It is a technique of growing crops like barley without use of chemicals and artificial growth agents(soil).
It is characterized by short growth period with around 7-10 days and need of a small piece of land for production (Mooney J, 2005). And has extraordinary protein, vitamins, fibres and mineral contents with their healthy beneficial effects on animals.
Therefore, this technology is an important agricultural technique currently used in many countries (Tudor G. et al., 2005).
Competing uses, dynamics, and production and utilization constraints of crop ...ILRI
Presented by Kindu Mekonnen, Gedion Rachier, Dagnachew Lule, Mesfin Bahta, Diego Valbuena, Alan Duncan and Gerard Bruno at the International Congress on Water 2011, Mekelle, Ethiopia, 19-26 September 2011.
Dr. Abha Mishra. Senior Research Specialist-cum-Affiliated Faculty
Agricultural Systems and Engineering
School of Environment Resources and Development. Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Authors: Amod K. Thakur and Norman Uphoff
Title: 1707 - Climate Smart agriculture: How modified crop/water management with SRI can contribute to climate-resilience and higher water productivity
Date: October 23-25, 2017
Presented at: 2017 Annual Meetings of ASA-CSSA-SSSA on ‘Managing Global Resources for a Secure Future
Venue: Tampa, Florida, USA
Presented at the Pulses for Sustainable Agriculture and Human Health” on 31 May-1 June 2016 at NASC, New Delhi, India. The conference was jointly organised by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS), TCi of Cornell University (TCi-CU) and Agriculture Today.
The Brussels Development Briefing n. 59 on “Agroecology for Sustainable Food Systems” organised by CTA, the European Commission/EuropeAid, the ACP Secretariat, CONCORD and IPES-FOOD was held on Wednesday 15 January 2020 (9h00-13h00) at the ACP Secretariat, Avenue Georges Henri 451, 1200 Brussels.
The briefing brought various perspectives and experiences on agroecological systems to support agricultural transformation. Experts presented trends and prospects for agroecological approaches and what it implies for the future of the food systems. Successes and innovative models in agroecology in different parts of the world and the lessons learned for upscaling them were also discussed.
PowerPoint presented by Fernando Neri, Bolivia, at the First Workshop on the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Latin America at EARTH University in Costa Rica, Oct. 31-Nov. 1, 2011
It is a technique of growing crops like barley without use of chemicals and artificial growth agents(soil).
It is characterized by short growth period with around 7-10 days and need of a small piece of land for production (Mooney J, 2005). And has extraordinary protein, vitamins, fibres and mineral contents with their healthy beneficial effects on animals.
Therefore, this technology is an important agricultural technique currently used in many countries (Tudor G. et al., 2005).
Competing uses, dynamics, and production and utilization constraints of crop ...ILRI
Presented by Kindu Mekonnen, Gedion Rachier, Dagnachew Lule, Mesfin Bahta, Diego Valbuena, Alan Duncan and Gerard Bruno at the International Congress on Water 2011, Mekelle, Ethiopia, 19-26 September 2011.
Dr. Abha Mishra. Senior Research Specialist-cum-Affiliated Faculty
Agricultural Systems and Engineering
School of Environment Resources and Development. Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Authors: Amod K. Thakur and Norman Uphoff
Title: 1707 - Climate Smart agriculture: How modified crop/water management with SRI can contribute to climate-resilience and higher water productivity
Date: October 23-25, 2017
Presented at: 2017 Annual Meetings of ASA-CSSA-SSSA on ‘Managing Global Resources for a Secure Future
Venue: Tampa, Florida, USA
Presented at the Pulses for Sustainable Agriculture and Human Health” on 31 May-1 June 2016 at NASC, New Delhi, India. The conference was jointly organised by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS), TCi of Cornell University (TCi-CU) and Agriculture Today.
The Brussels Development Briefing n. 59 on “Agroecology for Sustainable Food Systems” organised by CTA, the European Commission/EuropeAid, the ACP Secretariat, CONCORD and IPES-FOOD was held on Wednesday 15 January 2020 (9h00-13h00) at the ACP Secretariat, Avenue Georges Henri 451, 1200 Brussels.
The briefing brought various perspectives and experiences on agroecological systems to support agricultural transformation. Experts presented trends and prospects for agroecological approaches and what it implies for the future of the food systems. Successes and innovative models in agroecology in different parts of the world and the lessons learned for upscaling them were also discussed.
PowerPoint presented by Fernando Neri, Bolivia, at the First Workshop on the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Latin America at EARTH University in Costa Rica, Oct. 31-Nov. 1, 2011
Author: Khidhir Abbas Hameed
Title: Rice Water Management and Reduction in Iraq
Presented at: The 5th International Rice Congress (SRI research side event)
Venue: Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Singapore
Date: October 16, 2018
Presented at the Pulses for Sustainable Agriculture and Human Health” on 31 May-1 June 2016 at NASC, New Delhi, India. The conference was jointly organised by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS), TCi of Cornell University (TCi-CU) and Agriculture Today.
Author: Norman Uphoff
Title: Opportunities to Raise Agricultural Production with Water-Saving and with Climate-Change Resilience for Diverse Crops and CountriesOpportunities to Raise Agricultural Production with Water-Saving and with Climate-Change Resilience for Diverse Crops and Countries
Presented at: The Brown Bag Lunch with Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA
Date: November 6, 2017
Venue: FAS/USDA, Washington D.C.
Presenter: Norman Uphoff
Title: Agroecological Strategies for Raising Crop Productivity with Reduced Inputs, with Less Water Requirement, and with Buffering of Climate-Change Stresses
Date: April 10, 2014
Venue: Agricultural Research Center, Sakha, Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt
Presentation by Chun-E Kan
Title: System of Rice Intensification (SRI) Introduction in Taiwan: Results of Trials, Adapting to Existing Farming Systems and Local Conditions, and Making Links with the Private Sector
Venue: Cornell University
Date: April 16, 2015
Organized by: SRI-Rice, Cornell Univesity
20 September 2019. Nairobi, Kenya. World Agroforestry (ICRAF). The meeting on the future of agriculture in Somalia, was attended by donors EU, USAID, JICA, UN agency FAO, and CG centres CIFOR, ICRAF, CIAT, CIP, CIMMYT, ICRISAT, IITA, ILRI and IRRI with ICARDA and IFPRI interested and on remote.
Title: Conservation Agriculture and the System of Rice Intensification
Presented by: Erika Styger
Presented at: Special Exhibit/Event on Rice Production at Agritechnica
Venue and Date: Hannover, Germany November 15, 2013
Title: Development of integrated rice-azolla-duck-fish farming systems with SRI methods for rice production in the Mekong River region, Vietnam
Presenter: Nghia Nguyen Soil Biology Laboratory, Department of Soil Science, College of Agriculture & Applied Biology, Cantho University, Cantho City, Vietnam
Venue: Cornell University
Date: July 1, 2015
Author: Khidhir Abbas Hameed
Title: Rice Water Management and Reduction in Iraq
Presented at: The 5th International Rice Congress (SRI research side event)
Venue: Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Singapore
Date: October 16, 2018
Presented at the Pulses for Sustainable Agriculture and Human Health” on 31 May-1 June 2016 at NASC, New Delhi, India. The conference was jointly organised by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS), TCi of Cornell University (TCi-CU) and Agriculture Today.
Author: Norman Uphoff
Title: Opportunities to Raise Agricultural Production with Water-Saving and with Climate-Change Resilience for Diverse Crops and CountriesOpportunities to Raise Agricultural Production with Water-Saving and with Climate-Change Resilience for Diverse Crops and Countries
Presented at: The Brown Bag Lunch with Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA
Date: November 6, 2017
Venue: FAS/USDA, Washington D.C.
Presenter: Norman Uphoff
Title: Agroecological Strategies for Raising Crop Productivity with Reduced Inputs, with Less Water Requirement, and with Buffering of Climate-Change Stresses
Date: April 10, 2014
Venue: Agricultural Research Center, Sakha, Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt
Presentation by Chun-E Kan
Title: System of Rice Intensification (SRI) Introduction in Taiwan: Results of Trials, Adapting to Existing Farming Systems and Local Conditions, and Making Links with the Private Sector
Venue: Cornell University
Date: April 16, 2015
Organized by: SRI-Rice, Cornell Univesity
20 September 2019. Nairobi, Kenya. World Agroforestry (ICRAF). The meeting on the future of agriculture in Somalia, was attended by donors EU, USAID, JICA, UN agency FAO, and CG centres CIFOR, ICRAF, CIAT, CIP, CIMMYT, ICRISAT, IITA, ILRI and IRRI with ICARDA and IFPRI interested and on remote.
Title: Conservation Agriculture and the System of Rice Intensification
Presented by: Erika Styger
Presented at: Special Exhibit/Event on Rice Production at Agritechnica
Venue and Date: Hannover, Germany November 15, 2013
Title: Development of integrated rice-azolla-duck-fish farming systems with SRI methods for rice production in the Mekong River region, Vietnam
Presenter: Nghia Nguyen Soil Biology Laboratory, Department of Soil Science, College of Agriculture & Applied Biology, Cantho University, Cantho City, Vietnam
Venue: Cornell University
Date: July 1, 2015
World: Melon Seed - Market Report. Analysis And Forecast To 2020IndexBox Marketing
IndexBox Marketing has just published its report: "World: Melon Seed - Market Report. Analysis And Forecast To 2020". The report provides an in-depth analysis of the global melon seed market. It presents the latest data of the market value, consumption, domestic production, exports and imports, price dynamics and food balance. The report shows the sales data, allowing you to identify the key drivers and restraints. You can find here a strategic analysis of key factors influencing the market. Forecasts illustrate how the market will be transformed in the medium term. Profiles of the leading producers are also included.
Outside-in Development with Cucumber and RspecJoseph Wilk
Talk given by Joseph Wilk at Scotland on Rails 2009. Examines how Cucumber and Rspec fit together in the testing workflow, how and why Cucumber is useful and how it works. Walks through a simple example based on renting DVDs showing how to use Cucumber and some of the best practices. Looks at how Webrat can drive Selenium to in-turn drive Cucumber features through the browser.
Cucumber is a tool which supports development via behavior realization (BDD - Behavior-Driven Development). It is considered to be utilized for creating the tests which can be understood by each and all, even without special technical knowledge.
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Potentiality of protected cultivation in West BengalSubham Ghosh
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This presentation is to help Indian farmers in mechanization of cultivation of horticultural crops ( Fruits and Vegetables ). The agricultural machinery manufacturers or dealers to import or manufacture these machines in India. For further help they can email to suresh.mandhar@gmail.com or phone to +919480637505 or +919886385295.
Author: Norman Uphoff
Title: Agroecological Management of Soil Systems for Food, Water, Climate Resilience, and Biodiversity
Date: December 6, 2019
Presented at: The Knowledge Dialogue on the Occasion of World Soil Day
Venue: United Nations, New York
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A field experiment was conducted during 2010 and 2011, under three replications. One row in Furrow Irrigated Raised Bed/ every furrow irrigation increased plant height by 7.94 %, stem girth by 46.47 per cent, and dry matter at maturity by 23.69 % over conventional sowing/ conventional irrigation. Similarly, number of leaves increased by 19.26 and 24.65 % leaf area by 25.83 and 26.65 %, over conventional practice at 60 and 90 days after sowing, respectively. Besides, it resulted 1.91 and 1.82 % higher total chlorophyll over conventional practice at 30 and 60 days after sowing, respectively and increased grain by 60.72 %, biological 42.44 % and stover yield by 30.2 % over conventional practice and also resulted 3.43 higher starch and 12.05 % protein content over conventional practice. One row in FIRB/ every furrow irrigation, had 62.1, 51.5 and 42.9 % higher uptake for nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium over conventional practice of crop establishment, respectively. Get more articles: http://goo.gl/FAvGnB
Proposed contributions of Africa RISING for AICCRA small ruminant value chain...africa-rising
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Farmer access to irrigation scheduling advice leads to sustainable intensific...africa-rising
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In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
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Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
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Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
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But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
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In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
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Improving Agricultural Productivity and Food Security in the Arabian Peninsula, Dr. Ahmed T Moustafa, ICARDA
1. IFAD/ICARDA Knowledge Exchange Workshop, 26-29 October 2009 Knowledge and Technology Exchange for Enhanced Quality of IFAD/ICARDA Operations in the NENA region Presented by Ahmed T Moustafa Improving Agricultural Productivity and Food Security in the Arabian Peninsula
4. Renewable water resources per capita in different regions (m 3 /person/year) Arabian Peninsula Extreme Water Scarcity Asia (exclude ME) 3,947.6 ME & NA 1,397.5 Europe 10,685.7 NA 16,557.8 CA & Carrabin 6,653.4 SS Africa 6,956.6 Oceanic 52,673.8 SA 44,816.4
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6. A Potential Solution to water and rangeland problems developing production and rehabilitation systems Exploit the well adapted genetic variability of indigenous forage species
7. Identify promising indigenous species for forage production with less water Plant collection missions (9) in deserts of AP 190 indigenous plant and shrub species collected and identified 23 indigenous plant species prioritized for further research
8. Dry matter production of six forages (t/ha) under deficit irrigation (4 L/m 2 /day) Buffel Grass 56% improvement in productivity
14. Productivity of 1 m 3 of water Protected Agriculture Vs. Open Field Source: Y.T. Guma, A. Al-Masoum, Acta Hort. 434, ISHS 1996
15. Total open field production of Tomato in Abu Dhabi (MEW data for 2005) 111,867 ton Photo: Peter Essick which consumed 19.6 million m 3 of water Same production would only consume 1.3 million m 3 of water under Protected Agriculture 93% reduce
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17. Technology Package: Integrated Production & Protection Management (IPPM) Improved integrated production and protection Management (IPPM) practices that ensure strong healthy plants with adequate protection from pests and diseases, using safe control practices with minimal use of chemicals
20. Increasing farmers’ incomes by introducing simple cash crop production system in greenhouses 38 small farmers adopted the protected agriculture techniques for the producing high quality cash crops in Yemen resulted in Up to 400% increase in farmers ’ income. Adoption of protected agriculture in Yemen resulted in Up to 400% increase in their income .
21. Production After First Season Comparing Selected Pilot Growers Cucumber Production in Open field and under GH (2005) Base on Bench mark study and production records
22. Introduction of Protected Agriculture into Mountain Terraces in Yemen created additional income for farmers through the cultivation of cash crops Introduce new techniques of cultivation and irrigation Intensified the use of terrace lands Create additional jobs for the rural population, thereby encouraging farmers to settle in rural areas
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26. PA as Alternative Livelihood for Poppy Growers Comparison between the Net Income of one Jerib of Poppy and one GH (270 m2) of cucumber (one year production) Based on interview with farmers and socio-economic study
28. Hydroponics Maximizes Production per Unit of Water Comparison of cost of production between soil bed and Hydroponics System in Kuwait Items Costs (KD) Soil Beds Hydroponics Green House 55,397.00 29,734.00 Production Materials 176.00 3900.00 water (Irrigation) 32,610.00 720.00 Growing Media 750.00 2,050.00 Fertilizers 660.00 245.00 Insecticides 346.50 144.00 Manpower 7,200.00 3,000.00 Total 97,139.50 39,793.00 Comparison of Production and Plant Density between soil bed and hydroponics system in Kuwait
33. Cucumber Production from Soil and Soilless in Hamranieh RS and Pilot Growers in Ajman and Ras Al Khaimeh (Feb to May 2009) Plant/m 2 Soil HRS Soilless Grower in RAK Soilless HRS Soilless Grower in AJM
34. Weekly Harvest of Cucumber (kg) from Soil and Soilless (Feb-May 2009)
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Editor's Notes
Total income generated under greenhouse is 6 times higher (the net income is 4 times higher) than what is obtained in open field on one Jerib (2000m 2 ) of land. This is a tremendous advantage given that greenhouses can be installed on marginal lands with very low rental value in rural areas. High quality cucumber production at the farmers’ field The impact of the greenhouse technology on growers’ incomes was assessed. All growers interviewed have not changed their cropping patterns, the number of crop or the size of land they use to cultivate prior to their induction to protected agriculture. Therefore, for these farmers the greenhouses were “add-ons” to the portfolio of crops they used to grow and the incomes. Results show that Protected Agriculture contributed between 8% and 138% increase in income generated from crop production in 2005. This economic success has somehow catalyzed the interest of farmers who expressed their willingness to accept more structures anytime from now