Resultados de búsqueda - "Uganda"

The impact of community-based monitoring on public service delivery: A randomized control trial in Uganda por Mogues, Tewodaj, Van Campenhout, Bjorn, Miehe, Caroline, Kabunga, Nassul

“…In this spirit, the Government of Uganda organizes community fora – popularly known as barazas – where citizens receive information from government officials and get the opportunity to challenge them. …”
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Gendered information channels for climate-smart agriculture practices: Evidence from India, Kenya, and Uganda por Welk, Lukas, Barooah, Prapti, Kato, Edward, Ndegwa, Michael K.

“…This policy note summarizes data on information channels that women and men farmers use for CSA practices in Gujarat, India, parts of Kenya, and central Uganda. The results can be used by governments, nongovernmental organizations, and other actor groups interested in ensuring equity in access to information on CSA practices in low- and middle-income countries.…”
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Pig agripreneurs undergoing business incubation/ accelerator program in Uganda to utilize tools to improve businesses por Ahumuza, Roonie, Tusiime, Grace, Kamau, Lois, Marshall, Karen, Ouma, Emily A.

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Informality and the impact of COVID-19 on maize value chains in Uganda: Key findings and policy implications por Nabwire, Leocardia, Van Campenhout, Bjorn

“…This policy note summarizes results of a study on the impact of COVID-19 on maize value chains in Uganda, which are characterized by a high degree of informality. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 on food value chains in Uganda: Results of surveys of farmers, traders, and processors por Nabwire, Leocardia, Van Campenhout, Bjorn, Minot, Nicholas, Kabir, Razin, Vos, Rob, Narayanan, Sudha, Rice, Brendan, Aredo, Samson Dejene

“…We examined the impact of COVID-19 on food value chains in Uganda, using the case of dairy and maize value chains. …”
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Effect of indigenous and scientific forecasts on pastoralists’ climate change perceptions in the Rwenzori region, Western Uganda por Nkuba, Michael Robert, Chanda, Raban, Mmopelwa, Gagoitseope, Kato, Edward, Mangheni, Margaret Najjingo, Lesolle, David, Mujuni, Godfrey

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Prices, profit margins and intermediary market power: evidence from the matooke value chain in Uganda por Kuijpers, Rob, Smits, Esther, Steijn, Cedric, Mulumba, Nasser, Asindu, Marsy, Kruijssen, Froukje, Kikulwe, Enoch Mutebi

“…The paper contributes in addressing this important knowledge gap by studying the matooke value chain in Uganda.…”
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Child feeding practices and male involvement in child feeding among smallholder farming households in Uganda por Nabuuma, Deborah, Ekesa, Beatrice

“…A cross-sectional study explored the child feeding practices and extent of the father’s participation in child feeding among 433 farming households with children aged 6-35 months from two rural and two peri-urban districts in Central Uganda. Diets consumed by children were inadequate with only 37% meeting the minimum dietary diversity. …”
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Institutional and technological innovations to foster agro-industrialization in Uganda: Insights from the dairy value chain por Van Campenhout, Bjorn, Nabwire, Leocardia, Minten, Bart, Ariong, Richard M.

“…Uganda is now one of the largest exporters of dairy products in Africa. …”
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Information and communication technologies to provide agricultural advice to smallholder farmers: Experimental evidence from Uganda por Van Campenhout, Bjorn, Spielman, David J., Lecoutere, Els

“…We evaluate the effectiveness of an ICT‐mediated approach to deliver agricultural information in a field experiment conducted among small‐scale maize farmers in eastern Uganda. Three complementary technologies designed to address both informational and behavioral constraints to technical change are considered. …”
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Bargaining power, decision making, and biofortification: The role of gender in adoption of orange sweet potato in Uganda por Gilligan, Daniel O., Kumar, Neha, McNiven, Scott, Meenakshi, J. V., Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…We examine the role of gender dimensions of intrahousehold bargaining power and decision making in the adoption and diffusion of orange sweet potato (OSP), a biofortified crop being promoted to increase dietary intakes of vitamin A in Uganda. We use patterns of ownership and control of land and other assets by married men and women to create gender-disaggregated indicators of bargaining power, allowing for joint and sole ownership and control of land and assets. …”
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Who claims the rights to livestock? Exploring gender patterns of asset holdings in smallholder households in Uganda por Hillesland, Marya, Doss, Cheryl, Slavchevska, Vanya

“…This study investigates the gendered patterns of livestock ownership in rural households in Uganda using a detailed data set with information on ownership, management, and decision-making across different types of livestock. …”
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Indigenous and scientific forecasts on climate change perceptions of arable farmers: Rwenzori region, western Uganda por Nkuba, Michael Robert, Chanda, Raban, Mmopelwa, Gagoitseope, Adedoyin, Akintayo, Mangheni, Margaret Najjingo, Lesolle, David, Kato, Edward

“…This study investigated the effect of using indigenous knowledge-based forecasts (IFs) and scientific knowledge-based forecasts (SFs) on the climate change perceptions of arable farmers in the Rwenzori region, Western Uganda. Data on socio-economic characteristics, use of forecasts, and climate change perceptions was collected from 580 arable farmers and the probit model was used in the analysis. …”
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Women’s empowerment, agricultural extension, and digitalization: Disentangling information and role-model effects in rural Uganda por Lecoutere, Els, Spielman, David J., Van Campenhout, Bjorn

“…Among groups of maize-farming households in eastern Uganda, we explore the impacts on women’s empowerment from the use of gender-responsive information and communication technologies to provide extension services, specifically videos that feature women as information providers. …”
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Collective Action in Canal Irrigation Systems Management: The Case of Doho Rice Scheme in Uganda, 2001 por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The study was conducted at the DRS in Tororo District, Uganda through a survey of 411 households that produced rice in the first or second crop seasons in 2001.…”
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Risk and returns of sustainable crop intensification: The case of small-holder rice and potato farmers in Uganda por Van Campenhout, Bjorn, Bizimungu, Emmanuel

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The impact of food price shocks in Uganda: first-order effects versus general-equilibrium consequences por Van Campenhout, Bjorn, Pauw, Karl, Minot, Nicholas

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Women’s empowerment, agricultural extension, and digitalization: Disentangling information and role model effects in rural Uganda por Lecoutere, Els, Spielman, David J., Van Campenhout, Bjorn

“…We conduct a gendered field experiment among maize-farming households in eastern Uganda to test whether video-enabled extension messaging affects outcomes related to maize cultivation. …”
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Domestic versus export-led agricultural transformation: Evidence from Uganda’s dairy value chain por Van Campenhout, Bjorn, Minten, Bart, Swinnen, Johan

“…Driven by increased demand from both local and export markets and facilitated by far-reaching liberalization and privatization policies, the dairy sub-sector in Uganda has undergone significant changes in the last decade. …”
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Factsheet on capacities in agricultural higher education: Ndejje University, Uganda Faculty of Environment and Agricultural Sciences por Tailor, Anish, Byansi, Maria Mbatudde, Kitone, Daniel, Beintema, Nienke M.

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