Search Results - "ideology"

Political economy and governance: Agriculture and food policy from local to global by Kyle, Jordan, Resnick, Danielle, Mockshell, Jonathan

“…Policymaking is shaped by evidence as well as by political economy and governance factors such as incentives, institutional structures, ideological biases, and power dynamics. Over the past several decades, these factors have intersected with significant trends affecting the international development policy landscape, with important implications for agriculture and food policy. …”
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Improving livelihoods in East Africa through livestock research and extension: reflections on changes from the 1950s to the early twenty first century by Omore, Amos O., Kurwijila, Lusato R., Grace, Delia

“…It describes the institutional and ideological environment in which research and extension was then conducted and provides examples of early successes aimed at enhancing productivity. …”
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Agricultural commercialization, economic development, and nutrition by von Braun, Joachim, Kennedy, Eileen T.

“…This conclusion, emerging from a mix of historical, real, and ideological factors as well as methodologically faulty analysis, has continually been questioned by policymakers in developing countries as well as aid agencies and non-governmental organizations.…”
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ACM and Model Forests: A new paradigm for Africa by Diaw, M.C., Nguièbouri, J., N’Tambu, B.V., Tchoko, J.G., Ngo Baneg, M.F.R., Bilogui, C.

“…It then highlights the ‘inversion’ of the African forest economy, criticizing the blindness of environmental ideologies and interventions to that disability and to their responsibility in maintaining conditions of African structural poverty. …”
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Green-urban balance by Ljungman, Henrik

“…First a literature study that focused on three urban design ideologies was made. The three urban design ideologies: The Compact city, the Garden city and Landscape urbanism, were best believed to provide answers for the problem of balancing green area preservation and urban development, and were therefore used to extract ideas as a foundation for six design strategies to help achieve this balance. …”
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Routledge Handbook of African Peacebuilding by Charbonneau, Bruno, Ricard, Maxime

“…The book begins by outlining the evolution and the various ideologies, conceptualizations, institutions, and practices of African peacebuilding. …”
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Looking at the books: Social accounting of three cassava drying (appropriate technology) cooperative associations in Colombia by Romanoff, S.A.

“…The benefits received by the members vary, depending on the affiliation and the member himself. Political, ideological, and sociological factors affect the no. of beneficiaries. …”
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De kallar oss landskapsarkitekter by Crona, Per

“…Det perspektivet anses dock inte vara tillräckligt starkt för att kunna benämnas som en ideologi eller som en gemensam agenda. Åsikterna går isär angående hur yrkespersonen bör förhålla sig till sina värderingar och sin värdegrund. …”
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Embracing political economy to enhance influence: Lessons from PIM research by Resnick, Danielle

“…Other factors may shape uptake — for instance, elections may alter priorities, ideological biases may hinder the acceptance of research findings, and vested interest groups may lobby against data-driven or evidence-informed recommendations. …”
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A framework to understand gender and structural vulnerability to climate change in the Ganges River Basin: lessons from Bangladesh, India and Nepal by Sugden, Fraser, de Silva, Sanjiv, Clement, Floriane, Maskey-Amatya, Niki, Ramesh, Vidya, Philip, Anil, Bharati, Luna

“…With respects to gender inequalities, the report reviews how men and women are affected in different ways by climate shocks, while differing access to resources and cultural ideologies mean that their capacity to ‘adapt’ is also not equal. …”
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Persuasion, facilitation… contestation? by Lindemer, August

“…Linking these, and other, positions to epistemological and political considerations, I offer a liberal democratic critique of this conception of climate change communication as both ideologically and pragmatically questionable.…”
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Three perspectives on sustainable food security: efficiency, demand restraint, food system transformation. What role for life cycle assessment? by Garnett, Tara

“…These reflect different conceptualisations on what is practically achievable, and what is desirable, underpinned by different values and ideologies about the role of technology, our relationship with nature and fundamentally what is meant by a ‘good life.’ …”
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Agriculture and macro-economic reforms in Zimbabwe: a political-economy perspective by Muir-Leresche, Kay

“…Events in Zimbabwe during seven years from the start of economic reforms in 1991 have highlighted the contradictions in the ideologies underlying economic development and institutional reform in the country. …”
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Introduction [in The making of a blue revolution in Bangladesh] by Rashid, Shahidur

“…Agricultural productivity was low, the world market was volatile, and the national food security depended on, apart from Mother Nature, the relationship with the donor countries, which was not smooth because of ideological differences. By the early 1960s, feeding a rapidly growing population became a daunting challenge for the region’s countries. …”
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Historical perspectives on forest policy change in Asia: an introduction by Edmunds, D., Wollenberg, Eva Karoline

“…Devolution policies will fail to meet the expectations of the poorest forest users unless they address historical ‘holdovers’, particularly ideologies and institutions within government that continue to favor centralized control and elite/subordinate relations at the local level. …”
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Pathways from agriculture to nutrition in India: Implications for sustainable development goals by Das, Mousumi, Sharma, Ajay, Babu, Suresh Chandra

“…Such evidence based policy making is need of the hour to observe impact on the ground, rather than framing policies based on ideologies. At a time when the focus is more and more on impact, the shift to why we do research and what it contributes to solving the problem is increasingly important.…”
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Getting a piece of the pie: An analysis of factors influencing women's production of sweetpotato in Northern Nigeria. by David, S.

“…The sweetpotato case shows how the dynamic nature of production organization, intra-household roles and responsibilities, and gender ideologies in Sub-Saharan Africa make it difficult to predict how men and women farmers respond to market signals. …”
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How do local actors understand and tend to work toward local economy? : a case study from Åres Gröna Dalar area, Jämtland, Sweden by Dudu, Durukan

“…But the level of approval decreases when the local economy perspective is tried to be communicated through rhetorical, verbal and ideological symbols, b) there are four main meanings attributed to local economy : “buy local” and “support for small-scale entrepreneurs and tourism” compose the narrow approach while “individual empowerment and community mobilization” and “decentralization and new way of thinking” are of the wide approach, c) local actors' proposals for actions towards local economy can be analyzed in four categories: “support for small-scale business”, “raising awareness and participation”, “networking and collaboration” and “local saving company”…”

Strong democracy, weak state: The political economy of Ghana’s stalled structural transformation by Resnick, Danielle

“…Compared to the country’s years of political instability prior to the 1980s, when ideological differences resulted in high levels of policy volatility, substantive partisan differences between the NDC and NPP have narrowed on key issues. …”
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Bonaventure Cemetery of Savannah, Georgia and St. Roch Cemetery of New Orleans, Louisiana by Abbott, Judson

“…Through a comparison study and an overview of the historical contexts in which these two cemeteries were constructed, this paper seeks to both explore the practical and functional aspects of their designs and to gain insight into their cultural and ideological inspirations. The study indicates that Bonaventure Cemetery was created in the spirit of the 19th century American Rural Cemetery Movement which endorsed burial in a rural idyll with “nature” as a model. …”
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