Resultados de búsqueda - "gender"

Experiments in farmers' collectives in Eastern India and Nepal: Process, benefits, and challenges por Agarwal, B., Leder, S., Saikia, P., Sudgen, Fraser, Raut, Manita, Kumar, Anoj, Ray, D.

“…However, the models differ in their extent of economic gain and their ability to handle gender inequalities and conflicts over labour sharing. …”
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Entrepreneurial potential and agribusiness desirability among youths in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo por Simbeko, G., Dontsop Nguezet, Paul M., Sekabira, H., Yami, M., Amato-Masirika, S., Bheenick, K., Bugandwa, D., Nyamuhirwa, D.A., Mignouna, J., Bamba, Z., Manyong, Victor

“…This is in addition to putting in place capacity-building programs on entrepreneurial and business skills through incubators, and the formalization of youth agribusiness groups that foster capitalizing experiences between new and accelerated agripreneurial enterprises, with the support of parents and financial institutions, focusing on gender sensitivity, in both rural and urban areas.…”
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Agriculture and nutrition in India: Mapping evidence to pathways por Kadiyala, Suneetha, Harris, Jody, Headey, Derek D., Yosef, Sivan, Gillespie, Stuart

“…The evidence on agriculture–gender linkages to nutrition is relatively weak. Sizeable knowledge gaps remain. …”
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Measuring Agricultural Water Insecurity Experiences (AgWISE): AgWISE Module and User Guide based on Fieldwork in Bangladesh por Sarker, Mou Rani, Joshi, Deepa, Young, Sera L.

“…Water availability varies geographically, but across regions there are marked inequalities in access to and use of water, which are shaped by policy incoherence, poor management and governance of water resources; political, social, economic factors including intersecting inequalities by gender, class, ethnicity, caste, race, age, disability etc. …”
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Factors influencing adoption of agro-ecological pest management options for mango fruit fly under information constraints: a two-part fractional regression approach por Owili, S. O., Otieno, D. J., Chimoita, E. L., Baijukya, F.

“…While perceptions of technology attributes and institutional and social factors primarily influenced both the adoption and intensity decisions, information constraints, resource endowment, gender and inter-generational factors significantly influenced only the intensity decision. …”
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Advancing women's voice and empowerment in the agrifood policy process: Findings and recommendations from the WEAGov India Pilot Study por Ragasa, Catherine, Kyle, Jordan, Yasmin, Sabina, Pande, Harshita, Basu, Sampurna, Sharma, Aanshi, Najjar, Dina

“…Yet, achieving meaningful progress on gender equality within governance requires identifying specific gaps and opportunities within a country’s policy process.…”
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Enhancing community awareness of antimicrobial use and resistance through community conversations in rural Ethiopia por Lemma, Mamusha, Alemu, Biruk, Amenu, Kebede, Wieland, Barbara, Knight-Jones, Theodore J.D.

“…We used single-sex and mixed-gender discussion groups to explore community members’ perceptions and practices regarding antimicrobial use and resistance. …”
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Access to improved hybrid seeds in Ghana: Implications for establishment and rehabilitation of cocoa farms por Asare, R., Afari-Sefa, Victor, Muilerman, Sander

“…The study also revealed that farm size, land use type and gender have significant effect on survival rate of transplanted hybrid cocoa seedlings over two dry seasons. …”
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Equity issues in varietal dissemination through farmers' fairs (Kisan Melas) in Punjab, India por Singh, J, Malhi, S.S., Witcombe, John R., Virk, Daljit S.

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Stakeholders’ perceptions of integrated rainwater management approaches in the Blue Nile Basin of the Ethiopian highlands por Mulema, Annet A., Lema, Zelalem, Damtew, Elias, Adie, Aberra, Ogutu, Z., Duncan, Alan J.

“…Awareness creation, collaboration, capacity development, incentives, monitoring, political will and favorable gender norms are vital to the process.…”
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Modeling farmers decisions on child labor and schooling in the cocoa sector: a multinomial logit analysis in Cote dIvoire por Nkamleu, G.B., Kielland, A.

“…Moreover, many children are involved in potentially dangerous and/or harmful tasks. Data also highlight gender and age dimensions in the participation of children in tasks and the way labor is allocated. …”
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Participatory farmers’ selection of common bean varieties (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) under different production constraints por Awio, Bruno, Katungi, Enid M., Nkalubo, Stanley T., Mukankusi, Clare Mugisha, Malinga, Geoffrey Maxwell, Gibson, Paul, Rubaihayo, Patrick, Edema, Richard

“…Choice of varieties varied significantly (p ≤ .001) between seasons and gender in the different subcounties. Variety Masindi Yellow Long and Farmers’ seed (Kaduli), and the introduced KATB1 were accepted by farmers due to their medium seed size, desired seed colour and potential of varietal adaptability to their farm conditions. …”
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Food security impacts of improved bean varieties adoption in Malawi por Katungi, Enid M., Magreta, Ruth, Damuleni, Kelvin

“…The study also generated sex disaggregated data on labour contributions, access to extension services & credit, group networks and control over income from beans; that was used to examine gender biases in bean production and identify feasible interventions to enhanced gender equality. …”
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La mujer rural: su papel en los agrosistemas de la región semiseca de Centroamérica

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Farmers' knowledge of tree attributes and shade canopy management of cocoa agroforestry systems in Waslala, Nicaragua por Silva Aguad, Claudia P.

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The economic and social role of married women in the agricultural production system in the region of Muea–Cameroon por Takamo, Fomu Agnes

“…This study relies on the livelihood concept and the gender-based models for the analysis of empirical data and the findings of the study. …”
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Sociala interaktioner hos katter i grupphållning på ett svenskt katthem por Östlund, Petronella

“…The results shows that there occurred more social interactions in quarantine than in the cat shelter. Cats of different gender tended to interact more than cats of the same gender. …”
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Kvinnliga virkesköpare inom Holmen Skog por Åkerlund, Linnea

“…Holmen Skog has only five out of 70 wood buyers who are women, This report is seen as a step in the process towards gender balance in the company. This is a problem that is equal over the entire forest industry in Sweden. …”

Polish your skills por Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…The Tanzania-based Training Centre for Development Cooperation is offering a one week course on gender and development in Africa from 19 to 23 November 2001. …”
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A mountain of information por Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Available in French, English and Spanish it has sections on the world s mountain ranges, upcoming events, publications, news and key themes including gender, water, soil...…”
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