Resultados de búsqueda - "labourer"

Analysis of technical efficiency among community-based seed producers in the savannas of Borno State, Nigeria por Amaza, P.S., Udoh, E.J., Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Kamara, A.Y.

“…Results further revealed that labour, farm size, seed and fertilizer were the most important inputs across the six crops. …”
Enlace del recurso

Farm types and adoption of proven innovative practices in smallholder bean farming in Angonia district of Mozambique por Makate, Clifton, Makate, Marshall, Mango, Nelson

“…The five farm types identified are; female landowners with small farm sizes (29.52%), educated farmers with access to credit (6.63%), relatively rich male land owners with large farm sizes and low education (8.73%), youthful, inexperienced and poor male farmers (6.33%), and experienced female farmers with high labour endowments (8.43%). The respective farm types seemed to have different patterns in the adoption of proven innovative practices in bean farming. …”
Enlace del recurso

Determinants of rural farmers improved soybean adoption decisions in northern Nigeria por Ojiako, I.A., Manyong, Victor M., Ikpi, A.E.

“…Empirical results reveal that the farmers’ adoption decisions were significantly (P<0.01) influenced by soybean yield, expenditure on labour, memberships of associations and meeting groups, exposure to extension services and ecology. …”
Enlace del recurso

What gets measured gets done!: towards an afro-barometer for tracking progress in achieving sustainable development goal 5 por Nhamo, G., Nhamo, S., Nhemachena, Charles

“…The research established data for 52 of the 54 African countries on women for three indicators, namely: women’s political representation, maternal mortality rates and women’s labour force participation. The gaps in the available data, places a question mark over the capacity and will to measure key indicators of gender inequality by countries. …”
Enlace del recurso

Establishment of optimum plant densities for dry season sorghum grown on Vertisols in the semiarid zones of Cameroon por Carsky, R.J., Ndikawa, R., Singh, L.

“…Considering increases in labour input for nursery establishment, transplanting and harvest, the increased revenue from increasing planting density does not compensate for increased costs. …”
Enlace del recurso

Links between energy access and food security in sub Saharan Africa: an exploratory review por Sola, P., Ochieng, C., Yila, Jummai Othniel, Iiyama, Miyuki

“…Overall, the review found coping measures for woodfuel scarcity to be highly contextual and influenced by geography, household economy and labour availability. Due to the limited number of studies with detailed data, it was not possible to perform a comparative analysis that could support or refute a hypothesis that lack of access to energy can impact on food security. …”
Enlace del recurso

Can Ethiopia feed itself by 2050? Estimating cereal self-sufficiency to 2050 por Tesfaye, Kindie, Ittersum, Martin K. van, Wiebe, Keith D., Boogaard, Hendrik L., Radeny, Maren A.O., Solomon, Dawit

“…Increased price volatility of major food crops (Koning et al. 2008; Lagi et al. 2011), an abrupt surge in land area devoted to crop production in recent years (Grassini et al. 2013) and extensive labour force mobilization (NEPAD 2013) reflect the powerful forces underpinning this challenge to increase production. …”
Enlace del recurso

Exploring solution spaces for nutrition-sensitive agriculture in Kenya and Vietnam por Timler, Carl, Alvarez, Stéphanie, DeClerck, Fabrice, Remans, Roseline, Raneri, Jessica, Estrada Carmona, Natalia, Mashingaidze, Nester, Chatterjee, Shantonu Abe, Chiang, Tsai Wei, Termote, Celine, Yang, Ray-Yu, Descheemaeker, Katrien, Brouwer, Inge D., Kennedy, Gina, Tittonell, Pablo Adrian, Groot, Jeroen C.J.

“…Farm and household features and farmer perspectives and priorities were integrated into a farm-household model that allowed quantification of a diverse set of nutritional, labour and productive indicators. Using a multiobjective optimization algorithm, we generated ‘solution spaces’ comprising crop compositions and management configurations that would satisfy household dietary needs and allowed income gains. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

The significance of oxytocin in canine mammary tumours por Bergman, Ingrid

“…It affects many organs and the classical peripheral targets are the mammary glands during lactation and uterus during labour. Oxytocin receptors have recently been described in a variety of normal tissues and primary cell cultures, but also in neoplastic tissues and established neoplastic cell lines, as breast cancer cell lines. …”
Enlace del recurso

A sweet future? : an agroecosystem analysis of strawberry farms in northern Nicaragua por Cederlöf, Lina, Norrman, Linda

“…We identify five main challenges for development: (1) The lack of goals (2) Division of labour (3) The functioning of the cooperative (4) Productivity losses (5) The unstable market.…”

Selection of assessment methods for evaluating banana weevil damage on highland cooking banana por Gold, Cliford S., Ragama, P.E., Coe, R., Rukazambuga, N.

“…Thus, damage to the corm periphery (less labour intensive to assess) is not a strong predictor of the more important damage to the central cylinder. …”
Enlace del recurso

Activity report: Monitoring Outcome of Climate-Smart Agriculture in Kaffrine ClimateSmart Village, Senegal por Ouédraogo, Mathieu, Fall, Mamadou, Adeyemi, Chabi

“…The main objective of the CSV monitoring was to assess farmers’ adoption/implementation of Climate-Smart Agricultural (CSA) practices and technologies over the last 12 months and the perceived effects of their implementation on: food security and diversity, crops productivity and income, adaptive capacity and gender aspects (labour, participation in decision making, access/control over generated resources). …”
Enlace del recurso

Gender training manual: The driver of smallholder agricultural revolution in Africa por Nchanji, Eileen Bogweh, Siri, Bella Ngoh, Odhiambo, Collins Ageyo

“…The agricultural sector in many developing countries is underperforming, in part because women, who represent a crucial resource in agriculture and the rural economy through their roles as farmers, labourers and entrepreneurs, are often invisible and face various challenges. …”
Enlace del recurso

Evaluating land management options for transitioning to regenerative coffee systems in Kenya por Waswa, Boaz, Rahn, Eric, Ocimati, Walter, Notenbaert, An, Ogutu, Francis, Mutegi, Judy

“…Potential challenges for farmers adopting regenerative methods include intensity of labour required, expenses incurred for implementation, long-term harvest of return, higher risks of pests, risk of losing soil quality, transport challenges, lack of yield improvement and little or no impact. …”
Enlace del recurso

Designing smallholder-centric product and service bundles to incentivise technology adoption using an affordance perspective por Hoffman, Elena

“…The findings reveal that smallholders face a range of key constraints, most notably the impacts of climate change, limited access to inputs, labour shortages, and restricted market access which are also highly interrelated and shaped by the local context. …”
Enlace del recurso

Kenyah forest use in East Kalimantan: responses to El Nino, transmigration and HTI por Colfer, C.J.P., Salim, A.

“…Individual field size has increased while households had four consecutive studies. Recourse to wage labour has increased considerably, in response to agricultural failures. …”
Enlace del recurso

Big island, green forests and backpackers: land use and development options on Ilha Grande, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil por Wunder, Sven

“…The large local tourism cash inflows have been used for residential construction, to buy consumer durables and additional leisure time. Although local labour requirements for tourism are generally low, rising income has implied momentous changes in the local production structure. …”
Enlace del recurso

Transformation of smallholder beef cattle production in Vietnam por Stür, Werner W., Khanh, T.T., Duncan, Alan J.

“…Introduction of the concept of farm-grown fodder production enabled farmers to produce fatter animals, achieving higher sale prices, and reduce labour inputs by moving from grazing to stall-feeding. …”
Enlace del recurso

Smallholder livestock production system in Dandi district, Oromia Regional State, central Ethiopia por Duguma, B., Tegegne, Azage, Hegde, B.P.

“…Respondents ranked feed shortage, diseases prevalence, labour scarcity and lack of capital as the major constraints limiting livestock production in that order of importance. …”
Enlace del recurso

Dolichos lablab (Lab lab purpureus cv. 'Rongai') as supplementary feed to maize stover for indigenous female goats in Zimbabwe por Makembe, N.E.T, Ndlovu, L.R.

“…It was concluded that diets based on maize stover and dolichos lablab could provide adequate nutrients to maintain goat productivity during the cropping season, without compromising labour availability to cropping activities.…”
Enlace del recurso