Resultados de búsqueda - "marginalism"

Friluftsliv i staden por Andersson, Beatrice

“…To become involved in the cityscape the margins need to be inviting, changeable and suggest encouraging activities. …”
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Improving community livelihoods by recovering and developing their traditional crops por Baena, M., Galluzzi, G., Padulosi, S.

“…When crops that could contribute to better food, health and income are abandoned by communities, marginalized by mainstream agriculture, ignored by research and absent from consumers’ diets, the entire world loses. …”
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La noix de coco - Dossier du mois por Gerbaud, P., Audibert, O., Bourdeix, Roland

“…Sales of fresh coconuts are marginal but growing on the European markets. They have a strongly exotic image but are difficult to use, reducing retail sales. …”
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Marketing Thailand's potatoes: Present patterns and future prospects. por Scott, G. J.

“…Additional findings such as high retail marketing margins are likely to be thought provoking for other Southeast Asian countries as well. …”
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Synthesis of community-based watershed rehabilitation and management activities in Jordan and Afghanistan – towards out-scaling por Strohmeier, S.

“…The agropastoral Rehabilitation approach conducted in Jordan has considerable potential for out-scaling and is under evaluation through an ongoing WLE initiative targeting the marginal drylands in south-eastern Ethiopia. Pursuing an ex-ante out-scaling approach (through modeling) builds on well-selected socioecological criteria and limitations and considers the experiences and lessons learned from previous project activities.…”
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Evaluating Returns to Agricultural Research: A Review por Norton, George W., Davis, J. S.

“…Ex post studies fall into two major groups: (a) consumer and producer surplus analyses, estimating average rates of return to research, and (b) production function analyses, estimating marginal rates of return to research. Ex ante studies fall into four groups: (a) those using scoring models to rank research activities, (b) those employing benefit‐cost analysis to establish rates of return to research, (c) those using simulation models, and (d) those using mathematical programming to select an optimal mix of research activities.…”
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India's policy pathways por International Water Management Institute

“…Episode two of Policy Pathways explores how Indian development policy can be adapted to mitigate the impacts of climate change and support marginalized communities. Join host Chhavi Sachdev as she interviews the CGIAR's National Policies and Strategies (NPS) lead report author for India Archisman Mitra, Nitin Bassi Senior Program lead at the Council on Energy Environment and Water, and Parijat Ghosh, Research and Advocacy Team Coordinator at Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN). …”
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Liberalise trade in machines por Ajmani, Manmeet Singh, Roy, Devesh, Takeshima, Hiroyuki

“…Power tillers, also known as two-wheel tractors (2WTs) are tailor-made for the farming landscape in India, dominated by small and marginal farmers. This move is symptomatic of heterodox opening policies, being open on the export side while being closed on the import side. …”
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Pastoral resilience: Navigating complexity and managing risks in drylands por Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action

“…Misunderstandings about drylands and pastoralism lead to policies that marginalize these communities, limiting their growth and resilience. …”
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The impact of PROGRESA on consumption: final report por Hoddinott, John F., Skoufias, Emmanuel, Washburn, Ryan

“…The second is the need to understand behavioral parameters, in particular households’ marginal propensity to purchase calories out of additional income.…”
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Reforming land rights in Africa por Ngaido, Tidiane

“…Advocates of reforms in land rights and land markets frequently posit two important hypotheses: (1) African countries must grant land titles to farmers because titles increase land tenure security and facilitate access to input, land, and financial markets; and (2) land markets constitute the most efficient mechanism for allocating resources and improving access to productive resources by the poor, especially women and other marginalized groups... Research must focus on understanding the dynamics of land values in the different markets for land rights and devise ways to improve the marketability of customary rights through simple processes that also increase the demand for agricultural land and effectively contribute to the reform of land rights. -- from Text…”
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Valuing Pre-Commercial Genetic Resources: A Maximum Entropy Approach por Zohrabian, Armineh, Traxler, Gregory, Caudill, Steven, Smale, Melinda

“…This study estimates the marginal value of poorly characterized materials contained in the U.S. national germplasm system. …”
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Estimating crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture: a generalized maximum entropy approach por Zhang, Xiaobo, Fan, Shenggen

“…Despite a modest behavior assumption about equal marginal returns of non-land inputs among crops, this method does not require price information, which is usually distorted in a centrally planned economy such as China. …”
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Center-Commissioned External Review (CCER) Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division (PHND) por Glewwe, Paul, Levine, Ruth

“…While there is scope for improvement and enhancement at the margins, and value in working toward a situation in which more unrestricted resources are available to pursue important research topics, overall the review found that the division is healthy, well managed, and likely to prosper and to continue to make important contributions to research on development in the years to come.…”
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Poverty effects of the Philippines' tariff reduction program: Insights from a computable general equilibrium analysis por Cockburn, John, Corong, Erwin, Cororaton, Caesar B.

“…The national poverty headcount decreases marginally as lower consumer prices outweigh the nominal income reduction experienced by the majority of households. …”
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Empowering Women and Enhancing Climate Resilience Through Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles por CGIAR Initiative on Gender Equality

“…The "EMPOWER" work package of the CGIAR Gender Equality Initiative is implementing socio-technical innovation bundles (STIBs) to tackle the challenges of climate change and food and nutrition insecurity for marginalized women farmers in different parts of India, Kenya, and Ethiopia. …”
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Guiding the sustainable management of rice landscapes in the uplands por Pandey, S.

“…Increasingly population pressure has forced many farmers onto marginal agricultural land, particularly steep sloping land where land use practices are contributing to soil erosion and water losses. …”
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Policy and technology for rice productivity growth in Asia por Rosegrant, Mark W., Pingali, Prabhu L.

“…In the past decade, declining rice prices, a slowdown in research expenditures and output growth, reduced irrigation investment and degradation of irrigated land, declining marginal returns to input use, and a stagnant technological yield frontier caused declining growth in rice yields per hectare in much of Asia. …”
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Beyond “reach” – advancing responsible pathways to impact at scale por Ewell, Hanna

“…Thus, responsible scaling ensures that marginalized groups, especially women, are not only recipients of innovation but also active decision-makers in shaping their agricultural future. …”
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A gender analysis of forest products markets in Cameroon por Ruíz Pérez, M., Ndoye, O., Eyebe, A., Ngono, D.L.

“…At the same time, there are no consistent difference in profit margins between genders, indicating that trading efficiency is similar, and that, given the right conditions, women entrepreneurs can be as successful as men. …”
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