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Leading Colombian retailer investing in sustainable livestock
By: Sara Valencia, consultora Programa de Forrajes Tropicales
Grupo Éxito has developed a sustainable livestock model with its suppliers in Colombia aimed at mitigating the environmental impact in beef production. An interview with its executives reveals how this model operates.
With consumers increasingly…
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Towards Climate Transparency: Strategies to Enhance National Greenhouse Gas Inventories
By Leonardo Rodriguez; Mike Bastidas; Alejandro Ruden; Jacobo Arango – Tropical Forages Program
Researchers from the Alliance Bioversity-CIAT participate in the “Low Carbon Livestock” research network, a Latin American initiative to improve national inventories of greenhouse gas emissions and absorptions.…
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New learning resources place equity at the heart of water-energy-food-ecosystem nexus management
Haley Zaremba
Imagine a rural community with limited access to water. Now imagine several of the local community members. One is a stay-at-home wife and mother who does not own a mobile phone. Her husband is an illiterate farmer who relies on rain to water his crops. Another is a well-off, educated male farmer who owns…
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Lanzamiento de los proyectos Suelos de Honduras y SoilFer
La problemática que enfrenta el sector agrícola en Honduras se caracteriza por la falta de datos públicos sobre el suelo y las prácticas agrícolas, lo que dificulta la toma de decisiones. Además, la agricultura se desarrolla en zonas con limitaciones hídricas significativas, como el Corredor Seco, empleando sistemas de producción de secano y prácticas de manejo de suelos que no…
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Measuring farm environmental sustainability in the Sierra del Rosario Biosphere Reserve
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/135572
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This chapter presents an integrated methodology that combines a household survey with direct observations and measurements to understand the role and impact of farming activities within the Sierra del Rosario Biosphere Reserve and assess their sustainability and the relationship with the protected area. The methodology, based on an existing protocol (Biodiversity Friend), was adapted to Cuban…
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Climate Security Dialogues: Dashboard User Guide
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/135581
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The Climate Security Dialogues dashboard is a pioneering interactive tool dedicated to tracking and analyzing the pulse of climate security conversations in digital spaces. With climate security becoming an increasingly crucial issue in global discussions, the dashboard provides insights into prevalent topics, key actors, significant events, and geographical coverage that are framing these online debates. This user guide helps users navigate…
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Dala Rieko: Empowering communities in the fight against climate change
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/135697
Publication year
2023
Authors
Kimani, Owen Samuel
Kinyua, Ivy Wambui
Templer, Noel Anyuka
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Kimani, O.S.; Kinyua, I.W.; Templer, N.A. (2023) Dala Rieko: Empowering communities in the fight against climate change. [Video]. Duration: 5:14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkbKmB7G0Qc&list=…
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Sustainability transitions in West African agriculture and food systems
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/135627
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Scientific evidence is crucial for the transition towards sustainable and resilient agri-food systems. However, sustainability transitions research has been so far north-biased and overlooked the Global South. This paper analyses the scholarly literature on sustainability transitions in West African agriculture and food systems. In particular, it investigates the bibliometrics and geographical coverage of the research…
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Pollination supply models from a local to global scale
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/135642
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Ecological intensification has been embraced with great interest by the academic sector but is still rarely taken up by farmers because monitoring the state of different ecological functions is not straightforward. Modelling tools can represent a more accessible alternative of measuring ecological functions, which could help promote their use amongst farmers and other decision-makers. In the case of crop pollination, modelling has…
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Efecto del clima sobre la respuesta térmica en vacas de diferentes grupos raciales en trópico bajo
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/135579
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Objective. The main idea of this study was to quantify the relationship between climatic variables and tympanic body temperature recorded through the use of wireless sensors in grazing cows located in low tropic. Material and methods. The tympanic temperature of twenty-eight cross breed grazing cows in early lactation was monitored. The sensors were manually installed in the tympanic cavity,…
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Shared pedigree relationships and transmission of unreduced gametes in cultivated banana
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/135578
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Abstract Background and Aims Cultivated bananas resulted from inter(sub)specific hybridizations involving Musa species and subspecies (M. acuminata subspecies, M. schizocarpa, M. balbisiana) and the subsequent selection, centuries ago, of hybrids with parthenocarpic, seedless fruits. Cultivars have low fertility and are vegetatively propagated, forming groups of somaclones. Relatively few of them,…
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Planteome 2024 Update: Reference ontologies and knowledgebase for plant biology
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/135574
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Abstract The Planteome project (https://planteome.org/) provides a suite of reference and crop-specific ontologies and an integrated knowledgebase of plant genomics data. The plant genomics data in the Planteome has been obtained through manual and automated curation and sourced from more than 40 partner databases and resources. Here, we report on updates to the Planteome reference ontologies, namely, the Plant…
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Visualizing and inferring chromosome segregation in the pedigree of an improved banana cultivar (Gold Finger) with genome ancestry mosaic painting
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/135575
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Banana breeding faces numerous challenges, such as sterility and low seed viability. Enhancing our understanding of banana genetics, notably through next-generation sequencing, can help mitigate these challenges. The genotyping datasets currently available from genebanks were used to decipher cultivated bananas’ genetic makeup of natural…
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Aplicación en la agricultura de técnicas de explicabilidad del aprendizaje de máquinas: Aclarando la caja negra
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/135694
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El maíz es esencial para la seguridad alimentaria en Guatemala, pero su producción enfrenta desafíos como la sequía y prácticas agronómicas inadecuadas. Para mejorar la producción ante la variabilidad climática, es crucial optimizar las prácticas agronómicas. Sin embargo, hay un conocimiento limitado sobre los factores que influyen en la producción de maíz. Los procesos…
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Climate data, climate models and observational infrastructure
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/135651
Publication year
2023
Authors
Nying'uro, Patricia
Craparo, Alessandro Carmelo William
Diji, Chukwuemeka
Driouech, Fatima
Lukorito, Cromwel
Minoarivelo, Henintsoa Onivola
Okem, Andrew
Thiam, Mbayang
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