Search Results - "intentionality"

Gender equity and social inclusion in the water-energy-food-ecosystems (WEFE) nexus: Frameworks and tools for moving from resource-centric to people-centric WEFE nexus approaches by Jalonen, Riina, Zaremba, Haley, Petesch, Patti, Elias, Marlène, Estrada-Carmona, Natalia, Tsvuura, Susan, Koirala, Sanju

“…This learning module focuses on how to integrate gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) considerations in WEFE approaches to contribute to more effective and equitable WEFE initiatives for current and future generations. Intentionally focusing on GESI in the design, implementation, and monitoring of WEFE initiatives is critical to ensure that these initiatives do not harm – and, rather, benefit – women and vulnerable groups and communities. …”
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Report on nutrition and small-scale irrigation by Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small Scale Irrigation

“…Through this work, more development partners are recognizing the interconnections and beginning to design irrigation investments to intentionally improve nutritional and health outcomes.…”
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Internal Migration Propensity Index (i-MPI) Toolkit for Guatemala and Honduras: A tool to estimate the household-level likelihood of domestic migration by Ceballos, Francisco, Hernandez, Manuel A., Hernandez, Alvaro Espinoza

“…The i-MPI avoids questions about migration intentions, which may be culturally sensitive, prone to misreporting, and difficult to monitor over time. …”
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Bringing together social-ecological system and territoire concepts to explore nature-society dynamics by Barreteau, Olivier, Giband, D., Schoon, M., Cerceau, J., DeClerck, Fabrice A.J., Ghiotti, S., James, T., Masterson, V., Mathevet, R., Rode, S., Ricci, F., Therville, C.

“…We show that they have much in common: Both come with a systemic view of the nature-society interface and have the intention of understanding better the relations between nature and society and improving their sustainability. …”
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Landskapsarkitektur som länk mellan platsen och dess användare by Berge, Martin

“…What gives a place meaning for it’s users? The intention of this paper is to investigate how landscape architecture is able to form places that evoke involvement from it’s users. …”
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The ethics of genome editing of animals by Prosman, Annelien

“…A virtues person is able to do what is right because the intention of the person’s action is right. This could also be applied to the concept of genome editing, where the intention of genome editing of animals should be taken into account in order to determine whether genome editing is justifiable or not. …”
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Progesterone concentrations in peripheral plasma of Menz sheep during gestation and parturition by Mukasa-Mugerwa, E., Viviani, P.

“…This study is aimed to characterize progesterone profiles of Menz ewes during gestation with intent to gain insight into applied clinical endocrinology in early pregnancy diagnosis and monitoring of prenatal reproductive wastage. …”
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1988-1989 CGIAR Annual Report by CGIAR Secretariat

“…Chapter 1, The Year in Review, addresses the preparations for the Group's expansion following the declaration of intent at the May 1989 meeting to bring forestry, renewable resources, and sustainability into the mandate. …”
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Framework for incorporating Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) elements in Climate Information Services (CIS) by Mapedza, Everisto D., Huyer, Sophia, Chanana, Nitya, Rose, A., Jacobs-Mata, Inga, Mudege, Netsayi N., Tui, S. H.-K., Gbegbelegbe, Sika, Nsengiyumva, G., Mutenje, Munyaradzi, Nohayi, Ngowenani

“…The findings reveal that unless women are intentionally included in designing and developing agricultural technologies, specifically climate information systems, there is a danger that women will be excluded from the benefits. …”
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Understanding smallholder decision‐making to increase farm tree diversity: Enablers and barriers for forest landscape restoration in Western Kenya by Bosshard, Ennia, Carter, Harrison, Aluso, Lillian Olimba, Chumba, Reuben, Kaiser-Bunbury, Christopher N., Kettle, Chris J., Nuno, Ana

“…We conducted surveys with 620 smallholder farmers across Vihiga County in Western Kenya using an extended version of the Theory of Planned Behaviour to investigate potential drivers of smallholder intentions to grow more diverse woody plants on their farms. …”
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New urban room within the city of Kranj by Romih, Eva

“…The market, which once had an intention of being a meeting place, is nowadays empty and dull and few local growers are still persevering in selling their products there. …”

I väntan på något annat by Henoch, Maja, Terbrant Säfström, Sanna

“…In this thesis, however, the intention of temporality should be seen as the main definition regarding this subject. …”
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Valhallavägen : sammanlänkande esplanad med stora mått by Rogström, Anita

Integrating gender into index-based agricultural insurance: a focus on South Africa by Born, Lorna, Spillane, Charles, Murray, Una

“…Integrating gender into climate risk management is necessary to ensure that the benefits of index insurance are experienced by both men and women. A dedicated intention to integrate gender may be required. Taking South Africa as a case study, the potential for gender-sensitive index insurance scale-out among smallholders is investigated.…”
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Biosécurité : Maîtrise des Risques dans l’Application des Biotechnologies à l’Agriculture et à l’Environnement by Persley, Gabrielle J., Giddings, L. V., Juma, Calestous

“…Ce document constitue un guide pratique à l'intention des décideurs et responsables de recherche dont le temps est compté et qui n'ont pas toujours accès aux nombreux documents publiés à ce jour sur les problèmes de sécurité posés par les biotechnologies. …”
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Liberalise trade in machines by Ajmani, Manmeet Singh, Roy, Devesh, Takeshima, Hiroyuki

“…On July 15, the Centre issued a notification moving power tillers (PT) and their components from the “free” to “restricted” category indicating a clear intent to provide protection to the domestic industry. …”
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Agricultural expansion and deforestation: modelling the impact of population, market forces and property rights by Angelsen, A.

“…Within a more realistic-particularly for the long term effects-market approach, well-intentioned policies such as agricultural intensification programmes may boost deforestation. …”
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Human-centered design maturity assessment for CGIAR by Muller, Anna

“…Maturity helps us move from intent to capability. This presentation outlines an assessment of design maturity in CGIAR. …”
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Tracking wildebeest, locating knowledge: Maasai and conservation biology understandings of wildebeest behavior in northern Tanzania by Goldman, M.

“…By locating Maasai and scientific knowledges regarding a particular subject (wildebeest) in relation to each other-in discourse and in practice-my intention is to create the space for their active engagement. …”
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Kunskapsförändringar i svenska trädgårdshandböcker, 1840-1950 by Sahlqvist, Andreas

“…“Change of knowledge in Swedish gardening handbooks from 1840 to 1950” is a bachelor thesis in Landscape architecture at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences at the location Alnarp. The intent of the thesis is to investigate the knowledge and competence development within gardening handbooks in Sweden during the period of 1840 to 1950. …”