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Nutrition-sensitive Water Management: Guidance for Irrigation Interventions por Chase, Claire

“…Chronic undernutrition early in life can cause cognitive and physical impairments that prevent children from achieving their full potential and have lasting consequences on the human capital that is essential for economies of the future to be competitive.The World Bank has developed a Water and Nutrition framework to support the inclusion of nutritional considerations in the design of water operations and to help formulate nutrition-enhancing water policy. …”
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Assessing women’s empowerment, participation, and engagement in aquaculture in Bangladesh por Njogu, Lucy, Adam, Rahma, Farnworth, Cathy Rozel

“…However, data suggest a substantial gap in women’s access to financial services, in participation in aquaculture activities, and in access to and control over productive capital and remuneration for aquaculture labor. Finally, despite some women achieving adequacy on some indicators, most women in fish farming households in Bangladesh lack adequacy on many of the selected indicators.…”
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Urban livelihoods and labor markets por de Haan, Arjan

“…Policies should promote access of the poor to financial capital through microfinance schemes; build the capabilities of the urban poor through formal education and training so that they can secure high-quality employment; and take into account the heterogeneity of labor markets and fluctuating nature of labor supply and demand. …”
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Dynamic externalities and structural change in Kenya por Johnston, Bruce F., Park, Albert

“…This work has emphasized, for example, that increasing returns phenomena such as demand externalities (Murphy, Shleifer, and Vishny 1989a) and human capital spillovers (Romer 1986) can play an important role in leading the growth process. …”
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Is private school premium spurious?: the role of private schools in the Philippines por Yamauchi, Futoshi, Abrenica, Joy

“…Therefore, although private institutions are dominant in the country, investments in private school education do not increase productivity of agents through human capital accumulation, but select more potentially productive agents before entering labor markets. …”
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A gendered 1993-94 Social Accounting Matrix for Bangladesh por Fontana, Marzia, Wobst, Peter

“…The SAM has ten factors of production: one type of capital, one type of land and eight different types of labor which are disaggregated by both level of education and gender. …”
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Past and future sources of growth for China por Fan, Shenggen, Zhang, Xiaobo, Robinson, Sherman

“…We also found that the returns to capital investment in both agricultural production and rural enterprises are much higher than those in urban sectors, indicating underinvestment in rural areas. …”
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Food and financial crises: Implications for agriculture and the poor por von Braun, Joachim

“…Yet the financial crunch has also decreased the availability of capital at a time when accelerated investment in agriculture is urgently needed. …”
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Water Management across scales in the Sao Francisco Basin: Policy options and poverty consequences por University of California

“…The basin’s agricultural systems cover a similar range between capitalized export-focused enterprises and subsistence farms. …”
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Income dynamics and pathways out of rural poverty in Bangladesh, 1988-2004 por Nargis, Nigar, Hossain, Mahabub

“…The reduction in poverty appears to be vitally dependent on the enhancement of the endowment of human and physical capital that augments the poor households' capability to better exploit income‐generating opportunities and place the households on a sustainable route out of poverty.…”
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Social identity and crisis resilience in agriculture: Caste, gender, and migration in Nepal por Alvi, Muzna, Barooah, Prapti, Saini, Smriti, Kishore, Avinash

“…Capacity to weather economic shocks is often mediated by social identity, which in turn determines access to social, economic and physical capital. We study the repercussions of a large economic shock on access to agriculture inputs, agricultural extension, output markets, and the consequent effects on income and livelihoods in rural Nepal. …”
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Conversion of tropical rainforest: agronomic potential and ecological consequences por Lal, R.

“…Major effects are on microclimate, water and energy balance, nutrient capital with disruption in pathways of various nutrient elements, soil, flora and fauna composition and activity. …”
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Closer to people and trees: will decentralisation work for the people and the forests of Indonesia? por Resosudarmo, I.A.P.

“…Local peoples, however, appear not to have been the ones receiving the primary benefits; they have been taken instead by those who have the required capital for permits and logging.…”
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The economics of recently introduced village cattle production in a tsetse affected area. (II): Trypanotolerant cattle in southern Togo por Itty, P., Rowlands, G.J., Morkramer, G., Defly, A., D'Ieteren, G.D.M.

“…Private returns were only greater than the opportunity cost of capital because such inputs were highly subsidised. …”
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Agriculture for development in Africa: Options and way forward por Anandajayasekeram, P.

“…The first part - agriculture for development - outlines the different ways agriculture contributes to development, as an economic activity and leading sector for economic growth, as a livelihood, as a provider of environmental services, peace and stability as pre-conditions for sustainable growth and development, new technology, improved human capital, sustainable growth in physical and biological infrastructure, effective institutes, and enabling political environment. …”
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The contribution of socio-economics to agricultural research: a review por Pachico, Douglas H.

“…Research priorities are basically determined by the identification and understanding of the farmers` problems, knowledge of their resources (type of soil, rainfall pattern), farm characteristics, and other socioeconomic aspects (labor, capital, credit, and experience). A socioeconomic analysis can contribute to assessing the impact of new technology by estimating the no. of farmers that can adapt to it, how many can really benefit from it, the amount and value of the added production, and the possible effect on prices and on nutrition for the consumer. …”
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The Indonesia Domestic Biogas Programme: can carbon financing promote sustainable agriculture? por Vorley, Bill, Porras, Ina, Amrein, Alexandra

“…One-hundred-per-cent subsidies have distorted the market, and poorer farmers who lack capital or cooperative membership are yet to be reached. …”
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Farmer cooperatives and the changing agri-food system in China por Yang, H., Vernooy, Ronnie, Leeuwis, Cees

“…Building strong alliances with other network actors is difficult because of cooperatives’ limited communication capacity and lack of economic and social capital. Our findings suggest that policies that support farmer cooperative capacity building at the micro level could improve the performance of smallholder farmers and their cooperatives in the expanding domestic quality food market.…”
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Adapting to a new urbanizing environment: gendered strategies of Hanoi’s street food vendors por Kawarazuka, Nozomi, Béné, Christophe, Prain, Gordon

“…Women operate based on social relations rather than economic interactions, while men’s activities tend to be more capital-based and similar to the formal systems. As a result, men and women encounter different challenges in sustaining their activities in the face of policy and/or economic changes. …”
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Implementing commitments in the Indonesian palm oil sector por Pacheco, P., Komarudin, Heru

“…These contributed to the original capital accumulation in the palm oil sector, which also benefited from a declining timber industry that was exhausting natural forests (Casson 2000).…”
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