Resultados de búsqueda - "Adoption"

One year after COVID: The challenges and outlook of Chinese micro and small enterprises por Kong, Tao, Yang, Xiaohan, Wang, Ranran, Cheng, Zijun, Zhang, Xiaobo

“…. - In response to the COVID-19 shock, a higher percentage of newly established businesses adopted online sales and electronic information systems than those established earlier. - The confidence indices on market demand, production, and revenues for the next quarter have returned to positive territory, indicating an optimistic outlook. …”
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Production and marketing of chili in the Brong-Ahafo area of Ghana por Vigneri, Marcella, Kolavalli, Shashidhara, Agandin, John, Moyo, Qondi

“…These higher chili yields resulted primarily by applying higher levels of inorganic fertilizers. Many producers have adopted improved chili varieties – nearly 70 percent of long chili producers reported having planted Legon 18, the variety which is generally used for making chili powder. …”
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When implementation goes wrong: Lessons from crop insurance in India por Nirmal, Rajalakshmi, Babu, Suresh Chandra

“…The paper argues that getting buy-in from all stakeholders, adopting remote sensing technologies, strengthening infrastructure and institutional capacity, conducting outcome evaluation, and putting in place a monitoring system could be effective mechanisms to mainstream the program among smallholder farmers.…”
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Understanding knowledge, attitudes, and practices among smallholder women and youth farmers in relation to seed information and entrepreneurship in Butaleja Eastern Uganda por Lengewa, Catherin, Mikhala, Audrine, Aura, Sylvester, Amuda, Alex, Yila, Jummai, Nchanji, Eileen, Bomuhangi, Allan

“…However, agricultural production in Uganda operates at less than 40% of its attainable potential for key staple crops (Kraybill et al., 2012). Adopting modern agricultural technologies can increase yields, and access to quality inputs is still a challenge, leaving farmers vulnerable to adverse weather conditions (IGC, 2017)4. …”
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Linking farmers’ perceptions and management decision toward sustainable agroecological transition: evidence from rural Tunisia por Souissi, Asma, Dhehibi, Boubaker, M. Oumer, Ali, Majri, Rihab, Frija, Aymen, Oueslati-Zlaoui, Meriem, Dhraief, Mohamed Zied

“…Fifty seven percent of the workshops participants identified the olive oil value chain as having the greatest potential for agroecological transformation, but it faces constraints such as climate, lack of policy incentives, training, funding, and difficulty in adopting technical innovations. Women’s inclusion in agriculture, environmental, social, and economic challenges were also highlighted. …”
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Risk-based evaluations of competing agronomic climate adaptation strategies: The case of rice planting strategies in the indo-Gangetic Plains por Mkondiwa, Maxwell, Urfels, Anton

“…Evaluations of these strategies mostly consider yield and yield variability, but focus less on financial risks associated with different planting strategies and importance of risk aversion behaviour of the farmers in their decision to adopt the strategies. OBJECTIVE: Here, we present a novel framework that uses a computational spatial ex-ante approach for risk-based evaluations of agronomic adaptation options. …”
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Agricultural policy in disarray: Reforming the farm bill—An overview por Smith, Vincent H., Glauber, Joseph W., Goodwin, Barry K., Sumner, Daniel A.

“…In addition, many conservation programs that pay farmers to adopt or continue conservation practices are poorly targeted and add little to the quality of the environment but in total cost taxpayers more than $5 billion a year. …”
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Formal versus informal: Efficiency, inclusiveness, and financing of dairy value chains in India por Chand, Ramesh, Joshi, Pramod Kumar, Saxena, Raka, Rajkhowa, Pallavi, Khan, Md. Tajuddin, Khan, Mohd. Arshad, Chaudhary, Khyali R., Birthal, Pratap Singh

“…The innovative financial products, such as ‘dairy credit card’ and ‘contract as collateral’ would enable them to adopt yield-enhancing technology and inputs and also to scale up their dairy activity.…”
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The sustainable land management program in the Ethiopian highlands: An evaluation of its impact on crop production por Schmidt, Emily, Tadesse, Fanaye

“…Previous research has found that non-treatment neighbors learn from nearby program areas, and adopt technologies similar to programmed areas, which would dilute the impact measurement of program effects (Bernard et al. 2007; Angelucci and DiMaro 2010). …”
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Burkina Faso: Evaluation des processus de revue conjointe du secteur agricule: Promouvoir la responsabilité mutuelle par des processus de revue et de dialogue complets, inclusifs e... por Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Burkina Faso

“…Dans le cadre du processus de mise en oeuvre du Programme détaillé de développement de l’Agriculture Africaine (PDDA) dont la déclinaison nationale est le PNSR, la commission de l’Union africaine (CUA) et l’Agence de planification et de coordination du NEPAD (APCN) ont adopté un Cadre de responsabilité mutuelle édictant les principes de la revue mutuelle. …”
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Maize residue management in Myanmar por Myanmar Agrifood Program for Strategy and Analysis

“…Key Findings  Burning maize residues is not the most common practice in Myanmar, and the share of farmers burning fell from 44 percent in 2013 to 34 percent in 2023 as farmers have adopted alternate approaches, such as retaining residues in the soil…”
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Toward compatibility with national dairy production and climate goals through locally appropriate mitigation interventions in Kenya por Graham, Michael W., Özkan, Şeyda, Arndt, Claudia, González-Quintero, Ricardo, Korir, Daniel, Merbold, Lutz, Mottet, Anne, Ndung'u, Phyllis W., Notenbaert, An, Leitner, Sonja M.

“…We outscaled our results to the national level to determine the potential impact of adopting our interventions on national dairy production and GHG emission goals using the FAO Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model – interactive (GLEAM-i) tool. …”
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Biofortification: Future challenges for a newly emerging technology to improve nutrition security sustainably por Bouis, Howarth E., Foley, Jennifer, Lividini, Keith, Jumrani, Jaya, Reinke, Russell, Van Der Straeten, Dominique, Zagado, Ronan, Boy, Erick, Brown, Lynn R., Mudyahoto, Bho, Alioma, Richard, Hussain, Munawar, Pfeiffer, Wolfgang H.

“…Farmers have every motivation to adopt the latest high-yielding, high profit crops. …”
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The state of the agri-, food-, and climate-tech innovation ecosystem in Egypt por Vitón, Roberto, Al-saffar, Reem, Menza, Gianpiero, Zaccari, Claudia, Dowling, Kevin

“…However, achieving a sustainable future requires adopting science-based solutions, many of which remain stacked at the concept stage, never to be deployed in the market. …”
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Development strategies, macroeconomic policies, and the agricultural sector in Zambia por Resnick, Danielle, Thurlow, James

“…Zambia’s government first adopted a strategy of state-directed industrialization. …”
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Rural investment to accelerate growth and poverty reduction in Kenya por Thurlow, James, Kiringai, Jane, Gautam, Madhur

“…However, increasing agricultural spending to 10 percent of total spending is insufficient to meet either the MDG or the 6 percent agricultural growth target of the Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Program, which Kenya has recently adopted. . Achieving this target requires nonagricultural investments, such as in roads and market development. …”
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Biosafety at the crossroads: An analysis of South Africa's marketing and trade policies for genetically modified products por Gruère, Guillaume P., Sengupta, Debdatta

“…South Africa is the only country in Africa that has both adopted genetically modified (GM) crops and developed a functional biosafety system to manage any risks related to the use of GM products. …”
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Innovations in insuring the poor: Microfinance and unexpected consumption expenditures por Hornbeck, Richard

“…This reflects a great deal of adaptability in creating and adopting different instruments, but it also reflects the limited capabilities of each particular instrument individually. …”
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When speculation matters por Robles, Miguel, Torero, Máximo, von Braun, Joachim

“…A number of countries adopted retail price controls, creating perverse incentives for producers. …”
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Evaluation of elite rice lines for resistance to Kenya blast fungus (Magnapothe Oryzae) por Juma, Roselyne U., Murori, Rosemary, Felister N, Mbute, Miano, Douglas W., Cobb, Joshua N.

“…A completely Randomized Design (CRD) with two replicates was adopted. Inoculation was done 21 days after planting. …”
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