Resultados de búsqueda - "West Africa"

The future of food security, environments and livelihoods in Western Africa: Four socio-economic scenarios por Palazzo, Amanda, Rutting, Lucas, Zougmoré, Robert B., Vervoort, Joost M., Havlík, Petr, Jalloh, Abdulai, Aubee, Ernst, Helfgott, Ariella E.S., Mason-D'Croz, Daniel, Islam, Shahnila, Ericksen, Polly J., Segda, Zénabou, Moussa, Abdoulaye S., Bayala, Jules, Kadi Kadi, Hame A., Sibiry Traoré, Pierre C., Thornton, Philip K., Valin, Hugo

“…This working paper examines the development of regional socioeconomic scenarios for West Africa’s development, agriculture, food security and climate impacts. …”
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Prioritizing value chains for climate-smart agriculture (CSA) promotion in Mali, Niger and Senegal por Ouédraogo, Mathieu, Jaquet, Stéphanie, Traoré, Bouba, Sall, Moussa, Tougiani, Abasse, Dembélé, Siaka, Zougmoré, Robert B.

“…Climate change is already having a significant effect on agriculture and food security in West Africa. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is proposed as a solution to transform and reorient agricultural systems to support food security under the new realities of climate change. …”
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Scaling Climate-Smart Agriculture technologies and innovations in West and Central Africa through regional spillover mechanisms: Experiences from CORAF and way forward por Segnon, Alcade C, Obossou, Esdras, Lamien, Niéyidouba, Zougmoré, Robert B.

“…Scaling CSA climate-smart agriculture (CSA) technologies and innovations is essential to address climate change impacts in agriculture and food systems in West Africa. Through engagement with existing regional institutions such CORAF, AICCRA piloted innovative approaches to scaling up CSA technologies and innovations in West Africa, including innovation pitching, business-to-business (B2B), and regional workshops. …”
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A Green Revolution in the West African cocoa belt por Bhattacharjee, Ranjana, Gockowski, J., Asare, R., Muilerman, Sander

“…STCP tools for the rehabilitation of West African cocoa farms Cacao tree stocks in West Africa are mainly established from seeds procured from farmers’ fields. …”
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National stakeholders’ workshop of the Ghana national science-policy dialogue platform on climate change, agriculture and food security: Review of activities and operations por Karbo, Naaminong, Botchway, Vincent Ansah, Sam, Kingsley Odum

“…A one-day workshop in Tamale, Ghana was organized to discuss opportunities to leverage partnership between the CCAFS West Africa’s policy-focused project and the Ghana national science-policy dialogue platform on climate-smart agriculture. …”
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Impacts of climate change on rice production in Africa and causes of simulated yield changes por Oort, P.A.J. van, Zwart, Sander J.

“…Wet season irrigated rice yields in West Africa were projected to change by −21% or +7% (without/with adaptation). …”
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Maize–legume strip cropping effect on productivity, income, and income risk of farmers in northern Ghana por Rahman, N.A., Larbi, Asamoah, Kotu, Bekele Hundie, Asante, M.O., Akakpo, D.B., Bedi, S.M., Hoeschle‐Zeledon, I.

“…–legume intercropping is common cropping system among smallholder farmers in West Africa. However, little is known about the income risk reduction associated with maize–legume strip cropping in West Africa. …”
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Cocoa irrigation in southern Nigeria: A Technical Report of the IITA irrigated cocoa farm por Oke, Adebayo, Hauser, Stefan, Schmitter, Petra S., Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe

“…This is responsible for the growing interest in cocoa irrigation in West Africa. The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) has undertaken significant research initiatives in cocoa development across West Africa. …”
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Projecting regional climate and cropland changes using a linked biogeophysical-socioeconomic modeling framework: 2. Transient dynamics por Ahmed, Kazi Farzan, Wang, Guiling, You, Liangzhi, Anyah, Richard, Zhang, Chuanrong, Burnicki, Amy

“…Understanding climate-cropland interactions and their impact on future projections in West Africa motivated the recent development of a modeling framework that asynchronously couples four models for regional climate, crop growth, socioeconomics, and cropland allocation. …”
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Evaluating seasonal rainfall forecast gridded models over Sub-Saharan Africa por Atiah, W.A., Bendito, E., Muthoni, F.K.

“…While ECMWFv5.1 showed superior skill overall, model reliability was generally limited to West Africa; in contrast, both models performed poorly in East Africa. …”
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Challenges of assessing the sustainability of (agro)-pastoral systems por Ayantunde, Augustine A., Leeuw, Jan de, Turner, M.D., Said, Mohammed Yahya

“…The specific objectives of this paper are: (i) to identify the challenges of assessing the sustainability of pastoral systems with focus on East and West Africa; (ii) to propose criteria and indicators for sustainability assessment of pastoral systems; and (iii) to demonstrate the diversity of pastoral systems by elaborating on features in East and West Africa with case studies from pastoral communities in both regions, namely Samburu in Kenya and Fakara in Niger. …”
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Nutritious underutilized species - Fonio por Alercia, A., Bioversity International

“…It is often consumed in West Africa before most crops are ready to harvest because it is one of the world’s fastest maturing cereals. …”
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The importance of public investments and institutions for the functioning of food markets in developing countries por Hazell, Peter B. R., Fan, Shenggen

“…The papers presented in this CDS Research Report centre around three PhD studies in the CDS research theme groups on Food Security and Food Markets in West Africa. They discuss problems of food security and food markets in Burkina Faso. …”
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Dormancy in yams por Craufurd, Peter Q., Summerfield, R.J., Asiedu, Robert, Prasad, P.

“…The tubers of yam, principally those of Dioscorea rotundata (white Guinea yam) and D. alata (water or greater yam), are important staple foods and sources of carbohydrate in West Africa. Yams are grown in diverse environments – from the high-rainfall forest zone on the coast to the seasonally arid savannas of West Africa, that is in situations in which the duration and the timing of the onset of the growing season vary appreciably. …”
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Response of Imperata cylindrica to smothering by different Mucuna accessions por Ekeleme, F., Chikoye, David

“…The Center for Cover Crops Information and Seed Exchange in Africa (CIEPCA) was established to support cover crops systems development for researchers, extension workers, and farmers in West Africa. CIEPCA has been in existence for approximately 3years. …”
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CTA Project Completion Report: Capitalizing on experiences for greater impact in rural development por Chavez-Tafur, Jorge

“…Following the structure and the list of activities outlined in the project proposal, during these 3 years the project • helped complete the FAO/IMARK learning module on experience capitalisation and supported the production of the Spanish and French versions; • built and maintained a thematic website, and completed it with an online repository with guidebooks and manuals as well as with the results of different capitalisation processes; • prepared, used and shared a series of training materials, together with a facilitators’ guidebook – building on the resources already available, but more specifically on the experience accumulated by the project; • ran a series of training workshops and supported the completion of experience-capitalisation processes in East Africa, Mozambique, India, West Africa (in French and in English), South East Asia, the Pacific region and Latin America; • completed the editing, layout and publication of 10 booklets with the results of the capitalisation processes started in different parts of the world (with more than 120 cases in total), together with two additional booklets focusing on the capitalisation process itself and on its institutionalization; • worked together with other organisations, such Farm Radio International and the International Land Coalition, in the analysis and documentation of their projects’ activities; • ran a series of webinars for online facilitators, focusing on the organisation and facilitation of a community of practice, and invited different participants to guide and facilitate the regional communities - in English (East and West Africa and in the Pacific region), French (West Africa), Portuguese (Brazil and Mozambique) and Spanish (Latin America); • presented the results achieved in international conferences and seminars (in Benin, Mauritania and the Netherlands); and • helped prepare a series of capitalisation processes within CTA, as part of a thorough analysis of its different intervention areas.…”
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Genetic diversity and population structure analysis of bambara groundnut (Vigna subterrenea L) landraces using DArT SNP markers por Uba, C.U., Oselebe, H.O., Abebe, A.T., Abtew, W.G.

“…The genetic distance between pairs of regions varied from 0.002 to 0.028 with higher similarity between Nigeria/Cameroon-West Africa accessions and East-Southern Africa accessions. …”
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Geographic distribution and frequency of a taurine B. Taurus and an indicine Bos indicus Y specific allele amongst sub-Saharan African cattle breeds por Hanotte, Olivier H., Tawah, C.L., Bradley, D.G., Okomo, M., Verjee, Y., Ochieng, J., Rege, J.E.O.

“…The Taurine allele is the commonest only among the Sanga breeds of the southern African region and the trypanotolerant Taurine breeds of West Africa. In West Africa and in the southern Africa regions, zones of introgression were detected with breeds showing both Y chromosome alleles. …”
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Linking regional stakeholder scenarios and shared socioeconomic pathways: Quantified West African food and climate futures in a global context por Palazzo, Amanda, Vervoort, Joost M., Mason-D'Croz, Daniel, Rutting, Lucas, Havlík, Petr, Islam, Shahnila, Bayala, Jules, Valin, Hugo, Kadi Kadi, Hame A., Thornton, Philip K.

“…In the context of a global economy, West Africa remains a large consumer and producer of a selection of commodities. …”
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Performance of extraearly maize cultivars based on GGE biplot and AMMI analysis por Badu-Apraku, Baffour, Oyekunle, M., Obeng-Antwi, K., Osuman, A.S., Ado, S.G., Coulibaly, N., Yallou, C.G., Abdulai, M.S., Boakyewaa, G.A., Didjeira, A.

“…Multi-environment trials (METs) in West Africa have demonstrated the existence of genotype×environment interactions (G×E), which complicate the selection of superior cultivars and the best testing sites for identifying superior and stable genotypes. …”
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