Search Results - "Adoption"

Assessment of cattle marketing in Ea Kar district, Daklak, Vietnam in 2008 by Khanh, T.T., Stür, Werner W., Dzung, V.T., Ha, N.V

“…By 2007, more than 2400 smallholder farmers had adopted cultivated forages to feed to their animals. …”
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Gender and sustainable forest management in East Africa and Latin America by Mwangi, E., Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Yan Sun

“…It focuses on one question: Do varying proportions of women (low, mixed, high) in forest user groups influence their likelihood of adopting forest resource enhancing behavior? We found that higher proportions of females in user groups, and especially user groups dominated by females, perform less well than mixed groups or male dominated ones. …”
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Whole farm economic evaluation of East Coast fever immunization strategies on farms in the Uasin Gishu District of Kenya by Nyangito, H.O., Richardson, J.W., Mukhebi, A.W., Mundy, D.S., Zimmel, P., Namken, J.

“…The work described in this paper was to quantify the economic payoffs to case study farms that adopt alternative ITM strategies and current ECF control methods. …”
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The ILRI Graduate Fellows Programme: A case study of impact (1978-1997) by Eley, R., Ibrahim H., Hambly Odame, Helen, Demeke, M., Smalley, M.E.

“…The paper recommends strategies to be adopted by ILRI and its partners for future degree training and capacity building in sub-Saharan Africa.…”
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A GIS-based approach for integrating agriculture into urban and peri-urban planning by Forkuor, Gerald, Drechsel, Pay, Cofie, Olufunke O.

“…City authorities are encouraged to adopt the approach, as it would enable them to build and monitor different scenarios (with different factors and weights) in a participatory manner before and after planning decisions are made.…”
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Governance mechanisms to address flow variability in water treaties by Drieschova, Alena, Giordano, Mark, Fischhendler, I.

“…Most of the mechanisms adopted deviate from an ''ideal'' state of being both flexible in the face of change but binding in enforcement. …”
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Choice of coordination mechanism in the Kenyan fresh milk supply chain by Abdulai, A., Birachi, Eliud Abucheli

“…The empirical results indicate that though written contracts are sparingly used in the milk transactions, milk producers are more likely to adopt such contracts compared to traders. The results also show that location of producer, source of market information, distance to markets, travel time to buyers or suppliers, gender of operator, and presence or absence of enforceable contracts significantly influence the type of coordination mechanism used in both producer-buyer and retailer-seller transactions and travel time to milk suppliers…”
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Farmer field schools as a methodology for diagnosis, modelling and decision support for animal health and production interventions by Buyu, G., Minjauw, B.

“…The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Livestock Farmer Field School Project (LFFS), started in April 2001 and funded by the DFID Animal Health Programme and FAO, is adopting and testing the FFS methodology for animal health and Production, focusing upon small-holder dairy farmers. …”
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Food security and sustainable growth for pastoral systems in semi-arid Africa by Webb, P., Bisrat, G., Coppock, D. Layne

“…The third section of the paper examines the constraints on such systems, highlighting linkages between pressures on pastoralism and those on the pastoral resource base. Major strategies adopted by pastoralists in the face of increasing pressures are summarized in the fourth section. …”
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SmartFarm monitoring and evaluation framework and strategy white paper by Faulkner L

“…In line with the original project logframe, SmartFarm aims to contribute towards the overall objective that “a range of climate smart aquatic agricultural interventions in four villages in Bangladesh are widely adopted.” The purpose is to identify, test, evaluate and promote climate change risk management and adaptation practices at household and community level in order to create “farms of the future” that implement optimized integrated farming systems. …”
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Learning the Smart Way: Lessons Learned by the Reaching Agents of Change Project by Mbabu, A.N., Munyua, H.M., Mulongo, G., David, S., Brendin, M.

“…This booklet shares the learning process that RAC adopted and highlights some useful and replicable lessons learned.…”
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The CGIAR at a crossroads: assessing the role of international agricultural research in poverty alleviation from an innovation systems perspective by Ekboir, Javier M.

“…Finally, CGIAR researchers should adopt new research methods to better integrate into local and international innovation networks.…”
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Medicinal and aromatic plants improve livelihoods in Yemen by Gotor, Elisabetta, Cherfas, J.

“…The generated benefits incentivized farmers to continue to apply the interventions beyond the lifetime of the project ensuring thus a sustainable process in which exogenous interventions, once adopted by farmers become integrant part of farmer’s agronomic practices.…”
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Visit to climate-smart village activities in Wote, Makueni Kenya by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…The sites are learning sites for other farms around, to come and see how they too can adopt climate-appropriate farming practices to help them build resilience towards a changing climate. …”
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Recognising efforts by a woman farmer by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…However following support from the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and a number of partners, Mwanaisha has adopted improved farming practices such as use of improved seed varieties, fertilizers and timely land preparation. …”
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Moving beyond Integrated Water Resources Management: Developmental Water Management in South Africa by van Koppen, Barbara, Schreiner, B.

“…In 2013, the Department of Water Affairs overcame the widely documented flaws of IWRM by adopting developmental water management as its water resource management approach, aligning with the political and socio-economic goals of South Africa's democratic developmental state.…”
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When committed and open-minded people come together to make gender research work by Mulema, Annet A.

“…Open-minded people are necessary to adopt new lines of work, including gender work. Men and women have different views, and sex-disaggregated data can better inform research work. …”
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Moving away from gender blind tools: Engendering the livestock feed assessment tool by Lukuyu, Ben A.

“…The “FEAST” livestock feed-assessment tool has been widely promoted and adopted, but as time passed the research team started receiving feedback. …”
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Youth participation in smallholder livestock production and marketing by Mutua, Edna N., Bukachi, S., Bett, Bernard K., Estambale, B.B.A., Nyamongo, I.

“…Interventions that seek to improve livestock production and marketing, particularly involving young people, should therefore adopt strategies that recognise these norms as a first step to addressing social exclusion.…”
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CTA Rapport Annuel 2016 - Une année en revue : Façonner le changement by Centre Technique de Coopération Agricole et Rurale

“…Vers la fin de l’année 2015, les États membres de l’ONU ont adopté de nouveaux objectifs de développement durable (ODD). …”
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