"CORPOICA and IFPRI implemented a research project in Ventaquemada, Colombia.
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Assessing the spatial distribution of crop production using a generalized cross-entropy approach
While agricultural production statistics are reported on a geopolitical – often national - basis we often need to know the status of production or productivity within specific sub-regions, watersheds, or agro-ecological zones.
In general, reported rates of return to agricultural R&D are high, but questions have been raised about upward biases in the evidence. Among the reasons for this bias, insufficient attention to attribution aspects.
Does efficient water management matter?
With growing water scarcity and increasing competition across water-using sectors, the need for water savings and more efficient water use has increased in importance in water resources management.
Integrated economic-hydrologic water modeling at the basin scale
Increasing competition for water across sectors increases the importance of the river basin as the appropriate unit of analysis to address the challenges facing water resources management; and modeling at this scale can provide essential informati
Small-scale farms in the western Brazilian Amazon
Recently scientists have started to examine how land-uses and land-use technologies can help mitigate carbon emissions.