Resultados de búsqueda - "statistics"

Tractor owner-operators in Nigeria: Insights from a small survey in Kaduna and Nasarawa states por Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Edeh, Hyacinth O., Lawal, Akeem, Isiaka, Moshud

“…Following are the key findings from simple descriptive statistics: (1) owner-operators who buy tractors from the private market or from private individuals are more efficient than those who receive tractors through government programs, providing services to a greater area at lower costs, including during the off-peak season; (2) providing access to a wider range of tractor horsepowers may improve efficiency over diverse soil types; (3) similar to some Asian countries in the 1980s, tractor operations are mostly concentrated in interviewees’ local home districts, though a fraction form groups and serve in distant locations to earn greater revenues.…”
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China has reached the Lewis turning point por Zhang, Xiaobo, Yang, Jin, Wang, Shenglin

“…Yet the poor quality of China's labor statistics leaves the debate open. In this paper, China's position along the Lewis continuum is examined though primary surveys of wage rates, which offer a more reliable statistic than employment data. …”
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Maize consumption estimation and dietary diversity assessment methods in Malawi por Mazunda, John, Droppelmann, Klaus

“…The brief also examines how best to use information from the country’s second Integrated Household Survey to assess the level of dietary diversity in Malawi as a measure of nutrition security. Comparative statistics are applied to assess the reliability and accuracy of available production, consumption, and dietary diversity data, with particular emphasis on maize.…”
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Impact assessment of IFPRI's Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI) Project por Norton, George W.

“…The Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI) initiative at IFPRI is the most comprehensive source of agricultural research statistics for low- and middle-income countries. Since 2001, building on an earlier International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR) effort, ASTI has developed a network of institutional collaborators at national and regional levels who assist in implementing surveys to collect agricultural research investment data in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. …”
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Impact assessment of the IFPRI agricultural science and technology indicators (ASTI) project por Norton, George W.

“…The Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI) initiative at IFPRI is the most comprehensive source of agricultural research statistics for low- and middle-income countries. Since 2001, building on an earlier International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR) effort, ASTI has developed a network of institutional collaborators at national and regional levels who assist in implementing surveys to collect agricultural research investment data in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. …”
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Tracking key CAADP indicators and implementation processes [In the 2024 ATOR] por Tefera, Wondwosen, Guthiga, Paul, Collins, Julia, Makombe, Tsitsi

“…Details of the indicators and aggregate statistics are available in the data tables in Annexes 1–3 of this report. …”
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The 2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment in Sub-Saharan Africa: a synthesis por Badiane, Ousmane, Delgado, Christopher L.

“…A drafting committee of eight Africans from all parts of the region brought together Anglophones and Francophones from both policymaking and research backgrounds. Where useful, statistics and elaborations to flesh out points made by the drafting committee were added later by IFPRI staff, but the tenor of the workshop statement has been maintained. …”
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Poverty mapping with aggregate census data: what is the loss in precision? por Minot, Nicholas, Baulch, Bob

“…In some countries (notably China and India), however, national statistics agencies are reluctant, for reasons of confidentiality, to release household-level census data to outside researchers. …”
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Intrahousehold inequality at different welfare levels: energy intake and energy expenditure data from the Philippines por Haddad, Lawrence James, Kanbur, Ravi, Bouis, Howarth E.

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The dynamic of deforestation and economic growth in the Brazilian Amazon por Andersen, L.E., Granger, C.W.J., Reis, E.J., Weinhold, D., Wunder, Sven

“…It presents summary statistics and analyse trends for a number of important variables as well as developing econometric models to analise policies and compare outcomes under different scenarios. …”
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Forests and poverty alleviation

“…One reason is that the contribution of forests to poor households is largely unrecorded in national statistics, as most of it is for subsistence or for trade on local markets. …”
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The determinants of livestock prices in Niger por Fafchamps, M., Gavian, S.

“…This data is complemented with monthly rainfall by district and published statistics on mineral exports and cereal production.…”
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Report from Households and Water Management Organizations Quantitative Surveys por Buisson, Marie-Charlotte, Mitra, Archisman, Kenia, Nandish

“…Based on the analysis from descriptive statistics, the second part of the report draws the picture of the surveyed areas in terms of poverty levels, domestic and productive water uses, agriculture and aquaculture cropping systems, livelihoods, participation and water management practices. …”
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Impact of small scale irrigation on household poverty: empirical evidence from the Ambo district in Ethiopia por Bacha, D., Namara, Regassa E., Bogale, Ayalneh, Tesfaye, A.

“…Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, the Foster, Greer and Thobeck poverty indices, and Heckman's selectivity model. …”
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Methods, results and policy implications of poverty and food security mapping assessments por Hyman, Glenn G., Larrea, C, Farrow, Andrew

“…Evaluating proximity and accessibility in welfare outcomes can improve our knowledge of poverty patterns and processes. Spatial statistics can enhance our understanding of geographic and neighbourhood effects on poverty and food security outcomes. …”
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The role of pasture and soybean in deforestation of the Brazilian amazon por Barona, Elizabeth, Ramankutty, N, Hyman, Glenn G., Coomes, O.T.

“…In this study, we use municipality-level statistics on agricultural and deforested areas across the Legal Amazon from 2000 to 2006 to examine the spatial patterns and statistical relationships between deforestation and changes in pasture and soybean areas. …”
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Issues and current Developments in the conservation of indigenous African domestic animal diversity por Rege, J.E.O.

“…Additionally, population statistics on the basis of which the extent of threat could be determined is lacking in most cases. …”
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Feeding practices and effects of gastrointestinal parasite infections on live weight gain of small ruminants in smallholder mixed farms in Kenya por Odoi, A., Gathuma, J.M., Gachuiri, C.K., Omore, Amos O.

“…Sampled farms were visited once a month for nine months during which a health and production survey questionnaire was administered, animals weighed and fecal samples taken for fecal egg count. Descriptive statistics and a generalized linear mixed model were performed in SAS. …”
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Report on mapping livelihood and nutrition in Nigeria using data from the national rural livelihoods survey and the national food consumption and nutrition survey por Maziya-Dixon, B.B., Okechukwu, R., Kormawa, P.M., Legg, C., Ofodile, S., Alabi, T.

“…Two country-wide surveys, one on rural livelihoods, poverty and food demand, and the other on food consumption and child nutrition, were carried out in Nigeria by IITA, and the results mapped in order to assist interpretation.The lack of reliable recent census statistics in Nigeria complicates the process of mapping socio-economic variables. …”
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Assessing beekeeping potential in Oyo State, Nigeria por Ayodeji, B.T., Dontsop Nguezet, Paul M., Olalekan, O.S., Roland, O.

“…The non-deterministic nature of producing honey informed the use of stochastic production model to assess beekeepers’ technical efficiency while gross margin analysis was adopted to illuminate how profitable honey production is in the area under consideration. The descriptive statistics revealed important socio-economic attributes of beekeepers in relation to beekeeping while the Maximum Likelihood Estimate (MLE) revealed the technical efficiency deciles of beekers within the production possibility frontier. …”
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