Resultados de búsqueda - "living standards"
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CLAYUCA: Latin American and Caribbean consortium to support cassava research and development
Publicado 2001“…The mission of CLAYUCA is to contribute to improving living standards and sustainable natural resource management in regions of LAC where cassava plays an important role in agricultural production systems, through the generation, transfer and exchange of technologies, information and scientific knowledge among public and private sector institutions and farmers in the region. …”
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New cassava products of future potential in India
Publicado 2001“…The Green Revolution and increasing living standards of the people of India, especially in Kerala, have resulted in a gradual shift in the cassava utilization pattern. …”
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Supply- and demand-side factors affecting maize and cowpea varietal turnover and quality seed use: Mixed-method evidence from northern Nigeria
Publicado 2024“…At the national level, the 2015 to 2018 Living Standards Measurement Survey data show that the adoption rate of improved varieties was 16 percent of maize area and 6 percent of cowpea area, with 9 percent of maize farmers and 3 percent of cowpea farmers reporting certified seed use of improved varieties. …”
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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 Consumpt...
Publicado 2025“…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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The changing demographics in Nigeria’s food systems and implications for future youth engagement
Publicado 2025“…The paper begins by situating FS as critical to Nigeria’s economy, highlighting their contributions to GDP and employment. Using national living standards survey data, it examines structural changes in employment, particularly the shift away from on-farm agricultural work toward nonfarm segments such as food processing, trade, and services. …”
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Analysis of the role of cooperatives in agricultural input out put marketing in Eastern Zone, Tigray Region
Publicado 2008“…But agricultural performance in production and productivity is poor to bring sustainable changes in the living standards of the rural community. Among others, underdeveloped agricultural marketing system is a major factor responsible for the poor performance of the sector. …”
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Assessing Ethiopia's Policy and Program Landscape for Poverty Reduction, Livelihood Improvement and Job Creation
Publicado 2025“…Ethiopia's notable advancements in poverty reduction over the past two decades have been reversed by recent shocks— including climate crises, conflict, inflation, and the COVID-19 pandemic—driving the national poverty rate to 32% and eroding living standards. High unemployment, particularly among youth and women, and a workforce predominantly engaged in informal employment reveal persistent vulnerabilities. …”
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Amazon Region
Publicado 2011“…Improving access to markets is fundamental for generating not only eco-efficient farms (whose carbon footprints are small), but also substantially upgrading living standards for rural populations. The Center’s strategy is to involve communities in participatory and interactive exercises to construct and develop valid marketing options. …”
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El proceso de diagnostico en el proyecto mandioca del Paraguay
Publicado 1989“…Background information is given on the Paraguayan cassava project, which aims at increasing cassava production and productivity through the use of improved technology while improving the living standards of cassava growers in Caaguazu and Paraguari. …”
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Towards a common vision for climate change, security and migration in the Mediterranean
Publicado 2024“…These issues, combined with the region's growing population, pose significant challenges to sustaining living standards and development opportunities. Furthermore, food security is threatened by unsustainable human activities, such as deforestation, excessive water use in irrigation, and overuse of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. …”
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Chronic Poverty and Long Term Impact Study in Bangladesh
Publicado 2010“…After initial community level fieldwork approximately 1,907 core households first surveyed in 1994, 1996, or 2000 were interviewed in late 2006 to ascertain how their living standards, endowment and other characteristics have changed over time and what role selected interventions have had on their welfare trajectories. 365 households who had split from their original households were also interviewed Detailed life-histories were then collected from a stratified sub-sample of approximately 293 adult men and women living in 161 households in order to better understand which events, institutions and processes have trapped certain households in chronic poverty while allowing others to escape from it. …”
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CPWF Annual Report 2007
Publicado 2008“…For Project 34 on Fish Production in Tropical Reservoirs, the comment was: “An intensive interaction with the local fishers indicated that even though the project is comparatively new, their lives have already been 2 | P a g e 3 | P a g e positively impacted upon, and they are excited by the results of the project, which may improve their living standards dramatically.” • The concept of Multiple‐Use Systems of Project 28 has proved important to the CPWF. …”
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Present situation and future potential of cassava in Indonesia
Publicado 2001“…This in turn should be perceived as a special challenge to those who are more concerned about the improvement of people's living standards rather than the crop itself. Starting from 1973, the cassava production system in Indonesia has shown a declining annual growth rate for the harvested area (-0.41%), but an increasing rate for both production (1.53%) and yield (1.93%). …”
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Garbage to gardens : design proposals for two decentralised waste management units in Pune, India
Publicado 2010“…The population growth and urbanisation in low-income countries bring issues of poor living standards and miserable sanitation conditions onto the agenda. …”
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Unravelling the diversity and distribution of the soybean rust fungus Phakopsora pachyrhizi in east Africa
Publicado 2019“…In addition, soybean cultivation contributes to increased economic opportunities and higher living standards for farmers. However, soybean yields in Africa on average range between 0.8 to 1.2 tonnes/ha, while the potential of the crop can be as high as 4 tonnes/ha. …”
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A learning network approach to resolve conservation challenges in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Publicado 2021“…Also, there is a contradiction between romanticising the 'traditional' way of life for people in the NCA that tourists perceive versus improving living standards with modern homes and associated technologies. …”
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