Search Results - "The Economist"
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Transdisciplinary approaches to target product profile (product concept) design: NARES-IRRI partnerships in Africa
Published 2024“…These transdisciplinary teams, comprising agronomists, breeders, economists, social scientists and market experts, collaborated to integrate scientific knowledge with practical insights from farmers, consumers, millers, and policymakers. …”
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Quality and safety improvements in informal milk markets and implications for food safety policy
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Diversité des agricultures familiales
Published 2015“…Il vise un public de chercheurs, d’enseignants et d’étudiants, agronomes, économistes, sociologues et historiens. Les experts du développement agricole et rural y trouveront un grand intérêt. …”
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Exante evaluation of nutrition and health benefits of biofortified cassava roots in nigeria: the dalys approach
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Global and local economic impacts of climate change in Syria and options for adaptation
Published 2011“…There is broad consensus among scientists that climate change is altering weather patterns around the world. However, economists are only beginning to develop tools that allow for the quantification of such weather changes on countries' economies and people. …”
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Re-examining the inverse relationship between farm size and efficiency: The empirical evidence in China
Published 2013“…– Whether there exists an inverse relationship (IR) between farm size and its efficiency remains a hotly debated question among agricultural economists. In most studies to date, farm efficiency is measured by land productivity. …”
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Partial budget analysis for on-station and on-farm small ruminant production systems research: Method and data requirements
Published 1992“…However, most national agricultural research systems (NARS) face a shortage of livestock economists, and biological scientists often lack the skills needed to conduct an economic evaluation of the results of their work. …”
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Small-Scale Mechanization Adoption and Scalability: Consultation Workshop and Policy Dialogue in Egypt
Published 2025“…This workshop brought together 58 diverse groups of experts, including agricultural engineers, economists, industry representatives, researchers, and policymakers, to discuss and evaluate the current state and prospects of small-scale agricultural machinery in Egypt. …”
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RTB Meeting Report: Piloting the G+ Tools
Published 2020“…The piloting teams further found that the G+ Tools helped facilitate insightful and constructive discussions with breeders and economists on the importance of being gender responsive, including the potential for harmful and beneficial effects of traits on men and women, and how being socially inclusive can lead to increased variety turnover rates. …”
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Creation of communal grazing areas for goats in southern Mozambique: Future perspectives
Published 2012“…Furthermore, sociologists and economists explained this resource degradation by involving the communities of livestock smallholders and their ways of managing the grazing land. …”
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Product assessment within ethical sourcing
Published 2015“…After the turn of the twentieth century, sustainable development has been a well-discussed area between economists, environmentalists and politicians. Reports show that human activities have an essential impact on today’s climate changes. …”
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Economic analysis of trypanocide use in villages under risk of drug resistance in West Africa.
Published 2007“…Data were collected by a team of veterinary epidemiologists, technicians and agro-economists. In all, 206 herds with a total of 3565 cattle in eighteen villages were monitored during a period of twelve months. …”
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The impacts of IFPRI's global research program on the sustainable development of less favored areas
Published 2007“…Concerns about analytical methods were expressed by some (primarily non-economists). Others indicated that there was insufficient follow-up for the wider policy community or the general public after the high-profile summary workshops that presented the research findings, and that the academic nature of the research outputs was not directly relevant to policymakers. …”
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