Resultados de búsqueda - "capitalism"

Determinants of household access to and participation in formal and informal credit markets in Malawi por Diagne, Aliou

“…Therefore, poor households whose assets consist mostly of land and livestock but who want to diversify into nonfarm income generation activities may be constrained by lack of capital. As informal loans are usually too small to help poor households start a viable nonfarm business, these households may be forced to rely on farming as the sole source of income, despite its unreliability because of the frequency of drought in Malawi. …”
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Determinants of land use change: evidence from a community study in Honduras por Bergeron, Gilles, Pender, John L.

“…Econometric analysis suggests that land use intensification was influenced by plot level variables (especially altitude, slope, distance to a road and tenure), farm level variables (human capital, farm size, and ownership of productive implements), and by community variables (especially presence of technical assistance programs).To the extent these results are found to be more broadly representative, they suggest that there may be good potential to promote income-enhancing horticultural development through investments in technical assistance and education in similar communities elsewhere in Honduras. …”
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Pakistan’s cotton and textile economy: Intersectoral linkages and effects on rural and urban poverty por Cororaton, Caesar B., Orden, David

“…Simulation 1 examines the effects of a doubling of foreign capital inflows, as occurred from 2002 to 2006, before a subsequent financial crisis emerged in 2008. …”
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Pakistan’s cotton and textile economy: Intersectoral linkages and effects on rural and urban poverty por Cororaton, Caesar B., Orden, David

“…Simulation 1 examines the effects of a doubling of foreign capital inflows, as occurred from 2002 to 2006, before a subsequent financial crisis emerged in 2008. …”
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Technology adoption under seed access constraints and the economic impacts of improved pigeonpea varieties in Tanzania por Shiferaw, Bekele A., Kebede, Tewodros A., You, Liangzhi

“…The study identifies the crucial role of seed access (local supply), extension, education, participatory decision making, capital, and household assets in determining adoption. …”
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The emerging livestock feed markets in East Africa: A solution to feed shortages? por Nangole, E., Lukuyu, Ben A., Franzel, Steven, Baltenweck, Isabelle

“…Cooperative societies played a key role in linking buyers and sellers, stimulating demand and providing credit. Input capital is perceived as a major constraint. Findings showed a need to promote feed marketing alongside feed conservation and feed processing as well creating platforms for linkages amongst actors. …”
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Genomic prediction of rice mesocotyl length indicative of directing seeding suitability using a half-sib hybrid population por Chen, Liang, Liu, Jindong, He, Sang, Cao, Liyong, Ye, Guoyou

“…Contrastingly, genomic selection/prediction (GS/GP) could efficiently detect the superior hybrids capitalizing on genomic data, which holds a great potential in plant hybrids breeding. …”
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Impact of covid-19 on smallholder aquaculture farmers and their response strategies: empirical evidence from Bangladesh por Alam, G. M. Monirul, Sarker, Md Nazirul Islam, Kamal, Md Abdus Samad, Khatun, Most Nilufa, Bhandari, Humnath

“…Reduced income from fish farming and other sources has triggered a significant drop in capital for farming operations and production capacity improvement, leading to food insecurity. …”
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What does it take to revolutionize Chinese diets: Evidence from a choice experiment on urban Chinese consumers por Chen, Kevin Z., Yu, Luyun, Lin, Wen, Ortega, David L.

“…Using consumer data from six provincial capital cities, we used random parameter logit models to estimate their preferences.Diet type and diet cost were found to be more important in urban Chinese consumers' diet selections than the ability to customize taste. …”
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Leveraging public works for sustainable and resilient livelihoods: Four case studies from India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act por Narayanan, Sudha, Raghunathan, Kalyani, Gautam, Aditi

“…The ERADA project had three broad objectives - of enhancing natural capital, green recovery through green enterprises, and convergence of resources and networks - and identified the MGNREGA as a critical social safety net on which to base its activities. …”
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Obras por impuestos: Financiando la restauración rural en zonas de conflicto y deforestación por Borda, Carlos, Vanegas, Martha, Yomayuza, Karoll Valentina

“…Se abordan desafíos como los altos costos iniciales de inversión y las vulnerabilidades socioeconómicas, y se proponen estructuras de incentivos que incluyen subsidios de capital, pagos por servicios ambientales (PSA) y asistencia técnica. …”
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Determinants of participation in contract farming in pig production in Northern Vietnam por Costales, A., Son, N.T., Lapar, Ma. Lucila, Tiongco, Marites M.

“…However, rather than size of physical assets, social capital appears to be a more important determinant of engaging in informal contracts. …”
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Social and economic development and change in four Guatemalan villages: demographics, schooling, occupation, and assets por Maluccio, John, Melgar, Paul, Mendez, Humberto, Murphy, Alexis, Yount, Katherine M.

“…Much of this change is associated with declining agricultural markets and increased access to non-agricultural jobs near the villages and in the capital. Accompanying these changes has been an improvement in living standards as measured by a number of indicators of household living conditions and consumer durable goods.…”
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Assessment of the determinants and economic benefits of adoption of improved sweetpotato varieties in Uganda por Feukeng, F., Otieno, D.J., Okello, J.J., Rajendran, S.

“…Based on these insights, the study recommends development of social capital by promoting farmer field schools, farmer groups and cooperatives. …”
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Estimating elements susceptible to urban flooding using multisource data and machine learning por Asfaw, Wegayehu, Rientjes, T., Bekele, Tilaye Worku, Haile, Alemseged Tamiru

“…This study analyzed twenty-eight FCFs derived from open-access earth observation datasets to develop FSP model for a highly urbanized Akaki catchment, which hosts and surrounds the capital city of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa. In the study, relevant FCFs were first identified using different collinearity-based and model-integrated feature selection methods, and sequentially introduced into a machine learning model. …”
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Governing informality: Drivers of service provision in Nigeria's food wholesale markets por Resnick, Danielle, Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda O., Chugh, Aditi

“…Using data from 299 wholesale markets across seven states and the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria, this paper examines how four governance mechanisms-incentives, information, authority, and capacity-are associated with five services: waste collection, market toilet access, water provision, electricity, and security. …”
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Options for Strengthening the International Legal Regime for Forests. A Report to the European Union under the study contract B7-8110/96/000221/D4 by EFI, IUCN/IELC and CIFOR. Joen... por Glück, P., Tarasoffsky, R.G., Byron, R.N., Tikkanen, I.

“…The tenure of forest lands is often still unclear, or contested, and forests have frequently been mined as a quick source of capital, subsequently abandoned, or turned over to agricultural colonisers or plantation estates. …”
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Training of trainers on the establishment of Community-Based Breeding Programme for small ruminants in Uganda: Strengthening competence in improved health and feeding, reproductive... por Recha, John W.M., Haile, Aynalem, Getachew, Tesfaye, Barungi. Julian, Ilakut, Ben, Okonya, Joshua, Gitau, Angela, Radeny, Angela

“…ASARECA is mandated to coordinate and convene human, physical, financial and institutional capital to implement Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) initiatives in Eastern and Central Africa (ECA). …”
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Corporate debt and the Indonesian forestry sector por Barr, C., Brown, D., Casson, A., Kaimowitz, D.

“…Strong evidence suggests that debt write-offs and loan restructuring may provide Indonesia’s forest-related industries with a substantial capital subsidy. This study projects that IBRA will eventually write-off US$ 1.3 – 1.9 billion of debts associated with timber, wood processing, pulp and paper, and oil palm investments. …”
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Oil, macroeconomics, and forests: assessing the linkages por Wunder, Sven, Sunderlin, William D.

“…These conclusions have ample policy implications, reaching beyond the group of tropical oil countries. Other international capital transfers, like bilateral credits, aid or debt relief can have similar impacts. …”
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