Resultados de búsqueda - "capitalism"

Rapid Climate Risk Assessment for the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Region por Quinn, Claire, Carrie, Rachel, Chapman, Sarah, Jennings, Stewart, Jensen, Paul, Smith, Harriet, Whitfield, Stephen

“…Ten social and biophysical vulnerability indicators are identified from across the capital assets (human, physical, social, financial, natural), using data from the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), to develop a vulnerability index. …”
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Cost and benefit analysis of adopting climate adaptation practices among smallholders: The case of five selected practices in Ghana por Williams, Portia Adade, Karanja Ng'ang'a, Stanley, Crespo, Olivier, Abu, Mumuni

“…However, considering the capital required, payback period for investments made and risks from implementation, two out of the five practices are particularly fitting choices for the smallholders. …”
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Game-changing Partnerships for Game-changing Solutions for Food and Climate por Korngold, Alice

“…ADVANCE EQUITABLE LIVELIHOODS • Closing the gender gap in agriculture and food systems that make it dicult for women to have access to resources and opportunities, including capital, technology, and land tenure. 5. BUILD RESILIENCE TO VULNERABILITIES • Empowering 200 million farmers through the development of markets and implementation of climate-smart practices for resilience and protability.…”
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Development and equity: A gendered inquiry in a swidden landscape por Maharani, C., Moeliono, M., Wong, Grace Y., Brockhaus, Maria, Carmenta, R., Kallio, M.H.

“…We employ the gender asset agriculture project (GAAP) framework and apply an intersectional lens to highlight power relations underlying gendered differences in land, labor and social capital in this process of transformation. Our findings suggest that market interventions produce major changes for men and women, young and old, land cultivators and wage earners. …”
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Marketing Healthy Food in an African City: Consumer Motivations for Adopting Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato in Maputo, Mozambique por Brouwer, R.

“…This article seeks to reveal why consumers in Maputo, the capital city of Mozambique, adopt or reject OFSP looking at the role of food systems and consumer characteristics in access and acceptance of healthy food and at the positioning OFSP on the market in terms of lifestyle and need satisfaction.The results of 255 street interviews confirm that OFSP is widely known. …”
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CSA bundle 3: Scaling climate-smart inputs and agricultural practices in Zambia por Agova

“…Key deliverables include CSA farmer field schools (FFS) and demonstration days; seed fairs and distribution of Seed Co-PlantCatalyst input packages, training on technical extension and CIS for CAs; radio broadcasts to advertise inputs and disseminate climate/meteorological reports; and relationship facilitation between smallholders, capital providers, and market actors.…”
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Impact of youth-in-agribusiness program on employment creation in Nigeria por Bello, L.O., Baiyegunhi, L.J., Mignouna, Djana B., Adeoti, R., Dontsop Nguezet, Paul M., Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Manyong, Victor, Bamba, Z., Awotide, B.A.

“…Therefore, the study recommends that strengthening social capital such as youth organization, credit scheme (financed by private and government), vocational training, and educational system is vital in enhancing participation in the YIA program and eventually gainful employment of youth.…”
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Profiling the types of restaurants that sell wild meat in Central African cities por Wright, J.H., Malekani, D., Funk, S.M., Ntshila, J., Mayet, L., Mwinyihali, R., Fa, J.E., Wieland, M.

“…We surveyed 326 restaurants in Brazzaville and Kinshasa, the adjoining capital cities of the Republic of Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo, to determine which types of restaurants sell wild meat, how sales of wild meat dishes compared with those containing other proteins, and the importance of wild meat to these businesses. …”
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Blending high-resolution satellite rainfall estimates over urban catchment using Bayesian Model Averaging approach por Asfaw, Wegayehu, Rientjes, T., Haile, Alemseged Tamiru

“…Study region: Akaki is a headwater catchment of Awash River Basin that hosts the capital city of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa. The area encompasses several agglomerated towns, water supply, and hydropower reservoirs and is characterized by a chain of mountains and floodplains. …”
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The reverse gender wage gap in Bangladesh: Demystifying the counterintuitive por Rahman, Mustafizur, Al-Hasan, Md.

“…The study undertakes a re-estimation of gender wage gap in Bangladesh by changing the specifications in the ILO study, by deploying human capital, wage discrimination and segmented labour market theories and quantile regression. …”
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Access to Landscape Finance for Small-Scale Producers and Local Communities: A Literature Review por Louman, B., Girolami, E.D., Shames, S., Primo, L.G., Gitz, V., Scherr, S.J., Meybeck, A., Brady, M.A.

“…The most frequent challenges are the types of existing financial products, the lack of livelihood assets among recipients (such as capital and income), the lack of transparency in finance mechanisms, the small scale of potential business cases, and the high risks perceived by finance providers and their customers. …”
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Mapping Climate-Agriculture-Gender Inequity Hotspots to Build Resilience por Mishra, Avni, Lecoutere, Els, Puskur, Ranjitha, Koo, Jawoo, Azzarri, Carlo

“…In many cases, women are more vulnerable to adverse climate change impacts, due to their limited asset ownership, such as land, as well as more reduced access to capital, labor and agricultural inputs. Women also have more limited access to information, which, in turn, means lower awareness and knowledge of climate risks and strategies to manage them. …”
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Entrepreneurial potential and agribusiness desirability among youths in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo por Simbeko, G., Dontsop Nguezet, Paul M., Sekabira, H., Yami, M., Amato-Masirika, S., Bheenick, K., Bugandwa, D., Nyamuhirwa, D.A., Mignouna, J., Bamba, Z., Manyong, Victor

“…This is in addition to putting in place capacity-building programs on entrepreneurial and business skills through incubators, and the formalization of youth agribusiness groups that foster capitalizing experiences between new and accelerated agripreneurial enterprises, with the support of parents and financial institutions, focusing on gender sensitivity, in both rural and urban areas.…”
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Can urban growth reduce rural underemployment? por De Weerdt, Joachim, Cappellen, Hanne van

“…The first is that the jobs created are primarily low-skill, low productivity, and often casual (ganyu). Raising the human capital and productivity of the continually growing pool of rural workers, while simultaneously raising rural incomes to increase demand for the kind of off-farm goods and services they can provide, will be critical. …”
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Heifer’s intervention for empowering women to transform communities por Sreshtha, Sunmina

“…This study measures the outcomes of Heifer’s intervention in women’s empowerment to improve livelihoods through strengthening of the social capital, improved access to services, finance and income. …”
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Challenges and opportunities to scaling smallholder mechanization in Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe por Ngoma, Hambulo, Simutowe, Esau, Md Abdul Matin, Thierfelder, Christian

“…On the demand side, high capital requirements, limited awareness and technical knowledge and the high cost of hire services are some of the main barriers to scaling. …”
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Bolivia: Agricultural R&D indicators factsheet por Stads, Gert-Jan, de los Santos, Luis

“…The costs of R&D programs, running the day-to-day operations of laboratories, and muchneeded capital investments are chiefly funded by donors and development banks. …”
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Agricultural insurance for development: Past, present, and future por Robles, Miguel

“…Bakst, Sewell, and Wright (2016) report that the Economic Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) identifies five types of farming risk: (1) human and personal risk (such as human health), (2) institutional risk (regarding governmental action), (3) financial risk (such as access to capital), (4) price or market risk, and (5) production risk (such as weather and pests). …”
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The politics and governance of informal food retail in urban Africa por Resnick, Danielle

“…The research spanned Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, and Zambia and involved comparative analysis across capital cities based on media events data, surveys with traders, and interviews with urban bureaucrats. …”
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South Africa: Social Accounting Matrix (SAM), 1993, 1998, and 1999 por Thurlow, James, van Seventer, Dirk Ernst

“…These include unskilled, semi-skilled, and skilled labor, as well as the production factor capital. The SAM contains 14 representative households disaggregated across income deciles (with the exception of the top income decile, which is further subdivided into five income categories). …”
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