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Investment Opportunities for Livestock in the North Eastern Province of Kenya: A Synthesis of Existing Knowledge por Rakotoarisoa, M., Massawe, Stella C., Mude, Andrew G., Ouma, R., Freeman, H.A., Bahiigwa, G., Karugia, Joseph T.

“…The province faces various developmental challenges including chronic poverty and food insecurity, low human capital and poor health standards, high vulnerability to climate change, poor infrastructure, insecurity and low crop and livestock productivity. …”
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Using farmer decision-making profiles and managerial capacity as predictors of farm management and performance in Costa Rican dairy farms por Solano, C., León, H., Pérez, E., Tole, L., Fawcett, R.H., Herrero, Mario

“…Performance indicators include: milk yield per cow per day, milk yield per hectare per year, margin per cow per day, margin per ha per year, rate of return on working capital, and an efficiency parameter derived from a stochastic frontier production model. …”
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Institutional foundations of agricultural development in Ethiopia: drawing lessons from current practice for agricultural R&D por German, L., Ayele, Seife, Mazengia, W, Tsegaye, M., Abere, K., Bedane, K., Geta, E., Tolera, T., Taye, H.

“…They also tend to create new social structures at the community level, rather than build upon existing social capital to channel its potential as a driver of development. …”
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Deliberation or symbolic violence?: the governance of community forestry in Nepal por Ojha, H.R., Cameron, J., Kumar, C.

“…In the field of forest governance, we identify patterns of symbolic violence that limit the possibility of deliberation: creating boundaries in social field, cultivating internalised beliefs among governance actors, and sustaining unequal access to symbolic capital. The paper following Bourdieu, stipulates crisis as a necessary condition for the development of demands for increased deliberation by subordinated participants, and then explore sociological conditions for the development of crises into the situation of symbolic violence. …”
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Economic analysis of soil erosion effects in alley cropping. No-till and bush fallow systems in south west Nigeria por Ehui, Simeon K., Kang, B.T., Spencer, D.S.C.

“…Based on simulation model, this study uses a capital budgeting approach to determine the profitability of alternative land use systems, taking into account the short and long-run impact of soil erosion on agricultural productivity in southwestern Nigeria. …”
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Gender, livestock and livelihood indicators. Version 2 por Njuki, Jemimah, Poole, Elizabeth J., Johnson, Nancy L., Baltenweck, Isabelle, Pali, Pamela N., Lokman, Z., Mburu, S.

“…In deriving these indicators, we have used both the sustainable livelihoods framework, placing livestock within an assets and capital framework, and as a pathway out of poverty. …”
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Are we over-estimating irrigation subsidies in multipurpose water resources projects in India? methodological issues and evidence por Kuppannan, Palanisami, Malik, Ravinder Paul Singh, Mohan, Kadiri

“…Given the fact that the capital cost is a sunk cost, this paper has used the O&M cost of the project and the gross receipts in computing irrigation subsidies. …”
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Smallholder livestock production system in Dandi district, Oromia Regional State, central Ethiopia por Duguma, B., Tegegne, Azage, Hegde, B.P.

“…Respondents ranked feed shortage, diseases prevalence, labour scarcity and lack of capital as the major constraints limiting livestock production in that order of importance. …”
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Adapting livestock water productivity to climate change por Haileslassie, Amare, Blümmel, Michael, Clement, Floriane, Ishaq, S., Khan, M.A.

“…Purpose – The main purposes of this paper were to assess effects of smallholder farmers access to livelihood capital (e.g. land, livestock and water) on livestock water productivity (LWP) and to evaluate impacts of selected interventions in reducing livestock water demand (per unit of livestock product) and therefore increasing LWP. …”
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Planning and management of irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa: reducing the environmental and health costs por McCartney, Matthew P., Boelee, Eline, Cofie, Olufunke O., Mutero, Clifford M.

“…In the past, research into impacts, and the development of impact assessment methodologies, has focused primarily on large scale, capital intensive, schemes. However, small scale and less formal water management interventions, which are increasingly prevalent in Sub-Saharan Africa, can also have significant environmental and health impacts. …”
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Impacts of lining, maintenance and operations on water delivery performance in Pakistan por Murray-Rust, Hammond, Vander Velde, E.J., Merrey, Douglas J.

“…The results indicate that the greatest improvement in hydraulic performance was obtained from the least expensive intervention, focused maintenance: for a capital cost of $0.52 per ha, the inequity ratio between the head quarter and tail quarter of the canal declined from 4.2 to 1.3. …”
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Rice and irrigation in West Africa: achieving food security with agricultural water management strategies por Katic, Pamela G., Namara, Regassa E., Hope, Lesley, Owusu, E., Fujii, H.

“…Our results show that policy interventions in these West African countries (i.e., input subsidies and import taxes) did not significantly enhance the profitability of rice production to farmers due to the effect of market failures (limited capital access and non-competitive market for rice) and the low quality of local milled rice. …”
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Are we over-estimating irrigation subsidies in multipurpose water resources projects in India?? methodological issues and evidence por Kuppannan, Palanisami, Malik, Ravinder Paul Singh, Mohan, Kadiri

“…Given the fact that the capital cost is a sunk cost, this paper has used the O&M cost of the project and the gross receipts in computing irrigation subsidies. …”
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Assessing the impact of the SASA/CASREN technology interventions in the sweet potato-pig production systems in Zitong County (Sichuan, China) por Pezo, Danilo A.

“…Among those criteria are: increased sweet potato yield; larger area planted to the improved varieties; reduction of losses due spoilage when sweet potato roots and vines are ensiled; savings in fuel when silages are prepared instead of offering fresh roots; shorten the growing/fattening period; increased numbers of pigs marketed; increased income from pig; reduced costs of feeding; faster capital turnover in the pig enterprise; and final ly improved livelihood for household members. …”
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Comparative performance of irrigated and rainfed agriculture in Ethiopia por Tilahun, H., Erkossa, Teklu, Michael, M., Hagos, Fitsum, Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele

“…Irrigation projects often require huge financial and capital investment. As a result, rain fed agriculture may continue to play a major role in the near future, especially in areas with sufficient rainfall. …”
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Ecohealth approach to urban waste management: Exposure to environmental pollutants and health risks in Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire por Kouamé, P.K., Dongo, K., Hung Nguyen-Viet, Zurbrugg, C., Lathi, C., Hattendorf, J., Utzinger, J., Biemi, J., Bonfoh, Bassirou

“…The current study aimed at assessing environmental and human health risks related to urban waste management in Yamoussoukro, the political capital of Côte d’Ivoire. We undertook trans-disciplinary research within an Ecohealth approach, comprised of a participatory workshop with stakeholders and mapping of exposure patterns. …”
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Implications of changing domestic policies and globalisation for crop-livestock systems Development in West africa por Williams, Timothy O., Ehui, Simeon K., Kormawa, P.M.

“…Globalisation, manifested in increased international trade, foreign direct investment and capital flows, is a phenomenon that is likely to assume greater importance in the future. …”
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Comparative risk assessment of pork value chain in Nagaland, Northeast India por Deka, Ram Pratim, Grace, Delia, Lapar, Ma. Lucila, Fahrion, Anna S.

“…The study addressed all levels (“from stable to table”) of rural pork supply chains as well as peri-urban and rural food supply chains supplying Guwahati, the state capital. The study used participatory risk analysis, a new method for assessing and managing food safety that allows rapid and participatory assessment of hazards in resource-constrained environments. …”
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Staple food crops turning into commercial crops: case studies of teff, wheat and rice in Ethiopia por Gebremedhin, Berhanu, Hoekstra, Dirk

“…Econometric analyses show that market orientation of households is affected by a host of factors related to household demographics, household endowments of human and physical capital, access to institutional services, and village level factors. …”
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Poultry value chains and HPAI in Ethiopia por Ayele, G., Rich, Karl M.

“…The analysis focused on three sites in Ethiopia: Modjo, Debre Zeit, and Addis Ababa which lie along major production and consumption gradients that link southern and eastern parts of the country to the capital, Addis Ababa. The study was conducted using focus group discussions (FGD) and key informant discussions in each site.…”
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