Resultados de búsqueda - "marginalism"

Forest tenure reform: exclusion of tribal women’s rights in semi-arid Rajasthan, India por Bose, P.

“…The current trend in forest tenure reform promotes identity-based categories, such as indigenous people, on the assumption that this provides better access to forest resources for marginalized groups. India’s historic Forest Rights Act of 2006 recognizes the traditional rights of the scheduled tribes and other forest-dependent people dwelling in and around forestlands. …”
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Characterization of the parasite-host cell interactions involved in Theileria parva sporozoite invasion of bovine lymphocytes por Shaw, M.K.

“…Modification of the lymphocytes surface with NEM and DDT had only marginal effects on sporozoite binding but blocked parasite internalization. …”
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Modeling the impact of technological change on nutrition and marketed surplus por Ahmed, M.M., Preckel, P., Baker, T.G., López Pereira, M.A.

“…The expected direct utility maximization model allows the estimation of the effects of new technology on consumption and marketed surplus in situations where marginal values of products vary by state of nature and are affected by consumption and production choices. …”
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Structure-Conduct-Performance of Cotton Market: The Case of Metema District, Ethiopia por Bosena, T., Bekabil, F., Gebremedhin, Berhanu, Hoekstra, Dirk

“…The performance of cotton market chain analyzed using Marketing Margins supplemented with analysis of costs incurred and gross profits generated for different market chain actors, showed poor performance of the chain. …”
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Resolving the Gender Empowerment Equation in agricultural research: A systems approach por Tegbaru, A., FitzSimons, J., Kirscht, H., Hillbur, P.

“…The aim of this paper was to bridge the socio-technical divide in agricultural systems research by providing an approach that addresses marginalized groups, particularly rural women, and their access to and ownership of agricultural intensification processes. …”
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Cultivating the desert: irrigation expansion and groundwater abstraction in northern state, Sudan por Fragaszy, S., Closas, Alvar

“…The study finds these historically marginal lands are targeted for capital-intensive agricultural projects because landholding patterns in traditionally cultivated areas preclude new large developments and improved infrastructure has lowered farming costs in distant terraces. …”
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Poverty squares and gender circles: unravelling agriculture gaps, challenges and opportunities in the Eastern Gangetic Plains por CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems

“…The other is World Bank funded Accelerated Development of Minor Irrigation (ADMI), which aims to increase agricultural incomes of small / marginal farmers through improved access to irrigation water. …”
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Relative severity of aflatoxin contamination of cereal crops in West Africa por Bandyopadhyay, Ranajit, Kumar, M., Leslie, J.

“…Development programs and other ventures to increase maize production in marginal cropping areas of Africa should be reconsidered and, instead, efforts to improve/maintain traditional crops encouraged.…”
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Decomposing producer price risk: a policy analysis tool with an application to northern Kenyan livestock markets por Barrett, Christopher B., Luseno, W.K.

“…This paper introduces a simple method of price risk decomposition that determines the extent to which producer price risk is attributable to volatile inter-market margins, intra-day variation, intra-week (day of week) variation, or terminal market price variability. …”
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The potential for reduced consumption of high- emission energy in Kenya’s dairy sector por Wilkes, Andreas, Dijk, Suzanne van, Odhong’, Charles

“…This is driven by a squeeze on profit margins due to falling international milk prices and high domestic production costs, and energy efficiency requirements of newly enforced regulations on large energy consuming facilities. …”
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A cost-benefit analysis of farmer based seed production for common bean in Kenya por Katungi, Enid M., Karanja, D., Wozemba, D., Mutuoki, T., Rubyogo, Jean-Claude

“…Compared to certified common bean seed production, net profit margins were five times higher for certified common bean seed than for farmer based common bean seed production. …”
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Selection criteria of Musa cultivars as determined through a farmer participatory appraisal survey in Uganda por Gold, Cliford S., Kiggundu, A., Abera, A.M.K., Karamura, D.

“…Principal component analysis revealed that, nationally, stand longevity and tolerance of marginal soils were the most important criteria, probably because the larger part of overall production is for subsistence.…”
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Clave con fichas perforadas de las familias de los árboles mexicanos por Little Jr, E.L.

“…Using hand sorted punched cards with holes or perforations on the margins, readers can construct their own key. The holes are numbered, the name of a family written on the center of a card, and notches are cut through all the cards in the hole numbered for a particular character. …”
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Möjligheter att med bär- och svampplockning skapa arbete för lågutbildade på Sveriges landsbygd por Andersson, Jonathan

“…The result of this was a margin per employee, varying from -2655 SEK/month to +3677 SEK/month depending on the base salary of the employee and the berry mushroom picking mix.…”

Revised Summary Report on Developing CGIAR System Priorities for Research (including an appendix describing draft system priorities) por CGIAR Science Council

“…The priority areas for research respond to the continuing challenge of maintaining sustainable food production systems, and the new agricultural paradigms encouraging competitiveness, and addressing the situation of the poor in marginal lands. The Science Council considers that the reviews undertaken of the current emphases in CGIAR research, the establishment of the future context and the widely participatory process followed for establishing potential new areas for research, provide the basis for the next steps - the establishment of overall CGIAR System Priorities for the period to 2010.The Summary Report further defines the subsequent activities to be undertaken, and a proposed schedule, through which new CGIAR System Priorities for research may be developed. …”
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1981 CGIAR Integrative Report por CGIAR Secretariat

“…The subjects covered are: biological nitrogen fixation involving micro-organisms; beneficial root fungi known as mycorrhiza; tissue culture and genetic engineering; and the scientific problems of improving production on marginal lands. The discussion of financial needs for 1982 was heavily influenced by the steps being taken to deal with expected shortfall of $7 million below approved budgets for 1981. …”
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Mainstreaming NUS for nutrition sensitive agriculture: a holistic approach por Padulosi, Stefano, Meldrum, Gennifer, Mathur, Shantanu, Hunter, Danny

“…This chapter presents the key elements of this framework and offers reflections on its implementation following Bioversity International’s innovative holistic value-chain approach, which, through interdisciplinary, bottom-up and gender-sensitive interventions, aims at strengthening the resilience of livelihoods as a whole, with special attention given to women, youth, Indigenous Peoples and other marginalized members of society. Actions meant to increase the use of NUS to strengthen the resilience of communities in the face of the recent COVID-19 pandemic are also proposed.…”
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COVID-19 and global food security: Two years later por McDermott, John J., Swinnen, Johan

“…The impacts of the pandemic are likely to endure for years to come, with poor, marginalized, and vulnerable groups the most affected. …”
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Accelerating agricultural growth and poverty alleviation through public expenditure and subsidy: The experience of India por Bathla, Seema, Yu, Bingxin, Thorat, Sukhadeo, Joshi, Pramod Kumar

“…Results obtained from 1981 to 2011 based on a structural econometric model are differentiated with their estimated coefficients to find relative total and marginal effects of investments and subsidies on farm income and rural poverty. …”
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MoreMilkIT - Food Demand and Individual Dietary Diversity and Women's Empowerment in Livestock Index (WELI) in Tanzania por Omore, Amos, Baltenweck, Isabelle, Salas, Paula, Galiè, Alessandra, girard webb, Amy, Barasa, Violet, Githinji, Julius, Kariuki, Eunice

“…The project is primarily targeted at pre-commercial marginalized smallholder cattle-keeping men and women who do not currently participate fully in dairy value chains. …”
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