Search Results - "systematics"

Local Technical Agroclimatic Committees are empowering 20,000 Guatemalan farmers to thrive despite climate change by Navarro Racines, Carlos, Castellanos, Andrea

“…In 2022, the LTACs were helping over 20,000 Guatemalan rural people to become more resilient in the face of climate change. Systematic co-design and improvement of Climate Information Services dissemination mechanisms with stakeholders has enabled co-producing and disseminating easy-to- understand local agroclimatic bulletins that are now effectively used by farmers to inform their decisions.…”
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Vietnam country brief by Harris, Jody, Huynh, Phuong, Nguyen, Hoa T., Hoang, Nga, Tran, Lan Mai, Tuyen, Le Danh, Nguyen, Phuong Hong

“…Vietnam has achieved significant progress in reducing undernutrition over the past several decades, but ethnic minority groups are being systematically left behind and this is limiting progress on national reductions. …”
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The nexus between nutrition and early childhood development by Alderman, Harold, Fernald, Lia

“…We build on recent systematic reviews of child development, which are comprehensive in regard to what is currently known about outcomes reported in key studies. …”
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Agroecological aspects of evaluating agricultural research and development by Wood, Stanley, Pardey, Philip G.

“…In this paper we describe how biophysical data can be used, in conjunction with agroecological concepts and multimarket economic models, to systematically evaluate the effects of agricultural R&D in ways that inform research priority setting and resource allocation decisions. …”
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Sources of bias when measuring women’s empowerment in fragile and conflict-affected settings: A story of four case studies by Ambler, Kate, Bloem, Jeffrey R.

“…Accurately measuring women’s empowerment systematically across a variety of settings is critical to ensure equal access to market participation, control of the use of productive resources, opportunities for work and decision-making power. …”
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Linking livelihoods and conservation: a conceptual framework and scale for assessing the integration of human needs and biodiversity by Salafsky, N., Wollenberg, Eva Karoline

“…Although there has been increasing interest in trying to link the livelihoods of people living near natural resources, there has been little attempt to systematically assess or measure this linkage. A conceptual framework for defining the linkage between livelihood activities and conservation is developed and then a scale to assess the strength of linkage across five dimensions: species, habitat, spatial, temporal and conservation association. …”
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Sahel Atlas of Changing Landscapes: Tracing trends and variations in vegetation cover and soil condition by United Nations Environment Programme

“…The atlas provides a pictorial overview of the application of land degradation surveillance a science-based approach to land health monitoring and assessment. Systematic sampling and observation of ground conditions are combined with new technology for rapid soil characterization and with fine to moderate resolution satellite imagery to provide powerful inference about soil, vegetation and socioeconomic conditions at local to regional scales. …”
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Policies drain the North China Plain: agricultural policy and groundwater depletion in Luancheng County, 1949-2000 by Kendy, E., Molden, David J., Steenhuis, Tammo S., Liu, C.

“…The report examines the relationships between agricultural policies in the North China Plain, the approaches to water management that evolved from them, the quantity of water that was actually used, and the consequent groundwater depletion beneath Luancheng County, Hebei Province, from 1949 to 2000. To systematically address these relationships, we use a comprehensive water-balance approach. …”
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Mapping the spatial and temporal extent of floods in South Asia by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…However, large-scale systematic monitoring of floods both spatially and temporally covering the whole of South Asia has been very limited.…”
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What is the scientific basis for climate-smart agriculture? by Rosenstock, Todd S., Lamanna, Christine, Arslan, A., Richards, Meryl B.

“…Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is a systematic approach to agricultural development. It intends to address climate change and food security challenges simultaneously across levels, from field management to national policy, with goals to 1) improve food security and agricultural productivity, 2) increase the resilience of farming systems to climate change, and 3) mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or sequester carbon. …”
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Zoonotic respiratory infections and great ape conservation - an emerging challenge by Tegner, Cecilia

“…A scientific, interdisciplinary approach is necessary in the aim for a standardized, systematic strategy to disease prevention and surveillance in endangered great ape populations.…”

Herbarium survey of African Corchorus L. species by Edmonds, J.M.

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Förbättrar en kvalitetssäkring skördarens dimensionsmätning? by Aldén, Gustaf

“…All harvesters included in the study had improved regarding most of the controlled factors such as standard deviation, systematic difference and hit rate within ± 2 cm for length and ± 4 mm for diameter.…”

Proceso gerencial del manejo y aprovechamiento de la palma de xate (Chamadorea spp.) en la concesión comunitaria San Andrés, Petén, Guatemala by Monroy, Héctor, Reyes, Reginaldo

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Derisking delta-oriented value chains in Cambodia, Vietnam and Myanmar: Scoping study on key production systems and value chains by Gonsalves, Julian Francis, Carandang, Arvin, Verallo III, Jose Roy, Barbon, Wilson John

“…The scoping study team, led by the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) implemented a systematic desk review and initial screening and prioritization followed by a validation process in each country to finalize the priority production systems.…”
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Gender aspects of smallholder private groundwater irrigation in Ghana and Zambia by van Koppen, Barbara, Hope, L., Colenbrander, W.

“…The findings suggest that there are largely untapped synergies between gender-equality and irrigation-policy goals. Systematic gender differentiation in surveys is recommended.…”
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Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on rural women and men in Dang District, Nepal by Alvi, Muzna, Gupta, Shweta, Barooah, Prapti

“…The study sample was drawn using systematic random sampling from a large, representative household listing survey conducted in February 2020 across four rural municipalities in Dang district. …”
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Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on women and men in Kaduna and Cross River states of Nigeria by Alvi, Muzna, Gupta, Shweta, Barooah, Prapti

“…The study sample was drawn using systematic random sampling from an earlier in-person survey conducted by IFPRI for the Agro Processing, Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Improvement Support’ (APPEALS) project. …”
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Cross-sector social innovations by Zhang, Qiang

“…Both the emergency rescue effort that saved lives in the aftermath of the Wenchuan earthquake and the reconstruction campaign that took place afterward on the ruins were systematic and highly complex projects that were swiftly implemented. …”
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Mink: Details of a global gridded crop modeling system by Robertson, Richard D.

“…This book chronicles the details of a global-scale, systematically geographically gridded, process-based crop simulation modeling system developed at IFPRI in support of global-scale economic models of agriculture. …”
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