Payments for agrobiodiversity conservation services: An overview of Latin American experiences, lessons learned and upsc...
Peer Review
What is the cost of integration? Evidence from an integrated health and agriculture project to improve nutrition outcome...
Sweetpotato Action for Security and Health in Africa Project / Integrated nutrition and agricultural interventions have the potential to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of investments in food security and nutrition. This article aimed to estimate the costs of an integrated agriculture and health intervention (Mama SASHA) focused on the pro...
Understanding the economic impact of BXW and its management practices in East and Central Africa
Banana Xanthomonas wilt (BXW) is a widespread banana disease in East and Central Africa (ECA). It has the ability to cause up to 100% yield loss, severely compromising food security and livelihoods for banana-based farming households. There are no BXW-resistant varieties, and cultural management practices offer the only means of control. However, a...
Sequential irrigation scheduling avoiding night irrigation
The sequential irrigation scheduling problem is one where a set of irrigation jobs have to be scheduled sequentially. In this paper, an integer program is presented to solve this problem. The objective function is a dual-goal function that avoids night irrigation and minimizes earliness or tardiness, with the former objective taking priority over t...
Canal operations planner. III: minimizing inequity with delivery performance ratio relaxation
For many large irrigation systems, distributing water equitably is a stated management objective. Canal operations plans specify which canal to operate at what discharge for each irrigation interval to achieve the stated objective. In this study, a function of the Gini index is incorporated in to an integer program that can develop a canal operatio...
Mapping actors along value chains: integrating visual network research and participatory statistics into value chain ana...
This report outlines a participatory approach for mapping actors along value chains. The methodology provides novel ideas on how to combine value chain analysis with participatory statistics and visual network research approaches, to generate valuable insights about complex value chains together with local stakeholders in a cost effective way. A fr...
What does it cost to improve household diets in Nepal? Using the cost of the diet method to model lowest cost dietary ch...
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Groundwater governance in America. [Project report of the Groundwater Governance in the Arab World - Taking Stock and Ad...
Healthcare Resource Use and Direct Costs in Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis and Psoriatic Arthritis in a Large US C...
Published in The Journal of rheumatology
Biologic use, age, and comorbidities were major determinants of all-cause direct costs in patients with AS and PsA.
Reducing surface and subsurface water flow effect on gullies through low cost measures [Abstract only]
Gully erosion in the humid Ethiopian highlands intensified in recent decades. The study was conducted in the Birr watershed located south west of Bahir Dar the capital of Amhara regional state, Ethiopia. We studied 14 gullies having similar morphology at three sub watersheds. The watershed covers a total area of 414 ha. The monitoring continued ove...
