Resultados de búsqueda - "argumentation"

The great Chinese inequality turnaround por Kanbur, Ravi, Wang, Yue, Zhang, Xiaobo

“…This paper argues that after a quarter century of sharp and sustained increase, Chinese inequality is now plateauing and even turning down. The argument is made using a range of data sources and a range of measures and perspectives on inequality. …”
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South African land and market reforms: Equity versus efficiency por Olubode-Awosola, O. O., Schalkwyk, H.D. van

“…The study further suggests that agricultural land may act as a safety net for the poor, where the efficiency argument does not hold.…”
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Varför handla svenskt kött? por Johansson, Henrik, Källström, Andreas

“…We have done verbal interviews with consumers on three different shops, where we asked questions and had dialogues around Swedish meat products where the consumers have told us their arguments and opinions about Swedish and foreign meat. …”
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Jämförelse av nuvärden vid manuell och mekaniserad plantering i södra och norra Sverige por Engelbrektsson, Joel, Stoltz, Noah

“…Med en ökad höjdtillväxt mot harvning och ökad överlevnad mot både harv och högläggning finns argument för att fortsätta med mekaniserad plantering. …”
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Business Plan « Feed processing » by Boqa Shuta Shaya CBBP and sheep fattening cooperative in Bonga, Ethiopia por Rudiger, Udo, Wamatu, Jane, Ekule, Muluken

“…Through the production of their own compound feed using a feed-producing chain, animals will gate a compound feed from locally available feed resources options and production costs will be reduced, and income increased. Several basic arguments support the realization of such a project: 1. …”
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Adaptation cannot keep pace with projected temperature increase por Chen, Shuai, Tan-Soo, Jie-Sheng, Ye, Hai-Jian

“…An emerging argument is that since humans can readily adapt to changing climatic conditions, there is less need to pursue aggressive emissions mitigation strategies. …”
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Associations between irrigated farming and improved nutrition in Malawian farm households por Benson, Todd

“…Conceptually, this nutritional argument to build support for expanding investments in irrigation in Malawi seems reasonable; however, there is little empirical evidence from Malawi or elsewhere to confirm whether irrigation improves nutritional status.…”
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The technopolitics of agronomic knowledge and tropical(izing) vegetables in Brazil por Nehring, Ryan

“…I argue that, especially in the case of agriculture, technoscientific development hinges on the extent to which the environment is disregarded or embraced by those who have the institutional support and capacity to innovate. To support my argument, I draw on two contrasting cases of crop development spearheaded by Embrapa scientists: the tropicalization of the carrot and participatory research on non-conventional vegetables. …”
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Land lease markets and agricultural efficiency: theory and evidence from Ethiopia por Pender, John L., Fafchamps, Marcel

“…These results support the Marshallian argument that sharecropping reduces labor effort, but also support the New School perspective since the magnitude of the inefficiency is relatively small. …”
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A meta-analysis of rates of return to agricultural R & D: ex pede Herculem? por Alston, Julian M., Wyatt, T. J., Pardey, Philip G., Marra, Michele C., Chan-Kang, Connie

“…IFPRI has long argued that spending on agricultural research constitutes a sound investment in poverty reduction and agricultural and economic growth, through improvements in productivity. This argument is based partly on the reported evidence of high rates of return to agricultural research, typically believed to be in the range of 40–60 percent per year. …”
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Organic farming practices increase weed density and diversity over conventional practices: A meta-analysis por Mwangi, Obadiah, Mucheru-Muna, Monicah, Kinyua, Michael, Bolo, Peter, Kihara, Job

“…Population growth and climate change challenge our food and farming systems and provide arguments for an increased intensification of agriculture. …”
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Agricultural diversification and rural industrialization as a strategy for rural income growth and poverty reduction in Indochina and Myanmar por Goletti, Francesco

“…On the one hand, the arguments in favor of agricultural diversification and agrofood based rural industrialization seem even more pressing than for the lower-middle income countries of Southeast Asia. …”
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Addressing climate inaction as our greatest threat to sustainable development por Mackay, S., Hales, R., Hewson, J., Addis, R., Mackey, B.

“…We explore how climate policies are inadvertently allowing climate inaction to persist, why this is happening and how to address it. Central to our argument is that climate policies still draw too heavily on a neoclassical development paradigm, rather than reinvigorated industrial policy, resulting in market interventions that fail to address the scale and systemic nature of the climate action challenge. …”
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Useful myths and intractable truths: the politics of the links between forests and water in Central America por Kaimowitz, D.

“…While the focus is on Central America, many of the arguments presented apply to other tropical regions. …”
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New niches of community rights to forests in Cameroon: tenure reform, decentralization category or something else? por Oyono, P.R.

“…Using conceptual, theoretical and empirical arguments, the essay conducts a policy analysis of both options and concludes that this is neither a strict decentralization process nor a strict tenure reform. …”
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Water demand management: potential and pitfalls. Background paper por Molle, Francois

“…Water pricing is often proposed as a way to curb water use but its introduction in irrigated agriculture is shown to be problematic. The economic argument for re-allocation to higher value uses is also critically reviewed. …”
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When lawns become forests : how natural/forest-like vegetation can better human health and well-being in urban areas por Fänge, Elin

“…The results present a compelling argument for why decisionmakers need to start looking into changing existing lawn areas to natural/forest-like vegetation. …”

Advertising Space : illustrating the spatial impact of urban outdoor advertising por Oelreich von, Carl

“…This study shows that each of the studied methods supplies its own angle on the impact of outdoor advertising on urban space, sometimes complementary to the arguments found in the critique. This paper concludes with a discussion on the strengths of each of the illustration methods, with a focus on discussing the spatial impact. …”

Är djur lämpliga att ha på svenska cirkusar? : med fokus på djurens välfärd por Granquist, Louise, Högström, Hedvig, Lindbäck, Jenny, Ljungdahl, Helen, Svensson, Jennichen

“…Just nu pågår en debatt om huruvida djur är lämpliga på cirkus. Argument emot djur på cirkus säger bland annat att djurens naturliga beteende inte tillgodoses och att djuren måste stå ut med ett odrägligt liv bara för att underhålla oss. …”

COVID-19 and global food security por Swinnen, Johan, McDermott, John

“…These pieces draw on a combination of conceptual arguments, global and country-level simulation models, in-country surveys, case studies, and expert opinions. …”
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