Search Results - "Subjectivity"

Farming Systems Research by CGIAR Inter-Center Workshop on Farming Systems Research

“…It drew on the stripe review of 1978 on this subject. A statement by representatives of the nine IARCs attending is attached.Agenda document, TAC 39th Meeting, March 1986.…”
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First Management Review of CIP, 1983 by CGIAR Secretariat

“…These dealt with such subjects as the board of trustees, which the panel did not observe in action, the role of internal committees at CIP, accounting and financial policies and practices, the need for a center owned airplane, and long range planning. …”
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Isozyme analysis and its application in plant breeding by Asiedu, Robert

“…Plant breeders face the difficult task of having to select for traits that are often under complex genetic control and subject to edapho-climatic influences. Electrophoresis of protein extracts from plant tissue, using different kinds ofsupport media and buffer systems, allows separation of the multiple forms ofenzymes (isozymes) on the basis of charge and/or molecular size. …”
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WEF nexus narratives: toward sustainable resource security by Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe, Senzanje, A., Modi, A., Jewitt, G., Massawe, F.

“…The chapters provide practical applications of integrated resource management and the pathways toward sustainable development. The main subjects of discussion include data availability, modeling tools, indices development, and metrics and their application across multiple spatiotemporal scales.…”
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Measuring integration of agricultural markets by Traoré, Fousseini, Diop, Insa

“…The literature on tools for measuring market integration, particularly those developed for agricultural markets, has been subject to major developments in terms of approaches over the past two decades. …”
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Does rice farming shape individualism and innovation? A response to Talhelm et al. (2014) by Ruan, Jianqing, Xie, Zhuan, Zhang, Xiaobo

“…However, their findings are subject to the problems of sample bias, measurement error, and model misspecification. …”
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China and the future global food situation by Huang, Jikun, Rozelle, Scott, Rosegrant, Mark W.

“…The future of China's grain economy has been the subject of much debate. Some observers predict rapidly increasing grain imports that will strain the world's productive capacity. …”
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CGIAR’s 2025-30 Portfolio Inception Reports: ISDC External Review Template by The Independent Science for Development Council (ISDC)

“…The criteria will guide subject matter experts (SMEs) and ISDC members to reflect on and assess the Inceptions Reports.…”
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Empowering communities to manage natural resources: where does the power lie?: the case of Malawi by Kayambazinthu, D.

“…Effective community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) has been practiced for decades in Malawi where traditional leaders command much power over their subjects. Political and economic changes over the years have weakened the powers of the local leaders, and made it difficult for them to mobilise their people towards CBNRM. …”
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LPA Brief No. 1. Institutions, governance and incentives in common property regimes for African rangelands by Swallow, B.M., Bromley, D.W.

“…Regrettably, the wide variety of institutional arrangements, structures of governance and incentives that characterise these common property regimes have not been well understood or been the subject of much analysis. This paper attempts to fill part of this knowledge gap by providing a framework for the analysis of common property rangeland regimes on the basis of some selected examples in Africa.…”
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Effects of altitude and harvesting dates on morphological characteristics, yield and nutritive value of desho grass (Pennisetum pedicellatum Trin.) in Ethiopia by Asmare, Bimrew, Demeke, Solomon, Tolemariam, Taye, Tegegne, Firew, Haile, Aynalem, Wamatu, Jane

“…Chemical analysis of the constituents of desho grass samples was completed according to standard procedures. All data were subjected to two analysis of variance procedures and Pearson correlation analysis, with significance tested at p…”
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Good agronomic practices in cocoa cultivation: rehabilitating cocoa farms by Asare, R., Afari-Sefa, Victor, Muilerman, Sander, Anim-Kwapong, G.J.

“…The chapter looks forward to future developments in this area and provides further reading on the subject.…”
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Crop metabolomics : from diagnostics to assisted breeding by Alseekh, Saleh, Bermudez Salazar, Luisa, De Haro, Luis Alejandro, Fernie, Alisdair R., Carrari, Fernando

“…The application of these techniques to agricultural systems subjected to more complex interactions is a step towards the implementation of translational metabolomics in crop breeding. …”
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Report of Meeting on the Proposed International Food Policy Research Institute - (IFPRI) by CGIAR Steering Committee on the International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The meeting considered the TAC subcommittee report of June 1974 on this subject which is a separate document. Agenda document presented at CGIAR meeting, October 1974.…”
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Full Report — IOM’s post-flood reconstruction intervention in Mirpurkhas, Sindh, Pakistan: Examining contributions to resilience across the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus by Khalid, Shahab, Vaselli, Alessandra, Savelli, Adam, Craparo, Alessandro, Basel, Ashleigh, Minoarivelo, Henintsoa Onivola, Tsoka, Jonathan, Dao, Hoa Nguyen Quynh, Khan, Muhammad, Boase, Edward Jago, Badar, Mohsin, Mastrorillo, Marina, Pacillo, Grazia, Laderach, Peter

“…Results show that: climate hazards will worsen in Mirpurkhas by 2040; by improving households’ reported environmental security, IOM’s intervention enhanced households' subjective resilience to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and transformatively adapt to future hazards; the provision of durable housing enhanced economic security; smaller households require additional support to achieve equitable resilience improvements; the intervention’s WASH components had a positive effect on women’s subjective resilience; by devolving some decision-making power to household participants during local implementation, the intervention improved household agency, supported community-led development, and boosted social cohesion in target villages.…”
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Summary Guidance Note — IOM’s post-flood reconstruction intervention in Mirpurkhas, Sindh, Pakistan: Examining contributions to resilience across the Humanitarian-Development-Peace... by Khalid, Shahab, Vaselli, Alessandra, Savelli, Adam, Craparo, Alessandro, Basel, Ashleigh, Minoarivelo, Henintsoa Onivola, Tsoka, Jonathan, Dao, Hoa, Khan, Muhammad, Boase, Edward Jago, Badar, Mohsin, Mastrorillo, Marina, Pacillo, Grazia, Laderach, Peter

“…Results show that: climate hazards will worsen in Mirpurkhas by 2040; by improving households’ reported environmental security, IOM’s intervention enhanced households' subjective resilience to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and transformatively adapt to future hazards; the provision of durable housing enhanced economic security; smaller households require additional support to achieve equitable resilience improvements; the intervention’s WASH components had a positive effect on women’s subjective resilience; by devolving some decision-making power to household participants during local implementation, the intervention improved household agency, supported community-led development, and boosted social cohesion in target villages.…”
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A cost-effective and customizable automated irrigation system for precise high-throughput phenotyping in drought stress studies by Ortiz, Diego, Litvin, Alexander G., Salas Fernandez, María G.

“…Second, 42 diverse sorghum genotypes were subjected to a seven-day dry-down treatment for a final drought stress of 0.15 m3 m-3 VWC. …”
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Effect of Light Exposure on Functional Compounds of Monovarietal Extra Virgin Olive Oils and Oil Mixes During Early Storage as Evaluated by Fluorescence Spectra by Diaz, Gabriela Esther, Pega, Juan Franco, Primrose, D., Sancho, Ana Maria, Nanni, Mariana

“…PEVOO, FEVOO, MOO and SO were subjected to light exposure for 7 days, and the amounts of vitamin E and chlorophyll were assessed by fluorescence spectra. …”
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Effects of salinity on diploid (2x) and doubled diploid (4x) Citrusmacrophylla genotypes by Ruiz, Marta, Quinones, Ana, Martínez-Alcántara, Belén, Aleza, Pablo, Morillon, Raphael, Navarro, Luis, Primo-Millo, Eduardo, Martínez-Cuenca, Mary-Rus

“…Tetraploid plants had a stronger decrease in their gas exchange parameters than diploids when subjected to moderate salt stress. Leaf damage was only observed in 2x plants subjected to high salinity media, and was correlated with higher Cl− leaf concentration than 4x plants, while Na+ did not differ between them. …”
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Brikettillverkning på gårdsnivå by Gideskog, Staffan

“…I also think the subject is extra interesting in these days when the grain prizes are at a historic high level. …”
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