Search Results - Implicit knowledge

Getting implicit shadow prices right for the estimation of the Malmquist index: The case of agricultural total factor productivity in developing countries by Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, Yu, Bingxin

“…However, the data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach used to estimate this index still uses implicit price information. This entails potential problems because these methods are susceptible to the effect of data noise, and shadow prices can prove to be inconsistent with prior knowledge on cost shares. …”
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Targeting of beneficiaries in chemical fertilizer subsidy programs: State of knowledge and evidence gaps by Trachtman, Carly, Hill, Ruth Vargas

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Heterogeneous information exposure and technology adoption: the case of tissue culture bananas in Kenya by Kabunga, N., Dubois, T., Qaim, M.

“…Classical innovation adoption models implicitly assume homogenous information flow across farmers, which is often not realistic. …”
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How to push which button: Understanding the potential of climate games through the lens of social action theories by Moossdorff, Carien, Vervoort, Joost M.

“…Games are a potential help with this: They can contribute to futuring capacities, including systems knowledge, throughout the population, and disseminate experiential knowledge of realities related to Climate Change. …”
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Ekosystemtjänster i stadsplanering by Nilsson, Frida

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Net-Map: Collecting social network data and facilitating network learning through participatory influence network mapping by Schiffer, E., Hauck, J.

“…The authors describe how to use Net-Map,1 a low-tech, low-cost, interview-based mapping tool that can be used by researchers, facilitators, and implementers to (1) visualize implicit knowledge and understand the interplay of complex formal and informal networks, power relations, and actors’ goals; (2) uncover sources of conflicts as well as potentials for cooperation; (3) facilitate knowledge exchange and learning processes; and (4) develop visions and strategies to achieve common goals. …”
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Integrating innovation systems perspective and value chain analysis in agricultural research for development: implications and challenges by Anandajayasekeram, P., Gebremedhin, Berhanu

“…As a result, there have been significant paradigm shifts in agricultural knowledge generation, dissemination and utilization. …”
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Feasibility and impact study of a reward-based mobile application to improve adolescents' snacking habits by De Cock, Nathalie, Van Lippevelde, Wendy, Vangeel, Jolien, Notebaert, Melissa, Beullens, Kathleen, Huybregts, Lieven

“…Adolescents’ snacking habits are driven by both explicit reflective and implicit hedonic processes. Hedonic pathways and differences in sensitivity to food rewards in addition to reflective determinants should be considered. …”
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Defining sustainability in Swedish forest policy by Bernro, Mikaela

“…These solutions have established certain explicit and implicit problem representations within Swedish forest management and forest policy. …”
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The Challenge Program on Water and Food: opportunities for adding value to experiences of using research for development (R4D) by Hall, Andrew

“…In addition, I would add to this definition of R4D, “continuously learning how to do this”, implicit in the efforts that CPWF has made to support learning. …”
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An economic analysis of sweet potato production and utilization for animal feed on North Vietnam by Nguyen, T.S.

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Desarrollo de una metodología de extracción de conocimientos a partir de datos de micromatrices de DNA basada en ontologías genéticas by Taie, Armando

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Facilitating gender transformation in livestock management through Community Conversations in Bide community, Ethiopia by Dessalegn, Bezaiet, Woldegiorgis, Mamusha

“…Gender norms are often reflected in the “informal, implicit rules that govern what a person can and cannot do in the pursuit of daily life” (Fehr and Gachter 2000). …”
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Vad påverkar marknadsvärdet på en skogsfastighet? : en statistisk analys av markvärdet by Högberg, Johanna

Climate risk scenarios of orange rust for the sugarcane-producing regions of Argentina and Brazil by Angelotti, Francislene, Morales, Cristina Del Carmen, Hamada, Emília, Bisonard, Eduardo Matias, Gonçalves, Renata Ribeiro do Valle, Rago, Alejandro Mario

“…The conditions of climatic favorability for the occurrence of the disease were established by means mathematical logic criteria of GIS, based on knowledge of the authors, who incorporated the implicit effects of the interaction of the virulent pathogen, susceptible host, and predisposing environmental characteristics. …”
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Bringing science and technology studies into agricultural anthropology: Technology development as cultural encounter between farmers and researchers by Crane, Todd A.

“…However, the original “farmer-back-to-farmer” approach left the “expert” practice of science and technology as an implicitly practical and apolitical space rather than as a subject of ethnographic study. …”
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Understanding compliance in programs promoting conservation agriculture: Modeling a case study in Malawi by Ward, Patrick S., Bell, Andrew R., Droppelmann, Klaus, Benton, Tim

“…This article attempts to fill this important knowledge gap by studying CA adoption in southern Malawi. …”
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Urbana experimentella bostadsprojekts potential för hållbar stadsutveckling by Pedersen, Hanna, Göransson, Isabelle

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Economic analysis of indigenous small ruminant breeds in the pastoral system: A case of sheep and goats in Marsabit district, Kenya by Omondi, Immaculate A.

“…In goats, drought tolerance and milk traits were found to be implicitly valued for up to KShs.2695 and 1163 respectively, while in sheep, drought tolerance and fat deposition traits were found to be implicitly valued at KShs.973 and 748 respectively. …”
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The political economy of food system transformation: Pathways to progress in a polarized world by Resnick, Danielle, Swinnen, Johan

“…Moreover, transformation implicitly requires reforms that depart from the status quo, which will generate resistance from those groups that stand to lose the most. …”
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