Liana J. Williams
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View article: Advisors as key partners for achieving adoption at scale: embedding “My Climate View” into agricultural advisory networks
Advisors as key partners for achieving adoption at scale: embedding “My Climate View” into agricultural advisory networks Open
Introduction This paper examines the role of agricultural advisors as key partners for scaling adoption of long-term climate information. Agri-food sectors across the world face significant challenges in responding to climate change, which…
View article: Overcoming barriers to social inclusion in agricultural intensification: reflections on a transdisciplinary community development project from India and Bangladesh
Overcoming barriers to social inclusion in agricultural intensification: reflections on a transdisciplinary community development project from India and Bangladesh Open
We describe a research-for-development (R4D) strategy developed to address how investments and interventions in agricultural intensification as a means to achieve community development can be designed to be more socially inclusive and equi…
View article: Reflecting on an Integrated Approach to Understanding Pathways for Socially Inclusive Agricultural Intensification
Reflecting on an Integrated Approach to Understanding Pathways for Socially Inclusive Agricultural Intensification Open
Large investments in Research-for-Development (R4D) have occurred around agricultural intensification to improve social and economic outcomes for poor small and marginal farmer households. Mixed evidence for sustained and socially just imp…
View article: Reflecting on an Integrated Approach to Understanding Pathways for Socially Inclusive Agricultural Intensification
Reflecting on an Integrated Approach to Understanding Pathways for Socially Inclusive Agricultural Intensification Open
Large investments in Research-for-Development (R4D) have occurred around agricultural intensification to improve social and economic outcomes for poor small and marginal farmer households. Mixed evidence for sustained and socially just imp…
View article: Correlating Musculoskeletal Exercise with the FITNESSGRAM Test Standards
Correlating Musculoskeletal Exercise with the FITNESSGRAM Test Standards Open
The FITNESSGRAM test is the most broadly utilized wellness evaluation and instrument to report the strength of understudies in physical education classes. It has been a mandated fitness assessment for students in California in every other …
View article: Livelihood impacts of the cattle management practices in mixed crop-livestock farming systems in South Sulawesi, Indonesia
Livelihood impacts of the cattle management practices in mixed crop-livestock farming systems in South Sulawesi, Indonesia Open
The research project to increase cattle production was conducted in South Sulawesi, Indonesia as a part of ACIAR funded projects in South Sulawesi (SMAR-2006-061). The project worked in 3 regencies: Bone, Barru and Gowa with four villages …
View article: Adapting the Green Revolution for Laos
Adapting the Green Revolution for Laos Open
Initial efforts to introduce Green Revolution practices met obstacles in Laos due to the Vietnam War, early attempt to collectivise agricultural production, and limited investment in agricultural research. Faced with ongoing food shortages…
View article: Does Selective Mechanisation Make up for Labour Shortages in Rural Myanmar?
Does Selective Mechanisation Make up for Labour Shortages in Rural Myanmar? Open
In Myanmar’s rural areas, a high proportion of the landless population is traditionally linked with landholders as farm labour. More recently, however, these linkages seem to be unravelling due to the emergence of new industries and increa…
View article: Risks, resources and reason: understanding smallholder decisions around farming system interventions in Eastern Indonesia
Risks, resources and reason: understanding smallholder decisions around farming system interventions in Eastern Indonesia Open
Adoption of new cattle management practices by Indonesian smallholders occurs less as a ‘technology transfer’ in the classical sense but rather as a series of conscious decisions by farming households weighing risks and resources as well a…