Resultados de búsqueda - "marginalism"

Youth employment prospects in Africa por Thurlow, James

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Postningsoptimering vid sönderdelning av fura vid Säters Ångsåg por Gustafsson, Fredrik

“…The result of this project show that a SEK 10 million increases in total contribution margin can be obtained from optimising sawing patterns.…”
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Anticipating social differentiation and unintended consequences in scaling initiatives using GenderUp, a method to support responsible scaling por McGuire, E., Leeuwis, C., Rietveld, A.M., Teeken, B.

“…CONTEXT A key strategy in progressing towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is scaling innovations to improve livelihoods of marginalized populations globally. Consequently, there has been a heightened emphasis on Agriculture Research for Development (AR4D) innovation teams' ability to swiftly identify innovations that can be scaled for broad impact. …”
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Development of the analytical component of the Farm level Calculator modules of the ICT-based Smart CSA monitoring App for assessing performance, synergies and trade-offs. por CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…All the input variables needed for the calculation of farms' tri- dimensional performance (in terms of Productivity, Adaptation/Resilience and Mitigation) were introduced in the new version of the Geofarmer App and some first equations introduced (costs, benefit, gross margin) to allow automatic calculations. This prototype was tested in Senegal.…”
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Resilience and exclusion: Development policy implications por von Braun, Joachim, Thorat, Sukhadeo

“…Exclusion is part of a larger set of causal factors that determine marginality, which is a root cause of poverty and inequality.…”
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African youth at a crossroads por Resnick, Danielle, Thurlow, James

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Crop productivity, nutritional and economic benefits of no-till systems in smallholder farms of Ethiopia por Mupangwa, Walter, Yahaya, Rabe, Tadesse, Ephrem, Ncube, Bongani, Mutenje, Munyaradzi, Chipindu, Lovemore, Mhlanga, Blessing, Kassa, Abrham

“…Soil properties, crop yield, nutrition gains and gross margins were determined. No-till improved soil properties in the short term. …”
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Examining institutional credit access among agricultural households in Eastern India: Trends, patterns and determinants por Kumar, Anjani, Das, Raya, Aditya, K. S., Bathla, Seema, Jha, Girish K.

“…The data pertain to the year 2013.The findings emphasize that strategies for developing agriculture in Eastern India must give special push to enhance small and marginal farmers' access to institutional credit.…”
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Structural transformation of teff markets por Minten, Bart, Stifel, David, Tamru, Seneshaw

“…Five possible reasons are considered for teff market transformation and for the changes in teff price margins over the period 2001–2011.2 This study period has been influenced by changes in five factors that may have affected how teff markets function. …”
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The diet problem, nutrient supply, and the cost of diversity applied to livestock feeds por Komarek, Adam M., Robinson, Sherman, Mason-D'Croz, Daniel

“…The marginal cost of diversity is lower in higher income countries than lower income countries. …”
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Assessing travel time and transportation costs in sub-Saharan Africa: A case study in Malawi por Guo, Zhe, Hawkins, James

“…Modelling exercises such as these require estimation of the mar-keting margins of agricultural inputs and outputs traded across regions. …”
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Inequality, hunger, and malnutrition: Power matters por Hossain, Naomi

“…In its hourglass shape, the power at the center amplifies poverty and marginalization at both ends of the system: at one end, small-scale farmers and low-paid food producers suffer hardship; at the other end, those excluded from or adversely incorporated into globalized food markets face hunger and malnutrition. …”
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The European Union–West Africa Economic Partnership Agreement: Small impact and new questions por Bouët, Antoine, Laborde Debucquet, David, Traoré, Fousseini

“…The policy simulation results show that the implementation of the EPA between the EU and WA countries would have marginal but positive impacts on Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire and negative impacts on Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, and Togo. …”
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Strengthening Community Seed Banks for Gender inclusive development in India por Rengalakshmi, Raj, Puskur, Ranjitha, Pratheepa, C. M., Gopinath, R., Tenneti, Suchaita, Bomuhangi, Allan

“…At the field level, these changes adversely impact women and marginal farmers’ access to preferred crops and varieties/ landraces, gender relations, food and nutrition security, dietary diversity, food systems resilience, and livelihoods. …”
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Enhancing capacity to comply with sustainability standards in the milk value chain in East Africa: Challenges, prospects, and policy implications por Kilima, F.T.M., Msalya, G.M., Omore, Amos O.

“…The co-operative model is highlighted as a promising approach to integrating farmers and marginalized value chain actors into the formal sector, thereby facilitating incremental adoption of sustainability standards. …”
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An evaluation of the distributional power of PROGRESA's cash transfers in Mexico por Coady, David

“…Using both national-sample and program-level census survey data, we evaluate the distributional power of Mexico's Programa Nacional de Educacion, Salud y Alimentacion (PROGRESA) transfers using the so-called distributional characteristic.These transfers are targeted both geographically at marginal localities and at poor households within these localities. …”
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An evaluation of the distributional power of PROGRESA's cash transfers in Mexico por Coady, David

“…Using both national-sample and program-level census survey data, we evaluate the distributional power of Mexico's Programa Nacional de Educacion, Salud y Alimentacion (PROGRESA) transfers using the so-called distributional characteristic.These transfers are targeted both geographically at marginal localities and at poor households within these localities. …”
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Input use under cost-of-production crop insurance: Theory and evidence por He, Juan, Zheng, Xiaoyong, Rejesus, Roderick, Yorobe, Jose

“…In this case, we find that COP insurance increases the use of chemical inputs (e.g., fertilizers and total chemical expenditure), implying that the positive marginal incentive to apply more inputs dominates the negative moral hazard effect.…”
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An ex ante evaluation of targeted fertilizer recommendations for Ethiopian cereal producers por Oyinbo, Oyakhilomen, Chamberlin, Jordan

“…In addition, fertilizer application appears marginally more profitable on foot slopes and mid-slopes compared with hill slopes, irrespective of the cereal type. …”
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Inbreeding Effects on Grain Iron and Zinc Concentrations in Pearl Millet por Rai, K. N., Govindaraj, Mahalingam, Kanatti, A., Rao, A. S., Shivade, H.

“…Inbreeding had no significant effect on Fe and Zn concentrations in one composite and showed significant though marginal increase of both micronutrients in two composites. …”
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