Resultados de búsqueda - "ranking"

Unpacking the water-energy-environment-food nexus: working across systems por Sood, Aditya, Nicol, Alan, Arulingam, Indika

“…It is hoped that such frameworks can be used at country level, and eventually be used to measure and rank countries on the health of their systems. The paper suggests a questionnaire that can be used (after modifying for local conditions) to collect country-level institutional and political-economy data (which is difficult to get from online resources) to be used in the framework.…”
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Common beans Kenya: Climate risk assessment por Duku, Confidence, Groot, Annemarie, Demissie, Teferi Dejene, Muhwanga, Joseph, Nzoka, Oscar, Recha, John W.M.

“…Kenya is the seventh biggest producer of common beans globally and the second leading producer in East Africa (KenInvest, 2016). Beans rank second to maize in importance as a food crop. …”
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Climate exposure, vulnerability and environmental reliance: a cross-section analysis of structural and stochastic poverty por Angelsen, A., Dokken, T.

“…Among the income-generating coping strategies, extracting more environmental resources ranks second to seeking wage labor. The poorest in dry regions also experience the highest forest loss, undermining the opportunities to cope with future climate shocks.…”
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Field Guide to Common Homegarden Crops of Southwestern Uganda por Whitney, Cory W., Huth, A., Kehlenbeck, K., Hammer, K., Gebauer, J.

“…It features descriptions and uses for 68 crops divided into four sections according to crop type (annual crops, perennial herbaceous crops, shrubs and trees). Crops are ranked according to their ethnobotanical importance. …”
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Exploring the potential and constraints of smallholder aquaculture in marginalized saline areas in Pakistan por Rossignoli, Cristiano, Obi, Chinedu, Ali, Syed

“…•Fishery and aquaculture have the potential to significantly reduce poverty and food insecurity in Pakistan (Rehman et al., 2019).•Pakistan ranks low in global aquaculture production (FAO, 2022) -aquaculture produced 162,462 tons of fish in 2020. …”
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Reactive assistance or proactive protection? Social protection and climate resilience in the Sahel region por Desai, Bina, Meddings, George, Läderach, Peter R.D., Campbell, Raramai

“…Most of the region’s countries rank as highly vulnerable and least prepared to face climate change risks, as insecurity, rising food prices and weak national governance systems further exacerbate existing vulnerability of many communities. …”
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Choosing the Right Trees: Setting Priorities for Multipurpose Tree Improvement por Franzel, Steven, Jaenicke, Hannah, Janssen, Willem G.

“…Once a short list of a few (e.g. 4 to 6) species is drawn up from the above exercises, researchers conduct field surveys to estimate the value of the tree products from these species and validate and rank the species. This prioritization procedure is flexible; it can be adapted to meet the specific needs of the researchers. …”
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Environmental management needs the support of secure rights and appropriate governance por Barrow, Edmund

“…Such trends are a measure of declining ecosystem health (WWF 2020), and the World Economic Forum ranks biodiversity loss as a top-five risk to the global economy. …”
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Measuring risk attitudes among Mozambican farmers por de Brauw, Alan, Eozenou, Patrick

“…After exploring correlations between husband and wife preferences, we explicitly test whether preferences follow the constant relative risk aversion (CRRA) utility function, and whether farmers follow expected utility theory or rank dependent utility theory in generating their preferences. …”
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Development and evaluation of a regional water poverty index for Benin por Heidecke, Claudia

“…Results show a clear distinction between communes in the north and the south of the country and WPI rankings are similar to those for poverty levels. The paper concludes with a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of the WPI and suggests improvements for its application at the communal level.…”
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Public expenditure, growth, and poverty reduction in rural Uganda por Fan, Shenggen, Zhang, Xiaobo

“…The impact of low-grade roads such as feeder roads is larger than that of high-grade roads such as murram and tarmac roads. Education's effects rank after agricultural research and extension, and roads. …”
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Consumer Preference and Properties of Raw and Cooked Milled Rice por Mundo, Angelita M. Del, Juliano, Bienvenido O.

“…For four sets of samples, major criteria for selecting raw milled rice were grain whiteness and hardness, and aroma and flavor for boiled rice. Actual preference ranks suggested partiality to white raw rice and low‐amylose, intermediate‐amylose and high‐amylose boiled rice in order of decreasing preference. …”
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Production objectives and management strategies of livestock keepers in south-east Kenya: Implications for a breeding programme por Hanotte, Olivier H., Drucker, Adam G.

“…Although the Maasai and Kamba zebu (M&KZ) breeds were ranked highly with regard to adaptive traits, the population is considered to have been in decline over recent years. …”
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Vaccination with cyclin-dependent kinase tick antigen confers protection against Ixodes infestation por Gomes, H., Moraes, J., Githaka, Naftaly W., Martins, R., Isezaki, M., Silva Vaz, I. da, Logullo, C., Konnai, S., Ohashi, K.

“…Among arthropods, ticks lead as vectors of animal diseases and rank second to mosquitoes in transmitting human pathogens. …”
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A simulation of the effects of breeding season on the productivity of Small East African goats on a Kenyan rangeland por Carles, A.B., Blackburn, H.D., Schwartz, H.J.

“…For more frequent breeding, simulations were for (4) mating 3 times in 2 years; and (5) mating for 10 months of the year (all other systems were confined to 2 months). The rankings for productivity and efficiency were the same for all 5 breeding regimes. …”
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Irrigation in southern Africa: success or failure por Mutiro, J., Lautze, Jonathan F.

“…This paper systematically examines existing literature on irrigation schemes in southern Africa in order to: (i) determine the proportion that can be considered successful; and (ii) identify and rank factors that explain variation in performance. …”
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Ursprungs- och kvalitetsmärkningens betydelse för konsumentens val av krukväxter por Liljedahl, Sara

“…In one of the questions consumers were asked to rank the different branded flowers mentioned above in order of most likely purchase to the least likely to be purchased. …”
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Farmers perceptions of crop pests and pest control practices in rainfed cowpea cropping systems in Kano, Nigeria por Bottenberg, H.

“…Farmers of rainfed cowpea/groundnut/millet/sorghum cropping systems in Kano, Nigeria, ranked arthropods as the major production constraint in cowpea and groundnut in 1991 and 1992. …”
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Assessment of dietary diversity of mothers and children of 6-24 months from eastern and southern provinces of Zambia por Alamu, Emmanuel Oladeji, Gondwe, T., Eyinla, T.E., Maziya-Dixon, B.B.

“…The assessment revealed that the consumption of cereal-based products ranked highest in frequency. Specifically, the consumption of maize-based foods was highest in Chipata (55.43%) and then in Monze (43.56%) households. …”
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A learning journey to the Kingdom of Tonga: Accelerating transformative change in nutrition-sensitive value chains in Pacific islands: Promoting nutritious food systems in the Paci... por Sio-Ki-Sia Fonua, Finau

“…Pacific Island countries suffer from alarming rates of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and are consistently ranked as the most obese and diabetic in the world. …”
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