Search Results - "Humanism"

Comparative analysis of youth transition in bean production systems in Ghana and Cameroon by Nchanji, Eileen, Acheampong, Patricia, Ngoh, Siri Bella, Nyamolo, Victor, Cosmas, Lutomia K.

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Haplotype-resolved genome of heterozygous African cassava cultivar TMEB117 (Manihot esculenta) by Landi, M., Shah, T., Falquet, L., Niazi, A., Stavolone, L., Bongcam-Rudloff, E., Gisel, A.

“…As a climate-resilient crop, its significance grows as the human population expands. However, yield improvement faces challenges from biotic and abiotic stress and limited breeding. …”
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Experimental evidence on post-program effects and spillovers from an agriculture-nutrition program by Dillon, Andrew, Bliznashka, Lilia, Olney, Deanna K.

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Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP) by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…In this dataset, the distribution of human population is converted from national or subnational units to a series of eoreferenced quadrilateral grids.; Developed in 1999-2000, GPW version 2, incorporates a number improvements to the original version of this popular dataset. …”
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A moral economy of water: Charity wells in Egypt's Nile delta by ElDidi, Hagar, Corbera, Esteve

“…Though commonly viewed as a human right, access to water is often difficult and highly unequal within and between communities, depending on various social and power relations, access mechanisms and property rights regimes. …”
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Marketing household water treatment: Willingness to pay results from an experiment in rural Kenya by Blum, Annalise G., Null, Clair, Hoffmann, Vivian

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Dynamic agricultural supply response under economic transformation: A case study of Henan province by Yu, Bingxin, Liu, Fengwei, You, Liangzhi

“…Investment in rural infrastructure, human capacity, and technology are highlighted as major drivers for yield increase. …”
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Enhancing capacity for african agricultural research: selected models and lessons by Babu, Suresh Chandra, Annor-Frempong, Ireme, Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo

“…This paper presents a review of three existing models of capacity building to provide an understanding of strategies and approaches that have been successful in strengthening human and institutional capacity for agricultural research in Africa. …”
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Impacts of climate change on agriculture and policy options for adaptation: The case of Vietnam by Yu, Bingxin, Zhu, Tingju, Breisinger, Clemens, Hai, Nguyen Manh

“…However, investment in rural infrastructure, such as irrigation and road, and human capital can mitigate the negative impacts of climate change. …”
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The impact of oportunidades in Mexico: An integrated CGE-microsimulations modeling approach by Dorosh, Paul A., Debowicz, Dario, Golan, Jennifer

“…Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have become a popular tool to reduce poverty and inequality in the short run and to promote investments in human capital. CCTs are now present in almost all parts of the developing world, especially in Latin America. …”
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AI for Sustainable Rice: How Artificial Intelligence Could Lower Barriers to Access Carbon Finance by Mantle Labs

“…Existing manual methods for MRV are often too labour-intensive, open to human error or manipulation, and lack scientific robustness, undermining project credibility within the voluntary carbon market. …”
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Impact of PROGRESA on achievement test scores in the first year: final report by Behrman, Jere R., Sengupta, Piyali, Todd, Petra E.

“…Increasing human capital investments in children is considered to be among the most effective ways of alleviating poverty and encouraging growth in developing countries. …”
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Incentives and constraints in the transformation of Punjab agriculture by McGuirk, Anya, Mundlak, Yair

“…The use of more sophisticated techniques requires human capital, and farmers with inadequate schooling will be unable to adopt them quickly. …”
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The right to food: widely acknowledged and poorly protected by Pinstrup-Andersen, Per, Nygaard, David F., Ratta, Annu

“…If the individual really is the central subject of development, then a concerted shift may be needed in economic development policies to provide each individual with the most rudimentary of human needs: food.…”
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Public spending and poverty in Mozambique by Heltberg, Rasmus, Simler, Kenneth R., Tarp, Finn

“…Poverty reduction strategies often highlight public spending to improve health and education, focusing on investments in human capital among poorer members of society. In addition, debt relief programs such as the enhanced Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative often require increased spending on health and education in return for debt cancellation. …”
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Coliforms in the water and hemoglobin concentration are predictors of gastrointestinal morbidity of Bangladeshi children ages 1-10 years by Bhargava, Alok, Bouis, Howarth E., Hallman, Kelly, Hoque, Bilquis A..

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Indicators for monitoring and evaluating research-for-development: A critical review of a system in use by Belcher, Brian M., Claus, Rachel, Davel, Rachel, Place, Frank

“…Research-for-development (R4D) refers to research activities specifically designed to address critical social, environmental, and economic challenges and improve human well-being. It is essential to have well-designed indicators to monitor and evaluate progress, guide decision-making, and support learning and improvement. …”
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A systematic landscape between gender and floating agriculture in Bangladesh by Sarker, Mou Rani, Sarkar, Md. Abdur Rouf, Bhandari, Humnath

“…Key recommendations include improving women’s access to land and credit, providing training, promoting social education to challenge restrictive norms, and fostering a more inclusive "human-box" approach.…”
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Uses of local plant species by agropastoralists in south-western Niger by Ayantunde, Augustine A., Hiernaux, Pierre H.Y., Briejer, M., Udo, H.M.J., Tabo, Ramadjita

“…Major uses of local plant species are for traditional medicine, human consumption, animal feed, household construction and firewood. …”
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Beyond group ranch subdivision: Collective action for livestock mobility, ecological viability, and livelihoods by BurnSilver, Shauna, Mwangi, Esther

“…This paper leverages datasets and results from two separate studies carried out across eight Kajiado group ranches and offers a unique opportunity to look at emergent pre- and postsubdivision trends from an interdisciplinary framework that combines ecological, political, and human-ecological research perspectives. It provides insights into the following issues: the loss of flexibility and mobility for Maasai herders’ dues to subdivision, the nature of collective activities that individuals pursue after subdivision, and the emergence of pasture sharing arrangements. …”
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