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Barriers to the uptake of solar-powered irrigation by smallholder farmers in sub-saharan Africa: A review

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Dezembro, 2023
Global

Irrigation expansion is critical for agricultural and rural development, food and nutrition security, and climate change adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Lack of accessible energy for irrigation development due to limited off- and on-grid infrastructure and the resulting dependence on costly fuel-based irrigation have been key inhibiting factors for irrigation expansion in the region.

Fate and transport modelling for evaluating antibiotic resistance in aquatic environments: Current knowledge and research priorities

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Dezembro, 2023
Global

Antibiotics have revolutionised medicine in the last century and enabled the prevention of bacterial infections that were previously deemed untreatable. However, in parallel, bacteria have increasingly developed resistance to antibiotics through various mechanisms.

Securing nature’s contributions to people requires at least 20%–25% (semi-)natural habitat in human-modified landscapes

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Dezembro, 2023
Global

The cascading effects of biodiversity decline on human well-being present a pressing challenge for sustainable development. Conservation efforts often prioritize safeguarding specific species, habitats, or intact ecosystems but overlook biodiversity’s fundamental role in providing Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP) in human-modified landscapes.

Predicting the distribution of plant species from southern South America: are the hotspots of genetic diversity threatened by climate change?

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Dezembro, 2023
Global

Biodiversity in all its dimensions is being threatened by climate change and the impact of human activities. Genetic diversity is a key dimension of biodiversity underlying adapta- tion to global changes. Here we assess the impact of climate change on plant genetic diver- sity in a region located in the southernmost portion of Argentina and Chile range.

Value of biodiversity on Patagonian rangeland: Estimation via a Hedonic Price Index

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Dezembro, 2023
Global

Plant diversity has long been linked to an increase in ecosystem productivity and function, but concrete examples in which ecosystem services are linked to diversity at the scale at which management decisions are taken are rare. We specifically tested for a correlation between plant diversity and provisioning ecosystem services estimated via the potential to produce meat and wool.

Protocol for the field experiment for variety calibration as an input in the yield estimation

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Dezembro, 2023
Global

Work package 4 maps rice areas using remote sensing, geographic information system (GIS), and crop modeling. This work builds on the Remote sensingbased Information and Insurance for Crops in Emerging economies (RIICE, http://www.riice.org/) co-developed by IRRI and implemented in South and Southeast Asian countries.

Enhancing agricultural resilience through Pre-Season and In-Season Advisories

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Dezembro, 2023
Global

AICCRA project provides pre-season and in-season advisories to farmers in the drylands through the Intelligent Systems Advisory Tool (iSAT). Leveraging historical climate trends and current/future weather conditions, iSAT develops weather advisories delivered via short message service (SMS) directly to farmers' mobile phones.

Two crops are better than one for nutritional and economic outcomes of Zambian smallholder farms, but require more labour

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Dezembro, 2023
Global

Sustainable intensification practices suitable for smallholders in southern Africa will be needed to counteract the impact of future climate change and soil fertility decline in the region. Diversification of maize-based farming systems with grain legumes could play a key role.