Resultados de búsqueda - "Ghana"

Scaling Gender and Nutrition Sensitive technologies and innovations in West and Central Africa: Lessons learnt from the Market for Agricultural Innovation and Technology por Segnon, Alcade C., Obossou, Esdras, Moustapha, Belmira Y., Ganyo, Komla Kyky, Kpadonou, G. Esaïe, Lamien, Niéyidouba, Zougmoré, Robert B.

“…Thirteen (13) potential gender- and nutrition-sensitive CSA and CIS innovations available for scaling up were presented by AICCRA country clusters in West Africa focusing on dry land cereals and livestock in Senegal, rice-based systems in Mali and roots and tubers in Ghana. The event has resulted in an increased awareness of gender- and nutrition-sensitive CSA technologies and CIS, as well as their ability to strengthen agricultural sustainability and women's empowerment. …”
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Seeding African forest and landscape restoration: Evaluating native tree seed systems in four African countries por Giacomini, Fiona L., Prempeh, John A., Jalonen, Riina, Vinceti, Barbara, Ekue, Marius, Bosshard, Ennia, Burslem, David F. R. P., Kettle, Christopher J.

“…We evaluated the native tree seed supply systems in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, and Kenya, four countries with large commitments to increase tree cover. …”
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Emerging ecological trends in West Africa: implications on soil organic matter and other soil quality indicators por Mesele, S.A., Ocansey, C.M., Bougma, A., Azeez, J.O., Ajiboye, G.A., Logah , V., Compaore, H., Veenendaal, E.M., Lloyd, J.

“…Methods We evaluated soil organic matter (SOM) and other soil quality indicators such as macro- and micronutrients (including the absence of some hazardous trace metals) using standard methodologies across 11 settlements in Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Nigeria. The degree of soil quality improvement/degradation and soil quality were assessed using empirical models. …”
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Contract farming, contract design and smallholder livelihoods por Ruml, Anette, Ragasa, Catherine, Qaim, Matin

“…Here, we examine associations between contract farming and farm household income in the oil palm sector of Ghana, explicitly differentiating between two types of contracts, namely simple marketing contracts and more comprehensive resource-providing contracts. …”
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How much are multisectoral programs worth? A new method with an application to school meals por Alderman, Harold, Aurino, Elisabetta, Baffour, Priscilla Twumasi, Gelli, Aulo, Turkson, Festus, Wong, Brad

“…We do so by combining data on distributional benefits stemming from current poverty reduction in conjunction with future human capital gains in the context of a large-scale national school feeding program in Ghana. We develop a straightforward approach to map effect sizes from randomized controlled studies into broader economic analyses. …”
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Agricultural mechanization and gendered labor activities across sectors: Micro-evidence from multi-country farm household data por Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Diao, Xinshen

“…This study aims to partly fill these knowledge gaps through micro-evidence from 8 countries (Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, India, Nepal, Tajikistan 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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Risk assessment for E. coli O157:H7 in marketed raw and fermented milk in selected African countries por Omore, Amos O., Grace, Delia, Randolph, Thomas F., Mohammed, H.

“…We carried out a risk assessment study for E. coli 0157:H7 in marketed raw and fermented milk in Kenya, Tanzania and Ghana. Data for the risk models were obtained from our on-going studies and other relevant literature. …”
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Informal Food Retail Trade in Ghanaian Cities por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…This data is from a study conducted on informal food retail in three of Ghana’s cities – Accra, Kumasi and Tamale. The aim of the survey is to gather information on the livelihoods of these traders, the challenges they face, and the governance constraints they encounter, especially those selling different types of food products. …”
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Improved Crop Varieties, Agronomic Practices, Soil Water Conservation Practices por International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, International Center for Tropical Agriculture, World Agroforestry Centre, Hombolo Agricultural Research Institute, Selian Agricultural Research Institute

“…This study contains data from different cereal legume rotation systems in northern Ghana. Project title: Enhancing Partnership among Africa RISING (AR), NAFAKA and TUBORESHE CHAKULA (TUBOCHA) Programs for Fast-Tracking Delivery and Scaling of Agricultural Technologies in Tanzania. …”
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Changes in Ghanaian farming systems: Stagnation or a quiet transformation? por Houssou, Nazaire, Johnson, Michael E., Kolavalli, Shashidhara, Asante-Addo, Collins

“…The paper examines changes in farming systems and the role of various endogenous and exogenous factors in driving the conversion of arable lands to agricultural uses in four villages within two agroecologically distinct zones of Ghana: the Guinea Savannah and Transition zones. …”
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Institutional limits to land governance reform: Federal-state dynamics in Nigeria por Resnick, Danielle, Okumo, Austen

“…These include rural land use plans in some francophone countries (e.g., Benin, Burkina Faso, and Côte d’Ivoire), systematic land tenure regularization (Ethio-pia, Madagascar, Rwanda), and communal land demarcation and registration (e.g., Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania) (see Byamugisha 2013).…”
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Can machine-learning models predict gendered labor statistics using mobile phone and geospatial data? por Seymour, Greg, Follett, Lendie, Henderson, Heath, Ferguson, Nathaniel

“…In this paper, we attempt to use mobile phone data and machine-learning models to predict gendered labor-market indicators for a large sample of mobile phone users in Ghana. Although our models predict mobile phone subscribers’ sex with reasonable accuracy, they predict women’s and men’s labor-market outcomes only slightly better than random guessing. …”
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Cross-sectoral coordination failure: How significant a constraint in national efforts to tackle malnutrition in Africa? por Benson, Todd

“…This evaluation uses qualitative information on the national institutional frameworks within which nutrition activities are carried out in Mozambique, Nigeria, and Uganda, countries with such agencies, and in Ghana, which has none. Results. None of the agencies has so far effectively carried out the three functions on which they were evaluated: cross-sectoral coordination, advocacy to sustain political commitment to address malnutrition, and resource mobilization. …”
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Perspectives on the adoption of black-soldier fly larvae for animal feed among livestock farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa por Nyamuhirwa, D.A., Feleke, S., Dontsop-Nguezet, P., Sissoko, D., Moussa, B., Kouakou, A.G., Zakari, S., Abdoulaye, T., Manyong, V.

“…Methods In this paper, we used the treatment effect framework approach on data collected from 1,885 fish, poultry, and pig smallholder farmers in five cities of four West and Central African countries, including Kinshasa and Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Accra in Ghana, Bamako in Mali, and Niamey in Niger. Results and discussion The results show that about 20 percent of surveyed farmers are aware of BSFL as a protein source in animal feed, and the actual adoption rate of BSFL is four percent. …”
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Improving marketing strategies of local rice in Ghanaian cities: A perspective from a survey of rice purchasers por Soullier, Guillaume, Sy, Mariam Maki, Agyei-Holmes, Andrew, Méndez del Villar, Patricio

“…It characterizes the rice market segments in Ghana in terms of rice origins and quality attributes, describes the profile of purchasers in these segments, and identifies the drivers of rice preferences. …”
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Sustainable insect pest management options for rice production in Sub-Saharan Africa por Pegalepo, Esther, Bocco, Roland, Onaga, Geoffrey, Nwilene, Francis, Tamò, Manuele, Togola, Abou, Katiyar, Sanjay Kumar

“…It explores successful methods, including the use of biological control agents in Nigeria; neem-based pesticides in Tanzania; push-pull technology in Kenya; agroecological practices in Mali; resistant rice varieties in Ghana and Nigeria; integrated farming systems in Liberia, Guinea Conakry, Nigeria, Kenya and Madagascar; and farmer field schools in Zambia. …”
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Continent-wide releases of neotropical phytoseiids against the exotic cassava green mite in Africa por Yaninek, J.S., Onzo, A., Ojo, J.B.

“…N. idaeus has since become established in Benin, while T. limonicus may be established in Benin, Burundi, and Ghana.…”
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Perspectives on the adoption of black-soldier fly larvae for animal feed among livestock farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. por Nyamuhirwa, D.A., Feleke, S., Dontsop Nguezet, P., Sissoko, D., Moussa, B., Kouakou, A., Zakari, S., Abdoulaye, T., Manyong, V.

“…Methods: In this paper, we used the treatment effect framework approach on data collected from 1,885 fish, poultry, and pig smallholder farmers in five cities of four West and Central African countries, including Kinshasa and Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Accra in Ghana, Bamako in Mali, and Niamey in Niger. Results and discussion: The results show that about 20 percent of surveyed farmers are aware of BSFL as a protein source in animal feed, and the actual adoption rate of BSFL is four percent. …”
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REDD payments as incentive for reducing forest loss por Sandker, M., Nyame, S. K., Forster, J., Collier, N., Shepherd, G., Yeboah, D., Ezzine-de-Blas, D., Machwitz, M., Vaatainen, S., Garedew, E., Etoga, G., Ehringhaus, C., Anati, J., Quarm, O.D.K., Campbell, Bruce M.

“…We constructed a system dynamics model for a cocoa agroforest landscape in southwestern Ghana to explore whether REDD payments are likely to promote forest conservation and what socio-economic implications would be. …”
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Processes of large-scale land acquisition by investors: Case studies from Sub-Saharan Africa por German, L., Schoneveld, George C., Mwangi, E.

“…Based on a review of policy documents, interviews with government officials from diverse sectors and discussions with customary leaders and affected communities, this paper provides a comparative analysis of legal and institutional frameworks and actual practices associated with large-scale land acquisitions in Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia. Results suggest that in many cases it is not a global “land grab” driven by the private sector, but a supply-driven process in which governments are playing an active role – often bolstered by an unwavering faith in the role of foreign investment in national economic development. …”
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