Resultados de búsqueda - "Adoption"

Evaluating alternative policy responses to higher world food prices: The case of increasing rice prices in Madagascar por Coady, David, Dorosh, Paul A., Minten, Bart

“…Higher world food prices have led many governments in developing countries to adopt policy measures to mitigate the adverse impact on low-income households. …”
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Why is the Doha development agenda failing? And what can be done?: A computable general equilibrium-game theoretical approach por Bouët, Antoine, Laborde Debucquet, David

“…The solutions vary according to the objective functions adopted by the trade negotiators. When real income is the objective and services are excluded, or when optimizing terms of trade is the objective, the Nash solution is the status quo. …”
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Access to and governance of rural services: Agricultural extension and drinking water supply in Ethiopia por Mogues, Tewodaj, Cohen, Marc J., Birner, Regina, Lemma, Mamusha, Randriamamonjy, Josee, Tadesse, Fanaye, Paulos, Zelekawork

“…Farmers' satisfaction with extension services was very high, but only 8 percent of the sampled farmers had adopted any new practices in the past two years.…”
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Profit efficiency of smallholder vegetable farms in Nepal: Implications for improving household income por Shrestha, Rudra Bahadur, Bhandari, Humnath, Pandey, Sushil

“…The profit efficiency in vegetable farming can be enhanced by adopting improved seed varieties, improving effective information and extension programs, increasing accessibility of credit facilities to the farmers, developing market infrastructure, and empowering women farmers in vegetable farming that leads to improve household income and nutrition security.…”
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Plant sciences, public policies and food security por Zeigler, Robert S.

“…Public or philanthropic investments created the foundation for private investment in technologies that have been widely adopted. As the public sector reduces its investments in research and development, it is not clear that the private sector has the appetite or means to make the needed investments. …”
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Insights from Primary Data Collection on Rice Food Loss in Vietnam por Kok, M.G., Soethoudt, J.M., Guo, X., Axmann, H.B.

“…Estimates of losses at various stages of the supply chain were adopted from Porter et al. (2016) to calculate FL across Vietnam’s production and trade systems. …”
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Diversifying Urban Gardens in Quezon City, Philippines, with Climate-Resilient Nutrient-Dense Vegetables por Kimayong, Doreen, Anunciado, Ma. Shiela S., Gonsalves, Julian, Oro, Emilita Monville, De Castro, Ronnie, Schreinemachers, Pepijn, Bertuso, Arma

“…Quezon City, a highly urbanized area in Metro Manila, has adopted urban agriculture to boost food security, enhance nutrition, and promote sustainable practices. …”
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Capacity building of women farmers organizations in the local fabrication and operation of GEM parboiler por Diabate, Fatoumata, Mujawamariya, Gaudiose, Dossou-Yovo, E. R

“…The technology addresses challenges like limited access to affordable firewood, smoke exposure, burns, and excessive labor. By adopting GEM, participating women saw a significant income increase of USD 200 per ton of parboiled rice and reduced firewood costs from USD 18.3 to USD 6.4 per ton. …”
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Influencing the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change por Cramer, Laura K., Njuguna, Lucy, Arango, Jacobo

“…The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international environmental treaty aimed at combating climate change. Adopted in 1992 during the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, it sets out a framework for international efforts to address the issue of global warming and its impacts. …”
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Water politics in Pakistan: the internal and external dynamics por Lad, R. M., Jaybhaye, R. G.

“…Finally, the paper concludes that adopting a desecuritized approach towards water resources, coupled with a nuanced focus on internal factors, presents a promising strategy for mitigating water-related concerns in Pakistan.c…”
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Water politics in Pakistan: the internal and external dynamics por Lad, M. R., Jaybhaye, R. G.

“…Finally, the paper concludes that adopting a desecuritized approach towards water resources, coupled with a nuanced focus on internal factors, presents a promising strategy for mitigating water-related concerns in Pakistan.…”
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Production decisions and food security outcomes of smallholder’s livestock market participation: empirical evidence from Zimbabwe por Melesse, Mequanint B., Tirra, Amos Nyangira, Homann-kee-Tui, Sabine, Van Rooyen, Andre F., Hauser, Michael

“…While market participants are more likely to consider market conditions in their decisions, most farmers are needs-driven and cannot afford to adopt commercial-oriented behavior. Overall, smallholder livestock production systems respond to market incentives and can support food security strategies, particularly in drylands where crop production is risky.…”
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Contract Farming in Developing Countries: The promise and its perils por Narayanan, Sudha

“…The author explains the importance of adopting a more integrated theoretical perspective, providing insights into the ways in which this can reconcile conflicting positions. …”
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New arrangements for forest science (discussion paper prepared for the intergovernmental panel on forests, fourth session, New York, Feb 97

“…As forest scientists widen their field of view and look at problems in a across-sectoral way, and with a sense of history, they start to ask, and aswer, more of the pressing questions. If they adopt an analytical, rather than a descriptive approach, they will make many new discoveries. …”
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Gendered constraints to smallholder pig farming and marketing in Rwanda por Ouma, Emily, Ntawubizi, Martin, Achandi, Esther

“…This study component adopted a qualitative methodology through 8 Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and 24 Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) in Gakenke and Nyamagabe districts in Rwanda. …”
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Climate, displacement and mental health. Overlapping challenges and opportunities por Campbell, Raramai, Ramos, Cristina, Takaindisa, Joyce, Maviza, Gracsious

“…The brief proposes seven strategies to build integrated responses that recognize displaced populations as active agents of resilience: embedding mental health in climate adaptation programs, improving climate risk communication, developing inclusive early warning systems, promoting peer-support networks, addressing gendered vulnerabilities, and adopting long-term climate-resilient planning in displacement settings.…”
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Empowering women in business through improved chicken in Tanzania por Ojwang, Sylvester, Jumba, Humphrey, Galiè, Alessandra, Jasada, Ijudai, Jeremiah, Adolf, Karugia, Joseph

“…The WiB model has empowered both vendors and women farmers, leading to improved incomes, nutrition, and gender equality. It is now being adopted by government and private sector actors and scaled to other livestock value chains (such as dairy) and other geographies, including Dodoma in Tanzania, Zambia, with plans for Ethiopia, South Sudan, Lesotho, Kenya, and Uganda.…”
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Strengthening Sustainable Water Management in Coastal Polders of Bangladesh: Importance of Institutional and Policy Reform por Salahuddin, Ahmad, Amin, Md. Ruhul, Humaira, Bushra

“…Recommendations include empowering WMOs, using polders and sub-catchments as planning units, leveraging engineering support from BWDB and complementary roles of LGED, BADC, and DAE/DoF, and adopting innovative approaches such as CS-MAP for adaptive water management planning. …”
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Science for Africa’s future food security: rethinking breeding to adapt to diversified cropping systems por Ayenan, Mathieu A. T., Schafleitner, Roland, Pawera, Lukas, Odjo, Sylvanus

“…Achieving this goal hinges on a deep understanding of farmer preferences and their willingness to adopt varieties that boost both productivity and agroecosystem services. …”
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The state of the world's forest biodiversity por Sayer, Jeffrey A., Iremonger, S.

“…The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), adopted at the Rio Summit in 1992 and now ratified by 169 countries, has had a major impact on biodiversity becoming a global concern. …”
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