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Bioversity International – Impacts by Bioversity International

“…It is our mission to research and promote the use and conservation of agricultural biodiversity, with our partners, in order to implement practical change and sustainability on the ground in areas hardest hit by poverty and where farmers need help most.Successes are many, achieved hand in hand with partners, and will continue to grow and evolve to meet the needs of the communities we serve.…”
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Soil saturated hydraulic conductivity assessment from expert evaluation of field characteristics using an ordered logistic regression model by Ingelmo, Florencio, Molina, María J., De-Paz, José M., Visconti, Fernando

“…Several attempts have been done to estimate Ks in base of a number of soil parameters. However, a reliable enough model for qualitative Ks estimation based on the expert assessment of field characteristics had not been developed up to date. …”
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Nutrition-sensitive agri-food systems for resilient and sustainable Asian mega-deltas by Wismen, Ben

“…Partners from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines attended the Asian Mega-Deltas (AMD) Initiative’s research planning and design workshop at WorldFish headquarters in Penang, Malaysia to develop holistic work plans to implement nutrition-sensitive approaches in policy and interventions to transform deltaic agri-food systems. …”
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Tillämpning av olika fjärranalysmetoder för urvalsförfarandet av ungskogsbestånd inom den enkla älgbetesinventeringen (ÄBIN) by Bodenhem, Jonas

Women and adolescent girls’ experience with COVID-19 in rural Senegal by Dione, Malick, Lo, Codé, Seye, Moustapha, Fall, Abdou Salam, Hidrobo, Melissa, Le Port, Agnès, Heckert, Jessica, Peterman, Amber

“…Evidence suggests that globally, women have been hit harder by the COVID-19 crisis, in particular with respect to impacts on economic security, health, education, and increased caretaking responsibilities in the household.…”
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Effect of rainfall variability and gauge representativeness on satellite rainfall accuracy in a small upland watershed in southern Ethiopia by Tessema, K. B., Haile, Alemseged Tamiru, Amencho, N.W., Habib, E.

“…The study applied a total bias approach, decomposed into hit, missed and false biases, and an error-variance separation method to evaluate gauge representativeness error at the scale of CHIRPS pixel size, as well as modeled the spatial correlation field of daily rainfall with a three-parametric exponential model. …”
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Gremmeniella abietina-epidemin 2001 by Grönkvist Wichmann, Lo

“…In experiment B, which started in 2001, the development was monitored without any further treatments. This experiment was hit mainly by the outbreak in 2001. During the inventory, parameters that were used were: Defoliation, diameter, mortality, and drill samples. …”
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Climate change impacts in El Salvador’s economy: The agriculture sector by Salazar, Mauricio, Thomas, Timothy S., Dunston, Shahnila, Nazareth, Vijay

“…Furthermore, El Salvador will possibly be the country hit harder in the coffee sector than any other country in the world, with a loss of more than 35 percent of the suitable coffee growing area (Ovalle-Rivera et al. 2015). …”
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COVID-19 is shifting consumption and disrupting dairy value chains in Ethiopia by Tesfaye, Agajie, Habte, Yetimwork, Minten, Bart

“…However, certain segments of the industry — particularly raw milk vendors and small dairy shops — have been hit hard.…”
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Enhancing climate-resilient livelihoods of women, youth and vulnerable populations in the Lake Victoria Zone Region of Kenya: A case of Homabay and Migori counties by Adam, Rahma, Amwata, Dorothy, Ndiema, Nicholas, Osa, Philip

“…Results show that there are distinct sexdisaggregated roles among the fisher communities, with females playing specifically boat managers, small traders and fish assemblers, while males were fishermen, boat makers and repairers.…”
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Navigating Nigeria’s food system challenges in the face of inflation and reform by Omamo, Steven Were, Andam, Kwaw S., Balana, Bedru, Amare, Mulubrhan, Popoola, Olufemi, Nwagboso, Chibuzo

“…Low-income households in both urban and rural areas are hardest hit by rising food prices. Post-reform (fuel subsidies removal and exchange rate liberalization) price shocks and persistent inflation have disproportionately affected poor urban and rural households, forcing them to reduce food consumption and dietary diversity. …”
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Waves of disease, waves of poverty: New evidence on the economic impacts of COVID-19 and political instability in Myanmar by Headey, Derek D., Cho, Ame, Mahrt, Kristi, Diao, Xinshen, Lambrecht, Isabel B.

“…Nonessential businesses shut down, workers and traders could not leave home, and demand for labor dried up. …”
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A prepandemic nutrition-sensitive social protection program has sustained benefits for food security and diet diversity in Myanmar during a severe economic crisis by Maffioli, Elisa M., Headey, Derek D., Lambrecht, Isabel B., Oo, Than Zaw, Zaw, Nicholus Tint

“…In 2020, however, Myanmar’s economy was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic and harder still by a military takeover in 2021. …”
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Överlevnad, tillväxt och skador i planteringar av sitkagran (Picea sitchensis) efter stormen Gudrun by Kristensen, Erik

“…Both frost and drought hit the interior parts harder, above that the soils are often coarse and thereby have a lower water holding capacity. …”
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Climate change and floods in Yemen: Impacts on food security and options for adaptation by Wiebelt, Manfred, Breisinger, Clemens, Ecker, Olivier, Al-Riffai, Perrihan, Robertson, Richard D., Thiele, Rainer

“…Rural households are harder hit than urban households, and among the rural households the non-farm households suffer most. …”
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Welfare of cattle at livestock markets in Addis Ababa and Ambo, Ethiopia by Axberg, Jessica

“…The health recordings involved the following parameters; lameness, body condition scoring, lesions/swelling, cleanliness, hoof health, diarrhea, ocular and nasal discharge. …”
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En annan värld : tre gestaltningsförslag till Millennieskogens meditationsrum i Malmö Botaniska trädgård by Ekwall, Anna-Karin

“…Dessa häckomgärdade ovala rum som lockar till nyfikenhet skall fungera som avskilda små sfärer i stadens puls och liv. Hit kan man söka sig för att hitta ro och lugn, alternativt få energi och kraft av den fascinerande, varierande och innehållsrika grönskan. …”

Klimatsäkrare städer by Modin, Maria

“…Other parts of the world will be hit considerably harder and it is the poor countries that will be affected the most. …”
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Can social protection promote women’s and girls’ climate resilience? by CGIAR Gender Equality Initiative

“…After two weeks of debate at COP28, the message is clear that climate change is hitting hardest some of those already most vulnerable and rapidly exacerbating inequalities, including gender inequality. …”
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Climate-smart villages: practical adaptation options to improve food security and resilience by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…Climate change hits smallholder farmers hard. More variable weather patterns cause crops to fail, undermining livelihoods and food security. …”
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