Resultados de búsqueda - "capitalism"

Thematic evidencing of youth-empowering interventions in livestock production systems in Sub-Sahara Africa: A systematic review por Nchanji, Eileen Bogweh, Kamunye, Kelvin, Ageyo, Collins Odhiambo

“…They utilize self-driven approaches such as gifting animals amongst themselves, forming saving groups commonly referred to as merry-go-rounds and belonging to community group formations as a form of social capital to empower themselves mutually. Education is also an empowerment tool for youths in the livestock sector. …”
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Guideline for measuring agronomic gain key performance indicators in on-farm trials por Saito, Kazuki, Johnson, Jean-Martial, Hauser, Stefan, Corbeels, Marc, Devkota, Mina, Casimero, Madonna

“…Only the full set of indicator data (yield, its stability, profitability, labor and capital demand, soil health, climate change adaptation etc.) will enable comprehensive estimation of agronomic gains of improved agronomic practices and prevent individual aspects or features of the improved practices hampering adoption. …”
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Agroecological Living Landscapes: A Context Assessment in Murewa, Zimbabwe por Chimonyo, Vimbayi G. P., Sibanda, Telma, Choruma, Dennis J., Falconnier, Gatien N., Baudron, Fréderic

“…Their proximity to Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe, improves access to markets, but the lack of proper postharvest handling decreases profits. …”
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Comparative analysis of women-led and agrarian reform beneficiaries cooperatives in Davao City: Cocoa value chain using a gender lens in the face of vulnerability por Lopez, Mitchiko Ariola, Lapitan, Aileen V., Aranas, Mia Barbara D., Faylon, Rassel P., Anastacio, Nico Jayson C., Predo, Canesio D., Flores, Emmanuel

“…The ARB cooperative with its access to diverse services, and capital (financial, equipment, facilities) has diversified from dried fermented cocoa beans to a wide array of value-added products involving mostly women workers. …”
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School meals and food systems: Rethinking the consequences for climate, environment, biodiversity, and food sovereignty por Pastorino, Silvia, Hughes, Darren, Schultz, Linda, Owen, Samantha, Morris, Kate, Backlund, Ulrika, Bellanca, Raffaella, Hunter, Danny, Kaljonen, Minna, Singh, Samrat, Eustachio Colombo, Patricia, Milani, Peiman, Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition

“…The White Paper, written in collaboration with 85 organizations worldwide, explains how implementing planet-friendly school meal programs can provide far reaching co-benefits for public health and human capital. The paper proposes that to maximize the transformative potential of school meal programs, governments should focus on two sets of policies. …”
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Resilience – and collapse – of local food systems in conflict affected areas; reflections from Burkina Faso por Béné, Christophe, d'Hôtel, Elodie Maître, Pelloquin, Raphaël, Badaoui, Outman, Garba, Faroukou, Sankima, Jocelyne W.

“…The objective is to document and analyze the impacts of that conflict on the functioning of the local food system and more specifically on the resilience of the traders that operate from Sebba, the capital of the Yagha province. The analysis reveals, first, the magnitude of the disruption. …”
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Malaria control and elimination in Kenya: Economy-wide benefits and regional disparities por Elnour, Zuhal, Grethe, Harold, Siddig, Khalid, Munga, Stephen

“…Expanding the health sector raises the demand for production factors, such as labour and capital. The prices for these factors rise, boosting producer and consumer prices of non-health-related products. …”
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Regional variations and trends in the composition and vulnerability of rural livelihoods por Belton, Ben, Filipski, Mateusz J., Lambrecht, Isabel B., Fang, Peixun

“…These include: Generally low levels of agricultural productivity relative to other countries in the region, in terms of both land and labor (World Bank 2016); High rates of landlessness and legacies of land confiscation and unresolved struggles over land rights and access (Mark and Belton 2020); Generally poor, though -prior to 2020 - rapidly improving, public infrastructure and services, including electricity, roads, schools, health services, and rural credit (Belton et al. 2017; Lambrecht and Belton 2018); Relatively low levels of diversification and capital in the rural non-farm economy; High rates of international and domestic outmigration (World Bank and LIFT 2016; CHIME 2019); Histories of ethno-political conflict and insecurity (South 2009). …”
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2021 Social Accounting Matrix for Rwanda: A Nexus Project SAM por International Food Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning of Rwanda (MINECOFIN), National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR)

“…Factors are disaggregated into labor, agricultural land, and capital, with labor further disaggregated across three education-based categories. …”
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Prices, profit margins and intermediary market power: evidence from the matooke value chain in Uganda por Kuijpers, Rob, Smits, Esther, Steijn, Cedric, Mulumba, Nasser, Asindu, Marsy, Kruijssen, Froukje, Kikulwe, Enoch Mutebi

“…In this paper, the authors examine this belief by uncovering the purchasing and selling prices, costs and profit margins by farmers, intermediaries and retailers in the matooke (cooking banana) value chain in Uganda, and by analysing the prevailing value chain and market structures, seasonal entry and exit dynamics and the trading relationships in the chain.Data for this study were collected along the trading routes from the main matooke producing districts in South-West Uganda (Kabarole, Bunyangabo, Bushenyi, Isingiro and Mbarara) to the main urban markets around the capital Kampala. A structured survey was administered with 383 producers, 172 collectors and wholesalers and 71 retailers. …”
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Immediate impacts of COVID-19 on the aquaculture value chain in Ghana por Ragasa, Catherine, Amewu, Sena, Asante, Seth

“…Using a value chain approach, phone interviews were conducted with 369 small-scale fish farmers in six major producing regions, with 12 other value chain actors, and with 423 consumers in the capital, Accra, to assess the impact of COVID-19 on the sector. …”
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Literature review on linkages between child nutrition and economic growth por Haile, Beliyou, Azzarri, Carlo, Ahn, Hee Eun

“…Third, the determinants of child undernutrition are broadly classified as the immediate determinants including dietary intake and diseases; the underlying determinants that include household food security, quality of care and household living environment, and access to healthcare; and the basic determinants that include access to productive resources, stock of capital, as well as socioeconomic, political and cultural factors. …”
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Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators: 2019 Global Food Policy Report Annex Table 1 por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Total agricultural research spending includes salaries, operating and program costs, and capital investments for all agencies, excluding the private for-profit sector, involved in agricultural research in a country. …”
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Impact Evaluation of Cash and Food Transfers at Early Childhood Development Centers in Karamoja, Uganda: Endline Survey por International Food Policy Research Institute, United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, World Food Programme

“…This evaluation is part of a multicountry study to assess the relative impact of food and cash transfers on food security, nutrition, and other measures of human capital. The Uganda case study had two main objectives. …”
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Impact Evaluation of Cash and Food Transfers at Early Childhood Development Centers in Karamoja, Uganda: Baseline Survey por International Food Policy Research Institute, United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, World Food Programme

“…This evaluation is part of a multicountry study to assess the relative impact of food and cash transfers on food security, nutrition, and other measures of human capital. The Uganda case study had two main objectives. …”
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Towards gender equality: A review of evidence on social safety nets in Africa por Peterman, Amber, Kumar, Neha, Pereira, Audrey, Gilligan, Daniel O.

“…Over the last decade, social safety nets (SSNs) have rapidly expanded in Africa, becoming a core strategy for addressing poverty, responding to shocks, increasing productivity and investing in human capital. Poverty, vulnerability and well-being have inherent gender dimensions, yet only recently has gender equality been considered as a potential program objective. …”
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Transforming agri-food systems in Ethiopia: Evidence from the dairy sector por Minten, Bart, Habte, Yetimwork, Tamru, Seneshaw, Tesfaye, Agajie

“…Relying on a combination of diverse large-scale datasets and methods, we analyze transformation patterns in the dairy value chain supplying Addis Ababa, the capital and biggest city of Ethiopia. Over the last decade, we note a rapid increase in expenditures on dairy products by urban consumers, especially among the better-off. …”
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Urban food retailing and food prices in Africa: the case of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia por Assefa, Thomas, Abebe, Girum, Lamoot, Indra, Minten, Bart

“…The purpose of this paper is to look in particular at the case of Addis Ababa, a city of more than four million people and the capital of Ethiopia, one of the most populous countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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Beyond dams: assessing integrated water storage in the Shashe Catchment, Limpopo River Basin por Ebrahim, Girma Yimer, Lautze, Jonathan F., McCartney, Matthew P., Matheswaran, Karthikeyan, Nyikadzino, B., Tafesse, N. T.

“…While the need for water storage through grey infrastructure such as dams has long been known, there is growing recognition of the need for approaches to water storage that capitalize on all storage types. However, the current capacity to plan in ways that utilize all storage types is limited. …”
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Smallholder dairy systems in the Kenya highlands: cattle population dynamics under increasing intensification por Bebe, B.O., Udo, H.M.J., Rowlands, G.J., Thorpe, W.R.

“…A household’s needs for cash was the second most frequent reason after disease for animal exits: 33% of heifers and 27% of cows, indicating the importance of cattle as liquid capital assets. The results showed that many zero-grazed herds required external sources of replacement animals to sustain their populations. …”
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