Resultados de búsqueda - "relator"

Impacts of a national lockdown on smallholder farmers’ income and food security: Empirical evidence from two states in India por Ceballos, Francisco, Kannan, Samyuktha, Kramer, Berber

“…We find substantial heterogeneity in how the lockdown affected farmers in these two states, which is likely related to existing structural differences in market infrastructure and to differences in state-specific COVID-related policies. …”
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Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Food vendors - September 2021 survey round por Myanmar Agriculture Support Activity

“…Relative to September 2020, national-level food price inflation in September 2021 stood at 11 percent. …”
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Impact Evaluation of C’est La Vie! in Rural Senegal: Baseline Survey por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…is specifically designed to address issues related to adolescents’ and women’s rights – including gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health and maternal and child health. …”
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Taking stock of Niger’s existing regional and global trade agreements por Traoré, Fousseini

“…The main challenges for customs are related to the new Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) adopted at the Bali Conference in 2013. …”
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Is consanguinity an impediment to child development outcomes? por Mete, Cem, Bossavie, Laurent, Giles, John, Alderman, Harold

“…Marriages between blood relatives – also known as consanguineous unions – are widespread in North Africa, Central and West Asia and most parts of South Asia. …”
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Measuring trust and commitment in collective actions: Evidence from farmers’ marketing organizations in rural Ethiopia por Tadesse, Getaw, Tesfahun Kassie, Girma

“…Several experiments were conducted to assess members’ level of trust and commitment to marketing cooperatives in rural Ethiopia.The results of the study indicate that significant number of farmers do not yet have trust in their organization and fellow members in both absolute and relative terms. The probability of trust increases when members actively participate in cooperative governance, are less diverse, stay longer in the cooperative, and when cooperatives are older. …”
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Qualitative methods for gender research in agricultural development por Rubin, Deborah

“…This paper describes the use of qualitative approaches to illuminate gender relations in agricultural development research and project implementation. …”
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Productivity and efficiency of farmers growing four popular wheat varieties in Punjab, Pakistan por Battese, George E., Nazli, Hina, Smale, Melinda

“…This analysis seeks to (1) compare the relative productivity and efficiency of farmers currently growing the most widely diffused wheat varieties, and (2) update our understanding of factors that influence productivity and efficiency of wheat production. …”
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Land, cows, and bullets: An untold history of cattle ranching during the armed conflict in Colombia, 1980–2010 por Triana Ángel, Natalia, Burkart, Stefan, Pazos Cárdenas, Mateo

“…Subsequently, a database of 206 violent events related to cattle ranching was constructed, covering three decades of armed conflict (1980–2010), based on primary sources from reports, police evidence, and testimonies of two previous databases. …”
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Introduction: Creating context and unveiling crucial issues por Piñeiro, Martin, Piñeiro, Valeria

“…The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) was held in June 2022 in Geneva, Switzerland, after a year-long delay due to COVID-19-related travel restrictions and other disruptions. …”
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Observed trends in multiple breadbasket yield shocks por Chen, Xuan, Anderson, Weston, You, Liangzhi, Pope, Edward

“…As a result, total climate-related crop yield shocks have been decreasing for soybeans and wheat, while they have remained roughly constant for maize. …”
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Policies and instruments affecting water use for bioenergy production por Moraes, Marcia, Ringler, Claudia, Cai, Ximing

“…Bioenergy‐related water use can intensify existing water stress, increasing the importance of sustainable management of water resources for sustainable bioenergy production and use. …”
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Regional variations in rural livelihoods: Challenges and opportunities por Belton, Ben, Filipski, Mateusz J., Lambrecht, Isabel B., Fang, Peixun

“…These include generally low levels of agricultural productivity relative to other countries in the region in terms of both land and labor; high rates of landlessness, legacies of land confiscation, and unresolved struggles over land rights and access; and generally poor public infrastructure and services—including electricity, roads, schools, health services, and rural credit—though these were improving rapidly in many places before 2020; relatively low levels of diversification and capital in the rural nonfarm economy; high rates of international and domestic outmigration; and histories of ethnopolitical conflict and insecurity.…”
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Small countries and the case for regionalism vs. multilateralism por Burfisher, Mary E., Robinson, Sherman, Thierfelder, Karen

“…Much of the debate over whether or not developing countries gain from regional trade agreements (RTA's) has focused on two characteristics that are common to developing countries: their relatively high tariffs and their high trade dependencies on one or a few developed trade partners. …”
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Dietary diversity is associated with child nutritional status: evidence from 11 demographic and health surveys por Arimond, Mary, Ruel, Marie T.

“…Measures of dietary diversity are relatively simple and were shown to be associated with nutrient adequacy and nutritional status. …”
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Operationalizing dietary diversity: a review of measurement issues and research priorities por Ruel, Marie T.

“…This article reviews published literature on DD, with a focus on the conceptual and operational issues related to its measurement in developing countries. …”
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An operational tool for evaluating poverty outreach of development policies and projects por Zeller, Manfred, Sharma, Manohar, Henry, Carla, Lapenu, Cecile

“…The authors then describe the method of principal component analysis used to construct a poverty score as the measure of relative poverty. The paper concludes with a summary of results from four country case studies (two in Sub-Saharan Africa, one in South Asia, and one in Central America).…”
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Census report of pig artificial insemination service providers in Mukono, Wakiso, Mpigi and Masaka districts of Uganda por Businge, Martha, Ahumuza, Ronnie, Ouma, Emily A., Marshall, Karen

“…Overall, the majority were self-employed paravets with animal-related diplomas. Ninety-seven percent (97%) had received formal AI training on essential topics including pig AI procedure, heat detection, pregnancy testing, semen collection, processing, pig breeds and breeding. …”
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Biodiversity, gender and ethnicity. Biodiversidad, género y etnicidad por Howland, Fanny Cecile, Chavarro Rodriguez, Monica Juliana

“…The Gender Team at the Alliance Bioversity-CIAT (ABC) is leading two pivotal research studies: one focused on food waste and gender gaps in technology transfer, and another examining the role of a Colombian interethnic women's network in influencing policy and driving territorial changes related to climate change adaptation and biodiversity conservation. …”
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Collective action and property rights for poverty reduction: A review of methods and approaches por Mwangi, Esther, Markelova, Helen

“…They also emphasize the crucial role that institutions of collective action and property rights play in poverty reduction and sketch out theoretical nuances and methods of examining such institutions. In addition, power relations and political context are seen to be of outmost importance in poverty-related studies; the authors provide suggestions on how to understand and operationalize various dimensions of power and institutional environment in research. …”
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