Search Results - Economic development projects

Modeling global water use for the 21st century: the Water Futures and Solutions (WFaS) initiative and its approaches by Wada, Y., Flörke, M., Hanasaki, N., Eisner, G., Fischer, S., Tramberend, Y., Satoh, Y., Vliet, M.T.H. van, Yillia, P., Ringler, Claudia, Burek, P., Wiberg, David A.

“…However, soaring water use worsens water scarcity conditions already prevalent in semi-arid and arid regions, increasing uncertainty for sustainable food production and economic development. Planning for future development and investments requires that we prepare water projections for the future. …”
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Green Growth Planning for Renewable Resources by Johana, Feri, Joni, A.

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Pullet production and supply business development by women’s groups in selected kebeles of Dale pilot learning woreda: Experiences from IPMS by Yilma, K., Tegegne, Azage, Hoekstra, Dirk, Yigzaw, M.

“…The women were trained and developed their skills through their group structures. …”
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Needs assessment Report: Development of Grazing & Feeding Advisory System; Water-availability prediction tools; Water Management Strategy Guide by Muñoz, Ángel G., Demissie, Teferi

“…Addressing these needs through integrated livestock advisory services enables pastoralists, extension agents, and humanitarian and development actors to take earlier action, thereby reducing economic losses, mitigating the humanitarian impacts of drought, and strengthening long-term pastoral resilience. …”
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Climate change and agriculture in the Sudan: Impact pathways beyond changes in mean rainfall and temperature by Siddig, Khalid, Stepanyan, Davit, Wiebelt, Manfred, Zhu, Tingju, Grethe, Harald

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Feed the future-usaid kenya accelerated value chain. Development program. Potato value chain. Six-year final report by International Potato Center

“…Potato plays an important role in Kenya’s food and nutrition security plan - part of the Big Four Economic Development Strategy. The crop is cultivated by approximately 800,000 smallholder farmers and a few medium and large-scale farmers. …”
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Global investment gap in agricultural research and innovation to meet Sustainable Development Goals for hunger and Paris Agreement climate change mitigation by Rosegrant, Mark W., Sulser, Timothy B., Wiebe, Keith D.

“…The investment gap is projected relative to a reference scenario with projections to 2030 using an integrated economic-biophysical model of the global agri-food system. …”
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Germplasm for Dairy Development in East Africa. Phase I: Identifying appropriate germplasm and delivery mechanisms (DGEA1) - Longitudinal Monitoring by Gibson, John Paul, Mwai, Ally Okeyo, Ojango, Julie, Baltenweck, Isabelle, Rao, E.J.O, Mujibi, Dennis, Poole, Elizabeth, Kemp, Steve

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Germplasm for Dairy Development in East Africa. Phase I: Identifying appropriate germplasm and delivery mechanisms (DGEA1) - Baseline Survey by Gibson, John Paul, Mwai, Ally Okeyo, Ojango, Julie, Baltenweck, Isabelle, Rao, E.J.O, Mujibi, Dennis, Poole, Elizabeth, Kemp, Steve

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Public policies for the development of a sustainable, forage-based cattle sector in Colombia, Argentina, and Costa Rica: A comparative analysis by Burkart, Stefan, Díaz, Manuel Francisco, Moreno Lerma, Leonardo

“…Projected increases in global food demand highlight the importance of Latin America as one of the major future food suppliers, particularly regarding animal-source foods such as beef or milk. …”
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Good Financial Grant Practice (GFGP): A Tool for Developing & Demonstrating Institutional Financial & Grant Management Capacity in Global Health by Harste, Harry J., Genevieve, Kiff, Okeke, Iruka N., Adebiyi, Akindele O., Ravikumar, K. L., Nagaraj, Geetha, Ajiboye, Jolaade J., Osma Castro, Erik C. D., Herrera, Elmer, Aanensen, David M.

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2019 Social Accounting Matrix for Ghana by Ghana Statistical Services, International Food Policy Research Institute, Institute for Statistical, Social, and Economic Research

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Workshop for annual review of Building Resilient Agro-sylvopastoral Systems in West Africa through Participatory Action Research (BRAS-PAR) Project and planning “Partnerships for S... by Ky-Dembélé, Catherine, Bayala, Jules

“…Started in 2015, BRAS-PAR targeted three main outcomes: (i) National agricultural research institutions institutionalize the principles of PAR through integration of non-traditional partners in technologies development to generate wider context specific information to be fed into programs and policies to create the enabling environment for the scaling of CSA technologies; (ii) National extension services, development projects and farmer’s organizations widely disseminate and ensure better access to information on best fit CSA portfolios to cope with climate change; and (iii) The private sector including NGOs (FNGN, Larwaal, ARCAD, Care international), microcredit institutions, agro-dealers, rural radios are scaling up/out relevant CSA portfolios through new incentive programs. …”
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2021 Social Accounting Matrix for Kenya by The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, International Food Policy Research Institute

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Filling in the Blanks by Moraitopoulos Arljung, Miron

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Conceptual, methodological and institutional issues in participatory livestock production research by Morton, J., Adolph, Barbara, Ashley, S., Romney, Dannie L.

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Research-development partnerships for scaling complex innovation: Lessons from the Farmer Business School in IFAD-supported loan-grant collaborations in Asia by Prain, Gordon, Wheatly, C., Odsey, C., Verzola, L., Bertuso, A., Roa, J., Naziri, D.

“…The Farmer Business School (FBS) is a participatory, action learning process focused on product and business development, and like the Farmer Field School, is a complex, multi-dimensional innovation with the potential to benefit large numbers of farming households economically, socially and institutionally. …”
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Pullet production and supply business development by women’s groups in selected kebeles of Dale pilot learning district (PLW): Experiences from IPMS by Yilma, K., Tegegne, Azage, Hoekstra, Dirk, Yigzaw, M.

“…The women were trained and developed their skills through their group structures. …”
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Scaling out Climate Smart Agriculture: Strategies and Guidelines for Smallholder Farming in Western Kenya by Schaller, Michaela, Barth, Elena I., Blies, Darinka, Röhrig, Felicitas, Schümmelfeder, Malte

“…BASIC SOCIO-ECONOMIC DATA ON KENYA With a Human Development Indicator (HDI) of 0.548, Kenya ranks 145th in the world (UNDP, 2015). …”
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Development of molecular genomic tools for verification of intergeneric hybrids between castor bean (Ricinus communis L.) and cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) by Gedil, Melaku A, Kolade, F., Raji, A., Ingelbrecht, I.L., Dixon, A.

“…Towards these goals, we launched a project to cross cassava (Manihot esculenta) with castor bean (Ricinus communis L.). …”
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