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Mainly grown in the highlands of Kenya, potatoes are an important staple food and cash crop and play a significant role in national food security, nutrition, poverty alleviation and income generation. In 2015, Potato Cyst Nematode (PCN) was first detected and confirmed in Kenya, posing a serious threat to potato...
Rabies poses a serious threat to animal and human health and people’s livelihoods in many parts of Asia. Following a serious rabies outbreak in 2010, the Government of Indonesia began a widespread campaign to control the spread of the virus in Bali. In 2014, human and animal rabies cases began...
After heavy and above-average rains fell in September 2015 in the Southern Province and Western Area, an estimated 22 000 people were affected and thousands of hectares of land were destroyed. The worst of the damage occurred in Bo, Bonthe and Pujehun districts. Because many households in Sierra Leone depend...
Etiopía es un país que presenta gran vulnerabilidad ante numerosos peligros naturales, en el que años de precipitaciones inferiores a la media junto con la sequía asociada al fenómeno de El Niño en 2015 provocaron un deterioro de la seguridad alimentaria en 2016. En algunas regiones, las pérdidas de cosechas,...
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Los sistemas integrados de producción de alimentos y energía sostenibles pueden ayudar considerablemente a abordar el enorme incremento de la demanda de alimentos, energía y agua en los próximos años. Por lo tanto, es preciso mejorar la información y la capacidad sobre el modo de fomentar los sistemas integrados de...