Leveraging Digital Tools and Crowdsourcing Approaches to Generate High-Frequency Data for Diet Quality Monitoring at Population Scale in Rwanda

Autor: Rhys Manners, Julius Adewopo, Marguerite Niyibituronsa, Roseline Remans, Aniruddha Ghosh, Marc Schut, Seth Gogo Egoeh, Regina Kilwenge, Anna Fraenzel

Publikováno v: Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Vol 5 (2022)

Diet quality is a critical determinant of human health and increasingly serves as a key indicator for food system sustainability. However, data on diets are limited, scattered, often project-dependent, and current data collection systems do not suppo

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Analysing Latin American and Caribbean forest vulnerability from socio-economic factors

Autor: Rhys Manners, Consuelo Varela-Ortega

Publikováno v: Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 109-130 (2017)

Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) forest cover reduced by 9% from 1990 to 2015, affecting biodiversity, climate change mitigation and ecosystem service functionality. These losses are caused by a myriad of interconnected, interdependent and often so

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Data-driven approaches can harness crop diversity to address heterogeneous needs for breeding products

Autor: Jacob van Etten, Kauê de Sousa, Jill E. Cairns, Matteo Dell’Acqua, Carlo Fadda, David Guereña, Joost van Heerwaarden, Teshale Assefa, Rhys Manners, Anna Müller, Mario Enrico Pè, Vivian Polar, Julian Ramirez-Villegas, Svein Øivind Solberg, Béla Teeken, Hale Ann Tufan

Publikováno v: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120 (2023) 14
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(14)

This perspective describes the opportunities and challenges of data-driven approaches for crop diversity management (genebanks and breeding) in the context of agricultural research for sustainable development in the Global South. Data-driven approach

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https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2205771120

Explanatory Factors for Farm Income Diversity in Kalehe District, South Kivu Province, DR Congo

Autor: Angélique Neema Ciza, Rhys Manners, Marc Schut, Stany Vwima Ngezirabona, Philippe Lebailly

Publikováno v: International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Vol 11, Iss 2, Pp 19-27 (2021)

Despite repeated wars and the persistence of feudal land tenure, the agricultural sector is at the center of economic activity for most rural households in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This study aims to assess the competitivity of the agricultu

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https://econjournals.com/index.php/ijefi/article/view/10793

Suitability of root, tuber, and banana crops in Central Africa can be favoured under future climates

Autor: Sebastien Carpentier, Rhys Manners, Graham Thiele, Elke Vandamme, Julius Adewopo, Michael Friedmann, K.S. Ezui, Philip K. Thornton

Context Climate change is projected to negatively impact food systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. The magnitude of these impacts is expected to be amplified by the extensive reliance on rainfed agriculture and the prevalence of subsistence farming. In the

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https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/679133