Search Results - IFFHS~

Uso de parasitoides en el control biológico de insectos plaga en Colombia by Löhr, Bernhard, Díaz Niño, María Fernanda, Manzano Martínez, María del Rosario, Narváez Vásquez, Consuelo Alexandra, Gómez Jiménez, María Isabel, Carabalí Muñoz, Arturo, Vargas, Germán, Kondo, Takumasa, Bustillo Pardey, Alex Enrique

Get full text

‘Clearing the air’: Common drivers of climate-smart smallholder food production in Eastern and Southern Africa by Branca, G., Perelli, Chiara

“…However, the adoption and diffusion of climate-smart technologies have been slow. …”
Get full text

Joint adoption of rice technologies among Bolivian farmers by Martínez, Jose, Labarta, Ricardo Antonio, González, Carolina, Lopera, Diana Carolina

“…Furthermore, there is a need to better target resource-poor farmers, improve information-diffusion channels on agricultural practices, and better use existing farmers' organizations to enhance rice technology adoption.…”
Get full text

Monitoring of the mangrove ecosystem in the province of Guayas-Ecuador during the period 2018-2022. by Caiza Morales, Lorena

“…The maps generated in this service are also available on the APP MANGLEE: The methodology and the diffusion workshops are available at the following link. …”
Get full text

Political violence in the G5 Sahel Countries (2018-2023): An application of ACLED’s conflict index methodology by Marivoet, Wim, Hema, Aboubacar, Nsaibia, Heni

“…In methodological terms and using the results from the temporal analysis, this study also introduces a distinction between protracted and transient forms of political violence, which provides additional insight to the index dimensions of deadliness, danger, diffusion, and fragmentation.…”
Get full text

Agdata Hub: Plateforme digitale de conseil agro-climatique by Konte, Oumar

“…Agdata Hub facilite la collecte, l'analyse et la diffusion en temps réel d'informations climatiques et agro-météorologiques, améliorant la gestion des risques agricoles. …”
Get full text

Commercial banks’ response to government’s financial stimulus for improved agricultural financing in Nigeria by Yaro, Maryam, Olomola, Aderibigbe

“…The study focuses on two hypotheses, namely; (i) the stimulus provided by the government to the banking sector to boost agricultural financing has led to significant agricultural credit expansion; and (ii) commercial banks have been less risk-adverse to agricultural lending due to the capital infusion to the banking sector by the government to stimulate agricultural lending. …”
Get full text

Agricultural innovation in Latin America: understanding the private sector's role by Pomareda, Carlos, Hartwich, Frank

“…What functions do farm input providers, farmers, processors, traders, and exporters have in agricultural innovation processes, and how can they become more directly involved in the financing, generation, diffusion, and adoption of new knowledge and technologies?…”
Get full text

Impacts of aerosol pollutant mitigation on lowland rice yields in China by Zhang, Tianyi, Li, Tao, Yue, Xu, Yang, Xiaoguang

“…Here, we employ a process-based modelling approach to simulate changes in incoming radiation (RAD) and the diffuse radiation fraction (DF) with aerosol mitigation in China and their associated impacts on rice yields. …”
Get full text

Cratylia argentea – review of a tropical shrub legume: Biology and agronomy by Schultze-Kraft, Rainer, Lascano, Carlos E

“…A comprehensive review, based on about 170 references, synthesizing research and development about Cratylia argentea, is presented to contribute to expand interest in its diffusion and use in animal production systems. The species has been widely evaluated, mainly in tropical America, with the objective to develop a shrub legume as an alternative to the fertile soils requiring Leucaena leucocephala and Gliricidia sepìum. …”
Get full text

Rapport D'atelier de programmation des emissions radiophoniques dans le cadre du projet AICCRA Senegal by Diedhiou, Lamine, Ka, Binetou, Dieng, Talla, Worou, Nadine

“…Les travaux ont permis de valider une liste de thématiques prioritaires, d’élaborer un calendrier de diffusion, d’harmoniser les outils de suivi des émissions et de clarifier le rôle des clubs d’écoute. …”
Get full text

Screening legume green manures as nitrogen sources to succeeding non-legume crops by Carsky, R., Reid, W.S., Suhet, A.R., Lathwell, D.J.

“…Supplemental experiments suggested that N accumulation in the bags was reduced due to inadequate O2 diffusion but only when O2 demand was high and soil water potential was high. …”
Get full text

Growth and plant-water relations of sweet potato (Ipomea batata) as affected by soil moisture regimes by Ghuman, B.S., Lal, R.

“…Leaf water potential and leaf diffusive resistance were also affected by soil moisture regimes.…”
Get full text

Factors influencing adoption of new wheat techniques in Wolmera and Addis Alem areas of Ethiopia by Yirga, C., Shapiro, Barry I., Demeke, M.

“…This suggests that improved production packages have been extensively diffused so that the knowledge of the benefits of using the new technologies is widespread. …”
Get full text

Climate Smart Agriculture: More Than Technologies Are Needed to Move Smallholder Farmers Toward Resilient and Sustainable Livelihoods by Sullivan, Amy, Mwamakamba, Sithembile Ndema, Mumba, Aliness, Hachigonta, Sepo, Sibanda, Lindiwe Majele

“…Evidence shows that top down command and control systems for technology diffusion do not generate sustainable change.…”
Get full text

Interdependence in Farmer Technology Adoption Decisions in Smallholder Systems: Joint Estimation of Investments in Sustainable Agricultural Practices in Rural Tanzania by Kassie, Menale, Jaleta, Moti, Shiferaw, Bekele, Mmbando, F., Mekuria M

“…Soil fertility depletion is considered one of the main biophysical limiting factors for increasing per capita food production for smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. The adoption and diffusion of sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs), as a way to tackle this challenge, has become an important issue in the development policy agenda in the region. …”
Get full text

Systems approaches to innovation in crop protection. A systematic literature review by Schut, Marc, Rodenburg, J., Klerkx, Laurens, Ast, A. van, Bastiaans, L.

“…A large share of the publications included in this review focus on cropping or farming ‘systems’ while ‘innovation’ often equals the development, transfer, adoption and diffusion of crop protection technologies at farm level. …”
Get full text

Water relations strategies of two grass and shrub species as influenced by prescribed burning in a semiarid ecosystem in Kenya. by Ali, A.R.

“…To investigate these effects, measurement of soil water potential, atmospheric variables, and xylem tension, transpiration rate and diffusive resistance of Acac ia mellifera, Commiphora riparia, Digitaria macroblephara, and Chloris roxburghiana were taken from burned and unburned plots at the National Range Research Station, Kiboko, during 1982-83. …”
Get full text

Factors affecting the adoption of diseaseresistant plantain and banana (Musa spp.) hybrids in Nigeria by Aitchedji, C.C., Tenkouano, A., Coulibaly, O.

“…The study assesses the level of adoption of hybrid cultivars of plantain andbanana (Musa spp.), promoted through plantain promotion projects based onfarmer-to-farmer diffusion and extension events, and determines the factorsaffecting their adoption and dissemination in four plantain and banana growingareas of Nigeria. …”
Get full text

Meeting the challenge of the plantain (Musa spp.) subsector economic restructuring in cameroon by Tetang, J.T., Kwa, M., Temple, L., Bikoï, A., Njukwe, E., Staver, Charles, Ottou, J.F.

“…To ensure a continuouslearning process, coordinate efforts, strengthen linkages among and between actors,and improve the co-production and diffusion of innovations, it is proposed, amongstothers, to establish a national consultative framework on bananas and plantains.Additionally, the various actors need stimulation and backstopping support fromorganizations having strong experience in the setting up and management ofnetwork and platforms.…”
Get full text