Resultados de búsqueda - "statistics"

The narrative on rural youth and economic opportunities in Africa: facts, myths, and gaps por Mabiso, Athur, Benfica, Rui

“…Much of it is driven by population statistics that point to an imminent youth bulge in Africa and concerns about economic stagnation for the continent. …”
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An assessment of the gender gap in African agricultural research capacities por Beintema, Nienke M.

“…Consequently, it is important that agricultural research agencies employ a balance of male and female researchers. Statistics on sex-disaggregated capacity trends are needed to enable decision-makers to set priorities and benchmarks and to monitor progress. …”
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Identifying agricultural expenditures within the public financial accounts and coding system in Ghana: Is the ten percent government agriculture expenditure overestimated? por Benin, Samuel

“…The objective of these studies is to unpack the black box of public expenditure statistics reported in various cross-country datasets, and ultimately to enable the use of existing government accounts to identify levels and compositions of government agriculture expenditures, with better understanding of what these data are in fact accounting for.…”
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Equity–efficiency optimizing resource allocation: The role of time preferences in a repeated irrigation game por Van Campenhout, Bjorn, D'Exelle, Ben, Lecoutere, Els

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Commentary on Defining the Problem por Vamoer, Alexander P.

“…In countries where such data is now available, it is concentrated largely in aggregates such as national statistics on food production, supply, or consumption. …”
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Geographical extrapolation domain analysis: Scaling up watershed management research projects, a toolkit to guide implementation por Rubiano, J., Soto, V.

“…The guide is designed for users with intermediate knowledge of GIS and Bayesian statistics for a smooth and easy implementation of the method. …”
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Conservation and biodiversity monitoring in the tropics: realities, priorities and distraction por Sheil, Douglas

“…Protected areas must be managed to protect the values they contain, not provide statistics. Managers should only be required to collect data that are useful to them in ways that they understand. …”
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Cost benefit and livelihood impacts of agroforestry in Bangladesh: impacts of agroforestry in Bangladesh por Rahman, S.A.

“…The quantitative-economic parts of the study used descriptive statistics and econometric techniques combined with micro-economic models, especially cost-benefit analysis of agroforestry and traditional agriculture combinations at the household level.…”
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Variation in chicken populations may affect the enzymatic activity of lysozyme por Downing, T., O'Farrelly, C.O., Bhuiyan, A.K.F.H., Silva, P., Naqvi, A.N., Sanfo, R., Sow, R.S., Overseas Development Institute, Hanotte, Olivier H., Bradley, D.G.

“…This gene was resequenced in global chicken populations [red, grey, Ceylon and green jungle fowl (JF)] and related bird species. Networks, summary statistics and tests of neutrality indicate that although there is extensive variation at the gene, little is present at coding sites, with the exception of one non-synonymous site. …”
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Water scarcity variations within a country: a case study of Sri Lanka por Amarasinghe, Upali A., Mutuwatte, L.P., Sakthivadivel, Ramaswamy

“…Sri Lanka is a country with vast spatial and seasonal variations of water supply and demand. Statistics in the form of aggregated information at national level sometimes mask issues of local water scarcity. …”
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An irrigated area map of the world (1999) derived from remote sensing por Thenkabail, Prasad S., Biradar, Chandrashekhar M., Turral, Hugh, Noojipady, Praveen, Li, Yuanjie, Vithanage, Jagath, Dheeravath, Venkateswarlu, Velpuri, Naga Manohar, Schull, M., Xueliang Cai, Dutta, Rishiraj

“…These maps are complementary to existing statistics (FAO-Aquastat) and the GISderived maps (FAO/University of Frankfurt Global irrigated area map). …”
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Water rights and the processes of negotiation among irrigators in West Shewa Zone: the case of Indris Irrigation Scheme in Toke Kutaye District [Ethiopia]. por Zeleke, T., Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele

“…Conflicts have been attributed to institutional malfunctioning, weak observance on water right rules and increasing statistics of users. Negotiations have been initiated to settle conflicts. …”
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Phaseolus bean improvement in Tanzania, 1959-2005 por Hillocks, RJ, Madata, C.S., Chirwa, Rowland, Minja, EM, Msolla, S

“…Tanzania remains one of the worlds' major bean producing countries although according to official statistics, production per capita has almost halved in the last 20 years. …”
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Mer än bara naturvärden? por Hellstrand, Erika

“…The survey is based on selling statistics from the forest property market in Sweden. …”
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Technical Report: Assessment of the Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health and Nutrition por Duante, Charmaine A., Austria, Rovea Ernazelle G., Borigas, John Michael E., Acuin, Cecilia S.

“…Exposure data came from the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (NDRRMC) for typhoons and floods, the Philippine Rice Information System (PRISM) of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) for drought, and from the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics- Philippine Statistics Authority (BAS-PSA) for palay production. …”
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The extent of placental pathology is negatively correlated to birth weight in ewes infected with the wild-type strain of Chlamydia abortus por Caspe, Sergio Gaston, Palarea-Albaladejo, Javier, Livingstone, Morag, Wattegedera, Sean Ranjan, Milne, Elspeth, Sargison, Neil Donald, Longbottom, David

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Hypoadrenokorticism hos storpudel por Stafström, Åsa

“…Signs of the disease in the history, clinical findings and clinical pathology at the time of diagnosis were summarized. According to the statistics from Agria the standard poodle has a higher risk to fall ill with hypoadrenocorticism than other breeds. …”

Hopp- och dressyrstammade hästars temperament vid unghästtest por Larsson, Maria, Stenkvist, Martina

“…The description scale A – I was translated from to 1 – 9 in order to perform quantitative statistics. The statistics analyses, Chi-square test, F- and T-test, were made in Excel. …”
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Hästens hudproblem por Hoyle, Christina

“…Euthanasia due to skin disease was registered in 7,1 % of cases, which can be compared to 13, 6 % of horses euthanised because of skin disease according to life insurance claim statistics of Agria (1997-2007). These figures do not include traumatic skin injuries.…”
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Social seed networks and climate change adaptation in East Africa por Zebroski, W.M., Lacasse, H.K., Otieno, G., Reynolds, Travis W., Lavalle, N., Baker-Wacks, E., Klein, E.

“…Current seed sources and climate adaptation strategies were determined by creating summary statistics from the survey data. UCINET network analyses were conducted to acquire a more specific understanding of the current social networks among farmers. …”
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