Resultados de búsqueda - "gender"

Role of land access in youth migration and youth employment decisions: Empirical evidence from rural Nigeria por Ghebru, Hosaena, Amare, Mulubrhan, Mavrotas, George, Ogunniyi, Adebayo

“…A more disaggregated analysis by considering individual characteristics of the youth shows that results are more elastic for older youth and those that are less educated, while we find no difference when comparisons are made by gender. Similar analysis on the influence of land access on youth employment choices shows strong evidence that the larger the size of the expected land inheritance the lower the likelihood of the youth being involved in non-agricultural activities and a higher chance of staying in agriculture or the dual sector. …”
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Climate and jobs for rural young people por Brooks, Karen, Dunston, Shahnila, Wiebe, Keith D., Arndt, Channing, Hartley, Faaiqa, Robertson, Richard D.

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Indicators for examining links between agriculture, food security, and nutrition por Meerman, Janice, Aberman, Noora-Lisa, Harris, Jody, Pauw, Karl

“…This chapter provides a primer3 on commonly used indicators for these processes and outcomes: diet and nutritional status; household food security; gender, household decision making, and empowerment; agricultural production, productivity, and diversification; and food markets and prices. …”
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Playing games to save water: Collective action games for groundwater management in India por Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Janssen, Marco A., Kandikuppa, Sandeep, Chaturvedi, Rahul, Rao, R. Kaushalendra, Theis, Sophie

“…Either repeated experience with the games or the revised structure of the game evoked more cooperation in the second year, outweighing other factors such as education, gender, and trust index scores. After the games were played, a significantly higher proportion of communities have adopted water registers and rules to govern groundwater, compared to other communities in the same NGO water commons program. …”
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Identification and prioritization of context-specific climate smart agricultural (CSA) practices in Ethiopia: A framework approach por Adimassu, Zenebe, Tamene, Lulseged D., Tibebe, Degefie, Ebrahim, Mohammed, Abera, Wuletawu

“…This approach was deployed across nine key agro-ecologies in Ethiopia to identify and prioritize CSA practices based on the three pillars of CSA and gender-equity considerations. By employing this participatory framework, this study successfully identified and prioritized over 200 Climate Smart Agricultural (CSA) practices within Ethiopia's nine major agroecological zones. …”
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Natural resource management and crop production strategies to improve regional food systems in Tanzania por Graef, F., Schneider, I., Fasse, A., Germer, J.U., Gevorgyan, E., Haule, F., Hoffmann, H., Kahimba, F. C., Kashaga, L., Kissoly, L., Lambert, C., Lana, M., Mahoo, H. F., Makoko, B., Mbaga, S. H., Mmbughu, A., Mkangwa, S., Mrosso, L., Mutabazi, K. D., Mwinuka, L., Ngazi, H., Nkonya, Ephraim M., Said, S., Schaffert, A., Schafer, M. P., Schindler, J., Sieber, S, Swamila, M., Welp, H. M., William, L., Yustas, Y. M.

“…Assessments differed greatly between the two different climatic regions, and to a lesser extent between the nationality of the experts and their gender. This highlights the importance of including different South–North and female–male awareness in assessments. …”
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Analysis of impact of climate change on growth and yield of yam and cassava and adaptation strategies by farmers in Southern Nigeria por Chukwuone, Nnaemeka

“…Number of years in school and household size significantly influence the likelihood of a farmer starting non-farm activity to cushion the effect of climate change. Age, gender of household head, and amount of loss due to climate change significantly influence the decision to plant pest- and disease-resistant crops to cushion climate change effects. …”
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Sustainable intensification of smallholder maize production in northern Ghana: the case of cowpea living mulch technology por Abdul Rahman, N., Larbi, A., Kizito, F., Kotu, B.H., Hoeschle-Zeledon, I.

“…This suggests that smallholder farmers in northern Ghana and similar agroecologies can intercrop cowpea 1–2 weeks after planting maize as living mulch for better sustainability of their maize production and well-being through its effect on yield, income, food security, nutrition, and gender equity.…”
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Economic well-being induced Women’s empowerment: Evidence from coastal fishing communities of Bangladesh por Palash, Md Salauddin, Haque, A.B.M., Rahman, M. Wakilur, Nahiduzzaman, Md, Hossain, Akbar

“…Financial access, improved literacy and an enabling environment for the productive engagement of women reduce gender inequality in fishing communities. To sustain the benefits of CSG, establishing institutional linkages (advisory and financial), legality/registration of CSGs from the government authority, and facilitation of alternative IGAs are crucial.…”
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Reforming the public administration for food security and agricultural development: Insights from an empirical study in Karnataka por Birner, Regina, Sekher, Madhushree, Raabe, Katharina

“…The findings from the household survey indicate that access and satisfaction with services differ significantly according to caste and gender, even though these effects are not uniform across services. …”
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Price, income and nutrition course: Tufts University and IFPRI course por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Topics: Overview of the role of incomes and prices in determining nutritional status/; Policy approaches to incomes and prices as mechanisms for affecting food consumption/; Methods for evaluating effectiveness of price and income policies (overview)/; Effectiveness of price and income policies/; Basic economic concepts: Supply, demand, equilibrium, price formation, and elasticity/; Basic economic concepts: Household consumption, utility analysis, indifference curve analysis, income and substitution effects, normal and inferior foods, and income-specific consumption parameters/; Extensions: Demand for micronutrients; effects of intrahousehold distribution on elasticity estimates, time allocation, and demand for food/; Farm household behavior and price policy: Production functions, marketed surplus, and prices as determinants of income and consumption of farmers and non-farmers/; Markets: Functions and failures/; Extensions: Nutrition and farm productivity, gender and agricultural production, and agricultural supply and nutrition/; Consumer price interventions: Explicit subsidies to consumers, implicit subsidies to consumers, subsidies to producers, effectiveness, and implementation issues/; Income interventions: Types, effectiveness, and differences between LDCs and developed safety net and food for work programs/; Intrahousehold issues: alternative views of the household, evidence on intrahousehold allocation, household composition and individual consumption, differential control of assets and incomes within the household/; Policy analysis case study/; Macro food policy: Macro prices and food sector, rural-urban terms of trade, and issues of urban bias/; Structural adjustment"…”
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When Water Does not Flow: Elite Capture of Freshwater Canals in Bangladesh por Sarker, Mou Rani, Joshi, Deepa, Mannan, Fouzia, Rahman, M Mokhlesur

“…Following this, the study objectives are to analyze (a) power and politics to control freshwater canal, (b) gender relation and its dynamics in access, use, and control of fresh water. …”
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Has trade liberalization in South Africa affected men and women differently? por Thurlow, James

“…Trade reforms have however contributed to the observed decline in the gender wage gap, but this has been driven by rising employment amongst higher-skilled female workers. …”
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Socieconomic Characteristics of Individuals Afflicted by AIDS-Related Prime-Age Mortality in Zambia por Chapoto, Antony, Jayne, Thomas S.

“…The results of these models are used to report the probabilities of mortality over a three-year period for a range of individual profiles that differ according to their gender, level of income, education, months residing away from home, distance to district town, and other individual and household characteristics.…”
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Land-tenure policy reforms: Decollectivization and the Doi Moi system in Vietnam por Kirk, Michael, Tuan, Nguyen Do Anh

“…Major steps included disentangling socialist producer cooperatives and assigning land-use rights to its former members, developing and adapting a national legal framework (Land Law), and enhancing tenure security through gender-balanced inheritable land-use certificates. …”
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Food security, poverty and nutrition policy analysis: Statistical methods and applications por Babu, Suresh Chandra, Sanyal, Prabuddha

“…Effects of commercialization of agriculture or technology adoption and gender of household head: The issue, its importance in food security - application of Cramer's V and phi coefficient -- 5. …”
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Vision to Action report for Mbire and Murehwa, Zimbabwe por Sibanda, Telma, Choruma, Dennis J., Baudron, Frederic, Voss, Rachel C., Chimonyo, Vimbayi G.P.

“…Additionally, crucial elements include enhancing environmental stewardship, coexisting with wildlife, promoting social cohesion, and reducing gender-based violence. Shifting towards entrepreneurial mindsets by exploring new business models and value addition opportunities is also essential. …”
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Rising strong: Resilient farming through seed and mechanization por International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center

“…Continued donor and partner support is essential to scale these impactful fairs, which drive climate resilience, gender inclusion, and economic empowerment among smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe’s vulnerable farming communities.…”
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Digitalisation in agriculture: a scoping review of technologies in practice, challenges, and opportunities for smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa por Choruma, Dennis Junior, Dirwai, Tinashe Lindel, Mutenje, Munyaradzi, Mustafa, M., Chimonyo, V. G. P., Jacobs-Mata, Inga, Mabhaudhi, T.

“…Limited internet connectivity, low digital literacy, inadequate infrastructure, and affordability issues impede progress. Gender disparities further limit the equitable distribution of digitalisation benefits. …”
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Beyond emissions reduction: A framework for integrating climate-change mitigation and sustainable development goals por Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture, International Potato Center

“…Practical components consider geopolitical, financial, gender, and social inclusion factors to support integrated actions that meet both climate and development objectives. …”
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