Search Results - "Financial endowment

Household Endowments and Poverty Reduction in Rural Nigeria: Evidence from Rice Farming Households by Awotide, B.A., Diagne, A., Awoyemi, T.T., Ojehomon, V.E.T.

“…The data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics, FGT and logit model. Household endowments were classified into human assets, physical assets and financial assets. …”
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Family farm and financial asset : external land ownership and family agriculture on the Swedish Plains by Goldhahn, Hedvig

“…This study is as such centered around the case of the Uppsala University Endowment Management (UUEM), an institution which owns around 15.000 hectares of farmland in mid-Sweden as part of its larger financial portfolio. …”

Endowing future harvests: the long-term costs of conserving genetic resources at the CGIAR Centres: A report prepared for the CGIAR System-wide Gentic Resources Programme by the In... by Koo, B., Pardey, Philip G., Wright, B.D., CGIAR Systemwide Genetic Resources Programme, International Plant Genetic Resources Institute

“…Germplasm conservation is a very long-term, if not in perpetuity, proposition, and so the mismatch between the short-term nature of the financial support and the long-term nature and intent of the effort is a serious concern. …”
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The Global Conservation Trust : an Update for AGM02 by Global Conservation Trust

“…The Global Conservation Trust (GCT) is a partnership between the CGIAR and FAO aimed at conserving in perpetuity the diversity of the world's most important crops. The Trust seeks a financial endowment to help support the crop genebanks' operation and capacity building activities. …”
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Market access by smallholder farmers in Malawi: implications for technology adoption, agricultural productivity, and crop income by Zeller, Manfred, Diagne, Aliou, Mataya, Charles

“…This paper presents an analysis of what determines the adoption of these two crops and what kind of income effects follow from adoption. Apart from factor endowment and exposure to agroecological risks, differences in the household's access to financial and commodity markets significantly influence its cropping shares and farm income.…”
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An Ecoregional Approach to Research in the CGIAR by CGIAR Technical Advisory Committee

“…Detailed analysis of institutional and financial implications are postponed for the review of priorities and strategies to be considered at ICW 1991. …”
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Evaluation of CGIAR research support program for Managing and Sustaining Crop Collections: Genebanks CRP by Jackson, Michael T., Borja Tome, Maria José, Ford-Lloyd, Brian

“…Through the Genebank CRP, the Trust has oversight and financial responsibility for the CGIAR genebanks. …”
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Cluster-based industrialization in China: Financing and performance by Long, Cheryl, Zhang, Xiaobo

“…This cluster-based industrialization model fit particularly well with China's comparative advantage during its initial stage of takeoff, which was marked by scarcity of capital and an inefficient financial system. Hence our findings may be helpful to other developing countries with similar factor endowment patterns that are considering cluster-based development strategies.…”
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IWRM [Integrated Water Resources Management] in Uganda - progress after decades of implementation by Nicol, Alan, Odinga, W.

“…With a focus on more comprehensively managing the country’s critical water endowment amidst growing pressure on the resource, bilateral technical assistance and financial support played a large part in backstopping these national efforts. …”
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A study of household food security and adoption of biofortified crop varieties in Tanzania: the case of orange-fleshed sweetpotato by Okello, J.J., Sindi, K., Shikuku, Kelvin Mashisia, McEwan, M., Low, Jan W.

“…It also found evidence that agroecology and farmer endowment with financial and physical assets affect the decision to grow OFSP varieties. …”
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Effective demand for climate-smart adaptation: a case of solar technologies for cocoa irrigation in Ghana by Gbodji, Kekeli Kofi, Quarmine, William, Minh, Thai Thi

“…Our results show that effective demand increased across the resource segments, with resource-endowed farmers more likely to demand SPIPs than resource-limited or resource-poor farmers. …”
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Improving water and land productivity of marginal farms in Central Asia: lessons from the "bright spots". by Abdullaev, Iskandar, Noble, A.D., Ul-Hassan, Mehmood, Platonov, Alexander

“…This would require access to financial instruments to enable investment to take place.…”
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Demand for agricultural credit by rural smallholder farmers: A case of climate smart agriculture villages in Nyando Basin, Kenya by Musembi, Elly Kyalo

“…With the absence of insurance and limited access to financial resources (agricultural credit) the ability of the farmers to adopt smart farming technologies that can cushion them from such losses is threatened. …”
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Feeding, crop residue and manure management for integrated soil fertility management—A case study from Kenya by Castellanos-Navarrete, A., Tittonell, Pablo A., Rufino, Mariana C., Giller, Kenneth E.

“…To examine to what extent such strategies would be feasible, we analysed whole-farm nutrient cycling efficiencies (NCE) of a range of farms differing in resource-endowment and production orientation, identifying the most efficient farmer strategies considering labour and financial constraints. …”
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Contribution of local knowledge in cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) to the well‑being of cocoa families in Colombia a response from the relationship by Gutiérrez Garcia, Gustavo Adolfo, Gutiérrez Montes, Isabel A, Suárez Salazar, Juan Carlos, Casanoves, Fernando, Gutiérrez Suárez, David Ricardo, Hernández-Núñez, Héctor Eduardo, Butler Flora, Cornelia, Sibelet, Nicole

“…The well-being of cocoa farmers, understood as the balance in the capital endowment of rural households, was obtained through the application of a semi-structured interview with 49 variables of human, cultural, social, political, natural, built, and financial capitals. …”
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Incentivos económicos para la Producción ecoamigable en fincas cafetaleras en el Corredor Biológico Volcánica Central - Talamanca, Costa Rica by Cárdenas Herrera, Adriana M.

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Chronic Poverty and Long Term Impact Study in Bangladesh by Quisumbing, Agnes R., Baulch, Bob

“…The Microfinance study was conducted in Bangladesh in 1994 to analyze the determinants of the formation of and participation in group-based rural financial institutions and the effects of participation on household resource allocation, income generation, and food and nonfood consumption. …”
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Results and Impacts of the Integrated Land and Water Management for Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change (ILWAC) Project: Evaluation Report by Kizito, Fred, Mwongera, Caroline, Pondi, Brian, Mwungu, Chris M., Odhiambo, Collins, Koech, Nicholas, Shikuku, Kelvin Mashisia, Nkonya, Ephraim M., Nigussie, Likie, Appoh, Richard K., Touré, Abdoulaye, Sakana, Naomi, Billard, Benjamin, Jalloh, Abdulai, Bamba, Cheikh Ahmadou, Kuiseu, Julienne, Kouamé, Kouadio, Akana, David

“…There was evidence of better access to financial services and training through village savings and loan associations, and gender empowerment. …”
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A perspective on conservation and management of small ruminant genetic resources in sub-Saharan Africa by Lebbie, S.H.B., Ramsay, K.

“…Policy changes and political as well as financial commitment are needed at both national and regional levels to implement these actions.…”
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The state of the art in the conservation and management of small ruminant genetic resources: The sub-Saharan Africa perspective by Lebbie, S.H.B., Ramsay, K.

“…Policy changes and political as well as financial commitment are needed at both national and regional levels to implement these actions. …”
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