Resultados de búsqueda - "contract"

Farmers' rights and protection of traditional agricultural knowledge por Brush, Stephen B.

“…Although achieving in situ conservation is possible without changing farmers’ customary management of crops as common pool resources, an alternative approach is to negotiate a bioprospecting contract with providers of the resource that involves direct payment and royalties. …”
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Rural economy and farm income diversification in developing countries por Delgado, Christopher L., Siamwalla, Ammar

“…Identifying appropriate rural institutions to incorporate rural people into new export opportunities is a major priority for relevant policy research; contract farming and participatory cooperatives offer promise and merit further study.…”
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Spillovers from high-value export agriculture on land use in developing countries: evidence from Madagascar por Minten, Bart, Randrianarison, Laila, Swinnen, Johan

“…High‐value agriculture for exports is increasingly important in developing countries. In a case study of contract farming for exports of vegetables from Madagascar, strong spillover effects of these trade opportunities on land use are found to exist. …”
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Forestry sector reform and distributional change of natural resource rent in Indonesia por Kato, G.

“…In the midst of the confusion surrounding the policy reversal, the gap between the price of round wood in international and domestic markets failed to contract, although rent allocations to plywood industries were reduced during 1998 2003. …”
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Index-based livestock insurance as an innovative tool against drought loss: Good practices and impact analysis from northern Kenya por Agency for Rangeland Information and Development in Kenya

“…When evolving range conditions predict livestock mortality in excess of a critical threshold (say 15%) over a predetermined area, the insurance pays contract-holding pastoralists for their losses, allowing them to manage their individual risk. …”
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Land acquisition in Africa for agricultural purposes : the case of sugar cane plantation and sugar mill in Ethiopia por Liu, Li

“…In this model, the factors that can affect the willingness of private corporations abroad to lease land and then implement the agricultural projects are taken into account. A land lease contract, signed between Hunan Dafengyuan Agriculture Co., LTD and the Ministry of Agriculture of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, for sugar cane plantation and sugar processing in Ethiopia is chosen for the case study. …”

Selection biases and spillovers from collective conservation incentives in the Peruvian Amazon por Giudice, R., Börner, J., Wunder, Sven, Cisneros, E.

“…Occasional non-sanctioned contract incompliance contributed to these outcomes. …”
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Philippines, Smallholder Livestock Production Dataset, 2000-2001 por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…To understand why some smallholders participate in hog production and others do not, a total of 291 households were randomly identified from a stratified sample frame, of which 150 households were hog producers (including 50 small-scale contract farms) and 141 households were non-livestock raisers. …”
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Role of men in a women’s empowerment initiative: Evidence from Uganda por Ambler, Kate, Jones, Kelly M., O'Sullivan, Michael

“…In this study, we partnered with Kakira Sugar Limited (KSL), a large sugar company near Jinja, Uganda, that sets the purchase price and buys most of its sugarcane from smallholder contract farm-ers, who are mainly men. Though women participate in labor related to sugarcane, they are infrequently involved in any of the sugar-related marketing activities, meaning that men generally control the sugar-related income.…”
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A critical review of Malawi’s Special Crops Act and Agriculture (General Purposes) Act por Comstock, Andrew R., Benson, Todd, Nankhuni, Flora, Kanyamuka, Joseph, Nyirenda, Zephania, Nyondo, Christone

“…As a secondary task, the review considers whether either law could be used as an appropriate legal framework for contract farming regulation and oversight. The review was based on a thorough desk review of the legislation and interviews with over 230 key informants involved in agricultural production, marketing, and trade. …”
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Intertemporal choice and income regularity: Non-fungibility in a lab-in-the-field experiment por Kramer, Berber, Kunst, David

“…Given that compliance with informal contracts depends on whether the timing of payments aligns with recipient preferences, these findings also have implications for contract design in rural value chains.…”
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Land lease markets and agricultural efficiency: theory and evidence from Ethiopia por Pender, John L., Fafchamps, Marcel

“…We find that land lease markets operate relatively efficiently in the villages studied, supporting the New School perspective relative to the other two models. Land contract choice is found to depend upon the social relationships between landlords and tenants, but differences in contracts are not associated with significant differences in input use or output value per hectare. …”
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Nature+ Quantitative Baseline Household & Worker Survey, Kenya por International Food Policy Research Institute, Kula Vyema Centre

“…Additionally, the survey included interviews with 1056 workers, covering socio-demographic characteristics, contract types, forced labor, harassment, workplace health and safety, wages, and overtime. …”
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Growth assessment in tropical trees: large daily diameter fluctuations and their concealment by dendrometer bands por Sheil, Douglas

“…Tree stems contract and expand as stem water is depleted and replaced. …”
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Kirindi Oya Irrigation Settlement Project: project impact evaluation study. Vol.1: Main report (final) por International Irrigation Management Institute

“…Consultants Ruhunu University have also been engaged by IIMI through a research contract. The broad objective of the project was to attempt to assess the overall effects of the interventions as implemented under the KOISP. …”
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Market and other factors affecting farm-specific production efficiency in poultry production in Vietnam por Jabbar, M.A., Akter, S.

“…Sale at market place rather than at farm gate, market distance and flock size significantly reduced inefficiency in both the regions. Contract farming or sale, number of visits by extension staff, family labor supply, land size and education of household had significantly reduced inefficiency in the North but had no significant effect in the South. …”
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Public-Private partnerships in watershed management: evidence from the Himalayan foothills por Kurian, Mathew

“…The paper finds that the public sector has an important role to play in facilitating design of an institutional contract that clarifies water rights and rules for benefit sharing and conflict resolution. …”
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Perception and management of risks in the shrimp sector, empirical results of producers in the province of El Oro, Ecuador. por Ordoñez C., James W.

“…In addition, seven factors were identified for risk management strategies, including government support and risk sharing; education and technology improvement; implementation of good production practices; corrective management; disease prevention; contract external assistance; and marketing.…”
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Relevamiento y análisis de las estrategias de comercialización disponibles para productores agrícolas del partido de Pergamino por Rodriguez, J.G., Cabrini, Silvina María

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Entreprenörernas åsikter om Sydveds samarbetsförmåga por Bengtsson, Carl-Johan

“…The main weak point seems to be that the purchasers do not continuously put in comprehensive contract documentation for the job area in time before the job is going to start. …”