This document discusses establishing a Resilience Topic Working Group within the Challenge Program on Water and Food to advance understanding and application of resilience thinking. It provides examples of resilience research topics and outlines potential core themes the group could address, including linked social-ecological systems, regime shifts, disturbances and shocks, and operationalizing adaptive management. The document also proposes an initial workplan for the group to develop a position paper, establish the group, synthesize past work, participate in forums, and facilitate learning across projects.
This document discusses using knowledge about human behavior and agricultural extension to scale the impact of development interventions. It addresses four critical issues: 1) Understanding the potential adoption domain of innovations to set realistic targets and timeframes. 2) Recognizing that human adoption of new practices follows predictable diffusion curves and varies between individuals. 3) Tailoring interventions to the inherent characteristics of different innovations. 4) Appreciating that behavioral change and adoption of innovations takes time to diffuse widely. The document argues that properly addressing these issues based on existing diffusion research can help extension programs better facilitate the widespread adoption of agricultural innovations over appropriate geographic areas and timeframes.
Short presentation of results from chapters 3 & 4 on Regime shifts and social-ecological resilience from the Arctic Council's Arctic Resilience Report
https://oaarchive.arctic-council.org/handle/11374/1838
For more see:
http://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/research-news/2016-11-25-dealing-with-arctic-tipping-points.html
This document discusses the need for a new research agenda to address the dynamics of agri-food systems in developing countries. It argues that prevailing approaches in agricultural science and policy often fail to provide sustainable outcomes, especially for poor rural populations, as they do not account for the complexity, diversity, uncertainty and non-equilibrium states that characterize agri-food systems. The document outlines some key drivers of change affecting developing world agriculture today, such as declining public support, integration into global markets, and trade barriers in developed countries. It calls for more interdisciplinary research focusing on understanding system interactions and exploring pathways to increase resilience and robustness in the face of growing risks and uncertainties.
This document discusses theories of sustainable development. It defines sustainable development as meeting present needs without compromising future generations' ability to meet their own needs. The main themes are poverty focus, future focus, technology focus, and environmental focus. Sustainable development has economic, social, and environmental aspects. Weak sustainability theory assumes manmade capital can substitute for natural capital if revenues from natural resource depletion are reinvested in manmade capital. However, this theory is limited as it ignores pollution impacts and other environmental factors.
This document discusses establishing a Resilience Topic Working Group within the Challenge Program on Water and Food to advance understanding and application of resilience thinking. It provides examples of resilience research topics and outlines potential core themes the group could address, including linked social-ecological systems, regime shifts, disturbances and shocks, and operationalizing adaptive management. The document also proposes an initial workplan for the group to develop a position paper, establish the group, synthesize past work, participate in forums, and facilitate learning across projects.
This document discusses using knowledge about human behavior and agricultural extension to scale the impact of development interventions. It addresses four critical issues: 1) Understanding the potential adoption domain of innovations to set realistic targets and timeframes. 2) Recognizing that human adoption of new practices follows predictable diffusion curves and varies between individuals. 3) Tailoring interventions to the inherent characteristics of different innovations. 4) Appreciating that behavioral change and adoption of innovations takes time to diffuse widely. The document argues that properly addressing these issues based on existing diffusion research can help extension programs better facilitate the widespread adoption of agricultural innovations over appropriate geographic areas and timeframes.
Short presentation of results from chapters 3 & 4 on Regime shifts and social-ecological resilience from the Arctic Council's Arctic Resilience Report
https://oaarchive.arctic-council.org/handle/11374/1838
For more see:
http://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/research-news/2016-11-25-dealing-with-arctic-tipping-points.html
This document discusses the need for a new research agenda to address the dynamics of agri-food systems in developing countries. It argues that prevailing approaches in agricultural science and policy often fail to provide sustainable outcomes, especially for poor rural populations, as they do not account for the complexity, diversity, uncertainty and non-equilibrium states that characterize agri-food systems. The document outlines some key drivers of change affecting developing world agriculture today, such as declining public support, integration into global markets, and trade barriers in developed countries. It calls for more interdisciplinary research focusing on understanding system interactions and exploring pathways to increase resilience and robustness in the face of growing risks and uncertainties.
This document discusses theories of sustainable development. It defines sustainable development as meeting present needs without compromising future generations' ability to meet their own needs. The main themes are poverty focus, future focus, technology focus, and environmental focus. Sustainable development has economic, social, and environmental aspects. Weak sustainability theory assumes manmade capital can substitute for natural capital if revenues from natural resource depletion are reinvested in manmade capital. However, this theory is limited as it ignores pollution impacts and other environmental factors.
Resilience and adaptive capacity in social-ecological systems: the good, the ...Christo Fabricius
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Social-ecological systems in emerging democracies are often in an untenable state. Under such conditions, building resilience is not appropriate and transformation is the way forward. In this presentation I briefly explain the theoretical underpinnings of resilience and transformation and provide examples of transformative strategies from communal areas in South Africa and Tajikistan to explain.
The Schumacher Institute submitted a response to the Labour Party's consultation on developing an industrial strategy. Some key points made in the submission include:
- An industrial strategy should be based on principles of being challenge-led, mission-oriented, and values-driven, with a priority on sustainability.
- Fundamental ecosystem and social challenges like resource depletion, climate change, and inequality must inform the strategy.
- Concepts like the green economy, circular economy, and ideas around a "safe and just operating space" could help address these challenges through economic transformation.
- The strategy and policies should support mission-led businesses, corporate governance reform, localisation, and socio-technical innovation to enable the
Per Olsson - Critical thresholds and transformationsSTEPS Centre
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Presentation at the STEPS Conference 2010 - Pathways to Sustainability: Agendas for a new politics of environment, development and social justice
http://www.steps-centre.org/events/stepsconference2010.html
Reversing soil erosion trends at the river basin scale: A participatory model...ExternalEvents
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This document discusses a project aimed at reversing soil erosion trends through action at the river basin scale. It makes four main points: 1) Soil is being lost to erosion faster than it can be replenished, with negative impacts; 2) Acting at the river basin scale could effectively build resilience and accelerate reversal; 3) The project is developing a systemic, participatory approach to test in the Rapel River Basin in Chile; 4) Partners are sought to disseminate this approach in river basins worldwide.
This document discusses several approaches to addressing global sustainability challenges, including focusing on specific issues like energy sources and climate change impacts. However, the document notes that while focused studies are important, they risk missing larger connections. It advocates for an evolutionary theory approach to understand how sustainability challenges arose through the processes that created current phenomena and will generate future transformations. This includes comparing the order and dynamics of social and ecological systems, and seeing challenges as arising from increasing human complexity on Earth over time.
MEAS Discussion Paper 3 - Climate Change and EAS - Jan 2014[1]Brent M. Simpson
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This document discusses the future challenges of climate change for agricultural extension and advisory services. It outlines the nature of the "new normal" of climate change, which will include ongoing changes in temperature and precipitation patterns. Smallholder farmers will face difficulties adapting, while extension services will need to help farmers adopt new practices and technologies to cope with these changes. The road ahead involves evolving strategies to work with farmers and utilize information technologies, while important policies are also needed to support adaptation. Extension services will need to enhance their efforts to help farmers mitigate and adapt to the risks of climate change.
Social change refers to fundamental alterations in patterns of culture, structure, and social behavior over time that cause society to become something different while remaining the same in some respects. Social change can be driven by changes to the physical environment like climate shifts, population changes such as growth and aging, and clashes over resources and values that involve conflict, negotiation, and accommodation. Supporting social values and norms also influence change as innovation is either permitted or inhibited and cultural traits spread between social units.
Humans as agents of transformation: An ecosystem services perspective on the ...KiandraRajala
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This document summarizes a study that examined how changes in ecosystem services provided by an invasive grass species would affect landowner acceptance in the Northern Great Plains of the United States. A survey of landowners showed that acceptance was highest when ecosystem services remained unchanged but decreased when forage production or water availability decreased. Landowners preferred increases to forage but decreases in other services reduced acceptance. While gains in services increased acceptance, losses reduced it more strongly, suggesting an aversion to losses. The researchers will next examine acceptance of a specific invasive grass and how it relates to control intentions.
This document outlines research questions related to dryland agricultural livelihood systems. It addresses three main areas:
1. Diagnosing systems and identifying entry points for change through integrated analysis of socioeconomic, gender, political, and ecological drivers.
2. Promoting transformation through innovation mechanisms that optimize use of resources to reduce vulnerability and sustainably intensify agriculture.
3. Catalyzing development at scale through prioritizing investments, assessing impact, and strategic alliances between organizations.
The document discusses the relationship between human societies and the natural environment. It notes that while nature always posed risks, human societies have now developed the ability to significantly modify their environment quickly. This introduces new risks from uncoordinated human activities that can impact natural systems. The document examines different types of risks from nature, society, and problems of social cooperation/coordination. It also discusses the assessment of environmental risks and different approaches like cost-benefit analysis and risk management. Property rights regimes and common resource issues are evaluated in the context of sustainability and management of exhaustible resources.
This document discusses three models of population growth: geometric, exponential, and logistic. Geometric growth assumes non-overlapping generations and unlimited resources. Exponential growth models continuous populations with overlapping generations in unlimited environments. Logistic growth incorporates resource limitations, causing the growth rate to slow and eventually stop as the population reaches the environment's carrying capacity. Competition for limited resources among individuals in the population is what causes population growth to decline under the logistic model.
Presentation by CPWF Director Alain Vidal on CPWF experiences in Green Growth. Looking at how we boost production, balance the need for sharing benefits, and basis as the key role of ecosystem services
1) The research seeks to identify agricultural water management (AWM) interventions in Ghana's Upper West Region, assess their effectiveness, and scale up successful interventions elsewhere.
2) It finds that small reservoirs have helped manage droughts and floods, making water available year-round, though they are poorly maintained. Stone bunds and tied ridges have improved crop yields.
3) Over 100% adoption increases were seen for interventions except in one community, likely due to land tenure issues. The research concludes interventions' success depends on factors like fertilizer access and marketing, in addition to the interventions themselves.
The document discusses the concepts of resilience and vulnerability in ecological and social systems. It defines resilience as the capacity of a system to withstand shocks while still maintaining its basic functions and structure. Vulnerability refers to the exposure of human populations to shocks due to a loss of resilience. The document advocates applying a resilience lens to development in order to foster systems that can adapt to changes while maintaining desirable functions and states. It provides examples of factors that increase social-ecological resilience, like diversity, knowledge sharing, and self-organization across scales.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help boost feelings of calmness, happiness and focus.
This document provides an overview of the CPWF Volta Basin Project "Integrated Management of Rainwater for Crop-Livestock agro-ecosystems" (V2) which aims to increase crop and livestock productivity through identifying, evaluating, adapting and disseminating best-fit integrated rainwater management strategies. The project is being conducted in northern Ghana and Burkina Faso, with research questions focusing on determining best strategies under different conditions, assessing impacts on productivity, and fostering adoption. Key outputs include baseline characterization, recommendations, tools for analysis, dissemination, and capacity building.
This document summarizes a meeting to discuss management of rainwater and small reservoirs for multiple uses in Boura, Burkina Faso. Surveys were conducted to diagnose uses and users, including farmers organized into formal groups, livestock herders, fishermen, and domestic users. The surveys identified four main user groups and characterized the typology of each. Challenges for farmer groups were discussed. Pilot activities on rice production using improved varieties were outlined. Participatory modeling of agricultural activities and water uses was demonstrated using the ZonAgri model.
By Asad Sarwar Qureshi, Samina Yasmin, Nikar C. Holader, Timothy J. Krupnik
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
Resilience and adaptive capacity in social-ecological systems: the good, the ...Christo Fabricius
Ā
Social-ecological systems in emerging democracies are often in an untenable state. Under such conditions, building resilience is not appropriate and transformation is the way forward. In this presentation I briefly explain the theoretical underpinnings of resilience and transformation and provide examples of transformative strategies from communal areas in South Africa and Tajikistan to explain.
The Schumacher Institute submitted a response to the Labour Party's consultation on developing an industrial strategy. Some key points made in the submission include:
- An industrial strategy should be based on principles of being challenge-led, mission-oriented, and values-driven, with a priority on sustainability.
- Fundamental ecosystem and social challenges like resource depletion, climate change, and inequality must inform the strategy.
- Concepts like the green economy, circular economy, and ideas around a "safe and just operating space" could help address these challenges through economic transformation.
- The strategy and policies should support mission-led businesses, corporate governance reform, localisation, and socio-technical innovation to enable the
Per Olsson - Critical thresholds and transformationsSTEPS Centre
Ā
Presentation at the STEPS Conference 2010 - Pathways to Sustainability: Agendas for a new politics of environment, development and social justice
http://www.steps-centre.org/events/stepsconference2010.html
Reversing soil erosion trends at the river basin scale: A participatory model...ExternalEvents
Ā
This document discusses a project aimed at reversing soil erosion trends through action at the river basin scale. It makes four main points: 1) Soil is being lost to erosion faster than it can be replenished, with negative impacts; 2) Acting at the river basin scale could effectively build resilience and accelerate reversal; 3) The project is developing a systemic, participatory approach to test in the Rapel River Basin in Chile; 4) Partners are sought to disseminate this approach in river basins worldwide.
This document discusses several approaches to addressing global sustainability challenges, including focusing on specific issues like energy sources and climate change impacts. However, the document notes that while focused studies are important, they risk missing larger connections. It advocates for an evolutionary theory approach to understand how sustainability challenges arose through the processes that created current phenomena and will generate future transformations. This includes comparing the order and dynamics of social and ecological systems, and seeing challenges as arising from increasing human complexity on Earth over time.
MEAS Discussion Paper 3 - Climate Change and EAS - Jan 2014[1]Brent M. Simpson
Ā
This document discusses the future challenges of climate change for agricultural extension and advisory services. It outlines the nature of the "new normal" of climate change, which will include ongoing changes in temperature and precipitation patterns. Smallholder farmers will face difficulties adapting, while extension services will need to help farmers adopt new practices and technologies to cope with these changes. The road ahead involves evolving strategies to work with farmers and utilize information technologies, while important policies are also needed to support adaptation. Extension services will need to enhance their efforts to help farmers mitigate and adapt to the risks of climate change.
Social change refers to fundamental alterations in patterns of culture, structure, and social behavior over time that cause society to become something different while remaining the same in some respects. Social change can be driven by changes to the physical environment like climate shifts, population changes such as growth and aging, and clashes over resources and values that involve conflict, negotiation, and accommodation. Supporting social values and norms also influence change as innovation is either permitted or inhibited and cultural traits spread between social units.
Humans as agents of transformation: An ecosystem services perspective on the ...KiandraRajala
Ā
This document summarizes a study that examined how changes in ecosystem services provided by an invasive grass species would affect landowner acceptance in the Northern Great Plains of the United States. A survey of landowners showed that acceptance was highest when ecosystem services remained unchanged but decreased when forage production or water availability decreased. Landowners preferred increases to forage but decreases in other services reduced acceptance. While gains in services increased acceptance, losses reduced it more strongly, suggesting an aversion to losses. The researchers will next examine acceptance of a specific invasive grass and how it relates to control intentions.
This document outlines research questions related to dryland agricultural livelihood systems. It addresses three main areas:
1. Diagnosing systems and identifying entry points for change through integrated analysis of socioeconomic, gender, political, and ecological drivers.
2. Promoting transformation through innovation mechanisms that optimize use of resources to reduce vulnerability and sustainably intensify agriculture.
3. Catalyzing development at scale through prioritizing investments, assessing impact, and strategic alliances between organizations.
The document discusses the relationship between human societies and the natural environment. It notes that while nature always posed risks, human societies have now developed the ability to significantly modify their environment quickly. This introduces new risks from uncoordinated human activities that can impact natural systems. The document examines different types of risks from nature, society, and problems of social cooperation/coordination. It also discusses the assessment of environmental risks and different approaches like cost-benefit analysis and risk management. Property rights regimes and common resource issues are evaluated in the context of sustainability and management of exhaustible resources.
This document discusses three models of population growth: geometric, exponential, and logistic. Geometric growth assumes non-overlapping generations and unlimited resources. Exponential growth models continuous populations with overlapping generations in unlimited environments. Logistic growth incorporates resource limitations, causing the growth rate to slow and eventually stop as the population reaches the environment's carrying capacity. Competition for limited resources among individuals in the population is what causes population growth to decline under the logistic model.
Presentation by CPWF Director Alain Vidal on CPWF experiences in Green Growth. Looking at how we boost production, balance the need for sharing benefits, and basis as the key role of ecosystem services
1) The research seeks to identify agricultural water management (AWM) interventions in Ghana's Upper West Region, assess their effectiveness, and scale up successful interventions elsewhere.
2) It finds that small reservoirs have helped manage droughts and floods, making water available year-round, though they are poorly maintained. Stone bunds and tied ridges have improved crop yields.
3) Over 100% adoption increases were seen for interventions except in one community, likely due to land tenure issues. The research concludes interventions' success depends on factors like fertilizer access and marketing, in addition to the interventions themselves.
The document discusses the concepts of resilience and vulnerability in ecological and social systems. It defines resilience as the capacity of a system to withstand shocks while still maintaining its basic functions and structure. Vulnerability refers to the exposure of human populations to shocks due to a loss of resilience. The document advocates applying a resilience lens to development in order to foster systems that can adapt to changes while maintaining desirable functions and states. It provides examples of factors that increase social-ecological resilience, like diversity, knowledge sharing, and self-organization across scales.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help boost feelings of calmness, happiness and focus.
This document provides an overview of the CPWF Volta Basin Project "Integrated Management of Rainwater for Crop-Livestock agro-ecosystems" (V2) which aims to increase crop and livestock productivity through identifying, evaluating, adapting and disseminating best-fit integrated rainwater management strategies. The project is being conducted in northern Ghana and Burkina Faso, with research questions focusing on determining best strategies under different conditions, assessing impacts on productivity, and fostering adoption. Key outputs include baseline characterization, recommendations, tools for analysis, dissemination, and capacity building.
This document summarizes a meeting to discuss management of rainwater and small reservoirs for multiple uses in Boura, Burkina Faso. Surveys were conducted to diagnose uses and users, including farmers organized into formal groups, livestock herders, fishermen, and domestic users. The surveys identified four main user groups and characterized the typology of each. Challenges for farmer groups were discussed. Pilot activities on rice production using improved varieties were outlined. Participatory modeling of agricultural activities and water uses was demonstrated using the ZonAgri model.
By Asad Sarwar Qureshi, Samina Yasmin, Nikar C. Holader, Timothy J. Krupnik
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
Resilience and sustainable development: Insights from the drylands of eastern...ILRI
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This document discusses the concepts of resilience in relation to sustainable development and food security in the drylands of Eastern Africa. It defines social-ecological resilience as a system's ability to absorb disturbance while retaining its core functions, and development resilience as a household's ability to maintain well-being during shocks and stresses. While the disaster risk reduction community focuses on short-term well-being and the development community on long-term improvements, both aim to enhance resilience. However, system resilience is not always desirable, as traditional pastoralism demonstrates. Differentiating system and development resilience can provide insights into when system resilience promotes or hinders well-being.
This document discusses transforming food systems under a changing climate. It identifies six key elements needed: gender equality and social inclusion, climate-resilient practices, digitally-enabled climate services, innovative finance, reshaping supply chains and new consumption patterns. Transformative technologies, adaptation pathways tailored to different farmers, and enabling policies are also needed. Public and private sectors must seize opportunities while acknowledging trade-offs. Comprehensive actions across the entire food system are required to achieve systemic shifts that support food security under climate change.
Agri-Food System Dynamics: Pathways to Sustainability in an Era of Uncertaintyx3G9
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This document discusses the dynamic and complex nature of agri-food systems and argues that the prevailing approaches to agricultural science and policy often fail to provide sustainable outcomes, especially for poor people in developing countries. It outlines two perspectives in agricultural science - a holistic, systems-based approach versus an orthodox, equilibrium-focused approach. A holistic approach that considers uncertainty, diversity and complexity is needed to better understand agri-food systems and define practices and policies that can help systems become more resilient to shocks and stresses. The document examines drivers of change in global agri-food systems and characteristics of diverse rural livelihoods to provide context for later discussions of sustainability narratives and pathways.
This document discusses the dynamic and complex nature of agri-food systems and argues that the prevailing approaches to agricultural science and policy often fail to provide sustainable outcomes, especially for poor people in developing countries. It outlines two perspectives in agricultural science - a holistic, systems-based approach versus an orthodox, equilibrium-focused approach. A holistic approach that considers uncertainty, diversity and complexity is needed to better understand agri-food systems and define practices and policies that can help systems become more resilient to shocks and stresses. The document examines key drivers of change in global agri-food systems and discusses the characteristics and diversity of agricultural livelihoods in developing contexts.
CORE Group Fall Meeting 2010. Climate Change and Food Security: Implications for Sustaining Community Health. - Ilona Varallyay, Jennifer Yourkavitch, and Eric Sarriot, CEDARS
Leadership and Urban Sustainability, Irina Safitri Zen, UTMESD UNU-IAS
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The 2016 ProSPER.Net Leadership Programme was held in Labuan Island and Beaufort, Sabah, Malaysia. The Programme included workshops, plenary sessions, and fieldwork around the topics of local sustainable development challenges in the region. The main goals of the Programme were to identify local leadership opportunities for sustainable development and to link local and national sustainable development projects to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Paris Climate Treaty, and the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction.
Sustainable Economic Growth And The Success Of A CountryAmanda Reed
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The document discusses the differences between ecological economics and neoclassical welfare economics. Ecological economics argues that neoclassical welfare economics ignores environmental and ethical values by only focusing on cost-benefit analysis. Traditionally, economics viewed resources as unlimited and focused solely on profit maximization through unlimited growth. However, as the economy and population have grown, more natural resources are being used and more pollution is being created, challenging the assumption of unlimited growth. A debate has emerged questioning mainstream economics and its treatment of the environment.
DEVELOPMENT VS ENVIRONMENT IN GEOGRAPHICAL FRAMEWORKProf Ashis Sarkar
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Development is a big word and is often related to environmental degradation. But how and why? What should be the way out are the issues in which it is based on.
The document discusses the role of extension in enabling climate change adaptation. It argues extension should address neglected questions like who adaptation benefits and its goals. It also stresses the need to consider indirect impacts, vulnerable populations, and ensure adaptation reduces harm rather than exacerbating issues. The document suggests extension promote discussion of values and visions, facilitate collective action, and help identify necessary research.
The document discusses the role of extension in enabling climate change adaptation. It argues extension should address broader questions like who adaptation benefits and its goals, rather than just focusing on solutions. It also stresses the need to consider direct, indirect and adaptation impacts of climate change, and ensure adaptation reduces vulnerability for all groups and contributes to social justice. The document suggests extension promote discussion of diverse perspectives and facilitate adaptation that leads to multiple co-benefits, including reduced climate change.
A presentation given at the WLE Ganges Focal Region writeshop in 2014 on the Ecosystem Services and Resilience Framework (ESR). Put together and presented by Sarah Jones of Bioversity International.
This document provides an introduction to the sustainable livelihoods framework. It describes the framework as a tool to improve understanding of livelihoods, particularly those of poor people. The framework presents the main factors affecting livelihoods and their relationships. It can be used to plan development activities and assess how existing activities contribute to livelihood sustainability. The framework focuses on people and emphasizes the multiple interactions between factors influencing livelihoods. It does not present a linear model but aims to facilitate structured debate about livelihood issues.
Climate change is increasingly threatening and straining the worldās food systems. This presentation outlines adaptation measures needed to address these challenges.
The document discusses the concept of transformational adaptation to climate change in the context of agriculture. It provides examples of transformational changes in agriculture that have occurred historically in response to environmental changes. These include changes from sheep to beef production and adjustments to cropping regions. The document also examines the potential role of science in understanding and facilitating transformational adaptation through case studies, predictive research, and establishing policies and information to expand options and address risks. There are differing views on whether transformational change is seen as failure or as an opportunity in response to climate change.
The document discusses the concept of transformational adaptation to climate change in the context of agriculture. It provides examples of transformational changes in agriculture over time brought on by various drivers such as climate and market forces. The document also outlines different perspectives on transformational change and the potential roles that science and government can play in supporting rather than directing transformation.
By J. Bhattacharya, M.K. Mondal, E. Humphreys, M.H. Rashid, P.L.C. Paul, S.P. Ritu
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
By M. Maniruzzaman, J.C. Bisawas, M.A.I. Khan, G.W. Sarker, S.S. Haque, J.K. Biswas, M.H. Sarker, M.A. Rashid, N.U. Sekhar, A. Nemes, S. Xenarios, J. Deelstra
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
1) The study evaluated the feasibility of growing three rice crops per year in the coastal zones of Bangladesh where fresh water is available year-round.
2) The study tested different establishment dates for aus and aman rice varieties as well as sowing dates for boro rice. It found that growing three rice crops per year is possible and can yield 13.4 to 17.2 tons per hectare per year.
3) The study recommends further evaluating the system over a range of weather conditions and developing ecologically friendly management practices to address potential increases in pests and diseases from triple rice cropping.
By M. Harunur Rashid, Faruk Hossain, Deb Kumar Nath, Parimal Chandra Sarker, AKM Ferdous, Timothy Russel
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
By Camelia Dewan, Marie-Charlotte Buisson and Aditi Mukherji
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
The document discusses using innovation platforms to improve goat markets and farming systems in Zimbabwe. Key points:
- Innovation platforms bring together farmers, traders, processors, researchers and others to identify challenges and opportunities to improve goat production and marketing.
- Objectives are to improve market efficiency, reduce transaction costs, promote productivity-increasing technologies, and build local innovation capacity.
- Results included dramatically reduced goat mortality rates (from 25% to under 10%), higher prices for farmers, and investments in improved feeding and health practices.
- Other actors like NGOs and the government also increased support like building sale pens and improving veterinary services. The approach transformed the system from crop-focused to more livestock-focused and
By Urs Schulthess, Timothy J. Krupnik, Zia Uddin Ahmed, Andy J. McDonald
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
By Parvesh Kr Chandna, Andy Nelson, Zahirul Khan, Moqbul Hossain, Sohel Rana, Fazlur Rashid, M. Mondal, T.P. Tuong
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
By Parvesh Kumar Chandna, Andy Nelson, Sohel Rana, Marie-Charlotte Buisson, Sam Mohanty, Nazneed Sultana, Deepak Sethi, T.P. Tuong
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
By Asad Sarwar Qureshi, Samina Yasmin, Nikar C. Howlader, Timothy J. Krupnik
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
By Dr. Md. Ataur Rahman (Wheat Research Centre, BARI)
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
By Sanjida P. Ritu, M.K. Mondal, T.P. Tuong, S.U. Talukdar, E. Humphreys
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
By Kazi Ahmed Kabir, S.B. Saha, Manjurul Karim, Craig A. Meisner, Michael J. Phillips
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
By S.B. Saha, K.A. Kabir, M.K. Mondal, M. Karim, P.L.C. Paul, M. Phillips, E. Humphreys, T.P. Tuong
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
BRAC aims to increase agricultural and aquacultural productivity in coastal Bangladesh through several strategies. These include converting single cropping areas to double or triple cropping, introducing short-duration rice varieties, stress-tolerant crops and fish varieties, and integrating fish/prawn-rice-vegetable systems in ghers. Technologies are disseminated to over 55,000 farmers across 59 upazilas. Hybrid rice varieties yield up to 9.5 tons/hectare. Integrated ghers provide net profits from 172,558-416,975 taka/hectare. Aquaculture in floodplains involves 257 farmers utilizing 73 acres in 2013, yielding an average 795 kg/hect
By Subhra Bikash Bhattacharyya, Tapas Kumar Ghoshal, Jitendra Kumar Sundaray (Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture, India)
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
By M.K. Mondal, N.K. Saha, A.K.M. Sharifullah, S.P. Ritu, P.L.C. Paul, E. Humphreys, T.P. Tuong, M.A. Rashid
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
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In the realm of cybersecurity, offensive security practices act as a critical shield. By simulating real-world attacks in a controlled environment, these techniques expose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. This proactive approach allows manufacturers to identify and fix weaknesses, significantly enhancing system security.
This presentation delves into the development of a system designed to mimic Galileo's Open Service signal using software-defined radio (SDR) technology. We'll begin with a foundational overview of both Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the intricacies of digital signal processing.
The presentation culminates in a live demonstration. We'll showcase the manipulation of Galileo's Open Service pilot signal, simulating an attack on various software and hardware systems. This practical demonstration serves to highlight the potential consequences of unaddressed vulnerabilities, emphasizing the importance of offensive security practices in safeguarding critical infrastructure.
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift.pdfTosin Akinosho
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Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift
Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
Key Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Understand the fundamentals of anomaly detection and its importance in identifying unusual behavior or failures in systems.
2. Understanding Edge (IoT)
- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
3. What is ArgoCD?
- Discover ArgoCD, a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes, and its role in deploying applications on edge devices.
4. Deployment Using ArgoCD for Edge Devices
- Step-by-step guide on deploying anomaly detection models on edge devices using ArgoCD.
5. Introduction to Apache Kafka and S3
- Explore Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and Amazon S3 for scalable storage solutions.
6. Viewing Kafka Messages in the Data Lake
- Learn how to view and analyze Kafka messages stored in a data lake for better insights.
7. What is Prometheus?
- Get to know Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, and its application in monitoring edge devices.
8. Monitoring Application Metrics with Prometheus
- Detailed instructions on setting up Prometheus to monitor the performance and health of your anomaly detection system.
9. What is Camel K?
- Introduction to Camel K, a lightweight integration framework built on Apache Camel, designed for Kubernetes.
10. Configuring Camel K Integrations for Data Pipelines
- Learn how to configure Camel K for seamless data pipeline integrations in your anomaly detection workflow.
11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
- Overview of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application for creating and sharing documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.
12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
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An English š¬š§ translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech šØšæ version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
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Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
āTemporal Event Neural Networks: A More Efficient Alternative to the Transfor...Edge AI and Vision Alliance
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For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/temporal-event-neural-networks-a-more-efficient-alternative-to-the-transformer-a-presentation-from-brainchip/
Chris Jones, Director of Product Management at BrainChip , presents the āTemporal Event Neural Networks: A More Efficient Alternative to the Transformerā tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
The expansion of AI services necessitates enhanced computational capabilities on edge devices. Temporal Event Neural Networks (TENNs), developed by BrainChip, represent a novel and highly efficient state-space network. TENNs demonstrate exceptional proficiency in handling multi-dimensional streaming data, facilitating advancements in object detection, action recognition, speech enhancement and language model/sequence generation. Through the utilization of polynomial-based continuous convolutions, TENNs streamline models, expedite training processes and significantly diminish memory requirements, achieving notable reductions of up to 50x in parameters and 5,000x in energy consumption compared to prevailing methodologies like transformers.
Integration with BrainChipās Akida neuromorphic hardware IP further enhances TENNsā capabilities, enabling the realization of highly capable, portable and passively cooled edge devices. This presentation delves into the technical innovations underlying TENNs, presents real-world benchmarks, and elucidates how this cutting-edge approach is positioned to revolutionize edge AI across diverse applications.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
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This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
Discover top-tier mobile app development services, offering innovative solutions for iOS and Android. Enhance your business with custom, user-friendly mobile applications.
Digital Banking in the Cloud: How Citizens Bank Unlocked Their MainframePrecisely
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Inconsistent user experience and siloed data, high costs, and changing customer expectations ā Citizens Bank was experiencing these challenges while it was attempting to deliver a superior digital banking experience for its clients. Its core banking applications run on the mainframe and Citizens was using legacy utilities to get the critical mainframe data to feed customer-facing channels, like call centers, web, and mobile. Ultimately, this led to higher operating costs (MIPS), delayed response times, and longer time to market.
Ever-changing customer expectations demand more modern digital experiences, and the bank needed to find a solution that could provide real-time data to its customer channels with low latency and operating costs. Join this session to learn how Citizens is leveraging Precisely to replicate mainframe data to its customer channels and deliver on their āmodern digital bankā experiences.
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
What is an RPA CoE? Session 1 ā CoE VisionDianaGray10
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In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
Topics covered:
ā¢ The role of a steering committee
ā¢ How do the organizationās priorities determine CoE Structure?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
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Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
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Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
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Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-EfficiencyScyllaDB
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Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
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A Mix Chart displays historical data of numbers in a graphical or tabular form. The Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart specifically shows the results of a sequence of numbers over different periods.
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdf
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Resilience Topic Working Group IFWF3
1. Elin Enfors & Line Gordon Tshwane, South Africa, 17 November 2011 RESILIENCE TWG MEETING IFWF3
2. Agenda 14.00-14.15 Welcome + introductions 14.15-14.35 Resilience insights from Arizona meeting + IFWF3 14.35-15.15 Explore resilience interests in TWG 15.15-15.35 Explore potential TWG activities 15.35-15.45 BREAK 15.45-16.25 Thematic group discussions + reporting back 16.25-16.55 Visioning exercise 16.55-17.00 Closing
3. Deals with the tension between persistence and change Change and variability is normal, stability is not Incorporates uncertainty, surprise and shocks in analysis Truly interlinked social-ecological systems (role of learning, adaptation, diversity in social-ecological systems) Emphasizes interactions small to large scales, and between fast and slow processes What we like about resilience
4. Insights from TWG meeting in Arizona ā¢ The challenge is often not to build resilience of existing system states but rather to enable transformation towards better pathways. In any case, it is not about going back.. Ā ā¢ There are different kinds of social traps that are important to understand, in order to understand why certain systems end up on undesirable paths Ā ā¢ Resilience is difficult to measure, but resilience thinking can still be used to improve understanding of system dynamics and thereby to guide interventions
5. Questions emerging in Arizona ā¢ How to deal with the diversity within the basins, and what to put our focus on (what is supposed to be resilient and at what scale?) Ā ā¢ How to deal with overwhelming drivers, such as population growth, and future game changers such as new emerging drivers and changing disturbance regimes Ā ā¢ What is really a āstableā state? It seems as sustained inputs often are needed to stay on a certain trajectory.. Ā ā¢ What are the minimum requirements to assess resilience? / How to identify key system variables in a āquick and dirtyā way? Ā ā¢ How to simplify these ideas enough to be able to communicate to people who like silver bullets?
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11. What aspects of resilience are you interested in? ļ thresholds / tipping points / sudden shifts ļ traps & transformations ļ adaptive governance multi-level institutions ļ coping/adapting to change/disturbances (identify disturbance regimes, uncertainties, nurturing diversity, human assets/capacities etc) ļ scenarios, anticipating change ļ resilience assessments / systems analysis ļ ecosystem services ļ social-ecological linkages
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14. Group discussions What questions do you want to answer? What activities can help you do that? What outputs can those activities generate? How do you want this group to support that?
15. Visioning exercise It is 2014, the 2 nd phase of the CPWF is coming to and end. You are feeling very proud over the resilience topic working group, in which you have actively participated. What have we accomplished together to make you feel this way?
Editor's Notes
What is in it for the CPWF? Not just get inspired from resilience thinking, but also help build the theoryā¦
Change rather than stability is underlying resilience theory - sees change as both potentially detrimental (without resilience in the system) and as potentially creative and transformative)
What is in it for the CPWF? Not just get inspired from resilience thinking, but also help build the theoryā¦
What is in it for the CPWF? Not just get inspired from resilience thinking, but also help build the theoryā¦
What is in it for the CPWF? Not just get inspired from resilience thinking, but also help build the theoryā¦
What is in it for the CPWF? Not just get inspired from resilience thinking, but also help build the theoryā¦
What is in it for the CPWF? Not just get inspired from resilience thinking, but also help build the theoryā¦
What is in it for the CPWF? Not just get inspired from resilience thinking, but also help build the theoryā¦
What is in it for the CPWF? Not just get inspired from resilience thinking, but also help build the theoryā¦