Search Results - "social science"

First experimental evidence that increasing women's empowerment through a nutrition- and gender-sensitive agriculture program improves child nutrition in Burkina Faso by CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health

“…The study was published open access in Social Science & Medicine in July 2019. One finding suggested that programs to reduce wasting could be more effective if they also target women's empowerment. …”
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From complexity to clarity: A climate security vulnerability measure for policymaking by Liebig, Theresa Ines, Guerrero, Omar, Guariso, Daniele, Craparo, Alessandro Carmelo William, Basel, Ashleigh, Taiwo, Ibukun

“…The CGIAR Focus Climate Security and The Alan Turing Institute’s Computational Social Science Group's collaboration addresses the need for a reliable and efficient approach to decision-making and policy development by developing an innovative analytical framework to construct a systemic measure that analyzes structural features among key components of the climate security nexus, to support contextualized and climate security-sensitive decisions for policies, programs, or finance.…”
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CIFOR’s research programme on conservation of tropical forest genetic resources by Boyle, T.J.B.

“…The links to socio-economic research of CIFOR's Policy and Social Science scientists are obvious and have been emphasised throughout. …”
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Resources, rights, and cooperation: a sourcebook on property rights and collective action for sustainable development by CGIAR Systemwide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights

“…Most of the readings are from social science researchers working in the fields of agriculture, natural resource management, and poverty reduction, often as part of multidisciplinary teams. …”
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Routledge handbook of agricultural biodiversity by Hunter, D., Guarino, Luigi, Spillane, Charles, McKeown, Peter C.

“…It draws on multiple disciplines including plant and animal genetics, ecology, crop and animal science, food studies and nutrition, as well as social science subjects which explore the socio-economic, cultural, institutional, legal and policy aspects of agricultural biodiversity. …”
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Poverty Traps and Agricultural Research : Improving Policies, Institutions and Technologies to Support Sustainable Poverty Reduction by Barrett, Christopher B.

“…The role the CGIAR can play in both biophysical and social science research in sustainable poverty reduction is also considered in relation to the poverty traps conceptualization. …”
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Conference on Impacts of International Agricultural Research by CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council

“…For PIM, it was the first annual CGIAR social science meeting it has planned for in its second phase. …”
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Decolonising Water: Viewing the 2022 Pakistan floods in the Colonial Present (Webinar session 5) by Mustafa, Daanish

“…While at King's, he has received the School of Social Science and Public Policy excellence in teaching award.…”
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Overview on forest research in Africa by Sayer, Jeffrey A., Palmer, J.R.

“…A much greater effort in economics and social science research is required to compensate for the frequent policy failures. …”
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Advancing transformative adaptation through social equity: Land, water and food systems in the Global South by Fisher, Eleanor, Hellin, Jon, Ng'endo, Mary

“…The papers demonstrate how vital is transdisciplinary research that engages critical social science perspectives and addresses how different actors give meaning to social equity, fairness and justice based on their experiences and lived realities. …”
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Scientists in social encounters: the case for an engaged practice of science by Diaw, C., Kusumanto, T.

“…Using case studies from Indonesia and Cameroon, we illustrated how social science methods could go beyond just extracting information from local actors to serve as valid platforms for learning interactively and for negotiating meanings, powers, and representation. …”
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Supporting women farmers in a changing climate: five policy lessons by Huyer, Sophia, Twyman, Jennifer, Koningstein, Manon, Ashby, Jacqueline A., Vermeulen, Sonja J.

“…This research was presented in March 2015 at a seminar in Paris on ‘Closing the gender gap in farming under climate change’, co-organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and Future Earth.…”
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Social and environmental justice in foreign aid: a case study of irrigation interventions in western Nepal by Clement, Floriane, Basnet, Govinda, Sugden, Fraser, Bharati, Luna

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Climate-smart agriculture: in need of a theory of scaling by Vernooy, Ronnie, Bouroncle, Claudia

“…The review of CCAFS research is complemented by a discussion of some of the recent social science literature on scaling and closely related topics, such as (diffusion of) innovation and institutionalization. …”
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The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) by International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

“…Our R4D programs are focused on four crucial areas: Biotechnology and Genetic Improvement, Natural Resource Management, Social Science and Agribusiness, Plant Production and Plant Health and Nutrition and Food Technology.…”
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The ‘Nigerian Diet’ and its evolution: review of the existing literature and household survey data by Petrikova, I., Bhattacharjee, Ranjana, Fraser, P.D.

“…Natural and social science studies have commonly referenced a ‘typical’ or ‘habitual’ Nigerian diet, without defining what such a diet entails. …”
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Field report: The impact of socio-technical innovation bundles (STIB) on women and youth food security, empowerment and resilience in Ethiopia by Leul, Solomon Zewdu, Ketema, Dessalegn, Cosmas, Lutomia, Nchanji, Eileen

“…The Gender Equality Initiative (HER+) aims to conducts innovative gender and social science research by developing actionable solutions to enhance climate resilience, food security and empowerment of women in Africa. …”
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Can we be engineers of property rights to natural resources? some evidence of difficulties from the rural areas of Zimbabwe by Luckert, M.A.

“…The desire for research to be policy relevant has caused many social science studies to have “engineering” dimensions. …”
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Fodder research embedded in a system of innovation by Bezkorowajnyj, P.G., Prasad, V.L., Dhamankar, M., Roothaert, Ralph L., Olufajo, O.O., Romney, Dannie L.

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Conceptualizing food systems for global environmental change research by Ericksen, Polly J.

“…In building the framework the paper explores and synthesizes disparate literature on food systems food security and global environmental change, bridging social science and natural science perspectives. This collected evidence justifies a representation of food systems, which can be used to identify key processes and determinants of food security in a given place or time, particularly the impacts of environmental change. …”
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