Search Results - New Nation (United States)
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New rules for sharing benefits from the use of digital sequence information
Published 2024“…Over the course of 10 years, this issue has grown in importance to the point where it is a key sticking point in at least four different United Nations fora. This paper examines why benefit-sharing from the use of DSI/GSD has become such an important topic, provides and overview of the current state of negotiations in key UN fora, and considers different potential outcomes.…”
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Monitoring and assessment of land degradation and desertification: towards new conceptual and integrated approaches
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The Livestock Sub-sector in Kenya’s NDC: A scoping of gaps and priorities
Published 2020“…•Develop strategies for the national government to promote climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in the livestock sub-sector, including: -strategies to ensure that these actions are mainstreamed in the workplans of state department for livestock divisions and units and related semi-autonomous government agencies; -strategies to ensure that these actions are mainstreamed in the work of other relevant MDAs and county governments; -strategies to support non-government and private sector actors to address sector support needs; -coordination mechanisms to engage the key stakeholders in each strategy…”
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An overview of modelling climate change impacts in the Caribbean region with contribution from the Pacific Islands
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Dynamic metrics for public health surveillance are imperative to gain control of the COVID-19 pandemic in America: Longitudinal trend analysis
Published 2020“…Wisconsin and Illinois also have alarming indicators and already lead the nation in daily new COVID-19 infections. As the U.S. enters its third wave of COVID-19, all 50 states and D.C. have positive rates of speed between 7.58 (Hawaii) and 175.01 (North Dakota) and persistence, ranging from 4.44 (Vermont) to 195.35 (North Dakota) per new infections per 100,000. …”
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Advancing Transformative Adaptation through Social Equity: Land, Water and Food Systems in the Global South
Published 2024“…An oft-repeated maxim is that those who are least responsible for climate change suffer the most from its consequences. The 1992 United Nation’s Framework Convention on Climate Change states that “[t]he Parties should protect the climate system for the benefit of present and future generations of humankind, on the basis of equity and in accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities (Article 3). …”
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Potential contribution of genomics and biotechnology in animal production
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Developing an approach for equitable and reasonable utilization of international rivers: the Nile River
Published 2023“…The approach includes (1) developing a basin-wide database of indicators representative of the United Nations Watercourse Convention (UNWC) relevant factors and circumstances, (2) developing an ensemble of indicator weighting scenarios using various weighting methods, and (3) developing six water-sharing methods to obtain a range of apportionments for Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia and the group of the White Nile Equatorial States for each weighting scenarios. …”
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Contemporary global movement of emerging plant diseases
Published 2000“…Exotic plant diseases pose a continued threat to profitable agriculture in the United States. The extent of this threat has increased dramatically in the 1980s and 1990s due to the expansion of international trade in agricultural products and frequent movement of massive volume of people and goods across national boundaries. …”
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Global action for sustainable rangelands and pastoralism to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN): Working paper
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The International Plant Diagnostic Network (IPDN) in Africa: improving capacity for diagnosing diseases of banana (Musa spp.) and other African crops
Published 2010“…The IPDN is a diagnostic, communication and data network, modeled inpart on the United States National Plant Diagnostic Network. Software for digitalimaging and diagnosis and information management provides a platform forenhanced diagnosis and communication amongst clinicians and their clientele.Improved diagnostics tools and protocols were also developed and tested, including aPCR assay for Xanthomonas wilt. …”
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Agriculture for sustainable economic development: A global R&D initiative to avoid a deep and complex crisis
Published 2008“…There is no effective governance architecture at the global level and national levels to address the matter. Industrialized economies, including the United States, should substantially accelerate their investment in international agricultural research and development (R&D) in cooperation with new players.…”
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