Resultados de búsqueda - "capitalism"

AICCRA-Senegal Gender-Smart Accelerator Grant concept note por Derenoncourt, Marie Ena, Jaquet, Stéphanie

“…The goal of the Gender Smart Accelerator Grant is to develop a pipeline of gender responsive CSA business models that can be matched with private investor capital in Senegal. While climate change is an economic reality affecting the agricultural sector, women farmers lack access to inputs, information, and finance to innovate with climate solutions. …”
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Training Manual: Gender Integration for Smallholder Livestock Keepers (Amharic Version) por Ekule, Muluken, Wamatu, Jane

“…This manual engages smallholder farmers on women’s participation at every level of the livestock value chain, where they face influences from factors, including their skills, their access to capital; capacities, organizational skills, and their limitations. …”
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Contention over contagion: Citizen responses to COVID-19 policies por Resnick, Danielle

“…On January 7, Senegal’s capital Dakar experienced violent demonstrations opposing a nighttime curfew imposed by the government under a new state of emergency law intended to limit the spread of the coronavirus (Ollivier 2021). …”
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Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on rural women and men in Kenya por Alvi, Muzna, Gupta, Shweta, Barooah, Prapti

“…Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Kenyan government declared a nationwide dusk to dawn curfew in March 2020 that was lifted in large parts later in the year, followed by off-and-on reinstatements of curfews and limitations on mobility largely for the capital region. The government also banned religious and other public gatherings and encouraged people to work from home and practice social distancing. …”
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A 1995 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Zambia por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…This SAM comprises 28 activities, 27 commodities, 6 factors of production (4 labor categories, 1 capital, and 1 land account), 4 household types, and one account each for enterprises, government, rest-of-the-world, and investment/savings. …”
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Economies of size in national agricultural research systems por Fuglie, Keith O., Rada, Nicholas

“…In this context, national agricultural research spending is treated as an investment in “knowledge capital.” However, because of the length of time required for research investments to generate the technologies farmers ultimately adopt, these long-lasting impacts accrue with a time lag.…”
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Enhancing women’s assets to manage risk under climate change: Potential for group-based approaches por Ringler, Claudia, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Bryan, Elizabeth, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…The notes in this collection explore how to protect or strengthen women’s control over critical assets, including natural resources and social capital. These notes also examine the potential for innovative and group-based approaches to increase women’s assets and strengthen their risk-management capabilities in the context of climate change.…”
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Institutional capacity for designing and implementing agricultural and rural development policies and strategies in Nigeria por Adebayo, Kolawole, Babu, Suresh Chandra, Rhoe, Valerie

“…While production is a result of land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship, its magnitude and efficiency from the farm to the consumer depend on handling, preservation, and the processes of making the products readily available and conveniently consumable, which are directed by government policies. …”
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Internal migration and rural service provision in northern Ghana por Wouterse, Fleur Stephanie

“…The econometric evidence supports the theoretical expectation that human-capital and network variables as well as assets are important determinants of migration. …”
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Resources at marriage and intrahousehold allocation: evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and South Africa por Quisumbing, Agnes R., Maluccio, John A.

“…We test the unitary versus collective model of the household using specially designed data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and South Africa. Human capital and individual assets at the time of marriage are used as proxy measures for bargaining power. …”
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Supplemental cash loans to boost productivity in Nigeria por Ambler, Kate, Bloem, Jeffrey R., Maruyama, Eduardo, Balana, Bedru, Olanrewaju, P., Adewumi, B., Essien, E., Alabi, S., Ogundare, M.

“…Labor, land, and other forms of capital must combine with agricultural inputs.…”
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Government credit programs: Justification, benefits, and costs por Rosegrant, Mark W., Siamwalla, Ammar

“…The "traditional" views in support of this policy instrument, as summarized by von Pischke, Adams, and Donald (1983), are that credit programs are easier to implement than such policies as land reform or infrastructure development, that subsidized credit can offset the negative impact on farm income and disincentives of government policies such as overvalued exchange rates and price controls, and that credit programs are necessary to provide capital for adoption of new technology. The informal credit market moneylenders are considered monopolistic, exploitive, and antidevelopmental, and incapable of providing the necessary credit.…”
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Boletín del GC sobre Género por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…En este número:; El género y el capital social; La asignación del tiempo y la nutrición infantil; El programa sistemático del CGIAR; El análisis de la problemática del género en el ICIMOD; Últimas investigaciones del IFPRI sobre el género; Taller sobre el género y el aprovechamiento de los recursos hídricos en el IIMI; Los servicios de extensión según el sexo; Recursos sobre el tema del género y el desarrollo; Suscripciones…”
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Investment opportunities for livestock in the north eastern province of Kenya:: A synthesis of existing knowledge por Rakotoarisoa, Manitra A., Massawe, Stella, Mude, Andrew, Ouma, Robert, Freeman, Ade, Bahiigwa, Godfrey, 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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Transitioning Farming Systems for Resilience and Food Security in Malawi por Kumar, Shalander, Pramanik, Soumitra, Moyo, Martin, Singh, Ramesh, Jat, Mangi Lal

“…A two-day Stakeholders’ Workshop on Sustainable Transitioning of Farming Systems, held on 12-13 December 2024 at the Sunbird Capital Hotel in Lilongwe, brought together key agricultural stakeholders, researchers, policymakers, and development partners to explore solutions to enhance the resilience and sustainability of Malawi’s mixed farming systems. …”
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Determinants of nonfarm earnings of farm-based husbands and wives in northern Ghana por Abdulai, Awudu, Delgado, Christopher L.

“…Education, experience, infrastructure, distance to the capital, and population density, as well as interactions between education and infrastructure and between education and distance to the city, were found to be significantly related to the probability of nonfarm labor market participation, wages, and the amount of nonfarm labor performed, with significant differences by gender.…”
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Knowledge enhancement and pest management among farmers through picture based advisories: Case study from Tamil Nadu por M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation

“…The increased vulnerability to different abiotic (weather) and biotic risks (pests, diseases, nutrient disorders, weeds etc.) and accompanying productivity and agricultural income losses discourage farming households from investing in both productivity enhancing innovations as well as human capital development. The new technological advancements in digital and computing fields provide new opportunities to improve agricultural risk assessment, develop management strategies and use it to reduce the negative effects of climate change through innovative tools.…”
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Potential of transgenic crops in Bangladesh: findings from a consultation of Bangladeshi scientific experts por Gruère, Guillaume P. P., Hoque, Imdadul, Valmonte-Santos, Rowena, Rosegrant, Mark W.

“…Public research is constrained by human capacities, infrastructure and capital investment, and transgenic crop development will require the active involvement of outside partners, such as international organizations or collaboration with private companies. …”
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Innovative partnership scheme unlocks US$520,800 credit, boosting hundreds of Kenyan farmers’ resilience por Wamicwe, Peter, Derenoncourt, Marie Ena, Newman, Richard

“…The bundled product integrates bank risk capital, insurance, and climate-smart advisory services. …”
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Putting farmers’ strategies in the center of agricultural groundwater use in the Vientiane Plain, Laos por Suhardiman, Diana, Pavelic, Paul, Keovilignavong, Oulavanh, Giordano, Mark

“…Taking Laos as a case study, this article illustrates how differential access to water, land, and capital shape farmers’ livelihood strategies in two nearby, yet contrasting villages on the Vientiane Plain. …”
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