Search Results - "marginalism"

Prosperous futures inspired by prosperous pasts: Fostering imagination of radical food system alternatives in Guatemala by Rutting, Lucas, Veeger, Marieke, von Breymann, Randolph, Garcia, Ubaldino, Sancir, Norma, Calel, Sandra, Canek, Fredy, Suyuk, Miriam, Vervoort, Joost

“…It shows the value of incorporating the knowledge, perspectives, values and imaginaries of—often marginalized—communities into conversations about sustainability transformations.…”
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Gender strategy on weather and climate Information services in East Africa by Nchanji, Eileen Bogweh, Kagabo, Desire, Mvuyibwami, Patrick, Byandaga, Livingstone, Lutomia, Cosmas

“…To bridge these gaps, the ECREA gender strategy outlines approaches to enhancing representation and participation of women, youth, and marginalized groups in WCIS production and dissemination. …”
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Stochastic modelling of burden of livestock diseases on domestic ruminants in Ethiopia by Jemberu, Wudu T., Chaters, G., Knight-Jones, Theodore J.D., Gilbert, W., Kwok, S., Bruce, M., Huntington, B., Rushton, J.

“…A stochastic dynamic population model (DPM) was employed to calculate the gross margin for an average farm and for the national herd under these current and ideal health scenarios. …”
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Empowerment unveiled: Gender dynamics and the impact of nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions among ethnic minority groups in northern Vietnam by Nguyen Thi, Lan Thuy, van den Berg, Marrit, Stomph, TjeerdJan, Nabuuma, Deborah, Kramer, Berber

“…Gender equality and women's empowerment are key global agendas, yet women often face marginalization compared to men. Nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions (NSAs) often aim to benefit women but their impacts on women's empowerment remain unclear. …”
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Using farmer decision-making profiles and managerial capacity as predictors of farm management and performance in Costa Rican dairy farms by Solano, C., León, H., Pérez, E., Tole, L., Fawcett, R.H., Herrero, Mario

“…Performance indicators include: milk yield per cow per day, milk yield per hectare per year, margin per cow per day, margin per ha per year, rate of return on working capital, and an efficiency parameter derived from a stochastic frontier production model. …”
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Forest and floods: Moving to an evidence-based approach to watershed and integrated flood management by Calder, I.R.C., Aylward, B.

“…It is believed that this disparity may have resulted not only in the wastage of development funds (possibly to the extent of tens of billions of dollars per year) on unachievable targets, but also in the unwarranted blame of upland communities whose practices have generally had only marginal impacts on downstream flooding. It is recognized that the interaction of floods and society is a highly complex subject. …”
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Comparison of local government’s policies on Kutai and Dayak Benuaq villages in Kutai Barat, Indonesia: factors influencing village life and household well-being since decentraliza... by Bullinger, C.

“…The author found that the Kutai, who were the former ethnic elite in Kutai district, are currently experiencing a marginalization. However, this marginalization is more due to its remote location, economic opportunities and the declining quality of natural resources than to ethnical aspects.…”
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Gender equity in Senegal’s forest governance history: Why policy and representation matter by Bandiaky-Badji, S.

“…As long as forest and land policies remain ungendered and do not have a rights-based approach, women will always be legally and socially marginalized from decision making and benefits from forest and land resources. …”
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Epidemiology of East Coast fever (Theileria parva infection) in Kenya: Past, present and the future by Gachohi, John M., Skilton, Robert A., Hansen, F., Ngumi, P.N., Kitala, P.M.

“…In all production systems (except marginal areas), economic analyses demonstrate that integrated control in which ECF immunization is always an important component, can play an important role in the overall control of the disease. …”
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Livestock sustaining intensive smallholder crop production through traditional feeding practices for generating high quality manure-compost in upland Java by Tanner, J.C., Holden, S.J., Owen, E., Winugroho, M., Gill, M.

“…It is unlikely that farmers justify their excess-feeding strategies on the basis of these marginal gains in animal productivity alone. The rationale for excess-feeding also lies in the production of manure-composts. …”
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Market institutions and transaction costs influencing trader performance in live animal marketing in rural Ethiopian markets by Jabbar, M.A., Benin, Samuel, Gabre-Madhin, E.Z., Paulos, Z.

“…Multiple regression analysis showed that traders' financial and human capital and trading practices such as use of brokers and regular suppliers and customers had varying effects on margins and costs of cattle and small ruminant trade. …”
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Adapting to climate change by improving water productivity of soils in dry areas by Qadir, Manzoor, Noble, A.D., Chartres, Colin J.

“…Furthermore, under most circumstances, these interventions were economically viable, revealing that the efficient use of marginal-quality water and soil resources has the potential to improve livelihoods amid growing populations in dry areas while reversing the natural resource degradation trend. …”
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Combining mineral fertilizer and green manure for increased, profitable cassava production by Pypers, Pieter, Bimponda, W, Lodi-lama, J-P., Lele, B, Mulumba, R, Kachaka, C, Boeckx, P., Merckx, Roel, Vanlauwe, Bernard

“…Net benefits were increased by 30 to 50% with a benefit cost ratio of $5 to $7 $?1 and a marginal rate of return of $4 to $5 $?1 relative to slash-and-burn. …”
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Determinants and role of farmers’ seed and seedling multiplication in the SNNP Region seed system by Walelign, G.

“…In order to analyze the contribution of involvement in seed/seedling multiplication and evaluate the performance of seed market in the region gross margin analysis and Gross Marketing Margin analysis were employed besides qualitative description of the situation.…”
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Empowerment through technology uptake: gender dimensions in social capital build-up by Bantilan, Cynthia, Ravula, Padmaja

“…Reference to the Umra case study illustrated in the paper presents the process of empowerment whereby the marginalized group including women gained better access to resources, information, knowledge and some opportunities for political participation. …”
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Economic analysis of smallholder agricultural production under conditions of risk: case of Vihiga and Kilifi district in Kenya. by Kuyiah, J.W.

“…Coefficients of variation of yields, price and gross margins of the various enterprises are estimated to give an indication of the risks associated with the production of these enterprises. …”
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Economic perspectives of the diversity of risks among crop farmers in the Northern Guinea Savanna of Nigeria by Olarinde, L.O., Akintola, J.O., Manyong, Victor M.

“…We also show that through reorganization of these risks, some derived factors have the ability to present themselves whether as corresponding to existing categorization of the variables or not and also to enable us know which of the factors is more important than the other. Gross margin and factor analytical methods were used in computing the estimated results on a cross sectional sample of 348 farming households. …”
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Tropical forest-transition landscapes: a portfolio for studying people, tree crops and agro-ecological change in context by Dewi, Sonya, Noordwijk, Meine van, Zulkarnain, Muhammad Thoha, Dwiputra, Adrian, Hyman, Glenn G., Prabhu, Ravi, Gitz, Vincent, Nasi, Robert

“…The ASB Partnership for Tropical Forest Margins portfolio was focussed on active humid forest margins and the Poverty and Environment Network on early stages of forest transition. …”
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Market institutions and transaction costs influencing trader performance in live animal marketing in rural Ethiopian markets by Jabbar, M.A., Benin, Samuel, Gabre-Madhin, E.Z., Paulos, Z.

“…Multiple regression analysis showed that traders' financial and human capital and trading practices such as use of brokers and regular suppliers and customers had varying effects on margins and costs of cattle and small ruminant trade. …”
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Analysis of technical efficiency among community-based seed producers in the savannas of Borno State, Nigeria by Amaza, P.S., Udoh, E.J., Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Kamara, A.Y.

“…Based on the results of gross margin analysis, the observed profit margins across the seed types conclusively revealed that every one naira spent in cultivating the seeds, some levels of financial benefits were derived as indicated by the output/input indices. …”
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