Resultados de búsqueda - "Thailand"

On the coattails of globalization: migration, migrants and COVID-19 in Asia por Suhardiman, Diana, Rigg, J., Bandur, M., Marschke, Melissa J., Miller, M. A., Pheuangsavanh, N., Sayatham, M., Taylor, D.

“…Drawing on interviews with international and domestic labour migrants from Bangladesh, India, Laos and Myanmar working in Laos, Myanmar, China, Singapore and Thailand, the paper explores the vulnerabilities, challenges and opportunities that have come with migration and how these have been reconfigured as the pandemic has progressed, disproportionately heightening migrants’ exposure to the virus and their socioeconomic precarity. …”
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Research and development strategies for the livestock sector in South-east Asia through national and international partnerships. Proceedings of a workshop por Frio, A.S., Gray, G.D.

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Unlocking agricultural trade potential in the BIMSTEC region: Policy challenges and implications por Kamar, Abul, Roy, Devesh

“…The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is a regional organization that comprises seven nations, five of which are from South Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka) and two from Southeast Asia (Myanmar and Thailand). BIMSTEC aims to increase trade including agri-food products to much higher levels than its historical low values lying much below potential. …”
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Emigration and rising wages in Myanmar: Evidence from Mon State por Filipski, Mateusz J., Lee, Hak Lim, Hein, Aung, Nischan, Ulrike

“…We collected primary household data from rural Mon State, a southern state neighbouring Thailand. Analysis shows that over a quarter of the labour force is currently migrating for work. …”
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What's politics got to do with it: Nutrition and the policy agenda por Fritschel, Heidi, Vivalo, Julia, Gustafson, Sara, Shelton, Peter, Sullivan, Rebecca Harris, Yin, Sandra, Johnson, Ian, Lippincott, Don, Weeks, Jennifer

“…The feature article in this issue of Insights looks at how some developing countries and regions—Ghana, Peru, Thailand, and the state of Maharashtra, India—have made nutrition a political priority and how they’ve turned political commitments into widespread changes on the ground. …”
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Bioeconomy pathways: Experience from Africa, Asia, and Latin America por Glatzel, Katrin, Virchow, Detlef, Nakitto, Aisha Musaazi S., Niyonsenga, Seraphin, Babu, Suresh Chandra, Srivastava, Nandita, Kashandula, Progress, Ecuru, Julius, Osano, Philip

“…In addition, this chapter shows how Brazil and Thailand have embraced a bioeconomy transition to support learning not just across borders, but across regions.…”
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Are experience and schooling complementary?: evidence from migrants' assimilation in the Bangkok labor market por Yamauchi, Futoshi

“…Bayesian learning and dynamics of matching are modeled and empirically assessed, using panel data of wages from the Bangkok labor market in Thailand. The analysis incorporates (1) the heterogeneity of technologies and products, characteristic of urban labor markets, (2) imperfect information on migrants' types and skill demanded in the markets, and (3) migrants' optimal learning over time. …”
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Urbanization and the nutrition transition por Popkin, Barry M.

“…Obesity and its related diseases, for example, affect 25–50 percent of the population in countries as disparate as Kuwait, Mexico, Thailand, and Tunisia. This "nutrition transition"—a term used to describe shifts in diet, physical activity, health, and nutrition—can be traced to higher incomes, the influence of mass media and food marketing, and a range of changes in the nature of work and leisure....How can the food policy and public health communities, already burdened by the challenges of poverty, undernutrition, and underdevelopment, deal with the seemingly contradictory goal of promoting both greater and lesser food intake? …”
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Maize in Asia: Changing markets and Incentives por Gulati, Ashok, Dixon, John

“…This study covers seven Asian countries, namely China, India, Indonesia, Nepal, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Together, these countries generate over 90 per cent of Asia’s maize production, and a quarter of the world’s maize supply. …”
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Pro-poor HPAI risk reduction strategies: Synthesis of country background papers por Tiongco, Marites

“…In 2006, a total of 47 countries reported HPAI in their domestic poultry, with repeated outbreaks in Bangladesh, China, Thailand, and Vietnam. It is considered endemic in several countries, including two that were studied: Indonesia and Nigeria. …”
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The mungbean transformation diversifying crops, defeating malnutrition: Diversifying crops, defeating malnutrition por Shanmugasundaram, Subramanyam, Keatinge, J. D. H., Hughes, Jacqueline d’Arros

“…National partners in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Thailand collaborated with AVRDC – The World Vegetable Center, using an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to research and develop improved mungbean varieties and technologies. …”
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Synthesis report: Agricultural transformation and market integration in the ASEAN region: Responding to food security and inclusiveness concerns por Roy, Devesh, Kamar, Abul, Pradhan, Mamata, Saroj, Sunil

“…The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a regional grouping of Southeast Asian countries formed in 1967 by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. Brunei Darussalam joined this association in 1984. …”
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Challenges and opportunities: policy options for the forestry sector in the Asia-Pacific region por Byron, R.N.

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Forest protected areas: time is running out por Sayer, Jeffrey A.

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Secondary forests in the lower Mekong subregion: an overview of their extent, roles and importance por Mittelman, A.

“…In the Lower Mekong Subregion, nearly 100 million ha of forest were significantly altered or removed, with depletion in terms of areal percent most severe in Thailand and Vietnam. Timber extraction and conversion of forestland to agriculture are the two principal causes of forest degradation in the region. …”
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Applying reduced impact logging to advance sustainable forest management: international conference proceedings 26 February to 1 March 2001, Kuching, Malaysia por Enters, T., Durst, P.B., Applegate, G., Kho, P.C.S., Man, G.

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Reconciling river basin management and environmental preservation: some perspectives from the Krishna Basin, South India por Venot, Jean-Philippe, Sharma, Bharat R., Rao, K.V.G.K.

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The multiple-use water services (MUS) project por van Koppen, Barbara, Smits, S., Moriarty, P., Vries, F.P. de, Mikhail, M., Boelee, Eline

“…The CPWF-supported project ‘Models for implementing multiple-use water supply systems for enhanced land and water productivity, rural livelihoods and gender equity’ (‘CPWF-MUS’) innovated, tested, and documented homestead-scale and communityscale models for Multiple Use water Services in 30 rural and peri-urban sites in 8 countries: the Andes (Bolivia and Colombia), Indus-Ganges (India, Nepal), Limpopo (South Africa and Zimbabwe), Mekong (Thailand) and Nile (Ethiopia). Learning alliances for scaling up and out of results were forged in each country, encompassing a total of 150 water user groups, CBOs, (I)NGOs, domestic sub-sector and productive sub-sector agencies, local government, private service providers, rural development agencies and financers, and knowledge centers. …”
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Water-use accounts in CPWF basins: Simple water-use accounting of the Mekong Basin por Kirby, M., Mainuddin, M., Eastham, Judy

“…The Mekong Basin covers six countries, the River rises in China, but there are substantial downstream tributaries from Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and from a small area in Myanmar. …”
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From local watershed management to integrated river basin management at national and transboundary levels por Bach, H., Clausen, T.J., Trang, D.T., Emerton, L., Facon, T., Hofer, T., Lazarus, Kate, Muziol, C., Noble, A.D., Schill, P., Sisouvanh, A., Wensley, C., Whiting, L.

“…This technical report is a synthesis of the knowledge, lessons learned and good practices presented and discussed at the International Conference on Watershed Management held in Chiang Mai, Thailand 9-11 March 2011.…”
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