Resultados de búsqueda - "Focusing"

CGIAR 2030 Research and Innovation Strategy: Transforming food, land, and water systems in a climate crisis por CGIAR System Organization

“…The intertwined health, environment, and social inclusion challenges of the 21st century create an urgent impetus to sharpen the focus of CGIAR research. A refreshed, more ambitious strategy from CGIAR provides an opportunity to accelerate achievement of systems resilience and equal opportunities. …”
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Genetic improvement of cowpea for resistance to thrips (Megalurthrips sjostedti) in Mali por Doumbia, I.

“…Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) was conducted within two districts through focus group discussions and questionnaire administration to identify farmers‘ perception about thrips and also their preferences for varietal development in Mali. …”
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Socio-economic potential of agroforestry as an alternative livelihood strategy for cocoa farmers in Ghana por Boadi, S.A.

“…Data were also collected using focus group discussion (FGDs), plot visitation and measurements, and field observations. …”
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Introducing an agricultural app to rice farmers: A pilot study in Can Tho, Vietnam por Bui, T., Trinh, T.T., Kawarazuka, Nozomi, Schepler-Luu, V.

“…While this pilot study focused on large-scaled farmers, there are smallholder farmers from poor households in some remote areas in the Mekong Delta. …”
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Key constraints to smallholder village chicken production and marketing systems in Centre-Nord region, Burkina Faso por Dione, Michel M., Ilboudo, Guy S., Alders, R., Kagambèga, A., Ima, S., Ganser, C., Boz, Z., Knight-Jones, Theodore J.D.

“…The workshop in Centre-Nord was attended by 60 stakeholders (50 men, 10 women) including representatives of producer cooperatives, traders, project area village leaders, private veterinarians, government (animal health, human health and environment) and development NGOs. Discussions focused on issues negatively affecting the village poultry value chain, and specific gender constraints and recommendations for upgrading the value chain. …”
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Impact of climate change on paddy farming in the village Tank Cascade Systems of Sri Lanka por Ratnayake, Sujith S., Reid, Michael, Larder, Nicolette, Kadupitiya, Harsha K., Hunter, Danny, Dharmasena, Punchi B., Kumar, Lalit, Kogo, Benjamin, Herath, Keminda, Kariyawasam, Champika S.

“…Therefore, the present study focuses on one such globally important agricultural social-ecological system referred to as the Village Tank Cascade System (VTCS) in the dry zone of Sri Lanka. …”
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Are animal breeding and digital technologies shifting gender norms and dynamics? The case of Tanzanian small-scale dairy farming households por Okeke, I.I.

“…Intra-household data were collected from 180 smallholder farmers surveys, gender-aggregated focus group discussions involving 80 farmers, and six expert interviews. …”
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Facilitating gender transformation in livestock management through Community Conversations in Bide community, Ethiopia por Dessalegn, Bezaiet, Woldegiorgis, Mamusha

“…Therefore, measuring a project’s contribution to gender transformation requires a different lens to capture the wider change process that goes beyond women empowerment indicators that mainly focus on increases in their ability to achieve specific changes in their behavior or access (Greene and Levack 2010). …”
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Evaluating hydrological dynamics and water quality in agricultural landscapes in Ghana’s Forest Transition Belt: a citizen science approach por Adusei-Gyamfi, J., Gyebi, A. S. A., Amponsah, Andoh Kwaku, Atampugre, Gerald, Tilahun, Seifu A., Cofie, Olufunke O.

“…The Mankran watershed, within the Ahafo-Ano District, was chosen for its strategic representation of different land-uses that affect water resources. The study focused on three distinct riparian communities: Mmrobem, representing the upstream with agroforestry as the predominant land use; Barniekrom, representing the midstream with agricultural activities prevailing; and Kunsu, representing the downstream with mining activities as the predominant land use. …”
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The political economy of food system transformation: Pathways to progress in a polarized world por Resnick, Danielle, Swinnen, Johan

“…The substantive areas of political economy focus include, among others, repurposing agricultural subsidies, reducing red meat and ultra-processed food consumption, increasing uptake of appropriate biotechnologies, adopting sugar-sweetened beverage taxes, implementing the European Union’s Farm to Fork Strategy, adapting urban food system councils to the Global South, and tracking accountability for global food system commitments. …”
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Improving water and climate data and decision support tools for climate-smart water management in Ethiopia por Taye, Meron Teferi, Seid, Abdulkarim, Tilaye, R., Tekleab, S., Mohammed, M., Berhanu, B.

“…This synthesis report focuses on the technical aspects of climate and water data and decision support tools, while the institutional aspects are presented in Sanchez Ramirez et al. 2024. …”
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Evaluation study of the IFPRI/A4NH research program on diet quality and health of the poor por Behrman, Jere R., Ghosh, Shibani

“…In Ethiopia, PHND/GRP24 invested substantially in evaluation of the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) and in India, projects have focused largely on maternal and child nutrition. We conducted 39 interviews with participants, partners, and stakeholders associated with the work conducted in these countries. …”
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Determinants of resilience for food and nutrition security in South Sudan por Ulimwengu, John M., Thomas, Timothy S., Marivoet, Wim, Benin, Samuel

“…These are classified into production, access, and utilization efficiencies, and whether the underlying constraints are structural (i.e., level of efficiency remains the same over time) or stochastic (i.e., level of efficiency changes over time). The analysis is focused on about a dozen selected counties. The results show that development challenges are being compounded by climate change, with significant increases in the mean annual rainfall and daily maximum temperature for the warmest month. …”
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Deworming and micronutrient status by community open defecation prevalence: An observational study using nationally representative data from India, 2016–2018 por Chakrabarti, Suman, Ajjampur, Sitara S. R., Waddington, Hugh Sharma, Kishore, Avinash, Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Scott, Samuel P.

“…Public health policy could involve sequencing interventions, with focus on improving deworming coverage in communities that have achieved minimum thresholds of OD and re- triggering sanitation interventions in high OD communities prior to deworming days, ensuring high coverage for both. …”
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Mexico, Evaluation of PROGRESA por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…These core questions were accompanied by specific questionnaires, focused on collecting information critical to a thorough evaluation of the impact of the program. …”
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A&T Bangladesh Follow-up Survey 2016: Community por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Since the termination of A&T-1 project support in 2014, BRAC has continued to deliver interpersonal counseling on IYCF through its cadres of frontline health workers to over 90% of the country (456 out of 490 upazilas) with the support of other external donor funds, with several additional modifications (e.g. added focus on maternal nutrition, less frequent training and supervision, and reduced performance based incentives). …”
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A&T Bangladesh Follow-up Survey 2016: Households por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Since the termination of A&T-1 project support in 2014, BRAC has continued to deliver interpersonal counseling on IYCF through its cadres of frontline health workers to over 90% of the country (456 out of 490 upazilas) with the support of other external donor funds, with several additional modifications (e.g. added focus on maternal nutrition, less frequent training and supervision, and reduced performance based incentives). …”
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A&T India Maternal Nutrition Baseline Survey 2017: 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 Endline Survey 2019: Households - Pregnant 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 Ethiopia Complementary Feeding Endline Survey 2017: Health Development Army Team Leaders por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…A&T is a global initiative that supports the scaling up of nutrition interventions to save lives, prevent illnesses, and contribute to healthy growth and development through improved maternal nutrition, breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices. A&T's focus in this phase of the study in Ethiopia (with program implementation from late 2014 to 2017) is on operationalizing the IYCF component of the Government of Ethiopia’s National Nutrition Plan (NNP) in one region, Amhara. …”
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