Resultados de búsqueda - "wealth"

The effect of environmental variability on livestock and land-use management: the Borana Plateau, Southern Ethiopia por McCarthy, Nancy, Kamara, Abdul, Kirk, Michael

“…Results indicate that cooperation is positively related to factors that increase the profitability of livestock, but negatively related to the total number of households, the use of community pastures by non-community members, and heterogeneity of wealth within the community.…”
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Childcare and work: joint decisions among women in poor neighborhoods of Guatemala City por Hallman, Kelly, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Ruel, Marie T., de la Briere, Benedicte

“…Maternal education is an important determinant of utilization of formal day care, but does not have large effects on whether she works for pay or not. Higher household wealth reduces her chances of working, presumably via an income effect. …”
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How reliable are group informant ratings?: a test of food security rating in Honduras por Bergeron, Gilles, Morris, Saul Sutkover, Banegas, Juan Manuel Medina

“…The reliability of food security rating, a variant of the more familiar wealth ranking procedure, was tested in a rural area of Western Honduras. …”
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Public agricultural research in Latin America and the Caribbean: Investment and capacity trends por Stads, Gert-Jan, Beintema, Nienke M.

“…The countries of Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) represent a wealth of natural resources; the world’s greatest agrobiodiversity; and immense economic, social, and environmental diversity. …”
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Mapping energy use portfolios and household outcomes in Nepal: Insights from farm and household surveys in the Terai and the Mid-hills por Alvi, Muzna, Sufian, Farha, Singh, Tushar

“…Our research highlights the significant disparities in energy access between different geographical regions and wealth quintiles. Beyond infrastructure, we explore how energy technologies interact with dietary diversity, women's empowerment, and agricultural productivity. …”
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Ex-ante impact of school feeding scaling on the Fatick (Senegal) local inclusive economy: An evaluation on income and employment por Fall, Modou Gueye, Ba, Koki, Ndour, Maimouna, Diene, Rokhaya, Faye, Daouda, Sall, Moussa, Diakhaté, Pape Bilal, Camara, Astou Diao, Cesaro, Jean-Daniel

“…The results show that this initiative will make milk production and processing activities profitable, which were previously loss-making, with an annual wealth creation estimated at more than 8,950,000 FCFA. …”
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The market for onions or lemons? Import substitution and consumer preferences in Senegal por Feyaerts, Hendrik, Maertens, Miet

“…Heterogeneity in preferences for intrinsic onion quality is linked to socio-economic status (income and wealth), residence, access to refrigeration, access to information, and differences in quality perceptions towards local versus imported onions.…”
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An atlas of the Ethiopian rural economy: expanding the range of available information for development planning por Chamberlin, Jordan, Tadesse, Mulugeta, Benson, Todd, Zakaria, Samia

“…In many countries, there is a wealth of valuable and spatially explicit information that could enlarge and deepen such an understanding. …”
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New and improved varieties for everyone? Gendered patterns of wheat varietal turnover among social groups in the Indian state of Bihar por Herforth, Nico, Gartaula, Hom Nath

“…At the same time, the Indian wheat sector is characterized by deep-rooted social inequalities, pronounced by the social differentiation of wheat farmers, such as gender, caste or ethnicity, wealth, and their intersectionalities. This article asks whether these social groups are excluded from the adoption of new and improved wheat varieties. …”
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The Post-Malabo results framework por African Union Development Agency

“…This record includes the reports of several working groups: WG2 - Enhancing Investment Finance in Agrifood Systems; WG3 - Food Security, Nutrition, Health and Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures; WG4 - Emerging Technologies, Biotechnologies, Artificial Intelligence and Productivity Growth; WG5 - Inclusive and Sustainable AgroIndustrialization for Structural Transformation and Wealth Creation …”
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Systems approaches to support transitions towards resilient and sustainable farm and food systems por Kumar, Shalander

“…Implementation imperatives include real-time monitoring systems, strengthening local food systems, and waste-to-wealth approaches for achieving nutrition security, environmental recovery, and economic viability.…”
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Forest products, livelihoods and conservation: case studies on non-timber forest product systems. volume 2 - Africa por Sunderland, Terry C.H., Ndoye, O.

“…Individually, the cases provide a wealth of interesting and useful information.…”
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Improving equity and livelihoods in community forestry: a global action research initiative in support of a strategic partnership on rights and resources por Larson, A.M.

“…The project took a rights-based approach and had the simultaneous goals of studying the forest tenure reform and catalysing efforts to advance local control and sustainable forest management The result is a wealth of multi-scalar information and analysis obtained through diverse entities and methods and covering a large variety of reforms in multiple contexts. …”
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Opportunities for improving water and land management in Sub-Saharan Africa: research priorities of IWMI's Africa Program por Bahri, Akissa, Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele, Sally, Hilmy, Ul-Hassan, Mehmood

“…There is however tremendous scope and opportunity to reverse these trends, improve livelihoods and create wealth. It is against this background that the programs and contributions of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) towards improved water and land management in Africa for agricultural and other developments are presented in this paper. …”
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Environmental services and water use in South Asia: evidences from Indo-Gangetic basins por Xenarios, Stefanos, Sharma, Bharat R., Singh, A.

“…The association of the economic assessment with key wealth indicators and socio-demographic elements depicts the high significance of household size.…”
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Environmental services and agricultural water in South Asia: evidence from Indo-Gangetic Basin por Xenarios, Stefanos, Sharma, Bharat R., Singh, A.

“…The association of the economic assessment with key wealth indicators and socio-demographic elements depicts the high significance of household size.…”
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Groundwater depletion in the Jordan highlands: can pricing policies regulate irrigation water use? por Venot, Jean-Philippe, Molle, Francois

“…A shift towards highvalue crops would raise water productivity but would also entail a transfer of wealth to the government and to wealthier entrepreneurs. …”
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Life beyond pastoralism: livelihood diversification opportunities for pastoralists in Turkana District, Kenya por Watson, D.J., Binsbergen, J. van

“…Then it examines impact of gender and wealth and outlines some potential livelihood diversification options for Turkana District which includes poultry and egg production; trading of small-stock by women's groups; fresh milk, dried milk and dried meat sales; forage trees; collection and sale of wild fruits; aloe production; gum arabic production; charcoal production; ecotourism; gold mining; and casual and waged labour. …”
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Shrinking a large dataset to identify variables associated with increased risk of Plasmodium falciparum infection in Western Kenya por Tremblay, M., Dahm, J.S., Wamae, C.N., Glanville, William A. de, Fèvre, Eric M., Dopfer, D.

“…The wide, sparse dataset was simplified to 42 predictors of P. falciparum malaria infection and wealth rankings were produced for all homesteads. …”
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Tecnologías de mejoramiento de germoplasma que benefician al consumidor: los casos de ganadería vacuna y arroz en América Latina y el Caribe por Sanint, Luis Roberto, Rivas Ríos, Libardo

“…Its partial equilibrium approach is also a limitation, as the additional wealth generated by the new technologies generates important backward and forward linkages as well as spillover effects in the rest of the economy that cannot be fully taken into account by the model. …”
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