Resultados de búsqueda - "learning"

Goat value chains as platforms to improve income and food security: The case of imGoats in Inhassaro District, Mozambique por Swaans, Cornelis P.M., Boogaard, Birgit K., Salazar, Y.A., Hendrickx, Saskia C.J.

“…It involves continuous learning and capacity building – both in terms of innovation capacity and specific technical or organizational capacities. …”
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Comparative analysis of maize based livelihoods in drought prone regions of eastern Africa: adaptation lessons for climate change por Erenstein, Olaf, Kassie, Girma T., Mwangi W

“…These instances provide a fertile learning ground to assess potential adaptation options and their implications. …”
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DIG V1.1: Logiciel de calcul de debits et de volumes d'eau a partir de mesures chronologiques de hauteurs d'eau sur les orifices et les deversoirs por Keita, A.

“…This program, written in Quick Basic 4.5, is a simple data processing tool which respects the international norm CUA (Common User Access) that greatly facilitates learning new software.…”
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Problems and prospects in the utilisation of animal traction in semi-arid West Africa: Evidence from Niger por Williams, Timothy O.

“…On the demand side, factors like the short time available for land preparation and sowing, high opportunity cost of resources tied up in animal traction, variable yield gains from animal traction tillage and long learning curves for both animals and operators have contributed to limit the adoption of animal traction. …”
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Assessment of professional training programmes in international agricultural research institutions: The case of ICRAF por Wanjiku, J., Mairura, Franklin S., Place, Frank

“…Trainees had good recollection and learning of various aspects of the training. There was high potential for skill transfer and practical implementation of training skills among all trainees, but lack of resources was a major limitation. …”
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The 5Q approach por International Center for Tropical Agriculture, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…The 5Q approach aims to simplify monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) methods, in order to improve transparency, mutual accountability, and the effectiveness of research and development projects. …”
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Women-led agroforestry and clean cookstoves in Honduras: Field evaluation of farmer-led gender-transformative strategies for low emissions agriculture por Hottle, R.

“…Analysis aims to contribute to learning for future projects, especially projects aiming to improve gender relations. …”
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Partnerships for enhancing market-led innovation processes-experiences and lessons from IPMS Ethiopia por Puskur, Ranjitha, Anandajayasekeram, P., Berhe, Kahsay, Hoekstra, Dirk

“…Innovative approaches to production, NRM, technology adaptation and delivery, service delivery, marketing and, institutional change, linked to market demands and the capacity of the communities and its individual members to handle such innovations in a sustainable manner are being introduced and adapted in pilot sites. Learning from these experiences is an integral aspect to draw lessons for scaling up. …”
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A Yin-Yang approach to education policy regarding health and the environment: early-careerists’ image of the future and priority programmes por Watts, P., Custer, B., Zhuang-Fang Yi, Ontiri, E., Pajaro, M.

“…In response to SD goals, a problem-based learning design is suggested as an education policy priority. …”
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Jatropha developments in Mozambique: analysis of structural conditions influencing Nicheregime interactions por Slingerland, Maja, Schut, Marc

“…The global financial crisis and limited adaptive capacity reduced the time and space for experimentation and learning to overcome disappointing crop performance. …”
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Measuring how communication and engagement efforts help deliver outcomes por Schuetz, Tonya, Meadu, Vanessa, Atakos, Vivian, White, Julianna M., Schubert, Cecilia, Urrea Benítez, José Luis, Ampaire, Edidah L., Radeny, Maren A.O., Mungai, Catherine, Cramer, Laura K.

“…Key messages  Initial steps towards outcome-focused monitoring, evaluation & learning (MEL) on communication and engagement can be small, but they must be systematic…”
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Meeting the challenge of the plantain (Musa spp.) subsector economic restructuring in cameroon por Tetang, J.T., Kwa, M., Temple, L., Bikoï, A., Njukwe, E., Staver, Charles, Ottou, J.F.

“…Additionally linkages among, and between, actorsare weak, thus leading to poor learning processes. Fortunately, the policyframework is now strong enough and government commitment is effective since2003 with the launching of a plantain development project and a global program forthe economic restructuring of the plantain sub-sector. …”
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Ex-ante evaluation of cassava research for development in Malawi: a farm household and random utility modeling approach por Rusike, Joseph, Jumbo, S., Ntawuruhunga, Pheneas, Kawonga, J.M., James, B., Okechukwu, R.U., Manyong, Victor M.

“…Ex ante evaluation of agricultural research for development projects has become important in recent years for priority setting, ex post impact assessment and learning about generalizability to other populations and contexts. …”
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Challenges for developing Forest Stewardship Council certification for ecosystem services: How to enhance local adoption? por Savilaakso, S., Guariguata, Manuel R.

“…Although the FSC already had a broad vision of ES, it was only through local-level learning within a specific pilot experiment that the vision evolved and resulted in more formal FES certification becoming part of FSC forest management certification. …”
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Sustaining the beneficial effects of maize production in Nigeria: does adoption of short season maize varieties matter? por Oyinbo, O., Mbavai, J.J., Shitu, M.B., Kamara, A., Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Ugbabe, O.O.

“…In order to ensure sustainability of maize production in short-season environments of Nigeria, the Sudan savanna taskforce of Kano–Katsina–Maradi (KKM) Pilot Learning Site promoted short-season maize varieties in 2008 via Innovation Platforms (IPs). …”
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Hyperspectral LCTF-based system for classification of decay in mandarins caused by Penicillium digitatum and Penicillium italicum using the most relevant bands and non-linear class... por Gómez-Sanchís, Juan, Blasco, José, Soria-Olivas, Emilio, Lorente, Delia, Escandell-Montero, P., Martínez-Martínez, José M., Martinez-Sober, Marcelino, Aleixos, Nuria

“…This paper documents a new methodology based on hyperspectral imaging and advanced machine-learning techniques (artificial neural networks and classification and regression trees) for the segmentation and classification of images of citrus free of damage and affected by green mold and blue mold. …”
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Understanding of eco-shaming phenomena in Kazakhstan por Kumambetova, Nina

“…The focus group participants consider that eco-shaming risks pushing an individual away from learning about how to care for the environment. At the same time, this study argues that even though eco-shaming does not necessarily create changes as such, it might be considered as a relevant way of raising one's voice in the absence of access to deliberative forums. …”
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Outdoor environments for physiotherapeutic rehabilitation of work-related stress : lying down in shelter, sitting in serenity, standing in nature and walking in coherence por Lundkvist, Peter

“…Learning more about rehabilitating work-related stress is important since stress-related illness is creating a lot of human suffering and a significant economic loss in most countries. …”

Diversifiering i lantbruksföretag : en litteraturstudie om hur utvecklingsprocessen ser ut i lantbruksbaserade företag som utvecklar nya verksamhetsgrenar por Romar, Markus

“…An environment that facilitates the learning and development of the farmer’s entrepreneurship is therefore important in successfully developing the business. …”

Volunteer motivation in Vancouver's Green Streets Program por Kristensson, Ingrid

“…The reasons that the gardeners gave for maintaining their street garden were arranged into eight categories: garden interest, well-being, learning, creating, values, improving environment, encounters and sharing. …”
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