Resultados de búsqueda - "low cost"

Insights for enhancing monitoring, evaluation and learning: A case study from the Enhancing Climate-Change Resilience in East Africa (ECREA) Project por Ngige, Chris Mwangi, Kagabo, Desire, Mvuyibwami, Patrick, Eitzinger, Anton

“…This insight note presents the 5Q Approach, an innovative monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) method applied in the Enhancing Climate-Change Resilience in East Africa (ECREA) project. It leverages low-cost mobile technology (IVR/SMS) and five standardized questions to collect real-time, scalable data from remote farming communities on the use of bundled Agroclimate Advisories. …”
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Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT II). Fish Compact: Upscaling Aquaculture Technologies to Boost Value Chain por Fregene, Bernadette, Akuwa, Elizabeth, Iyangbe, Charles

“…The TAAT II Fish Compact Fact Sheet provides a concise overview of the project’s objectives, technologies, and impacts for partners and stakeholders:” The initiative promotes fast-growing, climate-resilient fish species, low-cost quality feed, and climate-smart processing technologies. …”
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The role of explainability in AI for agriculture: Making digital systems easier to understand for farmers por Girmay, Mengisti Berihu

“…Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the availability of low-cost sensors have renewed interest in precision agriculture and have broadened areas of application to the livestock sector. …”
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Afforestation and reforestation in the clean development mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol: implications for forests and forest people por Smith, J.

“…Risk could, however, be reduced through minimum standards for stakeholder consultation and favourable legal institutions. Low cost opportunities with multiple benefits exist and require information dissemination, but some opportunities for biodiversity benefits will need financial support. …”
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The impacts of forest degradation on medicinal plant use and implications for health care in Eastern Amazonia por Shanley, P., Luz, L.

“…Market surveys indicate that all socioeconomic classes in Amazonia use medicinal plants because of cultural preferences, low cost, and efficacy. Degradation of Amazonian forests may signify not only the loss of potential pharmaceutical drugs for the developed world but also the erosion of the sole health care option for many of Brazil’s rural and urban poor.…”
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Climate Change Adaptation for Smallholder Farmers in Southeast Asia por Lasco, Rodel, Habito CMD, Delfino, R.J.P., Pulhin FB, Concepcion RN

“…However, the IPCC also notes that recent studies show a high confidence that there are viable adaptation options that can be implemented at low cost and/or with high benefit-cost ratios (IPCC 2007a).…”
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Potential and constraints of little bag silage for smallholders : Results and experiences from Honduras por Reiber, Christoph, Schultze-Kraft, Rainer, Peters, Michael, Hoffmann, Vivian

“…Little bag silage (LBS) is seen as a low-cost alternative suitable for resource-poor smallholders to alleviate dry-season feed constraints. …”
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Synthesis and Review: Advancing Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Quantification por Olander, L, Wollenberg, Eva Karoline, Tubiello, F.N., Herold, Martin

“…There is an increasing demand for improved, low cost quantification of GHGs in agriculture, whether for national reporting to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), underpinning and stimulating improved practices, establishing crediting mechanisms, or supporting green products. …”
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El secado de la yuca para la alimentacion animal por Ospina Patiño, Bernardo, Gómez G., Guillermo G., Best, R.

“…The process of cassava drying using a natural, low cost system applicable on the on-farm level is described in detail. …”
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Root crops for food security in subSaharan Africa por Hahn, S.K.

“…Root crops are capable of efficient production of low cost calories under marginal soil conditions. They are very tolerant of stresses and play important roles in the diversified farming systems in the region. …”
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Training on Climate-Smart Agriculture for Sunflower Value Chain in Tanzania por Recha, John W.M., Demissie, Teferi Dejene

“…It is an important cash crop in Tanzania and has been attributed to the low cost of production relative to other oilseeds. …”
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Impacts of tailored plot-level agricultural extension and crop insurance services based on pictures por Kramer, Berber

“…We test the impacts of picture-based advisories, low-cost, plot-level, interactive advisory service based on ground images sent by farmers of individual fields. …”
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Relief from usury: Impact of a self-help group lending program in rural India por Hoffmann, Vivian, Rao, Vijayendra, Surendra, Vaishnavi, Datta, Upamanyu

“…Provision of low-cost credit to the poor through self-help groups (SHGs) has been embraced as a key poverty-reduction strategy in developing countries, but evidence on the impact of this approach is thin. …”
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Seeing is believing: Using crop pictures in personalized advisory services por Ceballos, Francisco, Foster, Tim, Hufkens, Koen, Jadhav, Arun, Kannan, Samyuktha, Kramer, Berber

“…We developed, implemented, and evaluated an innovative personalized advisory service that complements picture-based insurance (PBI), an easy-to-understand low-cost insurance product for visible crop damage. …”
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Plant breeding: a long-term strategy for the control of zinc deficiency in vulnerable populations por Ruel, Marie T., Bouis, Howarth E.

“…Because trace minerals are important not only for human nutrition, but for plant nutrition as well, plant breeding holds great promise for making a significant low-cost and sustainable contribution to reducing micronutrient deficiencies in humans, and may have important spinoff effects for increasing farm productivity in developing countries in an environmentally beneficial way. …”
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The quantity of zinc absorbed from wheat in adult women Is enhanced by biofortification por Rosada, Jorge L., Hambidge, K. Michael, Miller, Leland V., Garcia Olga P., Westcott, Jamie, Gonzalez, Karla, Conde, Jennifer, Hotz, Christine, Pfeiffer, Wolfgang, Ortiz-Monasterio, Ivan, Krebs, Nancy F.

“…Biofortification of staple food crops with micronutrients could reduce micronutrient malnutrition at relatively low cost. Zinc is especially important in this consideration as a lack of dietary zinc is a major cause of early childhood morbidity and mortality. …”
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Editorial: modelling approaches for climate variability and change mitigation and adaptation in resource constrained farming systems por Mkuhlani, S., Kephe, P. N., Rusere, F., Ayisi, K.

“…To address these challenges, there is an urgent need to develop, evaluate, and implement low-cost, adaptable climate risk management strategies. …”
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Integrated Strategy for Enhancing Sheep Flock Productivity por Tebourbi, Ons, Rekik, Mourad, Haile, Aynalem, Getachew, Tesfaye

“…For this reason, enhancing the productivity of small ruminant flocks requires integrated, practical, low-cost and easy-to-implement solutions. Recognizing these challenges in many developing countries like Ethiopia, Mali, Jordan, etc., the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) has tested many solutions that have proven effective in improving sheep productivity. …”
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300,000+ African farmers overcome banana Xanthomonas wilt using Alliance-developed single diseased stem removal with other measures. por Blomme, Guy, Ocimati, Walter, Kikulwe, Enoch, Johnson, Vincent

“…An Alliance partnership has finalized a bundle of highly effective, low-cost, and user-friendly banana Xanthomonas wilt disease (BXW) control technologies including Single Diseased Stem Removal (SDSR), to protect East and Central Africa’s multibillion dollar banana production and >3 million farmers’ livelihoods across the region [1]. …”
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Foodborne disease: why it matters for food security, nutrition and climate change adaptation por Grace, Delia

“…Her “three-legged stool” approach, combining policy reform, low-cost technologies, and behavioral nudges, shows how food safety can be transformed from the ground up. …”
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