Resultados de búsqueda - "conducting"

In situ monitoring system in the dry corridor of Guatemala through the establishment of a digital agricultural plot por Martínez, Jesús David, Jimenez, Daniel Ricardo, Muller, Anna, Ramos, Gresia Dalal, Estrada Vargas, Oscar H, Muñoz, Luis Armando, Van Loon, Jelle Filip, Bonilla, Melissa

“…The plot functions as a laboratory, testing technologies that are apt for the unique challenges of the dry corridor, with a focus on social, environmental, and economic efficiency, while also addressing the needs of the regional community. Conducting user research is crucial, serving as a compass to guide our actions. …”
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Spanish video with english subtitles. In-situ monitoring system in the dry corridor of Guatemala through the establishment of a digital agricultural plot por Martínez Salgado, Jesús David, Jimenez Rodas, Daniel Ricardo, Arce Gomez, Daniela

“…The plot functions as a laboratory, testing technologies that are apt for the unique challenges of the dry corridor, with a focus on social, environmental, and economic efficiency, while also addressing the needs of the regional community. Conducting user research is crucial, serving as a compass to guide our actions. …”
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Applying a social equity approach to transformative climate change adaptation por Hellin, Jon, Ringler, Claudia, Menon, Purnima

“…Attention to social equity enables those conducting research to consider how social difference and associated inequalities shape vulnerability and influence people’s access to innovations to build resilience and improve their livelihoods. …”
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Challenges to groundnut value chain development: Lessons from an (attempted) experiment in Ghana por Posey, Sean, Magnan, Nicholas, McCullough, Ellen B., Hoffmann, Vivian, Opoku, Nelson, Alidu, Abdul-Hafiz

“…With the intention of conducting a field experiment, we piloted an intervention connecting smallholder groundnut farmers in Ghana to a premium groundnut processor through aggregators. …”
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Sustaining natural resources in African agriculture: What have we learned in the past two decades? por Place, Frank

“…Researchers have responded to these challenges, advancing research frameworks and hypotheses, deploying more research tools, and conducting more studies. However, it is unclear that all this response has significantly advanced our state of knowledge on the extent and nature of land degradation in agricultural land, the particular practices that work in different socioeconomic contexts, and how best to induce their uptake by households facing different priorities and constraints. …”
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Nexus Capacity Scorecard (NCS) - Education and Research: guidance note and tool por Khalid, Sidra, Elias, M.

“…The ‘Nexus Capacity Scorecard (NCS) – Education and Research’ is intended to gauge capacities to adopt a WEFE nexus approach within and/or across academic institutions conducting research in or teaching courses related to the water, energy, food/agriculture, and environmental sectors (henceforth referred to as ‘WEFE academic institutions’). …”
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Breaking policy silos for sustainable development: A report on policy coherence in India's food, land and water sectors por Taneja, Garima, Mitra, Archisman, Katyaini, Suparana, Bhattacharjee, Suchiradipta

“…Over time, there has been an increasing recognition of the importance of analyzing policies through the lens of policy coherence and conducting research on fostering synergies and drafting policies that are mutually reinforcing rather than divergent.…”
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COVID-19 lockdowns have imposed substantial economic costs on countries in Africa por Thurlow, James

“…But early research indicates that many African economies are significantly impacted and that poorer households are struggling. IFPRI is conducting a series of country studies, in collaboration with local and government partners, that use economywide models to estimate the impacts of lockdowns, assess the exposure of food systems, and identify vulnerable population groups.…”
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Collective action and vulnerability: Burial societies in rural Ethiopia por Dercon, Stefan, Hoddinott, John F., Krishnan, Pramila, Woldehanna, Tassew

“…They find that iddir effectively deal with problems of asymmetric information by restricting membership geographically, imposing a membership fee, and conducting checks on how the funds were spent. The study also finds that while iddir help poor households cope with individual health shocks, but shows that the better-off households belong to more groups and have larger networks. …”
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Participatory Scenario Planning (PSP) coordination meeting: Consultations and agreed actions por Koech, Grace, Otieno, Felix, Gamoyo, Majambo, Wahome, Anastasia, Kinyua, Ivy, Ogutu, Liz, Ghosh, Aniruddha

“…Recommendations focus on establishing a national technical working group, conducting regular coordination meetings, synthesizing outcomes, engaging missing stakeholders, integrating PSP into national plans, enhancing capacity building, implementing robust monitoring and evaluation, and exploring sustainable funding mechanisms. …”
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Are institutional innovations helpful in reducing transaction costs? An empirical analysis of agri-based Farmer Producer Companies (FPCs) in Kerala, India por Divya, KM, Kumar, D Suresh, Vidhyavathi, A, Babu, Suresh Chandra, Uma, K, Kannan, Balaji, Kalarani, MK

“…Transaction costs are incurred while conducting a transaction through an exchange in the open market. …”
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Institutional barriers to food safety: The irrigated vegetable value chain in Accra, Ghana por Galibourg, David, Scott, R. E., Gough, K. V., Amoah, Philip

“…Knowledge gaps created by top-down approaches and sectoral silos were bridged by engaging participants in conducting the behavioural diagnosis. This shared understanding highlights the need to integrate and harmonise policies, regulations and service provision across water, sanitation, agriculture and health sectors, enabling participants to co-design arrangements that make safe practices easier to adopt.…”
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Pobreza, descentralizacion y bosques en el norte amazonico boliviano por Fuentes, D., Haches, R., Maldonado, R., Albornoz, M.A., Cronkleton, P., Jong, W. de, Becker, M.

“…The first three chapters form the introduction to a detailed analysis of poverty in the Amazon region of northern Bolivia, a region that relies largely on forestry production, and where CIFOR has been conducting social research since the mid 1990s. The book provides an excellent introduction to readers interested in poverty at the forest margins in Bolivia.…”
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A methodology for assessing rural livelihood strategies in West/Central Africa: lessons from the field por Malleson, R., Asaha, S., Sunderland, Terry C.H., Burnham, P., Egot, M., Obeng-Okrah, K., Ukpe, I., Miles, W.

“…The challenges faced by those conducting this study are also encountered by others carrying out comparable research. …”
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Developing land use/land cover parameterization for climate-land modeling in East Africa por Torbick, N.M., Lusch, D., Qi, J., Moore, N., Olson, J.

“…No simulations are discussed here; rather, we present an outline of the procedures that were carried out to take advantage of the strengths of currently available LULC products, Africover and Global Land Cover 2000, for the purpose of conducting regional climate simulations.…”
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Linking natural resources, agriculture and human health: case studies from East Africa por Li Pun, H.H., Baumgaertner, J.U., Greiling, J., Gopalan, H., Jabbar, M.A., Mares, V., McDermott, John J., Odiit, M., Mohamed-Saleem, M.A.

“…Both are currently conducting research in the East African highlands, based on holistic, participatory methods. …”
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Conceptual framework for revitalisation of small-scale irrigation schemes in southern Africa por Mwendera, Emmanuel, Chilonda, Pius

“…The methodology is defined by conducting diagnostic studies to assess water availability, irrigation system, socio-organisation, economic, and market conditions of the scheme. …”
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Prosocial behavior and incentives: Evidence from field experiments in rural Mexico and Tanzania por Kerr J, Vardhan M, Jindal R

“…In view of this dichotomy, we conducted choice and field experiments in rural Mexico and Tanzania to test the response of prosocial behavior to incentives. …”
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Evaluating value chain interventions: A review of recent evidence por Kidoido, Michael M., Child, K.

“…This is due to various reasons, including the intrinsic complexity of value chain interventions, intricate contextual support factors, presence of multilevel system actors, constant adaption to market and nonmarket forces and the cost associated with conducting an evaluation. This paper discusses a range of approaches and benchmarks that can guide future design of value chain impact evaluations. …”
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Reforming the research policy and impact culture in the CGIAR: Integrating science and systemic capacity development por Leeuwis, Cees, Klerkx, Laurens, Schut, Marc

“…This paper argues that the CGIAR -through its CGIAR Research Programmes-is struggling to fulfil its international mandate of conducting strategic research that contributes to agricultural development and global food security. …”
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