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Principles and good practice in indicator selection - experiences from the bi...CIFOR-ICRAF
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This presentation provided an overview of the process of selection of criteria and indicators with specific objective and purpose from the outset. This speaker shared insights from biodiversity framework on the process of indicators development.
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Monitoring peatland restoration in IndonesiaCIFOR-ICRAF
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This speaker shared information about ongoing and planned steps for peatland restoration monitoring including the criteria used for monitoring. Speaker also provided an overview about the current system being used by BRG for monitoring peatland restoration in 7 provinces within Indonesia.
Decision support tools for fertilizer recommendation africa-rising
Poster prepared by ICRISAT (Tilahun Amede, Tadesse Asrat and Gizachew Legesse), ILRI (Kindu Mekonnen, Addisu Asfaw, Mohammed Ibrahim, Temesgen Alene, Workneh Dubale) and CIAT (Job Kihara, Lulseged Tamene) for the Africa RISING Ethiopia Review and Planning Meeting, Addis Ababa, 29-30 November 2016
Principles and good practice in indicator selection - experiences from the bi...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Lera Miles, Principal Technical Specialist-Planning for Places, UNEP-WCMC, at "Online Workshop Series:Exploring Criteria and Indicators for Tropical Peatland Restoration", on 2 Sep 2020.
This presentation provided an overview of the process of selection of criteria and indicators with specific objective and purpose from the outset. This speaker shared insights from biodiversity framework on the process of indicators development.
Recent notions on peatland restoration for identification of robust indicatorsCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Maria Nuutinen, Forestry Officer, FAO, at "Online Workshop Series:Exploring Criteria and Indicators for Tropical Peatland Restoration", on 2 Sep 2020.
This session offered an overview about peatland monitoring methodologies and practice from various sites around the world. The speaker also shared some advances in technology for near real time monitoring of peatland conditions using remote sensing data/information.
Monitoring peatland restoration in IndonesiaCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Budi S. Wardhana, Deputy for Planning and Cooperation, Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG), at "Online Workshop Series:Exploring Criteria and Indicators for Tropical Peatland Restoration", on 2 Sep 2020.
This speaker shared information about ongoing and planned steps for peatland restoration monitoring including the criteria used for monitoring. Speaker also provided an overview about the current system being used by BRG for monitoring peatland restoration in 7 provinces within Indonesia.
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This presentation was presented during the Asian Soil Partnership workshop that took place in Bangkok 14-16 December 2017. The presentation was made by Dhermesh Verma
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This presentation was presented during the Asian Soil Partnership workshop that took place in Bangkok 14-16 December 2017. The presentation was made by Dr. Milkha Singh Aulakh
http://www.fao.org/global-soil-partnership/en/
Progress on Malawi Soil Organic Carbon mapExternalEvents
This presentation was given during the Workshop on Soil Cabon Mapping of the Global Soil Partnership (GSP) that took place at FAO headquarters 23 November 2016. The presentation was made by James Banda, from the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development of Malawi
This presentation was presented during the Asian Soil Partnership workshop that took place in Bangkok 14-16 December 2017. The presentation was made by Dr. Rodelio Carating
http://www.fao.org/global-soil-partnership/en/
This presentation was presented during the Asian Soil Partnership workshop that took place in Bangkok 14-16 December 2017. The presentation was made by Dhermesh Verma
http://www.fao.org/global-soil-partnership/en/
Item 3. Pillar 2 - Global Soil Doctors ProgrammeStankovic G
Item 3: Current initiatives, new proposals and next steps of 5 pillars of action
Pillar 2. Encourage investment, technical cooperation, policy, education, awareness and extension in soil
• Implementation of the Global Soil Doctors programme
Dr. Munir Zia, Pillar 2 Chair
This presentation was presented during the Asian Soil Partnership workshop that took place in Bangkok 14-16 December 2017. The presentation was made by Dr. Milkha Singh Aulakh
http://www.fao.org/global-soil-partnership/en/
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6th European Soil Partnership (ESP) Plenary meeting
28-29 March 2019
FAO headquarters, Rome, Italy
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Learn how watershed and landscape management can be made climate resilient and be designed for multiple benefits. This presentation by Sally Bunning, Senior Land/Soils officer of the FAO Land and Water Division focuses on the principles of integrated watershed management, experiences, strategy and lessons learned based on the experiences from East Africa.
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This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
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The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
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The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
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Challenges and Opportunities for Soil Fertility Management in Rwanda
1. Title of the Project:
Capacity Development on sustainable Soil Management
for Africa (SSM)
Project code: GCP /RWA/040/CPR
By
Pascal Rushemuka (PhD): RAB Project Focal Point
4. Political will: Important Policy reforms for
Agriculture Productivity in Rwanda
• In 2002: Vision 2020. Long term planning policy for the country.
• In this vision, Agriculture was seen as the engine of the country economic growth
• Consequent investments
• To implement vision 2020, the Ministry of Finance elaborated a 7 years middle
term planning strategy known as ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY
REDUCTION STRATEGY (EDPRS) (2008-2012 and 2013-2018)
• Following the above policy, the use of inputs (fertilizers, pesticides and high
yielding crop varieties) increased significantly; with them crop yields in many
parts of the country (agro-Ecological zones)
• SPAT 1&2 (Strategic Plan for Agriculture Transformation): 2018-24
• And now Vision 2050 inline with SDGs.
5. Good dataset of Rwanda Biophysical
environment
• Twelve agro-ecological zones (relief, climate, soil parent materials,
soils and agronomic suitability
• Rwanda is among few country in Sub-Saharan Africa to have a
comprehensive soil map at 1:50,000 with a soil and climatic database
with national coverage
• Rwanda soils are known and their current and potential fertility
• Existence of crop response to fertilizers and other soil fertility
management inputs (manure and lime).
6. Financing capacity and partnership
• Rwanda is Keen to finance the Agriculture Sector up to 10% of the
national budget as per the Malabo Declaration
• Rwanda Also encourages development patterners for Loans and
Grants such as World Bank, UNDP, AGRA, Bill and Melinda Gates
(BMG) foundation, IFDC and FAO through development and research
projects
7. SIMILAR Projects/Initiatives
• Currently BMG is financing 2 SIMILAR/Comlementary
projects
1. Rwanda Soil Information Systems (RWASIS)
2. Guiding Investment in acidic soils of Rwanda (GIAI)
8. Conducive Research and Extension system to
create impact
• Rwanda has a single research and extension Institution: the Rwanda
Agriculture and Extension Development Board (RAB)
• Rwanda has also a very decentralised extension network until the
village a 5 level of an administration of 5 levels.
• The extension system involves scientists (RAB), Agronomic officers
(Districts and Sectors) and farmers promoters (cells and villages)
9. Scientific capacity and Infrastructure
• Rwanda Has a good number of qualified scientists trained in Rwanda
and all over the world
• Rwanda has sufficient number of soil scientists working mainly in RAB
or teaching at the University of Rwanda
• Rwanda has a network of soil laboratory with the RAB laboratory at
Rubona chosen as Reference Laboratory in the GSP network of Soil
Laboratories
11. Insufficient laboratory qualified technicians
• Lack of consistent training and supporting program for soil laboratory
technicians
• Insufficient equipment in some laboratory fields including biological
laboratory
• Insufficient capacity of maintaining (calibration) some soil laboratory
equipment
• Lack of competitive incentive for laboratory workers, yet a very
demanding task
12. A very diversified biophysical Environment
affects the adoption of fertilizer use
• Soil and soil fertility vary overshot distances but with attention, there is way of
understanding the soil spatial distribution law (catena e.g)
• Challenging soil sample and experiment results representativeness (complex
environment) for large scale extrapolation: there is need for technician to
understand and use the soil map of Rwanda.
• Less use/exploitation of soil sample results
• Use of blanket fertilizer recommendations for each crop all-over the country
13. Some constraint to the adoption of fertilizers
• A big portion of rain-fed Agriculture with high frequency of crop
failure as results of climate change and climate variability (investment
risk).
• Poor response of fertilizers in the acid soils and low organic carbon
content soils without liming and manuring (additional investment)
• Low sustainability of crop response to fertilizers without sustainable
supply of organic manure in the low clay content soils in the tropics
• Uncertain fertilizer use profitability
14. Additional constraints
• Asymmetric adoption of fertilizers in different agro-ecological zones
which need to be documented
• Persisting yield gap for many crops at national level
16. Keys activities
• Support to equipment for efficient laboratory soil testing
• Improve soil data collection and utilization framework including soil
sampling and analysis methods, and fertilizer use and fertilizer
recommendations.
• Contribute to the framework of fertilizer quality assessment
• Conduct fertilizer use demonstrations towards efficient use of fertilizers
• Contribute to improve the national fertilizer service
• Capacity building to improve the understanding of soils and fertilizer use
efficiency
• Collaborate with the University to teach cutting-edge knowledge of soils
and soil fertility management (e.g EduSOILS).
17. Achievement so far: Laboratory Equipment tender
under process: here the list of some key
equipment
• Atomic absorption spectrophotometer (normal flame) (chemical)
• Fully automatic Kjeldahl analyzer (Chemical/Nitrogen)
• Control system for soil testing formula (fertilizer use field kit)
• AgroCares scanner (Nutrient Scanner) (Chemical field kit)
• MicroBIOMETER® 10 Test Starter Kit (Biological field kit)
• Biobase Large LCD Display Accurate and Quick Automatic Soil Nutrient
Tester (chemical field kit)
• Double Ring Infiltrometer (Physical field kit)
