Search Results - "Reality"

Viktiga kvaliteter i utemiljö kring äldreboende by Ahlqvist, Anna

CGIAR Research Priorities for Marginal Lands by CGIAR Technical Advisory Committee

“…Rural Poverty and Land Degradation: A Reality Check for the CGIAR' (August 1998) by Sohail Malik reviews the literature on the relationship between rural poverty and land degradation, and implications for priority setting by CGIAR centers.This subject was on the agenda of TAC at every meeting from TAC 70 through TAC 77, and was considered at the CGIAR meeting in October 1999.…”
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Illegal rovdjursjakt by Forslund, Johanna

“…The model has been tied to reality through identification and discussion of the estimates the parameters of the model are likely to adopt. …”
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När praktiken möter strategin : en beskrivning av grönsaksodlares handlingsutrymme i relation till Sveriges livsmedelsstrategi by Magnusson, Kerstin

Opportunities and challenges for biofortification of cassava to address iron and zinc deficiency in Nigeria by Okwuonu, I.C., Narayanan, N.N., Egesi, Chiedozie N., Taylor, N.J.

“…Proof of concept has demonstrated that transgenic biofortification is a reality and can produce foodstuffs with increased mineral content that could beneficially impact the health of consumers in Nigeria and elsewhere. …”
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Sustainable but hungry? Food security outcomes of certification for cocoa and oil palm smallholders in Ghana by Dompreh, E.B., Asare, R., Gasparatos, A.

“…These results suggest that even though certification adoption can improve the livelihoods and yields of farmers, in reality it has marginal effect on food security. Certification standards would need to emphasize food security in their guidelines, theories of change and support packages to smallholders if they are to enhance food security and have a truly positive effect on the sustainability of cocoa and oil palm production.…”
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Predicting infectious diseases: a bibliometric review on Africa by Phoobane, P., Masinde, M., Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe

“…Africa has a long history of novel and re-emerging infectious disease outbreaks. This reality has attracted the attention of researchers interested in the general research theme of predicting infectious diseases. …”
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What plant breeding may (and may not) look like in 2050? by Bassi, Filippo, Sanchez-Garcia, Miguel, Ortiz, Rodomiro

“…Twenty years after, which of those authors’ visions became reality or not, and which ones may become so in the years to come. …”
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Behavioral games for triggering adoption of good agricultural practices: insights from women’s empowerment project in Telangana, India by Waris, Amtul

“…The alternate wetting and drying (AWD) method of rice crop establishment was demonstrated to show them how it translates in reality to improved crop yield (20.32%) and reduced water usage (14.49%) over the conventional flooded transplanting method. …”
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Gender, collective action, and climate change: Qualitative insights from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Mali by Aberman, Noora-Lisa, Ali, Snigdha, Behrman, Julia A., Bryan, Elizabeth, Davis, Peter, Donnelly, Aiveen, Gathaara, Violet, Koné, Daouda, Nganga, Teresiah, Ngugi, Jane, Okoba, Barrack, Roncoli, Carla

“…Individuals, communities, and policymakers must adapt to a new reality and become resilient to the negative impacts of future climate changes. …”
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Collective action and property rights for poverty reduction: A review of methods and approaches by Mwangi, Esther, Markelova, Helen

“…Outcomes are approached from the evaluative standpoint, which moves beyond straightforward empirical measurement of certain indicators to a comprehensive analysis that would involve a range of methods and approaches to both the definition and measurement of criteria that affect the complex reality of the poor.…”
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Inclusiveness of contract farming along the vertical coordination continuum: Evidence from the Vietnamese rice sector by Ba, Hélène A., de Mey, Yann, Thoron, Sylvie, Demont, Matty

“…Previous studies on the determinants of contract farming participation assume that firms offer only a single contract type, whereas in reality, farmers may face a continuum of exclusive contract options. …”
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Capacity sharing on the sustainability of vegetable farms in Benin by Fassinou Hotegni, V. Nicodeme

“…The participants confirmed that the results of the study reflected the reality on the ground and understood that sustainability takes into account three dimensions: environmental, social and economic. …”
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USA Consumer Demand for Passionfruit: Results from a Choice Experiment by Haley, N.M., Blare, T., Posadas, B.C., Ballen, F.H., Hammami, A.M., Stafne, E.T.

“…This changing market reality necessitates a study on consumer preference for passionfruit products so breeders, growers, traders, and retail outlets can be updated on current and projected trends to meet market demand. …”
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The Price Trap: Oversupply and Export Competition in Global Rice Trade by Mirzabaev, Alisher, Zwinger, Jeremy

“…In a glut, the exporter that cuts earlier tends to capture market share, while late cutters suffer steeper price declines with weaker demand response. The reality for the rice trade is that you cannot catch demand when the market is rapidly falling. • However, aggressive pricing strategies, if not mitigated by other policy interventions, often carry unintended side effects in terms of lowering farming incomes, increasing fiscal burdens, eroding exports quality, and amplifying market distortions. …”
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Tropical forest biodiversity and the world heritage convention by Sayer, Jeffrey A., Ishwaran, N., Thorsell, J., Sigaty, T.

“…The Convention could have greater impact if it addressed more directly the reality of the ubiquitous human modification of forests. …”
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Factors determining the economics of milk production in smallholder farms in Kenyahighlands. by Mwangi, A.C.

“…A production model that explains the reality of milk production from small scale iarms was developed by comparing several known functions, ihe functions that were examined included linear, square, Cobb-Douglas and quadratic functions. …”
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Rethinking the participatory paradigm in plant breeding: A nombreeder's perspective by Upreti, Bishnu Raj

“…Rhetorically, almost all documents Of government, research organizations, NGOs, and NGOs impressively use such terms as beneficiaries' Participation, participatory approach, use of indigenous knowledge, bottom-up planning, etc. But in reality, they themselves control the participatory process by imposing their criteria, conditions, and regulations. …”
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The impact of climate change on coffee production in Central America by Bunn, Christian, Castro, Fabio, Lundy, Mark M.

“…Climate change has become a reality that affects coffee producers across the world. …”
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Narrative foresight in technical organizations: epistemological and methodological contributions from a practice of scenario method in Argentina by Patrouilleau, Maria Mercedes

“…Moreover,we also reflect on the utility of this approach in order to increase the strategic vision of complex organizations which are shaped, to a great extent, by linear schemes of thought where the empiric dimension of reality operates with a value of truth.…”
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