Resultados de búsqueda - "wealth"

Research futures: Projecting agricultural R&D potentials for Latin America and the Caribbean por Pardey, Philip G., Wood, Stanley, Hertford, Reed

“…To inform research policy decisions, the book provides a wealth of newly digested information about trends in agricultural production, productivity, consumption, and trade for the region, placing those trends in a comparative international context. …”
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An experiment on the impact of weather shocks and insurance on risky investment por Hill, Ruth Vargas, Viceisza, Angelino

“…We explore the mechanisms of this relationship and find that it may be the result of both changes in wealth weather brings about and changes in perceptions of the costs and benefits of fertilizer purchases.…”
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What Dimensions of Women’s Empowerment Matter Most for Child Nutrition? Evidence Using Nationally Representative Data from Bangladesh por Bhagowalia, Priya, Menon, Purnima, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Soundararajan, Vidhya

“…All models control for age and sex of the child, household wealth, and region. Results from logit models indicate that both a greater degree of women’s empowerment and greater maternal endowments are associated with better long-term nutritional status of children.…”
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Aspirations in rural Pakistan: An empirical analysis por Kosec, Katrina, Hameed, Madeeha, Hausladen, Stephanie

“…Using respondents’ answers to questions about their aspirations in four dimensions (income, wealth, education, and social status), we constructed an index similar to those used by Beaman et al. (2012) and Bernard and Seyoum Taffesse (2012) to measure aspirations levels. …”
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Insurance motives to remit: Evidence from a matched sample of Ethiopian internal migrants por de Brauw, Alan, Mueller, Valerie, Woldehanna, Tassew

“…Descriptive statistics suggest remitters are positively selected in terms of wealth characteristics compared with the average tracked migrant. …”
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Insurance motives to remit: Evidence from a matched sample of Ethiopian internal migrants por de Brauw, Alan, Mueller, Valerie, Woldehanna, Tassew

“…Descriptive statistics suggest remitters are positively selected in terms of wealth characteristics compared with the average tracked migrant. …”
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Trade liberalization and food security in Nepal por Pyakuryal, Bishwambher, Thapa, Ganesh B., Roy, Devesh

“…Nepal is a least developed country with a gross national product of US $235 per capita in 2001 and second lowest per capita wealth in the world. In South Asia, Nepal has the lowest per capita income, highest dependence of population on agriculture and second highest poverty rate. …”
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Mining for allelic gold: finding genetic variation in photosynthetic traits in crops and wild relatives por Sharwood, Robert E., Quick, W. Paul, Sargent, Demi, Estavillo, Gonzalo M., Silva-Perez, Viridiana, Furbank, Robert T.

“…However, large ‘gene bank’ collections of germplasm comprising historical collections of crop species and their relatives offer a wealth of opportunities to find novel allelic variation in the key steps of photosynthesis, to identify new mechanisms and to accelerate genetic progress in crop breeding programmes. …”
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How much do our neighbors really know? The limits of community-based targeting por Trachtman, Carly, Permana, Yudistira Hendra, Sahadewo, Gumilang Aryo

“…We find little evidence that community-held welfare information better reflects transitory shocks and find that targeting decisions mostly depend on perceived differences in overall wealth. JEL Codes: O12, I32, D83…”
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The role of bamboo plantations in rural development: the case of Anji County, Zhejiang, China por Ruíz Pérez, M., Zhong, M., Belcher, B., Xie, C., Fu Maoyi, Xie, J.

“…Development groups have proposed bamboo production as an opportunity for increasing the wealth of the low-income groups. This paper is a study of the household economy of 200 bamboo farmers in eight township of Anji County in China. …”
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Scoring the importance of tropical forest landscapes with local people: patterns and insights por Sheil, Douglas, Liswanti, N.

“…The consistency of scoring results increases in line with community literacy and wealth. Various benefits and pitfalls are identified and examined. …”
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Social accounting matrices for development planning por Pyatt, G., Round, J.I.

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Mekong hydropower: drivers of change and governance challenges por Grumbine, R. Edward, Dore, John, Jianchu Xu

“…However, as many as 12 additional projects, which would generate substantial energy and wealth especially for Cambodia and Laos, are currently in the proposal stage for the Lower Mekong (LM). …”
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Market access, intensification and productivity of Common bean in Ethiopia: a microeconomic analysis por Katungi, E, Horna, D, Gebeyehu, S, Sperling, L.

“…Access to credit, extension and household wealth are other factors that facilitate common bean intensification while risk increasing factors constrain it.…”
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The joint project on Vertisols management retrospect and prospects por Abebe, M., Jutzi, S.C.

“…Seven years after its initiation, the Joint Vertisol Project has acquired a wealth of experiences which provide important lessons for future direction of its own programme and for similar activities elsewhere.…”
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Livestock resources and sustainable development in Africa por Rege, J.E.O., Bester, J.

“…They also supply such non-food items as hides, skins, wool, transportation and fuel (from dung), convert crop residues and fibre materials of no value into protein of high quality, serve as a store of wealth and as a means of meeting various social obligations in traditional society and are a major source of revenue and export earnings for many countries. …”
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Measurement of competitiveness in smallholder livestock systems and emerging policy advocacy: An application to Botswana por Bahta, Sirak T., Malope, P.

“…Considering the importance of livestock sector for wealth creation and poverty eradication in the rural areas where poverty is more pronounced, there is a need for appropriate development strategies and policies directed towards addressing these factors. …”
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Fighting poverty, hunger and malnutrition with neglected and underutilized species: needs, challenges and the way forward por Padulosi, S., Bioversity International, Thompson, J., Rudebjer, P.G.

“…Many of these varieties and species, along with a wealth of traditional knowledge about their cultivation and use, are being lost at an alarming rate. …”
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Challenging orthodoxies: Understanding poverty in pastoral areas of East Africa por Little, P.D., McPeak, J.G., Barrett, Christopher B., Kristjanson, Patricia M.

“…It argues that current poverty debates `homogenize' the concept of `pastoralist' by failing to acknowledge the diverse livelihoods and wealth differentiation that fall under the term. The article concludes that what is not needed is another development label (stereotype) that equates pastoralism with poverty, thereby empowering outside interests to transform rather than strengthen pastoral livelihoods.…”
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Central Africa - Agricultural trade policy debates and developments: Agritrade Executive Brief Update 2013 por Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, Eastern Africa Grain Council

“…Central African countries have differentiated interests in the agricultural sector according to their levels of urbanisation, availability of agricultural land and level of oil wealth. Yet, a common feature in all of these countries is the insufficient level of local production to meet consumer needs, giving rise to a dependence on extra-regional imports. …”
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