Resultados de búsqueda - "abstraction"

School subsidies for the poor: evaluating a Mexican strategy for reducing poverty por Schultz, T. Paul

“…If the current relationship of the program outlays to enrollments, and that of schooling to increased adult earnings, both persist in the future, the internal rate of return to the PROGRESA educational grants as an investment is estimated to be about 8 percent, which accrues in addition to the program’s efficacy as a poverty reduction program. -- Author's Abstract…”
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Food aid for market development in Sub-Saharan Africa por Abdulai, Awudu, Barrett, Christopher B., Hazell, Peter B. R.

“…In particular, if food aid can be targeted so as to relieve short-term working capital and transport capacity constraints to the development of downstream processing and distribution capacity in recipient country food marketing channels, for example by helping build farmer cooperative groups, then food aid could have salutary effects on sub-Saharan African agriculture." --Authors' Abstract…”
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Community empowerment and scaling-up in urban areas: the evolution of Push/Prospect in Zambia por Garrett, James L.

“…The paper examines the scaling-up experience of PUSH II and PROSPECT, looking especially at the mechanisms of CDD, the ABOs." -- Authors' Abstract…”
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Impact evaluation of a conditional cash transfer program: the Nicaraguan Red de Protección Social por Maluccio, John A., Flores, Rafael

“…The findings presented here played an important role in the decision to continue this effective program." -- Authors' Abstract…”
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Poverty mapping with aggregate census data: what is the loss in precision? por Minot, Nicholas, Baulch, Bob

“…Even census data aggregated to the provincial level perform reasonably well in ranking the 61 provinces by the incidence of poverty: the average absolute error in ranking is 0.92. -- Authors' Abstract…”
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Agricultural intensification by smallholders in the Western Brazilian Amazon: from deforestation to sustainable land use por Vosti, Stephen A., Witcover, Julie, Carpentier, Chantal Line

“…It introduces a farm-level bioeconomic linear programming model to illuminate how such factors influence land use over time, taking into account soil fertility shifts and exploring policy and technology options that give farmers incentives to slow deforestation without decreasing farm household income. -- Authors' Abstract…”
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An updated look at the recovery of agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa por Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, Yu, Bingxin

“…As TFP growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is mainly a result of catching up to the frontier, we expect growth to slow in the coming years unless African countries accelerate the incorporation of innovations into the production process and increase the speed of technical change.--Authors' Abstract…”
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Report: A toolkit for PICSA facilitators por Bonilla, Melissa, Giraldo, Diana, Rios, David, Paez, Ana Maria, Diaz, Dilia

“…Challenges include conveying abstract climate concepts, disconnected steps, time constraints, insufficient engaging elements, limited portable materials, and language barriers. …”
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Genetic variation in Glossina brevipalpis, Glossina longipennis and Glossina pallidipes and the phenetic relationships of Glossina species por Gooding, R.H., Moloo, S.K., Rolseth, B.M.

“…Abstract. Glossina brevipalpis Newstead, G.longipennis Corti, and G.pallidipes Austen maintained at ILRAD, Nairobi, Kenya, were examined for genetic variation of fourteen enzyme loci, using poly‐acrylamide gel electrophoresis. …”
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Cattle production systems (Cerrado) por International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…Al finalizar la estacion seca la disponibilidad fue de 2.63 y 2.24 t de MS/ha para la graminea y de 1.01 y 0 t de MS/ha para la leguminosa, con el aumento de la tasa de carga. (Herbage Abstracts-CIAT)…”
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The use of a neighborhood park by visitors with different cultural backgrounds por Mantere, Johanna

“…Which activities are preferred most often, depends on whether the cultural values the visitors represent are predominantly collectivistic, individualistic, urban, rural, abstract, concrete, or what the persons age, level of acculturation, family situation or social status (such as advantaged or disadvantaged) is. …”
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Is goat milk a better milk replacement to piglets, rat pups and foals than cow milk is? por Orve, Viveca

“…Abstract One opinion among people who are experienced in hand rearing newborn mammals is that goat milk is more suitable than cow milk if the young needs a milk replacer. …”
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Motivation hos djurägare : en kvalitativ innehållsanalys por Forsman, Jasmine

“…The interviews were transcribed and the results are made up of abstracted quotations. RESULTS The result in the study indicate that pet owners are motivated by information, respect, trustworthiness and treatment in meeting. …”

Amino acid profiling of feed ingredients and finished feeds of ruminants, monogastrics and fish by near infra-red reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) por Prasad, Kodukula V.S.V., Reddy, Ch R.K., Venkateswalu, G., Sharada, P., Rashid, M.M., Ramana Reddy, Y., Blümmel, Michael

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The reality of food losses: a new measurement methodology por Delgado, Luciana, Schuster, Monica, Torero, Máximo

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Effect of fertilization with zinc in an agronomic fortification strategy in two potato varieties (Solanum tuberosum) in soils from the coast and highlands por Delgado, Luciana

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Economic assessment and policy recommendations of fisheries development strategies in Vanuatu por Valmonte-Santos, Rowena, Rosegrant, Mark W.

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Improving nutrition as a development priority: Addressing undernutrition in national policy processes in Sub-Saharan Africa por Benson, Todd

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Mainstreaming biofortification in Africa: A contribution towards reducing malnutrition and hunger por Parkes, Elizabeth, Kanju, Edward, Ntawuruhunga, Pheneas, Mahungu, Nzola-Meso, Aina, Femi, Dixon, Alfred Gilbert, Kulakow, Peter, Asiedu, Robert, Akuwa, Kingsley C., Bakare, Moshood, Agbona, Afolabi, Abolore, Bello R., Olaosebikan, Deborah, Ilona, Paul

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Risk assessment and modelling: IITA por Tamo, Manuele, Beed, Fenton D., Goergen, Georg E., Hanna, R., Coyne, D., Asten, Piet J.A. van, Legg, James P.

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