Resultados de búsqueda - "civil society"

Progress against nutrition for growth commitments por Fanzo, Jessica, Arakelian, Meghan

“…At the nutrition for growth (N4G) summit in London that year, governments, UN agencies, civil society organizations, businesses, donors, and other organizations gathered to consider how to improve nutrition worldwide. …”
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Agricultural extension services and gender equality: An institutional analysis of four districts in Ethiopia por Cohen, Marc J., Lemma, Mamusha

“…We interviewed district government officials, community leaders, and representatives of civil society organizations, and carried out focus group discussions with men and women farmers. …”
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Disponibilidad, accesibilidad y aplicabilidad de los resultados de investigación de los Centros del Grupo Consultivo para la Investigación Agrícola Internacional (CGIAR) por Hesse, Edith, Ballantyne, Peter G., Mejía, M.

“…The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), established in 1971, is a strategic partnership, whose 64 members support 15 international centers, working in collaboration with many hundreds of government and civil society organizations as well as private businesses around the world. …”
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Climate-Smart Village: Platforms for Forecasting Adaptation Action por Soriaga, Rowena, Monville-Oro, Emily, Rosimo, Magnolia, Cabriole, Marie Aislinn, Barbon, Wilson John, Ilaga, Alicia, Hellin, Jon, Gonsalves, Julian

“…The International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR), with support from the International Development Research Center (IDRC) Canada, collaborated with farmers, local authorities, civil society actors, and national agencies to support climate-vulnerable villages in Cambodia, Myanmar, and the Philippines. …”
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Biotechnology, agriculture, and food security in Southern Africa por Omamo, Steven Were, von Grebmer, Klaus

“…Their satisfactory resolution therefore requires multistakeholder participation in a process of finding and maintaining a dynamic balance between political and technical priorities. In this process civil society can provide much of the expertise and creative thinking that is required to identify needs, generate innovative policy options, and implement agreements while governments retain their preeminent functions of ultimate decisionmaking.…”
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2005 IFPRI at a glance: International Food Policy Research Institute por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Through its policy analyses, IFPRI directly supports developing-country policymakers, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and civil society in their efforts to help the poor. In addition, the Institute’s published research indirectly affects policy change through opinion leaders, donors, advisers, and media who influence national and international decisionmaking. …”
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Living Labs for People in China: Introducing low-carbon food systems concept in Qingshan Village por Reyes, Byron, Camilo, Karen

“…Through its work, the initiative ensures that civil society, multilateral, government, academic, and private sector actors in its four targeted countries (Colombia, Kenya, China, Viet-Nam) have the knowledge, information, and tools necessary to make robust evidence-based decisions as they confront challenges in FS discourse, policy development, and implementation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) contributions. …”
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Pluralism and the less powerful: accommodating multiple interests in local forest management por Wollenberg, Eva Karoline, Anderson, J., Edmunds, D.

“…Experience with these methods suggests that accommodation that genuinely reflects the interests of disadvantaged groups is most likely to occur where state and civil society governance institutions provide opportunities for 1) mutual learning among interest groups, 2) iterative cycles of bounded conflict and cooperation 3) public, transparent decision-making 4) checks and balances in decision-making among groups and 5) the provision of capacity building or political alliances for disadvantaged interest groups. …”
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Ideology, social theory, and the environment por Sunderlin, William D.

“…What will be the leading force to save the planet: civil society, government, or private enterprise? This book shows that these polemical debates are governed not so much by access to "facts" as they are by the political ideology of the expert advancing a particular argument. …”
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Devolution and Indonesia's new forestry law por Wollenberg, Eva Karoline, Kartodihardjo, H.

“…A broader base of civil society organisational capacity and systematic checks and balances within government are necessary to support these changes.…”
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Bridging the gap: communities, forests and international networks por Center for International Forestry Research

“…Multi-stakeholder decision-making, new partnerships and engagements with civil society all promise new opportunities for local actors to have their voices heard but also entail further risks of social exclusion.…”
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Forest-related conflict: impacts, links and measures to mitigate por Koning, R.G. de, Capistrano, D., Yasmi, Yurdi, Cerutti, P.O.

“…We will recommend a set of actions that donors, govern¬ments, and civil society organizations should embark on to fight corruption, to tackle power imbalances, to clarify rights, to improve corporate responsibility, and to engage communities in resource management. …”
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Governance, forests and REDD+ in Latin America por Petkova, E., Larson, A.M., Contreras Hermosilla, A., Toni, F.

“…However, it provides an opportunity to shift development patterns and reduce deforestation and degradation. Although civil society and external actors, including donors, can be important drivers for reform, ultimately, it will require policymakers and civil…”
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Analysis of China’s overseas investment policies por Wenbin, H., Wikes, A.

“…The project ‘Chinese trade and investment in Africa: Assessing and governing trade-offs to national economies, local livelihoods and forest ecosystems’ project, launched in March 2010, aims to advance understanding of the social, economic and environmental impacts of Chinese investment in commodities or sectors affecting forests and livelihoods in Africa (e.g. timber, mining, agriculture), and to strengthen the capacity of decision-makers in government, civil society and the private sector to enact reforms to maximise social and economic benefits while minimising adverse effects.…”
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Community based approach to on-farm conservation and sustainable use of agricultural biodiversity in Asia por Sthapit, B.R., Subedi, A., Jarvis, D., Lamers, H., Rao, V.R., Reddy, B.M.C.

“…The paper discusses challenges of implementation of the on-farm conservation, despite significant support from the global scientific as well as civil society agencies, as the preferred method of conservation. …”
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Institutional context of soil information in Burkina Faso por Kalčić, Špela

“…Specific information on civil society sector, policy and strategy documents on soil fertility management, access to fertilizers and the agribusiness private sector was complemented through an additional Internet and professional literature survey.…”
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‘CSA Plan’: A guide to scaling climate-smart agriculture - Concepts and lessons from designing CSA programs and policies in sub-Saharan Africa por Rosenstock, Todd S., Girvetz, Evan Hartunian, Corner-Dolloff, Caitlin, Lamanna, Christine

“…With iterative co-development, the approaches will become only more useful, relevant and legitimate to governments, civil society and the private sector alike.…”
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Estableciendo una interfaz ciencia-gestión-sociedad para la conservación de la biodiversidad y el bienestar humano en la Amazonia: el caso de Madre de Dios, Perú por Mathez Stiefel, S.L., Mulanovich, A. J., Jaquet, Stéphanie, Bieri, Sabin, Lojas, J., Breu, T., Messerli, P.

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Bollsinne, staketmålning och allt däremellan por Gustafsson, Clara

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Scaling Up Sweetpotato through Agriculture and Nutrition (SUSTAIN) 2013‐2019. Final report. por International Potato Center

“…It was led by the International Potato Center (CIP) working in partnership with national agriculture research institutions, health services, civil society organizations, and private sector partners. …”
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