Resultados de búsqueda - "reforms"

Evaluation of the CGIAR Research Program: Forests Trees, and Agroforestry por Coccia, Federica, Deisenrieder, Andrea, Katila, Marko, Montagnini, Florencia, Palenberg, Markus, Robledo, Carmenza

“…As the evaluation was conducted during the early phase of CRP implementation, the evaluation approach aimed mostly to be formative and forward-looking reviewing progress made so far towards results, and gender mainstreaming, governance and partnership aspects as well as other modalities of work introduced with the CGIAR Reform. The results of the evaluation aimed to provide inputs to the revision of the CRP strategy, including suggestions for a more efficient and effective organization of the work carried under the CRP. …”
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How does a network of Colombian interethnic women foster resilience to climate change and contribute to gender equality? por Howland, Fanny Cecile, Salas, Daniela

“…The PA included comprehensive rural reform for agricultural development, environment, and G&I objectives. …”
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Pricing farmer contributions under AIP por Banda, Chimwemwe, De Weerdt, Joachim, Duchoslav, Jan, Jolex, Aubrey

“…A number of options for reforming the AIP have been outlined in recent policy work, but all have medium to long term implementation horizons. …”
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Alternative pathways for sustainable energy development and implications for water and food security in the Philippines por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The government’s energy reform agenda highlights the importance of access to more reliable energy using indigenous energy resources while minimizing imported fossil-fuel use in an optimal and cost-effective way. …”
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Colombia: A public-private partnership por Beintema, Nienke M., Romano, Luis, Pardey, Philip G.

“…Many of these organizations are linked to producer organizations and are funded largely through export or production taxes or voluntary contributions.1 In addition, public agricultural research in Colombia underwent a major reform in 1993 with the creation of the Colombian Corporation for Agricultural Research (CORPOICA).2 The main objective of its creation was to give the agency more flexibility in its organization compared with its predecessor, the Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA), in addition to stimulating privatesector involvement and investment. …”
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Subsistence agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe; how to break the vicious circle?: studies on the agricultural and food sector in Central and Eastern Europe por Abele, S., Frohberg, K.

“…The Significance of Subsistence Farming in Georgia as an Economic and Social Buffer; Hannah Kegel. Agrarian Reform and Subsistence Agriculture in Russia; Vladimir Yefimov. …”
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Assessing the Impacts of International Agricultural Research on Nutrition and Health in Africa and Asia por Bulte, E.

“…Levers may range from changing crops to reforming national policies. Impacts may be direct, such as through dietary changes or changes in the nutritional value of food consumed. …”
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Groundnut export tax in Senegal: Winners and losers por Fofana, Ismaël, Badiane, Ousmane, Camara, Alhassane, Goundan, Anatole

“…The economic structure and the external trade features of the country are as relevant as the fiscal policy decisions associated with the implementation of the trade reform.…”
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A global assessment of the economic effects of export taxes por Laborde Debucquet, David, Estrades, Carmen, Bouët, Antoine

“…However, the fact that some countries, such as Argentina, would experience income losses due to such a policy change is a major challenge to overall positive reform in this area.…”
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Rights-based fisheries governance: from fishing rights to human rights por Allison, Edward H., Ratner, Blake D., Åsgård, Björn, Willmann, Rolf, Pomeroy, Robert S., Kurien, John

“…With a focus on small‐scale developing‐country fisheries in particular, we argue that basing the case for fishery governance reform on assumed economic incentives for resource stewardship is insufficient when there are other sources of insecurity in people’s lives that are unrelated to the state of fishery resources. …”
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Review of agricultural extension in India: Are farmers' information needs being met? por Glendenning, Claire J., Babu, Suresh Chandra, Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo

“…Despite a wide range of reform initiatives in agricultural extension in India in the past decades, the coverage of, access to, and quality of information provided to marginalized and poor farmers is uneven. …”
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Sustainable development of rainfed agriculture in India por Kerr, John M.

“…It examines the historical record of agricultural productivity growth in different parts of the country under irrigated and rainfed conditions, and it reviews the evidence regarding agricultural technology development and adoption, natural resource management, poverty alleviation, risk management, and policy and institutional reform. It presents background information on all of these topics, offering some preliminary conclusions and recommending areas where further research is needed. …”
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The total factor productivity in China and India: New measures and approaches por Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, Yu, Bingxin, Fan, Shenggen

“…Even today, returns to agricultural R&D investments are very high, with benefit/cost ratios ranging from 20.7 to 9.6 in China and from 29.6 to 14.8 in India.The applied methodology and the comparison between TFP growth patterns contribute to a better understanding of the consequences that the different approaches to agricultural reform followed by China and India had on the performance of agriculture in both countries.…”
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The role of home gardens in promoting multi-functional agriculture in Hungary por Birol, Ekin, Bela, György, Smale, Melinda

“…Should Hungary seek to promote multi functional agriculture in line with the objectives of the EU's reformed Common Agricultural Policy, then provisions for home gardens would need to be incorporated into national programmes and legal frameworks. …”
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Developing sustainable farmer-to-farmer extension: Experiences from the volunteer farmer–trainer approach in Kenya por Kiptot, Evelyne, Franzel, Steven

“…The reform of agricultural extension institutions in developing countries has in the past decade seen the implementation of many donor-supported farmer-to-farmer extension (F2FE) programs that are participatory and client-oriented. …”
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More or less ambition in the Doha Round? The development impact of recent proposal por Bouët, Antoine, Mevel, SImon, Orden, David

“…A successful round could deliver real gains both globally and for developing countries, but the magnitude of those gains depends on the shape of the agreement. A reform outcome based on the most ambitious components of the negotiating proposals of the US and EU delivers noticeably greater benefits than an unambitious outcome. …”
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Ecology for tropical forest management por Sheil, Douglas, Heist, M. van

“…Initiatives that seek to reform forest practices in the tropics require a sound ecological basis to better address the many challenges facing modern forestry in these regions - such a basis is, in large part, already available for wider use. …”
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Macroeconomic policies and industrial wood processing and trade in Zimbabwe por Kowero, G.S., Mabugu, R.

“…The paper demonstrates that: (a) macroeconomic policies promoted some industrial forestry activities in the post-independence period, more during the economic structural adjustment programme (ESAP) era when there were more pro-export policies, and then less in the recent post-ESAP years when dirigisme returned and the economy almost collapsed; (b) economic reform policies which initially had the greatest impact on industrial forestry were those of trade liberalisation and domestic deregulation, which came at a time when world timber markets were strengthening and therefore provided the timber industry with the capacity to grow, develop a wide range of products and adopt an export focus; (c) timber production for construction tends to increase with economic growth and vice versa; (d) in the post-ESAP period the forest industry has been characterised by uncertainty of tenure for its plantations due to recent changes in land laws, high inflation that erodes profitability, local market shrinkage due to prevailing stressed economy, loss of investor confidence and unrealistic currency exchange rates that make exporting unattractive. …”
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Fences in our heads: a discourse analysis of the korup resettlement stalemate por Diaw, C., Tiani, A.M.

“…In the Congo Basin, where the architecture of protected areas was built around the tenets of "fortress conservation," legal reform is clearly needed to enable effective community conservation. …”
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Policies for reduced deforestation and their impact on agricultural production por Angelsen, A.

“…Thefirst set of policies attempts to reduce the rent of extensive agriculture, either by neglecting extension, marketing, and infrastructure, generating alternative income opportunities, stimulating intensive agricultural production or by reforming land tenure. The second set aims to increase either extractive or protective forest rent and—more importantly— create institutions (community forest management) or markets (payment for environmental services) that enable land users to capture a larger share of the protective forest rent. …”
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