Gender integration across national policy processes is critical to ensure effective implementation of climate change adaptation interventions in agriculture. This is especially so for countries like Nepal, where climate vulnerability and women participation in agriculture is high, accompanied by ...
Paudyal, Bimala Rai
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Chanana, Nitya
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Khatri-Chhetri, Arun
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Sherpa, Lakpa
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Kadariya, Ishwari
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Aggarwal, Pramod K.
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[Gender Integration in Climate Change and Agricultural Policies: The Case of Nepal]
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Gender Integration in Climate Change and Agricultural Policies: The Case of Nepal
Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) is an approach that has been used to date in 20 countries and benefited tens of thousands of households including over 5000 in Northern Ghana and 75,000 in Rwanda. PICSA involves trained field staff or community volunteers working ...
Clarkson, Graham
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Dorward, Peter
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Osbahr, Henny
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Torgbor, Francis
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Kankam-Boadu, Isaac
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[An investigation of the effects of PICSA on smallholder farmers’ decision-making and livelihoods when implemented at large scale – The case of Northern Ghana]
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An investigation of the effects of PICSA on smallholder farmers’ decision-making and livelihoods when implemented at large scale – The case of Northern Ghana
Sequestration of soil organic carbon (SOC) is an important strategy to improve soil quality and to mitigate climate change. To investigate changes in SOC under conservation agriculture (CA), we measured SOC concentrations after seven years of rice (Oryza sativa L.)–wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) ro...
Sapkota, Tek B
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Jat, R.K.
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Singh, R.G.
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Jat, Mangi Lal
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Stirling, Clare M.
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Jat, M.K.
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Bijarniya, D.
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Kumar, M.
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Yadvinder-Singh
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Saharawat, Y.S.
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Gupta, R.K.
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[Soil organic carbon changes after seven years of conservation agriculture in a rice–wheat system of the eastern Indo‐Gangetic Plains]
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Soil organic carbon changes after seven years of conservation agriculture in a rice–wheat system of the eastern Indo‐Gangetic Plains
We consider the question of what is needed for climate services to support sub-Saharan African farmers’ adaptation needs at the scale of the climate challenge. Consistent with an earlier assessment that mutually reinforcing supply-side and demand-side capacity constraints impede the development o...
Hansen, James
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Vaughan, Catherine
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Kagabo, Desire M.
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Dinku, Tufa
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Carr, Edward
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Körner, Jana
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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[Climate Services Can Support African Farmers' Context-Specific Adaptation Needs at Scale]
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Climate Services Can Support African Farmers' Context-Specific Adaptation Needs at Scale
Empirical studies on agricultural technology adoption generally divide a population into adopters and nonadopters, and analyse the reasons for adoption or nonadoption at a point in time. In reality, technology adoption is not a one-off static decision, rather it involves a dynamic process in whic...
Jabbar, M.A.
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Mohamed Saleem, M.A.
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Gebreselasie, S.
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Beyene, H.
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[Role of knowledge in the adoption of new agricultural technologies: An approach and an application]
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Role of knowledge in the adoption of new agricultural technologies: An approach and an application
Scaling up food security innovations in low-income rural environments has often failed to achieve substantive and lasting results. This poor performance can be attributed to dominant, linear approaches associated with spreading innovations which entail technology research and development and subs...
Shilomboleni, Helena
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Owaygen, Marwan
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De Plaen, Renaud
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Manchur, Wendy
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Husak, Laura
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[Scaling up innovations in smallholder agriculture: Lessons from the Canadian international food security research fund]
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Scaling up innovations in smallholder agriculture: Lessons from the Canadian international food security research fund
Purpose – The purpose of this study is to first examine the factors affecting the intra-household perception
of climate change. Second, the study investigates the impact of the perception of climatic stress on the
operators’ and spouses’ intra-household adaptation strategies (farm and household f...
Mishra, Ashok K.
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Pede, Valerian Olivier
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[Perception of climate change and adaptation strategies in Vietnam: Are there intra-household gender differences?]
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Perception of climate change and adaptation strategies in Vietnam: Are there intra-household gender differences?
Background: Agriculture is the single largest geo-engineering initiative that humans have initiated on planet Earth, largely through the introduction of unprecedented amounts of reactive nitrogen (N) into ecosystems. A major portion of this reactive N applied as fertilizer leaks into the environm...
Subbaraoa, Guntur V.
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Sahrawat, Kanwar Lal
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Nakahara, K.
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Rao, Idupulapati M.
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Ishitani, Manabu
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Hash, C.T.
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Kishi, M.
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Bonnett, D.
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Berry, W.
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Lata, Jean-Christophe
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[A paradigm shift towards low-nitrifying systems: The role of biological nitrification inhibition (BNI)]
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A paradigm shift towards low-nitrifying systems: The role of biological nitrification inhibition (BNI)
We use global value chain (GVC) theory to understand governance of Vietnam’s shrimp farming industry. We describe this GVC as buyer-driven with important food safety standards imposed by governments of importing countries and new certification systems promoted by nongovernmental organizations (NG...
Tran, N.
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Bailey, C.
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Wilson, N.
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Phillips, M.
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[Governance of global value chains in response to food safety and certification standards: the case of shrimp from Vietnam]
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Governance of global value chains in response to food safety and certification standards: the case of shrimp from Vietnam
Cassava yields in Africa are small and it remains unclear which factors most limit yields. Using a series of farm surveys and on-farm and on-station trials in Uganda and western Kenya, we evaluated the importance of abiotic, biotic and associated crop management constraints for cassava production...
Fermont, A.M.
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Asten, Piet J.A. van
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Tittonell, Pablo A.
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Wijk, Mark T. van
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Giller, Ken E.
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[Closing the cassava yield gap: an analysis from smallholder farms in East Africa]
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Closing the cassava yield gap: an analysis from smallholder farms in East Africa