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    r37980778c78--ef2c48b5a905c83e66e95ac9c640f7ae

    Online community of gardens in buildings for Zurich. First pitch of Climathon 2019
  • dataset

    dedup_wf_001--fc9905a8d1203c61ab71fb52a2640030

    zipped file contains four different shapefiles. One is for sugarcane yield projection under historical and future projection of climate in Brazil. Remaining three shapefiles...
  • dataset

    GitHub djaiswal/SugarcaneBrazill

    R packages required for running the analyses
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    Modelling food security

    Achieving food and nutrition security for all in a changing and globalized world remains a critical challenge of utmost importance. The development of solutions benefits from...
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    Roaming through the maze of maize in Northern Ghana. A systems approach to ex...

    Central to food security interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa stands the value chain approach. The underlying idea is that connecting farmers to input and output markets and...
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    Hunters and hunting across indigenous and colonist communities at the forest-...

    Background Wildlife has been traditionally used by forest communities as a source of protein, and the Peruvian Amazon is no exception. The articulation of colonist and...
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    Down to Earth

    The ‘Anthropocene’ is now being used as a conceptual frame by different communities and in a variety of contexts to understand the evolving human–environment relationship....
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    Research priorities for managing the impacts and dependencies of business upo...

    © 2016 The Author(s)Delivering access to sufficient food, energy and water resources to ensure human wellbeing is a major concern for governments worldwide. However, it is...
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    Food and nutritional security require adequate protein as well as energy, del...

    Human food security requires the production of sufficient quantities of both high-quality protein and dietary energy. In a series of case-studies from New Zealand, we show that...
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    Facilitating change for climate-smart agriculture through science-policy enga...

    Climate change impacts on agriculture have become evident, and threaten the achievement of global food security. On the other hand, the agricultural sector itself is a cause of...
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    Type and extent of trans-disciplinary co-operation to improve food security, ...

    Background Although linkages have been found between agricultural interventions and nutritional health, and the development of clean fuels and improved solid fuel stoves in...
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    Opportunities for sustainable intensification in European agriculture

    Sustainable agricultural intensification is needed to tackle food insecurity and global environmental change. Local environmental conditions determine the needs and potentials...
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    New feed sources key to ambitious climate targets

    Net carbon sinks capable of avoiding dangerous perturbation of the climate system and preventing ocean acidification have been identified, but they are likely to be limited by...
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    Feeding Practices and Nutrient Content of Complementary Meals in Rural Centra...

    Background Stunting and micronutrient deficiencies are significant health problems among infants and young children in rural Tanzania. Objective of the study was to assess...
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    Educating People for Food Security to Avert Food Crisis: The Case of Nigeria

    The year 2008 has been dubbed “the year of global food crisis” by many writers probably because the supply of food around the world dipped precariously leading to sharp...
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    Assessing food system vulnerabilities: a fault tree modeling approach

    Background Food system function is vulnerable to disruption from a variety of sources. Disruption of the processes required for food provision may result in decreases in food...
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    Vegetable Business and Smallholders’ Food Security

    In Ethiopia, there have been increased efforts to promote market-oriented vegetable production. Given that food security is a crucial issue in Ethiopia, the question is whether...
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    Estimates of Land Area for Sugarcane Expansion in Brazil

    This is a zipped shapefile with data on land area for 557 microregions of Brazil