Resultados de búsqueda - "structural adjustment"

Winners and losers of IWRM [Integrated Water Resources Management] in Tanzania por van Koppen, Barbara, Tarimo, A.K.P.R., Eeden, A. van, Manzungu, Emmanuel, Sumuni, P.M.

“…Around 1990, there were both a strong government-led infrastructure development agenda and IWRM ingredients in place, including cost-recovery of state services aligning with the Structural Adjustment Programmes, water management according to basin boundaries and the dormant colonial water rights (permits) system. …”
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Global review of rural community enterprises : the long and winding road to creating viable businesses, and potential shortcuts por Donovan, Jason, Stoian, Dietmar, Poole, Nigel

“…Reduced barriers to trade, including tariffs, quantitative restrictions, and other barriers, provide conditions for enhanced export performance for both traditional and nontra-ditional products. Structural adjustment programs substantially reduced or eliminated state-backed marketing boards and production cooperatives, thus opening new spaces for RCEs in the commercializa-tion of agriculture and forest products. …”
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Exploring the political economy of everyday life on the Costa Rican frontier from agrarian reform to the pineapple boom por Shaver, Irene

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Community-level relationships between prime age mortality and rural welfare: Panel survey evidence from Zambia por Jayne, Thomas S., Chapoto, Antony, Byron, Elizabeth, Ndiyoi, Mukelabai, Hamazakaza, Petan, Kadiyala, Suneetha, Gillespie, Stuart

“…These maize marketing policies in Zambia were either eliminated or scaled back significantly starting in the early 1990s as part of economy-wide structural adjustment programs. These policy changes clearly reduced the financial profitability of growing maize in the more remote areas where maize production was formerly buoyed by pan-territorial pricing, and has shifted cropping incentives toward other food crops such as cassava (Jayne et al).…”
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Insect pests and diseases in Indonesian forest: an assessment of the major threats, research efforts and literature por Nair, K.S.S.

“…The factors driving the upsurge in the woodcraft industry are: (1) the increased demand by tourists; and (2) the need by rural households to find cash income sources. The structural adjustment programme, with one of its emphases being the decontrol of the currency, has probably played a key role in driving the rise in woodcraft production. …”
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Policy-Oriented Research Impact Assessment (PORIA) case study on the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Mexican PROGRESA anti-poverty and human resource i... por Behrman, Jere R.

“…Therefore, it might not be misleading to attribute a very small part of the PROGRESA benefits to better design based on IFPRI's prior research contributions on a number of related topics. (2) IFPRI presented advantages in terms of (i) type of organization (neither appearing to be a captive of national interests nor identified with structural adjustment or multilateral lending); (ii) reputation and credibility for solid scientific analysis of relevant policy-related issues enhanced by the addition of some prominent academic researchers; and (iii) aspects of management including flexibility, reliability, and relatively low costs. …”
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La articulación de los actores del desarrollo con los programas de intervención del INTA. El caso de las comunidades campesinas del Dpto. San Martín-Salta por Quintana, Aldo Omar

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¿Cómo influye la diversificación de los ingresos rurales en la eficiencia técnica agrícola de los pequeños agricultores? Evidencia de Colombia por Polo Murcia, Sonia Mercedes, Teran Chaves, Cesar Augusto

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Evaluación Multifuncional De Sistemas Agrícolas Campesinos De Caña Panelera En Cinco Municipios Paneleros De Cundinamarca, Colombia por Córdoba Rojas, Sergio Andrés, Forero Camacho, César Augusto, Rivas Guzmán, Álvaro

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Risk and uncertainty in domestic production and prices por Hazell, Peter B. R.

“…For example, crops may be totally destroyed by hurricane, fire, drought, pests, or diseases, and product prices may plummet because of structural adjustments in world markets.…”
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Effects of water scarcity on the performances of the agricultural sector and adaptation strategies in Tunisia por Chebil, Ali, Frija, Aymen, Makhlouf, Mariem, Thabet, Chokri, Jebari, Sihem

“…However, it is always possible to mitigate such effects through a combination of structural adjustments (changing land use in different regions), enhanced water use efficiency, and support of producer prices. …”
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Technical Advisory Committee Sixty-Fourth Meeting, 20-26 June 1994: Report of the Meeting por CGIAR Technical Advisory Committee

“…McCalla reported that he had revised his paper on structural adjustments in the CGIAR under resource constraints in response to concerns of CGIAR Chairman Serageldin that the earlier draft might harm his effort to rebuild financial support. …”
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Household socio-economic position and individual infectious disease risk in rural Kenya por Glanville, William A. de, Thomas, Lian F., Cook, Elizabeth A.J., Bronsvoort, B.M. de C., Wamae, N.C., Kariuki, S., Fèvre, Eric M.

“…We demonstrate the existence of a household socio-economic gradient within a rural farming community in Kenya which impacts upon individual infectious disease risk. Structural adjustments that seek to reduce poverty, and therefore the socio-economic inequalities that exist in this community, would be expected to substantially reduce overall infectious disease burden. …”
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Can Private Sector fill the gap in Agricultural Extension? por Babu, Suresh Chandra

“…By: Suresh Babu The structural adjustments of the 1980s and 1990s led to drastic fiscal cuts in financing of public extension systems causing their near collapse in many developing countries. …”
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Rural institutions and producer organizations in imperfect markets: experiences from producer marketing groups in semi-arid eastern Kenya por Shiferaw, Bekele A., Obare, G. A., Muricho, Geoffrey

“…New kinds of institutional arrangements are needed to reduce these costs and fill the vacuum left when governments withdrew from markets in the era of structural adjustments. One of these institutional innovations has been the strengthening of producer organizations and formation of collective marketing groups as instruments to remedy pervasive market failures in rural economies. …”
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Marginal abatement cost of agricultural carbon emissions in China: 1993-2015 por Wu, Xianrong, Zhang, Junbiao, You, Liangzhi

“…The study also provides a reference emission right price and provides guidance to make use of cropping structure adjustment and optimization for exploring the emission reduction strategy.…”
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Political Economy of the Wheat Sector in Uzbekistan Seed Systems, Variety Adoption and Impacts por Yigezu, Yigezu, Bishaw, Zewdie, Niane, Abdoul Aziz, Nurbekov, Aziz

“…After its independence in 1991, Uzbekistan’s access to strategic food imports became less secure due to the abolition of the centrally coordinated commodity supply and subsidy systems between Russia and its Soviet Socialist Republics. Subsequent structural adjustments by the former Soviet republics made the contracting system less reliable and reduced regional trade. …”
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