Resultados de búsqueda - "Adoption"

Creating an enabling environment for developing and deploying market-ready science-based innovations for sustainable food systems por Adeniyi, Daniel, Rampa, Francesco, Menza, Gianpiero

“…Extended development timelines, gaps in capacity-to-adopt and infrastructure, corporate concentration, and regulatory intricacies all contribute to slower and more limited scalability compared to other sectors. …”
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The role of heterogenous implementation on the uptake and long-term diffusion of agricultural insurance in a pastoral context por Jensen, Nathaniel D., Teufel, Nils, Banerjee, Rupsha R., Galgallo, Diba, Shikuku, Kelvin Mashisia

“…To make a difference in lower-income countries, agricultural innovations must be adopted and ultimately diffused across diverse local environments. …”
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UNFSS Science Days Side Event: Reforming agricultural policies to support food systems transformation por International Food Policy Research Institute, Indian Council for International Economic Research (ICRIER), Academy of Global Food Economics and Policy, China Agricultural University (AGFEP)

“…But emission-reducing agricultural productivity growth could be boosted by shifting current spending on agriculture toward more appropriate R&D and compensating farmers for any losses they incur from subsidy removal and for the upfront costs of adopting more sustainable technologies and production practices.…”
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Elite capture, the “follow-up checks” policy, and the targeted poverty alleviation program: Evidence from rural Western China por Cheng, Xiao-yu, Wang, Jian-ying, Chen, Kevin Z.

“…Decentralized methods for targeting poverty are widely adopted in developing countries to improve the performance of various poverty alleviation programs. …”
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Cognitive interviewing to improve women's empowerment questions in surveys: Application to the health and nutrition and intrahousehold relationships modules for the project‐level W... por Hannan, Anika, Heckert, Jessica, James-Hawkins, Laurie, Yount, Kathryn M.

“…In 2015, the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals, which include fostering gender equality and women's empowerment and ending hunger and malnutrition. …”
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Assessing community health information systems: Evidence from child health records in food insecure areas of the Ethiopian highlands por Hirvonen, Kalle, Berhane, Guush, Assefa, Thomas

“…Further analysis based on the household survey data indicated that health posts that had adopted nationally recommended recordkeeping practices had more complete records (p < 0.01) and that children residing farther from health posts were less likely to be found from the registers (p < 0.05). …”
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Evolution of agricultural mechanization in Thailand por Cramb, Rob, Thepent, Viboon

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Prices of vegetables and fruits in Ethiopia: Trends and implications for consumption and nutrition por Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane, Minten, Bart

“…Especially green leafy vegetables show a significant price rise, likely because few high-yielding varieties of these vegetables have been made available and adopted by producers. Second, part of the rise in prices is explained by increased marketing margins. …”
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Youth: Including Africa’s young people in food systems por Mueller, Valerie, Rosenbach, Gracie, Thurlow, James

“…. - Opportunities in food systems for youth may be overestimated: Young farmers who are familiar with information technologies are not necessarily more likely than their elders to adopt improved inputs or increase productivity. Nor are they more likely to operate or work for a nonfarm enterprise or to migrate to large urban centers. - Broad-based development policies that create opportunities for all rural people may do more to support the growing youth population than polices designed specifically for youth.…”
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Modelling the economic impact of the Rohingya influx in Southern Bangladesh por Filipski, Mateusz J., Tiburcio, Ernesto, Dorosh, Paul A., Hoddinott, John F., Rosenbach, Gracie

“…In the context of the massive influx of Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals to Bangladesh, this paper aims to evaluate the potential consequences on the Southern Bangladesh economy. It adopts an economywide perspective to study the impacts of increased labor supply and increased consumer demand in a general equilibrium framework, using a Local Economy-wide Impact Evaluation (LEWIE) model. …”
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Nutrition sensitive food system: Policy analysis and investment framework for Myanmar por Babu, Suresh Chandra

“…Since food systems influence the type of food produced, understanding relevant drivers of a country’s food system with an emphasis on nutrition can help to end malnutrition (Per Pinstrup-Andersen 2012a; HLPE 2017; Babu and Kataki 2003). In this paper, we adopt a food systems perspective to review Myanmar’s current food system. …”
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Role of land access in youth migration and youth employment decisions: Empirical evidence from rural Nigeria por Ghebru, Hosaena, Amare, Mulubrhan, Mavrotas, George, Ogunniyi, Adebayo

“…Overall, the findings show that the size of expected land inheritance is significantly and negatively associated with long distance migration and migration to urban areas, while a similar impact is negligible when a broader definition of migration is adopted and when migration is deemed as temporary. …”
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Playing games to save water: Collective action games for groundwater management in India por Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Janssen, Marco A., Kandikuppa, Sandeep, Chaturvedi, Rahul, Rao, R. Kaushalendra, Theis, Sophie

“…After the games were played, a significantly higher proportion of communities have adopted water registers and rules to govern groundwater, compared to other communities in the same NGO water commons program. …”
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Farmer groups as ICT Hubs: Findings from a cluster-randomized controlled trial in Malawi por Ragasa, Catherine, Ma, Ning, Hami, Emmanuel

“…An information and communication technology (ICT)-based intervention bundle was provided to producer groups to transform them into ICT hubs, where members learn about and adopt improved management practices and increase their productivity and incomes. …”
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A novel SINE family occurs frequently in both genomic DNA and transcribed sequences in ixodid ticks of the arthropod sub-phylum Chelicerata por Sunter, J.D., Patel, S.P., Skilton, Robert A., Knowles, Donald P., Scoles, Glen A., Nene, Vishvanath M., Villiers, Etienne P. de, Bishop, Richard P.

“…Secondary structure predictions indicated that Ruka could adopt a tRNA structure that was, atypically, most similar to a serine tRNA. …”
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Migrant youth’s emerging dietary patterns in Haiti: The role of peer social engagement por Heckert, Jessica, Boatemaa, Sandra, Altman, Claire E.

“…Interactions with peers may have an important influence as migrant youth adopt new dietary preferences. Emerging dietary patterns among youth migrants have important implications for health trajectories and the development of degenerative diseases.…”
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Analysis of impact of climate change on growth and yield of yam and cassava and adaptation strategies by farmers in Southern Nigeria por Chukwuone, Nnaemeka

“…This study determined the adaptation and coping strategies adopted by farmers under yam- and cassava-based farming systems in Ebonyi and Enugu States in Nigeria’s derived savannah agro-ecological zone. …”
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Why do rural youth migrate? Evidence from Colombia and Guatemala por Díaz Baca, Manuel Francisco, Moreno Lerma, Leonardo, Burkart, Stefan, Triana-Ángel, Natalia

“…Consequently, without more effective measures adopted by national governments, the cattle sector will lag behind its regional and international competitors, deterring the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. …”
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Poultry manure fertilization of Egyptian aquaculture ponds brings more cons than pros por Nyberg, Oskar, Novotny, Andreas, Sbaay, Ashraf, Nasr-Allah, Ahmed, Al-Kenawy, Diaa, Rossignoli, Cristiano, Henriksson, Patrik

“…With the risk of disseminating ARGs and causing eutrophication of local waterways, we recommend that Egyptian tilapia pond farmers refrain from using CM and adopt best management practices for increasing farm profitability in order to reduce environmental and health hazards.…”
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Status of One Health implementation in Botswana por Kgosimore, Moatlhodi, Mokhondo, N., Pfukenyi, D.M., Tlale, L., Sebolai, B., Segopolo, I., Mmopi, K., Ntshiamisang, K., Tselaesele, N.M., Baikitse, G., Babayani, N., Phokoje, S., Ntshebe, O., Malambane, G., Knight-Jones, Theodore J.D., Caron, Alexandre, Richards, Shauna, Pule-Meulenberg, Flora

“…It is recommended from this study that there is an urgent need to adopt and adapt OH approaches in the country and institutionalize OH platforms for operational purposes through enaction and promulgation of relevant statutory instruments in the affected sectors of the economy, like health, education, environment and research.…”
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