Search Results - "Socioeconomics"

Demand for agricultural credit by rural smallholder farmers: A case of climate smart agriculture villages in Nyando Basin, Kenya by Musembi, Elly Kyalo

“…Data on individual, institutional and socioeconomic characteristics was collected from these farm households by university of Nairobi masters students in conjunction with CCAFS using structured questionnaire. …”
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Manual de diplomado: El enfoque Territorios Sostenibles Adaptados al Clima (TeSAC) en el Corredor Seco del oriente de Guatemala by Sandoval Roque, Víctor Augusto

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Food security in rural Burkina Faso: The importance of consumption of own-farm sourced food versus purchased food by Fraval, Simon, Yameogo, Viviane, Ayantunde, Augustine A., Hammond, James, Boer, Imke J.M. de, Oosting, Simon J., Wijk, Mark T. van

“…Policy needs to be targeted towards agro-ecological conditions, as well as socioeconomic factors in order to facilitate improved on-farm income, farm resilience and off-farm employment opportunities.…”
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Youth in livestock and the power of education, the case of “Heirs of Tradition” by Triana Ángel, Natalia, Ariza, Mauricio, Arango, Jacobo, Burkart, Stefan

“…Second, to highlight the company’s recent alliance with CIAT and the CCAFS/Livestock Cross CGIAR Research Programs (CRP) in the context of the Heirs of Tradition program, and how this partnership strengthens the programmes’ productive, socioeconomic and environmental components during the 2020-2021 period. …”
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A qualitative assessment of the context and enabling environment for the control of Taenia solium infections in endemic settings by Ngwili, Nicholas, Johnson, Nancy, Wahome, R., Githigia, S., Roesel, Kristina, Thomas, Lian F.

“…The identified contextual factors included epidemiological, socioeconomic, cultural, geographical and environmental, service and organizational, historical and financial factors. …”
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Milk quality and hygiene: Knowledge, attitudes and practices of smallholder dairy farmers in central Kenya by Nyokabi, S., Luning, P.A., Boer, Imke J.M. de, Korir, Luke, Muunda, Emmanuel M., Bebe, B.O., Lindahl, Johanna F., Bett, Bernard K., Oosting, S.J.

“…The adoption of milk quality and food safety practices was influenced by farmers’ knowledge, socioeconomic characteristics, and choice of marketing channel. …”
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Drivers of Biodiversity Conservation in Sacred Groves: A Comparative Study of Three Sacred Groves in Southwest Nigeria by Adeyanju, S., Bulkan, J., Onyekwelu, J., Peterson St-Laurent, G., Kozak, R., Sunderland, T.C.H., Stimm, B.

“…The growing recognition of sacred groves has paved the way for socioeconomic rewards for individuals and government as cultural tourism increases. …”
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Impacts of catchment restoration on water availability and drought resilience in Ethiopia: a meta‐analysis by Meaza, Hailemariam, Abera, Wuletawu, Nyssen, Jan

“…The resulting base flow reduced hydrological, agricultural, and socioeconomic drought effects in the treated catchments. …”
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KAZNET: An open-source, micro-tasking platform for remote locations by Chelanga, Philemon, Fava, Francesco P., Alulu, Vincent, Banerjee, Rupsha R., Naibei, Oscar, Taye, Masresha, Berg, M., Galgallo, Diba, Gobu, Wako, Lepariyo, Watson, Muendo, K., Jensen, Nathaniel D.

“…This study assesses the potential of using micro-tasking to monitor socioeconomic and environmental indicators in remote settings using a new platform called KAZNET. …”
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Estimating the effects of a change in dairy policy on infants’ milk intake in Kenya and Tanzania by Muunda, Emmanuel, Mtimet, N., Wanyoike, Francis N., Domínguez-Salas, Paula, Alonso, Silvia

“…We estimated relative importance of each option, grouped the households using latent class analysis(LCA) and characterized each group by socioeconomic factors. Results Overall, the preferred option was decreasing the amount of milk purchased and substituting it with cheaper food for children. …”
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The potential impact of banana Xanthomonas wilt on food systems in Africa: modeling scenarios of policy response and disease control measures by Petsakos, Athanasios, Kozicka, Marta, Blomme, Guy, Nakakawa, Juliet, Ocimati, Walter, Gotor, Elisabetta

“…It also aims to raise awareness and promote the adoption of such practices, while also considering local peculiarities and socioeconomic conditions.…”
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E-registration, spatial referencing and tracking of farmers for innovation scaling in Burundi by Arouna, A., Aboudou, R., Yergo, W.G., Ouedraogo, M., Abdoulaye, T.

“…Data can be used by scientists to have better understanding of crops value chains, production systems, the level of knowledge, accessibility and adoption of improved rice varieties and agricultural technologies, for further research in the field of rice value chain development, technologies testing and socioeconomic studies of rice value chain actors and other crops such as cassava, banana, potato, and beans. …”
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Scaling of innovations: E-registration and spatial referencing of farmers in Rwanda by Arouna, A., Aboudou, R., Yergo, W.G., Ouedraogo, M., Abdoulaye, T.

“…Data can be used by scientists to have better understanding of crops value chains, production systems, the level of knowledge, accessibility and adoption of improved rice varieties and agricultural technologies, for further research in the field of rice value chain development, technologies testing and socioeconomic studies of rice value chain actors and other crops such as cassava, banana, potato, and beans. …”
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Characterizing patterns of seasonal drought stress for use in common bean breeding in East Africa under present and future climates by Jha, Prakash K., Beebe, Steve, Álvarez Toro, Patricia, Mukankusi, Clare, Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando

“…These conditions are projected to increase in frequency in Ethiopia by 2–10% but the converse is true for Tanzania (2–8% reduction) and Uganda (17–20% reduction) by 2050 depending on the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway (SSP). Accordingly, by 2050, terminal drought stresses of various intensities (moderate, severe, extreme) are prevalent in 34% of Uganda, around a quarter of Ethiopia, and 40% of the bean growing environments in Tanzania. …”
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Access to food markets, household wealth and child nutrition in rural Cambodia: Findings from nationally representative data by Duong, C., Patel, S., Hung Nguyen-Viet, Chea, R., Sinh Dang-Xuan, Tum, S., Ramakrishnan, U., Young, M.F.

“…However, it is not well understood if market access also improves child nutrition and if the improvement applies to all socioeconomic groups. In this secondary research study, we combined a national listing of food markets (n = 503) with a national household survey to examine the associations of market access with diet and height across wealth groups in children aged 6 to 23 months in rural Cambodia. …”
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Quantifying the contribution of mangroves to local fish consumption in Indonesia: a cross-sectional spatial analysis by Ickowitz, A., Lo, M., Nurhasan, M., Maulana, A.M., Brown, B.M.

“…We combined data on fish consumption for rural Indonesian coastal households from the Indonesian National Socioeconomic Survey with spatial data on mangrove forest and aquaculture area from the Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry to create a cross-sectional spatial dataset. …”
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Towards a community of practice for climate security and environmental peacebuilding in Mindanao by Medina, Leonardo, Savelli, Adam, Jaquet, Stéphanie, Torres, Mark, Arcede, Jayrold, Hellin, Jon, Pacillo, Grazia

“…Climatic stressors and shocks are altering food, land, and water systems, and driving important socioeconomic challenges for food security and the stability of rural livelihoods across the Philippines. …”
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Impact of adoption of better management practices and nutrition-sensitive training on the productivity, livelihoods and food security of small-scale aquaculture producers in Myanma... by Brako Dompreh, Eric, Rossignoli, Cristiano, Griffiths, Don, Wang, Quanli, Htoo, Khaing, Nway, Hsu Myat, Akester, Michael J., Gasparatos, Alexandros

“…However, small-scale aquaculture producers have limited access to improved production technologies and information, which hampers the productivity and socioeconomic performance of small-scale aquaculture systems. …”
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An improved deep learning procedure for statistical downscaling of climate data by Ahmed M.S. Kheir, Abdelrazek Elnashar, Alaa Mosad, Ajit Govind

“…Here we analyzed this issue by downscaling maximum, and minimum temperature over the Egyptian domain based on one General Circulation Model (GCM) as CanESM5 and two shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) as SSP4.5 and SSP8.5 from CMIP6 using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) herein after called CNNSD. …”
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Seasonal variation in maternal dietary diversity is reduced by small-scale irrigation practices: A longitudinal study by Baye, Kaleab, Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework, Choufani, Jowel, Yimam, Seid, Bryan, Elizabeth, Grifith, Jeffrey K., Ringler, Claudia

“…Using a longitudinal study design, three rounds of surveys were conducted among women of reproductive age (15–49 years). Data on socioeconomic status, food consumption and haemoglobin concentration was collected. …”
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