Resultados de búsqueda - "being"

Under what policy and market conditions will Malawi’s smallholder farmers switch from tobacco to soyabean? por Johnson, Michael E., Edelman, Brent, Kazembe, Cynthia

“…Malawi has the potential to reorient its smallholder agriculture away from being primarily directed towards assuring household subsistence and self-sufficiency to increased commercial production, including of soyabean. …”
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Tool for Assessment of Climate Change “Sense” TACCS - طقس ( version 1.0) por Moujahed, Nizar

“…Currently, TACCS (version 1.0) is being tested within select professional groups.…”
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Impact of rising world rice prices on poverty and inequality in Burkina Faso por Badolo, F., Traoré, Fousseini

“…The poverty rate increases by 2.2 to 2.9 percentage points depending on the assumptions, the increase being higher in urban areas than in rural areas. …”
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Integrating institution into bio-economic modeling for development: A background paper for the IFPRI Biosight project on sustainable agricultural intensification por Swallow, Kimberly A., Swallow, Brent M.

“…It is envisioned that this toolkit would be used for policy analysis that might include ex ante assessment of the tradeoffs associated with policy alternatives in terms of the impacts of economic activity on the environment, impacts of environmental services on economic activity, impacts of environmental regulations on economic activity and well-being, and implications of scaling-up pilots.…”
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Megatrends and the future of African economies por Traub, Lulama, Yeboah, Felix K., Meyer, Ferdinand, Jayne, Thomas S.

“…Just as the current trends being observed in African food systems are the outcomes of the policies and public investment patterns of prior decades, the future will be shaped and transformed by today’s policy actions—either those taken proactively or those taken passively as a result of no action (Seidman 1973). …”
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Resilience and social capital por Bernier, Quinn, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…Increasingly, resilience is being incorporated into planning and social protection policy. …”
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The impact of foreign large-scale land acquisitions on smallholder productivity: Evidence from Zambia por Sipangule, Kacana, Lay, Jann

“…Our results allow for the careful conclusion that LSLA, despite being of considerable magnitude in Zambia, have not had any disruptive effects on the smallholder economy at the district level.…”
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The power of WASH: Why sanitation matters for nutrition por Spears, Dean, Haddad, Lawrence James

“…A growing base of evidence on the link between sanitation, child height, and well-being has come at an opportune time, when the issue of sanitation and nutrition in developing countries has moved to the top of the post-2015 development agenda.…”
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The causes and control of virus diseases of sweetpotato in developing countries: is sweetpotato virus disease the main problem por Carey, E.E., Gibson, R.W., Fuentes, S., Machmud, M., Mwanga, R.O.M., Turyamureeba, G., Zhang, L., Ma, D., Abo El-Abbas, F., ElBedewy, R., Salazar, L.

“…An array of complementary techniques are being used. They include diagnostic methods for the detection of specific viruses, pathogen-tested planting materials for the assessment of yield loss due to viruses, and host plant resistance to virus diseases.…”
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Addressing feed gap using resilient forage-based feed options and densification: A perspective from Tunisia with wider applicability por Rűdiger, Udo, Peters, Michael, Mwendia, Solomon, Makkar, Harinder P. S., Hassan, Sawsan, Dey, Bhramar

“…Forage production from a mix of forage species (triticale, oats, fenugreek, and vetch) in different proportions to pellet production using a mix of grains of maize, barley and soybean and locally available feed ingredients such as date palm byproducts, grain brans, tomato plant, saline-tolerant local alfalfa, among others are being increasingly used by small and medium farmers. …”
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Economic AI on the move: the relationship between sugar-sweetened beverages consumption and weight gain in Kyrgyzstan por Suyunov, Alisher, Akramov, Kamiljon T.

“…Besides, we have observed the positive association between age, income, calorie intake, and share of calorie intake from staples and the likelihood of being obese.…”
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Alignment of poultry sector actors with avian influenza control in Ethiopia por Kelemwork, Fassil, Belay, Berhanu, Bett, Bernard, Randolph, Thomas

“…Ethiopia has not had the disease, but it is considered as being vulnerable because it lies under the pathway of migratory birds and has an expansive border that makes it difficult to control cross-border trade in poultry and poultry products. …”
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The role of evaluation in strengthening agricultural R&D in sub-saharan Africa: information, instruments, and actors por Oruko, Leonard, Elliott, Howard

“…This paper links the evolution of research monitoring and evaluation (M&E) tools to major questions being asked and to demands for research reform at the global, regional, subregional, and national levels. …”
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Trading in turbulent times: Smallholder maize marketing in the southern highlands, Tanzania por Van Campenhout, Bjorn, Lecoutere, Els, D'Exelle, Ben

“…The short-run effects of the 2007/2008 global food crisis on semisubsistence farmers' well-being in low-income countries depends on whether they are net sellers or net buyers of the affected commodities. …”
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Community forestry in Nepal: Women and collective action por CGIAR Program on Collective Action and Property Rights

“…Forest conditions have improved upon the implementation of this strategy but concerns are being raised regarding equity and the role of women.…”
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Did using input vouchers improve the distribution of subsidized fertilizer in Nigeria? The case of Kano and Taraba states por Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda O.

“…Though input vouchers are increasingly being used as a mechanism to target subsidies in developing countries, limited empirical evidence of their performance relative to other distribution mechanisms exist. …”
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Do limitations in land rights transferability influence mobility rates in Ethiopia? por de Brauw, Alan, Mueller, Valerie

“…Furthermore, if migration takes place as part of a household decision making strategy, it can help the source household reduce income risks (Stark 1991, Azam and Gubert 2006), at the very least, and potentially improve the well being of the entire household (de Brauw and Harigaya 2007). …”
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Factors affecting the choices of coping strategies for climate extremes: The case of farmers in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia por Deressa, Temesgen T., Ringler, Claudia, Hassan, Rashid

“…Factors that positively influence coping include education of the head of household, gender of household head being male, farm income, livestock ownership, access to extension for crop and livestock production, farmer-to-farmer extension, temperature, ownership of radio, and better-quality house. …”
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Involving men and women for effective groups por CGIAR Program on Collective Action and Property Rights

“…Understanding how men and women interact, what motivates them, and what capacities they have (or do not have) for effectively working together can result in natural resources being managed more effectively and equitably.…”
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Public-private partnerships and developing-country agriculture: Evidence from the international agricultural research system por Spielman, David J., Hartwich, Frank, von Grebmer, Klaus

“…The study examines the extent to which PPPs are being used to overcome market and institutional failures that otherwise inhibit the development and dissemination of technologies targeted specifically to small‐scale, resource‐poor farmers in developing countries. …”
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