Resultados de búsqueda - "wealth"

Carbon forestry and local livelihoods : a case study on poverty in Uganda por Ellingsen, Tove

“…This thesis examined how wealth is perceived and experienced by the villagers in the area surrounding the Green Resources plantation, and how different wealth groups perceive and have been affected by Green Resources interventions associated with the plantation. …”

Zinc wheat por Virk, Parminder

“…We construct and compare three distinct measures of household asset wealth that complement traditional income‐ or expenditure‐based measures of socioeconomic status. …”
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Marriage, bequest, and assortative matching in rural Ethiopia por Fafchamps, Marcel, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…Parental wealth affects the inheritance of neither groom nor bride. …”
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Nutrition profiles of farm households across different farming systems in Ethiopia: Unpacking the determinants and implications for nutrition-sensitive interventions por Desalegn, B.B., Biazin, B., Amede, T., Low, Jan W.

“…Standard statistical tests and Tobit regression analyses were performed after determining the wealth category of each household. Results revealed a diversity of income sources used by each of the farm households with average values of 9 in Mennisa, 10 in Agam Wuha, and 11 in Welmel Tiqa, with the contributions of each income source varying by household wealth category and location. …”
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Connected Conservation: Rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world por Carmenta, Rachel, Barlow, Jos, Bastos Lima, Mairon G., Bereguer, Erika, Choiruzzad, Shofwan, Estrada-Carmona, Natalia, França, Filipe, Kallis, Giorgos, Killick, Evan, Lees, Alexander C., Martin, Adrian, Pascual, Unai, Pettorelli, Nathalie, Reed, James, Rodriguez Fernandez, Iokine, Steward, Angela M., Sunderland, Terry, Vira, Bhaskar, Zaehringer, Julie, Hicks, Christina C.

“…The convergence of the biodiversity and climate crises, widening of wealth inequality, and most recently the COVID-19 pandemic underscore the urgent need to mobilize change to secure sustainable futures. …”
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The double burden of malnutrition in India: Trends and inequalities (2006–2016) por Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Scott, Samuel P., Headey, Derek D., Singh, Nishmeet, Tran, Lan Mai, Menon, Purnima, Ruel, Marie T.

“…Of great concern, however, is the doubling of adult overweight/obesity in all areas during this period and the rise in wealth inequalities in both rural and urban slum households. …”
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Distribution and Use of Income from Bushmeat in a Rural Village, Central Gabon por Coad, L.M., Abernethy, K.A., Balmford, A., Manica, A., Airey, L., Milner-Gulland, E.J.

“…An improved understanding of the relationship between bushmeat hunting and household wealth is vital to assess the potential effects of future policy interventions to regulate an increasingly unsustainable bushmeat trade. …”
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Survey data on income, food security, and dietary behavior among women and children from households of differing socio-economic status in urban and peri-urban areas of Nairobi, Ken... por Nyakundi, Fridah N., Mutua, Mercy M., Lung'aho, Mercy G., Chege, Christine G. Kiria, Ndung'u, John, Nungo, Rhoda, Karanja, David

“…Household assets were used to develop an asset-based wealth index that grouped the study sample population into five wealth quantiles, while income levels were used to estimate FES. …”
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Impact of orphanhood on underweight prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa por Rivers, Jonathan, Mason, John, Silvestre, Eva, Gillespie, Stuart, Mahy, Mary, Monasch, Roeland

“…Since household wealth status is likely to change after becoming affected by HIV, ruling out wealth as a potential confounder would require more detailed, prospective studies.…”
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Oil, macroeconomics, and forests: assessing the linkages por Wunder, Sven, Sunderlin, William D.

“…But domestic policy responses to oil wealth are also vital determinants for the forest outcome. …”
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Institutional foundations of agricultural development in Ethiopia: drawing lessons from current practice for agricultural R&D por German, L., Ayele, Seife, Mazengia, W, Tsegaye, M., Abere, K., Bedane, K., Geta, E., Tolera, T., Taye, H.

“…Implications for agricultural research and development include the need to build upon the strengths of local institutions; make the practices of external development organizations more equitable; minimize the effect of existing wealth on the potential for wealth creation; and strengthen local organizational capacities to address commonly felt NRM concerns.…”
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How prudent are rural households in developing transition economies por Jin, Ling, Chen, Kevin Z., Yu, Bingxin, Huang, Zuhui

“…The empirical results suggest that Chinese rural households hold a significant level of wealth to mitigate the adverse impacts of income risk. …”
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Comparing village characteristics derived from rapid appraisals and household surveys: a tale from northern Mali por Christiaensen, Luc, Hoddinott, John F., Bergeron, Gilles

“…Controlling for the survey technique, we find that the revised official census produces higher estimates of average household size and wealth but lower estimates of total village size or wealth, than the community map. …”
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Comparing village characteristics derived from rapid appraisals and household surveys: a tale from northern Mali por Christiaensen, Luc, Hoddinott, John F., Bergeron, Gilles

“…Controlling for the survey technique, we find that the revised official census produces higher estimates of average household size and wealth but lower estimates of total village size or wealth, than the community map. …”
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Comparing village characteristics derived from rapid appraisals and household surveys: a tale from northern Mali por Christiaensen, Luc, Hoddinott, John F., Bergeron, Gilles

“…Controlling for the survey technique, we find that the revised official census produces higher estimates of average household size and wealth but lower estimates of total village size or wealth, than the community map. …”
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Improving the efficiency of agricultural development: Can farmer typologies be used to predict the adoption of agricultural innovations for the poorest farmers, and therefore, incr... por Gorman, L.

“…However, there is insufficient evidence to support the use of structural clusters for predicting high adoption rates, or adoption strength, for farmers in the lowest wealth quartiles. There is also insufficient evidence to support the use of motivational typologies to predict high adoption rates for farmers in the lowest wealth quartiles. …”
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Socioeconomic gradients in child development in very young children: Evidence from India, Indonesia, Peru, and Senegal por Fernald, Lia C. H., Kariger, Patricia K., Hidrobo, Melissa, Gertler, Paul J.

“…Mediation analyses revealed that parental home stimulation activities and LAZ were significant mediating variables and explained up to 50% of the wealth effects on the EASQ.…”
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Collective action and the intensification of cattle-feeding techniques: a village case study in Kenya's coast province por Swallow, Kimberly A.

“…The process of intensification involved changes in transaction costs, which were born differently by smallholders depending on their sources of wealth and personal networks. Whereas pervious studies have found wealth to be a key factor conditioning the adoptability of new techniques, this study shows that personal networks can be used in some cases as a substitute for wealth.…”
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Social capital and the reproduction of economic inequality in polarized societies por Mogues, Tewodaj, Carter, Michael R.

“…This paper explores the idea of how wealth is distributed across social groups (ethnic or language groups, gender, etc.) and how such distribution fundamentally affects the evolution of economic inequality. …”
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Genetic enhancement of sorghum and millet residues fed to ruminants: farmers' perceptions of fodder quality in livelihood systems por Underwood, M.P., Hall, A.J., Zerbini, E.

“…Wealth ranking information was used to select farmers from all categories for the household case studies and to relate findings from discussions to the wealth status of the participants.…”
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