Search
Now showing items 151-160 of 160
Multi-agent system for integrating ecological processes at multiple scales with human decision-making: Solutions and lessons learned from a modelling framework applied in different landscape ecosystems
Modelling socio-ecological systems, in which social and ecological systems interact each other and co-evolve, are useful for supporting decisions in managing landscape ecosystems. Inter-linking socially interactive ...
The Future of Wheat Research and Production in Sub-Saharan Africa
The objective of this brief is to summarize the major available findings in terms of wheat foresight in Africa, including the prospects for future genetic, agronomic, seeds and political economy under different climate ...
Cooperation, collective action and natural resources management in Burkina Faso
This paper presents a detailed description of the applied methodology used to study collective action in natural resource management. Data were collected in 48 villages in northeastern Burkina Faso, at the community, ...
Farm soil nutrient flows and balances in cereal-based heterogeneous smallholder systems in western Burkina Faso
The present study analysed farm soil nutrient flows and partial balances for cereal-oriented agricultural livelihood system (ALS) types in the Satiri sub-district, western Burkina Faso. The results showed that main inflows ...
Restoration of degraded land for food security and poverty reduction in East Africa and the Sahel: taking successes in land restoration to scale
The project website is designed to operate through bringing key partners from the public and private sectors, across research, extension, market, and governance institutions to work together in an iterative co-learning ...
Criteria and Indicators for Sustainability of Agricultural Livelihood Systems: Stakeholders' Perspectives - The 2nd Workshop.
The workshop was initiated in the frame of the Project GLDC-FP3: Integrated Farm-Household Management under the Activity 3.3.6: Criteria & Indicators of ALS Sustainability. This is the second workshop, as a follow-up of ...
Agent-based model for assessing ex-ante impacts of farm management innovations on performance of GL/DC-based smallholder systems - Design framework and theoretical parameterization
Viable management and policy options for sustaining smallholder farming systems in grain legume and dry cereal production regions need special attention. Although a great deal of knowledge on ways to efficiently agronomic ...
Integrated Methods for Analysis and Assessment of Agricultural Livelihood Systems Toward Sustainability – A Report on Curriculum Development for a Master-Level Subject
Agricultural systems and rural livelihoods continuously evolve as a result of interactions between the local farming systems and global, regional and national driving forces. Agricultural technologies and agricultural, ...
Addressing SDG15 in the Sahel by Building Pathways for Transforming Food and Land Systems in a Climate Crisis
The up and out scaling of a technological innovation are driven by its suitability for specific farming system. These systems are defined by a complex interaction of climatic factors, and socio-economic considerations. ...
Trends of degradation and improvement in biomass productivity in target countries of CGIAR Initiative in Sustainable Intensification of Mixed Farming Systems – An Interim Report
Trends of degradation and improvement in biomass productivity in the target countries of MFS Initiative using Trends.Earth tool. The calculation of the trends using global time-series of NDVI (MODIS) over the 2000-2015 ...