Resultados de búsqueda - "learning"

Maximum yield?: sustainable agriculture as a tool for conservation por Margoluis, R., Russel, V., González, M., Rojas, O., Magdaleno, J., Madrid, G., Kaimowitz, D.

“…To make wise choices about best practices - what works, what doesn't, and why - we must learn about the conditions under which specific strategies are most effective. …”
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Marketing of Kabuli and Desi chickpeas by smallholder farmers in Eastern Shewa Zone por Demissie, M.

“…The study, however, ascertains that smallholder farmers need to know not only how to produce but first need to know and learn how to identify preferable potential buyers that will enhance competitiveness of chickpea market.…”
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Global experiences in water reuse: summary and recommendations for the USEPA 2012 water reuse guidelines por Silva, A. da, Drechsel, Pay, Keraita, Bernard N., Lautze, Jonathan F., Stander, E.

“…Unlike earlier versions, the updated chapter aims to more fully discuss the full spectrum of applications in a range of resource contexts and highlight successes, challenges, and lessons learned in practical applications across a range of resource settings through a collection of case studies. …”
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Measuring the impact of user participation in agricultural and natural resource management research por Johnson, Nancy L., Lilja, Nina, Ashby, Jacqueline A.

“…When participatory methods were combined with conventional on-farm research, there were also start-up costs, because researchers and farmers needed to learn new research methods. However these additional one-time costs were not significant in terms of total research costs.…”
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Klima 101: A Climate Change Guidebook for Philippine Journalists por Visaya-Abaño, Imelda, Navarro, Rex L., Pérez, Rosa T.

“…It should help journalists understand key concepts that will aid them on reporting on climate change and its impact on agriculture and food security, learn more about government policies to address climate change, and on how journalists can effectively communicate climate change and its related issues. …”
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Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) Intermediary Training, Dodoma, Tanzania por Mwanga, Sixbert, Kisanga, Juvenal, Dinh, Dannie

“…A one-day farmer training workshop immediately followed, offering the freshly trained intermediaries an opportunity to learn by doing.…”
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Evaluation of an ecohealth approach to public health intervention in Ha Nam, Vietnam por Giang Pham, Lam, S., Tung Dinh-Xuan, Hung Nguyen-Viet

“…Objective: To evaluate the use of an ecohealth approach to a community-based intervention to improve environmental sanitation and draw lessons learned for similar public health initiatives. Design: An iterative evaluation approach involving 27 in-depth interviews and 9 focus group discussions was used to gather feedback on the intervention activities and outcomes from all participants. …”
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The role of water as a restorative component in small urban spaces por Pradhan, Prajal

“…Two types of studies— onsite observation (qualitative) and preference study (quantitative) was carried out to learn the importance of water or water features in the urban environment and to find the restorative qualities of water features. …”
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Walk the plan por Bratthäll, David

“…The purpose of the critique is to learn from an existing project, to find aspects to build upon in the search for new forms of a more including and democratic planning process. …”
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Investigating the socio-economic and livelihoods impacts of African swine fever in Timor-Leste: An application of spatial group model building por Berends, J., Costa Jong, J.B. da, Cooper, T.L., Dizyee, K., Morais, O., Pereira, A., Smith, D., Rich, Karl M.

“…This conceptual model serves as a starting point for further research and the future development of a quantitative system dynamics (SD) model which would allowex-antescenario-testing of various policy and technical mitigation strategies of ASF outbreaks in Timor-Leste and beyond. Lessons learned from the blended offline/online approach to training and workshop facilitation are also explored in the paper.…”
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Unpacking pathways to diversified livelihoods from projects in Pacific Island coastal fisheries por Roscher, Matthew, Eriksson, Hampus, Harohau, Daykin, Mauli, Senoveva, Kaltavara, Jeremie, Boonstra, Wiebren, Van Der Ploeg, Jan

“…There is still much to learn about the process of livelihood diversification, both in its theoretical conceptualizations and its practical applications. …”
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The political economy of reforming agricultural support policies por Vos, Rob, Martin, Will, Resnick, Danielle

“…Using several case studies of both successful and failed changes of agricultural support policies in China, India, and the EU and the United States, we highlight lessons learned about the political economy constraints on and possibilities for reform.…”
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Report of the global online survey to identify key knowledge and capacity gaps on diagnostics and surveillance of pests & diseases in targeted countries por Carvajal-Yepes, Mónica, Cuervo, Maritza, Kreuze, Jan F., Alakonya, Amos, Kumar, P. Lava, Onaga, Geoffrey, Dawit, Woubit, Castillon, Martina, Kumari, Safaa, Sharma, Rajan, Kawarazuka, Nozomi, Bui, Trang, Johnson, Vincent

“…The second part was aimed to learn and identify current capacities, major challenges, capacity building needs of National Plant Protection Organizations (NPPOs) for pest diagnostics and surveillance. …”
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Changes in Ghanaian farming systems: Stagnation or a quiet transformation? por Houssou, Nazaire, Johnson, Michael E., Kolavalli, Shashidhara, Asante-Addo, Collins

“…We conclude that it is essential for future research to expand the scope of this work, while policies should focus on lessons that can be learned from these historical processes of genuine change.…”
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IoT-enabled farms and climate-adaptive agriculture technologies: Investment lessons from Singapore por Montesclaros, Jose Ma. Luis, Babu, Suresh Chandra, Teng, Paul S.

“…We argue that one way of helping bridge these gaps is for providers and users of CAATs for extensive agriculture to learn from the practices of those in CAATs for intensive (indoor) agriculture. …”
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Measuring postharvest losses at the farm level in Malawi por Ambler, Kate, de Brauw, Alan, Godlonton, Susan

“…Farmers answered a detailed questionnaire designed to learn about losses during harvest and transport, processing, and storage and which measures both total losses and reductions in crop quality. …”
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Participatory video on groundwater governance with youth in the M’zab Valley, Algeria por Hamamouche, Meriem Farah, Fantini, Emanuele, Saidani, Mohamed Amine, Khouadja, Mohammed

“…Young people have traditionally learned agricultural and water distribution tasks through oral instruction and field observations from a very young age. …”
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Integrated cassava research and development projects in Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil : an overview of CIAT`s experiences por Ospina Patiño, Bernardo, Poats, SV, Henry, Guy

“…The origin, justification, methodology, results and lessons learned from this approach are presented using a comparative analysis of ClAT`s experiences in Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil. …”
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Citizen science informs demand-driven breeding of opportunity crops por Voss, Rachel C., De Sousa, Kaue, N'Danikou, Sognigbé, Shango, Abdul, Aglinglo, Lys Amavi, Laporte, Marie-Angelique, Legba, Eric C., Houdegbe, Aristide Carlos, Diarra, Danfing dit Youssouf, Dolo, Aminata, Sidibe, Amadou, Ouedraogo, Colette Ouidyam, Coulibaly, Harouna, Achigan-Dako, Enoch G., Kileo, Aishi, Malulu, Dickson, Matumbo, Zamira, Dinssa, Fekadu, van Heerwaarden, Joost, Van Etten, Jacob, Riar, Amritbir, van Zonneveld, Maarten

“…The methods used and lessons learned from our citizen science exercise can be applied to enhance breeding and seed supply of other opportunity crops that are underutilized in Africa and elsewhere.…”
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Farmer participation in Research-for-Development to enhance cassava production in Cameroon por Njukwe, E.

“…A socio-economic study was carried out to learn farmer criteria for cassava variety preference. …”
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