Resultados de búsqueda - "systematics"

Empowerment Beyond the Household: Measuring and Comparing the Collective Agency of Groups and Individuals por Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., ElDidi, Hagar, Pereira, Audrey, Heckert, Jessica, Kosec, Katrina, Nchanji, Eileen Bogweh, Seymour, Greg

“…Lack of clarity about the underlying concepts of collective agency, collective efficacy and collective action hampers efforts to develop systematic measures. This has resulted in a limited evidence base about the effectiveness and equity of different group-based approaches and governance arrangements for empowering women of different backgrounds beyond the household. …”
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Ethiopian Digital Agro-Climate Advisory Platform (EDACaP) Improvement: Progress and Lessons por Ahmed, Jemal Seid, Sotelo, Steven, Tesfaye, Kindie, Tamene, Lulseged D., Ramirez, Julian

“…This report presents the advancements and efforts made to systematically upgrade the Ethiopian Digital Agro-climate Advisory Platform (EDACaP) under the AICCRA-Ethiopia project. …”
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Metrics for optimum allocation of resources on the composition and characterization of crop collections: The CIMMYT wheat collection as a proof of concept por Reyes-Valdés, M. Humberto, Burgueño, Juan, Sansaloni, Carolina Paola, Payne, Thomas S., Pacheco Gil, R. Angela, González-Cortés, Areli

“…However, genebanks tend to accumulate materials without systematic collection growth. Thus, tools for optimizing collections are expected to help improvement of genebanks quality. …”
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Characterizing farm households in Surkhet, Western Nepal, through a quantitative farming systems typology por Zepeda, Adair, Cheesman, Stephanie, Neupane, Nilhari, Shrestha, Nirman, Shrestha, Ram Narayan, Amjath-Babu, T. S., Karki, Saral, Gathala, Mahesh Kumar, Krupnik, Timothy J., López Ridaura, Santiago

“…The development of typologies is a methodological approach to systematically arrange and interpret data associated with the categorization of groups of variables. …”
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Genome-wide characterization of the CPA gene family in potato and a preliminary functional analysis of its role in NaCl tolerance por Liu, J., Li, D., Wang, J., Wang, Q., Guo, X., Fu, Q., Kear, P., Zhu, G., Yang, X.

“…However, in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.), systematic identification and analysis of CPA genes are lacking. …”
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Irrigation and agricultural transformation in Ethiopia por Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework, Abate, Gashaw T., Yimam, Seid

“…This study analyzes the role of irrigation on agricultural transformation in Ethiopia by systematically comparing households with irrigated and non-irrigated plots on key agricultural transformation and welfare indictors (i.e., intensification, commercialization, and consumption expenditures). …”
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COVID-19 and food (in)security in Africa: Review of the emerging empirical evidence por Tabe-Ojong, Martin Paul Jr., Nshakira-Rukundo, Emmanuel, Gebrekidan, Bisrat Haile

“…COVID-19 risks rolling back many of the efforts and global successes recorded in reducing poverty and food insecurity. We undertake a systematic review of the growing microeconomic literature on the association between COVID-19 and food (in)security in Africa, discussing its implications for food policy and research. …”
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Plant different, eat different? Insights from participatory agricultural research por Azzarri, Carlo, Haile, Beliyou, Letta, Marco

“…Relative to staple cereals such as maize, legumes are rich in micronutrients, contain better-quality protein, and lead to nitrogen fixation. Given the systematic difference we document between program beneficiaries and randomly sampled non-beneficiary (control) households, we employ causal instrumental variables mediation analysis to account for non-random selection and possible simultaneity between production and consumption decisions. …”
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Spousal concordance in joint and separate households: Survey evidence from Nepal por Ambler, Kate, Doss, Cheryl R., Kieran, Caitlin, Passarelli, Simone

“…We find that discordance regarding wives’ asset ownership and decision making is both substantial and systematic. Wives are much more likely than husbands to report their own participation in asset ownership and decision making, in both joint and separate households. …”
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Food prices and the wages of the poor: A cost-effective addition to high-frequency food security monitoring por Headey, Derek D., Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane, Marshall, Quinn, Raghunathan, Kalyani, Mahrt, Kristi

“…Yet surprisingly, timely high-frequency indicators of food affordability are rarely collected in any systematic fashion despite price volatility emerging as major source of food insecurity in the 21st Century. …”
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A review of leadership and capacity gaps in nutrition-sensitive agricultural policies and strategies for selected countries in sub-saharan Africa and Asia por Aryeetey, Richmond, Covic, Namukolo

“…Additionally, a rapid systematic review of published peer-reviewed and grey literature was carried out to identify capacity gaps based on the United Nations Development Program’s capacity assessment framework.We found that there is nutrition sensitivity of the policies and strategies but to varying degrees. …”
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How accurate are yield estimates from crop cuts? Evidence from smallholder maize farms in Ethiopia por Kosmowski, Frederic, Chamberlin, Jordan, Ayalew, Hailemariam, Sida, Tesfaye, Abay, Kibrom A., Craufurd, Peter

“…We find that randomly positioned quadrants outperform systematic sampling schemes: the random octant had the best accuracy and was the most cost-effective. …”
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Nobody left behind? Equity and the drivers of stunting reduction in Vietnamese ethnic minority populations por Harris, Jody, Huynh, Phuong, Nguyen, Hoa T., Hoang, Nga, Tran, Lan Mai, Tuyen, Le Danh, Nguyen, Phuong Hong

“…Vietnam has successfully reduced population stunting, but ethnic minority groups are being systematically left behind, limiting progress on national reductions. …”
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Exploring the drivers of malnutrition in West Africa from health and social science perspectives: A comparative methodological review por Salm, Leah, Verstraeten, Roosmarijn, Nisbett, Nicholas, Booth, Andrew

“…The objective of this systematic mapping review is to map the broad drivers of malnutrition in West Africa, from public health and social science perspectives, and to evaluate the additional value of an interdisciplinary approach. …”
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Irrigation and agricultural transformation in Ethiopia por Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework, Abate, Gashaw T., Yimam, Seid

“…This study analyzes the role of irrigation on agricultural transformation in Ethiopia by systematically comparing households with irrigated and non-irrigated plots on key agricultural transformation and welfare indictors (i.e., intensification, commercialization, and consumption expenditures). …”
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Evaluating the effects of interventions with women’s groups on health outcomes: Resources for programme planners and evaluators por Desai, Sapna, Gram, Lu, Kumar, Neha, Prost, Audrey

“…Orton and colleagues’ review of evaluations of microfinance-based groups found that 17 of 31 evaluations were of low quality, mostly due to selection bias. A systematic review of 44 studies in India found that one in three experimental and quasiexperimental studies were at high risk of bias due to selection bias, failure to pre-specify primary outcomes, and not accounting for missing data (Desai et al., 2020). …”
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A network-driven data collection approach for agri-food value chains por Ambler, Kate, Bloem, Jeffrey R., de Brauw, Alan, Herskowitz, Sylvan, Wagner, Julia

“…A key challenge in systematically collecting data on intermediary agri-food value chain actors is that value chains take the form of a network, with actors linked by a series of transactions. …”
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Unpacking scaling in agricultural research for development: The role of social capital por Martinez-Baron, Deissy, Gravsholt Busck, Anne, Prager, Steven D.

“…Scaling consists of a continuous process in which innovations are tailored, used, and embedded into societal dynamics adapted to various contexts, aiming to create widespread positive impacts. This systematic literature review explores scaling within the context of AR4D, with a particular focus on the role of social capital. …”
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Pigeonpea Productivity and Parameters por Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Agriculture Extension Services, Michigan State University

“…The project is setting up a research approach that systematically assesses SI best-bet options that appropriately respond to the needs of resource-poor farmers - particularly female headed households. …”
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Malawi: Phosphorus Fertilization in Legume Systems por World Agroforestry Centre, International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources

“…The project is setting up a research approach that systematically assesses SI best-bet options that appropriately respond to the needs of resource-poor farmers - particularly female headed households. …”
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