the triangle in October 2012 and February 2013. …”
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Replication Data for: Crop wild relatives of pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.]: Distributions, ex situ conservation status, and potential genetic resources for abiotic stress... by Khoury, Colin K., Castañeda Álvarez, Nora P., Achicanoy Estrella, Harold Armando, Sosa, Chrystian C., Bernau, V., Kassa , Mulualem T, Norton, Sally L., Maesen, Jos G. van der, Upadhyaya, Hari D., Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando, Jarvis, Andy, Struik, Paul C.

“…The fifteen prioritized relatives of pigeonpea generally occur in South and Southeast Asia to Australia, with the highest concentrations of species in southern India and northern Australia. …”
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Impacts of land use, restoration, and climate change on tropical peat carbon stocks in the twenty-first century: implications for climate mitigation by Warren, M., Frolking, S., Zhaohua, D., Kurnianto, S.

“…In total, we estimate emissions from current cleared peatlands and peatlands converted to oil palm in Southeast Asia to be 8.7 Gt CO2 over 100 years with a moderate twenty-first century climate. …”
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Hydropower versus irrigation—an analysis of global patterns by Zeng, Ruijie, Cai, Ximing, Ringler, Claudia, Zhu, Tingju

“…On the other hand, 8% of global installed hydropower capacity (around 79 thousand Megawatt) complements irrigation, particularly in the Yellow and Yangtze River Basins of China, the East and West Coasts of the United States and most river basins of Southeast Asia, Canada and Russia. No significant relationship is found for the rest of the world. …”
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A coupled modeling framework for sustainable watershed management in transboundary river basins by Khan, Hassaan Furqan, Yang, Y. C. Ethan, Xie, Hua, Ringler, Claudia

“…The generalized ABM framework is also tested in two key transboundary river basins, the Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia and the Niger River basin in West Africa, where water uses for ecosystem health compete with growing human demands on food and energy resources. …”
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Export av får och nötkreatur från Australien by Björkman, Mikaela

“…About four million sheep and half a million to one million cattle are exported annually from Australia to the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Most of these animals are exported for slaughter, but some cattle are exported with the purpose of breeding. …”
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Transition of agroecology in Bali, Indonesia by Tchedry, Vincent

“…Since the late 1960’s, the Green Revolution introduced high yielding varieties in association with agrochemicals to address increasing food demands across Southeast Asia. Indonesian government extended these “technological packages” through political incentives replacing traditional farming methods to stimulate agricultural productivity and economic growth. …”
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Scaling climate services for agriculture in the Global South: an assessment of practitioners’ needs by Tran, Quoc Quan, Swaans, Cornelis P.M., Simelton, Elisabeth, Imbach, Pablo, Pham, Thao, Le Thi Tam, Clausen, Peter, Yen, Thi Nguyen, Tran, Manh Hung, Barlis, Angelica

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DNA fingerprinting reveals varietal composition of Vietnamese cassava germplasm (Manihot esculenta Crantz) from farmers’ field and genebank collections by Ocampo, John, Ovalle, Tatiana, Labarta, Ricardo Antonio, Phuong Le, Dung, Haan, Stefan de, Vu, Nguyen Anh, Kha, Le Quy, Becerra López Lavelle, Luis Augusto

“…Cassava is the most important smallholder cash crops in Southeast Asia and is especially used in industrial products. …”
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Prevalence and risk factors associated with the occurrence of Campylobacter sp. in children aged 6–24 months in peri-urban Nairobi, Kenya by Kiarie, Alice, Bebora, L., Gitao, G., Ochieng, Linnet, Okumu, Noah, Mutisya, Christine, Wasonga, Joseph, Masudi, Sherril P., Moodley, Arshnee, Amon-Tanoh, M.A., Watson, J., Cumming, O., Cook, Elizabeth A.J.

“…Most of the burden is experienced in resource-limited countries in Africa and Southeast Asia where the disease is linked to poor hygiene and sanitation. …”
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First report of cassava witches’ broom disease and Ceratobasidium theobromae in the Americas by Pardo, J. M, Gil-Ordoñez, A., Leiva, A. M., Enjelvin, L., Chourrot, A., Kime, S. C. K., Demade‐Pellorce, L., Marchand, M., Wilson, V., Jeandel, C., Ioos, R., Cuellar, W. J.

“…These symptoms resembled those of cassava witches’ broom disease (CWBD) which has previously been reported only in Southeast Asia (Pardo et al., 2023) (Fig. 1). Recently, CWBD was associated with Ceratobasidium theobromae (Leiva et al., 2023; Landicho et al., 2024), the fungus causing vascular streak dieback of cacao (Keane et al., 1972). …”
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Mapping peatland distribution and quantifying peatland below‐ground carbon stocks in Colombia's Eastern Lowlands by Uhde, A., Hoyt, A. M., Hess, L., Schmullius, C., Mendoza, E., Benavides, J. C., Trumbore, S., Martin-Lopez, Javier Mauricio, Skillings‐Neira, P. N., Winton, R. S.

“…Although large peatland complexes in Peru, the Congo basin, and Southeast Asia have been mapped in detail, information on many other tropical areas is uncertain. …”
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Rice area-yield estimation based on the synergistic use of remote sensing time-series and crop growth modeling in Nigeria by Barbieri, Massimo, Quicho, Emma D., Ibrahim, Ali, Melchiori, Luca, Cattaneo, Alessandro, Gatti, Luca, Copa, Loris, Holecz, Francesco, Mathieu, Renaud, Saito, Kazuki, Senthilkumar, Kalimuthu

“…Context RIICE (Remote sensing-based Information and Insurance for Crops in Emerging Economies) technology, developed since 2010 by sarmap and the International Rice Research Institute, has proven effective in Southeast Asia for monitoring rice production using satellite data. …”
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Domestic forests: a new paradigm for integrating local communities’ forestry into tropical forest science by Michon, G., Foresta, H. de, Levang, P., Verdeaux, F.

“…This paper is a synthesis derived from various long-term research programs carried out by the authors in Southeast Asia and Africa on forests managed by farmers. …”
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Romper los ciclos de degradacion de la tierra: estudio de un caso en Ban Lak Sip, Republica Democratica Popular Lao. In SpanishBreaking the cycles of land degradation: a case study... by International Water Management Institute

“…a multi-country collaborative effort to better understand land degradation, and potential solutions, in upland areas of Southeast Asia. MSEC is coordinated by IWMI with substantial contributions from France?…”
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Analysis of field-moist Cd contaminated paddy soils during rice grain fill allows reliable prediction of grain Cd levels by Simmons, Robert W., Noble, A.D., Pongsakul, P., Sukreeyapongse, O., Chinabut, N.

“…Rice is the staple of millions throughout South and Southeast Asia. Therefore, the ability to accurately assess the risk of rice grain Cd uptake in areas of elevated soil Cd would be a pre-requisite to protecting public health and regional export security. …”
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Afforestation by natural regeneration or by tree planting: examples of opposite hydrological impacts evidenced by long-term field monitoring in the humid tropics by Lacombe, Guillaume, Ribolzi, Olivier, Rouw, Anneke de, Pierret, Alain, Latsachak, K., Silvera, N., Pham Dinh, R., Orange, Didier, Janeau, Jean L., Soulileuth, B., Robain, H., Taccoen, A., Sengphaathith, P., Mouche, E., Sengtaheuanghoung, Oloth, Tran Duc, T., Valentin, Christian

“…An observatory including long-term field measurements of fine-scale land-use mosaics and of hydro-meteorological variables has been operating in several headwater catchments in tropical Southeast Asia since 2001. The GR2M water balance model repeatedly calibrated over successive 1 year periods, and used in simulation mode with specific rainfall input, allowed the hydrological effect of land-use change to be isolated from that of rainfall variability in two of these catchments in Laos and Vietnam. …”
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Emerging pests and diseases of Southeast Asian cassava: a comprehensive evaluation of geographic priorities, management options and research needs by Graziosi, Ignazio, Minato, Nami, Álvarez, Elizabeth, Ngo, Dung Tien, Trinh, Hoat Xuan, Aye, Tin Maung, Pardo, Juan Manuel, Wongtiem, Prapit, Wyckhuys, Kris A.G.

“…Cassava is a major staple, bio‐energy and industrial crop in many parts of the developing world. In Southeast Asia, cassava is grown on >4 million ha by nearly 8 million (small‐scale) farming households, under (climatic, biophysical) conditions that often prove unsuitable for many other crops. …”
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Contradictory hydrological impacts of afforestation in the humid tropics evidenced by long-term field monitoring and simulation modelling by Lacombe, Guillaume, Ribolzi, Olivier, Rouw, Anneke de, Pierret, A., Latsachak, K., Silvera, N., Dinh, R.P., Orange, Didier, Janeau, Jean L., Soulileuth, B., Robain, H., Taccoen, A., Sengphaathith, P., Mouche, E., Sengtaheuanghoung, Oloth, Tran Duc, T., Valentin, Christian

“…An observatory including long-term field measurements of fine-scale land-use mosaics and of hydrometeorological variables has been operating in several headwater catchments in tropical southeast Asia since 2000. The GR2M water balance model, repeatedly calibrated over successive 1-year periods and used in simulation mode with the same year of rainfall input, allowed the hydrological effect of land-use change to be isolated from that of rainfall variability in two of these catchments in Laos and Vietnam. …”
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