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Index-based insurance: Lottery ticket or insurance?
Environmental shocks are drivers of poverty as well as a
fact of life in many rural areas of the developing world. In
the developed world, agricultural insurance provides some
protection from such calamities. But conventional ...
Drylands and Mission Critical Research Areas for the CGIAR. A report to the CGIAR Fund Council from the Dryland Systems Task Force.
Drylands occupy 41% of global land surface and are inhabited by more than 2.5 billion people,
living mainly in developing countries with about 16% living in chronic poverty. Shockingly 42% of
children less than 5 years of ...
The Impact of Land Use Change on the 3-D Structure of Shrubland and Savanna Dryland Ecosystems
A terrestrial LiDAR scanner was used to compare the vegetation of two nearby sites with different management regimes.
Drylands cover 41% of the terrestrial land surface and provide $1 trillion in ecosystem goods and
services ...
CRP Dryland Systems - ILRI - 2015 Technical and Financial Report - Final
From 2012, the development of a cutting-edge econometric response model by the IBLI team at ILRI enabled expansion into new areas by identifying the relationship between the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) ...
Methodology note: Influence diagrams
The influence diagram is a qualitative tool used for systems analysis and synthesis (Bodily 1985; Waltner-Toews et al.
2003; Gitau 2004; Robinson and Berkes 2010). It is particularly useful for synthesizing diverse knowledge ...
A Yin-Yang approach to education policy regarding health and the environment: early-careerists’ image of the future and priority programmes
Since the inception of sustainable development (SD), there has been a somewhat ignored contradiction between paradigms that are ecosystem-based and paradigms that are human-based or purely economic. We suggest that this ...