Resultados de búsqueda - "Perception"

Mat som relationsbyggare mellan människor och platser : en studie om hur restaurangers och kockars potential som kunskapsalstrande aktörer kan bidra till mer hållbara städer por Silow, Love

Immigrant entrepreneurship : the case of Lithuanian immigrant entrepreneursin rural East of England por Jankus, Tomas

“…Through semi-structured interviews with Lithuanian immigrant entrepreneurs, I explore the perceptions of Lithuanian immigrants' experience in their entrepreneurial activities based in the East of England region through the lens of mixed embeddedness concept. …”

An agroecological perspective for improving drought tolerance of wheat cultivars for Sweden por Alamrani, Marwan Mohammed Ismael

“…The aim of these interviews was to understand the farmers’ perceptions of the drought that happened in 2018 and to explore if they have made plans to handle or prepare for future droughts. …”

Assessment of milk quality and the potential of a quality based payment system in smallholder farms in Limuru and Eldoret, Kenya por Kabui, K.K.

“…This study was conducted in Limuru and Eldoret to determine the quality of milk produced by small scale farmers and their perceptions on a quality based milk payment system. …”
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Una aproximación a la vulnerabilidad y robustez socio-ecológica de los sistemas ganaderos trashumantes por Easdale, Marcos Horacio

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The value of local ecological knowledge to guide tree species selection in tropical dry forest restoration por Fremout, Tobias, Gutiérrez Miranda, Claudia Elena, Briers, Siebe, Marcelo Peña, José Luis, Cueva Ortiz, Eduardo Giovanni, Linares-Palomino, Reynaldo, La Torre-Cuadros, María de los Ángeles, Chang-Ruíz, Janette Cristina, Villegas Gómez, Tania, Libertad Acosta-Flota, Arantza Helen, Plouvier, Dominiek, Atkinson, Rachel, Charcape-Ravelo, Manuel, Aguirre-Mendoza, Zhofre, Muys, Bart, Thomas, Evert

“…Furthermore, we found that species' perceived threat status was mainly linked to their usefulness for construction wood, and that the vast majority of local perceptions on species' threat status and stress resistance coincided with scientific knowledge. …”
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The burdens of participation: A mixed-methods study of the effects of a nutrition-sensitive agriculture program on women’s time use in Malawi por Margolies, Amy, Colantuoni, Elizabeth, Morgan, Rosemary, Gelli, Aulo, Caulfield, Laura E.

“…In addition, two rounds of 38 qualitative in-depth interviews (n = 76) were conducted with women, men and adolescent girls to explore their perceptions of program activities, time use and gender attitudes. …”
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Gendered challenges and coping strategies of women smallholder farmers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal’s Tarai region: A feminist political ecology perspective por Das, Dipika, Poudel, Sanjeev, Dhakal, Purushottam, Dutta, Kuntala Lahiri

“…As these networks became disrupted during the crisis, perceptions of bargaining power between female and male farmers differed. …”
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Cash transfers and women’s control over decision-making and labor supply in Egypt por El-Enbaby, Hoda, Gilligan, Daniel O., Karachiwalla, Naureen, Kassim, Yumna, Kurdi, Sikandra

“…The negative findings are not wholly supported by complementary qualitative work in which women reported more positive perceptions of the program’s impacts.…”
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Gully rehabilitation in southern Ethiopia – value and impacts for farmers por Mekuria, Wolde, Phimister, E., Yakob, G., Tegegne, Desalegn, Moges, A., Tesfaye, Y., Melaku, Dagmawi, Gerber, C., Hallett, P. D., Smith, J. U.

“…Working with farmers in a watershed in southern Ethiopia, we investigated (a) the effectiveness of low-cost gully rehabilitation measures to reduce soil loss and upward expansion of gully heads; (b) how farmers and communities view gully interventions; and (c) whether involving farmers in on-farm field trials to demonstrate gully interventions improves uptake, knowledge, and perceptions of their capacity to act. On-farm field experiments, key-informant interviews, focus group discussions, and household surveys were used to collect and analyse data. …”
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Exploring ecosystem services contribution to social-ecological resilience in Ethiopian agricultural landscapes. por Lemenih, Mulugeta, Bossio, Deborah A., Langan, Simon J.

“…By using historical data enriched by local perceptions, it is found that over time, the supply of provisioning services has increased at the expense of other ecosystems services in all three landscapes. …”
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A methodological approach for assessing cross-site landscape change: Understanding socio-ecological systems por Sunderland, Terry C.H., Abdoulaye, R., Ahammad, R., Asaha, S., Baudron, Frédéric, Deakin, E.L., Duriaux Chavarria, J.Y., Eddy, I., Foli, S., Gumbo, D.J., Khatun, K., Kondwani, M., Kshatriya, Mrigesh, Leonald, L., Rowland, D., Stacey, N., Tomscha, S., Yang, K., Gergel, Sarah E., Vianen, J. van

“…These methods include integrated assessments of the perceptions of ecosystem service provision, tree cover loss and gain, relative poverty, diets and agricultural patterns of change. …”
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Functional farm household typologies through archetypal responses to disturbances por Tittonell, Pablo Adrian, Bruzzone, Octavio Augusto, Solano-Hernández, A., López-Ridaura, Santiago, Easdale, Marcos Horacio

“…We illustrate this approach by examining the response of rural households to recurrent droughts in northern Patagonia, Argentina, as revealed by 23 in-depth interviews about perceptions and strategies concerning droughts. Using the algorithm from Mørup and Hansen (2012), and the corrected Akaike decision rule, we identified three archetypes (A–C) that represented three distinct aggregated responses of households to droughts. …”
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Trust within small-scale forest management - a local case study in Southern Sweden por Guillén, Luis Andrés

“…The results show how public and private customer-related working practices affect NIPF owners’ relation to e.g. advisors, buyers and contractors; and trigger specific perceptions of institutions. Although, deterioration of relationships in a local context might not seem influential to the larger forest industry as SÖDRA, the sum of such small pressures weakens the social domain of the forest sector, thus setting hurdles to participative forestry governance.…”

Socio-cultural sustainability of pig production: farm visits with citizen panels in the Netherlands and Denmark por Boogaard, Birgit K., Boekhorst, L.J.S., Oosting, Simon J., Sørensen, J.T.

“…Socio-cultural sustainability refers to social perceptions of animal farming, including social appreciations and concerns of animal production systems. …”
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Agronomic pests and economic factors influencing sustainability of bananacoffee systems of western Uganda and potentials for improvement por Ragama, P.E., Nankinga, C., Okech, H., Gold, C., Wetala, P., Asten, Piet J.A. van, Nambuye, A.

“…In view of the above, Participatory Rural Appraisals (PRAs) and diagnostic studies were conducted in 2003 to: (1) Determine management practices, constraints and market effects on the production of banana and coffee, (2) Elucidate farmers’ perceptions on production and management constraints and (3) Derive hypotheses for further participatory research. …”
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Experiences and drivers of food insecurity in Guatemala's dry corridor: insights from the integration of ethnographic and household survey data por Beveridge, Louise, Whitfield, Stephen, Fraval, Simon, Wijk, Mark T. van, Etten, Jacob van, Mercado, Leida, Hammond, James, Cortéz, Luz Davila, Suchini, Jose Gabriel, Challinor, Andrew J.

“…The Rural Household Multi-Indicator Surveys (RHoMIS) provides a broad assessment of household capabilities and food security outcomes, while ethnographic approaches evidence how individuals' perceptions, experiences and local socio-political context shape food security experiences and intervention outcomes. …”
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Xanthomonas Wilt of banana drives changes in land-use and ecosystem services across Infected landscapes por Ocimati, Walter, Groot, Jeroen C.J., Tittonell, Pablo A., Taulya, Godfrey, Ntamwira, Jules Bagula, Amato, Serge, Blomme, Guy

“…Through focus group discussions (FGDs) and the 4-cell method (to map the area under production and the number of households involved), changes in land-use were assessed in 13 XW-affected landscapes/villages along a 230 km transect from Masisi (where XW arrived in 2001) to Bukavu (XW arrived around 2014) in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Farmers’ perceptions on the sustainability of new land uses were also documented. …”
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Participatory epidemiology: Principles, practice, utility, and lessons learnt por Alders, Robyn G., Ali, S.N., Ameri, A.A., Bagnol, B., Cooper, Tarni L., Gozali, A., Hidayat, M.M., Rukambile, E., Wong, J.T., Catley, A.

“…With the importance of understanding social perceptions and drivers receiving increasing recognition by epidemiologists, PE tools are being adapted for an increasingly wide range of settings and endeavors. …”
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Assessing land use changes and livelihood outcomes of rural people in Chittagong Hill Tracts region, Bangladesh por Ahammad, R., Stacey, N., Sunderland, T.C.H.

“…We conducted in‐depth semi‐structured surveys of households (175–300) and farm owners (30) to collect information on people's perceptions of land use change, present land use patterns and contributions to food production and income. …”
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