Resultados de búsqueda - "living standards"

Situation report on Nepal’s agrifood systems: February 2024 por Palikhe, A., Maharjan, N.K., Adhikari, M., Gupta, S., Kumar, A., Minot, Nicholas, Koirala, Pankaj, Krupnik, Timothy J.

“…Nepal registered a significant decline in poverty from 25.2 percent in 2010-11 to 20.3 percent in 2022-23 according to the just-released Nepal Living Standards Survey (NLSS) IV 2022-23. Data suggest that the incidence of headcount poverty is highest in Sudurpashchim Province (34.2 percent) and the lowest in Gandaki Province (11.9 percent). …”
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SPIA Viet Nam Report 2024: Global Ambitions, Sustainable Pathways por Kosmowski, Frederic, Chavez, Simon, Thanh Binh Le, Ha Thu Nguyen, Phuong Nguyen, Gimode, Davis, Biradavolu, Monica, Pelletier, Johanne, Stevenson, James R., Visaria, Sujata

“…Focusing on 19 innovations with high adoption potential, the study employs rigorous methodologies, including data integration with the Viet Nam Household Living Standards Survey (VHLSS), DNA fingerprinting, and geospatial analysis, to quantify adoption rates and profile adopters' socioeconomic characteristics. …”
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Environmental impact and phenotypic stability in potato clones resistant to late blight Phytophthora infestans (Mont) de Bary, resilient to climate change in Peru por Gastelo, M., Bastos, C., Ortiz, R., Blas, R.

“…These clones have high potential for sustainable production systems that allow reducing environmental impact, increasing economic profitability and improving producers’ living standards.…”
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Adoption of sustainable land and water management practices and their impact on crop productivity among smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa por Mangole, Cool Dady, Maina, Charles Mbogo, Mulungu, Kelvin, Tschopp, Maurice, Harari, Nicole, Suresh, Roopa, Kassie, Menale

“…This study uses panel secondary data from the World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture project to evaluate land degradation variations, the adoption of sustainable land and water management (SLWM) practices, and their impacts on crop yields among smallholder farmers in four sub-Saharan African countries: Tanzania, Malawi, Uganda, and Ethiopia. …”
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Promoting forest conservation through ecotourism income? por Wunder, Sven

“…A principal criterion for classifying a tourism operation as 'ecotourism' is that local residents at the site should receive substantial economic benefits, which serve both to raise local living standards and as enhanced incentives for nature conservation. …”
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Collecting the dirt on soils : advancements in plot-level soil testing and implications for agricultural statistics por Gourlay, S., Aynekulu, Ermias, Shepherd, Keith D., Carletto, C.

“…Historically, plot-level statistics derived from household surveys have relied on subjective farmer assessments of soil quality or, more recently, publicly available geospatial data. The Living Standards Measurement Study of the World Bank implemented a methodological study in Ethiopia, which resulted in an unprecedented data set encompassing a series of subjective indicators of soil quality as well as spectral soil analysis results on plot-specific soil samples for 1,677 households. …”
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Aggressivt beteende hos suggor vid gruppering por Christina, Eliasson

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Uneven ground? Intersectional gender inequalities in the commercialized cassava seed system in Tanzania por Liani, M.L., Cole, Steven M., Mwakanyamale, Devis F., Baumung, L., Saleh, N., Webber, A., Tufan, Hale Ann, Kapinga, R.

“…Despite these barriers, some women CSEs expressed positive outcomes that have accrued from their participation in commercialized seed production, including enhanced social status and improved living standards. For the commercialized cassava seed system to be more socially inclusive and sustainable, we argue that there is need to adopt gender-aware approaches to address the underlying barriers and biases that exclude women and other social groups. …”
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Climate change effects on food security in Tajikistan por Khakimov, Parviz, Aliev, Jovidon, Thomas, Timothy S., Ilyasov, Jarilkasin, Pechtl, Sarah, Dunston, Shahnila

“…Additionally, climate change is one of the key obstacles to the achievement of the country’s strategic objective defined in the National Development Strategy (NDS) 2016–2030, which is to improve the living standards of the population, and one of the four strategic priorities, which is to ensure food security and access to quality nutrition by 2030. …”
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Credit constraints and agricultural technology adoption: Evidence from Nigeria por Balana, Bedru, Oyeyemi, Motunrayo

“…Using multinomial probit and seeming unrelated simultaneous equations econometric models with data from the 2018/19 Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) for Nigeria, the study investigates the factors affecting credit access and the effects of these credit constraints on adoption of four agricultural technologies – inorganic fertilizer, improved seed, agrochemicals, and mechanization. …”
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Women's Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) por International Food Policy Research Institute, Emory University, World Bank, Oxford University, National Statistical Office, Malawi, Data Analysis and Technical Assistance (DATA) Limited, Vox Latina, Guatemala, Interdisciplinary Analysts, Nepal

“…WEMNS was developed by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Emory University, Oxford University, and the World Bank’s Living Standards Measurement Study Unit in collaboration with country partners in Bangladesh, Guatemala, Malawi, and Nepal . …”
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Tracking a decade of food system transformation in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta: Production, consumption, and nutrition por The Ky, Hoang, Ignowski, Elizabeth, Belton, Ben, Huynh, Tuyen, Thanh, Duong Thi, Mai Phuong, Tuan Thi, Son, Nguyen Duy, Mai, Truong Tuyet, TTD, Phuong, Khondker, Murshed-E-Jahan

“…By utilizing national data from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey (VHLSS), Vietnam Statistical Year Book (SYB), and the General Nutrition Survey (GNS), this study examines the changes in food production, consumption patterns, diet, and nutrition status in the MRD of Vietnam from 2010 to 2020. …”
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Tracking a decade of food system transformation in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta: production, consumption, and nutrition por Hoang, Ky The, Ignowski, Liz, Tuan, Mai Phuong, Belton, Ben, Duong, Thanh Thi, Nguyen, Quoc Minh, Nguyen, Son Duy, Truong, Tuyet Mai, Dinh Thi Thanh, Phuong, Murshed-e-Jahan, Khondker, Huynh, Thi Thanh Tuyen

“…By utilizing national data from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys (VHLSS), Statistical Year Books (SYB), and General Nutrition Surveys (GNS), this study examines the changes in food production, consumption patterns, diet, and nutrition in the region from 2010 to 2020. …”
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Pulse consumption and demand by different population subgroups in Uganda and Tanzania por Larochelle, Catherine, Katungi, Enid M., Cheng, Zhen

“…Using the data compiled in the Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) that are nationally representative of urban and rural households in Uganda and Tanzania, the study investigates the economic, temporal and spatial dimensions of pulse consumption and used econometric methods to evaluate the responsiveness of pulse demand to price and income changes. …”
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Gender and social targeting in plant breeding por Orr, Alastair, Cox, Cindy M., Ru, Yating, Ashby, Jacqueline A.

“…Datasets include the Living Standards Measurement Study–Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS–ISA), the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), and the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program. …”
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Shining a Brighter Light: Comprehensive Evidence on Adoption and Diffusion of CGIAR-related Innovations in Ethiopia por Kosmowski, Frederic, Alemu, Solomon, Mallia, Paola, Stevenson, James R., Macours, Karen

“…Working with partners – in the case of Ethiopia, the World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) team and the Ethiopian Central Statistics Agency (CSA) – to integrate these new data collection approaches into nationally representative surveys. …”
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Mortality, mobility, and schooling outcomes among orphans: Evidence from Malawi por Ueyama, Mika

“…Lack of investments in human capital and adverse conditions during childhood are often associated with lower living standards in the future. Therefore, if orphans face an increased risk of poverty, exploitation, malnutrition, and poorer access to health care and schooling, early intervention is critical so as to avoid the potential poverty trap. …”
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INIA 333 – CHUGAYNA new Potato Variety Resilient to Climate Change for the Family Farming System with Tolerance to Frost, Resistant to Late Blight and high Quality for Fresh Consum... por Cabrera Hoyos, Hector Antonio, Otiniano, Ronal, Pando Gomez, Rosemeri Veronica, Sanchez Garcia, Henry, Huamanchay Rodriguez, William, Perez, Juan M., de Haan, Stef, Gastelo, Manuel

“…The new variety INIA 333-CHUGAYNA requires minimal use of fungicides and has a high economic profitability that will improve the living standards of small and medium-sized farmers in Peru. …”
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Changing returns-to-scale and deepening of factor-endowments-induced specialization: Exploring broader linkage between agricultural mechanization and agricultural transformation in... por Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Kumar, Anjani

“…Both cross-section and panel-data of households in Nepal extracted from Nepal Living Standards Surveys are used to generate this evidence. …”
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Effects of agricultural mechanization on smallholders and their self-selection into farming: An insight from the Nepal Terai por Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Shrestha, Rudra Bahadur, Kaphle, Basu Dev, Karkee, Madhab, Pokhrel, Suroj, Kumar, Anjani

“…Using samples from the Terai zone—one of the agroecological belts in Nepal, largely consisting of lowland plains— from the Nepal Living Standards Survey, we assess whether the benefits of hiring in tractor services are greater among medium to large farmers than among smallholders, and how these benefits may depend on smallholders’ decision to remain in or leave farming. …”
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