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Publisher : IRRI
ISBN 13 : 9711042169
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Publications of the International Agricultural Research and Development Centers written by and published by IRRI. This book was released on 1989 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Liz Deakin
Publisher : CIFOR
ISBN 13 : 6023870228
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (238 download)
Download or read book Agrarian change in tropical landscapes written by Liz Deakin and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural expansion has transformed and fragmented forest habitats at alarming rates across the globe, but particularly so in tropical landscapes. The resulting land-use configurations encompass varying mosaics of tree cover, human settlements and agricultural land units. Meanwhile, global demand for agricultural commodities is at unprecedented levels. The need to feed nine billion people by 2050 in a world of changing food demands is causing increasing agricultural intensification. As such, market-orientated production systems are now increasingly replacing traditional farming practices, but at what cost? The Agrarian Change project, coordinated by the Center for International Forestry Research, explores the conservation, livelihood and food security implications of land-use and agrarian change processes at the landscape scale. This book provides detailed background information on seven multi-functional landscapes in Ethiopia, Cameroon, Indonesia, Nicaragua, Bangladesh, Zambia and Burkina Faso. The focal landscapes were selected as they exhibit various scenarios of changing forest cover, agricultural modification and integration with local and global commodity markets. A standardized research protocol will allow for future comparative analyses between these sites. Each case study chapter provides a comprehensive description of the physical and socioeconomic context of each focal landscape and a structured account of the historical and political drivers of land-use change occurring in the area. Each case study also draws on contemporary information obtained from key informant interviews, focus group discussions and preliminary data collection regarding key topics of interest including: changes in forest cover and dependency on forest products, farming practices, tenure institutions, the role and presence of conservation initiatives, and major economic activities. The follow-on empirical study is already underway in the landscapes described in this book. It examines responses to agrarian change processes at household, farm, village and landscape levels with a focus on poverty levels, food security, dietary diversity and nutrition, agricultural yields, biodiversity, migration and land tenure. This research intends to provide much needed insights into how landscape-scale land-use trajectories manifest in local communities and advance understanding of multi-functional landscapes as socioecological systems.
Author : Philip G. Pardey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521543330
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (433 download)
Download or read book ISNAR Agricultural Research Indicator Series written by Philip G. Pardey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-05 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully-sourced country-specific files on the basic resources committed to national agricultural research systems for 154 developing and developed countries.
Author : Jacqueline d'A. Hughes
Publisher : IITA
ISBN 13 : 9789781312144
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Plant Virology in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Jacqueline d'A. Hughes and published by IITA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald L. Plucknett
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Plant Quarantine and the International Transfer of Germplasm written by Donald L. Plucknett and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper reviews the history of quarantine services, discusses principles for successful quarantine operations and identifies major constraints to the exchange of plant materials due to quarantine restrictions and procedures. It also explores some of the difficulties faced by quarantine services, plant breeders, and genebank curators in attempting to detect diseases or pests and clean up seeds and vegetative materials. The paper examines disease and pest screening techniques, with an emphasis on emerging biotechnologies that are revolutionizing diagnostic and clean up work for plant germplasm. It underscores the importance of intermediate quarantine, particularly for tropical cash crops. Finally, the paper analyzes ways to strengthen quarantine services worldwide so that crop improvement programs can operate more efficiently and effectively.
Author : Williams, Timothy O.
Publisher : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
ISBN 13 : 9789291461615
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Crop - Livestock Production for Improved Livelihoods and Natural Resource Management in West Africa written by Williams, Timothy O. and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ruth Meinzen-Dick
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 : 0896291901
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Engendering Agricultural Research, Development and Extension written by Ruth Meinzen-Dick and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : International Livestock Research Institute
Publisher : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book ILRI Strategy to 2010 written by International Livestock Research Institute and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John R. Walsh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351759868
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Wide Crossing written by John R. Walsh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2001. The West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA) was established in the early 1970s to help farmers increase rice production. Africa is the only continent whose population has grown faster than its food production; this shortfall provokes the syndrome of poverty, hunger and violence there. WARDA first attempted to alleviate the food deficit by introducing high-yielding imported crop varieties. This strategy drove green revolution in Asia and Latin America but failed in Africa. This book recounts WARDA's revival after nearly succumbing in the 1980s. Not only did the programme have to deal with a harsh agricultural environment, but also with severe economic, political and social constraints. WARDA made crucial advances in rice research and also coped successfully with non-scientific challenges. WARDA serves as a thriving example of a combined international research center and a regional organization.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Joint Acquisitions List of Africana written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Abdulai Jalloh
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 : 0896292045
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (962 download)
Download or read book West African Agriculture and Climate Change written by Abdulai Jalloh and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of three books in IFPRI's climate change in Africa series, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 11 of the countries that make up West Africa -- Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo -- and explores how climate change will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable food security throughout the region. West Africa's population is expected to grow at least through mid-century. The region will also see income growth. Both will put increased pressure on the natural resources needed to produce food, and climate change makes the challenges greater. West Africa is already experiencing rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, and increasing extreme events. Without attention to adaptation, the poor will suffer. Through the use of hundreds of scenario maps, models, figures, and detailed analysis, the editors and contributors of West African Agriculture and Climate Change present plausible future scenarios that combine economic and biophysical characteristics to explore the possible consequences for agriculture, food security, and resources management to 2050. They also offer recommendations to national governments and regional economic agencies already dealing with the vulnerabilities of climate change and deviations in environment. Decisionmakers and researchers will find West African Agriculture and Climate Change a vital tool for shaping policy and studying the various and likely consequences of climate change.
Author : Ihalainen, M.
Publisher : CIFOR
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book What should be included in the Green Climate Fund's new Gender Policy and Action Plan? written by Ihalainen, M. and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2017-07-23 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key points Despite a clear mandate for addressing gender equality in climate policy and action, gender considerations tend to be sidelined or watered down at national/program levels. The Green Climate Fund is well placed to help bridge this gap and contribute toward a global vision to address gender equality and women's empowerment in climate policy and action.For this, the updated gender policy of the Green Climate Fund must be guided by a 'gender-responsive' approach, and hence move beyond the 'gender-sensitive' approach of the current gender policy.The objectives of the new gender policy should be two-fold: (i) advance gender equality and women's empowerment through climate change mitigation and/or adaptation actions; (ii) minimize gender-related risks and safeguard women's rights in all climate change actions.The Gender Policy and Action Plan need to be aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals. This will allow for clearer sets of targets and progress indicators for assessing the Fund's contribution toward enhancing gender equality and women's empowerment (SDG5).
Author : Ram A. Jat
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1780642598
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Conservation Agriculture written by Ram A. Jat and published by CABI. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers the spread of conservation agriculture (CA) to regions including Brazil, Argentina, Canada, Australia, Europe and emerging CA destinations in Asia and Africa. ÿTopics covered include the various components of CA, and how their individual and combined implementation influence productivity, soil health and environmental quality under diverse edaphic and climatic conditions. The book will be useful to teachers, researchers, extensionists, farmers, and students interested in environmental quality.
Author : Hendriks, Sheryl L.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 : 0896295931
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Achieving a nutrition revolution for Africa written by Hendriks, Sheryl L. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing the 2015 Annual Trends and Outlook Report (ATOR) on nutrition will contribute to a broader understanding of the critical role of nutrition in achieving international, continental, and national economic growth targets through agriculture, food security, and nutrition. This report presents information and analysis in support of evidence-based policy making that should inform the second generation of CAADP national investment plans now being developed. This is an important moment for shaping the region’s future and ensuring that the much-needed agriculture-led growth and development agenda can simultaneously deliver on improving nutrition, saving lives, improving productivity and health, and curbing nutrition-related diseases and the associated public health expenditures. These investment plans should address not only the usual elements of undernutrition but also widespread micronutrient deficiencies (termed “hidden hunger”) and the growing problem of overweight and obesity that is associated with economic growth.
Author : Nin-Pratt, Alejandro
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Revisiting rates of return to agricultural R&D investment written by Nin-Pratt, Alejandro and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study proposes the use of partial least squares to determine the key parameters of the perpetual inventory method model of capital stock as a new approach to calculate research and development (R&D) knowledge stocks and R&D elasticities. This approach avoids most of the major problems encountered in the literature that lead to obtaining very high and implausible rates of return to agricultural R&D...Using this approach, we obtain an average R&D elasticity for low- and middle-income (LM) countries of 0.23 and an average rate of return to R&D investment of 6.0 percent, bigger than the average discount rate of 4.2 percent for these countries. Results show that 60 percent of LM countries in our sample are underinvesting in agricultural R&D, as they can get higher returns by investing in this activity than in activities that return the social discount rate.
Author : Center for International Forestry Research
Publisher : CIFOR
ISBN 13 : 9793361840
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Forests for People and the Environment : CIFOR Annual Report 2004 written by Center for International Forestry Research and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases
Publisher : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
ISBN 13 : 9290552980
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Towards Increased Use of Trypanotolerance written by International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Significance of Trypanotolerance as a control option; Trypanotolerant livestock, a sustainable option for increasing livestock production in tsetse-affected areas; Biology of Trypanotolerance; Factors affecting estimation of tsetse challenge and the expression of trypanotolerance; Field research on measurement and use of trypanotolerance criteria to enhance trypanotolerant livestock productivity; Field research on measurement and use of trypanotolerance criteria to enhance trypanotolerant livestock productivity: 1. ILCA's achievements and future plans; Field research on measurement and use of trypanotolerance criteria to enhance trypanotolerant livestock productivity: 2 recent results quantifying trypanotolerance indicators; Genetic improvement of growth parameters in N'Dama cattle in Mali; Characterization and mechanisms of trypanotolerance in Baoule cattle; Antibody responses to the surface-exposed epitoses of the trypanosome variable surface glycoprotein in N'Dama and Boran cattle; Antibody responses to invariant antigens of Trypanosoma congolense; CD5+ B lymphocytes in cattle infected with African trypanosomiasis; Comparative bone marrow responses during Trypanosoma congolense infection in N'Dama and Boran cattle; Markers for mapping trypanotolerance genes; The Orma Boran - ten years of field observations; Variation in susceptibility to tsetse-borne trypanosomiasis among Bos indicus cattle breeds in East Africa; Variations in susceptibility to the effects of trypanosomiasis in East African zebu cattle; Adoption, utilization and impact of Trypanotolerance; Promotion of N'Dama stockbreeding and extension activities in village herds in the Yanfolila area of Mali; The economics of trypanotolerant cattle production in regions of origin and areas of introduction; Cattle breed preferences and breeding practices in southern Nigeria; Salvaging the image of the N'Dama breed: productivity evidence from village production systems in The Gambia; Ecological, social and economic impacts of trypanotolerance: collaborative research in Central and West Africa; Conservation, preservation, enhancement and propagation; Characterization, conservation and utilization of indigenous African animal genetic resources - ILCA's proposed program; Progress in molecular and genetic characterization of cattle populations, with emphasis of African breeds; Multiplication of improved trypanotolerant livestock; Programme for conservation of domestic animal diversity: a food and agriculture organization contribution to conserving animal genetic resources; Breeding biotechnologies.
