Search Results - "status quo"

The world’s largest potato cryobank at the International Potato Center (CIP) – Status quo, protocol improvement through large-scale experiments and long-term viability monitoring by Vollmer, R., Villagaray, R., Castro, M., Cardenas, J., Pineda, S., Espirilla, J., Anglin, Noelle L., Ellis, David, Azevedo, V.C.R.

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Assessing the potential cost of a failed Doha Round by Bouët, Antoine, Laborde Debucquet, David

“…Such a drastic event would make the business-as-usual scenario uncertain because the status quo is not a long-term perspective for trade policies. …”
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Institutional reform in the Burkinabè cotton sector and its impacts on incomes and food security: 1996-2006 by Kaminski, Jonathan, Headey, Derek D., Bernard, Tanguy

“…However, Burkina Faso rejected both the status quo and wholesale liberalization paths, and instead embarked on a more gradual and sequenced reform path that included strengthening farmers’ groups before partially liberalizing input and output markets. …”
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El ADN innovador : Introducción a la Innovación

“…Se menciona a Jeff Dyer en su libro el ADN del innovador revela cinco características claves: Asociación (Conecta ideas no relacionadas), Cuestionamiento (Supera el Status Quo), Observación (Ver detalles y patrones constantemente ), Networking (También llamado trabajo en red, interactúa con innovadores de diversos campos) y Experimentación (Reflexiona para validar supuestos).…”
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Socioeconomic assessment of producing biogas from fish waste : a cost benefit analysis applied on the fish farming industry on Åland by Bergqvist, Julia

“…The first objective is to identify theoretical impacts from the biogas scenario on society’s utility in relation to status quo. Both internal and external effects are recognized. …”

CGIAR’s Agroecology Initiative: transforming food, land, and water systems across the global South by Narjes, Manuel Ernesto, Quintero, Marcela, McCartney, Matthew P., Wiederkehr Guerra, Gabriela Patricia

“…During this event, the Initiative Leadership Team highlighted the necessity for scientific evidence to show how agroecological principles applied in different socio-ecological systems are better able to provide equity, productivity, economic and environmental benefits than alternatives, including the status quo.…”
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Optimal groundwater management in Pakistan’s Indus Water Basin by Nasim Sanval, Helfand, Steven

“…We develop a groundwater extraction model for the Indus Basin and simulate the effect of common property management (the status quo in the Indus Basin) and optimal management on groundwater extractions, water table height, groundwater quality, and annual net benefits from irrigated agriculture. …”
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The economics of sustainable forest management and wildlife conservation in tropical forests by Byron, R.N.

“…This is followed by a discussion of current efforts to bring about change in the timber harvest status quo. Two case studies reviewing the costs and benefits associated with conventional and reduced impact logging practices are presented. …”
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Quantifying farmers' preferences for cropping systems intensification: A choice experiment approach applied in coastal Bangladesh's risk prone farming systems by Aravindakshan, Sreejith, Krupnik, Timothy J., Amjath-Babu, TS, Speelman, Stijn, Tur-Cardona, Juan, Tittonell, Pablo A., Groot, Jeroen C.J.

“…METHODS Taking 300 farmers in two diverse coastal environments, a choice experiment (CE) was employed to explore the heterogeneity in farmers' preferences for different dry “rabi” season intensification options (‘boro’ rice, maize, wheat and mungbean) against the status quo (dry season land fallowing after harvest of the monsoon season rice crop). …”
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大食物观引领下低碳减排与粮食安全的协同发展：现状、挑战与对策 by Chen, Kevin Z., Xu, Meng

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Slum at the center : participation and radical planning in Villa 31, Central Buenos Aires by Andersson, Joel

“…These separate processes illustrate both that dialogues can be seen as a tool for maintaining the status quo. But also how civil dialogues can act as a more progressive force when allowing it to take a more activistic form. …”

The challenge of achieving basal energy, iron and zinc provision for home consumption through family farming in the Andes: a comparison of coverage through contemporary production... by Arce, A., Creed-Kanashiro, Hilary M., Scurrah, M., Ccanto, Raul I., Olivera, Edgar, Burra, Dharani Dhar, Haan, Stef de

“…Results Under status quo, 86, 62 and 76 % of households obtained sufficient production output to meet energy, iron and zinc requirements, respectively. …”
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Structures, Policies and Stakeholder Landscape Relevant to Climate Change and Agriculture in the SADC Region by Chevallier, Romy, Gosling, Amanda, Chesterman, Sabrina

“…The purpose of this report it to better understand the system dynamics at play by investigating the regional context, the status quo. As foresight strategies are typically built on existing structures it is important to understand the policy and governance landscape of the SADC region and its member countries.…”
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The impacts of climate change on Southern African food systems by Thornton, Philip K., Gosling, Amanda, Chesterman, Sabrina, Neely, Constance

“…The report outlines the status quo of agriculture in the SADC region and the projected climate change scenarios and impacts on the region’s food value chains and food system as a whole. …”
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Women’s empowerment and the will to change: evidence from Nepal by Buisson, Marie-Charlotte, Clement, Floriane, Leder, S.

“…This article uses a household survey based on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) and qualitative data collected in Nepal to analyze how critical consciousness influences women’s will to change the status quo and the role of visible agency, social structures, and individual determinants in those processes. …”
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Supplemental cash loans to boost productivity in Nigeria by Ambler, Kate, Bloem, Jeffrey R., Maruyama, Eduardo, Balana, Bedru, Olanrewaju, P., Adewumi, B., Essien, E., Alabi, S., Ogundare, M.

“…This product provides a supplemental cash loan bundled with an existing input loan provided to smallholder farmers. In the status quo, eligible farmers receive an input loan via our implementing partner. …”
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Exploring the mechanics of power in Swedish forest management : narratives by self-proclaimed critics’ and their understanding of the power dynamics transforming the Swedish forest... by Whitman, Max

“…I argue, based on the narratives, that power resides in the interactions which are found to be dominated by the forest industry resulting in a strengthening of the status quo which sees economic values trump alternative ones. …”

Södras viltfoderhantering vid röjning by Karlström, John

“…Cleaning of broadleaves and point cleaning decreases the damage on the remaining stem (Härkönen 2008; Härkönen 1998) while it is status quo when it comes to top cleaning (Edenius 2015; Härkönen 2008). …”
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Co-operation in the Afghanistan–Pakistan river basins by Lautze, Jonathan F., Meelad, A., Hayat, S.

“…The chapter reviews the current status of water co-operation between the two countries and the adverse consequences due to the current status quo. Factors constraining co-operation are then presented, followed by the benefits that can be derived from co-operation and frameworks that can guide its development. …”
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Historicising global nutrition: Critical reflections on contested pasts and reimagined futures by Nelson, Erika Marie, Nisbett, Nicholas, Gillespie, Stuart

“…With a ‘global’ health and nutrition audience in mind, we put forward considerations on why a better understanding of the continuities and divergences between this past and the present moment are necessary to challenge a status quo that was, and is, highly flawed.…”
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