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The government of Ucayali, Peru, adopts deforestation-free, low- emissions strategies to strengthen cocoa and palm oil value chains
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132370
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The strategies developed to promote deforestation-free, low- emission cocoa and oil palm value chains have been officially adopted by the regional government of Ucayali to guide public and private stakeholders towards improved sectorial and agricultural development. Both documents have been developed by the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT in the framework of a…
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The digital agriculture project has transformed the use of data to promote climate smart agriculture in Latin America.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132363
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The Digital Agriculture project has transformed the use of data to support promoting climate smart agriculture and increasing yields in eight Latin American countries. It has promoted new open-source data analysis tools, built capacities to use the new technologies and assisted in the creation and application of new data sets to support decision-
making. This has begun…
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Over 100,000 Laotian farmers use the seasonal climate forecasts and weekly agro-advisories disseminated via Laos climate services for agriculture to improve crop management
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132413
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In Laos, farmers are using the validated agro-climatic advisories from the Alliance-supported Strengthening Agro-climatic Monitoring and Information System to improve their farming practices, such as crop variety, planting dates, and water and fertilizer applications. These advisories were integrated into the Laos…
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Use of climate resilience platform by PepsiCo leadership led to climate-resilient planning and adaptation investment for its potato program covering 1.8 million tons across 8 countries.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132414
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Based on extensive grower data from PepsiCo, we built climate-yield models specifically for it and came up with results about climate risks and opportunities for its potato production. The results were then translated into actionable insights to incorporate into its sustainability roadmaps. PepsiCo used the…
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Climate-Smart Agriculture Prioritization Framework
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/68398
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The CSA Prioritization Framework, developed by CCAFS-CIAT, provides a process for targeting investment towards best-bet CSA options in a given context. The Framework does this by identifying existing and promising CSA practices, assessing the tradeoffs between practices using indicators of CSA and analyzing the costs and benefits of these practices, and identifying…
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Peruvian authorities are using a gold mining monitoring tool for early detection of illegal gold mining in Southern Amazon
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132372
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Gold mining in Peru has caused the loss of more than 96,000 hectares of primary forest in the last 30 years. In February 2019, the Peruvian government started an unprecedented mega-operation aimed at eradicating illegal gold mining in La Pampa by using a near real-time information system called RAMI (Radar Mining Monitoring) to detect gold mining and related…
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Dietary health clubs for ethnic minority women in Northern Vietnam improved diet quality through vegetable and nutrition capacity building and seed access.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132388
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Dietary health clubs were formed as a platform for creating awareness and exchanging information and skills on vegetables (seeds, production) and nutrition to enhance demand for and utilization of diverse vegetables and quality seeds. The club facilitators have increased their agency as change agents and sources of information in the…
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Over 130,000 farmers in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, have used timely weather forecasts and advisories to improve farm decisions, leading to higher yields and profits
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132401
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Through "Local Technical Agroclimatic Committees" (LTACs) and multiple media, timely Agro-Climatic Bulletins are being disseminated to over 130,000 farmers (520,000 beneficiaries) in 351 communities in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta and South-Central Coast. Based on a sample survey of 202 farmers in one province, the use of…
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Women’s investment club integrates climate-risk into accelerator and contributes to the uptake of climate-smart solutions in Senegal. AICCRA’s research and engagement is enhancing the awareness and capacity for private actors
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132389
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Women's Investment Club incorporates climate risks analysis in their business support program and bring sustainability and climate adaptation in the financing process of women-led enterprises. Through the Gender-Smart Accelerator program, 20 women-led value chain…
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Participatory vegetable and seed system development enabled ethnic minority farmers in Northern Vietnam to form local value chain networks and increase production 5-7-fold.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132386
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Through participatory vegetable and seed system development, ethnic minority farmers in target sites were organized in value chain groups to jointly produce and market various vegetable seeds/seedlings and vegetables. With the support of project partner and local partners, the groups’ capacity to identify market…
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An innovative scalable climate information service platform for resilient agriculture is now operational in six provinces in the Philippines
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132402
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The Alliance provided technical backstopping support to the Bicol Region in the Philippines to carry out a users’ need and climate risk assessment in its six provinces to collect essential information such as cropping calendars, historical climate risks, and initial risk responses, to develop climate information service database. This information is…
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Effects of the EU food safety regulation on cadmium on the cacao value chains of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
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This briefing note combines information from three country reports conducted between 2021 and 2022, as well as relevant findings from the available literature to examine the current state of knowledge of the spatial distribution of Cd content in cacao farms in the three countries, how the EU regulation has affected different stakeholders, and how they are managing the problem. With the information presented in this document, we also…
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Efectos del reglamento alimentario de la UE sobre el contenido de cadmio en las cadenas de valor de cacao de Colombia, Ecuador y Perú
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Esta nota informativo resume tres estudios a nivel de país efectuados entre 2021 y 2022 para presentar los hallazgos de la literatura diponible relacionada con la distribución espacial del Cd en los países, la forma en que el reglamento ha afectado a los distintos actores y las respuestas que han efectuado estos frente a la problemática. Con la información del presente documento, esperamos mejorar y actualizar…
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Conservation and prioritization of indigenous vegetables in the Philippines
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132415
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Nutrition-related problems are a widespread challenge in the Philippines. Many factors contribute to these problems - the availability and affordability of vegetables, for example, which are jeopardized by challenges such as seasonality and inconsistent yields due to the impacts of climate change. Crop improvement and on-farm diversification, particularly using indigenous vegetables (IVs), can help address these…
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Let's show Structural Variations
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Genomes can be subject to Structural Variations (SVs): rearrangements of more than 50kb of a sequence of nucleotides. These variations can have various effects depending on where they take place in a genome (for example within a gene or a control region) and influence the phenotypes. Comparing these SVs between genomes enables scientists to better understand the links between the rearrangements and their effects. However there are few tools that offer a visual exploration of these SVs, as most of them focus…
