The policy brief describes climate change as it relates to north-central Namibia, providing background information, impacts, and specific strategies for increasing adaptative capacity: diversifying livestock; storage of ...
The workshop brought together a total of 26 stakeholders all concerned about the future of Bangalore's water. It was structured around Transformative Scenario Planning (TSP) which provides a framework and language for ...
In dryland environments drought periodically emerges in a context of chronic water security challenges: these are places where managing water scarcity is a continual not an exceptional task. The article uses examples from ...
This booklet contributes to identifying barriers and enablers to local adaptation, uncovering how factors at multiple scales promote or constrain local innovation in agriculture, as well as providing direction for scaling ...
This study provides a pilot assessment of vulnerability to heat exposure in a rural context during the peak summer months (2016) with a focus on indoor and outdoor temperatures. Due to the rise in average global temperatures, ...
The economic rationale for a transformational project is to create the conditions for further investment. This type of project can very rapidly shift geographical, sectoral, and distributional characteristics of the economy, ...
A single-dose vaccine was successfully developed that is heat-stable and can potentially provide livestock with long-term protection against five diseases: lumpy skin disease (LSD), sheep pox (SPP), goat pox (GTP), Rift ...
Researchers in Kenya and Canada collaborated with vaccine manufacturers, government regulators, and pan-African organizations to clear the way for mass production of a practical and affordable vaccine for small-scale ...
Lutz, Arthur F.; Maat, Herbert W. ter; Wijngaard, René R.; Biemans, Hester; Syed, Abu; Shrestha, Arun B.; Wester, Philippus; Immerzeel, Walter W.(Springer Nature, 2018)
The study provides a regional quantitative assessment of the impacts of global warming for a major global climate change hotspot: the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra river basins (IGB) in South Asia, by analyzing changes ...
Dahri, Zakir Hussain; Moors, Eddy; Ludwig, Fulco; Ahmad, Shakil; Khan, Asif; Ali, Irfan; Kabat, Pavel(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2018-04)
Quantitative and spatiotemporal distributions of precipitation estimated by previous studies in the high-altitude Indus basin are highly contrasting and uncertain. This research integrates precipitation data of 307 ...
Wijngaard, Rene R.; Lutz, Arthur F.; Nepal, Santosh; Khanal, Sonu; Pradhananga, Saurav; Shrestha, Arun B.; Immerzeel, Walter W.(PLoS ONE, 2017)
The study investigates the impacts of climate change on future hydrological extremes in the upstream domains of the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra basins. Outcomes show an increase in the magnitude of climatic means and ...
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have demonstrated for the first time that unrefined sunflower oil can be fortified on a small scale and can increase nutrition for the most vulnerable people, particularly lactating ...
A new technology (using loop-mediated isothermal amplification, or LAMP) to detect the disease early and fast in the field was transferred to the National Centre of Agronomic Research and the University Nangui Abrogoua in ...
Sustainable Agriculture Kit (SAK) innovations reached more than 60,000 smallholder farming households (benefiting ~260,000 people) in nine districts in Central Nepal. A package that combines plastic greenhouses, drip ...
More than 12,000 farmers in India have adopted the Enhanced Freshness Formulation (EFF), which contains hexanal as an active ingredient; 80% report benefiting from the delayed harvest and increased income. Huge quantities ...
Canadian International Food Security Research Fund(2020-02-18)
Fish ponds, home gardens and poultry raising improve incomes, health and family cohesion in Cambodia. The project assisted over 4,600 households in 4 provinces in developing or improving a combination of vegetable gardens, ...
Canadian International Food Security Research Fund(2020-02-18)
The project results include a 768% increase in average land area under vegetable production in Nigeria and 161% in Benin. People farther away from a water source, and therefore less likely to grow vegetables were able to ...
The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) was used for projection of changes in the hydrological regime of the Kaligandaki basin, based on Representative Concentration Pathways Scenarios (RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5) of ensemble ...