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Industrialized watersheds have elevated water risk and limited opportunities to mitigate risk through water trading
Publicado 2015“…Businesses are increasingly concerned about water scarcity and its financial impacts, as well as competing needs of other stakeholders and ecosystems. …”
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Situation report on Nepal’s agrifood systems : March 2023
Publicado 2023“…Despite minor challenges that are likely to have been caused by other factors such as credit access problems for small businesses, no major threats to food or economic security were observed during the last month. …”
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Bacterias entomopatógenas en el control biológico de insectos
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Including women in the policy responses to high oil prices: A case study of South Africa
Publicado 2012“…The recent surge in oil prices has created concern about its impacts on poor people in South Africa. The strong economic performance recorded over the period 1995-05 has not contributed to a substantial reduction in poverty in this country, particularly among women that tend to be overrepresented among poor households. …”
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Gender-responsive design of bacteriophage products to enhance adoption by chicken keepers in Kenya
Publicado 2023“…Women and men keeping chickens in Kenya aspire to have a source of income, feed their families healthy food, and grow their businesses. Managing animal diseases and minimizing input costs enable their success. …”
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Impact of conflict on key agro-industries in Khartoum State, Sudan: Wheat flour milling, oil processing, and packaging
Publicado 2025“…The conflict, which started in April 2023, has led to widespread population displacement, destruction of infrastructure, and severe economic disruptions, especially in Khartoum, Sudan’s most industrialized and densely populated state. …”
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Waking the Sleeping Giant: Agricultural intensification, extensification or stagnation in Mali's Guinea Savannah
Publicado 2016“…The World Bank argued that West Africa's Guinea Savannah zone forms part of “Africa's Sleeping Giant,” where increases in agricultural production could be an engine of economic growth, through expansion of cultivated land in sparsely populated areas. …”
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An overview of the poultry sector and status of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in Kenya: Background paper
Publicado 2009“…Based on these findings, the study recommends the following: * There is a need to conduct a poultry population census (possibly together with that of other livestock species) in order to update and validate existing data. * There is a need to create awareness of HPAI among producers and consumers of poultry products in order to reduce their ignorance on the disease transmission and therefore avert possible losses due to a HPAI scare. * Compensatory mechanisms should be instituted, possibly through poultry insurance schemes, in order to cushion farmers and businesses in the poultry sector from economic losses associated with a HPAI outbreak or scare of an outbreak. * The veterinary department should come up with clear guidelines on the appropriate control approaches for the disease (e.g. to vaccinate or not vaccinate). …”
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Pathways out of poverty in western Kenya and the role of livestock
Publicado 2004“…Most of Siaya’s population depends on small-scale agriculture (mainly subsistence crop farming), local businesses, livestock production and fishing. Siaya has the highest levels of HIV prevalence and HIVrelated sickness and death rates in Kenya, rising from 14 percent in 1994 to 27 percent in 2000. …”
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Uso de parasitoides en el control biológico de insectos plaga en Colombia
Publicado 2018Enlace del recurso
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