Resultados de búsqueda - "Chang’an"

Achieving sustainable cocoa intensification in Cameroon: current constraints and effectiveness of service delivery por Essougong, U.P.K.

“…To foster the transition towards sustainable cocoa production systems, the thesis advocates for changes in the cocoa sector governance. In terms of policy implications, the findings point to the need for a more prominent role of the state in the governance of the cocoa value chain, and for international agreements and negotiations based on win-win partnerships between sourcing-and-producing countries and resulting in the co-construction of solutions and strategies to address the sector’s sustainability challenges. …”
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Phone surveillance, from scratch: Novel sample design features of the nationally representative Myanmar Household Welfare Survey (MHWS) por Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity

“…To assess the effectiveness of these two strategies on achieving representativeness and consistency with previous surveys, we compare results from the MHWS to earlier nationally representative datasets, focusing on sample sizes of interviewed households for each state/region, and on education levels, farm/non-farm occupation, urban/rural residence, as well as respondents’ housing characteristics, which are unlikely to change substantially over short periods of time. We show that the phone-based MHWS has broader geographical coverage than previous national surveys, reaching 310 of Myanmar’s 330 townships. …”
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Pakistan: Impacts of the Ukraine and global crises on the economy and poverty por Qureshi, Tehseen Ahmed, Rana, Abdul Wajid

“…This price shock came at a time when the fragile economy of the country was recovering from the effects of COVID-19 pandemic and grappling with the threat of climate change (severe heat wave in March-April 2022 and cataclysmic floods in August-September 2022) Price shock has affected the Current Account Deficit (CAD) and Balance of Payments since Pakistan is a net importer of oil, LNG, edible oil, and now wheat and may impact economic growth in FY2023. …”
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An evolving paradigm for Africa and synthesis of the lessons from Asia por Diao, Xinshen, Silver, Jed, Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Zhang, Xiaobo

“…In doing so, the chapter first lays out the guiding theoretical framework used in 1987 by Pingali, Bigot, and Binswanger (PBB), based on the literature on farming systems evolution and induced technological change. The chapter then describes the “new paradigm,” which builds on PBB but also integrates the additional dimension of market failures associated, on the supply side, with custom hiring services, which have become the most common mode of mechanization among smallholders in developing countries. …”
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Agricultural research in Southeast Asia: A cross-country analysis of resource allocation, performance, and impact on productivity por Stads, Gert-Jan, Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, Omot, Norah, Nguyen, Pham Thi

“…Growing national economies, higher disposable incomes, and changing consumption patterns will prompt considerable shifts in levels of agricultural production, consumption, imports, and exports across Southeast Asia over the next 20 to 30 years. …”
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Deconstructing food losses across the value chain por Delgado, Luciana, Schuster, Monica, Torero, Máximo

“…Even so, policies to address food insecurity or the increasing pressure on the world’s available land that is being caused by growing populations and changing diets have aimed mainly at increasing agricultural yields and productivity. …”
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Ethiopia Alive & Thrive Endline Survey 2014: Supervisors of Health Extension Workers por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…A&T is a six-year initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to facilitate change for improved infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices at scale in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Viet Nam. …”
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Ethiopia Alive & Thrive Endline Survey 2014: Volunteer Community Health Promoters por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…A&T is a six-year initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to facilitate change for improved infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices at scale in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Viet Nam. …”
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A&T Burkina Faso Maternal Nutrition Baseline Survey 2019: Agent de santé Communautaire (ASBC) por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…2) Can the coverage and utilization of key nutrition interventions (maternal nutrition counseling, weight gain monitoring, distribution of and counseling on IFA supplementation, and breastfeeding counseling) and number of ANC contacts be improved through health system strengthening and nutrition-focused social and behavior change communication (SBCC; interpersonal communication and community mobilization) approaches? …”
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A&T India Maternal Nutrition Nested Cohort Study 2019: Monthly Tracking por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Using a cluster-randomized evaluation design, the primary objectives of the A&T evaluation study in India are to answer the following questions: (1) Can the coverage and utilization of key maternal nutrition interventions be improved by integrating nutrition-focused social behavior change (SBC) communication and systems strengthening approaches into antenatal care (ANC) services under the RMNCH program? …”
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Ethiopia Alive & Thrive Process Evaluation Survey 2013: Health Extension Workers por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…A&T is a six-year initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to facilitate change for improved infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices at scale in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Viet Nam. …”
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A&T India Maternal Nutrition COVID-19 Phone Survey 2020: Households – Recently Delivered Women por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Using a cluster randomized evaluation design, the primary objectives of the A&T evaluation study in India are to answer the following questions : (1) Can the coverage and utilization of key maternal nutrition interventions be improved by integrating nutrition-focused social behavior change (SBC) communication and systems strengthening approaches into antenatal care (ANC) services under the RMNCH program? …”
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A&T India Maternal Nutrition Baseline Survey 2017: Households - Husbands por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Using a cluster randomized evaluation design, the primary objectives of the A&T evaluation study in India are to answer the following questions : 1) Can the coverage and utilization of key maternal nutrition interventions be improved by integrating nutrition-focused social behavior change (SBC) communication and systems strengthening approaches into antenatal care (ANC) services under the RMNCH program? …”
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Bangladesh Alive & Thrive Process Evaluation Survey 2013: Households por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…A&T is a six-year initiative to facilitate change for improved infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices at scale in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Viet Nam. …”
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2016 Global Hunger Index Data por International Food Policy Research Institute, Welthungerhilfe, Concern Worldwide

“…The revised formula also standardizes each of the component indicators to balance their contribution to the overall index and to changes in the GHI scores over time. The 2016 GHI has been calculated for 118 countries for which data on the four component indicators are available and where measuring hunger is considered most relevant. …”
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Cities and rural transformation: A spatial analysis of rural youth livelihoods in Ghana por Diao, Xinshen, Fang, Peixun, Magalhaes, Eduardo, Pahl, Stefan, Silver, Jed

“…Many rural households have shifted their primary employment from agriculture to nonagriculture, especially in the more urbanized South. In contrast, change in livelihood diversification within rural households with family members’ primary employment in both agriculture and nonagriculture appears much less rapid. …”
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Improving the use of available feed resources to overcome sheep feeding deficits in western China por Philp, Joshua, Komarek, Adam M., Pain, Sarah J., Li, Xueling, Bellotti, William D.

“…Sheep fed R2 retained 0.7 kg more on average than those fed R1 (P < 0.01) after 20 days under experimental conditions with a mean weight change of –0.089 kg/day for R1 and –0.055 kg/day for R2 (P < 0.01). …”
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Strengthening the contribution of aquaculture to food and nutrition security: The potential of a vitamin A-rich fish in Bangladesh por Fiedler, John L., Lividini, Keith, Drummond, Elizabeth, Thilsted, Shakuntala H.

“…Drawing on a WorldFish project and HIES data, we designed and modeled the implementation of a MPP, and calculated the additional vitamin A intake it would provide, calculated new incidence rates of VAD-related health outcomes and estimated MPP-attributable annual changes in DALYs. The MPP's total health benefits were calculated over the program's 11-year phase-in as the annual sum of DALYs saved. …”
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Hedging eroding slopes in Malawi: Can the integration of contour bunds and perennial forages improve Malawian mixed farming system productivity. por Höft, Mattis

“…Due to soil degradation Malawian smallholders especially struggle with a recent price-induced fertilizer shortage and changing rainfall patterns. Soil and water conservation (SWC) structures and nitrogen-fixing forages offer erosion-control and soil fertility improvement, but knowledge gaps on potential benefits in varying biophysical and socioeconomic farm contexts prevent implementation and institutional support. …”
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Pixels to pasture: Using machine learning and multispectral remote sensing to predict biomass and nutrient quality in tropical grasslands por Zwick, Mike, Cardoso, Juan Andres, Gutiérrez-Zapata, Diana María, Cerón-Muñoz, Mario, Gutiérrez, Jhon Freddy, Raab, Christoph, Jonsson, Nicholas, Escobar, Miller, Roberts, Kenny, Barrett, Brian

“…The livestock sector in rural Colombia is critical for employment and food security but is heavily affected by climate and its change. There is a need for solutions to address key challenges arising from vulnerabilities that impact the productivity and sustainability of forages and the livestock sector. …”
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