Resultados de búsqueda - "Types of social groups

Best practices for agroecology & climate change resilience in the dry corridor: Views from five regions in Honduras por Siles, Pablo, Guillen, Jose Francisco, Obando, Diego, Wollenberg, Eva

“… - Future research priorities are (1) how well do agroecological practices and bundles support resilience under increasing levels and types of climate stress? And (2) options for economic and social resilience and safety nets when agricultural systems fail.…”
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Economic perspectives of the diversity of risks among crop farmers in the Northern Guinea Savanna of Nigeria por Olarinde, L.O., Akintola, J.O., Manyong, Victor M.

“…Consequently, the individual effect or importance of the original 14 risk types that the sampled farmers considered important can be dully represented and effectively regrouped into five sources (factors) as natural, technical, social, ecosocial and biochemical.…”
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The voracious appetites of public versus private property: a view of intellectual property and biodiversity from legal pluralism por Wiber, Melanie G.

“…Western property theory promotes this dualistic game of voracious property types. In exporting this game world wide through privatization, international agreements and regulations many other more balanced approaches to property, which fall between the public/private divide, are being consumed as well (as in kin group corporate property, cultural property etc.) …”
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Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) as part of Rwanda Climate Services for Agriculture: Findings from quantitative evaluation of 2016/17 PICSA impleme... por Clarkson, Graham, Dorward, Peter, Nsengiyumva, Gloriose, Kagabo, Desire

“…A core team of national experts in PICSA were trained before cascading the approach to farmer groups through the Twigiri Muhinzi system of Farmer Promoters. …”
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New ways to distribute food : REKO-rings in Sweden por Daving Götberg, Louise

“…It also showed that REKO-rings were an easy way to connect local businesses and consumers using a flexible and social platform of communication. The result demonstrated that REKO-rings strengthen local communities and satisfy consumers and many different types of farmers, ranging from hobby farmers to full-time farmers. …”

Drömparken - den perfekta parken? : undersökning av parkens sociala förutsättningar por Mannehed, Tobias

Does ICT-based aquaculture extension contribute to greater adoption of good management practices and improved incomes? Evidence from Ghana por Ntiri, Prosper, Ragasa, Catherine, Anang, Samuel Afotey, Kuwornu, John K. M., Torbi, Eva Nimorme

“…Mobile-based extension was more accessible to youth and more educated farmers, and it could be a good medium for reaching these groups. Television and radio programs are accessible to all types of farmers from different backgrounds; these media are currently underutilized for aquaculture promotion and their application could be enhanced and expanded for current and future projects.…”
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An informal network of grafting experts to help the communities to conserve and utilize wild-aromatic pickle mango (Mangifera indica) diversity in the Central Western Ghats, India por Vasudeva, R., Reddy, B.M.C., Sthapit, B.R., Ramanatha Rao, V.

“…It has the potential to enhance human and social capitals by capacity building, mobilizing awareness and contributing to the conservation of the species. …”
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Learning to select and apply qualitative and participatory methods in natural resource management research: self-critical assessment of research in Cameroon por Nchanji, Y.K., Levang, P., Jalonen, R.

“…The field research included almost 50 gender- and age-disaggregated group sessions. Based on the meta-analysis of the research process, we identified key factors affecting the perceived ease of eliciting and interpreting information with different types of social research tools: specificity and acceptance of a tool, ease of managing social dynamics and maintaining focus during data collection, and subjectivity and comparability during data analysis and interpretation. …”
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Installation des jeunes agriculteurs et pluriactivité au Costa Rica por Parquet, Mathilde, Le Coq, Jean-François

“…Small-scale family agriculture has been encouraged for several years by international institutions as an answer to global issues (food security and climate change), especially in Southern countries where this type of agriculture still prevails. One group of key actors is still poorly analyzed in agricultural studies: the young farmers. …”
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The dynamics of smallholder farmers’ acquisition and distribution of sweetpotato vines in the Lake Victoria Zone Region, Tanzania por Adam, R.I., Badstue, L., Sindi, K.

“…The sources and mode of transaction related to acquisition/distribution of planting material are strongly influenced by the type of social relationship between the parties involved. …”
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Africa Adapt por Harvey, Blane, Ensor, Jonathan, Carlile, Liz, Garside, Ben, Patterson, Zachary, Naess, Lars Otto

“…Although its presentation of information requires the user to spend some time looking through the collection rather than sourcing information immediately, the counter balance is that this has been done to ensure that a full range of voices, types of knowledge and information are representative of a wide group of stakeholders. …”
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Some lessons from a life in food policy por Fan, Shenggen

“…We have made important progress in working with different types of actors, such as private companies, civil society groups, and developing-country partners. …”
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Qualitative methods for gender research in agricultural development por Rubin, Deborah

“…From the many possible qualitative methods used in development work, the paper focuses on several common observational (both direct and participatory) and interview techniques, the latter including key informant and group interviews and focus group discussions. Researchers use various techniques to gather different types of information, for example, mapping techniques to understand men’s and women’s different types of knowledge about their environment and eliciting in-depth information on a single topic with key informants. …”
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Adaptation of institutional arrangements to management of Northern Rangelands of Kenya por Kanyuuru, C.K., Mburu, J., Njoka, J.

“…Three study sites namely Kinna, Makurian and Westgate, representing three types of institutional arrangements (elders only, group ranch committee and community conservancy board), were investigated. …”
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Blending "hard" and "soft" science: The "follow-the-technology" approach to catalyzing and evaluating technology change por Douthwaite, Boru, Haan, Nicoline C. de, Manyong, Victor M., Keatinge, J.D.H.

“…The types of technology change catalyzed by research interventions in integrated natural resource management (INRM) are likely to require much more social negotiation and adaptation than are changes related to plant breeding, the dominant discipline within the system of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). …”
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Improving the efficiency of agricultural development: Can farmer typologies be used to predict the adoption of agricultural innovations for the poorest farmers, and therefore, incr... por Gorman, L.

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Mercantilización de la economía campesina en la Puna Jujeña: estudio de casos por Echazu, Fernando

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Blending hard and soft science: the Follow the Technology approach to analyzing and evaluating technology change por Douthwaite, Boru, Haan, Nicoline C. de, Manyong, Victor M., Keatinge, J.D.H.

“…The types of technology change catalyzed by research interventions in integrated natural resource management (INRM) are likely to require much more social negotiation and adaptation than are changes related to plant breeding, the dominant discipline within the system of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). …”
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Institutions, management practices and challenges of small-scale irrigation systems in Ethiopia: a case study of two modern smallholders irrigation systems in western Oromia, Ethio... por Dejene, S., Teshome, W., Makombe, Godswill, Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele, Prasad, Krishna Chandra

“…These, in turn, were mediated by lack of: a) clearly defined and well enforced institutions of land and water rights; b) technical problems in design and construction; c) inadequate institutional capacity of the local state irrigation agency to coordinate and support decentralized management of irrigation; d) policy related problems; e) inadequate organization of users for self management; and f) problematic social relation of power among water users. Finally, the paper draws a number of conclusions, using the theoretical notions like context, social requirement for use, social effects and social construction, about policy options and requirements in the readjustment of the surveyed irrigation systems and in the design of irrigation projects of these types.…”
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