Resultados de búsqueda - "The Mountain"
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Survey of distribution and farmer perceptions of speargrass Imperata cylindrica in cassava based cropping systems in West Africa
Publicado 1999“…Speargrass was most abundant in the transition forest, mountain forest, and wet savannah, and least common in the rain forest and dry savannah. …”
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Protección fitosanitaria forestal
Publicado 2011“…Además fue de mucho valor, la participación de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medellín, University of Aberdeen Scotland UK, Instituto FRIM Malasia; USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station; Corporación Nacional Forestal Chile, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, INTA de Argentina, Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute; Universidad Católica de Oriente Rionegro, Antioquia; University of Bergen Noruega y Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas Bogotá.…”
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Secondary Tropical Dry Forests Are Important to Cattle Ranchers in Northwestern Costa Rica
Publicado 2020“…We found a difference in farm structure and feed types between ranches in the plains and mountain slopes. The decision to use forests for browsing seemed to rely on a trade-off between animal welfare and ease of management. …”
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Getting to the roots of a valuable tree’s genetic heritage Bioversity International’s study of African cherry (Prunus africana)
Publicado 2013“…The goal of this search is to reconstruct the migratory path of a lofty evergreen known scientifically as Prunus africana and create a composite picture of how its genetic profile adapted as it migrated and settled in isolated spots – high-elevation locations scattered across African mountain ranges. The species occupied lower elevation locations during the last Ice Age, but later, an increase in temperature caused a retraction of montane species to higher elevation locations, where it is currently found. …”
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Youth in livestock, the engine for change: strategic partnerships with a private company (CIAT/CCAFS-Alqueria): The beginnings, incentives, and objectives of the Herederos de Tradi...
Publicado 2019“…The name MACA derives from the pilot’s initial test region in the municipalities near the Macarena mountain range in El Meta, Colombia. This particular area has been identified for the urgent need to tackle the low rates of schooling of its producers, and the need for a technification of the livestock farms to increase their productivity and, in turn, the quality of life of their managers. …”
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Diversifying the sourcing and deploying methods to enhance the crop diversity
Publicado 2020“…A Nepalese farmers of mountain and hill agro-ecosystem mostly grow landraces or traditional varieties of most of the crops. …”
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Estimation of sediment load for Himalayan rivers: case study of Kaligandaki in Nepal
Publicado 2020“…Results for the 10-year model run indicate that 73% of the total sediment load is estimated to come from the upstream regions (also known as High Himalayan region), while only 27% is contributed from the Middle and High Mountain regions (where land managementbased interventions were deemed most feasible for future scenarios). …”
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Historical reconfigurations of a social–ecological system adapting to economic, policy and climate changes in the French Alps
Publicado 2021“…Using a chronosystemic timeline and based on literature, archives and local knowledge of inhabitants, we explored the past trajectory of a mountain SES (Pays de la Meije, French Alps) since 1900 by analysing drivers, impacts and responses. …”
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Outcome and impact assessment of the Climate-Smart Village Program in Northern Vietnam
Publicado 2021“…Yen Bai province inherits representative biophysical, socio-economic, smaller-holder farming characteristics to economic marginalization and climatic risks and impacts to agricultural production and local livelihoods of Vietnam’s northern mountain region (NMR). The CCAFS project deployed to Ma Climate-Smart Village (CSV) in Yen Bai in 2015 with bilateral funding support from two other research projects aimed at setting up a demonstration-for-scaling example of a rural community equipped with capacities for enhanced climate adaptation and resilience. …”
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Impact of agricultural water management interventions on upstream–downstream trade-offs in the upper Cauvery catchment, southern India: a modelling study
Publicado 2022“…Rainfall varies from 700 to 5400 mm and the Western Ghats (mountain pass) are the main source of freshwater generation. …”
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Jessour for diversified and resilient agroecological systems to ensure food security and sustainable livelihoods in arid ecosystems
Publicado 2022“…Québec, Canada, July 17-20, 2022: For agricultural production, exploiting mountain slopes for rainwater runoff collection is a low-cost practice that supports sustainable agroecological systems and increases yield. …”
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Urban climate resilience in Africa: A review of nature-based solution in African cities' adaptation plans
Publicado 2024“…It revealed only 15 (27,7%) African countries have implemented NbS with 119 projects to adapt and tackle climate change in water, agriculture, forest and woodland, coastal and marine habitat, grassland, and mountain habitat sectors. Rural areas are paid more attention than cities despite the rapid urbanization in the face of extreme climate effects. …”
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Calibrating fecal NIRS equations for predicting botanical composition of diets
Publicado 2002“…The objectives of this study were to investigate the use of near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) of fecal samples for predicting the percentage of mountain big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata Nutt. ssvaseyana (Rydb) Beetle) in sheep diets and to quantify the limitations of using NIRS of fecal samples to predict diet composition. …”
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What does it cost to improve household diets in Nepal? Using the cost of the diet method to model lowest cost dietary changes
Publicado 2016“…Adding fish to the mountain and hill diets and increasing dark green leafy vegetable consumption in all zones yielded nutritional adequacy. …”
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Ecosystem services and livelihoods in a changing climate: Understanding local adaptations in the Upper Koshi, Nepal
Publicado 2015“…Mountain ecosystems are increasingly being affected by global environmental change, challenging the ubiquitous agro-ecosystem-based livelihoods of the people. …”
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Nuevas oportunidades de mercado en los Andes. Desaparecen antiguas prácticas pastoriles y surgen otras nuevas
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Tracer hydrology of the data-scarce and heterogeneous Central American Isthmus
Publicado 2021“…Groundwater and surface water isotope ratios depicted the strong orographic separation into the Caribbean and Pacific domains, mainly induced by the governing moisture transport from the Caribbean Sea, complex rainfall producing systems across the N-S mountain range, and the subsequent mixing with local evapotranspiration, and, to a lesser degree, the eastern Pacific Ocean fluxes. …”
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Costs, CO2-emissions and energy balance for applying Nordic methods of forest biomass utilization in British Columbia
Publicado 2009“…A devastating mountain pine beetle (MPB) infestation in British Columbia has had enormous economic consequences for the lumber industry and has been one of the drivers for the development of bioenergy systems. …”
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