Resultados de búsqueda - "status quo"

Farmers’ behaviour in risky decision-making por Enström, Martin, Eriksson, Johan

“…It also contributes with a suggestion to include the factor of status quo, to describe the farmers’ behaviour in their continued decision to purchase a crop insurance. …”
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Market opportunities for Ugandan banana products: national, regional, and global perspectives por Kiiza, B., Abele, S., Kalyebara, R.

“…The paper discusses the findings of initial surveys on the status quo of banana marketing in Uganda. During a farm and household survey, data on banana supply, marketing and demand have beencollected and analysed. …”
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Elaborating institutional arrangements to better enhance sustainable crop intensification in Uganda: a farmers’ perspective por Pali, P.N., Tebeka, Y.A., Schut, Marc, Mangheni, Margaret Najjingo, Wairegi, L.W.I., Manyong, Victor, Asten, Piet J.A. van

“…There is a need for innovation within existing institutions, and a status quo of institutional arrangements that would better respond to smallholders' needs.…”
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Insecticide use on vegetables in Ghana: Would GM seed benefit farmers? por Horna, Daniela, Smale, Melinda, Al-Hassan, Ramatu M., Falck-Zepeda, José B., Timpo, Samuel E.

“…A stochastic budget analysis also indicates a higher rate of return to vegetable production with the use of resistant seeds relative to the status quo, even considering the technology transfer fee for GM seed. …”
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Impact of a randomized controlled trial in arsenic risk communication on household water-source choices in Bangladesh por Bennear, L., Tarozzi, A., Pfaff, A., Balasubramanya, Soumya, Ahmed, K.M., Geen, A. van

“…The main policy implication of this finding is that a one-time oral message conveying richer information on arsenic risks, while inexpensive and easily scalable, is unlikely to be successful in reducing exposure relative to the status-quo policy.…”
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Ajuda em sementes para seguranca em sementes: conselhos para practicantes por International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…No. 5 focuses on the opportunities and risks of using seed aid to move beyond the status quo ante by introducing seed of new varieties (or indeed, new crops altogether). …”
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Marketing information operation in Ethiopia with special reference to the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX) coffee trading por Girma Nigussie, Kinato

“…A new economic sociology approach takes the analysis beyond the logistical bottlenecks to reveal the motivations and interests of particular chain actors and their influence in allowing for change or maintaining the status quo. …”

Insect pests affecting potatoes in tropical, subtropical, and temperate regions por Kroschel, Jürgen, Mujica, N., Okonya, J., Alyokhin, A.

“…To address this need, the chapter provides detailed information for a total of 49 insect pests of potato and the status quo of their management around the world.…”
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Valuation of access to irrigation water in rural Ethiopia: application of choice experiment and contingent valuation methods por Mekonnen, A., Gebreegziabher, Z., Hagos, Fitsum

“…Unlike previous studies, this study covers current users and non-users of irrigation water using the same baseline (status quo) conditions — no irrigation — and compares the preferences of these two groups. …”
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Unrelenting games: Multiple negotiations and landscape transformations in the tropical peatlands of Central Kalimantan, Indonesia por Sanders, A.J.P., Ford, R.M., Mulyani, L., Prasti H., R.D., Larson, A.M., Jagau, Y., Keenan, R.J.

“…These findings show that attempts to implement pre-determined plans or apply global environmental goals at resource frontiers will become entangled in fluid and messy negotiations over land, rather than achieving any desired new status quo.…”
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Gender in agriculture and food systems: An Evidence Gap Map por Leveraging Evidence for Access and Development

“…The 2007-2008 global food-price crisis disproportionately affected women, particularly smallholder women farmers (Sexsmith et al. 2017).1 The subsequent responses by governments, multilateral agencies and other institutions over the last decade do not seem to have had the intended effect of addressing underlying power imbalances in agriculture and food systems (Botreau and Cohen 2020).2 CGIAR has been at the forefront of a mission to change the status-quo through impactful gender research. The CGIAR Generating Evidence and New Directions for Equitable Results (GENDER) Platform catalyzes targeted research on gender equality in agriculture and food systems and collaborates with decision-makers to achieve a new normal: a world in which gender equality drives a transformation towards equitable, sustainable, productive and climate-resilient food systems. …”
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Policy gaps and food systems optimization: a review of agriculture, environment, and health policies in South Africa por Hlahla, S., Ngidi, M., Duma, S. E., Sobratee-Fajurally, N., Modi, Albert Thembinkosi, Slotow, R., Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe

“…A systemic analysis of the review outcomes was performed to identify its main learning outcome, the status quo in the policy process. The nature of feedback loops was identified, and a leverage point was suggested. …”
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In pursuit of votes: The capture of the allocation of local public goods by the central state in Ghana por Horowitz, Leah, Palaniswamy, Nethra

“…This evidence makes a compelling case for both the impact of these informal institutions on political incentives and their role in complementing formal institutions and shaping the status quo when formal venues are absent or weak. How much do these formal institutions matter? …”
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Food System Actors engaged in the cocreation of agroecological innovations: Results of three years of engagement in eight countries por Staiger, Simone, Orjuela, Guillermo

“…At the core of the Initiative is the necessity to generate scientific evidence that shows how agroecological principles applied in different socio-ecological systems are better able to provide equity, productivity, economic and environmental benefits than alternatives, including the status quo. The engagement takes place in Agroecological Living Landscapes (ALLs) that are formed in selected territories of each country with diverse food system actors (FSA): farmer associations or communities, researchers from multiple disciplines, extensionists, private companies, international and national non-governmental organizations as well as local, regional, and national policymakers. …”
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Status, trends and future scenarios for forest conservation including protected areas in the Asia-Pacific region por Paine, J. R., Byron, R.N., Poffenberger, M.

“…This paper attempts to assesses future prospects for forest conservation, especially protected areas, in the Asia-Pacific region to the year 2010, under three scenarios assuming: - continuation of the present level of action and policy environment ('status quo'); - sustained environmental campaigns and a heightened role for conservation than exists at present; and - negative changes in policy and action related to conservation. …”
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Multilevel stakeholder influence mapping in climate change adaptation regimes por Sova, Chase, Chaudhury, Abrar S., Helfgott, Ariella E.S.

“…In doing so, they have shed light on persistent inequalities in status quo development regimes and asymmetrical power balances between stakeholders. …”
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Scenario planning for community development in Vietnam: a new tool for integrated health approaches? por Nguyen, V., Hung Nguyen-Viet, Phuc Pham Duc, Weise, M.

“…This involved choosing boundary partners, negotiating priorities, drawing out participant learning through self-assessment of our process (a prerequisite for changing mental models and thus achieving outcomes), and understanding how conveyed messages may reinforce the status quo. These insights showed the importance of examining research results beyond outputs and outcomes, namely through process.…”
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Credit access by smallholder livestock producers and implications for technology adoption: Policy options for improving the credit delivery system in South Vietnam. por Ho Cao Viet, Lapar, Ma. Lucila, Aragón, C.

“…Then it discusses the policy environment for credit in Vietnam; review of credit policies and documents related to existing credit delivery systems; status quo of the credit system in Vietnam; demand for capital by rural areas and farmer households; smallholder farmers'access to credit; the main constraints of the credit system in Vietnam; a case study of credit delivery system in South Vietnam; the credit delivery system in Dong Tam village; income and expenditures; use of the Loan; factors determining access to credit by farmers in Dong Tam village; land title as collateral: the missing element; and an assessment of the existing credit delivery system. …”
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Seed aid for seed security: advice for practitioners por International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Catholic Relief Services, CARE Norway

“…No. 5 focuses on the opportunities and risks of using seed aid to move beyond the status quo ante by introducing seed of new varieties (or indeed, new crops altogether). …”
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Aide semenciere pour une securite semenciere: a l'intention des intervenants por International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…No. 5 focuses on the opportunities and risks of using seed aid to move beyond the status quo ante by introducing seed of new varieties (or indeed, new crops altogether). …”
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