Search Results - "autonomy"

Territories innovating to monitor and assess progress towards sustainability by Project TerraCert, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…The ongoing decentralization process, which grants greater responsibilities to municipal governments in the Amazon, constitutes an opportunity for local actors to achieve greater autonomy in decision-making processes leading to improved management of their territories. …”
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Mecanismos de financiamiento sostenible para el plan de manejo de la cuenca hidrográfica del Río Santa María, Panamá by Mendoza Barrera, A.F.

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Caracterización de sistemas silvopastoriles y su contribución socioeconómica a productores ganaderos de Copán, Honduras by Pérez Sánchez, Edwin

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Characterization of silvopastoral systems and their socioeconomic contribution to the livestock farmers of Copán, Honduras by Pérez Sánchez, E.

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Policy to promote the production and use of bio-fuels to meet the energy challenge in the transport sector of developed countries by Mattsson, Lisa

“…The analysis showed that the main drivers in Sweden to biofuel policy development are energy autonomy, climate changes, scarce fossil reserves and a strong technological development and excess amounts of biomass and waste products suitable for biofuel production. …”
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Small animal veterinarians’ communication with pet owners from av Motivational Interviewing (MI) perspective by Jennolf, Ebba

“…In general, the veterinarians made few attempts to involve or affirm the dog owner, and none emphasized the dog owner’s autonomy. The veterinarians had the majority of the speaking time and dominated the conversations, while the dog owner had a more passive role. …”

Measurement properties of the project-level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index by Yount, Kathryn M., Cheong, Yuk Fai, Maxwell, Lauren, Heckert, Jessica, Martinez, Elena M., Seymour, Greg

“…For item sets designed to capture autonomy in income, intrinsic agency in livelihoods activities, and instrumental agency in: livelihoods activities, the sale or use of outputs, the use of income, and borrowing from financial services, model assumptions were not met, model fit was poor, and items generally were weakly related to the latent (unobserved) agency construct. …”
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Self-governance and forest resources by Ostrom, E.

“…Self-organization is more likely to occur when forest resources are highly salient to users, and when users have a common understanding of the problems they face, have a low discount rate, trust one another, have autonomy to make some of their own rules, an d have prior organizational experience. …”
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Climate governance in a well-ordered world by Ekvall, Andreas

“…The limitations of Rawls’ theory result in that other concepts as defined by Rawls become infeasible, such as: autonomy, rights, and freedom. The justification of the well-ordered society also becomes questionable, as it does not result in the motivation for moral behaviour, and it undermines democracy. …”
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Overcoming inequalities without challenging women’s loyalty to the indigenous community : case study in the Indigenous Community Nasa Kiwe, Colombia by Sandoval Ferro, Blanca Iris

“…A large amount of resources are devoted by indigenous populations in Colombia to reestablish their political, cultural and territorial autonomy. There is no doubt about the commitment of indigenous men and women with such communal aims. …”

Determinants and impact of farmers’ participation in social media groups: Evidence from irrigated areas of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan by Tadjiev, Abdusame, Kurbanov, Zafar, Djanibekov, Nodir, Govind, Ajit, Akramkhanov, Akmal

“…Farmers’ decision-making autonomy will be crucial for converting digital transformation in agriculture into farm benefits.…”
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Dichotomy or continuum? A global review of the interaction between autonomous and planned adaptations by Maskell, Gina, Shukla, Roopam, Jagannathan, Kripa, Browne, Katherine, Ulibarri, Nicola, Campbell, Donovan, Franz, Christopher, Grady, Caitlin, Joe, Elphin Tom, Kirchhoff, Christine, Madhavan, Mythili, Michaud, Lillian, Sharma, Swarnika, Singh, Chandni, Orlove, Ben, Nagle Alverio, Gabriela, Ajibade, Idowu, Bowen, Kathryn, Chauhan, Neha, Galappaththi, Eranga, Hudson, A.J., Mach, Katharine, Musah-Surugu, Justice, Petzold, Jan, Reckien, Diana, Schauberger, Bernhard, Segnon, Alcade, van Bavel, Bianca, Gornott, Christoph

“…We propose a third category, mixed adaptation, which demonstrates characteristics of both autonomous and planned types, and which recognizes nuances in how organization, external support, formality, and autonomy manifest in the fuzzy space between the two. …”
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The effects decentralisation on forests and forest industries in Berau district, East Kalimantan by Obidzinski, K., Barr, C.

“…Following the onset of Indonesia’s regional autonomy and decentralization processes in late 1998, district officials moved aggressively to establish greater administrative control over the forest resources within their jurisdiction. …”
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The dialectics of capital: learning from Gran Chaco by Ceddia, M. Graziano, Montani, Rodrigo, Mioni, Walter Fernando

“…It is subject to the laws of competition and profit maximisation, which emerge independently from the individual actors and processes making up the system (autonomy). Finally, it engenders frictions, reflecting class antagonism between the direct producers and the appropriators of wealth. …”
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Transition Pathways toward Agroecology in Semi-arid “Crop-Livestock” Systems at Rhahla, Gaafour by Ouerghemmi, Hassen, Alary, Veronique, Shiri, Zahra, Dhraief, Mohamed Zied, Oueslati-Zlaoui, Meriem, Majri, Rihab, Rudiger, Udo, Frija, Aymen, Idoudi, Zied, Souissi, Asma, Dhehibi, Boubaker, Mannai, Amal, Rekik, Mourad, Rejeb, Hichem

“…The resulting impact pathway promotes improving soil health, increasing economic autonomy at farm and national level and scaling AE transition through sectorial and inter sectorial policies. …”
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Replication Data for "Designing for Empowerment Impact in Agricultural Development Projects" by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Although the male and female beneficiaries were interviewed separately, some modules were answered by only the male (e.g., household demographics, assets and wealth, agricultural production, non-food consumption, and expenditures), some were answered by only the female (e.g., food consumption and food security indicators, dietary data, anthropometry, women’s status and decision-making autonomy, the experience of IPV), and some were answered separately by each (e.g., data needed to construct the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), gender attitudes, time preferences, agency). …”
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The Role of state forest enterprises on benefit sharing through payments for environmental services in Vietnam: a paradigm shift. [Abstract only]. by Milan, Florence M., Huong, T.T.T., Hoanh, Chu Thai, Phuong, N. D.

“…SFEs were given much greater autonomy and the government expected an increase in land managed directly by households (and possibly communities) under district level administration rather than the provincial level aimed at improving economic and social opportunities in the locality of SFEs. …”
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It takes two: Women’s empowerment in agricultural value chains in Malawi by Ragasa, Catherine, Malapit, Hazel J., Rubin, Deborah, Myers, Emily, Pereira, Audrey, Martinez, Elena M., Heckert, Jessica, Seymour, Greg, Mzungu, Diston, Kalagho, Kenan, Kazembe, Cynthia, Thunde, Jack, Mswero, Grace

“…The main contributor of disempowerment among women and men is lack of work balance and autonomy in income. Fewer women achieved adequacy in work balance than men. …”
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Gendered impacts of falling rubber prices: Changing livelihood strategies in China's rubber hearltand by Su, Y., Sujakhu, N.M., Smith, A.

“…Men usually have enhanced decision-making power in household farm enterprises and community leadership as they come into more frequent contact with the outside world, while women have expanded autonomy in conducting daily purchases. Thus, while the price plunge has been felt by all households in the area that rely on the rubber trade as a key source of income, it has particularly impacted the lives of women. …”
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A qualitative assessment of a gender-sensitive agricultural training program in Benin: Findings on program experience and women’s empowerment across key agricultural value chains by Eissler, Sarah, Diatta, Ampa Dogui, Heckert, Jessica, Nordehn, Caitlin

“…Related to findings around empowerment, results suggest that an empowered woman is closely tied to her ability to generate income, regardless of her decision-making autonomy, whereas an empowered man is one who generates higher incomes and is autonomous in his decision-making. …”
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