Resultados de búsqueda - "Adoption"

The Impact of Kitchen Gardening on the Social and Economic State of Rural Women: Bihar Sustainable Livelihood Development (BSLD) Project supported by Heifer International por Shukla, Karunesh, Kumar, Amit

“…The BSLD project also focuses on promoting a balanced diet through Panchranga Bhojan, an educational initiative that encourages smallholder women farmers to adopt diverse and nutritious diets for better overall health outcomes. …”
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Understanding gendered coping mechanisms of actors within cassava production in the face of prevailing climate change challenges in Tanzania por Msita, Sarah, Adeyeye, Olajumoke, Mwakanyamale, Devis F., Cole, Steven M.

“…Qualitative research methods were adopted through conducting 10 in-depth interviews, eight key informant interviews, and six communitylevel focus group discussions with purposively selected women and men cassava actors in Muleba district in Tanzania. …”
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Enhancing climate-resilient livelihoods of women, youth and vulnerable populations in the Lake Victoria Zone Region of Kenya: A case of Homabay and Migori counties por Adam, Rahma, Amwata, Dorothy, Ndiema, Nicholas, Osa, Philip

“…A cross-sectional study design, incorporating mixed qualitative and quantitative methods, was adopted in this study. This study analyzed data from the 480 sample households, 42 key informant interviews (KIIs) and six focus group discussions (FGDs). …”
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Enhancing gender equality and women's resilience through climate mitigation in agri-food systems por Tavenner, Katie

“…Using a three-prong methodology to gather data based on scientific studies, key informant interviews, and learning on the theme in close consultation with IRRI social and biophysical scientists, the study reviewed which climate mitigation activities had been tested and adopted by women farmers, considering mediating intersectional sociocultural dynamics. …”
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Fostering gender dimensions in henna (Lawsonia inermis L.) production under arid and semi-arid conditions por Simgh, Dheeraj, Chaudhary, M.K., Tetarwal, Chandan Kumar, Kuri, B.R.

“…With women predominant at all levels—production, preharvest, post-harvest processing, packaging and even marketing—it is imperative to adopt gender-specific interventions. An inclusive, transformative agricultural policy should aim at gender-specific interventions to raise productivity of small farm holdings, integrate women as active agents in rural transformation, and engage women in extension services with gender expertise. …”
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Modeling Vietnam’s Blue Transformation Under Climate Change: A Conceptual Framework por Long Chu, Hoang, Tran, Nhuong, Chan, Chin Yee, Le, Lien

“…This priority includes developing and adopting user-friendly integrated modeling and planning frameworks to assist stakeholders in examining the trade-offs and co-benefits of policy options in agriculture and aquaculture food systems, undertaking stock assessments as part of MRV systems (Measurement, Reporting, and Verification), developing scenarios of potential futures, and designing policies and programs. …”
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Willingness to pay (WTP) for heat-tolerant maize hybrids in the Mid-Western Terai region of Nepal por Kulkarni, Atul Prabhakar, Tripathi, Mahendra Prasad, Gautam, Damodar, Koirala, Keshab Babu, Kandel, Manoj, Regmi, Dhruba, Sapkota, Sudha, Zaidi, Pervez H.

“…Factors such as education, owning land, the interaction of hybrid adopters and owning land, soil depth, the number of goats/sheep, and the semi-pucca homes of households influenced the WTP for heat-tolerant maize hybrids. …”
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Identificación y selección de los instrumentos e incentivos aplicables a las diferentes fases de la cadena de valor de cacao bajo en emisiones en Caquetá y Cesar por Garcia, Maria Claudia, Blanco, Javier Tomás, Navarrete, Manuela, Quintana, Angélica, Borda, Carlos, Vanegas, Martha

“…It emphasizes collaboration between entities and the need to build long-term projects, seeking public-private partnerships to overcome the barriers identified in adopting low-carbon cocoa systems.…”
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Frankia-actinorhizal symbiosis: a non-chemical biological assemblage for enhanced plant growth, nodulation and reclamation of degraded soils por Bhattacharyya, Pranaba Nanda, Islam, Nazim Forid, Sarma, Bhaskar, Nath, Bharat Chandra, Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq, Lesueur, Didier

“…The beneficial microorganisms can be used as efficient, non-chemical and sustainable alternatives for adopting effective soil restoration programmes and revegetation schedules in chemical and industrial-contaminated sites, including treating degraded lands contaminated with toxic chemicals and pesticides. …”
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Can water, energy, and food policies in support of solar irrigation enable gender transformative changes? Evidence from policy analysis in Bangladesh and Nepal por Khadka, Manohara, Uprety, Labisha, Shrestha, Gitta, Shakya, Shristi, Mitra, Archisman, Mukherji, Aditi

“…Therefore, in this study, we reviewed 39 WEF sectoral policies of Bangladesh and Nepal by adopting a gender-transformative analysis approach to rank the policies on a continuum ranging from a scale of 0–3 (denoting gender-unaware, gender-aware, gender-responsive, and gendertransformative). …”
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Assessing the resilience of Kenya's food system: A production approach por Ulimwengu, John M., Mbuthia, Juneweenex, Omune, Lensa

“…In this sense, resilience of a food system may be considered a system property that plays a critical role in its sustainability (Jacobi et al. 2018), thus ensuring sustained food security. This chapter adopts this definition with the objective of assessing the resilience of Kenya’s food system and its components using systemwide metrics. …”
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Ghana cereal-legume agronomy scaling and acceleration platform (Gh-CerLeg-GAIP) por Adjei-Nsiah, S., Nkomo, M., Dotse, S.K., Vincent, A., Ndejipo, I.

“…These included Directors of Agriculture, CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute representatives, YARA-Ghana, Aggregators, Nucleus farmers, Esoko Ghana and IITA. The 3-day workshop adopted a participatory approach using tools such as PowerPoint presentations for information sharing, group work, and plenary discussions for GH-CerLeg-GAIP development. …”
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Tackling gender inequality in community-based organizations: The contribution of cacao cooperatives to environmental justice for women in Peru por Miram Maeder, Thomas, Evert, Villar, Gesabel, Ramírez, Marleni, Fünfgeld, Hartmut, Oberlack, Christoph

“…Persistent gender inequalities challenge theory and praxis of community-based collective action. Here we adopt an innovative approach which integrates environmental justice, value chain inclusion and collective action theory to diagnose inequalities in community- based organizations (CBOs) and identify strategies to address them. …”
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Gender considerations in One Health: a framework for researchers por Galiè, Alessandra, McLeod, A., Campbell, Zoë A., Ngwili, Nicholas, Terfa, Zelalem G., Thomas, Lian F.

“…A thoughtfully implemented One Health intervention that prioritizes gender equity is more likely to be adopted, has fewer unintended negative consequences, and can support progress toward gender equality, however there is limited evidence and discussion to guide using a gender lens in One Health activities. …”
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Do farmers' perceptions and socio-economic factors drive cocoa agroforestry and sustainable soil carbon management practices in West Africa? por Kumah, F.J., Kouabenan, A., Gebrekirstos, A., Kone, D., Adjei-Nsiah, S.

“…This study thus suggests the need for appropriate training and education for smallholder cocoa farmers, and harmonization of the understanding among different stakeholder groups along the cocoa supply chain of common strategies to adopt to achieve sustainable cocoa production that addresses low productivity, biodiversity loss and carbon emission within the smallholder cocoa production system in West Africa.…”
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Evaluating breeding for broad versus narrow adaptation for cassava in Nigeria using stochastic simulation por Bakare, M.A., Kayondo, S.I., Kulakow, P., Rabbi, I.Y., Jannink, J.L.

“…The cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) breeding program at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) has adopted genomic selection to accelerate genetic gain. …”
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Navigating One Health in research-for-development: Reflections on the design and implementation of the CGIAR Initiative on One Health por Lam, Steven, Hoffmann, Vivian, Bett, Bernard K., Fèvre, Eric M., Moodley, Arshnee, Mohan, Chadag V., Mateo-Sagasta, Javier, Hung Nguyen-Viet

“…Adopting One Health approaches is key for addressing interconnected health challenges. …”
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Technology and policy options for reducing India's import dependence on edible oils por S. J., Balaji, Sharma, Purushottam, P., Venkatesh, Kapoor, Shreya

“…This brief looks at the recent trends in edible oil imports and the possibilities of reducing these by increasing domestic production, adopting yield-enhancing technologies, and raising import tariffs.…”
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Action on invasive species: Control strategies of Parthenium hysterophorus L. on smallholder farms in Kenya por Tabe-Ojong, Martin Paul Jr., Alvarez, Miguel, Ihli, Hanna J., Becker, Mathias, Heckelei, Thomas

“…Hand weeding is the most common option, adopted by almost 40% of farmers. The use of agrochemicals or soil-based control strategies appears to be related to knowledge and information characteristics such as access to extension services, membership in organisations and the educational level of household heads. …”
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What monetary incentives are rice farmers willing to accept to stop straw burning? Evidence from a choice experiment in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam por Cuong, Ong Quoc, Demont, Matty, Pabuayon, Isabelita M., Depositario, Dinah Pura T.

“…Results from a mixed logit model suggest that farmers are willing to stop straw burning and adopt sustainable straw management practices in return for monetary incentives. …”
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