Resultados de búsqueda - "marginalism"

Avoiding the road to nowhere: insights on scaling up and sustaining digital health por LeFevre, Amnesty, Chamberlain, Sara, Singh, Neha S., Scott, Kerry, Menon, Purnima, Barron, Peter, Ved, Rajani, George, Asha

“…Given the investments being made in digital health solutions and the urgent concurrent needs to strengthen health systems to ensure their responsiveness to marginalized populations in LMICs, we cannot afford to go down roads that ‘lead to nowhere’. …”
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A scoping review of the contributions of farmers’ organizations to smallholder agriculture por Bizikova, Livia, Nkonya, Ephraim M., Minah, Margitta, Hanisch, Markus, Turaga, Rama Mohana Rao

“…Finally, farmers who are already marginalized because of poor education, land access, social status and market accessibility may require additional support systems to improve their capacities, skills and resources before they are able to benefit from FO membership.…”
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Rural labor and long recall loss por Ambler, Kate, Herskowitz, Sylvan, Maredia, Mywish K.

“…We document large losses from the longer recall window, particularly on the extensive margin of labor supply with reductions of over 20%. …”
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Smart Subsidies for Catchment Conservation in Malawi por New York University, International Food Policy Research Institute, Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources

“…In sum, these data include detailed assessments of farm and household characteristics; detailed crop-level measurements of inputs and production for all plots (baseline and endline surveys) or the main plot (intervention registrations; summaries at plot-level for all other plots); assessments of access to services, coupons, and markets; an economic experiment designed to assess marginal willingness-to-accept a conservation agriculture (CA) incentive (baseline), and the perceived risks associated with CA (year 2 intervention and endline).…”
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Groundnut export tax in Senegal: Winners and losers por Fofana, Ismaël, Badiane, Ousmane, Camara, Alhassane, Goundan, Anatole

“…Groundnuts are the most common cash crop and the main source of income for farmers in Senegal. Previously marginal, groundnut exports surged between 2011 and 2013. …”
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Growth and poverty reduction in Pakistan por Saeed, Wajiha, Davies, Stephen

“…Yet, the labor force is still employed in agriculture, as its share in total employment has only seen a marginal decline, from 43.1% in 2003-04 to 42.3%.…”
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Food System Governance in the Cambodian Mekong Delta: Food Production, Food Security, Migration, and Indebtedness por Sithirith, Mak, Sok, Sao, de Silva, Sanjiv, Kong, Heng

“…These challenges are attributed to increased production costs with minimal profit margins, indebtedness, migration, land grabs, water conflicts, and lack of institutional integration in food systems, compounded by the effects of climate change and environmental degradation. …”
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Modeling steady state irrigated production: An empiracal application involving a two-crop rotation system and two state variables por Howitt, Rachel, MacEwan, Duncan, Msangi, Siwa

“…In this paper we evaluate the intensive, extensive, and dynamic margin response to sustainable agricultural practices. …”
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Can modern input use be promoted without subsidies?: An analysis of fertilizer in Ethiopia por Rashid, Shahidur, Tefera, Nigussie, Minot, Nicholas, Ayele, Gezahegn

“…This article presents estimates of detail costs and margins in the value chain, econometrically derived profitability and yield responses, as well as costs of the government's fertilizer promotion policies. …”
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The macroeconomic impacts of Chinese currency appreciation on China and the rest of world: A global computable general equilibrium analysis por Yang, Jun, Zhang, Wei, Tokgoz, Simla

“…Chinese currency appreciation has a positive impact on the GDP of the major countries and regions, but by a small margin. With a higher Chinese exchange rate, trade balances for other trading partner countries, with the exception of the United States, improve.…”
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Conclusions [In The political economy of agricultural policy reform in India] por Birner, Regina, Gupta, Surupa, Sharma, Neeru

“…The government has also been unable to target the subsidies more narrowly at small and marginal farmers because of opposition from owners of medium-sized and large farms and logistical problems perceived to be associated with the change. …”
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The Fakara: a semi-arid agro-ecosystem under stress por Hiernaux, Pierre H.Y., Ayantunde, Augustine A.

“…Besides the participation of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in the planning workshops and discussions that led to the writing up of the Desert Margins Program proposal, ILRI contribution to the first phase of the DMP-GEF program from July 2002 to June 2004 was centered on the development of methodologies to assess the natural resources of a Sahelian agro-ecosystem under stress, diagnosis of the status and trends of the productivity and the bio-diversity of the agro-ecosystem and performing preliminary tests of alternative management (DMP,2002). …”
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Gender and breeding in tropical forages: A literature review por Pazos Cardenas, Mateo, Triana Ángel, Natalia, Burkart, Stefan

“…However, sociocultural differences in women’s activities related to livestock and forage systems and useful methodologies to identify relevant traits for them and other marginalized groups are yet to be deepened. These findings are important to prioritize further research on breeding, market dynamics and gender sensitive studies.…”
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A systematic landscape between gender and floating agriculture in Bangladesh por Sarker, Mou Rani, Sarkar, Md. Abdur Rouf, Bhandari, Humnath

“…Our field insights further revealed that both internalized the restrictive norms of the "Man Box” ideology, reinforced the marginalization of women and limiting their participation in traditionally male-dominated spaces. …”
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Seed provision and dryland crops in the semiarid regions of Eastern Kenya por Nagarajan, Latha, Audi, Patrick, Jones, Richard, Smale, Melinda

“…We have also underscored the importance of local markets and their actors in meeting the needs for non-maize and bean seeds in these marginal environments. For this purpose, detailed, informal interviews were conducted during October–December 2005 with all the stakeholders, namely public and private institutions and vendors in eight major local markets in eastern Kenya. …”
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A hedonic approach to estimating the supply of variety attributes of a subsistence crop por Edmeades, Svetlana

“…Within the framework of the agricultural household, where consumption and production decisions are non-separable, prices reflect the implicit marginal valuation of both consumption and production attributes jointly. …”
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Marketing underutilized plant species for the benefit of the poor: a conceptual framework por Gruère, Guillaume P., Giuliani, Alessandra, Smale, Melinda

“…Modern crop production is based on only a few plant species. Particularly in marginal environments of developing agricultural economies, many less well-known agricultural or non-timber forest species, continue to be grown, managed or collected, thus contributing to the livelihood of the poor and to agricultural biodiversity. …”
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A sluggish demand could be as potent as technological progress in creating surplus in staple production: the case of Bangladesh por Ahmed, Raisuddin

“…This decline in the rice price, on the face of a stagnant supply and increasing incomes, aroused suspicion whether income distribution has twisted against the poor who have a higher marginal propensity to consume rice compared to the rich. …”
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A 1995 social accounting matrix for Zambia por Hausner, Ulrich

“…Special features of the Zambian micro SAM include its focus on agriculture (13 agricultural commodities), the consideration of non-monetary, own-household consumption, and the separation of marketing margins on domestic products, exports, and imports.…”
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The role of home gardens in promoting multi-functional agriculture in Hungary por Birol, Ekin, Bela, György, Smale, Melinda

“…The most economically, geographically and ecologically marginalized farmers not only manage the home gardens with the highest levels of public goods, but also derive the highest private benefits from them. …”
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