Search Results - "environmental sustainability"

Market challenges to improved pig productivity in Uganda by Ultimate Business Strategies, Ltd

“…A 'market system's approach, which uses environmentally sustainable and gender-inclusive interventions, is being used by the CGIAR Research Program of Livestock to improve pig productivity and incomes from pig farming in Uganda. …”
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Reforming fertilizer import policies for sustainable intensification of agricultural systems in Sri Lanka: Is there a failure? by Weerahewa, Jeevika, Senaratne, Athula, Babu, Suresh Chandra

“…The government of Sri Lanka has implemented a myriad of fertilizer import and use options during 2015 – 2021 with the objective of making agricultural systems more financially and environmentally sustainable. However, these actions were not fully informed by global and national evidence. …”
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Succeeding as a young agripreneur - Pacific youth speak out by Dietershagen, Jana

“…In the Pacific islands, where the population is expected to double by 2050, there is an urgent need for youth to become entrepreneurial and creative risk-takers to help develop innovative, and environmentally sustainable, agricultural economies. But, although more than half of the South Pacific population (10 million) is under 25 years-old, these young people are experiencing problems in entering both formal and informal labour markets. …”
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Animal production systems in south-east and east Asia. Potential and challenges for research by Devendra, C.

“…Animal production systems in South-East and east Asia are discussed in the context of their potential and challenges for research to address poverty alleviation, increased food production and food security and environmentally sustainable development. The projected human population increase, rising incomes and changing consumer preferences will accelerate the demand for, and access to food in the future. …”
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Scaling the technology for producing livestock feed pellets using agricultural byproducts in Tunisia by Rudiger, Udo

“…This innovation is deemed to be socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable. Collaboration with CIAT is ongoing to extend this technology to Ethiopia and Kenya. …”
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Food systems research to support sustainable impact by Béné, Christophe, Lundy, Mark, de Brauw, Alan, Brouwer, Inge D.

“…Driven by changes in diets, urbanization, longer supply chains, and new ways of purchasing and consuming foods, these transformations pose serious challenges to achieving healthy, environmentally sustainable, and inclusive food systems for all. …”
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Strengthening CPWF project evaluations: Assessing research-for-development impact by Mayne, J.

“…The Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) funds research-for-development projects for 3-5 year periods with the aim of “increasing the productivity of water for food and livelihoods, in a manner that is environmentally sustainable and socially acceptable”. Impact evaluations of CPWF’s projects serve several purposes including lessons to improve implementation, lessons to inform uptake, and credible information to CPWF donors and other stakeholders. …”
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A review of the economic contribution of pastoral production systems to the national economies in sub-Saharan Africa by Gebreselassie, N., Desta, S., Ehui, Simeon K.

“…The first section addressing the economic contribution of pastoralism, which introduces the concept of total factor productivity as a suitable approach for properly measuring the productivity of pastoral systems, and this section discusses in terms of:- employment and income; government revenue and exports; source of food; non-food outputs; inputs for sustainable agriculture; efficient and environmentally sustainable use of scarce and marginal resources. …”
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Agroforestry på Stationsmossen by Ek, Mathias

“…The goal of the construction of an agroforestry-system at the Stationsmossen was to find an alternative way to use the area in an economically and environmentally sustainable way instead of turning it into a spruce-plantation. …”

Plant different, eat different? Insights from participatory agricultural research by Azzarri, Carlo, Haile, Beliyou, Letta, Marco

“…We examine the association between on-farm production diversity on household dietary diversity in Malawi using microdata collected as part of an environmentally sustainable agricultural intensification program. …”
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CTA Project Completion Report: ActionAid Haiti - AAH by Visser, Piet, Reid, Robert

“…In early 2018, Action Aid Haiti (AAH) approached the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), to collaborate in a project that in the context of climate change, would promote the production of environmentally sustainable crops, and reduce the vulnerability of persons particularly women in rural communities. …”
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Quality local seeds to farmers: Supporting seed system development in Uganda and Nepal by CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets

“…In many developing countries, limited access to and availability of quality seeds affects farmers’ food and nutrition security and impedes efforts to make agrifood systems more productive, inclusive, environmentally sustainable, and nutrition sensitive. Research on seed systems is a key component of the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM). …”
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The role of food and nutrition system approaches in tackling hidden hunger by Burchi, F., Fanzo, J.C., Frison, Emile A.

“…One of the World`s greatest challenges is to secure sufficient and healthy food for all, and to do so in an environmentally sustainable manner. This review explores the interrelationships of food, health, and environment, and their role in addressing chronic micronutrient deficiencies, also known as "hidden hunger", affecting over two billion people worldwide. …”
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Bioenergy and agriculture: Promises and challenges: Bioenergy in developing countries: Experiences and prospects by Kammen, Daniel M.

“…Both the traditional and the new options for biomass energy pose challenges that will require technology and policy solutions to ensure efficient, healthy, and environmentally sustainable outcomes.…”
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Issues in institutional development for irrigated agriculture in Pakistan by Bandaragoda, Don Jayatissa, Skogerboe, G.V.

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Sustainable Amazonian Landcapes Project, SOILDATABASE Colombia by Quintero, Marcela, Romero Sánchez, Miguel Antonio, Pulleman, Mirjam Margreet, Botero Vargas, Cesar A., Sierra, Leidi, Argote Deluque, Karolina, Suarez Salazar, Juan C., Rodríguez Suárez, Leonardo, Rico, Adrian, Wiersma, Wietse

“…All the parameters of the data table were evaluated in different objectives: Objective 1: Sampling of the implementations of the Conservation and Governance (C&G) and Environmentally Sustainable Milk (LAS) projects; Objective 1-2: Sampling of the implementations of the C&G and LAS projects; Objective 2: Exploratory sampling of the coverages in the two landscape units (UP4 and UP6); Objective 3: Sampling of the baseline of the SAL project implementations; Objective 3-2: Sampling of the monitoring of the SAL project implementations. (2018-06-02)…”
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Consumption patterns and diet gaps across regional Myanmar by Scott, J.M., Mahrt, Kristi, Thilsted, Shakuntala H.

“…Its aim is to devise plausible approaches for environmentally sustainable nutrition-sensitive agriculture under existing conditions as well as possible climate-altered conditions in the future. …”
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Predicting temporal variations in groundwater salinity of pumped water in Rechna Doab, Punjab, Pakistan by Aslam, M.

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Resource use and productivity of irrigated agriculture in the Rechna Doab, Punjab, Pakistan by Jehangir, Waqar A., Ali, N., Ali, F.

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Water allocation and distribution at the watercourse level: A review of IIMI research by Rehman, S.U., Strosser, P., Bandaragoda, Don Jayatissa

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