Resultados de búsqueda - "wealth"

Gender in agriculture: Closing the knowledge gap por Quisumbing, Agnes R., Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Raney, Terri L., Croppenstedt, André, Behrman, Julia A., Peterman, Amber

“…As it prepared the report, the FAO drew together a wealth of background information based on a growing body of research and statistics on women in agriculture, and it commissioned the International Food Policy Research Institute to edit a book based on these background studies. …”
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Optimizing food-assistance programs: Nutrition-sensitive food assistance lowers anemia prevalence in Burundi por Leroy, Jef L., Olney, Deanna K., Ruel, Marie T., Brown, Tracy

“…Developmental delays, in turn, can have lifelong consequences, as they hinder cognitive development, school performance, employment, and accumulation of wealth. Certain components of FA-MCHN programs may help to reduce anemia, including the distribution of micronutrientfortified commodities, behavior change communication (BCC) strategies around optimal child feeding and hygiene and health practices (for example, promoting the use of bednets to prevent malaria, an important cause of anemia), and the strengthening of health services.…”
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How should rural financial cooperatives be best organized? Evidence from Ethiopia por Abay, Kibrom A., Koru, Bethlehem, Abate, Gashaw T., Berhane, Guush

“…We also show that compositional heterogeneity among members (including diversity in wealth) is associated with higher access to credit services, while this has little implication on households’ savings behavior. …”
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Tracking key CAADP indicators and implementation [In the 2014 ATOR] por Bahiigwa, Godfrey, Benin, Samuel, Tefera, Wondwosen, Jemaneh, Samson

“…Level 1 includes the high-level outcomes and impacts to which agriculture contributes, including wealth creation; food and nutrition security; economic opportunities, poverty alleviation, and shared prosperity; and resilience and sustainability. …”
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Agriculture and nutrition in India: Mapping evidence to pathways por Kadiyala, Suneetha, Harris, Jody, Headey, Derek D., Yosef, Sivan, Gillespie, Stuart

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Cereal production and technology adoption in Ethiopia por Yu, Bingxin, Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, Funes, José, Gemessa, Sinafikeh Asrat

“…We find that access to fertilizer and seed is related to access to extension services and that production specialization together with wealth play a major role in explaining crop area under fertilizer and improved seed. …”
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Human resource allocations in african agricultural research: revealing more of the story behind the regional trends por Beintema, Nienke M., Rahija, Michael

“…The aim of this paper is to provide an in-depth assessment of Sub-Saharan Africa's human resource capacity in agricultural research based on the wealth of detailed human capacity data collected through the Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI) initiative. …”
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Income diversification in Zimbabwe: welfare implications from urban and rural areas por Ersado, Lire

“…However, there are important differences in the level of diversification within the rural and urban areas, depending on wealth: while the relatively better-off households have a more diversified income base in rural areas, it is the poor that pursue multiple income sources in urban areas. …”
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Income diversification in Zimbabwe: welfare implications from urban and rural areas por Ersado, Lire

“…However, there are important differences in the level of diversification within the rural and urban areas, depending on wealth: while the relatively better-off households have a more diversified income base in rural areas, it is the poor that pursue multiple income sources in urban areas. …”
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Patience in foraging-horticultural society: a test of competing hypotheses por Godoy, Ricardo, Byron, Elizabeth, Reyes-Garcia, Victoria, Leonard, William. R., Patel, K., Apaza, Lilian, Perez, Eddy, Vadez, Vincent, Wilkie, David

“…For instance, patience correlates positively with income, wealth, conservation of natural resources, health, and savings and negatively with crime and drug addiction. …”
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Bioinformatics for plant genetics and breeding research por Naik, Y.D., Zhao, C., Channale, S., Nayak, S.N., Bhutia, K.L., Gautam, A., Kumar, R., Niranjan, V., Shah, T.M., Mott, R., Punnuri, S., Pandey, M.K., Wang, X., Varshney, R.K., Thudi, M.

“…In this chapter, we review the intervention of bioinformatics and computational tools for deploying the tremendous wealth of data for plant genetics and breeding research.…”
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Manure contribution to rural livelihoods at farm and landscape levels: a systemic approach in semi-arid Central Tunisia por Alary, Veronique, Frija, Aymen, Abdeladhim, Mohamed Arbi, Sghaier, Mariem, Leauthaud, Crystele, Farhat, Manel, Sghaier, Mongi

“…Manure flow analysis confirmed that on-farm manure balance is positively correlated to economic wealth. However, the manure fluxes questioned the environmental sustainability of the vulnerable zones. …”
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Property rights, collective action and technologies for natural resource management: a conceptual framework por Knox, Anna, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Hazell, Peter B. R.

“…Whereas the literature addressing constraints and enabling factors for rural technology adoption have largely focused on their direct effects on crop technologies, the conceptual framework presented here shows how property rights and collective action interact with many other constraints to technology development (such as wealth, information, risk, or labor availability). …”
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Youth and Food Systems Transformation por Glover, Dominic, Sumberg, James

“…However, each person's youth transition and their relationship with food systems is uniquely shaped by specific intersections with multiple factors including gender, class, wealth, health, location, intergenerational relationships, and many others. …”
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The Human Capital Study 2002-04: tracking data collection, coverage, and attrition por Grajeda, Ruben, Behrman, Jere R., Flores, Rafael, Maluccio, John, Martorell, Reynaldo, Stein, Aryeh D.

“…This “Human Capital Study 2002–04” complements and extends data obtained in previous studies by collecting new information on measures of physical health and well-being, schooling and cognitive ability, wealth, consumption and economic productivity, and marriage and fertility histories. …”
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The impact of site-specific soil fertility recommendations: Experimental evidence from Malawi por Van Campenhout, Bjorn, De Weerdt, Joachim, Assefa, Thomas, Spielman, David J., Siyame, Edwin W. P., Ariong, Richard M., Atkinson, Jonathan

“…Raising agricultural productivity among smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa is widely recognized as an important component of inclusive wealth creation and structural transformation. Central to this endeavor will be the adoption of sustainable soil and land management to improve the sustainability, resilience and productivity of agriculture. …”
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Proceedings of a National Workshop on Building Partnership, Strengthening Capacities and Developing Forest Resources Thru Community Based Forest Management, Angeles City, Philippin... por Hartanto, H., Evangelista, R.

“…Besides reviewing the results of ACM, this workshop also attempted to identify different strategies and approaches applied by different initiatives and projects in CBFM and to provide recommendations to improve the existing CBFM framework and policies. The wealth of experience and expertise of the workshop participants were also tapped to review and improve three CBFM-related regulations. …”
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Pengambilan keputusan dalam rumah tangga pengelola hutan kemiri di kelurahan Mario Pulana kecamatan Camba kabupaten Maros: ditinjau dari perspektif gender por Agusnawati

“…The dominant role of husbands were also due to several other factors such as additional source of income enjoyed by husbands from side jobs, inherited assets or wealth, and local customs which seem to allow more advantage to men.…”
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Green and black gold in rural Cameroon: natural resources for local governance, justice and sustainability por Oyono, P.R., Ribot, J.C., Larson, A.M.

“…The forest sector provides insights into the decentralization process writ large, since, as a source of national wealth, "green gold". The study also investigated the effects on local governance of oil compensation, or "black gold" in forested rural areas affected by the Chad-Cameroon pipeline. …”
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Why keep lions instead of livestock? Assessing wildlife-tourism based payment for ecosystem services involving herders in the Maasai Mara, Kenya por Osano, Philip M., Said, Mohammed Yahya, Leeuw, Jan de, Ndiwa, Nicholas N., Kaelo, D., Schomers, S., Birner, Regina, Ogutu, J.

“…This paper examines the effects of wildlife tourism-based payments for ecosystem services (PES) on poverty, wealth inequality and the livelihoods of herders in the Maasai Mara Ecosystem in south-western Kenya. …”
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