Resultados de búsqueda - "wealth"

Rice diversity and the joy of eid por Akhter, F., Khatun, A., Khatun, F., Islam, R., Mostafa, G., Vernooy, Ronnie

“…It also demonstrates the key roles played by women farmers as seed custodians and the strategic research and capacity building activities carried out by the Community Seed Wealth Centers.…”
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Penning pigs: Pig rearing practices, biosecurity measures, and outbreaks of African swine fever in central Uganda por Thompson, Rebekah

“…I suggest that farmers’ conceptualization of their pigs as a specific type of wealth influenced the ways in which they integrated pigs into their lives and homes. …”
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Mother’s education and children’s nutrition outcomes in Burkina Faso: Is there a strong causal relationship? por Maiga, Eugenie

“…Mother’s health knowledge, mother’s bargaining power, and household wealth are the pathways through which maternal education affects children’s health. …”
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Investment in women and its implications for lifetime incomes por Quisumbing, Agnes R., Estudillo, Jonna P., Otsuka, Keijiro

“…This study examines the implications of gender differences in wealth transfers—farmland and education—on the lifetime incomes of men and women in the rural areas of Ghana, the Philippines, and Sumatra. …”
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Who is more water insecure? Gendered evidence from urban Pakistan por Khalid, Sidra, Hafeez, Mohsin, Aqib, S.

“…Through a binary logit model and marginal effects analysis, we analyzed the relationship between water security and multiple variables, including gender, education, age, employment status, payment for water, urban wealth quintile, drinking water source, individual water concern level, water satisfaction, and water quality perception. …”
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Género, estado civil y la acumulación de activos en el Ecuador: una mirada a la violencia patrimonial por Deere, Carmen Diana, Contreras, J., Twyman, Jennifer

“…Nonetheless, there are major differences in the average value of wealth attained depending on a person’s marital status (being much higher among those who are married in comparison to living in a consensual union) and in the size of the gender wealth gap (being greatest among those who are married, widowed or separated).Drawing upon the results of our qualitative field work in three provinces, we illustrate how these gender wealth gaps by marital status may be the result of patrimonial violence. …”
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A holistic approach to participatory crop improvement in wheat por Virk, Daljit S., Harris, D., Raghuwanshi, B.S., Raj, A.G.B, Sodhi, P.S., Witcombe, John R.

“…Selected farmers from each wealth category kelp weekly farm calendars of all operations in their wheal fields. …”
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The role of women in the conservation of the genetic resources of maize Guatemala por International Plant Genetic Resources Institute

“…Its particular geography and types of vegetation are characterised by the fact that the country has 14 life zones. The existing human wealth-botanical wealth interaction makes this country an ideal place to study genetic diversity and the evolution of crops, such as maize, but also other crops like beans, cocoa, cotton, chilli peppers, squashes, achote (Bixa orellana), manioc and sweet potatoes. …”
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The effect of the sectoral composition of economic growth on rural and urban poverty por Benfica, Rui, Henderson, Heath

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Understanding the determinants of adolescent nutrition in Bangladesh por Leroy, Jef L., Ruel, Marie T., Sununtnasuk, Celeste, Ahmed, Akhter

“…Gender differences varied by outcome and were not systematically in favor of boys. Household wealth was associated with higher BMIZ and probability of adequate energy and micronutrient intakes. …”
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Rainfall shocks and agricultural productivity: Implication for rural household consumption por Amare, Mulubrhan, Jensen, Nathaniel D., Shiferaw, Bekele, Cissé, J.D.

“…The paper also examines the impact of negative rainfall shocks on household consumption as well as its distributional impact by initial wealth and geographical zones. We use nationally representative panel datasets from Nigeria merged with georeferenced rainfall information. …”
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The meat of the issue por Hallowell, Carolyn

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Cash transfer is positively associated with better dietary outcomes – Evidence from a phone survey among women with children less than two years in six states of India por Neupane, Sumanta, Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Avula, Rasmi

“…Introduction • Women’s diet is one of the immediate determinants of maternal and child nutrition Objectives • Examine dietary intake of women with children <2 years of age • Examine inequity in dietary intake by wealth status • Assess the role of food or cash transfers in maternal diet diversity Methods • Data came from a phone survey of 6,227 women in six states of India. • Dietary intake was assessed using the diet quality questionnaire which was then recategorized to calculate score for food diversity, consumption of healthy and unhealthy foods, and minimum diet diversity (MDD) for women. • Inequity in dietary intake was examined using wealth quintiles • Association between food and cash transfer on maternal diet was examined using multivariate regression analysis controlling for maternal, child, households' factors and state fixed effects.…”
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Political competition and rural welfare: Evidence from Pakistan por Kosec, Katrina, Haider, Hamza, Spielman, David J., Zaidi, Fatima

“…It also predicts higher land values, greater land wealth, and lower land wealth inequality. Further, political competition increases land rental, possibly indicating improved functionality of land markets. …”
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Beyond the bari: Gender, groups, and social relations in rural Bangladesh por Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…Unlike studies from other countries that find group membership to be positively correlated with wealth, this study finds that group membership, which is driven mostly by women's membership in NGOs, is progressive, with higher participation rates among the poor and those with smaller sizes of owned land. …”
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Heterogenous correlates of mechanization use and rural livelihoods in Zimbabwe: a quantile regression analysis por Ngoma, Hambulo, Mukamuri, Billy, Silva, João Vasco, Baudron, Frédéric

“…These findings call for (i) wealth agnostic promotional efforts to ensure equitable mechanization benefits, (ii) better targeting of mechanization types to farmer needs, and (iii) concerted efforts to strengthen mechanization service provision models.…”
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How many kilograms per person por Hallowell, Carolyn

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Meat: the good, the bad, and the complicated por Vivalo, Julia

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Resilience of food system actors to armed conflicts: empirical insights from Burkina Faso por Maitre d’Hôtel, Elodie, Béné, Christophe, Pelloquin, Raphaël, Badaoui, Outman, Gharba, Faroukou, Sankima, Jocelyne

“…In contrast, no robust evidence was found about the potential mitigating effect of actor’s individual wealth. The article concludes by a series of short recommendations.…”
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How do rural households cope with economic shocks ?: Insights from global data using hierarchical analysis por Börner, J., Shively, G.E., Wunder, Sven, Wyman, M.

“…Households in sites characterised by high asset wealth tend to cope with shocks in a more proactive way than those in sites with average or below average asset wealth, but the role of asset types in conditioning shock responses varies across regions. …”
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