Resultados de búsqueda - "Ghana"

The politics and governance of informal food retail in urban Africa por Resnick, Danielle

“…This brief synthesizes research on informal traders conducted under the “Economywide Factors Affecting Agricultural Growth and Rural Transformation” flagship of the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) led by IFPRI. The research spanned Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, and Zambia and involved comparative analysis across capital cities based on media events data, surveys with traders, and interviews with urban bureaucrats. …”
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Focus Group Discussions-Agrobiodiversity Assessment por International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The project aimed at testing the hypothesis that the application of sustainable intensification technologies (cereal-legume-vegetable-livestock integrated systems) by smallholder households in North Ghana changes the level of inter and intra-specific crop diversity managed on-farm at household level. …”
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Sweet Potato Seed Systems and Crop Management Community of Practice. por McEwan, M.

“…There were 24 participants from 11 countries - Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ghana, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria and Zambia. …”
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Making the CAADP BR forward looking: A decision support tool for transforming African agrifood systems por Benin, Samuel

“…A prototype of the tool that is developed using the fourth biennial review (BR) data on Ghana, which has some quality issues, is presented to demonstrate the potential features and utility of the tool. …”
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Regulations drive circular bioeconomy in emerging economies, but further action is required por Sathiskumar, Abinaya, Taron, Avinandan, Drechsel, Pay, Gebrezgabher, Solomie A.

“…Countries like Singapore, Brazil, China, Japan, South Korea, Ghana, and South Africa are leading the way with forward-thinking regulatory frameworks. …”
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Dietary diversity as a food security indicator por Hoddinott, John F., Yohannes, Yisehac

“…It draws on data from 10 countries (India, the Philippines, Mozambique, Mexico, Bangladesh, Egypt, Mali, Malawi, Ghana, and Kenya) that encompass both poor and middle-income countries, rural and urban sectors, data collected in different seasons, and data on calories acquisition obtained using two different methods. ....…”
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Dietary diversity as a food security indicator por Hoddinott, John F., Yohannes, Yisehac

“…It draws on data from 10 countries (India, the Philippines, Mozambique, Mexico, Bangladesh, Egypt, Mali, Malawi, Ghana, and Kenya) that encompass both poor and middle-income countries, rural and urban sectors, data collected in different seasons, and data on calories acquisition obtained using two different methods. ....…”
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Willingness of West African consumers to buy food produced using black soldier fly larvae and frass por Traore, O., Zaato, P.A., Baidoo, J.K., Feleke, S., Manyong, V., Abdoulaye, T., Djouaka, R., Schreinemachers, P., Ba, M.N.

“…Questionnaires were administered to a total of 4412 consumers in Ghana (1360), Mali (1603), and Niger (1449). The results show that the vast majority of respondents are willing to consume vegetables (88%) produced using BSF frass and meat (87%) produced using animal feed made of BSF larvae. …”
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The political economy of urban food security in Sub-Saharan Africa por Maxwell, Daniel G.

“…This paper briefly reviews urban food insecurity and generates a set of empirical questions for an analysis of food and livelihood security in contemporary urban Sub-Saharan Africa, and then examines historical and contemporary evidence from Kampala, Uganda, and Accra, Ghana, to suggest some tentative conclusions.…”
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The role of information networks along the poultry value chain por Birol, Ekin, Tiongco, Marites

“…Consequently, IFPRI and ILRI conducted network mapping exercises with participants of multistakeholder workshops held in Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Nigeria.; The following questions were discussed:; What formal, informal, private, and public actors are involved in the live poultry value chain?…”
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Effectiveness of early generation selection in cowpea for grain yield and agronomic characteristics in semiarid West Africa por Padi, Francis K, Ehlers, J.D.

“…Walp.] population was examined in the Guinea and Sudan savanna agroecologies of Ghana where genotype × location interaction is known to be large. …”
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Assessing the overall benefits of programs enhancing human capital and equity: A new method with an application to school meals por Alderman, Harold, Aurino, Elisabetta, Baffour, Priscilla Twumasi, Gelli, Aulo, Turkson, Festus Ebo, Wong, Brad

“…We apply this to a randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluating a large-scale school feeding program in Ghana. We first map effect sizes from the RCT in learning-adjusted years of schooling. …”
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Navigating the complexity of scaling climate solutions through multi-level pathways: The AICCRA meta framework por Ewell, Hanna, Sartas, Murat, Girvetz, Evan, Ogutu, Liz, Ouedraogo, Mathieu, Kagabo, Desire, Byandaga, Livingstone

“…It encourages responsible, inclusive scaling that moves beyond simple reach metrics to long-term adoption and impact. The case of Ghana’s ‘Smart Seeds’ bundle illustrates this approach, combining improved seed varieties, agronomic training, and climate services to increase yields and farmer adoption. …”
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Promoting stewardship of forests in the humid forest zone of Anglophone West and Central Africa: Final Report of a collaborative research project undertaken by the UNEP and CIFOR por Dykstra, D.P., Kowero, G.S., Ofosu-Asiedu, A., Kio, P.

“…A UNEP-sponsored project, implemented by CIFOR focused on the West African humid forests of Ghana and Nigeria. Liberia, Sierra Leone and Cameroon also were included in the study. …”
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Training of Trainers (ToT) on Clean Energy Options for Sustaining Agricultural Productivity Course Module por Ekepu, David, Nakayiwa, Florence Mayega, Majaliwa, Jackson Gilbert Mwanjalolo, Karume, Katcho

“…The participants came from 25 African countries including Kenya (24%), Uganda (20%), Ethiopia (14%), Nigeria (7%), Somalia (5%), Sudan (3%), South Africa (3%), Zimbabwe (2%), Cameroon (2%) and Ghana (2%). The training included five sessions: 1) power systems, renewable, clean, and their estimations; 2) clean energy options for agriculture value chains; 3) Conversion devices; 4) design to maintenance of on-farm clean energy system; and, 5) energy value chains economics. …”
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Forests for people: community rights and forest tenure reform por Larson, A.M., Barry, D.M., Dahal, G.R., Colfer, C.J.P.

“…Based on research in over 30 communities in selected countries in Asia (India, Nepal, Philippines, Laos, Indonesia), Africa (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana) and Latin America (Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala, Nicaragua), it examines the process and outcomes of granting new rights, assessing a variety of governance issues in implementation, access to forest products and markets and outcomes for people and forests . …”
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Partial milking of cattle in smallholder herds on the Accra plains. 1. some factors affecting daily partial milk yield and milk composition por Okantah, S.A.

“…Presents a study undertaken to measure the partial milk yields of cows, the composition of milk and some environmental factors that influence partial milk extracted under smallholder agropastoral management conditions on the Accra plains in Ghana. Daily partial milk yield of Sanga cows in 13 smallholder agropastoralist herds at two locations on the Accra plains was recorded through monthly sampling. …”
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Farm-based measures for reducing microbiological health risks for consumers from informal wastewater-irrigated agriculture por Keraita, Bernard N., Konradsen, Flemming, Drechsel, Pay

“…In addition, the chapter highlights some practical strategies to implement these measures, based largely on field experiences in Ghana. Although most measures discussed do not fully eliminate possible health risks, they can significantly complement other pathogen barriers. …”
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Genetic diversity and differentiation in nine West African local goat breeds assessed via microsatellite polymorphism por Missohou, Ayao, Poutya, M.R., Nenonene, A., Dayo, G.K., Ayssiwede, S.B., Talaki, E., Issa, Y., Fane, A.

“…This study was carried out to study the genetic relationship among nine (9) West African goat breeds out of which 6 (Guinea dwarf, Kirdi, Ghana dwarf, Mossi, Togo dwarf, Senegal dwarf) were of the trypanotolerant type and 3 (Mali Sahel, Mauritania Sahel, Chad Sahel) were of the trypanosusceptible type. …”
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Reducing health risks from wastewater use in urban and peri-urban Sub-Saharan Africa: applying the 2006 WHO guidelines por Drechsel, Pay, Keraita, Bernard N., Amoah, Philip, Abaidoo, Robert C., Raschid-Sally, Liqa, Bahri, Akissa

“…The on-farm trials carried out in Ghana also explored the limitation of other risk reduction measures, such as drip irrigation, crop restrictions and cessation of irrigation under local circumstances considering possible incentives for behaviour change.…”
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