Resultados de búsqueda - "capitalism"

Diversity for sustaining livelihoods: examples, constraints and lessons learnt por Taylor, M., Jaenicke, H., Hunter, D., McGregor, A., Lyons, G.

“…Enhancing human and social capital and diversifying livelihood options are vital components of any strategy which aims to assist communities to manage the impact of climate change. …”
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Characterization of smallholder pig breeding practices within a rural commune of North Central Vietnam por Ieda, N, Quang Van Bui, Nga Nguyen Thi Duong, Lapar, Ma. Lucila, Marshall, Karen

“…The most common breeding system practiced—the keeping of Mong Cai females and production of cross-bred piglets—capitalizes on the small body size and high fecundity of the sows and the fast growth rate and leanness of the cross-bred piglets. …”
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Non-rice crops in rice-based farming systems in mainland Southeast Asia por Lefroy, Rod D.B.

“…The cultivation of non-rice crops is affected by the available natural resources, particularly climate and soils, by changing market demands, by labour- and capital-availability, by the specific interests of farmers, and, as is critical to this review, by changes in the area and methods of rice production. …”
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Building a resilient city for whom? Exploring the gendered processes of adaptation to change: A case study of street vendors in Hanoi. por Kawarazuka, Nozomi

“…In contrast, male street vendors’ activities are closer to the formal market systems in the sense that their business is based on capital and economic interactions rather than social relations. …”
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Transformation in governance towards resilient food systems por Bers, Caroline van, Pahl-Wostl, Claudia, Eakin, Hallie, Ericksen, Polly J., Lenaerts, Lutgart, Förch, Wiebke, Korhonen-Kurki, Kaisa, Methner, Nadine, Jones, Lindsey, Vasileiou, Ioannis, Eriksen, Siri H.

“…A number of preconditions and conditions need to be present including sufficient ‘wealth’ or economic and social capital in the system with resources that can be mobilized, and sufficient flexibility in the institutional context to allow innovation to emerge and gain strength. …”
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Awareness and adoption of land,soil and water conservation practices in the Chinyanja Triangle, Southern Africa por Mango, Nelson, Makate, Clifton, Tamene, Lulseged D., Mponela, Powell, Ndengu, Gift

“…This suggests that governments’ policies in the region should be aimed at improving farmers’ level of education, extension delivery that will target the elderly and the youth, land ownership, credit access, and social capital such as group formation.…”
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Water and sand: is groundwater-based farming in Jordan's desert sustainable? por Naber, M.A., Molle, Francois

“…While Mafraq stands for capital-intensive fruit-tree cultivation on legal land/wells, Azraq's agriculture is largely based on olive cultivation and wells that are either illegal or granted permits with higher block tariffs, and has a return that is only one tenth of Mafraq's. …”
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Nematode control on plantain suckers (Musa spp. Aab genome) through submergence in boiling water: emergence rates, early growth, bunch yield and root health por Hauser, S., Messiga, F.N.K.

“…The techniquerequires very little capital investment (<$10) and only marginal additional labor. …”
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Strengthening collective action to improve marketing performance: evidence from farmer groups in Central Africa por Ouma, Emily A., Ochieng, Justus, Knerr, Beatrice, Owuor, George

“…Originality/Value: Few studies have examined how social capital and collective action are utilised to improve smallholder farmers marketing performance, particularly in Central Africa.…”
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Farmers perceptions of the speargrass (Imperata cylindrica) problem and its control in the lowland subhumid savannah of Nigeria por Chikoye, David, Ellis-Jones, J., Tarawali, G., Kormawa, P.M., Nielsen, O., Ibana, S., Avav, T.

“…Speargrass was the major constraint to crop production because of lack of capital for hiring labour and purchasing inputs, declining soilfertility, bush burning, deforestation, continuous cropping and lack of required skills. …”
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Micronutrient value and contribution of plantainderivrd foods to daily intakes of iron, zinc and betacartene in southern Nigeria por Honfo, F., Hell, K., Coulibaly, O., Tenkouano, A.

“…A survey was carried out in the Abia, Akwa-Ibom, Edo, and Ogun, States of Southern Nigeria, targeting their capital cities, i.e., Umuahia, Uyo, Benin City, and Abeokuta, respectively. …”
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Genetic variability for grain yield and components in an early tropical yellow maize population under Striga hermonthica infestation por Badu-Apraku, Baffour, Menkir, A., Lum, F.

“…Recurrent selection methods that capitalize on both additive and dominance variances would be effective for improving the population for Striga resistance and grain yield.…”
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Peru’s native potato revolution. por Horton, D., Samanamud, K.

“…The main benefits of market chain innovation and increased market demand for potatoes have accrued to early innovators characterized by higher levels of education, larger land holdings, better access to credit and input supplies and to markets for their products, and superior endowments of financial and social capital and entrepreneurial capabilities.…”
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Bridging funding gaps for climate and sustainable development: Pitfalls, progress and potential of private finance por Clark, R., Reed, J.D., Sunderland, Terry C.H.

“…In a world where natural capital is often unpriced or undervalued, thus making resource exploitation very lucrative, environmentally degrading activities will continue to dominate the economy. …”
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Have integrated landscape approaches reconciled societal and environmental issues in the tropics? por Reed, J.D., Vianen, J. van, Barlow, J., Sunderland, Terry C.H.

“…Our findings indicate that landscape approaches show potential as a framework to reconcile conservation and development and improve social capital, enhance community income and employment opportunities as well as reduce land degradation and conserve natural resources. …”
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Leakage effects in natural resource supply chains: a case study from the Peruvian commercial charcoal market por Bennett-Curry, A., Malhi, Y, Menton, M.

“…This paper presents results from quantitative and qualitative research investigating the commercial charcoal supply chain servicing the metropolitan area of Lima, the capital of Peru. Long-term conservation initiatives protecting the species <i>algarrobo</i> (<i>Prosopis</i> spp<i>.…”
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Mucuna fallow diffusion in southern Benin por Manyong, Victor M., Houndekon, V.A., Sanginga, P., Vissoh, Pierre V., Honlonkou, A.N.

“…Suppression of Imperata cylindrica and low capital requirement were perceived to be the major benefits of Mucuna fallow, and therefore provided a window for its rapid adoption and diffusion. …”
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Transformation in Practice: A Review of Empirical Cases of Transformational Adaptation in Agriculture Under Climate Change por Vermeulen, Sonja J., Dinesh, Dhanush, Howden, S. Mark, Cramer, Laura K., Thornton, Philip K.

“…A structured search of academic literature found 23 empirical case studies that meet our criteria for transformation of agriculture under climate change: a response to climate risks along with a redistribution of at least a third in the primary factors of production (land, labor, capital) or the outputs and outcomes of production over a time period of 25 years or less. …”
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Household-oriented benefits largely outweigh commercial benefits derived from cattle in Mabalane District, Mozambique por Karanja Ng'ang'a, Stanley, Ritho, Cecilia, Herrero, Mario, Fraval, Simon

“…The households secured financing, insurance and saving primarily by capital accumulation through herd expansion, for example after a good crop harvest, using the profit to purchase a young calf, an ox or a heifer. …”
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A comparative analysis of governance and leadership in agricultural development policy networks por Rudnick, Jessica, Niles, Meredith, Lubell, Mark, Cramer, Laura K.

“…These findings suggest that resources may be an important factor in overcoming the cost of coordination, but social capital among local actors may be more important for developing network leadership.…”
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