Search Results - "developing countries"

A Behavioral Intervention Increases Consumption of a New Biofortified Food by School Children: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria by Just, D.R., Okello, J.J., Gabrielyan, G., Adekambi, S., Kwikiriza, N., Abidin, P.E., Carey, E.E.

“…These results appear to conform to results found in a developed country context.…”
Get full text

PIM achievements in innovations related to inclusive and efficient agricultural value chains by de Brauw, Alan, Bulte, Erwin

“…Since the world food price crisis in 2007-2008, developing country governments, international donor agencies, and development practitioners have placed additional focus on trying to make agricultural value chains work better for the poor. …”
Get full text

The impact of large-scale social protection interventions on grain prices in poor countries: Evidence from Ethiopia by Hoddinott, John F., Stifel, David, Hirvonen, Kalle, Minten, Bart

“…There has long been concern that cash and in-kind transfers might affect prices in developing country food markets. While there have been a number of studies at highly aggregated levels, much less is known about the effects of cash transfers on local food prices and even less about how they compare to food transfers. …”
Get full text

Cooperatives, contract farming, and farm size: The case of tomato producers in Nepal by Mishra, Ashok K., Kumar, Anjani, Joshi, Pramod Kumar, D'Souza, Alwin

“…This study investigates the impact of contract farming (CF) through cooperatives in tomatoes on employment and economic performance of smallholders in a low‐income developing country. Using farm‐level data from Nepal and a nonparametric matching estimator, the study finds a negative and significant effect of CF on employment. …”
Get full text

Marker-assisted selection: an approach for precision plant breeding in the twenty-first century by Collard, Bertrand C. Y., Mackill, David J.

“…Finally, we discuss reasons why the greater adoption of MAS in the future is inevitable, although the extent of its use will depend on available resources, especially for orphan crops, and may be delayed in less-developed countries. Achieving a substantial impact on crop improvement by MAS represents the great challenge for agricultural scientists in the next few decades.…”
Get full text

Institutional perceptions of opportunities and challenges of REDD+ in the Congo Basin by Brown, H.C.P., Smith, B., Sonwa, D.J., Somorin, O.A., Nkem, J.

“…Those involved in designing REDD+ internationally need to understand developing-country perspectives, and institutions at all levels need to work together to develop concrete strategies to improve overall outcomes.…”
Get full text

Requerimiento de los elementos nutricionales en fríjol by Thung, M.

“…Among these are the simple method (requiring fertilizers with radioactive elements), the classical method (Mitscherlich), and the economic biological method that includes cost analysis and is applied mainly in developed countries. Graphics and tables illustrating the concepts discussed are included. …”
Get full text

The challenges of rainfed agricultural practices in Mali-redefining research agenda - A short communication by Zemadim, Birhanu

“…Mali is one of the least developed countries with an economy that relies heavily on rainfed cereal production. …”
Get full text

The Boma: Changing climate, changing cattle farming - Part 2 by International Livestock Research Institute

“…And they warn that as developed countries vilify livestock as a major producer of greenhouse gases, this could prevent crucial investments in livestock in the developing world. …”
Get full text

The effects of cellphone coverage expansion on wealth and political behavior by Ge, Shuning, Grossman, Guy, Kosec, Katrina, Lal, Apoorva, Laughlin, Benjamin

“…Taking advantage of Ghana’s gradual extension of cellphone towers in the early 2000s, we analyze the wealth effects of cellphone coverage expansion in a developing country setting using a difference-in-differences (event study) research design. …”
Get full text

Indus basin of Pakistan: Impacts of climate risks on water and agriculture by Yang, Yi-Chen, Yu, Winston, Savitsky, Andre, Alford, Donald, Brown, Casey, Wescoat, James, Debowicz, Dario, Robinson, Sherman

Get full text

健康不平等及其成因 by Wang, Limin, Zhang, Xiaobo, Coady, David

Get full text

Skogsforstorelsen fran Adam till Clinton=Deforestation from Adam to Clinton by Persson R.

“…As expected, there was a long phase with little deforestation, then usually a phase or phases with rapid deforestation, a phase of stabilisation and then, in developed countries, an increase in forest area. In Europe, for example, deforestation and recovery has oscillated with for example an increase in forest area during the period of the Black Death. …”
Get full text

Systematic agronomic farm management for improved coffee quality by Läderach, Peter R.D., Oberthür, Thomas, Cook, Simon E., Estrada Iza, M, Pohlan, J, Fisher, M., Rosales Lechuga, R.

“…Coffee is a tropical crop of relatively high quality, whose value is increasing as consumer demand in developed countries for specialty coffee. 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. …”
Get full text

Second External Program and Management Review of ISNAR, 1991 by CGIAR Technical Advisory Committee, CGIAR Secretariat

“…A current study of possible relocation to a developing country was noted.The report was discussed at TAC 56, and endorsed by the CGIAR at its meeting in May 1992.…”
Get full text

COVID-19 school closures and mental health of adolescent students: Evidence from rural Mozambique by Chimbutane, Feliciano, Herrera-Almanza, Catalina, Karachiwalla, Naureen, Lauchande, Carlos, Leight, Jessica

“…The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, entailing widespread school closures as well as acute disruptions to household livelihoods, has presumably had substantial consequences for adolescent well-being in developing country contexts that remain largely unexplored. …”
Get full text

Evaluating the impact of the graduate fellowship programme of the International Livestock Research Institute. A tools and process report by Eley, R., Ibrahim, H., Hambly Odame, Helen, Demeke, M., Smalley, M.E.

“…The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) offers a graduate fellowship programme for scientists from developing and developed countries. This is done in partnership with universities in African and Asian countries, Europe, Australia and North America. …”
Get full text

Iron bioavailability and utilization in rats fed cassava-based complementary diets by Onabanjo, O.O., Maziya-Dixon, B.B., Oguntona, C.R.B., Olayiwola, I.O., Oguntona, E.B., Dixon, Alfred G.O.

“…Iron deficiency anaemia is still a major nutritional problem in the world, affecting primarily infants, children, and fertile women in both developing and developed countries (UNICEF, 2006). Breast-fed infants generally have adequate iron status during the first 4-6 mo of life, after which stored iron is depleted. …”
Get full text

The mycotox charter: increasing awareness of, and concerted action for, minimizing mycotoxin exposure worldwide by Logrieco, A.F., Miller, J.D., Eskola, M., Krska, R., Ayalew, A., Bandyopadhyay, Ranajit, Battilani, P., Bhatnagar, D., Chulze, S., Saeger, S. de, Li, P., Perrone, G., Poapolathep, A., Rahayu, E.S., Shephard, G.S., Stepman, F., Zhang, H., Leslie, John F.

“…As part of the MycoKey project, a Mycotoxin Charter (charter.mycokey.eu) was launched to share the need for global harmonization of mycotoxin legislation and policies and to minimize human and animal exposure worldwide, with particular attention to less developed countries that lack effective legislation. This document is in response to a demand that has built through previous European Framework Projects—MycoGlobe and MycoRed—in the previous decade to control and reduce mycotoxin contamination worldwide. …”
Get full text

Impact of Ghana's agricultural mechanization services center program by Benin, Samuel

“…Use of mechanization in African agriculture has returned strongly to the development agenda, particularly following the recent high food prices crisis. Many developing country governments—including Ghana, the case study of this article—have resumed support for agricultural mechanization, typically in the form of subsidies for tractor purchase and establishment of private‐sector‐run agricultural mechanization service centers (AMSECs). …”
Get full text