Resultados de búsqueda - "low cost"
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CLIMATE AND FINANCE RISK ASSESSMENTS OF FIVE AGRIBUSINESSES USING AI-TOOLS
Publicado 2025“…This report presents AI-assisted risk assessments as a scalable, low-cost solution. Five anonymized agribusinesses, spanning honey, rice, solar irrigation, poultry inputs, and oilseed processing, were analyzed to identify financial, climate, and organizational vulnerabilities. …”
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Homestead gardening: A gender-responsive solution for a resilient and food-secure Bangladesh
Publicado 2025“…Homestead gardening (HG) offers a practical, low-cost, and gender-responsive way to improve nutrition and build resilience, especially in climate-stressed regions. …”
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Digital agricultural technology in Egypt: Insights from app developers
Publicado 2025“…Over the past decade, the proliferation of smartphones, mobile internet, and low-cost digital tools has opened new channels through which farmers, traders, processors, and aggregators access information and services. …”
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Targeting climate-smart agriculture through farmer typologies in Kenya’s Central highlands
Publicado 2026“…Results show that while resource-constrained, rain-fed farmers face high erosion and food insecurity, they are more inclined toward low-cost soil health practices, whereas irrigating and commercially oriented farmers achieve higher productivity but face emerging sustainability and nutrition challenges. …”
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Of cecropias, snarks and boojums
Publicado 2011“…We highlighted the need for low-cost assessment approaches for addressing alien species and considered what might be achieved by local actors with limited resources. …”
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Generating incomes from dry forest products case studies from Mwinilunga, Kapiri, and Chongwe district, Zambia
Publicado 2011“…The low barriers for entry, such as the low cost of production, create the opportunity for very poor households to engage in the trade of many NTFPs. …”
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Responses of clover and desmodium to Egyptian rockphosphate in Ethiopia
Publicado 1999“…Rockphosphates are a low-cost alternative. The effect of Egyptian rockphosphate (ERP) from two sources, applied at 50 kg P ha-1, on annual Trifolium tembense (clover) grown on a Vertisol was evaluated. …”
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Local-level appraisal of benefits and barriers affecting adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices: Curití, Colombia
Publicado 2014“…The author noted rainwater harvesting/storage, improved crop varieties, composting, conservation tillage, low-cost biodigesters and organic pest control as practices with high potential for further CCAFS investigation and/or on-farm participatory trials.…”
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Motivating behaviour change for safe wastewater irrigation in urban and peri-urban Ghana
Publicado 2013“…Even where appropriate and low-cost interventions have been identified, low health risk awareness is a likely adoption barrier. …”
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Simple intervention to reduce mosquito breeding in waste stabilisation ponds
Publicado 2007“…This suggests that a combination of simple low-cost interventions is a feasible environmental management strategy for vector control in WSP systems that are located in areas where medically important mosquitoes may breed in the shallow ponds.…”
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Small ruminant production in Ethiopia: Prospects for improving productivity
Publicado 1998“…Examples of such combination of the use of epidemiological information, pasture management and low cost supplements with medicated-molasse-urea blocks to control endoparasites in the highland sheep of Ethiopia are Reported.…”
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Irrigation potential and investment return in Kenya
Publicado 2014“…For the dam-based investment analysis, under low-cost assumption, 58 dams of 73 are profitable (IRR > 0). …”
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Unravelling the genetic basis of banana traits using next generation sequencing technologies
Publicado 2015“…We are taking advantage of the latest Next Generation Sequencing technologies to i) produce high-density genetic markers for a large number of samples at low cost, and ii) to sequence, assemble and annotate key genomes, thus generating an unprecedented volume of information for researchers and breeders. …”
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Patrones de diversidad genetica en Phaseolus : hechos, ideas e implicaciones
Publicado 1988“…Given the spread of some crops such as soybeans and pods, searching for variability in the available genetic resources for bean breeding is proposed, to avoid pressure on the crop as a result of the appearance of new pests or diseases and contribute to producing low- cost plant protein. The bean collection, especially that of wild materials, does not show enough variability, for which measures should be adopted to preserve the current and identify new species as well as their characteristics, geographic distribution, and threats in their habitat. …”
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An optimized isolation protocol yields high‐quality RNA from cassava tissues (Manihot esculenta Crantz)
Publicado 2018“…The resulting method is suitable for use in mini, midi, and maxi preparations and rapidly achieves high total RNA yields (170–600 μg/g) using low‐cost chemicals and consumables and with minimal contamination from polysaccharides, polyphenols, proteins, and other secondary metabolites. …”
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Efficacy of phosphine as a fumigant against Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in palms. Short communication.
Publicado 2017“…Provided that applied dose of aluminium phosphide is not phytotoxic for palms, this treatment could significantly reduce at low cost the enormous risks that palm imports suppose worldwide.…”
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Rågsveds Hälsoträdgård
Publicado 2011“…The result is that it is possible to create a restorative environment at a low cost. However, to use the full potential of the environment, it is necessary to put the focus on education and motivation of staff and volunteers.…”
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Can mussel farming be used as an offset in mitigating eutrophication in the Baltic Sea?
Publicado 2016“…Research has shown that mussel farming could function as an abatement technique at a low cost. The purpose of this paper is to estimate if mussel farming could function as an offset in mitigating eutrophication in the Baltic Sea. …”
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Land Tenure Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa: Interventions in Benin, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe
Publicado 2023“…Since 2000, many African countries have introduced programs aimed at providing smallholder farmers with low-cost certificates for land held un-der customary tenure. …”
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“Seeing is Believing:” Research project on smartphone camera data for agricultural risk management
Publicado 2019“…A proof of concept study of “picture-based insurance” (PBI), an easy-to-understand low-cost insurance product for visible crop damage, was conducted between 2016 and 2018 in Punjab and Haryana on the wheat crop. …”
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