Search Results - "empirical evidence"

More people, more trees: A reversal of deforestation trends in Southern Ethiopia by Duriaux‐Chavarría, J.-Y., Baudron, Frédéric, Gergel, Sarah E., Yang, K.F., Eddy, I.M.S., Sunderland, T.C.H.

“…The objective of this paper is to provide empirical evidence to generate insights on the relationship between forest cover change and key provisioning ecosystem services and reforestation pathways. …”
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Tropical Montane Forest Conversion Is a Critical Driver for Sediment Supply in East African Catchments by Stenfert Kroese, J., Jacobs, S.R., Tych, W., Breuer, Lutz, Quinton, J.N., Rufino, Mariana C.

“…There is however limited empirical evidence of the magnitude of these effects for montane catchments in East Africa. …”
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Smallholder Farming Households' Make-or-Buy Decisions: Linking Market Access, Production Risks, and Production Diversity to Dietary Diversity by Keenan, Michael, Karanja Ng'ang'a, Stanley, Pamuk, Haki, Ruben, Ruerd

“…Our model provides economic theory consistent with existing empirical evidence and helps explain why most studies only find a small link between production diversity and dietary diversity.…”
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Trait profile of maize varieties preferred by farmers and value chain actors in northern Ghana by Adu, G.B., Badu-Apraku, Baffour, Akromah, R., Amegbor, I.K., Adogoba, D.S., Haruna, A., Manigben, K.A., Aboyadana, P.A., Wiredu, A.

“…The objective of this research was to provide empirical evidence of trait preferences of farmers and other actors in the maize value chain in northern Ghana, based on which research strategies for maize improvement could be formulated. …”
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Relational values of forests: Value-conflicts between local communities and external programmes in Sulawesi by Yuliani, E.L., Moeliono, M., Labarani, A., Fisher, M.R., Tias, P.A., Sunderland, T.C.H.

“…This study thus contributes to the broader conceptualisation of values in conservation and community participation by providing empirical evidence on the importance of the Relational Values framework in understanding the motivation and behaviour of nature stewardship and in the evaluation of value conflicts.…”
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Role of the interaction space in shaping innovation for sustainable agriculture: Empirical insights from African case studies by Hermans, T.D.G., Smith, H.E., Whitfield, S., Sallu, S.M., Recha, John W.M., Dougill, Andrew J., Thierfelder, Christian L., Gama, M., Bunderson, W.T., Museka, R., Doggart, N., Meshack, C.

“…For this purpose, international agricultural development projects often use farm trials or farmer field schools as a way for farmers to engage with technically-constructed knowledge and empirical evidence. However, the role of such trials in the socio-political construction of knowledge is often overlooked. …”
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Narrowing yield gaps does not guarantee a living income from smallholder farming-an empirical study from western Kenya by Marinus, W., Descheemaeker, Katrien K., Ven, G.W. van de, Vanlauwe, Bernard, Giller, Kenneth E.

“…Our results provide empirical evidence of how a current smallholder farming system could improve its productivity and value of produce upon the introduction of an input voucher. …”
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Revisiting poverty trends and the role of social protection systems in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic by Abay, Kibrom A., Yonzan, Nishant, Kurdi, Sikandra, Tafere, Kibrom

“…Furthermore, we assess and synthesize empirical evidence on the role that social protection systems played in mitigating the adverse impact of the COVID-19 crisis in Africa. …”
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A marker weighting approach for enhancing within-family accuracy in genomic prediction by Montesinos-Lopez, Osval A., Crespo Herrera, Leonardo A., Xavier, Alencar, Gowda, Manje, Beyene, Yoseph, Saint Pierre, Carolina, Rosa-Santamaria, Roberto de la, Salinas-Ruiz, Josafhat, Gerard, Guillermo S., Vitale, Paolo, Dreisigacker, Susanne, Lillemo, Morten, Grignola, Fernando, Sarinelli, Martin, Pozzo, Ezequiel, Quiroga, Marco, Montesinos-Lopez, Abelardo, Crossa, José

“…Our results support that the proposed AB method is a useful tool to improve the prediction accuracy of a complete family, however, we encourage other investigators to evaluate the AB method to increase the empirical evidence of its potential.…”
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Nutrition, cognition, and social emotion among preschoolers in poor, rural areas of South Central China: Status and correlates by Chen, Kevin Z., Liu, Chengfang, Liu, Xinghua, Wang, Zimeiyi, Luo, Renfu, Li, Shaoping, Yu, Yanying, Alderman, Harold

“…Existing empirical evidence suggests that the prevalence of undernutrition in remote and poor, rural areas is still high among Chinese children. …”
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Cash transfers and women’s control over decision-making and labor supply in Egypt by El-Enbaby, Hoda, Gilligan, Daniel O., Karachiwalla, Naureen, Kassim, Yumna, Kurdi, Sikandra

“…Cash transfer programs often target women in order to increase their control over household resources. Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of this approach is mixed and suggests the importance of local context. …”
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Is the WTO dispute settlement procedure fair to developing countries? by Bouët, Antoine, Metivier, Jeanne, Parent, Marie

“…Investigations with this approach have found some empirical evidence of bias against developing countries, but samples of disputes are small. …”
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Which kinds of social safety net transfers work best for the ultra poor in Bangladesh? Operation and impacts of the transfer modality research initiative by Ahmed, Akhter, Hoddinott, John F., Roy, Shalini, Sraboni, Esha, Quabili, Wahid, Margolies, Amy

“…The rest of Section 1 presents the objectives of the study, conceptual issues and empirical evidence of the effects of food and cash transfers. …”
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Commercializing dairy and forage systems in Ethiopia: An innovation systems perspective by Lemma, T., Puskur, Ranjitha, Hoekstra, Dirk, Tegegne, Azage

“…The investigation was based on a survey of actors and their roles and interactions, review of policy, and project documents and available empirical evidence. The research identified constraints and challenges relating to market, supportive services, interaction of actors, inter-organizational coordination, and gaps in the subsector development policy and strategy. …”
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Gender empowerment gaps in agriculture and children’s well-being in Bangladesh by Malapit, Hazel J., Sraboni, Esha, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Ahmed, Akhter

“…In this paper, we provide empirical evidence on the relationship between empowerment gaps between men and women in the same household and children’s well-being using nationally representative data from the 2012 Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey (BIHS). …”
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Temporary and permanent migrant selection: Theory and evidence of ability-search cost dynamics by Chen, Joyce J., Kosec, Katrina, Mueller, Valerie

“…We provide theoretical and empirical evidence showing that, because short-term migration episodes have less scope for skill-based matching and greater need for screening, temporary migrants are more likely to display intermediate selection on education, with weaker selection on underlying cognitive ability. …”
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Nutritional impact of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Kenya by Iannotti, Lora L., Roy, Devesh

“…There is limited empirical evidence for the impact of HPAI on poultry consumption and nutrition of vulnerable populations.To test the effect of reduced per capita poultry consumption at the household level due to an HPAI event on anthropometric measurements of children.This study used data from the Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey (KIHBS) 2004/05 to characterize the nutritional status of young children 6 to 36 months of age, household dietary diversity (number of food groups consumed), and determinants of anthropometric outcomes, including z-scores for height-for-age (HAZ), weight-for-age (WAZ), and weight-for-height (WHZ). …”
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Taxation policy and gender employment in the Middle East and North Africa Region: A comparative analysis of Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia by Fofana, Ismaël, Corong, Erwin, Chatti, Rim, Bouazouni, Omar

“…Empirical evidence suggests that women are more vulnerable to chronic poverty and gender inequality is likely to condition the impacts of policies on the rest of the economy and consequently on poverty itself. …”
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A systematic literature review on the relationships between land tenure, cattle farming, and climate change by Díaz Baca, Manuel Francisco, Moreno Lerma, Leonardo, Triana Ángel, Natalia, Burkart, Stefan

“…Through a systematic literature review drawing on empirical evidence from six countries in the Global South, namely Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa, we shed light on the complex interplay of factors driving climate change in these regions. …”
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Rethinking food aid to fight AIDS by Kadiyala, Suneetha, Gillespie, Stuart

“…Though there is little empirical evidence regarding the effectiveness of food aid in responding to HIV/AIDS, the authors argue this should not constrain action. …”
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