El trabajo surge de orientaciones y análisis provenientes de los espacios de colaboración permanente que tiene la CEPAL con el Programa Mundial de Alimentos (PMA) y demás organismos de Naciones Unidas que conforman la Alianza Panamericana por la Nutrición, y de la asistencia técnica realizada par...
The first decade of the 21st century has seen several harbingers of a troubled future for global food security. The food price spike of 2008, with its consequent food riots and resulting political changes in several countries, awoke the world’s leaders to the re-emergence of this threat to human ...
Nelson, Gerald C.
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Rosegrant, Mark W.
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Palazzo, Amanda
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Gray I
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Ingersoll C
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Robertson, Richard D.
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Tokgoz S
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Zhu, T.
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Sulser TB
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Ringler, Claudia
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Msangi S
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You, Liangzhi
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[Food security, farming, and climate change to 2050: Scenarios, results, policy options]
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Food security, farming, and climate change to 2050: Scenarios, results, policy options
This blog book tells the story of CCAFS research theme ‘Linking Knowledge with Action’; its approach and lessons learned throughout the years, especially 2014, while illustrating its many achievements through blogs and photos.
Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Jost, Christine
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Vervoort, Joost M.
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Ferdous, N.
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Schubert, Cecilia
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[Moving from Knowledge to Action: Blogging research and outcome highlights]
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Moving from Knowledge to Action: Blogging research and outcome highlights
The book brings together multi-country empirical case studies, each of which included significant engagement with boundary partners, to analyse the impacts of, and ways to adapt to, climate risks and unsustainable growth in a highly interdependent region. Rapid economic growth coupled with curren...
Lebel L
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Hoanh, Chu Thai
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Krittasudthacheewa, C.
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Daniel, R.
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[Climate risks, regional integration and sustainability in the Mekong region]
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Climate risks, regional integration and sustainability in the Mekong region
Given the increasing scarcity of production resources such as water, energy and labour coupled with growing climatic risks, maize-based production systems could be potential alternatives to intensive rice-wheat (RW) rotation in western Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP). Conservation agriculture (CA) in ...
Parihar, CM
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Parihar, MD
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Sapkota, Tek B.
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Nanwal, RK
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Singh, AK
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Jat, Shankar L.
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Nayak, HS
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Mahala, DM
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Singh, Lk
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Kakraliya, S.K.
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Stirling, Clare M.
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Jat, Mangi Lal
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[Long-term impact of conservation agriculture and diversified maize rotations on carbon pools and stocks, mineral nitrogen fractions and nitrous oxide fluxes in inceptisol of India]
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Long-term impact of conservation agriculture and diversified maize rotations on carbon pools and stocks, mineral nitrogen fractions and nitrous oxide fluxes in inceptisol of India
The content of the book comprises of country chapters on mobile phone applications for agricultural extension from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe along with chapters on global review on m-agriculture initiatives, content generation process and socio-economic impact of mobile phone based a...
Mittal, Surabhi
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Mehar, Mamta
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[Socio-Economic Impact of the Mobile Phone based Agricultural Extension]
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Socio-Economic Impact of the Mobile Phone based Agricultural Extension
Bangladeshi visitors describe their experience
learning about climate science and services.
Climate Services for Resilient Development (CSRD) is a USAID-supported global partnership that connects climate and environmental science with data streams to generate decision support tools and training...
Gawthrop, Elisabeth
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[IRI Training to support Climate Services for Resilient Development (CSRD) in South Asia]
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IRI Training to support Climate Services for Resilient Development (CSRD) in South Asia
Access to up to date climate information helps smallholder farmers make informed agriculture decisions. However, due to gender-related factors, women and men can face differing challenges and opportunities to access climate-related information as well as using it to improve management and benefit...
Turner, Jacquelyn
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[Mainstreaming gender in climate services: a new tool from CCAFS/IRI]
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Mainstreaming gender in climate services: a new tool from CCAFS/IRI
About the book: Two of the greatest current challenges are climate change (and variability) and food security. Feeding nine billion people by 2050 will require major efforts aimed at climate change adaptation and mitigation. One approach to agriculture has recently been captured by the widely ado...
Sapkota, Tek B.
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Majumdar, Kaushik
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Khurana, Ritika
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Jat, Raj K.
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Stirling, Clare M.
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Jat, Mangi Lal
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[Precision Nutrient Management under Conservation Agriculture-based Cereal Systems in South Asia]
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Precision Nutrient Management under Conservation Agriculture-based Cereal Systems in South Asia
This chapter focuses on the impacts of climate change on intensive maize and wheat production systems. Some technologies to close the yield gap to achieve sustainable intensification are also discussed.
Stirling, Clare M.
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Hellin, J.
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Cairns, Jill E.
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Silverblatt-Buser E
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Tefera T
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Ngugi H
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Gbegbelegbe, Sika
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Tesfaye Fantaye, Kindie
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Chung, U.
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Sonder, Kai
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Cox, R.A.
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Verhulst, Nele
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Govaerts, Bram
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Alderman, Phillip D.
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Reynolds, Matthew P.
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[Shaping Sustainable Intensive Production Systems - Improved Crops and Cropping Systems in the Developing World]
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Shaping Sustainable Intensive Production Systems - Improved Crops and Cropping Systems in the Developing World