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| Lindner, Robert K.; McLeod, Paul. |
| Fruit flies are recognised as one of the major pests of fruit and vegetable crops worldwide. Potential benefits from fruit fly research include biosecurity benefits from better quarantine surveillance that reduces the costs of an incursion by a damaging exotic pest fruit fly; market access benefits by enabling new fruit exports; and field control benefits from better crop management. The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)’s investment in fruitfly research goes back some 25 years to an initial project in Malaysia. Since that time, ACIAR’s continued investment has funded a total of 18 projects ranging across several areas of fruit-fly research, and covering Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Fiji Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Cook... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: ACIAR; Fruit-fly; Research; Impact; Assessment; Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/47617 |
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| Newby, Jonathan C.; Cramb, Rob A.. |
| In the Philippines, about 38 per cent of the population resides in rural areas where poverty remains a significant problem. In 2006, 47 per cent of all households in Bohol Province fell below the national poverty line, with the percentage even higher in upland communities. These households often exist in marginal landscapes that are under significant pressure from ongoing resource degradation and rising input costs. This paper first explores whether the adoption of Landcare practices in a highly degraded landscape has resulted in improved livelihood outcomes for upland farming families in Bohol. Second, it analyses the potential for the piecemeal adoption of these measures to deliver tangible benefits at the watershed scale. Finally, using a BCA approach,... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Landcare; Philippines; Livelihoods; Poverty; Watershed; ACIAR. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48061 |
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