Resultados de búsqueda - "wealth"

Trends and factors associated with the nutritional status of adolescent girls in Ghana: A secondary analysis of the 2003-2014 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey (GDHS) data por Azupogo, Fusta, Abizari, Abdul-Razak, Aurino, Elisabetta, Gelli, Aulo, Osendarp, Saskia J. M., Bras, Hilde, Feskens, Edith J., Brouwer, Inge D.

“…A lower level of household wealth and a unit increase in household size was negatively associated with overweight/obesity. …”
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Do tradeoffs among dimensions of women’s empowerment and nutrition outcomes exist? Evidence from six countries in Africa and Asia por Quisumbing, Agnes R., Sproule, Kathryn, Martinez, Elena M., Malapit, Hazel J.

“…Women’s empowerment accounts for a small share of the variance in nutritional outcomes, with household wealth and country-level factors accounting for the largest share of the variation in household and women’s dietary diversity. …”
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Diet quality over time is associated with better development in rural Nepali children por Miller, Laurie C., Neupane, Sumanta, Joshi, Neena, Shrestha, Merina, Neupane, Shailes, Lohani, Mahendra, Thorne-Lyman, Andrew L.

“…In both samples, child development was significantly related to household wealth, maternal education, and especially home environmental quality. …”
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Malnutrition, hypertension risk, and correlates: An analysis of the 2014 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey data for 15–19 years adolescent boys and girls por Azupogo, Fusta, Abizari, Abdul-Razak, Aurino, Elisabetta, Gelli, Aulo, Osendarp, Saskia J. M.

“…Empowerment index while protective of stunting for girls (PRR = 0.82, 95% C.I (0.67, 0.99)) also increased their risk of overweight/obesity (PRR = 1.31, 95% C.I (1.02, 1.68)). A higher household wealth index (HWI) increased the risk of overweight/obesity for adolescent girls but was protective of stunting and PHH for adolescent boys. …”
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Food and nutrition security in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia during COVID-19 pandemic: June 2020 report por Abate, Gashaw T., de Brauw, Alan, Hirvonen, Kalle

“…Using a pre-pandemic wealth index, we find that less-wealthy households were considerably more likely to report income losses and high stress levels than were wealthier households. …”
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Agricultural policy in disarray: Reforming the farm bill—An overview por Smith, Vincent H., Glauber, Joseph W., Goodwin, Barry K., Sumner, Daniel A.

“…In general, farm programs authorized by the 2014 Farm Bill channel federal funds to households whose incomes and wealth are well above those of the average US household. …”
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Aspirations and the role of social protection: evidence from a natural disaster in rural Pakistan por Kosec, Katrina, Mo, Cecilia Hyunjung

“…We first show that the extreme rainfall generating this disaster significantly reduced aspirations, even when current levels of household expenditure, wealth, and education are taken into account. Individuals experiencing 2010 monsoon season rainfall that was one standard deviation higher than average had aspiration levels 1.5 years later that were 0.15 standard deviations lower than those of similar individuals experiencing just average levels of rainfall. …”
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Impacts of Africa RISING in Mali por Haile, Beliyou, Azzarri, Carlo, Boukaka, Sedi Anne, Tzintzun, Ivan, Vitellozzi, Sveva

“…Overall comparisons between households in target and non-target villages show a positive impact of AR on environmental variables such as access to extension services, and adoption of improved crops; on productivity variables such as green bean, cotton and okra yield; and on economic variables such as an increase in the non-agricultural wealth index; but no statistically significant effect on human and social indicators, namely household dietary diversity, food consumption scores, and nutritional indicators for children 0–59 months old and women 15–49 years old. …”
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Low awareness and affordability are major drivers of low consumption of animal‐source foods among children in Northern Ethiopia: A mixed‐methods study por Zerfu, Taddese Alemu, Duncan, Alan J., Baltenweck, Isabelle, McNeill, G.

“…Household demographics such as residence, literacy level, paternal age, and household wealth quintiles influenced the overall consumption of ASFs. …”
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Innovations in insuring the poor: Index-based livestock insurance in Mongolia por Mahul, Olivier, Belete, Nathan, Goodland, Andrew

“…Livestock provide sustenance, income, and wealth to nearly half the residents of Mongolia. Shocks to the well-being of livestock therefore have devastating implications for the rural poor and for the overall Mongolian economy. …”
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Rebuilding after emergency: Revamping agricultural research in Sierra Leone after civil war por Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo, Workneh, Sindu, Rhodes, Edward, Sutherland, John

“…It would also help achieve SLARI’s vision of increasing food security and wealth among Sierra Leone’s rural population. For SLARI to make a meaningful contribution to agricultural development in Sierra Leone, the operational plan must be implemented in such a way that the results envisaged in the strategic plan can be achieved. …”
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Intrahousehold dynamics in South Asia: Understanding the relationships between women's empowerment, task sharing, decision making, and diets among women por Kumar, Neha, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Manohar, Swetha, Banerjee, Archis, Gupta, Shivani, Chauhan, Alka, Patwardhan, Sharvari, Koirala, Uma

“…Gendered task allocation and empowerment among women are not significantly associated with diets of women in the three countries, owing to the greater importance of broader socio-economic and context-specific factors such as wealth, education, and regional factors in explaining the variance in dietary outcomes. …”
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Sustainable AgriVentures for Empowered Women and Youth (SAVE-WY) Intervention Program in Zimbabwe por Rukasha, T., Musemwa, L., Mokhema, Seipati

“…Then revolving fund provided seed funding and a sustainable avenue for wealth regeneration that would enable beneficiaries to access essential resources and services, facilitating the development of resilient livelihoods and transforming household and community dynamics. …”
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Exploring women’s dietary diversity amidst climate variability: A comparative analysis across eight low- and middle- income countries por Carducci, B., Benedict, R., Corrigan, J., Mayala, B., Namaste, S., Bilotto, F., Cao, P., Herrero, M., Guo, Zhe, Fanzo, J.

“…Immediate variables were significantly positively associated with MDD-W in almost all countries with an adjusted odds of women’s dietary diversity increasing by 6%–92%, including household wealth (n = 8), women’s media access (n = 8), women’s education (n = 7), improved sanitation and women’s employment (n = 5) and women’s landownership (n = 3). …”
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Community natural resource management: The case of woodlots in northern Ethiopia por Gebremedhin, Berhanu, Pender, J.L., Tesfay, G.

“…Despite limited current benefits received by community members, the woodlots contribute substantially to community wealth, increasing members’ willingness to provide collective effort to manage the woodlots. …”
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Effects of livestock feed sourcing and feeding strategies on livestock water productivity in mixed crop–livestock systems of the Blue Nile basin highlands of Ethiopia por Eba, Bedasa, Haileslassie, Amare, Animut, G., Duncan, Alan J., Peden, Donald G.

“…However, LWP difference was observed within clustered wealth status within all farming systems and lower value of LWP general observed for the poor farm households. …”
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Potential adoption and diffusion of improved dual-purpose cowpea in the dry savannas of Nigeria: an evaluation using a combination of participatory and structured approaches por Okike, Iheanacho, Kristjanson, Patricia M., Tarawali, Shirley A., Singh, B.B., Kruska, Russell L., Mounyong, V.M.

“…Out of the 462 households surveyed, 41 % were adopters, 9% had been adopters at one time but had stopped, while 50% had never tried improved dual-purpose cowpea. Three wealth classes were defined by the respondents themselves: the rich (13% of farmers), the middle class (60%), and the poor (27%). …”
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Linking livestock and natural resource management por International Livestock Research Institute

“…Results indicate that co-operation 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. Furthermore, stock densities are negatively related to the index of co-operation, as we would expect. …”
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Health and nutrition knowledge, attitudes and practices of pregnant women attending and not-attending ANC clinics in Western Kenya: A cross-sectional analysis por Perumal, N., Cole, Donald C., Ouédraogo, H.Z., Sindi, K., Loechl, C., Low, Jan W., Levin, C., Kiria, C., Kurji, J., Oyunga, M.

“…Multiple regression analyses were used to assess the impact of the number of ANC visits (none, <4, ≥4) on knowledge and practice scores, adjusting for maternal socio-demographic confounders, such as age, gestational age, education level and household wealth index. Among the 979 pregnant women in the survey, 59% had attended ANC clinics while 39% had not. …”
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Modeling and participatory farmer-led approaches to food security in a changing world: A case study from Malawi por Snapp, Sieglinde S., Kerr, R.B., Smith, A., Ollenburger, M.H., Mhango, W., Shumba, L., Gondwe, T.N.P., Kanyama-Phiri, G.Y.

“…Using historical rainfall records, simulated yield (Agricultural Production Systems Simulator, APSIM) from maize and pigeon pea-maize intercrop and rotation systems was compared to food requirements for 12 households selected to represent a range of wealth status.Wefound that pigeon pea-maize intercrops were highly likely to produce sufficient calories for smallholder households across variable rainfall patterns, from 73 to 100% of the years simulated, for 10 out of 12 case study households. …”
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