Resultados de búsqueda - "pastor"
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Incorporation of Organic Growth Additives to Enhance In Vitro Tissue Culture for Producing Genetically Stable Plants
Publicado 2022“…The growing demand for native planting material in ecological restoration and rehabilitation for agro-silvo-pastoral ecosystems has resulted in a major global industry in their sourcing, multiplication, and sale. …”
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Economic valuation of cactus pear production in semi-arid regions of Tunisia
Publicado 2022“…We concluded that cactus pear cultivation would strengthen agro-pastoral system resilience by mitigating the negative impacts of climate change and enhancing pastoralist incomes.…”
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Genetic variation and demographic history of Sudan desert sheep reveal two diversified lineages
Publicado 2023“…Herein, we sequenced the entire mitochondrial DNA control region of 120 animals from Hamary and Kabashi and their crossbreed (Hamary x Kabashi) of Sudan desert sheep (SDS) to understand their maternal-inherited genetic variation and demographic history profiles and relate those to the history of sheep pastoralism on the African continent. The results show a diversified and predominant D- loop haplogroup B (n = 102, 85%), with all other sequences belonging to haplogroup A. …”
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Applying co-integrated panel models to estimate long-term relationships between cattle production and greenhouse gas emissions for Latin America
Publicado 2023“…This long-term behavior may be marked by those countries that have a more developed cattle sector, aimed at reducing the impacts of cattle production on the environment, for example, by supporting the adoption of improved forage technologies, silvo-pastoral systems, grazing management practices, and regulatory frameworks and incentives. …”
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Higher livestock abortion burden in arid and semi-arid lands, Kenya, 2019-2020
Publicado 2024“…Seventy-seven per cent (n = 18,280) of these abortions occurred in arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) that primarily practice pastoralism production systems. While spatiotemporal clustering of cases was observed in May-July 2019 in the ASALs, there was a substantial seasonal fluctuation across AEZs. …”
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Biting the bullet: how to secure access to drylands resources for multiple users
Publicado 2006“…Because of their climatic conditions and political and economic marginalization drylands also have some of the highest incidents of poverty. Pastoral and sedentary production systems coexist in these areas and both very often use common property arrangements to manage access and use of natural resources. …”
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Outcomes and impacts of CGIAR Research Initiatives in Kenya from 2022 to 2024
Publicado 2025“…These contributions have paved the way for increasing crop productivity, while also supporting key livestock innovations that enhance food safety and bolster the resilience of pastoral communities. Robust local partnerships underpinned several policy shifts and helped align many outputs with the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA). …”
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Investment Opportunities for Livestock in the North Eastern Province of Kenya: A Synthesis of Existing Knowledge
Publicado 2008“…Pastoralism is the dominant livelihood activity in the North Eastern Province (NEP) of Kenya. …”
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Perspectives of predictive epidemiology and early warning systems for Rift Valley fever in Garissa, Kenya
Publicado 2013“…Using retrospective reanalysis and cross sectional participatory approaches we evaluate the impacts of climate change on pastoral communities and outline their roles in community based early warning systems for RVF. …”
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Seasonal and intermarket differences in price of small ruminants in Ethiopia
Publicado 2006“…One possible reason is that in general highland is not a major production or consumption area for goats, so supplies come mainly from the lowlands, so the price movement followed the market chain from primary markets in pastoral areas to the terminal market in Addis Ababa.…”
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Characterization and productivity assessment of the farming systems in the Upper part of the Nile Basin
Publicado 2011“…Two major systems, the mixed crop-livestock farming and the pastoral/agro-pastural have been identified. The former was sub grouped into the cereal based, coffee-tree crops complex and the onset root crops complex subsystems. …”
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Poor livestock keepers: ecosystem–poverty–health interactions
Publicado 2017“…We illustrate this with results from a survey on health costs in a pastoral ecosystem. Epidemic zoonoses are more likely to elicit official responses, but these can have unintended consequences that deepen poverty traps. …”
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Signatures of positive selection in African Butana and Kenana dairy zebu cattle
Publicado 2018“…Our findings underline the potential to improve dairy production in the semi-arid pastoral areas of Africa through breeding improvement strategy of indigenous local breeds.…”
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Household-oriented benefits largely outweigh commercial benefits derived from cattle in Mabalane District, Mozambique
Publicado 2018“…This suggests that the functions of draft power, financing, insurance and saving play important roles in the livelihoods of most of agro-pastoral households in Mozambique—arguably more important than meat and milk. …”
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Epidemiological investigations of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia in selected districts of Borana zone, Southern Oromia, Ethiopia
Publicado 2019“…A multistage random sampling was implemented to select districts, pastoral associations (villages), and households. A total of 890 serum samples of small ruminants that had not been vaccinated (goats n = 789 and sheep n = 101) were collected and screened for the presence of antibodies against Mycoplasma capricolum subspecies capripneumoniae using a competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. …”
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Towards environmentally sound intensification pathways for dairy development in the Tanga region of Tanzania
Publicado 2023“…Here, our simulations suggest that due to current low productivity, the greatest efficiency gains in combination with relatively low increases in total GHG emissions can be made in the extensive agro-pastoral dairy systems, which represent the majority of herds.…”
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Calibration of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Prediction of Herbage Mass in Temperate Pasture
Publicado 2025“…Accurate estimation of herbage mass is crucial for managing pastoral livestock systems. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) sensors shows promise for high-resolution estimations of pasture herbage mass, but it is still unknown how this method differs among forage species, seasons, and pasture management practices. …”
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Bridging the Policy and Investment Gap for Payment for Ecosystem Services: Learning from Costa Rican Experience and Roads Ahead
Publicado 2020“…Within this context, payment for ecosystem services (PES) is a powerful tool for enhancing economic, environmental, and social returns from investments in integrated ecosystem management, including forest regeneration, agricultural landscapes, agroforestry, silvo-pastoral systems, etc. It provides financial incentives for ecosystem services that are not usually monetized and paid for in the traditional market. …”
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Caracterización sociodemográfica de la población refugiada en la Casa del Migrante San José, Ocotepeque, Honduras
Publicado 2023“…En la parte cuantitativa, se analizó la base de datos de la Pastoral de Movilidad Humana de enero de 2021 a noviembre de 2022, se aplicó una encuesta con preguntas cerradas a los migrantes encontrados en diciembre en el albergue. …”
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Desarrollo y consolidación de una oferta de leche ovina para la cadena productiva del queso de oveja en la cuenca lechera de la Región de Los Ríos
Publicado 2021“…Y la implementación de un modelo de transferencia de conocimientos para la profesionalización del rubro ovino lechero, a manera de la Escuela de Pastores utilizados en Europa, con capacitaciones con certificación para formar productores y personal técnico altamente especializado.…”
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