Search Results - "social sciences"

Harnessing the job creation capacity of young rural agripreneurs: A quasi-experimental study of the ENABLE program in Africa by Adeyanju, Dolapo, Mburu, John, Gituro, Wainaina, Chumo, Chepchumba, Mignouna, Djana B., Mulinganya, Noel

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Increasing sorghum yields for smallholder farmers in Mali: the evolution towards a context-driven, on-farm, gender-responsive sorghum breeding program by Isaacs, Krista, Weltzien-Rattunde, Eva, Some, Tiare Hermann Williams, Abdoulaye Diallo, Bocar Diallo, Mamourou Sidibé, vom Brocke, Kirsten, Bakary Samake, Nebié, Baloua, Weltzien-Rattunde, Henry Frederick

“…Analyses indicated that collaborations among many institutions on-farm with community actors, research across various disciplines such as agronomy and social sciences, context-specific breeding, and long-term funding were essential to increasing gender sensitivity and responsive in the breeding efforts.…”
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Integrating Earth observation, biophysical, and survey data to evaluate the ecological impacts of a common land protection and restoration intervention in Rajasthan, India by Hughes, Karl, Sharma, Himani, Priyadarshini, Pratiti, Vågen, Tor, Winowiecki, Leigh, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

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El Nino visto por las ciencias sociales: propuestas de investigacion, climatic and hydrological effects of El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events at regional and local scales by Katz, E., Goloubinoff, M., Lammel, A.

“…Focused on human beings, the social sciences tend to approach the problem at a local level. …”
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The challenges of inclusive cross-scale collective action in watersheds by Swallow, B.M., Johnson, Nancy L., Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Knox McCulloch, A

“…The framework integrates concepts drawn from the biophysical and social sciences, including new perspectives on watershed components, poverty, and collective action. …”
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Smallholders’ avocado production systems and tree productivity in the southern highlands of Ethiopia by Biazin, B., Haileslassie, Amare, Zewdie, T., Mekasha, Yoseph, Gebremedhin, Berhanu, Fekadu, A., Shewage, Tesfaye

“…The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, analyses of variance and linear regression methods using statistical software for social sciences (SPSS version 20). In the study region, avocado is mainly grown as an integral component of the coffee- and enset-based agroforestry systems. …”
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The challenge of improving soil fertility in yam cropping systems of West Africa by Frossard, Emmanuel, Aighewi, B.A., Aké, S., Barjolle, D., Baumann, P., Bernet, T., Daouda, D., Diby, L., Floquet, A., Hgaza, V.K., Ilboudo, L.J., Kiba, Delwendé I., Mongbo, R.L., Nacro, H.B., Nicolay, G.L., Oka, E., Ouattara, F.Y., Pouya, N., Six, Johan, Traoré, I.O.

“…This review shows that the development of sustainable, feasible, and acceptable soil management innovations for yam requires research to be conducted in interdisciplinary teams including natural and social sciences and in a transdisciplinary manner involving relevant actors from the problem definition, to the co-design of soil management innovations, the evaluation of research results, their communication and their implementation. …”
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Citizens AND HYdrology (CANDHY): conceptualizing a transdisciplinary framework for citizen science addressing hydrological challenges by Nardi, F., Cudennec, C., Abrate, T., Allouch, C., Annis, A., Assumpcao, T. H., Aubert, A. H., Berod, D., Braccini, A. M., Buytaert, Wouter, Dasgupta, A., Hannah, D.M., Mazzoleni, M., Polo, M. J., Saebo, O., Seibert, J., Tauro, F., Teichert, F., Teutonico, R., Uhlenbrook, Stefan, Vargas, C.W., Grimaldi, S.

“…Joint efforts between hydrological, computer and social sciences are envisaged for integrating human sensing and behavioural mechanisms into the framework. …”
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Exploring the Acceptability and Feasibility of Integrating Vitamin A Rich Sweetpotato into AnteNatal Care Services in Western Kenya: Results from Operations Research Conducted duri... by Machira, Y.

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Collective action for inclusive value-chain innovation: Implementation and results of the Participatory Market Chain Approach by Horton, D., Devaux, A., Thiele, Graham, Hareau, Guy, Ordinola, M., López, G., Mayanja, S., Bernet, T.

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Unanswered questions and unquestioned answers: the challenges of crop residue retention and weed control in Conservation Agriculture systems of southern Africa by Thierfelder, Christian, Mhlanga, Blessing, Ngoma, Hambulo, Marenya, Paswel, Md Abdul Matin, Tufa, Adane H., Alene, Arega D., Chikoye, David

“…In this paper, we elucidate a series of areas that represent some unquestioned answers about chemical weed control and unanswered questions about how to maintain groundcover demanding more research along the natural and social sciences continuum. In some communities, traditional rules that allow free-range grazing of livestock after harvesting present a barrier in surface crop residue management. …”
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Experience of farmers using mobile phone for farming information flow in Boro rice production: A case of Eastern Gangetic Plain by Ahmad, Babor, Sarkar, Md Abdur Rouf, Khanom, Fahima, Lucky, Rozina Yeasmin, Sarker, Mou Rani, Rabbani, Md Golam, Ray, Shraboni Rani Rani, Rahman, Md Naimur, Sarker, Md Nazirul Islam

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Impacts of a digital credit-insurance bundle for landless farmers: Evidence from a cluster randomized trial in Odisha, India by Kramer, Berber, Pattnaik, Subhransu, Ward, Patrick S., Xu, Yingchen

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The production and diffusion of policy knowledge: a bibliometric evaluation of the International Food Policy Research Institute by Pardey, Philip G., Christian, Jason E.

“…Going beyond counting and classifying IFPRI's published record, we report the results of a bibliometric assessment of IFPRI and the comparison institutes for the period 1981–96 using the publication and citation performance details recorded in the Institute for Scientific Information's (ISI) Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index data bases. Citations to published literature are not indicative of an impact on policy or the economy generally but on further research and analysis. …”
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Decentralising Zimbabwe’s water management: The case of Guyu-Che- lesa irrigation scheme by Tambudzai, Rashirayi, Everisto, Mapedza, Gideon, Zhou

“…The Statistical Package for Social Sciences was used to analyse data quantitatively, whilst content analysis was utilised to analyse qualitative data whereby data was analysed thematically. …”
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Analysis of gender and governance of value chainbased systems on rice and vegetable crops in southern Benin and Mali by Adétonah, S., Coulibaly, O., Ahoyo, R., Sessou, E., Dembélé, U., Huat, J., Houssou, G., Vodouhe, G., Loko, J.

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Ecosystem approach to health (Ecohealth): Theory and practices in environmental health research in Vietnam by Hung Nguyen-Viet, Tran Thi Tuyet Hanh

“…Thus, we believe that it will be a useful reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the field of Public Health, Environmental Health, Preventive Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Aquaculture, Animal Sciences, and Social Sciences as well as researchers who are interested in Ecohealth research. …”
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Ash resuspension related to the 2011–2012 Cordón Caulle eruption, Chile, in a rural community of Patagonia, Argentina by Forte, Pablo, Dominguez, Lucia, Bonadonna, Constanza, Gregg, Chris E., Bran, Donaldo Eduardo, Bird, Deanne, Castro, Jonathan M.

“…In this mixed methods study,we combine aspects of natural and social sciences to characterize the ash resuspension events associated with the 2011–2012 Cordón Caulle deposits and assess the impacts on the Argentinian farming community of Ingeniero Jacobacci in the Patagonian Steppe. …”
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Understanding village poultry through the agricultural household model : a systematic literature review by Tan, Daphne Hsu Qhin

“…The research methodology is a systematic literature review using best practices gleaned from various disciplines, namely, medicine and healthcare, business management, the social sciences, and inter-disciplinary development studies. …”

Food insecurity and the relative importance of various household assets by Fisseha, Kebebew

“…At the second level with the support of the sustainable livelihood framework analysis the major assets important to food security were identified and their distribution across the groups was analyzed with Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software. The study identified farm land as natural asset and livestock especially oxen, cows and /horses/ donkey /mule as financial assets are key determinant assets to improve the study households’ food security. …”
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