Resultados de búsqueda - "capitalism"

CLIMATE AND FINANCE RISK ASSESSMENTS OF FIVE AGRIBUSINESSES USING AI-TOOLS por Muthio Muoki, Nicole, Hauke, Dahl, Peterson, Nathanial Richard

“…Many small and medium enterprises operate with limited capital, narrow revenue bases, and exposure to drought, fuel, and currency shocks. …”
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Forest cover and agricultural technology por Angelsen, A., Kaimowitz, D.

“…It points to several critical factors which can make new technologies speed up or slow down the rate of deforestation: the market characteristics, the farmers' objectives and constraints, the technologies' labor and capital intensities, and the agricultural systems and areas in which the technology is applied. …”
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Poverty alleviation and tropical forests - what scope for synergies? por Wunder, Sven

“…Absorption of (poor) unskilled labor is low in forestry, which tends to be capital-intensive. Natural forets may thus lack comparative advantage for poverty alleviation. …”
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A Quantitative Assessment of the COMESA Customs Union por Nzuma, J., Gbegbelegbe, Sika, Massawe, Stella C., Karugia, Joseph T.

“…The study uses an expanded version of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) database and capitalizes on the Modeling International Relationships in Applied General Equilibrium (MIRAGE) Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model for analysis. …”
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Poverty alleviation and tropical forests: what scope for synergies? por Wunder, Sven

“…Absorption of (poor) unskilled labor is low in forestry, which tends to be capital-intensive. Natural forets may thus lack comparative advantage for poverty alleviation. …”
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Profits and margins along Uganda's charcoal value chain por Shively, G.E., Jagger, P., Sserunkuuma, D., Arinaitwe, A., Chibwana, C.

“…Linear regression models are used to study overall profits and per-unit marketing margins along the value chain and to test several hypotheses regarding the importance of location, human and social capital, and asset ownership on observed economic returns and scale of activity. …”
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Development of agriculture in Ethiopia since the 1975 land reform por Belete, A., Dillon, John L., Anderson, F.M.

“…The favouring of large-scale and capital-intensive state-owned farming enterprises with credit, subsidies, and fiscal incentives, while neglecting smallholders, has contributed to the stagnation of agricultural production in Ethiopia. …”
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Adoption of double-cropping soybeans and wheat por Shapiro, Barry I., Brorsen, B.W., Doster, D.H.

“…Contrary to the findings of some other adoption studies, this decision is not influenced by human capital factors. The farmers who double-crop are more highly leveraged and appear to do so both to achieve higher income and as part of a risk diversification strategy. …”
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Local-level appraisal of benefits and barriers affecting adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices: Curití, Colombia por Peterson, C.A.

“…A questionnaire survey of 30 households in Macaregua village, Curití municipality, in addition to focus group discussions and in-depth, semi-structured interviews revealed that non-adoption was most often a result of insufficient financial capital, water scarcity, lack of technical knowledge or the inappropriateness of the practice for management system or physical environment. …”
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Justice in development?: an analysis of water interventions in the rural south por Venot, Jean-Philippe, Clement, Floriane

“…This paper explores a fruitful convergence between the distributive and procedural dimensions of environmental justice theory and current debates in the field of development studies over capitals and capabilities, institutions, and discourse formation to shed new light on natural resource management projects in the developing world. …”
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Systematic agronomic farm management for improved coffee quality por Läderach, Peter R.D., Oberthür, Thomas, Cook, Simon E., Estrada Iza, M, Pohlan, J, Fisher, M., Rosales Lechuga, R.

“…Smallholders in emerging markets can benefit by capitalizing on the natural resource variability in their production system and from the knowledge that they have about this variability. …”
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How to make a milk market: A case study from the Ethiopian highlands por Holloway, G.J., Nicholson, C., Delgado, Christopher L., Staal, Steven J., Ehui, Simeon K.

“…The techniques considered are a modern production practice (crossbred cow use), a traditional production practice (indigenous cow use), three intellectual-capital-forming variables (experience, education and extension) and the provision of infrastructure (as measured by time to transport milk to market). …”
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Gender participation and decision making in crop management in Great Lakes Region of Central Africa por Ochieng, J., Ouma, Emily A., Birachi, Eliud Abucheli

“…We found that accessibility to rural credit, extension services, social capital in the form of groups, and engagement in off-farm activities are critical for stimulating women’s participation in crop production activities. …”
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Formal milk processing sector in Assam: Lessons to be learnt from institutional failure por Sirohi, S., Kumar, Anjani, Staal, Steven J.

“…The functional plants are operating at very low level of their installed capacity, have limited product profile, high returns of marketed milk, substantial handling and curdling losses, low productivity of capital and labour and huge operational losses. The poor performance of the plants has been attributed to the establishment of milk processing units without an appropriate assessment of output demand and input supply and ascertainment of economic viability of the plants. …”
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An analysis of a cassava integrated research and development approach: has it really contributed to poverty alleviation? por Gottret, María Verónica, Raymond, M

“…The ICRD Project showed that agricultural research can contribute tangibly to poverty alleviation, but with the following conditions that (1) market and post harvest research and development are integrated with production technology research agenda; (2) interinstitutional partnerships are developed, whereby different institutions with their own expertise, comparative advantages, and mandates collaborate to respond to the demands of local community organizations and individuals; and (3) existing social and human capital is used to create intimate networking among institutions, local social organizations, and individuals.…”
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The challenges on out-scaling participatory methods in agricultural research por Aw-Hassan, Aden A.

“…The advantage of participatory research is considered more prominent in, although not limited to, the adaptation of technologies that require local knowledge of the social, economic and biophysical environments or need high level of human capital or require cooperation of different stakeholders. …”
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Urban Sprawl and Adverse Impacts on Agricultural Land: A Case Study on Hyderabad, India por Gumma, Murali K., Irshad, M., Nedumaran, S., Whitbread, Anthony M., Lagerkvist, Carl Johan

“…Many Indian capitals are rapidly becoming megacities due to industrialization and rural–urban emigration. …”
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Livelihood mapping and poverty correlates at a meso-level in Kenya por Kristjanson, Patricia M., Radeny, Maren A.O., Baltenweck, Isabelle, Ogutu, Joseph O., Notenbaert, An Maria Omer

“…We identify and map critical spatial factors grouped into natural, human, social, financial and physical capital assets, which largely determine livelihood options, strategies and welfare of agro-pastoral communities in a semi-arid district of southern Kenya. …”
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Estrategia de producción de pasturas a base de leguminosas en America tropical por Sánchez, Pedro A.

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Implementing the world conservation strategy: success stories from Central America and Colombia por Barborak, J.R., Green, G.C.

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