Resultados de búsqueda - "illustration"

Smallholder dairy in Kenya por Ngigi, Margaret

“…The brief goes on to explore the impacts, the drivers of change, and the lessons learned for future successes. To illustrate her text, the author contrasts dairy sectors in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Uanda."…”
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Combating malnutrition: time to act por Gillespie, Stuart, McLachlan, Milla, Shrimpton, Roger

“…The book illustrates the constraints that have limited action towards improving nutrition in the developing world. …”
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A profile of poverty in Egypt por Datt, Gaurav, Jolliffe, Dean, Sharma, Manohar

“…It assesses the magnitude of poverty and its distribution across geographic and socioeconomic groups, provides information on the characteristics of the poor, illustrates the heterogeneity amongst the poor, and helps identify empirical correlates of poverty. …”
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A profile of poverty in Egypt: 1997 por Datt, Gaurav, Jolliffe, Dean, Sharma, Manohar

“…It assesses the magnitude of poverty and its distribution across geographic and socioeconomic groups, provides information on the characteristics of the poor, illustrates the heterogeneity among the poor, and helps identify empirical correlates of poverty. …”
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Towards an economic framework for evaluating potential benefits from research into weed-control por Pandey, S., Lindner, R.K., Medd, R.W.

“…Research benefits are evaluated as the change in steady‐state profit resulting from research‐induced changes in various parameters of the system. The model is illustrated by application to research aimed at the control of wild oats in wheat in Australia, whereby it was found that the magnitude of benefits depended not only on the level of research‐induced change but also on demographic behaviour of the weed. …”
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Net-Map: Collecting social network data and facilitating network learning through participatory influence network mapping por Schiffer, E., Hauck, J.

“…The authors present experiences from a field study from Ghana to illustrate the procedure and briefly discuss possible applications of the tool.…”
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Qualitative research in conflict and humanitarian settings: Reflections on methodology, ethics, and value por Behrends, Andrea, Urbani, Ilaria

“…Drawing on anthropological perspectives, the note illustrates how localized knowledge, historical awareness, and sustained engagement can enrich humanitarian and development research. …”
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Methods and explanations in the study of human actions and their environmental effects. CIFOR/WWF Special Publication. por Vayda, A.P.

“…Existing theories and models may have a role in guiding such efforts, but developing or testing the theories and models need not be made the main objective.Before illustrating his advocated approach with various studies (including his own research in Indonesian forests), Professor Vayda considers other approaches and indicates problems with them because of their failure to give due consideration to the chains of causally connected events leading to specific actions and their effects. …”
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Challenges and Opportunities forInternational Indigenous Adaptation Network por Worou, Nadine

“…The experience of the Community of Practice in Senegal (co-production of agro-climatic advice for livestock farming, hosted by national institutions) and pastoral practices in Kenya illustrates measurable impacts (e.g. reduced livestock mortality during droughts). …”
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Pinning down a moving target: sustainability, people and forests por Prabhu, Ravi, Vanclay, J.K.

“…The second approach is based on modelling the interactions of human-beings and forests. Both approaches illustrate the need to develop tools that are sufficiently generalisable to be useful for a large number of people, but also sufficiently adaptable to local conditions for them to have practical utility.…”
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DTWGs are reviving Cambodia’s floodplain ecosystems por Sok, Sao, De Silva, Sanjiv

“…Yet, natural resources management (NRM) is complex, with conflicts over access between uses and users inhibiting more sustainable and equitable development. Water is illustrative, exemplified by the tug-of-war between freshwater ecosystems and rice production in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake’s (TSL) floodplain. …”
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Driving policy coherence and strengthening institutions to advance socio-ecological gains por Edward-Uwadiale, Regina

“…Overall, the article illustrates how coordinated policy and institutional frameworks can create enabling environments for sustainable landscape transformation, ultimately contributing to biodiversity conservation, climate resilience, and inclusive economic development.…”
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Where the power lies: multiple stakeholder politics over natural resources: a participatory methods guide por Sithole, B.

“…Data from two sites in Zimbabwe are presented at various stages and the annexes to illustrate how this framework can be applied and show the type of data that can be gathered.…”
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Forests and people: safeguarding the natural heritage in Brazilian Amazon por García Fernandez, C., Shanley, P.

“…As the arc of deforestation catalyzed by logging spreads across Amazonia, data illustrating how people and valuable species respond under different conditions - and the consequences - become ever more relevant across a broad geographic range. …”
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Agrarian change, cattle ranching and deforestation: Assessing their linkages in Southern Para por Pacheco, P.

“…In this paper, I illustrate the dynamics of frontier development in the Redencao area in southern Para, one of the oldest agricultural frontiers in the Brazilian Amazon. …”
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Indicators for assessing Indonesia’s Javan rhino National Park vulnerability to climate change por Purnomo, H., Herawati, H., Santoso, H.

“…Vulnerability, however, is not an easy concept for policy makers, local communities and other affected stakeholders to understand. This paper illustrates the use of participatory processes in understanding climate change adaptation and defines indicators for assessing the vulnerability of the Javan rhino's national park habitat in Indonesia. …”
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Why the world suddenly cares about global supply chains por Gereffi, G., Lee, J.

“…The key dynamics of contemporary global supply chains and their implications for global production and trade are illustrated by: (1) the consolidation of global value chains and the new geography of value creation and capture, with an emphasis on China; (2) the key roles of global supermarkets and private standards in agri‐food supply chains; and (3) how the recent economic crisis contributes to shifting end markets and the regionalization of value chains. …”
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Maximum likelihood and an approximate expectation and maximization procedures to estimate dispersion parameters in a data set of combination of censored and uncensored traits por Togashi, K., Rege, J.E.O.

“…A numerical example is used to illustrate the steps involved in applying the proposed methods. …”
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Empirical characterisation of agent behaviours in socio-ecological systems por Smajgl, A., Brown, D.G., Valbuena, Diego, Huigen, M.G.A.

“…Examples are provided to illustrate the most important sequences. This framework is a first step towards a guide for parameterisation of human behaviour in ABM. …”
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The power to resist: irrigation management transfer in Indonesia por Suhardiman, Diana

“…IMT's significance cannot be measured only through IMT outcomes and impacts, without linking these with how the irrigation agency perceives the idea of management transfer in the first place, how this perception (re)defines the agency's position in IMT, and how it shapes the agency's action and strategy in the policy formulation and implementation. I illustrate how the irrigation agency contested the idea of management transfer by referring to IMT policy adoption in 1987 and its renewal in 1999. …”
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