Search Results - "Truth."

Report on 2025 additions to the KMD application and web dashboard by Sidjesse, Makokha, Dhulipala, Ram, Singh, Kanika

“…By providing a reliable channel for ground-truthed, weather-linked data, the AICCRA-KMD app empowers stakeholders with actionable insights, facilitating data-driven decision-making and supporting the broader scaling of climate-smart agriculture practices in Kenya.…”
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Feeding the world in 2050: Trade‐offs, synergies and tough choices for the livestock sector by Smith, Jimmy W., Tarawali, Shirley A., Grace, Delia, Sones, Keith R.

“…However, if livestock-based solutions are to become a reality, a number of partial truths and trade-offs often associated with livestock and food need to be addressed. …”
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Theory of Change and Results Based Management Framework for Women’s Seed Entrepreneurship by VP, Sahana, Kapur, Aman, Shivhare, Richa, Puskur, Ranjitha, Nayak, Prakash, Tenneti, Suchaita, Khan, Afreen

“…As of date, approximately 540 private seed companies operate in India2, with roughly 80 of them running research programs, focusing primarily on foundation, certified and truthfully labeled seeds.…”
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Mapping irrigated areas in the Limpopo Province, South Africa by Xueliang Cai, Magidi, J., Nhamo, Luxon, van Koppen, Barbara

“…Based on a combination of Landsat and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite data, previous irrigated area mapping exercises carried out by DAFF and three-field ground truthing (GT) surveys, a total of 1.6 million hectares (Mha) of cropland were identified, with 262,000 ha actually irrigated in the 2015 winter season. …”
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La certificación: un paso hacia la sostenibilidad y la competitividad by Wille, Chris, Lecaro, Juan José

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Trees matter: Accounting for silvopastoral systems’ contributions to national GHG inventories by Suber, Marta, Arango, Jacobo, Torres, Carlos Felipe, Rosenstock, Todd S.

“…Consequently, the sequestration potential and specialization of SPS are poorly represented in national GHG inventories, and national AFOLU contributions toward NDC targets are underestimated or omitted entirely. Data on ground-truthing activities would improve the completeness, accuracy, and comparability of reporting systems, thus enabling more accurate documentation of national progress toward commitments to the Paris Agreement. …”
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Playing to Adapt: Crowdsourcing Historical Climate Data with Gamification to Improve Farmer's Risk Management Instruments by Hernández Aguilera, J. Nicolas, Mauerman, Max, Osgood, Daniel

“…Ground-truthed community-based information over time and space can improve the design of climate risk instruments, reducing the mismatch between farmers’ reported events and remote sensing datasets. …”
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Managing the farmscape for connectivity increases conservation value for tropical forest-dependent birds - dataset by Estrada-Carmona, Natalia

“…The dataset includes the digitized land uses using a 2010 GeoEye image with a 0.46 m resolution at 1:1500 m scale. We ground-truthed the farmscape in August-September 2011 to validate the digitized land use map, and constructed four alternative management scenarios to estimate the impacts of on-farm practices on species mobility.…”
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Digital Revolution in Farmer Fields: VarScout Unveils Kenya's Varietal Landscape – The Case of Potato by Gatto, M., Borus, D., Malit, J., Kihiu, E., Barker, I., Echessa, L., Soto-Torres, J., Meyer, A.

“…The study demonstrates the utility of VarScout for cost-effective data collection, while highlighting the need for further methodological improvements and ground-truthing. The findings underscore the significant impact of CIP's breeding efforts, with over 50% of the pedigree of key popular varieties linked to CIP's genebank. …”
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Red list assessment of nine Aegilops species in Armenia by Haruntyunyan, M., Dulloo, Mohammad Ehsan, Yeritsyan, N., Danielyan, A.

“…They included a herbarium survey followed by extensive ground-truthing field surveys where targeted Aegilops species occur. …”
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Fish, roots, tubers and bananas: opportunities and constraints for agri-food system integration by Atkins, M., Byrd, K.A., Pincus, L., Naziri, D., Agboola, J.O., Yossa, Rodrigue

“…This paper, which is informed by a narrative literature review and ground-truthing through key informant interviews, documents existing linkages between two agri-food systems – fish and RTB – and identifies opportunities and challenges for strengthening their integration. …”
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A model of reporting and controlling outbreaks by public health agencies by Saak, Alexander E., Hennessy, David A.

“…Symptoms are overreported (respectively, reported truthfully, or underreported) when the cost of disease control is sufficiently small (respectively, in some intermediate range, or sufficiently large). …”
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Beyond the promises of technology: A review of the discourses and actors who make drip irrigation by Venot, Jean-Philippe, Zwarteveen, M.Z., Kuper, M., Boesveld, H., Kooij, S. van der, Wanvoeke, J., Benouniche, M., Errahj, M., Fraiture, Charlotte de, Verma, S.

“…Based on evidence from North and West Africa as well as South Asia, we show that there are multiple actors involved in shaping this imagery, the legitimacy of which largely stems from an engineering perspective that treats technology and potential as ‘truths’ that exist independently of the context of use. …”
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Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) Full Proposal 2017-2022 by CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems

“…But this success masks two uncomfortable truths. First, while responding to the rising demand for food, agricultural growth is depleting the natural resource base on which it depends. …”
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Empowering Africa's food systems for the future by von Braun, Joachim, Ulimwengu, John M., Babu, Suresh Chandra, Srivastava, Nandita, Swinnen, Johan, Blumenthal, Nick, Nwafor, Apollos, Nhlengethwa, Sibusiso, Kapuya, Tinashe, Mutyasira, Vine, Haddad, Lawrence, Keizire, Boaz B., Myaki, Ibrahim A., Muhinda, Jean Jaques, Nijiwa, Daniel, Djido, Aboulaye, Gokah, Isaac, Ngabitsinze, Jean Chrysostome, Wamkele Mene, H. E., Kalibata, Agnes, Bissi, Komla, Kajangwe, Antoine, Leke, Acha, Ooko-Ombaka, Amandla, Mannya, Karabo, Kassiri, Omid, Abe-Inge, Vincent, Kwofie, Ebenezer M., Fan, Shenggen, Fu, Hanyi, Muthini, Davis, Sene, Amath Pathe, Siewertsen, Hedwig

“…In delving into the assessment of food systems failures, the report confronts some harsh truths. Despite being home to nearly 60 percent of the world’s uncultivated arable land, Africa remains a net food importer spending billions annually to meet its food demands. …”
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Assessment of water allocations using remote sensing and GIS modeling for Indus Basin, Pakistan by Cheema, Muhammad Jehanzeb Masud, Bakhsh, Allah, Mahmood, Talha, Liaqat, Muhammad Usman

“…Three years were selected for the study and two representative canal commands (Lower Chenab and Muzaffargarh Canal) were selected for detailed analysis and ground truthing. Spatially distributed maps of land use, crop water use, groundwater use and quality, soil and water salinity, and crop yields at a pixel resolution of 250 m (6.25 ha) were prepared and then verified by field surveys. …”
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Dynamics of forest cover conversion in and around Bwindi impenetrable forest, Southwestern Uganda by Twongyirwe, R., Majaliwa, J.G.M., Ebanyat, Peter, Tenywa, M.M., Sheil, Douglas, Heist, M. van, Oluka, M., Kumar, L.

“…Land use/cover map for 2010 was reconstructed by analyzing 2001 image, validated and/or reconstructed by ground truthing, use of secondary data and key informant interviews. …”
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Restoring Degraded Rangelands in Jordan: Optimizing Mechanized Micro Water Harvesting using Rangeland Hydrology and Erosion Model (RHEM). by Strohmeier, Stefan, Haddad, Mira, Vries, Job de, Saba, Muna, Obeidat, Eiylaf Fawzi, Nouwakpo, Sayjro

“…The study combined physical based modeling and ground truthing through different runoff and sediment related experiments. …”
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An attempt in theorizing the urban design competition through the means of rhetoric by Ganestam, Lisa

“…The purpose of the essay is not to present the audience with any absolute truths or ideas of what is wrong or right. The purpose of the discussion has rather been to problematize reasonings and evoke and stimulate thought in both myself and the reader.…”
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Drought monitoring in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: participatory engagement to inform early warning systems by Fragaszy, S. R., Jedd, T., Wall, N., Knutson, C., Belhaj Fraj, M., Bergaoui, K., Svoboda, M., Hayes, M., McDonnell, Rachael

“…Overarching themes of drought monitoring needs include technical definitions of drought for policy purposes; information-sharing regimes and data-sharing platforms; ground-truthing of remotely sensed and modeled data; improved data quality in observation networks; and two-way engagement with farmers, organizations, and end-users of drought monitoring products. …”
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