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Piloting an ICT-based App for providing weather forecasts, agroadvisory and market information to smallholder farmers in Ethiopia por Fikreyesus, Daniel, Tesfaye, Lidya, Nebsu, Bayu, Ambaw, Gebermedihin, Recha, John W.M.

“…The impacts of hazards related to current weather variability and climate extremes have already been felt in the country. It is projected that by the year 2050, the negative impacts of climate change, under an extreme scenario of higher temperatures and increased intensity and frequency of extreme events, could cost Ethiopia 8-10% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (Robinson et. al. 2013).…”
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Social dimensions of Weather Index Insurance in reaching marginal stakeholders: Lessons from Asia and Africa. Webinar summary report por Aheeyar, Mohamed M. M., de Silva, Sanjiv, Barua, A.

“…It is also a known fact that the impact of natural hazards is felt more in developing countries compared to developed countries and especially by vulnerable and marginalised groups within communities. …”
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Adoption of water harvesting technologies among agro-pastoralists in semi-arid rangelands of South Eastern Kenya por Lutta, Alphayo I., Wasonga, Oliver Vivian, Nyangito, Moses M., Sudan, Falendra Kumar, Robinson, Lance W.

“…However, the impact of such interventions with regard to improvement of range productivity and therefore welfare of agro-pastoral and pastoral communities has not been felt owing to low adoption rate by households.…”
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Climate adaptation and job prospects for young people in agriculture por Cenacchi, Nicola, Brooks, Karen, Dunston, Shahnila, Wiebe, Keith D., Arndt, Channing, Hartley, Faaiqa, Robertson, Richard D.

“…The most pressing need for jobs will be felt in those regions and countries that have not yet gone through the demographic transition, and where the cohort of young people is growing rapidly. …”
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A goal programming model for planning management of Miombo woodlands por Guveya, E., Sukume, C.

“…The results from the study indicate that households in communal areas are highly differentiated with regards to ability to satisfying family sustenance goals; relatively poor households depend on woodlands for a significant part of their income needs but richer families are more efficient in harvesting woodlands; increase in agricultural product prices or increase in crops yield tend to increase harvesting of woodland products among the better off and reduce woodland harvests by the poorer households; and loss of a member of a household increases the degree of poverty especially among the relatively poor with the greatest impacts being felt with loss of female members of households.…”
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Towards solutions for state vs. local community conflicts over forestland: the impact of formal recognition of user rights in Krui, Sumatra, Indonesia por Kusters, K., Foresta, H. de, Ekadinata, A., Noordwijk, Meine van

“…Farmers within the state forest zone felt secure enough to continue investing in their complex agroforestry systems, while planting trees reinforced their feeling of security. …”
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Conceptual, methodological and institutional issues in participatory livestock production research por Morton, J., Adolph, Barbara, Ashley, S., Romney, Dannie L.

“…Institutional issues such as funding procedures and timescales, and reward systems for researchers are generic to all participatory research, but they are perhaps felt more strongly in the livestock sector where they combine with livestock-specific issues.…”
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Farmer field schools as a learning process for resource-poor farmers por Hofisi, Fortunate

“…Farmers contributed to the learning process through active experimentation and contribution of their indigenous knowledge. Farmers felt that they wanted to have control over Farmer Field Schools by having Farmer Field Workers and field supervisors accountable to them. …”
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Marknadsundersökning om vad skogsägare vill ha för produkter/tjänster av skogsbolagen por Gustafsson, Jakob

“…Questions were also concerned how the owners felt that Korsnäs fired its commitments and what could be improved in the future. …”

Advanced Musa yield trial at the University of Ghana Agricultural Research Station, Kade; 2: banana weevil and nematode resistance por Afreh-Nuamah, K., Ahiekpor, K.S., Ortíz, R., Ferris, R.S.B.

“…The main selection criteria were black Sigatoka resistance, yield, and fruit quality. However, it was felt necessary to also determine the resistance of these accessions to natural infestation by banana weevil and nematodes which are the most important pests of plantains. …”
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Immediate impact of COVID-19 pandemic on farming systems in Central America and Mexico por López Ridaura, Santiago, Sanders, Arie, Barba-Escoto, Luis, Wiegel, Jennifer Rebecca, Mayorga-Cortes, Maria, González Esquivel, Carlos, López Ramirez, Martin A., Escoto-Masis, Rene M., Morales Galindo, Edmundo, García-Barcena, Tomas S.

“…Through a review of information generated in these initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic (webinars, blogs, electronic publications, media) and 44 interviews with key informants across the region, we have identified the main impacts felt by different types of farming systems in the region. …”
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Managing Natural Resources for Sustainable Production Systems: A Research Agenda at the Crossroads? por CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council

“…. - Strong challenge on the “adoption of NRM technologies and practices” paradigm—many felt that it is an inappropriate paradigm through which to understand, and to track uptake and influence of, CGIAR research on on-farm NRM. - Strong support for continued methodological innovation in impact assessments of NRM research, along the lines of tools applied in the SPIA studies and the advances being made outside of the CGIAR. - Recognition of the lack of a clear and compelling vision for this research area, and NRM research as a whole, even as the motivation to positively influence both social and environmental outcomes is apparent. …”
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COVID-19 and gender: Potential pathways of impact and research challenges por Bryan, Elizabeth, Alvi, Muzna, Ringler, Claudia, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…The impacts of COVID-19 are being felt widely across the globe as most countries and localities urge residents to remain home to slow transmission of the disease. …”
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Food security and women’s well-being: Insights from rural Nepal por Alvi, Muzna, Barooah, Prapti

“…As the impacts of the COVID-19 continue to be felt across the world, the need to address the vulnerabilities of the poor and marginalized is heightened. …”
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Impact assessment: IFPRI 2020 conference on building resilience on food and nutrition security por Paarlberg, Robert L.

“…IFPRI’s 2020 conference in May 2014 did generate a wide variety of short-term impacts, some larger than others, felt both at the level of individual conference participants and within the organizations that sent them to Addis, and last but not least within the organizing institutions. …”
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Who bears the costs of climate change? Evidence from Tunisia por Wiebelt, Manfred, Al-Riffai, Perrihan, Breisinger, Clemens, Robertson, Richard D.

“…Decomposing the global and local effects shows that global climate change may benefit the agricultural sector since higher world market prices for agricultural commodities are likely to stimulate export expansion and import substitution. Locally felt climate change, however, is likely to hurt the agricultural sector as lower yields reduce factor productivities and lead to lower incomes and higher food prices. …”
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New U.S. tariff policies: What’s at stake for sub-Saharan Africa? por Piñeiro, Valeria, Gianatiempo, Juan Pablo, Traoré, Fousseini, Glauber, Joseph W.

“…In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), these impacts will be felt both directly, through newly imposed tariffs, and indirectly, as collateral damage in a potential trade war between the world’s largest economies. …”
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Impact of metering of tube wells on groundwater use in West Bengal, India. por Meenakshi, J.V., Banerji, A., Mukherji, Aditi, Gupta, A.

“…The major result is that the expected impact on reducing pumping hours was felt only in the boro season. There is also some evidence that this decrease was not confined to irrigation on own-farm, but that water sales and purchases were also adversely affected as a consequence. …”
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Desarrollo integrado de yuca: Nuevas perspectivas para agricultores de Ceara por International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…Economic benefits have been felt by individual farmers as well as by farmer groups where earnings are distributed among members, used as working capital and as a source of credit for cassava producing members; new sources of employment have also opened up. …”
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Nyttjande av det digitaliserade stickvägsnätet vid skogsgödsling med traktor por Nordvall, Per

“…In areas where drivers felt that they had some help or big help of this information the proportion of fertilized area increased from 74,9 % to 86,6 %. …”