Resultados de búsqueda - Community Networks.

Women's advocacy trainings stabilize livelihoods and build inclusive rural communities in southwestern Nigeria por Kosec, Katrina, Kyle, Jordan

“…In many rural areas of Nigeria, women face significant barriers to economic participation, political engagement, and participation in community governance. Despite playing a crucial role in agricultural production, women often lack access to the resources, networks, and influence needed to shape their own economic futures. …”
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Losing the watershed focus: a look at complex community-managed irrigation systems in Bolivia por Saldias, C., Boelens, R., Wegerich, Kai, Speelman, S.

“…These communities manage complex irrigation systems, and tap water from several surface sources, many of them located outside the watershed boundaries, resulting in complex hydro-social networks. …”
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Cassava investment in Africa: taking inventory of initiatives in Africa in view of positioning cassava as a strategic commodity por Wambo, A., Mahungu, N.M., Kendenga, T., O'Brien, E.

“…The findings of this study are threefold: first, the stakeholders and their interests are identified; second, networks are identified as well; and third, a SWOT analysis identifies the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges in the cassava sub-sector has been carried out. …”
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Participatory seed exchange (PSE): A community based mechanism for promoting access to seeds por Pudasaini, Niranjan, Ghimire, Krishna Hari, Gurung, Rita, Pitambar, Shrestha, Gauchan, Devendra

“…PSE is being utilized as a multi-propose tool to identify, exchange and document available APGR along with associated traditional knowledge by mobilizing local community and their networks. Though PSE is a one-day event, it takes an approximately a month-long time period to plan, prepare and practice.…”
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Farmer-led seed production: Community seed banks enter the national seed market por Vernooy, Ronnie, Rana, Jai Chand, Otieno, Gloria Atieno, Mbozi, Hilton, Shrestha, Pitambar

“…Embedding local seed enterprises in seed sector networks is crucial to creating demand and gaining recognition and support. …”
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Participatory analysis of vulnerability to drought in three agro-pastoral communities in the West African Sahel por Ayantunde, Augustine A., Turner, M.D., Kalilou, A.

“…Pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in the region are regularly affected by drought, with vulnerability differing with gender, age, wealth status (access to cropland and livestock endowment), geographic location, social networks, and previous exposure to drought. …”
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New perspectives on the ecology of tree structure and tree communities through terrestrial laser scanning por Malhi, Y., Jackson, T., Bentley, L.P., Lau, A., Shenkin, A., Herold, M., Calders, K., Bartholomeus, H., Disney, M.I.

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The effect of riparian buffer properties on spider communities and aquatic-terrestrial food-web lingages por Ramberg, Ellinor

“…In this study, the effect of riparianbuffer properties on the diversity and composition of spider communities along stream channels was investigated. …”
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Convening CGIAR Researchers to Build a Community of Practice on Weather-related Agricultural Insurance por Kramer, Berber

“…During this conference, the CCAFS Learning Platform for Agricultural Insurance, led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and implemented in partnership with the CGIAR research program for Policies, Institutions and Markets (PIM), organized a series of networking and outreach events. The events were targeting the international insurance community, including policymakers, practitioners and CGIAR researchers with interest in research on weather-related agricultural insurance. …”
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Forests of learning: Experiences from research on an Adaptive Collaborative Approach to community forestry in Nepal por McDougall, C., Ojha, H., Banjade, M.R., Pandit, B.H., Bhattarai, T., Maharjan, M.R., Rana, S.

“…In recent years, awareness has grown in Nepal and globally regarding two of community forestry’s most critical challenges: equity and livelihoods. …”
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Age-dependent variations in rumen bacterial community of Mongolian cattle from weaning to adulthood por Ahmad, A.A., Zhang, J., Liang, Z., Du, M., Yang, Y., Zheng, J., Yan, P., Long, R., Tong, B., Han Jianlin, Ding, X.

“…The diversity of the rumen bacterial community was significantly lower in RM05 group, which reached to stability with age. …”
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Co-design of Agroecology Indicators with local communities: The Challenges and Perspectives for Agroecological Transition Evaluation por Bahri, Haithem, Alary, Veronique, Toukebri, Wael, Barbouchi, Meriem, M'hamed, Hatem Cheikh, Ouerghemmi, Hassen, Shiri, Zahra, Annabi, Mohamed, Frija, Aymen

“…Participatory sessions were organised with few communities and other local stakeholders to co-construct soil relevant indicators which can be measured through different levels of simplicity (only observation) and/or complexity (remote sensing, sampling for lab, etc.). …”
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MyFarmTrees: 6000 empowered Kenyan and Cameroonian farmers restoring 2800 hectares, expanding towards global scale-up por Chiriboga Arroyo, Fidel, Eitzinger, Anton, Ekue, Marius, Elias, Marlene, Feil, Christian, Guettou Djurfeldt, Nadia, Jalonen, Riina, Krishnan, Smitha, Oduor, Francis, Vinceti, Barbara, Kettle, Christopher

“…The MyFarmTrees (MFT) digital MRV platform combines mobile applications for capacity building, restoration monitoring, and digital payments. Developed through community-driven iterations in Kenya and Cameroon, MyFarmTrees has transformed tree growing and supported a network of >300 local tree nursery enterprises. …”
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Conifers Network: Report of the second (20-22 September 2001, Valsaín, Spain), and third (17-19 October 2002, Kostrzyca, Poland) meetings por Vancura, K., Fady, B., Koskela, Jaarko, Mátyás, Cs., International Plant Genetic Resources Institute

“…EUFORGEN members, weree also encouraged to become more active and open in respect of the environment protection community. On the subject of research, it was pointed out that the Networks have been instrumental in providing opportunities to discuss needs and priorities for research, and a platform to develop research proposals and to facilitate dissemination of research results. …”
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Territorial Intelligence: A collective opportunity for sustainable pastoral development and good rangeland governance in South Tunisia por Sghaier, Mariem, Frija, Aymen, Dhehibi, Boubaker, Fetoui, Mondher, Sghaier, Mongi

“…Pastoralism is still considered an important economic and cultural aspect of the life of the Tunisian communities practicing agropastoral faming in South Tunisia. …”
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Assessing pastoral reforms through the performance of Agro-Pastoral Community-Based Organizations in south Tunisia por Sghaier, Mariem, Frija, Aymen, Postigo, Julio, Speelman, Stijn, Alary, Veronique, Sghaier, Mongi

“…The qualitative analysis suggests that these shortcomings are mainly related to the CBOs' lack of networking skills. In addition, CBOs should improve their reputation and gain more trust from pastoral communities. …”
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Taro leaf blight - A threat to global food security por Singh, D., Jackson, G., Hunter, D., Fullerton, R., Lebot, V., Taylor, M., Iosefa, T., Okpul, T., Tyson, J.

“…Recently, the Pacific and South-east Asian regional taro networks have made excellent progress in developing cultivars resistant to taro leaf blight through enhanced utilization of taro genetic resources and close collaboration between farmers and researchers in breeding programs. …”
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Community participation, equity and integrity in polycentric governance for climate resilience: evidence from Kenya and Zambia por van Koppen, Barbara, Amarnath, Giriraj, Mweemba, C., Schreiner, B., Njoroge, D., Keega, M., Osoro, G.

“…At the interface between communities and government or other external support agencies, this step-wise process of co-design and implementation mobilized communities’ assets and agency of their horizontal, age-old and yet dynamic, integrated water, land and other resource governance. …”
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Seeds for Needs: Climate-smart agriculture for poor rural communities in Laos and Cambodia. Progress Report por Bioversity International

“…Training will be provided to increase the capacity of government decision-makers and technical staff, and several awareness-raising activities for communities undertaken. Ultimately, a farmer-based ‘experimentation network’ in the Mekong River Basin region for the testing of selected planting materials will be established. …”
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Sustainability of a privatized community-based animal health worker system in Mwingi district, Kenya por Rubyogo, Jean-Claude, Murithii, PM, Agumbah, G.J.O., Obhai, G

“…This paper describes a study on the sustainability of Community-based Animal Health Worker (CAHW) services in Mwingi District, Kenya. …”
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