A low-cost drip irrigation for small farms
Contents: Drip irrigation system advantages and disadvantages Types of drip irrigation Conventional drip emitters A Low-cost (non-conventional) drip system: The IDE “Easy Drip” Kit Applicability of […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): V.B. Ella
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Innovation
A new genus and species of Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from the western dry forest of Ecuador
Australotymnes jipijapa new genus, new species (type locality: Ecuador) is described. Adults were collected from vegetation during the rainy season in disturbed and converted dry forest […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): R. Wills Flowers
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Innovation, Natural Resource Management
Adapting disease forecasting models to coarser scales: Global potato late blight prediction
Many predictive models of plant disease rely upon fine-scale weather data collected in hourly increments, or finer. This data requirement is a major constraint when applying […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): A.H. Sparks; G. Forbes; K.A. Garrett
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Global
- Topic: Food Security, Productivity
Adapting to change in the Andes: Practices and strategies for vulnerable ecosystems
This presentation summarizes the findings of the SANREM CRSP research project “Practices and strategies for vulnerable agro-ecosystems”, with specific regard to the impact of climate change. […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): C. Valdivia
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Adapting to climate change in Andean Ecosystems: SANREM LTRA-4 Practices and Strategies
Adapting to Change in the Andean Highlands: Practices and Strategies to Address Climate and Market Risks in Vulnerable Agro-ecosystems (SANREM CRSP LTRA 4) is focused on […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): C. Valdivia
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Adapting to climate change in vulnerable communities in the Andes: Advocacy coalitions
A presentation about the research on advocacy coalitions being conducted in the Peruvian Andes as part of the SANREM LTR-4 project: “Climate change has a disproportional […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): C.B. Flora; J.L. Flora; E. Fernandez-Baca
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Adoption of integrated vegetable agroforestry system among smallholder upland farmers in the Philippines
Abstract: Preliminary results of a survey conducted among 50 smallholder upland farmers in the Philippines during the second crop period in 2007 showed early awareness (since […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): A.M. Penaso; J.D. Intong; M.E. Damag; R. Marsh; M.R. Reyes
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
LTRP 5 – Semiannual report: Agroforestry and sustainable vegetable production in Southeast Asian watersheds
Summary: Men and women farmers provided with plant material found that based on yield and farmer reactions, katuk, in Indonesia, and Cu nang, in Vietnam, had […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): TMPEGS
- Type of Document: Annual Report
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Advocacy coalitions and power relations in the Peruvian Altiplano: Building agency to improve households’ response to climate and market change
Under the assumption that advocacy coalition participatory-research process (AC) can lead to building a community’s social and political capitals, an AC was initiated in the Aymara […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): C. Turin; E. Fernandez-Baca; P. Condor
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Advocacy coalitions in the Altiplano: Building agency to improve households’ response to climate and market change
Under the assumption that advocacy coalition participatory-research process (AC) can lead to building a community’s social and political capitals, an AC was initiated in the Aymara […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): C. Turin; E. Fernandez-Baca; P. Condor
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management