Search Results - "subjectivity"

Ghana Decentralization and Agricultural Services Household Survey by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Perspectives on Local Government and Decentralization (LG) - subjective views about how well local government is functioning and preferences for investment in respondent’s community 7. …”
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Enhanced Access to the CGIAR Virtual Library via Social Media by Ferreyra, Cecilia, Ramos, Mila, Álvare, Luz Marina

“…The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) has been very active in generating new agricultural knowledge through researches on diverse subjects undertaken by its fifteen agricultural research centers located in various parts of the world. …”
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Resource management under climatic risk: a case study from Niger by McCarthy, Nancy, Vanderlinden, Jean-Paul

“…In this article, we develop an empirical model of an agro-pastoral system subject to high climatic risk in order to test the impact of rainfall variability on livestock densities, land allocation patterns and herd mobility observed at the community level. …”
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Development domains for Ethiopia: capturing the geographical context of smallholder development options by Chamberlin, Jordan, Pender, John L., Yu, Bingxin

“…Unlike similar efforts conducted elsewhere, this work is unique in that it seeks to move away from a subjective mapping of factors of theorized importance to a more rigorous definition of development domains on the basis of quantitative data on smallholder livelihood strategies. …”
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Marker assisted foreground selection for identification of aromatic rice genotype to develop a modern aromatic line by Salam, M.A., Islam, M.R., Diba, Sk. F., Hossain, Md. M.

“…At 1st season 160 true F1 and then in the next season 134 BC1F1 Plant were developed, which were subjected to foreground selection; the first level of selection of marker assisted backcrossing program. …”
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Diagnosing the barriers faced by rural communities in building disaster and climate resilience in Zimbabwe by Nyahunda, L.

“…Community members, disaster risk reduction and climate change practitioners and traditional leaders were purposively sampled to share their insights on the subject matter. A total of 32 respondents participated in the study. …”
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Cash, food, and vouchers: An overview of the evidence by Leight, Jessica, Gentilini, Ugo

“…The choice of different modalities for transferring resources to extremely poor households—food provided in-kind, cash, or intermediate modalities such as vouchers—has long been the subject of active debate in both policy and research. …”
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Heavy metal contamination in urban agriculture: Evidence from Nairobi by Murphy, Mike, Wachira, Githenya, Onyango, Cecilia, Hoffmann, Vivian

“…Agricultural production in urban areas plays an important role in food systems in low- and middle-income countries but also may also be subject to significant environmental hazards. We analyze samples of leafy greens grown on farms in Nairobi County selected via random geographical sampling for three heavy metals harmful to human health (lead, cadmium, and mercury). …”
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Status Report: Development of management, diagnostics and monitoring systems to support the use of regulated non-quarantine weedy wild rice genetic resources for breakthrough innov... by Castellion, Martina

“…In the Philippines, the management of wild rice is subject to national legal and biosafety obligations, including the Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act of 2001 (Republic Act No. 9147) and the mandates of the National Committee on Biosafety of the Philippines (NCBP) under Executive Order No. 430. …”
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Land-cover change trajectories in Southern Cameroon by Mertens, B., Lambin, E.F.

“…A significant proportion of the areas subject to a land-cover conversion experienced other changes in the following years. …”
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Tenure and management of non-state forests in China since 1950: a historical review by Liu Dachang

“…Even so this is not sufficient to achieve the desired results in the case of timber trees. These trees are subject to many regulations that discourage investment in them. …”
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Native tourism, natural forests and local incomes on Ilha Grande, Brazil by Wunder, Sven

“…Obviously not, since limits are subjective and differ enormously between, on the one hand, the low-spending students – and the camping ground owners catering to them – and, on the other, the higher middle-class tourist – and the up-market hostel owners with considerable investments at stake. …”
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Kebakaran di lahan rawa/gambut di Sumatera: masalah dan solusi: prosiding semiloka, Palembang, Sumatera Selatan, 10 - 11 Desember 2003 by Suyanto, S., Chokkalingam, U., Wibowo, P.

“…There is an urgent and critical need to identify, assess and resolve the problem fires; and work towards sustainable development and conservation of wetland resources.This book documents the insights and perspectives of different stakeholders in the wetlands of Sumatra on the key fire issues and their possible solutions in four common settings - a) Plantation and estate crop development, b) Remaining protection and production forests, c) Deforested wetlands mainly subject to local community use, and d) Transmigration agricultural development. …”
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Green and black gold in rural Cameroon: natural resources for local governance, justice and sustainability by Oyono, P.R., Ribot, J.C., Larson, A.M.

“…In most cases, local actors--the local communities in this case--have not received significant decision-making powers, and they remain subjected to decisions of external administrative bodies, municipal authorities, and timber companies. …”
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Importance of crop residues in crop–livestock systems in India and farmers’ perceptions of fodder quality in coarse cereals by Parthasarathy Rao, P., Hall, A.J.

“…While the nutritive value of fodder from dual-purpose crops can be determined through in vivo and in vitro analysis, such experimental procedures cannot necessarily capture the often-subjective quality attributes that farmers (and their animals) value. …”
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Assessing the impact of CIFOR’s influence on policy and practice in the Indonesian pulp and paper sector by Raitzer, David A.

“…To address these uncertainties, this Impact Assessment Paper explores a case example of the contribution of policy oriented research to improved environmental benefits. The subject of the assessment is political economy research that revealed how perverse incentives led to the clearance of large areas of natural forests for feeding massive Indonesian pulp mills. …”
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La producción de maracuyá (passiflora edulis) en Colombia: perspectivas para la conservación del hábitat a través del servicio de polinización by Calle, Z., Guariguata, Manuel R., Giraldo, E., Chará, J.

“…In Valle, pollination is manually applied to complement insect pollination, and cultivation areas are more isolated from natural or semi-natural forests, have a higher density and are subjected to more frequent pesticide application than in Huila and Meta. …”
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Village Baseline Study: Site Analysis Report for Albertine Rift – Hoima, Uganda by Onyango, Leah, Mango, Joash, Bukenya, C., Kurui, Zena, Wamubeyi, B., Birungi, P., Barongo V

“…Wetlands are also increasingly subjected to overexploitation and pollution from brewing and other activities. …”
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Food security and global environmental change by Ingram, J., Ericksen, Polly J., Liverman, D.

“…Most other books addressing the subject concentrate on the links between climate change and agricultural production, and do not extend to an analysis of the wider food system which underpins food security; this book addresses the broader issues, based on a novel food system concept and stressing the need for actions at a regional, rather than just an international or local, level. …”
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Classification of Erythrina provenances by rumen degradation characteristics of dry matter and nitrogen by Larbi, Asamoah, Kurdi, I.O., Said, A.N., Hanson, Jean

“…Degradation parameters (i.e. soluble fraction (a), slowly degradable fraction (b) rate of degradation (c) and extent of degradation (a+b) were estimated for twenty Erythrina provenances beloging to seven species (E. abyssinica, E. bentipoeme, E. brucei, E. burana, E. melanacantha, E. poeppigiana and E. variegata)). The data were subjected to principal component and cluster analyses for grouping, and the 20 provenances were placed into four distinct cluster groups. …”
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