Resultados de búsqueda - "economy"

Investing wisely to end hunger and strengthen agriculture, with no region left behind: Latin America por Andrade, Robert Santiago, Lopera, Diana Carolina, Rivera Vasco, Tatiana Carolina, Urioste, Sergio, Tohme, Joseph M., González, Carolina

“…Latin America and the Caribbean economies began to slow down and stagnate during the 2008 economic crisis. …”
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Assessing the economic viability of commercial moringa production for Kenyan small-scale farmers por Waterman, C., Peterson, A., Schelle, C., Vosti, S.A., McMullin, S.

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Predicting the future climate-related prevalence and distribution of crop pests and diseases affecting major food crops in Zambia por Nguru, Wilson, Mwongera, Caroline

“…Crop pests and diseases damage food crops, significantly reducing yields for these commodities and threatening food security in developing, predominantly agricultural economies. Given its impact on environmental factors, climate change is an important determinant of crop pest and disease distribution. …”
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Revisiting poverty trends and the role of social protection systems in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic por Abay, Kibrom A., Yonzan, Nishant, Kurdi, Sikandra, Tafere, Kibrom

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Agroforestry Matches the Evolving Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Agenda in Asia and Africa por Noordwijk, M. van, Catacutan, D.C., Duguma, L.A., Pham, T.T., Leimona, B., Dewi, S., Bayala, J., Minang, Peter A.

“…Especially where focus is on local livelihoods in green economies, creating space for a continuum approach to Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Uses (AFOLU), within which trees outside forest and agroforestry can be recognized for what they are. …”
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Фермерские группы в социальных сетях для повышения качества услуг по распространению знаний и консультаций por Djanibekov, Nodir, Kurbanov, Zafar, Tadjiev, Abdusame, Govind, Ajit, Akramkhanov, Akmal

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Access to food markets, household wealth and child nutrition in rural Cambodia: Findings from nationally representative data por Duong, C., Patel, S., Hung Nguyen-Viet, Chea, R., Sinh Dang-Xuan, Tum, S., Ramakrishnan, U., Young, M.F.

“…Access to informal fresh food markets plays a vital role in household food security and dietary quality in transitioning rural economies. However, it is not well understood if market access also improves child nutrition and if the improvement applies to all socioeconomic groups. …”
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Modeling actions for transforming agrifood systems por Laborde Debucquet, David, Torero, Maximo

“…The cost of ending hunger represents 8% of the size of global food markets, a sum that can be mobilized and invested to generate impact through food value chains, national economies, and social safety nets. Furthermore, the use of well-targeted social safety nets could provide an additional 2.4 billion people with access to healthy diets. …”
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Financing sustainable development: Shall we throw more money at the problem or start with doing better with existing resources? por Vos, Rob

“…In addition, yet another looming global crisis – climate change – is calling for transformative investments in production systems to stave off this existentialist threat and to set economies on sustainable development pathways. The calls for transformative change come with massive needs for additional (development) finance in magnitudes of hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of US dollars per year over the next couple of decades. …”
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Ghana: Processes and outputs associated with the UN Food Systems Summit por Asante, Felix A.

“…Like other countries in the sub-region particularly West African economies, Ghana is grappling with multiple burdens of malnutrition which is accompanied by climate change that influence food production and consumption trends, and thereby leading to undernutrition and affecting overall development. …”
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Prospects of crop insurance for sustenance of farmers' livelihood during GM cotton crop failure in Indian Punjab por Kaur, Sandeep, Singh, Harpreet, Roy, Devesh, Singh, Hardeep

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Adoption of climate-smart agriculture technology in drought-prone area of India: Implications on farmers' livelihoods por Pal, Barun Deb, Kapoor, Shreya, Saroj, Sunil, Jat, M. L., Kumar, Yogesh, Anantha, K. H.

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Impacts of agricultural investments on growth and poverty: A review of literature por Martin, Will

“…Raising agricultural productivity helps both to raise incomes and to reduce poverty-both by raising the incomes of poor people working in agriculture and by lowering the prices of foods that make up a disproportionately large share of the expenditures of poor people. In small and open economies, the in-crease in profitability of agriculture following improvements in productivity might tend to retain or even attract workers into agriculture. …”
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Agricultural transformation and market integration in the ASEAN region: Responding to food security and inclusiveness concerns por Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture

“…An improvement in agricultural value chains' competitiveness is supportive of the broader effort towards achieving competitive ASEAN economies. Two fundamental concerns arise in this regard, though. …”
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Factors influencing the productivity and efficiency of wheat farmers in Punjab, Pakistan por Battese, George E., Nazli, Hina, Smale, Melinda

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Harnessing the job creation capacity of young rural agripreneurs: A quasi-experimental study of the ENABLE program in Africa por Adeyanju, Dolapo, Mburu, John, Gituro, Wainaina, Chumo, Chepchumba, Mignouna, Djana B., Mulinganya, Noel

“…With evidence of increasing investment in youth agribusiness empowerment programs across Africa, employment discussions and strategies are increasingly focusing on how youth-owned agribusinesses can facilitate long-term job creation and contribute to revitalizing rural economies in the coming years. In light of these changing employment dynamics, we assessed the evolving role of youth and small agribusinesses in employment creation in rural areas. …”
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Drought susceptibility modeling with geospatial techniques and AHP model: a case of Bilate River Watershed, Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia por Burka, A., Biazin, B., Bewket, W.

“…Drought continues to be the worst natural hazard in the worldaffecting ecosystems, economies and overall human welfare withsevere consequences in developing countries. …”
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An economic evaluation of adaptive e-learning devices to promote weight loss via dietary change for people with obesity por Miners, Alec, Harris, Jody, Felix, Lambert, Murray, Elizabeth, Michie, Susan, Edwards, Phil

“…Therefore it has become a major public health concern for many economies. E-learning devices are a relatively novel approach to promoting dietary change. …”
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HIV/AIDS, food security and rural livelihoods: Understanding and responding por Loevinsohn, Michael E., Gillespie, Stuart

“…There is hardly need these days to repeat that HIV/AIDS is devastating African societies and economies, threatening the hard-won human development gains of the past several decades. …”
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HIV/AIDS, food security and rural livelihoods: understanding and responding por Loevinsohn, Michael E., Gillespie, Stuart

“…There is hardly need these days to repeat that HIV/AIDS is devastating African societies and economies, threatening the hard-won human development gains of the past several decades. …”
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