Search Results - "developing countries"

The brokerage institution and the development of agricultural markets: New evidence from Ethiopia by Quattri, Maria, Ozanne, Adam, Beyene, Seneshaw Tamru

“…Recognition that policies aimed at ‘getting prices right’ in less-developed countries have not been successful due to incomplete markets has spurred a new wave of reforms aimed instead at ‘getting markets and institutions right’. …”
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Unleashing agriculture's potential for improved nutrition and health in Malawi: Conference report - 26-27 September 2011, Lilongwe, Malawi by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Malawi is the first country in the world to organize a national event to follow up on and translate the findings and recommendations from the global conference and develop country-specific policy actions. IFPRI’s Malawi office and its 2020 Vision Initiative, in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, and supported by USAID and Irish Aid, organized the conference, “Unleashing Agriculture’s Potential for Improved Nutrition and Health in Malawi” on September 26–27, 2011, in Lilongwe. …”
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Using conjoint analysis to estimate farmer's preferences for cattle traits in West Africa by Tano, K., Faminow, M., Kamuanga, M., Swallow, B.M.

“…The study shows the potential usefulness of conjoint analysis for quantifying preferences in less developed countries for livestock and for the wide variety of other multiple-attribute goods. …”
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Educating agricultural researchers: a review of the role of African universities by Beintema, Nienke M., Pardey, Philip G., Roseboom, Johannes

“…The number of universities increased from less than 20 in 1960 to nearly 160 by 1996; student numbers grew from 119,000 to almost two million over the same period, yet enrollment ratios in Africa continue to lag well behind developed and other-developing country norms. Funding for higher-education in Africa kept pace with the expanding institutional base during the 1960s and 1970s, but has fallen well behind the growth in student numbers since 1980. …”
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Animal phenotyping: challenges and opportunities by Mrode, Raphael A.

“…Previous efforts to address this limitation often relied on methods from well-established dairy systems in developed countries which frequently failed to adapt effectively. …”
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Climate change mitigation and agriculture by Wollenberg, Eva Karoline, Tapio-Bistrom, M.L., Grieg-Gran, M., Nihart, A

“…Climate Change Mitigation and Agriculture includes chapters about experiences in developed countries, such as Canada and Australia, where these efforts also have lessons for mitigation options for smallholders in poorer nations, as well as industrialising countries such as Brazil and China. …”
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Determinants of female time allocation in selected districts of rural Pakistan by Malik, Sohail, Nazli, Hina, Sultana, Nargis

“…At the policy level, an insight into the factors influencing female labour force participation is extremely important in a developing country such as Pakistan where the majority of females do not participate in mainstream economic activities. …”
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Food safety in low and middle income countries by Grace, Delia

“…These suggest that developing country consumers are concerned about FBD; that most of the known burden of FBD disease comes from biological hazards; and, that most FBD is the result of consumption of fresh, perishable foods sold in informal markets. …”
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Putting violent armed conflict in the center of the Salween hydropower debates by Suhardiman, Diana, Rutherford, J., Bright, S. J.

“…Regional economic integration has become the dominant development pathway promoted, endorsed, and followed by many developing country governments in South East Asia and globally. …”
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Water, Smallholders and Food Security : an econometric assessment of the effect of time spent on collecting water on households’ economy and food security in rural Ethiopia by Aklilu, Abenezer Zeleke

“…Due to a lack of basic infrastructure, it is common in least developed countries that households spend a considerable share of the hours that they have available per day for production activities on fetching water. …”

Investment in Rice Research in the CGIAR: A Global Perspective. Report of the Inter-Centre Review of Rice by CGIAR Technical Advisory Committee

“…The document also contains a summary of the discussion of this review, together with external reviews of IRRI and WARDA, at the CGIAR meeting in May 1993, a transmittal from the TAC Chairman with a draft strategy statement on rice research in the CGIAR, and a transmittal from the panel chair.The panel appraised the present and future role of rice in the diet of developed country populations. It said that rice production would have to double by 2030. …”
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Participatory diagnostic toolkits and crop improvement approaches: participatory methods to assess and use plant genetic diversity in the field. by Mengistu, Dejene Kassahun, Jarvis, Devra I., Fadda, Carlo

“…In both developing and developed countries, there is increasing in terest in adopting more inclusive and problem-solving participatory re search methods. …”
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Emerging medium-scale tenant farming, gig economies, and the COVID-19 disruption: The case of commercial vegetable clusters in Ethiopia by Minten, Bart, Mohammed, Belay, Tamru, Seneshaw

“…It seems that gig economies characterized by flexible contract arrangements implemented by outside contractors, which are increasingly fueling sophisticated sectors in developed countries, are important in these commercial agrarian settings in Africa as well. …”
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Synopsis: Who influences government spending in agriculture? The roles of public actors in subnational funding allocation in Nigeria by Olofinbiyi, Tolulope, Mogues, Tewodaj

“…A large body of evidence has focused on the drivers of agricultural policymaking in both developed- and developing-country settings. However, several applicable theories and empirical analyses on the dynamics of policymaking have not yet been applied to public expenditure decision-making in agriculture, particularly in Africa. …”
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A hedonic approach to estimating the supply of variety attributes of a subsistence crop by Edmeades, Svetlana

“…The paper extends the household hedonic model, as a non-market valuation tool, by estimating a supply function for variety attributes of a subsistence crop in a developing country. The model is applied to bananas in Uganda, making use of disaggregated data on variety-specific farm-gate banana bunch prices and attributes. …”
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Colombia: A public-private partnership by Beintema, Nienke M., Romano, Luis, Pardey, Philip G.

“…Despite efforts in many Latin American countries to diminish the government role in the funding and performing of agricultural research and development (R&D), general government revenues are still the predominant source of support for agricultural research, as in many less-developed countries (Pardey and Beintema 2001). Colombia is an exception, evidenced by the presence of 12 nonprofit organizations, which together accounted for about a quarter of the country’s agricultural research investments in 2000. …”
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Agronomic and economic evaluation of permanent raised beds, no tillage and straw mulching for an irrigated maize-wheat system in Northwest India by Ram, Hari, Singh, Yadvinder, Saini, K.S., Kler, D.S., Timsina, J., Humphreys, E.J.

“…No-tillage and raised beds are widely used for different crops in developed countries. A field experiment was conducted on an irrigated maize-wheat system to study the effect of field layout, tillage and straw mulch on crop performance, water use efficiency and economics for five years (2003–2008) in northwest India. …”
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FMIS research: a reflection on IWMI's 25 years in Nepal by Pant, Dhruba

“…The researches in Nepal was also important for its contribution to the water sector management in the developing country through the promotion of science based studies and action research. …”
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Jod i mjölk : vad påverkar innehållet by Sterner, Rebecka

Supply & value chain analysis of onions in Ethiopia by Daniels, Hanna, Fors, Stefan

“…Ethiopia is a developing country situated on Africa’s horn. Ethiopia ranks 173rd on United Nations human development index where the least developed country ranks 186. …”