Resultados de búsqueda - "Ghana"

Agricultural mechanisation and gendered labour activities across sectors: Micro-evidence from multi-country farm household data por Takeshima, Hiroyuki

“…This study aims to partly fill these knowledge gaps through micro‐evidence from seven countries (Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, India, Nepal and Vietnam), using several nationally representative panel data and supplementary data and applying correlated random effects double‐hurdle models with instrumental variables. …”
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Adoption of climate-resilient groundnut varieties increases agricultural production, consumption, and smallholder commercialization in West Africa por Tabe-Ojong, Martin Paul Jr., Lokossou, Jourdain C., Gebrekidan, Bisrat, Affognon, Hippolyte D.

“…We investigate the relationship between adoption of climate-resilient groundnut varieties and production, consumption, and smallholder commercialization using panel data from Ghana, Mali, and Nigeria. We find adoption of climate resilient groundnut varieties to increase smallholder production, consumption, and commercialization. …”
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Estimating the intrahousehold costs and benefits of innovations to enhance smallholder farmers’ resilience por Kramer, Berber, Timu, Anne G., Damba, Osman

“…We demonstrate the application of the framework using a case study of climate information services (CIS) in Ghana. We develop a set of individual bargaining weights based on the women’s empowerment in agriculture index, to demonstrate how benefits from CIS are distributed among men and women within households. …”
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Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) Mid-year report 2023 por Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa

“…AICCRA investments are concentrated in six anchor countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Senegal, and Zambia, but spillover benefits are being realized in many other ‘spillover’ countries, such as Tanzania, Uganda, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria among many more, as AICCRA works with Africa’s regional economic communities (RECs) and their associated regional agricultural research and climate change networks. …”
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Ultra-processed food environments: Aligning policy beliefs from the state, market, and civil society por Mockshell, Jonathan, Ritter, Thea Nielsen

“…By combining the Advocacy Coalition Framework with the discourse analysis approach and factor analysis to a case study in Ghana, the chapter reveals a trichotomy of coalitions in the food environment, consisting of state, market, and civil society actors. …”
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Partners in Technology Generation and Transfer: Linkages between Research and Farmers Organizations in Three Selected African Countries por Eponou, Thomas

“…Three countries in sub-Saharan Africa were studied: Burkina Faso, Ghana and Kenya. There are differences among the three countries of the study, but the five major types of farmers' organizations/groups were found in each of them. …”
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Accelerating and scaling up Africa’s climate change adaptation and mitigation actions: Experiences and lessons learned por Majaliwa, Mwanjololo J.G., Nakayiwa, Florence, Waswa, Moses, Ekepu, David

“…The side event was attended by 42 people, including 8 women, from Ouganda, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Benin, Mali, Malawi, Senegal, USA, and Rwanda.…”
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Ag-Data Hub: Cultivating Innovation, Harvesting Insights, Growing a Sustainable Future por Wilson, Michael, Tepa-Yotto, Ghislain, Dalaa, Mustapha, Martey, Francisca, Yeboah, Stephen, Awotwi, John, Danquah, Paul

“…The Ghana Digital Agricultural Data Hub (Ag-Data Hub) has the ultimate goal of becoming the go-to national platform for digital data exchange and to serve as a backbone for information and data sharing among stakeholders and for the development of fact-based decision support systems to drive policy-making and to trigger a move towards sustainable climate smart agricultural practices. …”
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Transforming the agrifood processing sector in Africa: The role of industrial clusters por Tabiri, Kwasi Gyabaa, Sakyi, Daniel

“…The agrifood processing sector, which forms part of the wider agro-industrial sector,2 is also a key component in the manufacturing sector in many African economies (UNIDO 2012). For example, in Ghana, food manufacturing accounted for more than 33 percent of manufacturing value added in 2015. …”
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Assessing the risk of COVID-19 in Feed the Future countries por Koo, Jawoo, Azzarri, Carlo, Ghosh, Aniruddha, Quabili, Wahid

“…The most widely used dataset by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering (Dong, Du, and Gardner 2020), for example, does not include subnational data for Feed the Future’s 12 target countries in Africa south of the Sahara (SSA) and South Asia: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Kenya, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Senegal, and Uganda. …”
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Negotiating the social contract in urban Africa: Informal food traders in Ghanaian cities por Resnick, Danielle, Sivasubramanian, Bhavna

“…This study focuses on informal traders, who constitute a major source of food security and employment in urban Africa. Centered on Ghana’s three main cities, we analyze interviews with metropolitan policymakers and a survey of approximately 1,200 informal traders. …”
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Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods por Ambler, Kate, Herskowitz, Sylvan, Maredia, Karim M.

“…Existing evidence relies heavily on studies that use designated respondents to provide information about their household members, imposing significant costs on these respondents along with possible distortions in the data. In rural Ghana, we randomize the order that household members are asked about and estimate that response fatigue leads to undercounting of labor activities by 8% on average. …”
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Whole-farm Model: Detailed Data on Nine Farms for Impact Assessment of Africa RISING Technologies por Wageningen University and Research, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

“…The zipped Farm DESIGN model contains the whole-farm representation of nine farms in Northern Ghana. A low, medium and a high resource endowed farm per site, namely in Duko (Northern Region), Nyangua (Upper East) and Zanko (Upper West). …”
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Agricultural transformation in the savannah: Perspectives from the village por Johnson, Michael E., Houssou, Nazaire, Kolavalli, Shashidhara, Hazell, Peter B. R.

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Land tenure and natural resource management: a comparative study of agrarian communities in Asia and Africa por Otsuka, Keijiro, Place, Frank

“…Topics Include: Issues and Theoretical Framework; Quantitative Methodology; Agroforestry Management in Ghana; Agroforestry Management in Sumatra; Tree and Cropland Management in Malawi; Customary and Private Land Management in Uganda; Management of State Land and Privatization in Vietnam; Common Property Forest Management in the Hill Region of Nepal; Timber Forest Management in Nepal and Japan Toward New Paradigms of Land and Tree Resource Management.…”
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Research on moringa (Moringa oleifera Lam.) in Africa por El Bilali, Hamid, Dan Guimbo, Iro, Nanema, Romaric Kiswendsida, Falalou, Hamidou, Kiebre, Zakaria, Rokka, Veli-Matti, Tietiambou, Sheirita Reine Fanta, Nanema, Jacques, Dambo, Lawali, Grazioli, Francesca, Naino Jika, Abdel Kader, Gonnella, Maria, Acasto, Filippo

“…Moreover, research is performed mainly in South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt, and Ghana. The analysis suggests a significant potential contribution of moringa to food security and nutrition, climate change mitigation/adaptation, farming systems resilience, and livelihoods. …”
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Good care practices can mitigate the negative effects of poverty and low maternal schooling on children's nutritional status: evidence from Accra por Ruel, Marie T., Levin, Carol E., Armar-Klemesu, Margaret, Maxwell, Daniel G., Morris, Saul Sutkover

“…This study uses data from a representative survey of households with preschoolers in Accra, Ghana to (1) examine the importance of care practices for children’s height-for-age z-scores (HAZ); and (2) identify subgroups of children for whom good maternal care practices may be particularly important. …”
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Economywide impact of avian flu in Nigeria – a dynamic CGE model analysis por Diao, Xinshen, Alpuerto, Vida, Nwafor, Manson

“…Since its emergence in Africa in 2006, the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus of the H5N1 subtype has spread rapidly to poultry farms in several countries, including Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Niger, and Nigeria (FAO 2006; OIE 2006). In February 2006, Kaduna state in Nigeria was the first of 36 states to report the infection of poultry by H5N1 (Monne et al. 2008). …”
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Nairobi City County Food System Profile por Lamba, Davinder, Omondi, Samuel

“…Its geographic scope is global, with priority activities in Bangladesh, Philippines, Kenya, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Peru. RUAF, a global partnership on sustainable agriculture and food systems and a partner in Resilient Cities, is contributing to implementation of Work Package Five, ‘Strengthening research and innovation capacity’. …”
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bEcon Archival Collection por Paul, Namita, Yerramareddy, Indira, Zambrano, Patricia

“…This effort is part of the Bill and Melinda Gates funded project “Biotechnology and Biosafety Rapid Assessment Platform – BioRAPP”, a project that, among other policy related objectives, will develop and implement ex ante assessments in 5 African countries (Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda) using secondary data. …”
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