Resultados de búsqueda - Performance standards
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Validation assessment of nitrogen and irrigation effects on early maturing rice varieties Cakrabuana and Inpari 13 through ORYZA (v3) modeling
Publicado 2025“…Thus, modeling approaches offer efficient means of simulating the performance of various early maturing rice varieties across many conditions. …”
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The development of maize seed markets in Sub-Saharan Africa
Publicado 1995“…The government has a critical role to play in crafting and enforcing seed laws and regulations because it is ultimately the state that determines when standards are broken and whether penalties should be imposed on violators. …”
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Sex-disaggregated agricultural extension and weather variability in Africa south of the Sahara
Publicado 2022“…This paper investigates the role of sex-disaggregated agricultural extension recipients in contexts where agricultural performance of farm households is affected by weather variability. …”
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Cohort 1 - Call for Applications Report
Publicado 2023“…The accelerator program core team analyzed the performance of the Call for Applications and recommended several strategies to improve the next Call. …”
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Defining and quantifying national-level targets, indicators and benchmarks for management of natural resources to achieve the sustainable development goals
Publicado 2019“…Importantly, for those indicators that relate to the security of natural resources security (e.g., water) indicators, there are no prescribed numerical targets/standards or benchmarks. Rather countries will need to set their own benchmarks or standards against which performance can be evaluated. …”
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Influence of FSC certification on the governance of the logging sector in the Congo basin
Publicado 2021“…The performance of private forest governance systems, such as the standard and approach developed by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), is often assessed at the local level although they also have an indirect influence on public policies at the national level. …”
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Mali’s agrifood system structure and drivers of transformation
Publicado 2023“…With annual population growth of 3.0 percent during that period, the living standards of Malian people improved only modestly. …”
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Measurement of maize grain yield and aboveground biomass at maturity by crop cut at plot level
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Addressing the Gender Gap in Agriculture: Opportunities for Collaboration in Gender-Responsive Research
Publicado 2012“…A Gender Policy is needed to define accountability at different levels of the system, assign responsibilities for achievement of results dependent on changes in gender equity and to provide harmonized protocols and standards for cross-system, portfolio-level performance monitoring of gender research. …”
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Financial access of midstream agricultural firms in Africa: Evidence from the LSMS-ISA and World Bank enterprise surveys
Publicado 2022“…The midstream of agricultural value chains are rapidly changing in response to shifting domestic and international demand. While the performance of this segment may have important implications for the entire sector, evidence on midstream actors and their financial needs remain thin. …”
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Senegal’s agrifood system structure and drivers of transformation
Publicado 2023“…In this brief, we examine the performance of Senegal’s broader AFS and its contribution to growth and transformation.…”
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The role of producer organizations in promoting farm-level implementation of milk hygiene strategies among dairy farmers in Kenya
Publicado 2024“…The findings of this study provide relevant information for policy formulation aimed at improving the performance of producer organizations and the growth of the dairy industry. …”
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Transforming Agrifood Systems in West and Central Africa Initiative
Publicado 2024“…In this regard, follow-up field visits were undertaken during week 44 to evaluate the machines' performance, defects, and suggestions for improvements. …”
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Radiation measurements at ICOS ecosystem stations
Publicado 2018“…For photosynthetically active radiation measurements, some basic instrumental requirements are based on the performance of commercially available sensors. Since site specific conditions and practical constraints at individual ICOS ecosystem stations may hamper the applicability of standard requirements, we recommend that ICOS develops mid-term coordinated actions to assess the effective level of uncertainties in radiation measurements at the network scale.…”
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Machine vision system for automatic quality grading of fruit
Publicado 2017“…The classification system was tested on-line with apples obtaining a good performance when classifying the fruit in batches, and a repeatability in blemish detection and size estimation of 86 and 93% respectively. …”
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A critical review of food safety legislation and policy applicable to products of animal origin in South Africa
Publicado 2011“…Participatory risk analysis was done to assess the existing South African regulatory framework for key variables in food safety, against national and international FAO/ WHO/ OIE and Codex benchmark standards. Four working groups of eight key informants performed a gap analysis and defined actions and steps to remedy the limitations that currentlyexist in the registration of veterinary medicines and pesticides in animal feeds, animal health, laboratory capacity, surveillance and monitoring of animal diseases and both microbiological and chemical residues in animal source foodstuffs.This paper will describe and critically review the relevant legislation and regulations as well as their implementation, highlighting discrepancies and overlaps.…”
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Nepal’s agrifood system structure and drivers of transformation
Publicado 2023“…Thanks to a relatively slow population growth rate of 1.4 percent, the living standards of most Nepalis improved during this period; this allowed Nepal to graduate in 2019 from a low-income country to a lower-middle-income country. …”
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