Resultados de búsqueda - "wealth"

On the joint estimation of multiple adoption decisions: the case of sustainable agricultural technologies and practices in Ethiopia por Hailemariam, T., Kassie, Menale, Shiferaw, Bekele

“…The analysis further shows that both the probability and the level of decisions to adopt SAPs are influenced by many factors: a household’s trust in government support, credit constraint, spouse education, rainfall and plot-level disturbances, household wealth, social capital and networks, including the number of traders known by a farmer in his vicinity, his participation in rural institutions, and the number of relatives he has inside and outside his village, labor availability, and plot and market access. …”
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Irrigation management transfer: how to make it work for Africa?s smallholders? por International Water Management Institute

“…An international review of IMT experiences shows that for transfer to work, the irrigation system must be central to a wealth-creating agriculture within which IMT makes good economic sense to farmers. …”
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Application of indicator systems for monitoring and assessment of desertification from national to global scales por Sommer S, Zucca, Claudio, Grainger A, Cherlet, M., Zougmoré, Robert B., Sokona Y, Hill J, Della Peruta R, Roehrig J, Wang G

“…Science has made progress in understanding major issues and proximate causes of dryland degradation such that indicator sets can be accordingly selected from the wealth of existing and documented indicator systems. …”
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Relative importance of common bean attributes and variety demand in the drought areas of Kenya por Katungi, E, Sperling, L., Karanja, D., Farrow, Andrew, Beebe, Stephen E.

“…The work assessed the relative importance of production and consumption attributes of different wealth groups of households and tested the effect of attribute preference and that of other factors on common bean variety demand in the drought areas of Eastern Kenya. …”
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Participatory analysis of vulnerability to drought in three agro-pastoral communities in the West African Sahel por Ayantunde, Augustine A., Turner, M.D., Kalilou, A.

“…Pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in the region are regularly affected by drought, with vulnerability differing with gender, age, wealth status (access to cropland and livestock endowment), geographic location, social networks, and previous exposure to drought. …”
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Sugar, fat, or protein: are all food insecure households eating the same? The case of small rice producers in Peru por Useche, Pilar, Twyman, Jennifer

“…Findings _ here are diverse food intake patterns for households, depending on their wealth, education, demographic structure, market access and geographic location, as well as past shocks. …”
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Testing the implementation potential of resource recovery and reuse business models: from baseline surveys to feasibility studies and business plans por Otoo, Miriam, Drechsel, Pay, Danso, George K., Gebrezgabher, Solomie A., Rao, Krishna, Madurangi, Ganesha

“…A paradigm shift in the sanitation sector towards cost recovery is increasingly being supported by many donors pushing for private sector participation and waste- to-wealth programs. This development advocates for a shift from waste 'treatment for disposal' to 'treatment for reuse' as the latter offers options for business development and cost recovery for the sanitation sector.…”
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Implications of seed policies for on-farm agro-biodiversity in Ethiopia and Uganda por Otieno, G.A., Reynolds, Travis W., Karasapan, A., López Noriega, Isabel

“…At the national and regional levels, the conservation and use of local crop varieties through informal systems has also provided a wealth of crop genetic diversity increasingly recognized as critical for climate change adaptation. …”
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Power as agency: a critical reflection on the measurement of women’s empowerment in the development sector por O'Hara, C., Clement, Floriane

“…In our quantitative analysis, we regress correlates of empowerment identified in the literature, such as age, education, household wealth, income, and household composition, on individual empowerment as measured by the WEAI. …”
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Fracking por From, Jonte

“…Even though economical wealth is often sure to be gained, many countries in Europe have temporarily banned the practices, awaiting further research before making any final conclusions. …”
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Gender Food Mapping for Boiled Sweetpotato in Mozambique. RTB Technical Report por Mayanja, S., Tinyiro, E.S., Kisakye, S., Anena, B., Asasira, M., Abdul, N., Mulwa, C.K., Kawarazuka, Nozomi, Andrade, M.I.

“…Findings show that though sweetpotato was cultivated by all three identified wealth groups, it was of greater importance to the poor and reasonably well-off wealth categories. …”
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Bygdebolag por Sjöman, Elin

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Culturally embedded practices of managing banana diversity and planting material in central Uganda por Kilwinger, Fleur B.M., Rietveld, Anne M., Groot, Jeroen C.J., Almekinders, Conny J.M.

“…Household characteristics, such as age or wealth, are determinants of mat management and replacement. …”
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Soil fertility management in Babati: A practical guide on good agricultural management practices in smallholder farming systems por Kihara, Job Maguta, Bolo, Peter Omondi, Kinyua, Michael

“…Working with farmers and extension staff within the Ministry of Agriculture and interactions with broad range of researchers across national research and CGIAR Centers operating in Northern Tanzania resulted in a wealth of experience and knowledge that we bring forward in this guide. …”
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Sustainable food production in Africa: turning African Countries into development catalysts, food reservoirs and exporters por Oyekanmi, E., Coyne, D., Fawole, B., Adeoye, G.

“…This work proffered proactive solutions to freeing Africa from the triplet perennial problems of poverty, hunger and diseases, through intervention in the area of sustainable organic agricultural food production geared towards wealth creation in an integrated community based agriculture. …”
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An Economic Assessment of Farmer Adaptation to Climate Change Using Innovation in Sweet Potato Technologies in Uganda por Ilukor, J.

“…Results from the model also show that, adoption potential under climate change is high and varies depending on agro-ecological zones, wealth status and opportunity costs of adopting the technology. …”
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Soil conservation and smallholder welfare under cassava-based systems in Thailand por Tabe-Ojong, Martin Paul, Ibarra Medina, Lina Marcela, Andrade, Robert Santiago, Labarta, Ricardo Antonio

“…Similar insights are also observed for other welfare outcomes such as asset accumulation, including livestock which represents rural wealth to a considerable extent. The positive association between soil conservation and livestock ownership hints at some form of rural diversification. …”
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Young women's and men's climate adaptation practices and capacities in Kenya livestock production systems por Bullock, Renee, Miriti, Philip, DuttaGupta, Tanaya

“…Social factors such as gender, wealth, age and education levels generate differentiated abilities and capacities to cope with climate shocks.In this study we draw upon 48 age and sex disaggregated focus group discussions with youth to understand young people’s engagement in the livestock sector and their livestock adaptation strategies. …”
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Youth aspirations & how they shape interactions with food systems livelihoods: Albania, Bangladesh, and Ethiopia por Uraguchi, Zenebe

“…Youth interactions with food systems are uniquely shaped in the three countries by specific intersections with multiple factors including gender, wealth, health, location, and intergenerational relationships. …”
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Exploring the impact of women’s empowerment on health and nutritional status of children and women in India por Sindhuja, Naga, Venkata, Padigapati

“…Women’s empowerment varied with their family wealth status and their state of residence. Logistic regression analysis was used to investigate the relationship between selected health and nutritional outcomes and women’s empowerment. …”
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