Search Results - "Constitutionalism"

Exploring marketing activities to strengthen brand equity within an SME by Meyer, Kim

“…Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) are often researched through the perspectives and theories created from studies of large organizations. This constitutes the basis of a theoretical problem when studying SMEs. …”
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Husbyparken : världens mötesplats : space och place syntax-analyser som instrument för utveckling av förortens urbana struktur by Mangsbo, Ida

“…This paper constitutes graduate work at the Depart-ment of Urban and Rural Development at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. …”

Seed hubs for East and Southern Africa: mobilizing knowledge and resources for resilient seed systems by Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation

“…Sub-regional seed hubs or support/service unit(s) could address these needs, constituting an essential component of scaling strategies to mainstream the availability and use of biological/genetic diversity in seed systems for climate change adaptation. …”
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Women's Land Rights in Ethiopia: Socio-legal review by Monterroso, I., Ojong, E., Paez Valencia, Ana Maria

“…Most of the land in Ethiopia is under statutory tenure, landholding certification is the most important land tenure intervention recognizing land rights. Constitutional Reforms adopted since 1995 specify principles to protect women’s rights, including provisions to recognize and enforce their rights to land and resources through a land certification process which ensured women’s engagement. …”
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Gender Norms and Poverty Dynamics in 32 Villages of South Asia by Petesch, Patti, Badstue, Lone B.

“…The poverty dynamics of a community, and the social arrangements and opportunities that shape these dynamics, constitute important dimensions of well-being. This paper explores local understandings of and experiences with moving out of poverty and with remaining poor by employing the concept of gender norms, or the various social rules that differentiate women’s and men’s roles and conducts in society. …”
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Ecosystem services to promote Conservation Agriculture practices in Morocco: Challenges and opportunities by Dahan, Rachid, Moussadek, Rachid

“…Conservation Agriculture practice constitutes no-till combined with residue retention and crop rotation, CA is practiced to optimize available resources (soil, water and biological) whilst minimizing external inputs and soil degradation. …”
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External evaluation of the CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems by Merrey, Douglas J., McLeod, R., Szonyi, J.

“…- Quality of science: Is Dryland Systems scientific research of a high quality and do the research outputs constitute international public goods (IPGs)? - Efficiency: Is the governance and management structure of the CRP efficient? …”
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Can innovations in agri-food systems deliver gender equity and resilience? by Johnstone, Kevin, Aung, May Thazin, Barrett, Sam

“…Agri-food systems constitute a huge proportion of global jobs and economies, but are failing to provide healthy diets, equitable livelihoods and sustainable practices. …”
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Agronomics of teff by Assefa, Kebebew, Chanyalew, Solomon

“…The first section elaborates on the major peculiar features that constitute the reasons for the sustained extensive cultivation of the crop in Ethiopia. …”
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Allocative inefficiency and farm-level constraints in irrigated agriculture in Pakistan by Nasim, Sanval, Dinar, Ariel, Helfand, Steven

“…The results in this paper constitute the empirical basis for policy work that we will focus on in our future work.…”
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Understanding Agency Within Context: The Case of Breeding Cooperatives Program for Transforming Small Ruminant Value Chain in Ethiopia by Kinati, Wole, Temple, Elizabeth C., Baker, A. Derek, Najjar, Dina, Hailu, Reta

“…Based on mixed methods, we generated in-depth understandings of what constitutes agency in livestock-based institutions, and associated contextual factors across three regions. …”
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Asset versus consumption poverty and poverty dynamics in rural Ethiopia by Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda, Winter-Nelson, Alex

“…Asset dynamics are then explored to test for the existence of multiple asset index equilibria that could constitute evidence of poverty traps. Results provide evidence of multiple equilibria and show that the asset-based poverty classifications predict future asset and expenditures poverty status more accurately than expenditures-based measures. …”
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Accessing other people's technology: do non-profit agencies need it? how to obtain it? by Nottenburg, Carol, Pardey, Philip G., Wright, Brian D.

“…Are non-profits exempt from intellectual property claims? What constitutes infringement of a patent? How does a non-profit establish its freedom to operate? …”
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Private sector responses to public investments and policy reforms: The case of fertilizer and maize market development in Kenya by Ariga, Joshua, Jayne, Thomas S.

“…These developments have improved the welfare of rural and urban maize consumers, who constitute roughly 80 percent of Kenya’s population. …”
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On the interaction between weed and bird damage in rice by Demont, M., Rodenburg, J.

“…In areas where birds constitute an important production risk, it would be beneficial for rice farmers to remove those weeds that are tall enough to attract birds, even beyond the critical weed period.…”
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Development of Isiolo County rangeland management bill regulation by International Livestock Research Institute

“…The specific object of the bill is to facilitate and promote the sustainable and holistic management of rangelands and rangelands resources through: (a) strengthening customary mechanisms for grazing control; (b) facilitating community peace building ; (c) promoting inter-community access to rangelands resources; (d) regulation of fencing in rangelands areas; (e) Protection of seasonal rangelands reserves; (f) optimize the economic potential of the rangelands; (g) facilitate land related County Planning and Development under the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution of Kenya; and (h) adopt any other approaches and initiatives in furtherance of the objectives stated above.…”
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The IITA farming systems program by Okigbo, B.

“…The humid tropics is defined as the broad belt girdling the earth in the lower latitutes on both sides of the equator where precipitation exceeds evaporation for more than half the year and where normally the tropical rain forest constitutes the climax vegetation.…”
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Ecosystem restoration centered in people by Mansourian, Stephanie, Djenontin, Ida N. S., Elias, Marlene, Oldekop, Johan A, Derkyi, Mercy A. A., Kull, Christian A., Pacheco, Pablo

“…The sociopolitical contexts in which ecosystem restoration takes place, stakeholders' decisions leading to degradation or motivations to restore, influencing factors such as values, norms, and power relations, the restoration activities and their outcomes on people all constitute critical human dimensions. Yet, these dimensions are less understood and, therefore, rarely fully integrated into ecosystem restoration policy or practice. …”
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Targeted finance and the adoption of solar irrigation by smallholder and women farmers by Bhattarai, Dipendra, Fishman, Ram, Lamichhane, Nabina, Mukherji, Aditi

“…Additional targeted incentives disseminated through social mobilisers effectively engage women farmers, leading them to constitute more than half of eventual SIP adopters.…”
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Research methods for reduced-impact logging: workshop results by Putz, F.E., Elias, Sist, P., Dykstra, D.P., Heinrich, R.

“…Their written reports constitute the bulk of this publication and have been grouped by subject matter. …”
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