Resultados de búsqueda - "gender"

Catalysing learning for development and climate change: an exploration of social learning and social differentiation in CGIAR por Shaw, Alison, Kristjanson, Patricia M.

“…This is in part due to institutional reform that has put an increasing emphasis on gender strategies and monitored development outcomes. …”
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Participatory research for development to upgrade smallholder pig value chains in Uganda por Ouma, Emily A., Roesel, Kristina, Dione, Michel M., Carter, N., Pezo, Danilo A., Ejobi, F., Grace, Delia

“…In a multi-disciplinary and overarching gender-disaggregated approach and with the help of numerous local partners we conducted an initial scoping of different pig value chain systems through participatory rural appraisals with 1,400 farmers and interviews with more than 300 key informants. …”
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Opportunities for feeding forages to pigs in Uganda por Maass, Brigitte L., Kabirizi, J.M., Pezo, Danilo A., Carter, N., Ouma, Emily A., Zziwa, Emmanuel, Chiuri, Wanjiku L.

“…A comprehensive literature review on feeding forages to pigs in the tropics revealed that it is mainly animal nutritionists who concern themselves with nutritional effects of forages on the animals and their suitability as pig feeds; aspects of integrating cultivated forages into crop-livestock production systems, labour requirements, gender issues, and economic returns are essentially not considered. …”
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Cultivation potential of different mango varieties in Kenya, considering likely impacts of climate change por Ngulu, James, Kindt, Roeland, Luedeling, Eike, Kehlenbeck, Katja

“…Abundance, number and type of varieties also varied with gender of the household head, labour availability, farmers’ income sources, availability of profitable and reliable markets, and the degree of market orientation of mango production. …”
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Smallholder farmers’ perception of the impacts of climate change and variability on rain-fed agricultural practices in semi-arid and sub-humid regions of Kenya por Kalungu, Jokastah W., Filho, Walter L., Harris, David

“…However, successful implementation of farming technologies and methods that are adapted to climate change will require a gendered approach and agroecological sensitive strategies for different regions.…”
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Delivering climate services for farmers and pastoralists through interactive radio por Hampson, Karen J., Chapota, Rex, Emmanuel, Japhet, Tall, Arame, Huggins-Rao, Sheila, Leclair, Mark, Perkins, Kevin, Kaur, Harneet, Hansen, James

“…Women and men differed in time spent listening to radio, in mobile phone airtime purchased, and in Malawi, phone ownership; but larger location differences masked any gender differences in preferences about information content, delivery channels, or expectations about user and benefit. …”
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Malawi Summary of Baseline Studies: Country Report for the GFCS Adaptation Program in Africa por Tall, Arame, Kaur, Harneet, Hansen, James, Halperin, Mea

“…It identifies gaps in climate information access and use at the local level, types of climate services farmers and pastoralists need in Malawi, relevant channels to reach farmers with requested services, lead-time and gender-specific requirements for the design and delivery of climate services that matter to farmers. …”
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Complex systems - Simple solutions? The importance of social context for sustainable intensification por Michalscheck, Mirja, Kotu, Bekele Hundie, Mohammed, I.B., Hoeschle-Zeledon, Irmgard, Groot, Jeroen C.J.

“…Measures are only meaningful if they match with people's livelihood strategies, gender roles and human capital (knowledge, habits). …”
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Ecosystem approach to health (Ecohealth): Theory and practices in environmental health research in Vietnam por Hung Nguyen-Viet, Tran Thi Tuyet Hanh

“…Six principles of this approach include transdisciplinarity, participation, gender and social equity, system-thinking, sustainability and research-to-action (Charron 2012). …”
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An initial characterization of aflatoxin B1 contamination of maize sold in the principal retail markets of Kigali, Rwanda por Nishimwe, Kizito, Wanjuki, I., Karangwa, C., Darnell, Ross, Harvey, Jagger J.W.

“…A questionnaire given to vendors was used to determine if gender and education level of vendors, origin of maize and awareness of aflatoxins had any significant effect on AFB1 level in collected samples. …”
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Second-tier community forestry organisations and equitable resource management in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala por Millner, N., Penagaricano, I., Fernández, M., Snook, Laura K.

“…However, the role of intermediary organisations in negotiating such rights and rules is of central analytical importance - especially in contexts where pre-existing power and gender relationships influence who makes which decisions and how, and where long-standing conflicts over access to land constantly over-determine the possibilities for upscaling successful projects. …”
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First experiences with a novel farmer citizen science approach: crowdsourcing participatory variety selection through on-farm triadic comparisons of technologies (TRICOT) por Etten, Jacob van, Beza, E., Calderer, L., Duijvebdijk, K. van, Fadda, Carlo, Fantahun, B., Kidane, Yosef Gebrehawaryat, Gevel, Jeske M.J, van de, Gupta, A., Mengistu, D.K., Kiambi, D., Mathur, P.N., Mercado, L., Mittra, S., Mollel, M.J., Rosas, J.C., Steinke, J., Suchini, J.G., Zimmerer, Karl S.

“…A number of methodological issues remain: integrating environmental analysis, capturing gender-specific differences, stimulating farmers' motivation, and supporting implementation with an integrated digital platform. …”
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Comparative study on the performance of dairy cooperative input and output marketing in Astbie Womerta, Alamata and Enderta woreda in Tigray region, Ethiopia por Mesfin, A.

“…The impact of independent variables on the satisfaction of members, the main indicator of performance shows that cooperative age; members’ training; availability of credit; members’ participation and gender had positive impact on the performance of cooperatives and lack of roads had negative influence. …”
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Influence of farmer organizations as a market information system on market access and income of smallholder vegetable farmers in Babati District, Tanzania por Aku, A.O.

“…From the Poisson model the results show that distance to the market information source point has a negative influence on farmer’s information seeking behaviour. In contrast, gender, education, income and group membership had a significant positive relationship with farmers’ information seeking behaviour. …”
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Playing games to save water: Collective action games for groundwater management in Andhra Pradesh, India por Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Janssen, Marco A., Kandikuppa, Sandeep, Chaturvedi, Rahul, Rao, 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 influencing behavior, such as education, gender, and trust index scores. After the games were played, a significantly higher proportion of communities adopted water registers and rules to govern groundwater, compared to other communities in the same NGO water commons program. …”
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Crop production upgrading strategies and their role for household food security in Chamwino District, Tanzania por Ndimbwa, Charles

“…I draw on data from four gender-segregated focus group discussions as well as 54 interviews with both women and men in 33 purposively selected households that have adopted UPS for enhancing soil water management and crop production. …”
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Glukosmetabolism och fysiologiska variationer hos hundar por Lundström, Linda

Trots många om och män por Jonsson, Ylva

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Dialogprocesser i skånska kommuner por Sällström, Felicia

“…The purpose of this essay is – using a gender perspective – to give a picture of the experiences of Scania municipal planners dialogue with local residents, as well as how planners work with and think about dialogue. …”
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Nutritional ecology of roe deer (Capreolus capreolus L.) and fallow deer (Dama dama L.) por Rautiainen, Heidi

“…The main results revealed that 1) the nutrient composition varied between species and across seasons so that roe deer selected higher proportion protein compared to fallow deer with highest proportions in spring 2) the nutrient composition varied across age and gender classes of fallow deer so that adult males selected lower proportion protein compared to female adults and juveniles in fall and 3) both species selected for a particular proportion of soluble carbohydrates, and that this proportion differed between gender and age classes within fallow deer so that adult females and subadult males selected for a particular proportion soluble carbohydrates compared to adult males. …”
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