Resultados de búsqueda - "illustration"

Towards resilient and low-emission agriculture: A review of climate change policy instruments for Colombia’s agricultural sector por Rivas, Juan Sebastian, Martinez Baron, Deissy, Castellanos, Andrea

“…The analysis highlights examples such as digital agroclimatic advisory tools, sustainable livestock models, and low‑carbon rice technologies as relevant options to support the execution of existing climate commitments. The report illustrates how scalable scientific innovations may contribute to bridging the gap between policy ambition and practical action in Colombia’s agrifood systems.…”
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Contrasted land use and development trajectories in the Brazilian Amazon por Mertens, B., Piketty, M.G., Venturieri, A., Alves, D., Tourrand, Jean François

“…The main objectives are to illustrate the spatial and temporal variability regarding incentives and disincentives to convert tropical forests for other agricultural uses and how do contrasted biophysical and socio-economic conditions (such as accessibility or land tenure) affect current and future land use and development trajectories, with a particular emphasis on the role of roads infrastructure. …”
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Will forests remain in the face of oil palm expansion? Simulating change in Malinau, Indonesia por Sandker, M., Suwarno, A., Campbell, Bruce M.

“…The severe tensions between conservation and development are illustrated by events in Malinau District (Kalimantan, Indonesia). …”
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Hybrid institutions: applications of common property theory beyond discrete property regimes por German, L., Keeler, A.

“…Empirical and action research from eastern Africa and logical arguments are each used to illustrate and sharpen the focus of our propositions so that they can be tested and refined in future research. …”
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ILRI 1996. Out of Africa, into a global mandate por International Livestock Research Institute

“…The article `Forage legumes boost livestock and crop production` is also on taking forages out of the gene bank and into farmers' fields: The final article `Importance of assessing true credit constraint' illustrates the need to move out of economic theory and into practical application.…”
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Valuation of cattle attributes in the Malian humid and sub-humid zones and implications for sustainable management of endemic ruminant livestock por Fadiga, M.L.

“…The importance of Body Condition illustrated by the high premium rates paid for excellent body condition combined with the relatively low discount rates for the Ndama and Crossbred breed confirms that if all maintenance costs are accounted for, Ndama cattle with excellent body condition could be as profitable as Zebu. …”
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Financing market-oriented dairy development. The case of Ada'a - Liben Woreda Dairy Association, Ethiopia por Tegegne, Azage

“…This paper discusses milk marketing and its problems for these smallholder farmers; livestock and its linkage to the social and cultural lives; current status, financing and future plans. It also illustrates milk collection centres; achievements of the association; cooperative members; and the annual capital shares, profit and loss of the association.…”
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Livestock development projects that make a difference: What works, what doesn't and why por Pell, A., Stroebel, A., Kristjanson, Patricia M.

“…Supported with evidence from the literature, the examples illustrate applications of these principles. It is concluded that they can increase the likelihood that research for development efforts related to livestock will contribute to poverty reduction and sustainable natural resource management.…”
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A new relevance and better prospects for wider uptake of social learning within CGIAR por Gonsalves, Julian Francis

“…Relying on secondary information provided by respondents, case overviews of exemplary and mature examples of social learning from within CGIAR were developed with the purpose of highlighting that CGIAR does already have a tradition to build upon in future work. Finally, an illustrative listing of current CGIAR projects provided to support the stocktaking objectives of this effort.…”
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A framework for the analysis of gender, intra-household dynamics, and livestock disease control with examples from Uasin Gishu District, Kenya por Curry, J., Huss-Ashmore, R., Perry, Brian D., Mukhebi, A.W.

“…The utility of this framework is illustrated using household-level data collected from a district in central Kenya. …”
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Vulnerability of smallholder farmers to ENSO-related drought in Indonesia por Keil, A., Teufel, Nils, Gunawan, D., Leemhuis, C.

“…Iterative model runs produce probability distributions of the model outcomes for each household class, whereby the downside risk of failing to achieve a specified minimum level of income is particularly policy relevant. The results illustrate that drought-related crop management recommendations must be tailored to farm households according to their location, farming system and resource endowment. …”
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Role of brokerage in evolving innovation systems: A case of the Fodder Innovation Project in Nigeria por Madzudzo, E.

“…This paper uses case studies from West Africa to illustrate that actors that play brokerage functions are critical in navigating around or dismantling the barriers and thus enhance innovation capacity. …”
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Introducing environmental thresholds into water withdrawal management of mountain streams in the Kura River Basin, Azerbaijan por Abbasov, R.K., Smakhtin, Vladimir U.

“…flow as an indicator of environmental stress. It is illustrated that the conjunctive use of several closely located streams for water supply may significantly reduce the duration of, or completely eliminate, environmentally critical periods. …”
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Participatory integrated watershed management: Evolution of concepts and methods in an ecoregional program of the eastern African highlands por German, L., Mansoor, H., Alemu, G., Mazengia, W., Amede, Tilahun, Stroud, Ann

“…Data are selectively chosen from different pilot sites to illustrate how concepts underlying watershed management have been refined, and methods improved. …”
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Legal plurality in Mekong hydropower: its emergence and policy implications por Suhardiman, Diana, Giordano, Mark

“…The changing role of the state and the increased participation of non-state actors has blurred the meaning of international affairs and highlighted overlapping power structures at international, national, and local levels. This paper illustrates how these power structures shape the hydropower decision making landscape in one of the world’s most dynamic transboundary basins, the Mekong. …”
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The Sri Lanka environmental flow calculator: a science-based tool to support sustainable national water management por Eriyagama, Nishadi, Smakhtin, Vladimir U., Jinapala, K.

“…The tool includes historical flow records from 158 gauged locations, but users may also feed in (observed/simulated) external data. The paper illustrates the application of the tool at two locations of existing/ planned infrastructure projects and discusses its usefulness as a policy tool.…”
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Improvement of feed resources and livestock feeding in mixed cropping systems por Blümmel, Michael, Anandan, S., Wright, Iain A.

“…This book is written in a very simple illustrative and coherent manner with all updated information so that students, scientists/researchers and academicians, at national and international level will be benefited. …”
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Climate-based suitability assessment for alternate wetting and drying water management in the Philippines: a novel approach for mapping methane mitigation potential in rice product... por Sander, Björn Ole, Wassmann, Reiner, Palao, Leo K., Nelson, Andrew

“…Furthermore, how the assessment can be used to estimate potential GHG emission savings is illustrated. Results show that a maximum of 60% of the rice area of the Philippines is climatically suited to AWD, reaching more than 90% in the dry and 34% in the wet season. …”
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Coffee certification in India: Awareness, practices, and sustainability perception of growers por Rich, Karl M., Chengappa, P.G., Muniyappa, A., Yadava, C.G., Manjyapura, G.S., Babu, B.N.P., Shubha, Y.C., Rich, M.

“…We provide results from a survey conducted on a sample of coffee farms in Coorg district, India, to assess their awareness and perceptions related toward certified coffee and environmental conservation in general. Survey results illustrate strong positive associations with the environment by coffee planters, particularly among certified and organic producers. …”
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From Resistance to Transformation: A Generic Metric of Resilience Through Viability por Béné, Christophe, Doyen, Luc

“…Theoretical and empirical analyses are then conducted, looking in particular at how inertia and costs associated with the types of responses influence the level of resilience. To illustrate this new metric, we draw on two models widely discussed in the resilience literature: the exploitation of renewable resources and the case of lake eutrophication. …”
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