Resultados de búsqueda - "empirical evidence"

COVID-19 is exacerbating inequalities in food security por Swinnen, Johan

“…Based on model predictions, early empirical evidence, and lessons from previous crises, it is clear that the risk of increased food insecurity depends on the level of economic development. …”
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Rebuilding livelihoods in conflict-affected communities in Ethiopia video highlights por CGIAR

“…The conference’s primary goals were to provide empirical evidence to inform policy priorities for sustainable recovery and to identify cost-effective, sustainable investment opportunities to rebuild rural households’ production capacities.…”
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Neighbour effects in the provision of public goods in a young democracy: Evidence from China por Agostini, Claudio A., Brown, Philip, Zhang, Xiaobo

“…However, there is very little empirical evidence concerning these practices in developing countries with young democracies. …”
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Drivers and triggers of international food price spikes and volatility por Tadesse, Getaw, Algieri, Bernardina, Kalkuhl, Matthias, von Braun, Joachim

“…The objective of this study is to explore empirical evidence on the quantitative importance of supply, demand, and market shocks for price changes in international food commodity markets. …”
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Temperature and children’s dietary diversity: Evidence from India por Rajkhowa, Pallavi, Chakrabarti, Suman

“…However, there is limited empirical evidence on how a rise in temperature affects dietary quality. …”
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Factor endowments, wage growth, and changing food self-sufficiency: Evidence from country-level panel data por Otsuka, Keijiro, Liu, Yanyan, Yamauchi, Futoshi

“…Using a country level panel data from 1980 to 2010, this paper examines the effects of real wage increase on Asian agriculture that traditionally used family labor intensively on small farms. The empirical evidence supports our hypothesis that an increase in real wages, along with absorptions of labor into nonagricultural sectors, has been inducing the substitution of labor by machines in agriculture. …”
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Did using input vouchers improve the distribution of subsidized fertilizer in Nigeria? The case of Kano and Taraba states por Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda O.

“…Though input vouchers are increasingly being used as a mechanism to target subsidies in developing countries, limited empirical evidence of their performance relative to other distribution mechanisms exist. …”
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The cost of poverty alleviation transfer programs: a comparative analysis of three programs in Latin America por Caldés, Natàlia, Coady, David, Maluccio, John A.

“…Yet there is surprisingly little hard empirical evidence on such programs' costs. A recent international review of targeted poverty alleviation programs in less developed countries found cost information -- which was rarely comparable between studies -- for fewer than one-third of the programs examined. …”
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Institutional innovations towards gender equity in agrobiodiversity management: collective action in Kerala, South India por Padmanabhan, Martina Aruna

“…The paper considers empirical evidence from Kerala, a hot spot of biodiversity in India, investigates properties of local biodiversity resources, and the role of collective action in conservation. …”
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The cost of poverty alleviation transfer programs: a comparative analysis of three programs in Latin America por Caldés, Natàlia, Coady, David, Maluccio, John

“…Yet there is surprisingly little hard empirical evidence on such programs' costs. A recent international review of targeted poverty alleviation programs in less developed countries found cost information -- which was rarely comparable between studies -- for fewer than one-third of the programs examined. …”
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Resource degradation, low agricultural productivity, and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa: pathways out of the spiral por Ehui, Simeon K., Pender, John L.

“…In general, the empirical evidence reviewed confirms that different strategies are needed in different development domains of SSA. …”
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The changing landscape of Africa’s fertilizer market: implications for research and policy por Liverpool-Tasie, L.S.O., Gurmu, M.Y., Mason, N.M., Tambo, J.A.

“…It emphasizes the critical need for new and better-quality data for this research agenda to be executed and to provide empirical evidence-based guidance for more effective and efficient fertilizer use and, ultimately, enhanced agricultural productivity and sustainability on the continent.…”
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Predicting food safety losses in turkey processing and the economic incentives of hazard analysis and critical control point (HACCP) intervention por Nganje, W.E., Siaplay, M., Kaitibie, S., Acquah, E.T.

“…Turkey is an important food commodity whose total value of U.S. production amounted to $2.72 billion in 2003. Empirical evidence suggests that among broilers, eggs, turkeys, and chickens, Salmonella contamination of ground turkey is highest at 49.9% prior to hazard analysis and critical control point (HACCP) implementation and 26.6% after HACCP implementation. …”
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Mainstreaming Impact Evaluation in Nature Conservation por Baylis, K., Honey-Rosés, J., Börner, J., Corbera, E., Ezzine-de-Blas, D., Ferraro, P.J., Lapeyre, R., Persson, U.M., Pfaff, A., Wunder, Sven

“…Despite a critical need for empirical evidence, conservation science has been slow to adopt these impact evaluation designs. …”
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What about women’s representation? por Ioannou, Anna

“…This master thesis explores the organization and representation of Bolivian communities in Argentina, as well as the social and political role of Bolivian women. Empirical evidence from a case study of Bolivian communities in two Bolivian horticulture markets outside Buenos Aires, Argentina, reveal how Bolivian women, even though responsible for the main tasks within the markets, are underrepresented in the markets’ political sphere. …”
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Do governance networks build collaborative capacity for sustainable development? Insights from Solomon Islands por Blythe, Jessica, Cohen, Philippa J., Eriksson, Hampus, Harohau, Daykin

“…Yet, enthusiasm for establishing governance networks is not always matched by empirical evidence on their effectiveness. This gap challenges these groups to know whether investing in governance networks is worth their time and effort; a weighing-up that is particularly critical in contexts of limited resources. …”
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The measurement of resilience capacities through the integration of macrolevel and microlevel indicators por d’Errico, Marco, Jumbe, Ellestina, Constas, Mark A.

“…Resilience measurement can now be viewed as an established body of research with 15 years of empirical evidence. Across this body of work, measurement studies have typically sought to identify key elements that render some households more resilient than others. …”
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Gender, time-use, and energy expenditures in rural communities in India and Nepal por Picchioni, Fiorella, Zanello, Giacomo, Srinivasan, C. S., Wyatt, Amanda, Webb, Patrick

“…However, there is a lack of empirical evidence on how patterns of time-use translate into patterns of physical activity and energy expenditure, particularly in rural areas where seasonal agricultural labour plays such an important role. …”
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Integrating environmental considerations in the agricultural policy process: Evidence from Nigeria por Babu, Suresh Chandra, Mavrotas, George, Prasai, Nilam

“…Using data collected in Nigeria, we develop empirical evidence on such factors so that the sectoral policy process can be improved for environmental outcomes. …”
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Associations between irrigated farming and improved nutrition in Malawian farm households por Benson, Todd

“…Conceptually, this nutritional argument to build support for expanding investments in irrigation in Malawi seems reasonable; however, there is little empirical evidence from Malawi or elsewhere to confirm whether irrigation improves nutritional status.…”
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