Resultados de búsqueda - "elite"
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Guidance note for peace-informed programming at the Green Climate Fund: Ecosystems and ecosystem services.
Publicado 2023“…Changes in ecosystems can be exploited by groups like political elites or armed entities, as observed in numerous case studies. …”
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Pedigrí, herramienta indispensable para contrarrestar la consanguinidad
Publicado 2022“…Este fenómeno es creciente y lo seguirá siendo en la medida de que los toros élites de la raza y sus descendientes continúen siendo los padres de nuevos toros para inseminación en el presente y en el futuro.…”
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Evaluating parliamentary advocacy for nutrition in Tanzania
Publicado 2021“…We further identify key risks and assumptions that mediated parliamentary advocacy and development evaluators’ ability to evaluate its outcomes, including: targeting; timing; circulation; intelligibility; power; elites; resources; and political space.…”
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Estrategia del CATIE para la rehabilitación de cacao vía propagación vegetativa
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Cattle ranching in Colombia: A monolithic industry?
Publicado 2022“…Departing from new scholarship that has questioned the idea that cattle ranching has been only a land-grabbing strategy dominated by few elites, this article focuses on the adoption of improved pastures and the role of key institutions such as the CIAT on the transformation of practices and the shortcomings of technification. …”
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Woodcraft markets in Zimbabwe
Publicado 2000“…It appears that the benefits from the industry may not be substantial given the lack of interest in the market from outsiders, and the various elites who could monopolise the trade due to the lack of enforcement structures in place. …”
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Cluster-based agricultural development: A comparison between China and Africa
Publicado 2023“…Because the bottlenecks are context- and temporal-specific, it would be impossible for a planner or outsider donor to prescribe a one-size-fits-all intervention to overcome all the binding constraints. Instead, local elites, such as business leaders and local officials, can play a greater role in identifying the emerging bottlenecks and figuring out indigenous solutions. …”
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Institutional arrangements to make public spending responsive to the poor: When intent meets political economy realities
Publicado 2020“…Otherwise, RIAs often become tools of control for elites. However, the evidence suggests that higher inequality has an eroding effect on the functionality of RIAs. …”
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The politics of the forest frontier: negotiating between conservation, development, and indigenous rights in Cross River State, Nigeria
Publicado 2014“…It shows how the state's increasing reliance on the private sector as an impetus for rural transformation is, paradoxically, crowding out smallholder production systems and creating new avenues for rent capture by political and customary elites. Moreover, as Nigeria's most biodiverse and forested state, the rapid expansion of the agricultural frontier into forest buffer zones is threatening to undermine many of the state's conservation initiatives and valuable common pool resources. …”
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The architecture of the Sudanese agricultural sector and its contribution to the economy between 1990 and 2021
Publicado 2023“…Public investment in agriculture and government spending allocated to the sector were lower than in other countries in the region. Political elites have generally lacked commitment to development plans in the sector. …”
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Explaining catch-up in human development: A political economy comparison of the Philippines and Viet Nam since 1986
Publicado 2019“…In contrast, in the Philippines, traditional elites were able to dominate the democratic process, capture rents and divert resources away from investment in human development and infrastructure, thereby stifling a short-lived growth acceleration. …”
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Political economy of wheat value chains in post-revolution Sudan
Publicado 2021“…This paper addresses these questions by drawing on key informant interviews in Sudan and utilizing a political settlements approach, which captures the underlying distribution of power among elites and citizens. The post-revolution political settlement contains a much broader distribution of power shared between a civilian alliance movement and the military, each of which has distinct interests in the wheat value chain. …”
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Land, cows, and bullets: An untold history of cattle ranching during the armed conflict in Colombia, 1980–2010
Publicado 2024“…It demonstrates that productivity and efficiency have not always been the prevailing principles in the history of the cattle industry, but that land tenure and accumulation have operated as a way of securing power by the agrarian and political elites of the country. Such approaches are crucial for comprehending the historical connection between conflict and cattle ranching, especially if the aim for this sector is to adapt to a logic of productivity and innovation in the contemporary world. …”
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O papel dos municipios na gestao florestal: licoes dos estudos de caso
Publicado 2003“…This problem is aggravated in municipalities on the agricultural frontier, where land ownership is concentrated, and local elites thrive on the predatory use of natural resources – such as illegal logging and extensive ranching. …”
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Central control of local resource management: the impacts of devolution
Publicado 2003“…Checks and balances need to be in place to ensure that benefits and decision-making do not become controlled by elites. Strong local organisational capacity and political capital enhance outcomes for local people by enabling them to mobilize resources and negotiate for better benefits. …”
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Community participation in decentralized management of natural resources in the southern region of Mali
Publicado 2016“…Results showed that the level of knowledge of local conventions was significantly (P < 0.05) higher in the district of Bougouni than in the district of Koutiala (a score of 3.16 compared to 1.70 on a scale of 0 to 4).This study shows also that participation was dominated by a small group of individuals, often community leaders and elites. The results suggest that women are marginalized. …”
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Cattle ranching in Colombia: A monolithic industry?
Publicado 2022“…Departing from new scholarship that has questioned the idea that cattle ranching has been only a land-grabbing strategy dominated by few elites, this article focuses on the adoption of improved pastures and the role of key institutions in the transformation of practices and the shortcomings of technification. …”
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Genomic regions of durum wheat involved in water productivity
Publicado 2023“…These three loci were tagged by Kompetitive Allele Specific PCR (KASP) markers, and these were used to screen a third independent validation panel composed of elites tested across moisture-stressed sites. The three KASP combined predicted up to 10% of the variation for grain yield at 60% accuracy. …”
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Gender attitudes on politics and leadership: A framing experiment
Publicado 2023“…Study results show persistent gender norms around women’s leadership roles, even among elites and experts: 4–20% of female experts and 30–46% of male experts in our sample still believe that men are better in leadership positions at different levels. …”
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