Resultados de búsqueda - "public goods"

Trade-off analysis of agri-food systems for sustainable research and development por Antle, John M., Valdivia, Roberto O.

“…We motivate TOA with a prototype framework for the design and evaluation of public-good agricultural research for sustainable development. …”
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Argentine agricultural policy: economic analysis and impact assessment using the producer support estimate (PSE) approach por Lema, Rolando Daniel, Gallacher, Marcos

“…Support flowing from the public sector to producers in the form of RD, infrastructure and other "public good" type of inputs totalize some 500 million annually.…”
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Unintended Effects of Targeting an Environmental Rebate por Alpízar, Francisco, Nordén, Anna, Pfaff, Alexander, Robalino, Juan

“…When designing schemes such as conditional cash transfers or payments for ecosystem services, the choice of whom to select and whom to exclude is critical.We incentivize and measure actual contributions to an environmental public good to ascertain whether being excluded from a rebate can affect contributions and, if so, whether the rationale for exclusion influences such effects. …”
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Assessing the potential cost of a failed Doha Round por Bouët, Antoine, Laborde Debucquet, David

“…The current trend of multilateral trade liberalization may not survive this failure, and the global public good provided by the WTO that helps to free trade in a stable and less-distorted environment may vanish. …”
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Investigating economywide and household-level impacts of sector-specific shocks in a poor country: The case of avian flu in Ethiopia por Ayele, Gezahegn, Birol, Ekin, Diao, Xinshen, Asare-Marfo, Dorene, Roy, Devesh, Thomas, Marcelle

“…In other words, resource allocation must be justified as a global public good.…”
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Implicit prices of indigenous cattle traits in central Ethiopia: Application of revealed and stated preference approaches por Kassie, Girma T., Abdulai, A., Wollny, C.B.A., Ayalew, W., Dessie, Tadelle, Tibbo, Markos, Haile, Aynalem, Okeyo Mwai, Ally

“…The diversity of animal genetic resources has a quasi-public good nature that makes market prices inadequate indicator of its economic worth. …”
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Forests in post-conflict Democratic Republic of Congo: analysis of a priority agenda por Debroux, L., Hart, T., Kaimowitz, D., Karsenty, A., Topa, G.

“…It emphasises the nature of forests as a public good; and the importance of the rule of law, transparency and public participation in managing natural resources. …”
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La foret en Republique Democratique du Congo post-conflict: analyse d'un agenda prioritaire por Debroux, L., Hart, T., Kaimowitz, D., Karsenty, A., Topa, G.

“…It emphasises the nature of forests as a public good; and the importance of the rule of law, transparency and public participation in managing natural resources. …”
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Economic benefit of crop pollination by bees: a case of Kakamega small-holder farming in western Kenya por Kasina, J.M., Mburu, J., Kraemer, M., Holm-Mueller, K.

“…One of the reasons of not managing pollination is the lack of understanding of its economic value. The “public-good” nature of pollination in these systems also discourages individual initiatives intended to conserve pollinators. …”
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The paradox of irrigation efficiency por Grafton, R. Quentin, Williams, J., Perry, C.J., Molle, Francois, Ringler, Claudia, Steduto, P., Udall, B., Wheeler, S.A., Wang, Y., Garrick, D., Allen, R.G.

“…Yet substantial scientific evidence (2) has long shown that increased IE rarely delivers the presumed public-good benefits of increased water availability. …”
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Research Ethics and the CGIAR por CGIAR Science Council, Adair, Linda S., Dias, Clarence, Sandoe, Peter

“…Important issues are concerned with ensuring that research results remain a public good and how to deal with intellectual property (IP) issues. …”
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Agricultural innovation in Latin America: understanding the private sector's role por Pomareda, Carlos, Hartwich, Frank

“…For many years, governments and donors have promoted the generation of knowledge and technological innovations that improve farming and plant genetic resources in developing countries. Because of the “public good” nature of agricultural research for developing countries, it was assumed that the private sector would not invest sufficiently in producing knowledge and technologies that contribute to rural development and poverty alleviation there. …”
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Try before you buy: experimental evidence on willingness to pay for tailored agricultural advice in Nigeria por Oyakhilomen Oyinbo, Chamberlin, Jordan, Maertens, Miet

“…In settings like ours, where there is limited viability of business models for DST-mediated advice that rely on full cost recovery from farmers, continued public support-through subsidized subscription fees and public investment in upscaling DSTs may be required, consistent with the public good nature of traditional agricultural extension.…”
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Principles for socially inclusive digital tools for smallholder farmers: A guide por Dittmer, Kyle M., Burns, Sessie A., Shelton, Sadie W., Wollenberg, Eva Karoline

“…Yet the top-down and often public good or corporate-driven nature of digital tools can be at odds with the ethos of farmers’ self-determination and empowerment, especially for smallholder farmers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). …”
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An evolving paradigm of agricultural mechanization development: How much can Africa learn from Asia? por Diao, Xinshen, Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Zhang, Xiaobo

“…The authors explore crucial government roles in boosting and supporting mechanization, from import policies to promotion policies to public good policies. Potential approaches presented to facilitating mechanization in Africa include prioritizing market-led hiring services, eliminating distortions, and developing appropriate technologies for the African context. …”
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Foodborne disease in Kenya: County-level cost estimates and the case for greater public investment por Hoffmann, Vivian, Baral, Siddhartha

“…Through their jurisdiction over matters of agriculture – specifically crop and animal husbandry, abattoirs, and veterinary services – and health, including the licensing and control of undertakings that sell food to the public, county governments in Kenya have a critical role to play in meeting this obligation to their citizens. Food safety has ‘public good’ characteristics and requires sufficient public investment. …”
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Applying Citizens' Juries to the Global South por Nilgen, Marco, Vollan, Björn

“…Applying a Living Labs (LLs) approach, WP3 (also called, Living Labs for People or LL4P) implements participatory action research to support food system (FS) stakeholders and partners in important FSs to co-design, experiment, and implement integrated socio-technical innovation packages to reduce GHG sources and enhance sinks, whilst improving social outcomes and providing public good co-benefits. In this context, we aim to organize and analyze CJs in one LL4P site (Colombia) in 2023 and 2024 to complement other activities in achieving the LL4P outcomes. …”
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Research and information for sustainable forests por Sayer, Jeffrey A.

“…The implications for research are that the private sector will dominate areas such as tree improvement, plantation technology and wood processing but will not find it attractive to invest in research about the public-good values of forests. It will be important for the public sector to engage in research, which provides the ability to assess a variety of forest conditions, monitor changes and develop standards against which to evaluate forest management practices. …”
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Andean potato diversity conserved in the International Potato Center genebank helps develop agriculture in Uganda: the example of the variety ‘Victoria’ por Bernal-Galeano, V., Norton, G., Ellis, David, Anglin, Noelle L., Hareau, Guy, Smale, Melinda, Jamora, Nelissa, Alwang, J., Pradel, W.

“…The International Potato Center (CIP) genebank conserves and facilitates access to highly diverse germplasm of potato, sweetpotato, and Andean roots and tubers as a global public good for food security. While it is generally understood that material from the CIP genebank has played an important role in the release of many CIP-related varieties grown by smallholder farmers in lower-income countries, the contribution has not been evaluated in quantitative terms. …”
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Community-level incentive mechanisms for the conservation of crop wild relatives: A Malawi case study por Drucker, Adam G., Mponya, Nolipher Khaki, Grazioli, Francesca, Maxted, Nigel, Brehm, Joana Magos, Dulloo, Mohammad Ehsan

“…Given that CWR conservation generates important public good values, for the significant proportion of CWRs found outside of protected areas, there is a strong justification for the design of incentive mechanisms to support landowners whose management practices positively contribute to CWR conservation. …”
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