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smallholder producers in Kenya. Several practices emerge as triple wins in terms of climate adaptation, GHG mitigation, and …, rural development, and climate change mitigation for generations to come. …
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The purpose of the paper is to identify how climate change affects how we should approach the process of transforming agricultural systems (including crops, livestock, fisheries and forestry) to support global food security and poverty reduction in a sustainable way. We also identify...
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mitigation options for three agricultural sources of GHGs—methane (CH4) emissions from irrigated rice production, nitrous oxide … great opportunities for cost-effective mitigation of GHGs in Indian agriculture, but caution that our results are based on a …
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estimated to be US$4.8 billion at carbon prices of US$0–20/tCO2e. Moreover, agricultural mitigation measures, including soil and …, respectively, of the global total potential for mitigation in these sectors. However, countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are …
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resources. Mitigation of the adverse effects of climate change is a high priority on the international agenda. Carbon trading … countries). The potential for mitigation through agriculture in the African region is estimated at 17 percent of the global … total, and the economic potential (i.e. considering carbon prices) is estimated at 10 percent of the total global mitigation …
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aspects of new agricultural technology interventions and the policy processes of food- and cash-based education incentive …. The paper then examines the motivation and policy processes of the Food for Education program and its subsequent … replacement, the cash-based Primary Education Stipend program. The study reviews similarities and differences among selected …
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Despite a wide range of reform initiatives in agricultural extension in India in the past decades, the coverage of, access to, and quality of information provided to marginalized and poor farmers is uneven. This paper aims to ascertain why farmers are not accessing information and where...
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investigates the causes of South Africa's persistent schooling imbalances, examining education laws and policies, as well as other … influences on human capital investment. The study finds that inaccessibility of quality education, resulting from a lack of … illness resulting from the HIV/AIDS epidemic can disrupt the education of adolescents, who might need to leave school to care …
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, evolution, and impact of the food for education (FFE) program in Bangladesh. It reviews the outputs from the IFPRI program and …
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