Resultados de búsqueda - "low cost"

Oil crops sector: Agritrade Executive Brief Update 2013 por Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, Eastern Africa Grain Council

“…However, ACP countries play only a marginal role in this sector, which is dominated by low-cost palm oil producers in south-east Asia for vegetable oils, and soybean producers in South America for oil crops. …”
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The Shade Tree Advice Tool por Wolf, Just van der, Gram, Gil, Bukomeko, Hannington, Mukasa, David, Giller, Onno, Kirabo, Enoch, Angebault, Charles, Vaast, Philippe, Asare, Richard, Jassogne, Laurence T.P.

“…Key messages: Climate change adaptation for coffee and cocoa farming requires low cost and multipurpose solutions, such as shade trees. …”
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Bringing together measurements and data science for better nitrous oxide emission accounting in data-poor regions por Harris, E., Barthel, M., Leitner, Sonja, Ouma, T., Agredazywczuk, P., Otinga, A., Njoroge, R., Oduor, Collins, Oluoch, K. C.

“…Measurement innovations focusing on low-cost sensing of N2O will provide much needed data in remote and developing regions. …”
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Using Apsim-Model as a decision-support-tool for long-term integrated-nitrogen-management and maize productivity under semi-arid conditions in Kenya por Kisaka, M. Oscar, Mucheru-Muna, M., Ngetich, Felix K., Mugwe, J.N., Mugendi, D.N., Mairura, Franklin S., Muriuki, J.

“…For subsistence farming, low-cost recommendations are geared towards some ‘guaranteed’ yield stability each cropping season. …”
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Compensating farmers for ecosystem services: Lessons and an agenda for innovation por Wollenberg, Eva Karoline, Tennigkeit, Timm, Dinesh, Dhanush, Baumert, Sophia, Röhrig, Felicitas, Kirfel-Rühle, Lisa, Zeppenfeldt, Leanne

“…Priority areas for action to meet the CompensACTION Initiative objectives are to: • Foster technical innovation and disruption to support low-cost, high- volume PES transactions. • Increase public and private investment to scale up PES programs…”
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Evaluation and validation of portable NIRS to estimate in situ nutritional quality of Megathyrsus maximus population in breeding program at CIAT por Mazabel, Johanna, Hincapie, Alexander, Hernández, Luis Miguel, Arango, Jacobo, Jauregui, Rosa

“…This process must be to quickly and technology Near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) is a good tool rapid, low-cost, and used successfully for determination of chemical composition in forage grasses. …”
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Groundwater irrigation for smallholders in Sub-Saharan Africa – a synthesis of current knowledge to guide sustainable outcomes por Villholth, Karen G.

“…This growth is primarily driven spontaneously by the farmers themselves, spurred by improved access to low-cost technologies for pumps and drilling services as well as market opportunities for produce. …”
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The (marginal) cost of technology adoption: A cost-effectiveness analysis of Digital Green’s video-mediated agricultural extension approach in Ethiopia por Bernard, Tanguy, Makhija, Simrin, Spielman, David J., Abate, Gashaw T.

“…A key tenet of this approach is its ability to increase adoption rates at a relatively low cost per farmer.…”
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Iron deficiency and schooling attainment in Peru por Chong, Alberto, Cohen, Isabelle, Field, Erica, Nakasone, Eduardo, Torero, Máximo

“…Our findings demonstrate that combining low-cost outreach efforts and local supplementation programs can be an affordable and effective method of reducing rates of adolescent iron deficiency anemia. …”
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Nonlinear pricing strategies and competitive conditions in the airline industry por Hernandez, Manuel A., Wiggins, Steven N.

“…We use a unique data set to analyze the impact of concentration and the competitive pressures generated by Southwest and other low cost carriers on the relative prices within a menu of fares. …”
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Delivery of zinc rice in Bangladesh por Bashar, Mohammad Khairul, Hossain, Alamgir

“…We use a unique data set to analyze the impact of concentration and the competitive pressures generated by Southwest and other low cost carriers on the relative prices within a menu of fares. …”
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Effects of diet in improving iron status of women: what role for food-based interventions? por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Plant breeding holds great potential for providing a low-cost intervention that could help to improve iron status broadly for populations with a high prevalence of iron deficiency....Although cost-effective, plant breeding is only one of several interventions that are all required in tandem to reduce micronutrient malnutrition.…”
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Rural Finance Policies 11 - Do microfinance institutions reach the poorest? por Zeller, Manfred, Sharma, Manohar, Lapenu, Cecile, Henry, Carla

“…In order to gain more transparency on the depth of poverty outreach, the Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP) supported research at IFPRI during 1999 and 2000 to design and test a simple, low-cost operational tool to measure the poverty level of MFI clients relative to nonclients. …”
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Measuring digital readiness in resource-poor populations: A proposal por Steinke, Jonathan, Ortiz Crespo, Berta, Lasdun, Violet

“…Yet to date, there is no comprehensive quantitative tool for analyzing digital readiness at population level at low cost. Here, we propose a simple digital readiness score for rural populations in low- and middleincome countries. …”
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Ecological risks of novel environmental crop technologies using phytoremediation as an example por Angle, J. Scott, Linacre, Nicholas A.

“…Therefore, the focus of this working paper is to explore specific risks associated with phytoremediation and suggest ways in which these risks can be managed so that new, novel, and innovative plant technologies may be applied to provide low cost and efficient environmental solutions.-- Authors' Abstract…”
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Applying the AWIN Protocol for Animal Welfare Assessment for Sheep in Kef and Siliana, Tunisia por Tebourbi, Ons, Atallah, Elie, Abbassi, Takwa, Ben Salem, Imene, Dalla Costa, Emanuela, Rekik, Mourad

“…Under CGIAR’s Agroecology initiative, this work constitutes a first attempt to evaluate the sheep welfare status in the Tunisian Agroecological Living Landscape (ALL), El Kef and Siliana, with the aim of providing farmers with low cost and low-input targeted solutions to improve their sheep flocks’ management practices at first place and initiating the elaboration of an animal welfare guideline for sheep farming in Tunisia at second place. …”
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Bridging the incentive-cost gap: incentivizing sustainable crop residue management to address burning practices por Deepak Varshney, Ramsha Khan, Banerjee, Anurag, Chakraborty, Shreya, Kiran Kumara, T.M., Nain, J.S.

“…The primary reason for stubble burning is its low cost compared to alternative crop residue management (CRM) methods. …”
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Net-Map: Collecting social network data and facilitating network learning through participatory influence network mapping por Schiffer, E., Hauck, J.

“…The authors describe how to use Net-Map,1 a low-tech, low-cost, interview-based mapping tool that can be used by researchers, facilitators, and implementers to (1) visualize implicit knowledge and understand the interplay of complex formal and informal networks, power relations, and actors’ goals; (2) uncover sources of conflicts as well as potentials for cooperation; (3) facilitate knowledge exchange and learning processes; and (4) develop visions and strategies to achieve common goals. …”
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Behavioural nudges for promoting supply and demand for quality seed of improved sweetpotato varieties por Okello, J.J., Rajendran, S., Ogero, K.

“…The intervention tested low-cost psychological and social nudges—nostalgia, loss aversion, and SMS reminders—alongside supply-side enablers such as verified seed vendors and equal physical access points. …”
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Evaluation of sampling methods for megalurothrips sjostedti (trybom) (thysanoptera: thripidae) on cowpea por Salifu, A.B., Singh, S.R.

“…The methods (sticky traps, water traps, sweep netting, shaking plants and the collection of whole plant samples) were judged on the basis of low sample variance, low cost and fidelity to absolute population trends. …”
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