Resultados de búsqueda - "awareness"

Understanding drivers and barriers for adoption of climate- smart agriculture through a gender lens: Evidence from India por Barooah, Prapti

“…This paper draws from quantitative surveys conducted with 2,238 female and 811 male farmers in Gujarat, a western state in India, to understand their perception of climate change and experience with climate shocks; and to assess factors that influence awareness and adoption of CSA practices among women and men. …”
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Capacity Building for gender equality and social inclusion in Integrated Water Resources Management through Gender Transformative Approaches por Waqar, Kanwal

“…Recommended initiatives include: (a) capacity-building training on GESI in IWRM at district, province, and federal levels, (b) awareness sessions with male groups of WUAs, and (c) producing easily adoptable practitioner ‘cheat sheets’. …”
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Designing gender-transformative interventions in the commercialized cassava seed system in Tanzania por Liani, Millicent L., Cole, Steven M., Hillenbrand, Emily, Mtunda, Kiddo, Egesi, Chiedozie, Tufan, Hale Ann

“…CSEs and community leaders advocated for the use of interventions that create awareness of human and land rights, and the value of joint decision- making on the use of family income via community dialogues, local theaters, and radio stations. …”
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Identificación y selección de los instrumentos e incentivos aplicables a las diferentes fases de la cadena de valor de cacao bajo en emisiones en Caquetá y Cesar por Garcia, Maria Claudia, Blanco, Javier Tomás, Navarrete, Manuela, Quintana, Angélica, Borda, Carlos, Vanegas, Martha

“…In Caquetá, the outlook for credit allocation was mixed, with constraints such as a lack of awareness by producers. Financial barriers included unadapted credit requirements and a preference for livestock projects over agroforestry systems. …”
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Supporting women's empowerment by changing intrahousehold decision making: A mixed methods analysis of a field experiment in rural south-west Tanzania por Lecoutere, Els, Lan Chu

“…The programme was delivered to monogamous couples who head smallholder coffee‐farming households in rural south‐west Tanzania.We combine (quasi‐)experimental quantitative and qualitative methods to assess the programme's impact on women's empowerment and how that impact fits with women's valued domains of empowerment and individual pathways to empowerment.Awareness‐raising couple seminars, the programme's least intensive intervention, increased women's access to livestock. …”
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Moth bean (Vigna aconitifolia): a minor legume with major potential to address global agricultural challenges por Kanishka, R.C., Gayacharan, C., Basavaraja, T., Chandora, Rahul, Rana, Jai Chand

“…Considering the recent surge in awareness about the development of climate-smart crops for sustainable agricultural future, collective effort towards effective utilization of this hardy, neglected legume is the need of the hour.…”
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Consumer preferences, and willingness to pay for safe pork products in rural Kenya por Gichuyia, Cianjo M., Mtimet, Nadhem, Fèvre, Eric M., Thomas, Lian F., Gathura, P., Onono, J.O., Akaichi, F.

“…Investing to increase consumer awareness on food safety issues should be considered to generate an effective market demand, especially in rural areas with relatively lower literacy levels.…”
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Do farmers' perceptions and socio-economic factors drive cocoa agroforestry and sustainable soil carbon management practices in West Africa? por Kumah, F.J., Kouabenan, A., Gebrekirstos, A., Kone, D., Adjei-Nsiah, S.

“…Our results also revealed that educational level was the only socio-economic factor that influenced the farmer’s awareness of agroforestry and soil organic carbon. …”
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Food budget allocation efficiency: A missing component to help identify robust nutrition policies, with application to Rwanda por Marivoet, Wim

“…By only excluding the most inequality averse diet quality pecification, which may help to account for measurement error, a robust set of policy recommendations can be formulated for two thirds of all observations, most of which should focus on awareness raising activities.…”
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Resilience in the Malawi agri-food system amid the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from a 2021 nationally representative household survey por Ragasa, Catherine, Balakasi, Kelvin, Carrillo, Lucia

“…Improvements are likely attributable to better harvests overall and greater awareness of the need to eat healthy and nutritious foods to combat COVID-19 and other diseases. …”
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Plant different, eat different? Insights from participatory agricultural research por Azzarri, Carlo, Haile, Beliyou, Letta, Marco

“…Pulses are a more affordable and environmentally sustainable source of protein than animal source food, and efforts should be made to enhance their nutritional awareness and contribution to sustainable food systems and healthier diets.…”
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Action on invasive species: Control strategies of Parthenium hysterophorus L. on smallholder farms in Kenya por Tabe-Ojong, Martin Paul Jr., Alvarez, Miguel, Ihli, Hanna J., Becker, Mathias, Heckelei, Thomas

“…As parthenium invasion continues, policies need to improve farmer awareness and access to knowledge to enable pro-poor and environmentally sustainable control of parthenium on smallholder farms.…”
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Citizen science mitigates the lack of distributional data on Nigerian birds por Tende, T., Iniunam, I., Ivande, S.T., Awoyemi, A.G., Danmallam, B.A., Ringim, A.S., Bako, L.A., Ramzy, F.J., Kazeh, N.W., Izang, A.I., Kumdet, P.S., Ibrahim, J.I., Haruna, M.A., Eyos, K., Iki, E.D., Chaskda, A.A., Ottosson, U.

“…We strongly recommend our approach to boost other citizen science projects across Africa and beyond to address the huge lack of biodiversity data, create public awareness, and foster conservation education.…”
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Developments, bottlenecks, and opportunities in seed markets for improved forages in East Africa: The case of Kenya por Florez, Jesus Fernando, Karimi, Peggy, Paredes, John Jairo, Ángel, Natalia T., Burkart, Stefan

“…The realization of this market's potential requires addressing prevailing challenges, including elevated seed costs, intricate variety registration processes, and a pervasive lack of awareness among farmers.…”
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Snack food consumption across the pune transect in India: A comparison of dietary behaviors based on consumer characteristics and locations por Roy, Devesh, Boss, Ruchira, Saroj, Sunil, Karandikar, Bhushana, Pradhan, Mamata, Pandey, Himanshi

“…No significant association with BMI is possibly due to obesogenic SFC being likely offset by lower consumption of non-snack food and higher physical activity among poor and slum dwellers. Promoting awareness about diets and lifestyles, improving physical and economic access to healthier snacks and nutrient dense foods can improve diet quality in a large and heterogeneous population such as Pune.…”
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Designing better input support programs: Lessons from zinc subsidies in Andhra Pradesh, India por Gupta, Shweta, Kishore, Avinash, Alvi, Muzna, Singh, Vartika

“…We find that use of non-subsidized zinc is high in AP, and awareness of benefits of zinc and physical access to input dealer shops are significant predictors of zinc use. …”
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Rural Bangladeshi consumers’ willingness to pay for rice with improved nutrition via zinc biofortified rice and decreased milling practices por Herrington, Caitlin, Maredia, Mywish K., Ortega, David L., Taleon, Victor, Birol, Ekin, Sarkar, Md. Abdur Rouf, Rahaman, Md. Shajedur

“…Results point to the importance of nutritional awareness campaigns for increasing zinc biofortified and low-milled rice consumption and guiding the targeting strategy for such campaigns.…”
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The role of interactive radio programming in advancing women’s empowerment and crop and dietary diversity: Mixed methods evidence from Malawi por Ragasa, Catherine, Mzungu, Diston, Kalagho, Kenan, Kazembe, Cynthia

“…Second, results show a positive impact of radio programming on technology awareness but a limited impact on actual adoption of most agricultural practices being promoted, except crop residue incorporation. …”
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Symposium policy note 4: Moving nutrition further up the development priority list in Egypt por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…This brief highlights three areas of action to significantly improve the nutritional status of all Egyptians: Make domestic food policies more nutrition-sensitive and incentivize food producers and marketers to shift to the production, processing, and marketing of healthier foods. Expand ongoing awareness and educational campaigns, such as the 100 Million Healthy Lives initiative, to promote improved nutrition and to disseminate nutrition knowledge. …”
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Informal Food Retail Trade in Nigeria's Secondary Cities por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Food Safety and Food Security (FS) – awareness of food safety and source of personal food 8. …”
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