Search Results - "convertible"

A spatial analysis of land use and cover change and agricultural performance: Evidence from northern Ghana by Haile, Beliyou, Signorelli, Sara, Azzarri, Carlo, Guo, Zhe

“…We document a significant expansion of crop land and settlements (productive use) at the expense of natural vegetation cover. Land areas converted from natural cover to productive use have higher maize yield (0.17 tons per hectare) and harvest value (1,021 Ghanaian Cedi) compared with those converted from bare soil to productive cover. …”
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Managing the farmscape for connectivity increases conservation value for tropical forest-dependent birds - dataset by Estrada-Carmona, Natalia

“…The four land-use scenarios included: (a) the 2011 farmscape land-use composition and configuration, b) converting all existing live fences to post-and-wire fence lines in the farm (c) converting simplified coffee agroforests to multistrata coffee agroforests in the farm, and d) placing multistrata live fences around the perimeter of evey parcel and roads in the farm. …”
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Scrutinizing Urbanization in Kathmandu Using Google Earth Engine Together with Proximity-Based Scenario Modelling by Aryal, A., Bhatta, K., Adhikari, S., Baral, H.

“…Agricultural land was highly converted to urban area. The overall accuracy of this classification process ranged 0.96–1.00 for different years. …”
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Financial drivers of land use decisions: The case of smallholder woodlots in Amhara, Ethiopia by Matthies, B.D., Karimov, A.A.

“…Analysis of smallholder Eucalyptus globulus Labill. production reveals that converting uneroded over eroded croplands leads to significantly higher financial returns. …”
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Sustaining tank irrigation in South India through time-tested measures by Kuppannan, Palanisami, Thangavel, M.

“…This paper outlines a five-pronged strategy to achieve this: a) partial rehabilitation (partial desilting); b) full scale tank rehabilitation; c) converting tanks into percolation ponds; d) converting non-system tanks into system tanks; e) full scale groundwater development (tapping the full groundwater potential). …”
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Intriguing Role of Proline in Redox Potential Conferring High Temperature Stress Tolerance by Kavi Kishor, Polavarapu B., Suravajhala, Prashanth, Rathnagiri, P., Sreenivasulu, Nese

“…On the other hand, ornithine-δ-aminotransferase converts ornithine to pyrroline 5-carboxylate (P5C), an intermediate in the synthesis of proline as well as glutamate. …”
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Opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in tropical peatlands by Murdiyarso, Daniel, Hergoualc'h, Kristell, Verchot, Louis V.

“…Forested tropical peatlands in Southeast Asia are rapidly being converted into production systems by introducing perennial crops for lucrative agribusiness, such as oil-palm and pulpwood plantations, causing large greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. …”
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Organic waste recycling for a sustainable future in Kenya by Waswa, Boaz S, Chege, Christine

“…It highlights the work of Organic Fields Ltd, an enterprise in Kenya converting urban organic waste into high quality organic fertilizers. …”
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Gender tool to promote women’s innovation by Gonsalves, Julian Francis

“…The tool is comprised of guidelines with practical recommendations for mainstreaming gender into innovation promoting methodologies, thus converting strategy into practice. The tool is aimed at promoting equal benefits for men and women from pro-poor innovations.…”
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Milk processing techniques - processing fresh milk into cheese by O'Connor, C.B., Tripathi, B.R.

“…Making cheese is an important way of increasing the shelf life of milk. Milk is converted into a concentrated nutritious food. This module discusses the processing of fresh milk into cheese. …”
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Efficient molecular markers for screening wheat grain arabinoxylan content (dietary fiber) developed by CGIAR Research Program on Wheat

“…After performing analysis, a significant genomic region located on the long arm of chromosome 1B was identified and the most significant Genotyping by Sequencing (GBS) markers identified from the Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) analysis had been converted into KASP (Kompetitive allele specific PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction)) markers. …”
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Multi-functionality and land use dynamics in a peri-urban environment influenced by wastewater irrigation by Jampani, Mahesh, Amerasinghe, Priyanie H., Liedl, R., Locher-Krause, K., Hulsmann, S.

“…The detected changes indicate that, as a consequence of urban pressures, agricultural landscapes are being converted into built-up areas and, at the same time, former barren land is converted to agricultural plots. …”
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Filling streamflow data gaps through the construction of rating curves in the Lake Tana Sub-basin, Nile Basin by Haile, Alemseged Tamiru, Geremew, Y., Wassie, S., Fekadu, A. G., Taye, Meron Teferi

“…The converted discharge data will be accessible to researchers to investigate the sub-basin’s hydrology. …”
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Estimating the biodiversity effects of structural adjustment in Ghana by Benhin, J.K., Barbier, Bruno

“…Rising cocoa prices could induce farmers to convert forest land. Increasing the price of insecticides beyond a certain limit could also lead to increased rates of forest loss as farmers expand production by converting forest. …”
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Using the WISE database to parameterize soil inputs for crop simulation models by Gijsman, A.J., Thornton, Philip K., Hoogenboom, Gerrit

“…Using this database, we converted 1125 soil profiles from around the world into a format that can be used as input data to some commonly used biophysical computer models, such as the crop simulation models within the Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT). …”
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Hur en övergång till ett automatiskt mjölkningssystem påverkar juverhälsan by Petersson, Patrick

“…Other studies on udder health on commercial farms have shown that somatic cell count increases both among individual cows and in the bulk milk when converting to an AMS. No differences between before and after converting to AMS in the proportion of cows treated for mastitis can be found in the literature. …”

Agrobiodiversity of fruits and nuts to adapt to climate change in Central Asia by Turdieva, M.K., Paroda, R., Jarvis, Devra I.

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Managing poor quality waters for mitigation of droughts by Sharma, Bharat R.

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CGIAR initiative examines the coherence of policies to help avert future food and water crises in Colombia by Villarino, Maria Eliza J., Yomayuza, Karoll Valentina

“…Illegal crops sprayed with chemicals that affect surrounding crops, rivers contaminated by the constant bombing of oil pipelines, forests cut down and converted into housing areas due to forced displacement and agricultural production— these are scenes repeated over the last five decades in Colombia. …”
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An ESTderived SNP and SSR genetic linkage map of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) by Rabbi, Ismail Y., Kulembeka, H.P., Masumba, E., Marri, P., Ferguson, Morag E.

“…Of the 1,358 successfully converted SNPs, 600 which were polymorphic in at least one of the parents and was subsequently converted to KBiosciences’ KASPar assay platform for genotyping 70 additional F1. …”
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