Resultados de búsqueda - "empirical evidence"

Agricultural correlates of aggregate nutritional outcomes in Malawi: District-level rank analysis por Benson, Todd

“…Obtaining empirical evidence on the importance of agriculture in determining nutritional status is difficult, as there are few data sets that contain information on both nutrition outcomes and the agricultural livelihoods of survey respondents. …”
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Labor and welfare impacts of a large-scale livelihoods program: Quasi-experimental evidence from India por Pandey, Vivek, Gupta, Abhishek, Gupta, Shivani

“…This study aims to provide empirical evidence on the welfare impacts of an "intensive approach" adopted under this program. …”
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Does ownership of improved dairy cow breeds improve child nutrition? A pathway analysis for Uganda por Kabunga, Nassul S., Ghosh, Shibani, Webb, Patrick

“…The promotion of livestock production is widely believed to support enhanced diet quality and child nutrition, but the empirical evidence for this causal linkage remains narrow and ambiguous. …”
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Drought-tolerant rice, weather index insurance, and comprehensive risk management for smallholders: Evidence from a multiyear field experiment in India por Ward, Patrick S., Makhija, Simrin, Spielman, David J.

“…This paper provides some of the first empirical evidence on farmers’ demand for two drought risk–management products: a recently released DT rice cultivar and a more comprehensive DT-WII risk–management bundle. …”
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Waste not, warm not: Poverty, hunger and climate change in a circular food system por Brooks, Karen

“…The assumption is in part borne out by empirical evidence but, as is often the case, the full picture is more complex. …”
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Agroecology and resilience of smallholder food security: a systematic review por Dagunga, G., Ayamga, M., Laube, W., Ansah, I.G.K., Kornher, L., Kotu, B.H.

“…The results provide empirical evidence that supports the potential of agroecological practices in enhancing the resilience and food security of smallholders. …”
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Forest incomes after Uganda's forest sector reform: Are the rural poor gaining? por Jagger, Pamela

“…However, there is a dearth of empirical evidence to support this claim, particularly at the household level. …”
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Women’s empowerment and gender equity in agriculture: A different perspective from Southeast Asia por Akter, Sonia, Rutsaert, Pieter, Luis, Joyce, Htwe, Nyo Me, San, Su Su, Raharjo, Budi, Pustika, Arlyna

“…The current paper contributes to the geographical scope of the literature by presenting empirical evidence of gender inequity from four Southeast Asian countries: Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines. …”
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Intrahousehold allocation, gender relations, and food security in developing countries por Quisumbing, Agnes R., Smith, Lisa C.

“…It then presents empirical evidence from two studies by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). …”
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Optimizing genomic prediction with transfer learning under a ridge regression framework por Montesinos-Lopez, Osval A., Barajas-Ramirez, Eduardo A., Salinas Ruiz, Josafhat, Montesinos-López, Abelardo, Gerard, Guillermo S., Vitale, Paolo, Dreisigacker, Susanne, Saint Pierre, Carolina, Crossa, José

“…Our study shows empirical evidence that the Transfer RR or Transfer ARR approaches significantly enhanced predictive performance. …”
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Smallholders’ perspectives on sustainable agriculture intensification in Northern Ghana por Boateng, E. N. K., Atampugre, Gerald, Solis, P., Mariwah, S., Mensah, I., Furst, C., Nyarko, B. K.

“…However, little empirical evidence exists on smallholders’ perspectives on SAI, especially in the context of Sub-Saharan Africa, where a majority of smallholders are relatively poor and live under harsh climatic conditions. …”
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Public expenditure on agriculture, youth out-migration, and engagement in agriculture? Evidence from Nigeria por Amare, Mulubrhan, Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Abay, Kibrom A., Omamo, Steven Were

“…However, direct empirical evidence of this remains scant, especially on youth migration in Africa. …”
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Small private irrigation: enhancing benefits and managing trade-offs por Giordano, Meredith A., Fraiture, Charlotte de

“…Second, relatively straightforward measures can extend the benefits to a broader group of smallholders, including women and the poor, while at the same time ensuring sustainable use of the resource. Based on empirical evidence from case studies in six countries, we identified four elements of such an approach: (1) enhancing technology access; (2) catalyzing smallholder value chains; (3) fostering supportive policies; and (4) strengthening institutional capacity to manage potential trade-offs at the watershed scale.…”
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Analyses of labour productivity among small-holder cassava farmers for food security and empowerment in central Madagascar por Okoye, B.C., Abass, A., Bachwenkizi, B., Asumugha, G.N., Alenkhe, B., Ranaivoson, R., Randrianarivelo, R., Rabemanantsoa, N., Ralimanana, I.

“…Drawing on both theory and empirical evidence, this paper argues that fundamental effects of links between labour productivity and food security are most times often overlooked currently in policy analyses. …”
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Rural seed sector development through participatory varietal selection: Synergies and trade-offs in seed provision services and market participation among household bean producers... por Wilkus, Erin Lynn, Francesconi, Gian N., Jager, Matthias

“…Purpose This impact assessment provides empirical evidence from household producer surveys to test the assumptions surrounding the contribution of participatory varietal selection (PVS) activities on seed sector development. …”
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Mixing carrots and sticks to conserve forests in the Brazilian Amazon: a spatial probabilistic modeling approach por Börner, J., Marinho, E., Wunder, Sven

“…Annual forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon had in 2012 declined to less than 5,000 sqkm, from over 27,000 in 2004. Mounting empirical evidence suggests that changes in Brazilian law enforcement strategy and the related governance system may account for a large share of the overall success in curbing deforestation rates. …”
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Measuring vulnerability to poverty por Megersa, Dawit

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A cross-disciplinary mixed-method approach to understand how food retail environment transformations influence food choice and intake among the urban poor: Experiences from Vietnam por Wertheim-Heck, Sigrid C.O., Raneri, Jessica Evelyn

“…To investigate this, we developed a cross-disciplinary nutrition and social practices study with a sequential quantitative-qualitative mixed-method design. Building on empirical evidence from Hanoi, Vietnam, the study links (i) food choice and measured dietary intake, with (ii) food retail environment, through (iii) food shopping practices and preferences of 400 women of reproductive age within the context of (iv) their transformative urban lifestyles. …”
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Can smallholder farmers buffer rainfall variability through conservation agriculture? On-farm practices and maize yields in Kenya and Malawi por Boillat, Sébastien, Jew, Eleanor KK, Steward, Peter R., Speranza, Chinwe Ifejika, Whitfield, Stephen, Mkwambisi, David, Kiteme, Boniface, Wambugu, Grace, Burdekin, Oliver J, Dougill, Andrew J.

“…This strengthens empirical evidence supporting the value ofCA in resilience building of agricultural systems, and suggests that both full and partial adoption ofCApractices should be supported in areas where climate change is leading to more variable rainfall conditions.…”
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Impact of participatory training of smallholder pig farmers on knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding biosecurity for the control of African swine fever in Uganda por Dione, Michel M., Dohoo, Ian, Ndiwa, Nicholas N., Poole, Elizabeth J., Ouma, Emily A., Amia, Winfred C., Wieland, Barbara

“…This paper provides empirical evidence on the impact of training intervention on biosecurity practices for disease prevention or control. …”
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