Resultados de búsqueda - "conducting"

A shock to the (food) system: Using new IFPRI tools to evaluate household food security outcomes por Comstock, Andrew, Ecker, Olivier, Jones, Eleanor

“…However, with little time to develop bespoke models or implement intensive simulations, conducting research and designing informed policies can be challenging. …”
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EcoFarm: To encourage agroecological farming practices por Samaddar, Ayan, Subrata, Saha

“…A thorough understanding of natural mechanisms is essential for agroecology, a complicated method of conducting agriculture in harmony with nature. Our current work has attempted to comprehend this by employing the 13 principles of agroecology as the standard framework for evaluating the performance and providing necessary guidance for selected farming systems. …”
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Measuring women’s empowerment in aquaculture in northwestern Bangladesh using a project level women’s empowerment in fisheries index (pro-WEFI) por Adam, Rahma, Rajaratnam, Surendran, Sufian, Farha, Njogu, Lucy

“…Drawing on a survey conducted in north-western Bangladesh, we examined quantitative pro-WEFI data collected from 217 households engaged in aquaculture. …”
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Strengthening Uganda’s solar pump subsidy program: Key challenges and solutions por Kato, Edward, Ringler, Claudia, Kiguli, Geoffrey, Sentumbwe, George, Tiishekwa, Dennis, Nsereko, Abdul, Alinaitwe, Jennifer

“…To better understand how these issues play out in Uganda, IFPRI, with support from the CGIAR Initiative on NEXUS Gains, is conducting a survey targeting both beneficiaries of the subsidy program and farmers who expressed interest in it but are either still waiting for it or have decided not to pursue the opportunity further.…”
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Cost effectiveness of anticipatory action: Lesotho, Madagascar, and Mozambique por de Brauw, Alan

“…An important question when conducting anticipatory action programs relates to its cost-effectiveness. …”
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Facilitator's guide: Participatory Foresight on Gender Equality in Agri-food Systems por Malhotra, Aayushi, Puskur, Ranjitha, Anabacha, A., Kori, Pooja, Verma, Benu, Shah, C., Bisht, S., Samal, S., Rawat, A., Bhandari, B., Maheshwari, M.

“…This methodology was tested during the participatory workshops conducted across two states i.e. Uttarakhand and Odisha, in India. …”
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A one health approach to prioritizing emerging zoonotic diseases (EZDs) in northern Vietnam por Luong Hung Nam, Thang Nguyen-Tien, Lindahl, Johanna F., Sinh Dang-Xuan, Phuc Pham-Duc, Unger, Fred, Bui Nghia Vuong, Dao Duy Tung, Hung Nguyen-Viet, Hu Suk Lee

“…Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and utilized it to prioritize zoonotic diseases in Vietnam. This involved conducting defining prioritization criteria, developing specific questions with assigned weights for each criterion, and organizing two workshops with stakeholders. …”
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Farmers agronomic management responses to extreme drought and rice yields in Bihar, India por Mkondiwa, Maxwell, Kishore, Avinash, Veettil, Prakashan Chellattan, Sherpa, Sonam, Saxena, Satyam, Pinjarla, Bhavani, Urfels, Anton, Poonia, Shishpal, Ajay, Anurag, Craufurd, Peter, Malik, Ram K., McDonald, Andrew J.

“…Our model addresses the empirical challenge of identifying a credible control group and conducting a counterfactual causal analysis when a factor like drought is widespread and affects nearly all sampled farmers. …”
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Farmers agronomic management responses to extreme drought and rice yields in Bihar, India por Mkondiwa, Maxwell, Kishore, Avinash, Veetil, Prakashan Chellattan, Sherpa, Sonam, Saxena, Satyam, Pinjarla, Bhavani, Urfels, Anton, Poonia, Shishpal, Ajay, Anurag, Craufurd, Peter, Malik, Ram, McDonald, Andrew

“…This model addresses the empirical challenge of conducting a counterfactual causal analysis when a factor like drought affects nearly all sampled farmers. …”
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Markets and Value Chain Study of Major Commodities in the Dryland Regions of Maharashtra: Technical report por Pramanik, Soumitra, Das, Abhishek, Patan, Elias Khan, Majeed, Israr Reshi, Anantha, Kanugod H., Garg, Kaushal K., Singh, Ramesh, Kumar, Shalander

“…The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), in partnership with the Ground Water Surveys and Development Agency (GSDA), is conducting a collaborative study focused on improving agricultural systems and livelihoods in rural Maharashtra, India. …”
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Farmers’ preferences for peste des petits ruminants disease vaccine delivery attributes in Uganda por Lule, Peter M., Otieno, D.J., Nyikal, R.A., Namatovu, Jane, Kiara, Henry K., Roesel, Kristina, Ouma, Emily A.

“…Also, the participation of different stakeholders in conducting awareness campaigns for vaccination, especially with respect to the provision of quality vaccines is paramount. …”
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Field phenotyping of wheat leaf rust and stem rust por Qureshi, Naeela, Gonzalez, Blanca Minerva, Velazquez-Miranda, Hedilberto, Bhavani, Sridhar

“…This chapter provides a comprehensive guide to leaf and stem rust of wheat, offering a step-by-step approach to understanding these diseases and conducting field evaluations and the critical role of field phenotyping in characterizing types of resistance types. …”
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Gender capacitation of extension and rural advisory services in West and Central Africa: the learning journey and outcomes por Maiga, Mariame, Gebremedhin, Bethel, Kpadonou, G Esaie, Ganyo, Komla Kyky, Dieng, Fatou, Segnon, Alcade Christel, Lamien, Nieyidouba, Zougmore, Robert Bellarmin

“…Main modules covered are (i) basic concepts in gender and agricultural extension services, (ii) methods and tools for conducting gender analysis in extension planning and (iii) approaches for mainstreaming gender in Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services. 23 participants (with 61% women) from Benin, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo who are directors or department heads of agricultural advisory and extension services from were capacitated and went back home with the promise to extend this knowledge to their pairs. …”
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An operational model for implementing conservation action por Knight, A., Cowling, R.M., Campbell, Bruce M.

“…Experience in the real world indicates that operational models for conducting conservation planning initiatives should explicitly complement a systematic conservation assessment with activities that empower individuals and institutions (enabling) and explicitly aim to secure conservation action (implementation). …”
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Forest certification in Indonesia por Muhtaman, D.R., Prasetyo, F.A.

“…In 1998, LEI was officially established as a foundation and since then has conducted several certification assessments. LEI and FSC have also developed a Joint Certification Protocol (JCP) that obliges FSC to use both LEI and FSC criteria and indicators when conducting an assessment of a forest management operation. …”
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Assessing willingness to pay for constructing septic tanks in rural Vietnam por Minh, H.V., Hung Nguyen-Viet

“…We assessed the WTP for septic tanks among the rural population in Vietnam and identified the some factors that influence the level of WTP. The study was conducted in Hanam province, in northern Vietnam. Researchers randomly selected and surveyed 600 households, conducting personal interviews with the main breadwinners or decision-makers in each. …”
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Response to Hertz-Fowler and Berriman: Continuing tsetse and trypanosoma genome sequencing projects por Davila, A.M.R., Majiwa, Phelix A.O., Grisard, E.C., Aksoy, S., Hide, W.

“…Therefore, there is an urgent need to undertake bioinformatics capacity-building in developing countries for several reasons, such as: (i) costs for bioinformatics research are lower; (ii) annotations would be performed in close collaboration with the sequencing centers in developed countries; (iii) the biology of the organism (pathogens and pests) is evident in DECs; hence, relevant genes can be evaluated as soon as they are identified, thus speeding up the evaluation and validation phase of candidate genes; (iv) validation of reagents or biotechnological products can often be performed in DECs on definitive host(s) affected by the pathogen, without undue restrictions inherent in conducting such validations where the disease is not endemic (e.g. developed countries); (v) a sense of joint ownership can be developed over the information derived from the sequence; and (vi) re-annotation is usually necessary and can be also be performed in developing countries. …”
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Developing Index Based Livestock Insurance for managing livestock asset risks in Northern Kenya por Chantarat, S., Barrett, Christopher B., Mude, Andrew G.

“…It uses a combination of field experiments and surveys conducted in summer 2008, and pre-existing household-level panel data sets in: (1) designing a market-viable contract; (2) conducting ex-ante householdlevel welfare analysis; and (3) eliciting willingness to pay (WTP) for the product among the targeted population. …”
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The Challenge Program on Water and Food: opportunities for adding value to experiences of using research for development (R4D) por Hall, Andrew

“…The program has labeled this way of conducting research as R4D. This places CPWF’s experiences in a wider, emerging school of agricultural practice that flags its ambition to go beyond knowledge production and leverage research to deliver development impacts (or, alternatively, placing research evidence within development processes). …”
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Multilocational testing of grasses and legumes in the humid tropics of South America por Keller-Grein, Gerhard, Amézquita, María Cristina, Lema, G, Franco, LH

“…Adaptability of 5 grass and 13 legume accessions tested in 34 regional agronomic trials throughout the South American humid tropics was assessed by conducting multilocational analysis on seasonal dry matter yield at 12 weeks regrowth. …”
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