Resultados de búsqueda - "social sciences"

Spousal decision-making and agricultural investments: The relation between information asymmetries, risk preferences and investments in agricultural intensification in rural Uganda por Schenkel, Leonie

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Factors influencing implementation of bylaws on sustainable crop intensification: evidence from potatoes in southwestern Uganda por Makuma-Henry, M., Kibwika, P., Nampala, P., Manyong, Victor, Yami, M.

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Diversification for sustainable and resilient agricultural landscape systems por Reckling, M., Watson, C., Whitbread, Anthony M., Helming, K.

“…Contributions from all continents highlighted regional specificities related to diversification and include research from natural and social sciences, with inter- and transdisciplinary approaches including synthesis of knowledge (reviews), empirical studies with experiments as well as assessments with interviews in case studies: Model-based design of crop diversification, the role of digitalization for achieving sustainability in the European context, ecological engineering for rice pest suppression in China, the role of cereal species mixtures in Ethiopian smallholder farmers, diversified planting in arid irrigation areas in northwestern China, integration of legumes in European and Canadian cropping systems, screening of native forage legumes for northern Swedish grassland systems, cropping system diversification of smallholder farmers in south-central Bangladesh, identification of how farmers imagine diversified landscapes in southern Idaho in the US, farm diversification affecting impacts from COVID-19 across Europe, the role of diversified farming in Mato Grosso Brazil, diversification and soil management measures in Germany, value chain formation for the scaling of crop diversification, and the design process with farmers and scientists for the transition toward legume-supported farming in Europe. …”
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Navigating power in conservation por Shackleton, R.T., Walters, G., Bluwstein, J., Djoudi, H., Fritz, L., Lafaye de Micheaux, F., Loloum, T., Nguyen, V.T.H., Rann Andriamahefazafy, M., Sithole, S.S., Kull, C.A.

“…Conservation research and practice are increasingly engaging with people and drawing on social sciences to improve environmental governance. In doing so, conservation engages with power in many ways, often implicitly. …”
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Advancing Transformative Adaptation through Social Equity: Land, Water and Food Systems in the Global South por Fisher, Eleanor, Hellin, Jon, Kanui, Mary Ng’endo

“…Contributions will be inter- or transdisciplinary, while reflecting critical insight from the social sciences. Key is how social equity is given meaning in contexts where transformative adaptation must be addressed. …”
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Report on the gender communication campaign in Vietnam por Truong Thuy Hang, Galiè, Alessandra, Nguyen Thi Minh Phuong, Nguyen Thi Kieu Trang, Duong Kim Anh, Cárdenas, Mateo Pazos

“…In 2023, the SAPLING gender team cooperated with experts from the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS) to conduct qualitative fieldwork in Mai Son District, exploring the main social (with a focus on ethnicity) and gender norms that hindered women's involvement in livestock production. …”
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Latin America: Where urbanization and poverty peak together with biodiversity? por Sanchez-Sarria, Camilo E., Bonilla-Moheno, Martha, Vázquez, Luis-Bernardo, MacGregor-Fors, Ian

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Motivations and incentives for mechanization in Zambia: a mixed-methods analysis por Mulungu, Kelvin, Ngoma, Lushomo Molly, Mhembere, Rumbidzai, Manyanga, Mark, Simutowe, Esau, Thierfelder, Christian, Matin, Md. Abdul, Ngoma, Hambulo

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Land-use and land-cover dynamics in response to changes in climatic, biological and socio-political forces: The case of southwestern Ethiopia por Reid, Robin S., Kruska, Russell L., Muthui, N., Taye, A., Wotton, S., Wilson, C.J., Mulatu, W.

“…To accomplish these objectives, we first developed a way to identify the causes and consequences of change at a landscape scale by integrating tools from ecology and the social sciences and then applied these methods to a case study in Ghibe Valley, southwestern Ethiopia. …”
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EcoHealth manual por Unahalekhaka, A., Pichpol, D., Meeyam, T., Chotinun, S., Robert, G.L., Robert, C.S.

“…Individuals with a strong academic background in one area, e.g., the social sciences, can provide help to others who have had less experience in that discipline. …”
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Faciliter l’adoption d’interventions de securite alimentaire dans le secteur des aliments de rue et dans les champs. In French. [Facilitating the adoption of food-safety interventi... por Karg, H., Drechsel, Pay, Amoah, Philip, Jeitler, R.

“…An important conclusion is that these steps require serious accompanying research of the target group, strongly involving social sciences, which should not be underestimated in related projects.…”
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Economic perspectives of the diversity of risks among crop farmers in the Northern Guinea Savanna of Nigeria por Olarinde, L.O., Akintola, J.O., Manyong, Victor M.

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How farmer videos trigger social learning to enhance innovation among smallholder rice farmers in Uganda por Karubanga, G., Kibwika, P., Okry, F., Sseguya, H.

“…Quantitative data were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) while thematic analysis was applied to the qualitative data. …”
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Creating a typology of tobacco farms according to determinants of diversification in Valle de Lerma (Salta-Argentina) = Tipología de explotaciones tabacaleras de acuerdo a determin... por Chavez Clemente, Maria Daniela, Berentsen, Paul, Oude Lansin, Alfons

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Butter production, processing and handling practices at smallholders level in the central highlands and southwest midlands of Ethiopia por Tola, A., Tola, Y.B., Kassa, T., Grace, Delia, Beyene, F., Tolemariam, T.

“…Statistical Package for Social Sciences and SAS were used to analyse the data. …”
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Traditional knowledge affects soil management ability of smallholder farmers in marginal areas por Occelli, Martina, Mantino, Alberto, Ragaglini, Giorgio, Dell’Acqua, Matteo, Fadda, Carlo, Pè, Mario Enrico, Nuvolari, Alessandro

“…We integrate agronomic and social sciences approaches to explore links between smallholder households’ farming knowledge and soil fertility in an ethnopedological perspective. …”
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The One Health landscape in sub-Saharan African countries por Fasina, F.O., Fasanmi, O.G., Makonnen, Y.J., Bebay, C., Bett, Bernard K., Roesel, Kristina

“…Objectives One Health is transiting from multidisciplinary to transdisciplinary concepts and its viewpoints should move from ‘proxy for zoonoses’, to include other topics (climate change, nutrition and food safety, policy and planning, welfare and well-being, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), vector-borne diseases, toxicosis and pesticides issues) and thematic fields (social sciences, geography and economics). This work was conducted to map the One Health landscape in Africa. …”
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Determinants of farmers’ adoption of adaptation measures in carbon-intensive agricultural areas: A case study in An Giang province, Vietnam por Quang, N.M., Thien, N.P.N., Thu, N.H., Thoa, H.T.N., Tho, T.M., Hieu, L.M., Thinh, D.Q.

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The impacts of COVID-19 on global food security and the coping strategy [in Chinese] por Chen, Kevin Z., Zhan, Yue, Zhang, Yumei, Fan, Shenggen

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A Bayesian methodology for building consistent datasets for structural modeling por Mason-D'Croz, Daniel, Robinson, Sherman, Dunston, Shahnila, Sulser, Timothy B.

“…Many complex systems studied in the social sciences, including economic systems, are characterized by sparseness of available data on behavioral characteristics and system outcomes. …”
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