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Title: Can farming shift save stricken Zim?
Author(s)Date: 2015-12-20Type: BlogStatus: Open accessZimbabwe’s slow recovery from years of economic depression has suffered a terrible blow from recurrent droughts, halving the expected production of 742 000 tonnes of the main staple, maize, this year. -
Title: Manual for Computer Lab Practice on Multi-Agent System (MAS) for Simulating Coupled Community-Landscape System Dynamics
Author(s)Date: 2015-10-15Type: ManualStatus: Open accessThis manual includes 5 units of computer lab guidelines for practicing the development of an spatial explicit multi-agent system model for simulating coupled community-landscape dynamics with example real-world data to ... -
Title: Implementation report on Cropping system intensification and resilience building
Author(s)Date: 2015-07-16Type: Internal ReportStatus: Open accessCropping system intensification and resilience building -
Title: Farm typology specific intensification and diveriscation options including agro-silvi-horticulture with traditional rainwater harvesting systems
Author(s)Date: 2015-07-15Type: Internal ReportStatus: Open accessBased on farm typology analysis integrated farming system interventions were prioritized in participatory mode. A total six large agri horti units has been established and linked with RWHS (Rain water harvesting structures) ... -
Title: Bioeconomic modeling for systems research
Author(s)Date: 2015-10-15Type: PresentationStatus: Open accessThis document introduces concept, economic principles and algorithms of bio-economic modelling for farming system research. -
Title: Study of some genetic indices for yield and it's component in some hybrids of faba bean (Vicia faba L.)
Author(s)Date: 2017-02-21Type: ReportStatus: Open accessThe half diallel set of crosses among six inbred lines of faba bean was performed at Terbol Research station, International Center for Agricultural Research in The Dry Areas (ICARDA), Lebanon. during 2013-2014 growing season, ... -
Title: Connaissance locale des pratiques de la transhumance dans la zone soudano-sahélienne du Mali
Author(s)Date: 2016-10-26Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Open accessLes études sur la transhumance ont souvent ciblé les pasteurs – notamment peuls – des zones sahéliennes. Pour en donner une autre perspective, la présente étude a été centrée sur les pratiques de la transhumance dans la ... -
Title: An example of MAS-based analysis of a rural community-landscape system
Author(s)Date: 2015-10-01Type: PresentationStatus: Open accessThis visual-aided document illustrates how a coupled community-landscape system can be analysed for in-depth modeling research using Multi-Agent System (MAS) approach. It guides collection and integration of household-farm ... -
Title: Report of the agrobiodiversity baseline survey in Western Rajasthan, India
Author(s)Date: 2015-11-20Type: Internal ReportStatus: Open accessAs part of the implementation of the Dryland Systems CRP in South Asia, Bioversity International with funding support from ICRISAT, and in collaboration with GRAVIS and CAZRI carried out an Agrobiodiversity Baseline Survey ... -
Title: Quantification of resilience and livelihood strategies
Author(s)Date: 2015-07-23Type: Internal ReportStatus: Open accessinterim report -
Title: Will a radical farming shift save drought-stricken Zimbabwe? A call for climate-smart action
Author(s)Date: 2015-12-14Type: BlogStatus: Open accessZimbabwe’s slow recovery from years of economic depression has suffered a terrible blow from recurrent droughts halving the expected production of 742,000 tons of the main staple, maize, this year. It leaves 1.5 million ... -
Title: Scaling-up climate-Smart Agroforestry Technologies: Key achievement under Feed The Future Initiative in Mali
Author(s)Date: 2017-01-31Type: ReportStatus: Limited accessThe SmAT-Scaling Project is funded by USAID operating under the guidance of the USAID/Mali’s Feed the Future (FtF) strategy and implemented by a consortium headed by the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in partnership ... -
Title: Human agent’s typology and its role
Author(s)Date: 2015-10-15Type: PresentationStatus: Open accessThis non-exhausted manual defines type, typology and the role of functional types of human agents in agricultural transitional research. It also lays out common methods for defining human agent's types. The key messages ... -
Title: New Methods to Assess Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation of Agricultural Production Systems: The experience of AgMIP’s Regional Integrated Assessments in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
Author(s)Date: 2015-05-20Type: Conference PaperStatus: Open accessThe climate change research community has recognized that new pathway and scenario concepts are needed to implement impact and vulnerability assessment that is logically consistent across global, regional and local scales ... -
Title: Sustainable Land Management and Water in a context of climate change in the Sahel - Gestion Durable des Terres et de l’Eau dans un contexte de changement climatique dans les pays du Sahel
Author(s)Date: 2015-09-28Type: Conference PaperStatus: Open accessAprès avoir souhaité la bienvenue à tous les participants, Dr. Tondoh a fait un tour de table afin que chacun des participants puisse se présenter, dire quelques mots sur son background et la zone du projet d’où il provient. ... -
Title: Barley Genetic Resources for Climate-Change Adaptation
Author(s)Date: 2016-12-07Type: Book ChapterStatus: Limited accessBarley (Hordeum vulgare L.) has been cultivated over millennia, making it one of the oldest domesticated crops (Salamini et al. 2002). Ranking fourth in global cereal-crop production, it is used for animal feed, brewing ... -
Title: Impact Pathway for East Shewa-Yabello-Marsabit Action Site
Author(s)Date: 2014-12-15Type: PresentationStatus: Open accessImpact pathway for East Shewa-Yabello-Marsabit action site, updated on December 2014. -
Title: Modelling socioeconomic determinants for cultivation and in-situ conservation of Vitex doniana Sweet (Black plum), a wild harvested economic plant in Benin
Author(s)Date: 2015-04-30Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Open accessCultivation is the most appropriate management option when both demand and harvesting of wild plant species increase beyond natural production levels. In the current study we made the assumption that, besides the intrinsic ... -
Title: Cotton Germplasm of Pakistan
Author(s)Date: 2014-07-02Type: Book ChapterStatus: Open accessThe economy of Pakistan relies heavily on cotton, which contributes ~60% of total foreign exchange earnings (US$ 15 billion in 2012/13). Cotton is grown on about three million hectares annually with average lint production ... -
Title: A Spatial Econometric Approach to Designing and Rating Scalable Index Insurance in the Presence of Missing Data
Author(s)Date: 2016-01-20Type: Journal ArticleStatus: Open accessIndex-Based Livestock Insurance has emerged as a promising market-based solution for insuring livestock against drought-related mortality. The objective of this work is to develop an explicit spatial econometric framework ...