Resultados de búsqueda - "low cost"

Cooking contests for healthier recipes: Impacts on nutrition knowledge and behaviors in Bangladesh por Kramer, Berber

“…We find no additional effects of these contests on either knowledge or diets. We conclude that low-cost BCC strategies help improve knowledge, but alternative interventions are needed to strengthen links between knowledge and behavior.…”
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Synopsis, Agricultural mechanization in Ethiopia: Evidence from the 2015 Feed the Future survey por Berhane, Guush, Hirvonen, Kalle, Minten, Bart

“…Having policies that actively assure widespread availability of appropriate mechanized services at low cost, seem likely to benefit Ethiopia’s agricultural transformation.…”
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Rural Finance Policies 10 - Assessing the relative poverty level in clients of microfinance institutions: an operational tool por Zeller, Manfred, Sharma, Manohar

“…In order to gain more transparency on the depth of poverty outreach, 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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Subsidized childcare and working women in urban Guatemala por Ruel, Marie T., de la Briere, Benedicte, Hallman, Kelly, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Coj de Salazar, Nora

“…This government-sponsored pilot program was designed as a strategy to alleviate poverty by providing working parents with low-cost, high-quality childcare within their community.…”
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Predictive mapping of wholesale grain prices for rural areas in Tanzania : A replicable modeling framework for predicting agricultural prices across time and space por Madaga, Lavinia, Chamberlin, Jordan, Bisrat Gebrekidan, Silva, João Vasco, Mkondiwa, Maxwell, Hijmans, Robert J.

“…We discuss how our modeling framework could be used to design relatively low-cost monitoring systems for enabling regularly updated, national-scale spatial price maps.…”
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Consumer response to food safety risk information por Hoffmann, Vivian, Murphy, Mike, Kariuki, Sarah

“…Our results demonstrate the potential for low-cost interventions to increase the salience of food safety as a product attribute in informal markets or where regulatory enforcement is weak.…”
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Impacts of personalized picture-based crop advisories: Experimental evidence from India and Kenya por Ceballos, Francisco, Chugh, Aditi, Kramer, Berber

“…Such tools could help provide personalized advisories tailored to a farmer's unique conditions at scale and at a low cost. This study evaluates the fundamental assumption that personalized crop advisories are more effective than generic ones. …”
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RiceMoRe: Digitalizing Rice Monitoring for Climate Action and Scalable Impact por International Rice Research Institute

“…Developed on open-source platforms, it provides a low-cost, flexible, and replicable system. The primary outcome is the official adoption of RiceMoRe by Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), currently Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, scaling across approximately 75% of the country’s rice planting areas, significantly enhancing the efficiency, accuracy, transparency, traceability, and accessibility of agricultural data for climate action and sustainable rice management.…”
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Homestead gardening for year-round vegetable production (Bangla) por Ahmed, Sharif, Miajy, Abu Abdullah, Manik, Md. Zannatul Ferdous

“…Homestead gardens, managed at the household level, provide a reliable source of nutritious vegetables, thereby improving dietary diversity, food security, and income generation. The model uses low-cost, simple techniques suitable for small spaces. …”
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El potencial de manejo de especies maderables de rápido crecimiento en regeneración natural, sistemas agroforestales y plantaciones puras: Estudios de caso en Brasil, Perú y Costa... por Current, D., Rossi, L.B., Sabogal, C., Nalvarte, W.

“…The preference for these systems has been due to the low cost and ease of establishment and the ability to combine short-term benefits (crops and perennials) with timber production. …”
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The persistence and conservation of Borneo's mammals in lowland rain forests managed for timber: observations, overviews and opportunities por Meijaard, E., Sheil, Douglas

“…On a positive note we find and suggest many relatively simple and low-cost ways in which concession management practices might be modified so as to improve the value of managed forests for wildlife conservation. …”
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Estimating opportunity costs of avoided deforestation (REDD): Application of a flexible stepwise approach to the Indonesian pulp sector por Pirard, R.

“…Their accurate estimation is strategic for at least two reasons: to determine fair compensations, and to prioritize low cost strategies to reduce emissions. However, numerous interpretations of the opportunity cost concept coexist in the literature and in influential reports (e.g. …”
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Seasonal space-time dynamics of cattle behavior and mobility among Maasai pastoralists in semi-arid Kenya por Butt, B.

“…The study concludes that simple, low cost GPS collars are an effective and easily replicable method to help understand the spatial and temporal dynamics of cattle behavior and mobility, and patterns of cattle mobility are related to seasonal constraints. …”
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An Assessment of the financial viability and income impact of small scale irrigation in Ethiopia por Makombe, Godswill, Hagos, Fitsum, Namara, Regassa E., Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele

“…It is concluded that the systems are financially viable and provide a low cost development option for rural areas.…”
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Economic gains of improving soil fertility and water holding capacity with clay application: the impact of soil remediation research in northeast Thailand por Saleth, Rathinasamy Maria, Inocencio, Arlene B., Noble, A.D., Ruaysoongnern, Sawaeng

“…SRRP has demonstrated and promoted the application of clay as a quick and low-cost means for improving the fertility and water holding capacity of sandy soils. …”
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Tissue culture for farmers : Participatory adaptation of low-input cassava propagation in Colombia por Escobar Pérez, Roosevelt H., Hernández, C.M., Larrahondo, N, Ospina, G.I., Restrepo M., José M., Muñoz Flórez, Ligia Carmenza, Tohme, Joseph M., Roca, W.

“…The lack of good quality planting material of farmers' cassava varieties, produced locally and at low cost, is a major constraint limiting the expansion of cassava production in Colombia. …”
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Use of farmer recall versus direct measurement in gathering lactation data: Lessons from Kenyan smallholder dairy systems por Staal, Steven J., Omore, Amos O.

“…The use of farmer-recall in field data collection typically allows for relatively quick and low-cost information gathering. Such data can often be gathered using a simple cross-sectional survey, in many cases requiring only a single farm visit. …”
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Bridging the data gap: engaging developing country farmers in greenhouse gas accounting por Paustian, Keith

“…Estimates that consider economic feasibility suggest that agriculture and forestry together provide among the greatest opportunities for short-term and low-cost mitigation measures across all sectors of the global economy1 (IPCC 2007). …”
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Reducing the costs of GHG estimates in agriculture to inform low emissions development: Report from an international workshop por Richards, Meryl B., Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

“…Sixty practitioners, policy makers and scientists reviewed and shared knowledge on the available robust and low-cost methods and data for GHG emission estimation in agriculture in a CCAFS/FAO workshop in Rome, October 2014. …”
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Root crops management technology por Obordo, RA

“…Cassava presents the best perspectives as a low-cost energy source. In the Philippines, a surface area of 119,300 and 117,970 ha was planted to cassava with yields of 5.7 and 5.3 t/ha in 1975-76, resp. …”
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