Resultados de búsqueda - "gender"

Women in farmer–herder conflicts: case studies from Sudan and Nigeria por Nassef, Magda, Sulieman, Hussein, Momale, Saleh, Higazi, Adam, Domingo, Pilar

“…While both areas face challenges related to resource competition and gender inequalities, the intensity of conflict and the roles of women in livelihoods and conflict differ significantly.…”
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The influence of improved wheat and maize varieties on infant mortality in China por Wang, Xiaobing, Liu, Xinyu, Min, Shi, Jin, Songqing, Huang, Jikun, Rozelle, Scott, Feng, Jieyuan, Boddupalli, Prasanna

“…Additionally, our analysis unveils a spectrum of heterogeneous relationships between high-yielding crop varieties adoption and infant mortality across factors such as infant gender, maternal characteristics, and policy regulation. …”
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Lessons learned from solar irrigation scaling in Asia and Africa por Bodach, Susanne, Al-Zu’bi, Maha, Tilahun, Seifu A.

“…The analysis shows how blended finance, gender- and youth-responsive partnerships, and evidence-based policy and planning shape diverse scaling pathways in different policy and market contexts. …”
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Iron and zinc based biofortified potatoes: Scaling strategies to fight against anemia in the Andes por Rodríguez, C.A., Pradel, W., Ordinola, M., Burgos, G., Salas, E., Pérez, W.

“…It emphasizes multi-stakeholder partnerships, inclusive value chains, and a gender-transformative approach that promotes the participation and leadership of women and youth. …”
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Ecology and human nutrition por Remans, R., Fanzo, J.C., Palm, Cheryl A., DeClerck, Fabrice A.J.

“…Unrelenting malnutrition is contributing not only to widespread failure to halve poverty and hunger, the first of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDG), but if not appropriately eradicated, many of the other MDGs such as reducing maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, universal education, and gender equity will be difficult to achieve (World Bank 2006). …”
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Strengthening livelihood resilience in upper catchments of dry areas by integrated natural resources management por Bruggeman, A., Turkelboom, F., Porhemmat, J., Ghafouri, M., Moosavi, S.B., Mirghasemi, S.A., Banis, Y.N., Milani, P., Shahmoradi, S., Ghaffari, A., Sabaghpour, S.H., Effati, M., Rafati, M., Kalaei, A., Zad, M., Anthofer, J., Aw-Hassan, Aden A.

“…Participatory technology development, water, soil, erosion, land degradation and vegetation assessments, livelihood, gender and policy analyses, and integrated workshops delivered a set of principles for watershed management in dry areas.…”
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Market and other factors affecting farm-specific production efficiency in poultry production in Vietnam por Jabbar, M.A., Akter, S.

“…The direction and significance of influence on efficiency differ between the two regions for credit use, inputs from government, ratio of home produced of crude feed, producer age and gender of household head. Therefore, opportunities exist for improving average efficiency through interventions in a number of product and input market domains and household characteristics that may improve access to information, technology and management decisions.…”
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The SmartAG Partner: CCAFS East Africa Quarterly Newsletter, January - March 2015 por CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…From the field, we profile women farmers who are breaking gender barriers and taking the lead on climate-smart agriculture (CSA). …”
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Climate Change & Food Security Vulnerability Assessment. Toolkit for assessing community-level potential for adaptation to climate change por Bioversity International, Ulrichs, Martina, Cannon, Terry, Institute of Development Studies, Newsham, Andrew, Naess, Lars Otto, Marshall, Mipsie

“…The toolkit developed applies a multidimensional view of the vulnerability of livelihood strategies to climate change, with a focus on differentiated access and entitlements to livelihood resources and food for different groups within a locality or community (often determined according to gender, ethnicity and socioeconomic class). It includes step by step instructions on how to implement participatory tools that were adapted to answer the following questions: Why are people vulnerable? …”
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Is Climate-Smart Agriculture effective? A review of selected cases por Dinesh, Dhanush, Frid-Nielsen, Snorre, Norman, James, Mutamba, M, Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María, Campbell, Bruce M.

“…This paper examines 19 CSA case studies, to assess their effectiveness in achieving the stated objectives of CSA, while also assessing other cobenefits, economic costs and benefits, barriers to adoption, success factors, and gender and social inclusion issues. The analysis concludes that CSA interventions can be highly effective, achieving the three CSA objectives, while also generating additional benefits in a costeffective and inclusive manner. …”
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Africa RISING Baseline Evaluation Survey (ARBES) report for Tanzania por Charles, A., Azzarri, Carlo, Haile, Beliyou, Comanescu, M., Roberts, C., Signorelli, S.

“…This report presents overall summaries and cross-tabulations, and empirical means-difference tests across household type, location, wealth, and gender of head, for data that cover 810 households in Africa RISING areas in northern and north-central Tanzania in three districts (Babati, Kiteto and Kongwa) and twenty-five villages in which Africa RISING was either operational or pre-operational at the date of the survey (February-April 2014). …”
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Examining the drivers of agricultural experimentation among smallholder farmers in Malawi por Hockett, M., Richardson, Robert

“…Results of quantitative and qualitative analysis reveal that smallholder farmers in Malawi across a range of socioeconomic characteristics are inclined to experiment, and gender roles in agricultural experimentation vary widely. …”
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Innovation for Inclusive value-chain development: Highlights por Horton, Douglas, Donovan, Jason, Devaux, André, Torero, Máximo

“…Despite increasing use of innovation-system and value-chain approaches to promote rural income growth, poverty reduction, and greater gender equity, there is little systematic knowledge about how to operationalize valuechain approaches in different contexts and how best to evaluate innovation and value-chain development. …”
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Household exposure to livestock and health in the CHILILAB HDSS Cohort, Vietnam por Sinh Dang-Xuan, MacDonald, L.E., Schurer, J.M., Hung Nguyen-Viet, Phuc Pham Duc

“…Bivariate analyses indicated that female gender was a significant risk factor for all 3 health symptoms, whereas age (≥60 years), suburban living, low education level, and household wealth were risk factors for 2 symptoms. …”
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Strategic assessment of cassava research priorities por CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas

“…The objective of this exercise was to determine the expected impact each research options would generate in terms of economic benefits, poverty reduction, food security, nutrition and health, gender equity, and environmental sustainability. The priority assessment was a collaborative study conducted by RTB members and partners using a common methodology across all five crops. …”
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ICTs for conservation agriculture: influence of actor positioning in knowledge networks in Laikipia and Machakos counties, Kenya por Achora, Janet C., Sseguya, H., Kyazze, Florence Birungi, Mkomwa, S., Okello, D.

“…Results suggest that gender and land under conservation agriculture (p=<0.05) significantly influence use of radio, TV and mobile phones. …”
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Assessing access and adoption of improved bean varieties among the bean growing households in Northern and Southern provinces of Zambia por Katungi, Enid M., Hamzakaza, Petan, Reyes, Byron A., Maredia, Mywish K., Muimui, Kennedy K.

“…The study also contributed information on gender aspects of bean production, which was made possible by allowing data on decision-making regarding bean management, labour contribution, use of income from beans, access to extension services & credit, and group membership to be disaggregated by sex and age of household member. (2013)…”
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Motivations and mental models associated with smallholder farmers’ adoption of improved agricultural technology: Evidence from use of quality seed potato in Kenya por Okello, J.J., Zhou, Y., Schulte-Geldermann, Elmar, Barker, I.

“…It further finds that the structure of mental models differs by the gender of the adopter and between adopters and nonadopters. …”
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Ethnobotanical Knowledge of Edible Plants Amongst Children from Two Rural Communities in Western Mexico por Alondra Flores, Silvia, Cuevas Guzmán, Ramon, Olvera Vargas, Miguel, Casanoves, Fernando, Olson, Elizabeth-Anne, y 14 autores más.

“…The factors that influence children’s knowledge include age, which was significant in both communities, and other variables such as gender, number of siblings, birth order, occupation and age of mother, occupation and age of father, size of household, and participation in planting the milpa field. …”
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Institutional development plan 1995-2002

“…Five processes have been identified that, working together, will contribute to transforming CATIE from a Center that is financially unstable, with serious constraints on its ability to set its own research, education and outreach agendas, into a Center that is able to efficiently use and build on its experience in these areas to contribute to sustainable development in its member countries and the rest of tropical America. 1) Strengthen the technical areas with human and financial resources 2) refocus the Center’s research and education programs greater emphasis on outreach and problem solving 3) place socioeconomic concerns, and gender, indigenous and minority issues prominently on the agenda of the Center’s research, education, management and outreach programs 4) establish a constructive relationship with the international donor community 5) institute a program of measures aimed at strengthening the Center’s core budget in order to insure financial and operational stability. …”
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