Co-benefits rarely enter quantitative decision-support frameworks, often because the methodologies for their integration are lacking or not known.
Addition of crop residues or animal manure is needed to sustain agricultural production on inherently poor soils.
The Uttarakhand disaster invited much criticism, but to say that the state government was unaware of the possibility of such a disaster would be unfair.
How can we start thinking about the link between indicators, international institutions and the law?
The term ‘indicatorisation’ captures features of a complex process that help reveal politics at play: for instance, the indicatorisation of the Right to Development (RTD) points out the attendant notion of neoliberalism as ‘development common sens
How does international institutional law shape the way in which international institutions collect information and govern through indicators?
Indicators have become a powerful technology of global governance that not only regulate and distribute resources, but also challenge pre-established understandings of international law.
Crop models have been developed and used worldwide as operational or strategic research and decision support tools in crop production and resources management.
Process-based models were constructed for computing the risk of malaria epidemic using temperature and rainfall data. The model has a lead-time of two to four months between detection of the epidemic signal and evolution of the epidemic.
The paper focuses on information gathered regarding the national Research for Health (R4H) environment and the different organisational arrangements available within each Ministry of Health (MoH) for the management and governance of research.