A long, dry season of COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa? The environmental impacts of the pandemic in the livestock sector ...
Creating the data basis to adapt agricultural decision support tools to new environments, land management and climate ch...
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit / Peer Review
Stem borers of cereal crops in Africa and their management
Published online: 19 Feb 2020 / The economic importance of the stem borer in Africa results in their severe damage that affect directly cereal yield factors such as the density of fertile tillers and the number of effective panicles. The objective of this paper is to describe and discuss the management options of the main prevalent stem borer of ce...
Changing diets and the transformation of the global food system
An aspirational global food system is one that delivers across a suite of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including universal access to healthy diets, which can also codeliver on climate and environment SDGs. The literature has downplayed the relative contribution of dietary change to sustainable food systems. In this perspective article,...
Bean production areas in sub-Saharan Africa
176 bean production areas were identified and reviewed using a form of the Delphi method of consensus building among experts from almost all bean producing countries of sub-Saharan Africa. Data were collected for: bean production, cropping systems and producers; seed systems; bean use and marketing; bean grain types and varieties; and abiotic and b...
Mapping as a tool for filling data gaps in grasslands and savannahs
Analysing the challenges in implementing Vietnam’s Nationally-Determined Contribution (NDC) in the agriculture sector un...
This study analyses the current supporting laws, regulations, strategies, national action plans, NDCs, scientific literature and other documents and policies in Vietnam to identify the barriers against the effective implementation of mitigation and adaptation agriculture activities committed in Vietnam’s NDC. It also identifies the redundancies and...
The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data
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The FLUXNET2015 dataset provides ecosystem-scale data on CO2, water, and energy exchange between the biosphere and the atmosphere, and other meteorological and biological measurements, from 212 sites around the globe (over 1500 site-years, up to and including year 2014). These sites, independently managed and operated, voluntarily contributed their...
Turbulent flows and pollution dispersion around tall buildings using adaptive large eddy simulation (LES)
The motivation for this work stems from the increased number of high-rise buildings/skyscrapers all over the world, and in London, UK, and hence the necessity to see their effect on the local environment. We concentrate on the mean velocities, Reynolds stresses, turbulent kinetic energies (TKEs) and tracer concentrations. We look at their variation...
The environmental impacts of agricultural intensification
Agricultural intensification is necessary to meet growing global food demand, but it has potential environmental costs. Some activities associated with intensification, including increased use of fertilizer and other chemical inputs, are documented to have direct negative impacts on air and water quality, soil fertility, and other parts of the ecos...
