Resultados de búsqueda - "public goods"

Ethnic diversity and forest commons por Barba, Francisco M., Jaimovich, Dany

“…The literature suggests that communities with heterogeneous members, particularly from different ethnic groups, are less effective in commons management and public goods provision. In this paper, we empirically test if forest degradation differs within and between ethnically diverse communities. …”
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Distributional impacts of the rice tariffication in the Philippines por Balié, Jean, Minot, Nicholas, Valera, Harold Glenn

“…The government should seek to mitigate the negative effects on non-competitive rice growers. Investments in public goods and services are a promising option to ease the emergence of on-farm and off-farm businesses as more profitable alternatives to rice production.…”
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Food policy indicators: Tracking change por International Food Policy Research Institute, Beintema, Nienke M., Babu, Suresh Chandra, Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, Wiebe, Keith D., Cenacchi, Nicola, Masias, Ian, Smart, Jenny, Diao, Xinshen

“…The International Food Policy Research Institute develops and shares global public goods—including datasets, indicators, and indexes—as part of its mission to provide research-based policy solutions that sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition. …”
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Enhanced Access to the CGIAR Virtual Library via Social Media por Ferreyra, Cecilia, Ramos, Mila, Álvare, Luz Marina

“…Instant access is enabled to researches on agriculture, hunger, poverty, and the environment, especially the full text global public goods generated by the various centers in the CGIAR. …”
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A new institutional economic analysis of the state and a newi nstitutional economic analysis of the state and agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa por Kydd, Jonathan G.

“…Economists (both orthodox and those who pursue New Institutional Economics [NIE]) find that the concepts of public goods, market failure, merit goods, and redistribution (Box 20.1) provide useful guidance in this debate, as they focus attention on needs that would not be met adequately, if at all, were provision left solely to the market.…”
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Rewarding the social benefits of small-scale farming por Abate, Gashaw T., Baye, Kaleab, Bernard, Tanguy, Chamberlin, Jordan, Hill, Ruth Vargas, Moussadek, Rachid, Senghor, Lamine

“…By explicitly connecting adoption incentives with verification and market constraints, the framework guides research and policy toward more effective strategies to reward smallholders for their contributions to public goods and sustainable development.…”
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Towards sustainable community management of water infrastructures: results from experimental games in coastal Bangladesh [Abstract only] por Buisson, Marie-Charlotte, Das, Arijit, Mukherji, Aditi

“…The purpose of this paper is therefore to understand the factors that determine contribution to maintenance funds by community members. For this, a public goods game was played with community participants at several locations in Coastal Bangladesh. …”
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CPWF Annual Report 2006 por CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food

“…The CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) is a multi-institutional research for development program that seeks to create and disseminate international public goods to improve the productivity of water in river basins in ways that are pro-poor, gender equitable and environmentally sustainable. …”
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Modelling agroforestry systems por Rapidel, Bruno, Roupsard, Olivier, Navarro, Muriel

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Payment for Ecosystem Services: The roles of positive and information sharing in stimulating adoption of silvopastoral conservation practices por Garbach, Kelly, Lubell, Mark, DeClerck, Fabrice A. J.

“…PES payments alone had the most detectable, positive influence on the adoption of only one type of practice, multistrata live fences, which primarily provides public goods such as biodiversity habitat and carbon sequestration, but are perceived by many farmers to reduce rangeland productivity. …”
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Payment for Ecosystem Services: The roles of positive incentives and information sharing in stimulating adoption of silvopastoral conservation practices por Garbach, Kelly, Lubella, Mark, DeClerck, Fabrice A. J.

“…PES payments alone had the most detectable, positive influence on the adoption of only one type of practice, multistrata live fences, which primarily provides public goods such as biodiversity habitat and carbon sequestration, but are perceived by many farmers to reduce rangeland productivity. …”
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A Food Secure World for All: Toward a New Vision and Strategy for the CGIAR por CGIAR Technical Advisory Committee

“…These are contribution to CGIAR goals, international public goods, alternative sources of supply, and probability of success.Strategic choices are considered under the headings of germplasm collection and biodiversity, germplasm improvement, sustainable production systems, policy research, and enhancing institutions.…”
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Building resilience through climate risk insurance: Insights from agricultural research for development por Kramer, Berber, Hellin, Jonathan, Hansen, James, Rose, Alison, Braun, Mélody

“…These outputs are made available to the insurance industry as public goods in order to overcome challenges around, among others, data availability, targeting and design of insurance, distribution channels and use of technology, bundling with risk-reducing technologies and practices, enabling environments and smart subsidies, and capturing the full value chain.…”
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CGIAR genebank viability data reveal inconsistencies in seed collection management por Hay, Fiona R., Whitehouse, Katherine J., Ellis, Richard H., Sackville-Hamilton, N. Ruaraidh, Lusty, Charlotte E., Ndjiondjop, Marie Noelle, Tia, Daniel, Wenzl, Peter, Santos, Luís Guillermo, Yazbek, Mariana, Azevedo, Vania C.R., Peerzada, Ovais H., Abberton, Michael T., Oyatomi, Olaniyi, Guzman, Flora de, Capilit, Grace, Muchugi, Alice, Kinyanjui, Zakayo

“…The CGIAR collections include >700,000 seed accessions, held in trust as global public goods. However, the role of genebanks in contributing to global food security can only be realized if collections are effectively managed. …”
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Wheat farmers in Sudan record increased yields after adoption of proven technologies: TAAT news Vol. 1 por Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation

“…The development objective of TAAT is to rapidly expand access of smallholder farmers, majority women, to high-yielding agricultural technologies to improve their food production, assure food security and raise rural incomes, and deliver regional public goods by scaling up agricultural technologies across similar agro-ecological zones. …”
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Synopsis: Agricultural Mechanization in Rwanda por Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Benimana, Gilberthe Uwera, Spielman, David J., Warner, James

“…The findings from Rwanda’s latest agricultural surveys, review of recent experiences in countries with rugged terrain and smallholder farming systems similar to Rwanda and reviewing mechanization support strategies from other countries suggest that identifying mechanization technologies suitable for different types of farms, promoting greater private-sector innovations while focusing on the relevant public goods aspect of mechanization is the most promising way forward. …”
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Distributional impact of the rice tariffication policy in the Philippines por Balié, Jean, Minot, Nicholas, Valera, Harold Glenn

“…The government should seek to mitigate the negative effects on non-competitive rice growers. Investments in public goods and services are a promising option to ease the emergence of on-farm and off-farm businesses as more profitable alternatives to rice production.…”
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Understanding the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s agricultural paradox: Based on the eAtlas data platform por Marivoet, Wim, Ulimwengu, John M., El Vilaly, Mohamed Abd Salam

“…Nevertheless, few studies have looked at the country’s spatial heterogeneity in terms of economic activity, public goods, or the livelihood strategies of smallholder farmers. …”
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Cooperation in polygynous households por Barr, Abigail, Dekker, Marleen, Janssens, Wendy, Kebede, Bereket, Kramer, Berber

“…Using a carefully designed series of two-person public goods games, we conduct a quantitative, ceteris paribus comparison of willingness to cooperate to maximize household gains across the two household types. …”
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Cross-sectoral coordination failure: How significant a constraint in national efforts to tackle malnutrition in Africa? por Benson, Todd

“…Consequently, oversight and direction are said to be required to ensure that public goods and services needed to reduce malnutrition are delivered by the sectors responsible in a coordinated fashion. …”
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