Resultados de búsqueda - "Adoption"

Crop diversification and poverty reduction: The role of access to road in Niger por Tankari, Mahamadou Roufahi, Glatzel, Katrin, Demmler, Kathrin M.

“…Crop diversification is considered as a climate-smart agriculture practice widely adopted by smallholder farmers in Niger due to its many benefits including increased resilience, control of pests and diseases, yield stability, food diversity and poverty reduction. …”
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Effects of tractor ownership on agricultural returns-to-scale in household maize production: Evidence from Ghana por Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Houssou, Nazaire, Diao, Xinshen

“…These sets of evidence are obtained by addressing jointly the multiple sources of endogeneity of tractor ownership, tractor values, tillage intensity, and other inputs used, through combinations of inverse-probability weighing method, generalized method of moments method, and the mediation effects model with multiple mediators. The adoptions of mechanical technologies (tractors) and their ownerships are causing, rather than simply responding to, the rise in RTS in Ghanaian maize production.…”
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Measuring trade integration in Africa por Bouët, Antoine, Cosnard, Lionel, Laborde Debucquet, David

“…In the Malabo Declaration of June 2014, African countries committed to tripling the level of intra-African agricultural trade and services by 2025, fast-tracking the establishment of a Continental Free Trade Area, and adopting a continentwide common external tariff. To accomplish these goals, African countries will need to consistently and accurately measure their participation in international trade. …”
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Production systems: Biophysical and economic environment and constraints por Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Bakare, Oladele Samuel

“…Nevertheless, compared to other tropical West African countries, the prevalence of a lowland rice ecology in Nigeria offers it the greatest potential in the region for production growth, except for certain socioeconomic constraints that prevent households from adopting modern inputs and improved technologies. Based on this review, we conclude the chapter by summarizing the key characteristics of current rice-production environments in Nigeria.…”
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The pair-wise province-to-county aid model for disaster relief por Wang, Zhenyao

“…China first adopted a pair-wise aid policy, in which one donor province or city is assigned to a recipient area, in the 1950s as part of its efforts to develop the minority-inhabited border areas, and this practice was first formalized by the central government in 1979 (Qian et al. 2012). …”
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Supporting water-food-land nexus policy coherence through integrated agrifood advisory and extension system in Egypt por Eldabbagh, Fayrouz, Brouziyne, Youssef

“…Many smallholder farmers still adopt traditional patterns of cultivation due to the siloed knowledge gaps in the extension services of governmental entities, the unreachability of extension services, the lack of trust in their guidance, and the absence of innovations’ scalability. …”
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Agricultural growth trends and outlook report: Trends in agricultural sector performance, growth and poverty in Malawi por Matchaya, Greenwell C., Phiri, Alexander, Chilonda, Pius, Musaba, Emmanuel

“…The study was carried out as part of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Monitoring and Evaluation for the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) Survey. The study mainly adopted a quantitative approach. A standard structured questionnaire 1 was used to collect data on several indicators around the six broad areas. …”
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Yield gaps and potential agricultural growth in West and Central Africa por Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, Johnson, Michael, Magalhaes, Eduardo, You, Liangzhi, Diao, Xinshen, Chamberlin, Jordan

“…The authors identify a set of development priorities for agriculture that cut across West Africa at both the country and regional levels to achieve economywide growth goals in the region. To do this we adopt a modeling and analytical framework that involves the integration of spatial analysis to identify yield gaps determining the growth potential of different agricultural activities for areas with similar conditions and an economywide multimarket model to simulate ex ante the economic effects of closing these yield gaps. …”
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Chapter 7. Growing cities, changing demands: Scope of urban agriculture as a sustainable agricultural intensification strategy in India por Aravindakshan, Sreejith, Hage Aku, Michi Tani

“…Urban dwellers are learning to adapt, improvise, and adopt new ways of cultivating vegetables and fruits for home consumption. …”
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Distribution, growth, and performance of microfinance institutions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America por Lapenu, Cecile, Zeller, Manfred

“…A systematic sampling has been adopted through the contacting of international NGOs and networks supporting various MFIs. …”
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Distribution, growth, and performance of microfinance institutions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America por Lapenu, Cecile, Zeller, Manfred

“…A systematic sampling has been adopted through the contacting of international NGOs and networks supporting various MFIs. …”
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Genetically modified foods, trade, and developing countries por Pohl Nielsen, Chantal, Thierfelder, Karen, Robinson, Sherman

“…This model is used to analyze the implications of widespread use of genetically engineered crops in some regions whilst consumers in Western Europe and High- income Asia adopt a critical attitude toward GM foods. Two different representations of consumer preference changes are illustrated: (1) a change in price sensitivity: i.e. consumer demand is less sensitive to a decline in the price of GM foods relative to non-GM varieties, and (2) a structural demand shift: for a given price ratio consumers simply demand less of the GM variety relative to the non-GM variety. …”
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Food subsidy changes in Sri Lanka: The short-run effect on the poor por Edirisinghe, Neville

“…Implicit in the curtailed welfare policies is the expectation that newly adopted growth-oriented investment policies will generate incomes for all, including the present poor. …”
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Specific TaqMan probed real-time quantitative RT-PCR methods and their application to differentiate the transcripts of duplicated BF or BLB genes in chicken MHC por Cai-Xia Gao, Lingxia Han, Liandong Qu, Yu-Zhu Luo, Han Jianlin

“…Hence the principles adopted to establish these specific TaqMan qRT-PCR methods in this study can be applied to differentiate the transcripts of duplicated BF or BLB genes of other MHC-B haplotypes in chicken.…”
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Integrated management of weeds in direct-seeded rice in Cambodia por Martin, Robert, Som, Bunna, Janiya, Joel, Rien, Ratha, Yous, Sophea, Chhun, Sokunroth, Korn, Chariya

“…Although pre-emergence herbicides are beginning to be adopted in wet-seeded rice, they are seldom used in dry direct-seeded rice in Cambodia. …”
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The contribution of the International Rice Genebank to varietal improvement and crop productivity in Eastern India por Villanueva, Donald, Smale, Melinda, Jamora, Nelissa, Capilit, Grace Lee, Hamilton, Ruaraidh Sackville

“…Further, our calculations reveal that the average coefficient of parentage of all pairwise combinations among the 10 most adopted rice varieties is 0.0973, indicating a high degree of latent genetic diversity. …”
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Decision-making to diversify farm systems for climate change adaptation por van Zonneveld, Maarten, Turmel, Marie-Soleil, Hellin, Jon

“…However, few recommendations exist on how to diversify farm systems in ways that best fit the agroecological and socioeconomic challenges farmers face. Farmers' ability to adopt diversification strategies is often stymied by their aversion to risk, loss of local knowledge, and limited access to agronomic and market information, this is especially the case for smallholders. …”
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Enhancing the rate of genetic gain in public-sector plant breeding programs: lessons from the breeder’s equation por Cobb, Joshua N., Juma, Roselyne U., Biswas, Partha S., Arbelaez, Juan D., Rutkoski, Jessica, Atlin, Gary, Hagen, Tom, Quinn, Michael, Ng, Eng Hwa

“…These are complex processes and will require breeding organizations to adopt a culture of continuous optimization and improvement. …”
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Mapping QTL for multiple traits using Bayesian statistics por Xu, Chenwu, Wang, Xuefeng, Li, Zhikang, Xu, Shizhong

“…Instead of using the reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) for model selection, we adopt a parameter shrinkage approach to estimate the genetic effects of all marker intervals. …”
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Rwanda: Systematic analysis of domestic production and world market shocks por Mukashov, Askar, Warner, James, Jones, Eleanor, Thurlow, James

“…Understanding how possible shocks would impact various segments of the Rwandan economy and population is a critical first step in facilitating discussions on relevant risk mitigation strategies, such as increasing average crop yields, adopting technologies and practices that narrow yield uncertainties, or diversifying production away from risky crops and sectors.…”
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