Search Results - Community and school

Läge för förändring? : permakulturens principer i lägenhet och stadsmiljö by Chapman, Erikka

Planeringsprocessens betydelse för att skapa barnvänliga bostadsområden : exemplet Hammarby Sjöstad by Becker, Mariana

How Fair is Workfare? Gender, Public Works, and Employment in Rural Ethiopia by Quisumbing, Agnes R., Yohannes, Yisehac

“…Returns to schooling and height are consistently positive in both wage labor and FFW, suggesting returns to human capital investment, even in the low-skill labor markets of rural Ethiopia. …”
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Trade-offs and synergies associated with maize leaf stripping within crop-livestock systems in northern Ghana by Komarek, Adam M., Rahman, N.A., Bandyopadhyay, A., Kizito, Fred, Koo, Jawoo, Addah, W.

“…Farmers qualitatively described how maize leaf stripping released labour so children could spend more time at school rather than shepherding. SIGNIFICANCE We quantified in northern Ghana how maize leaf stripping altered crop and livestock productivity and associated trade-offs and synergies in the farm system, including labour. …”
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Childifying by Pétursdóttir, Eyrún

“…There, children from different schools meet and get to know each other, making the schools and the community more connected. …”
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CSA bundle 3: Scaling climate-smart inputs and agricultural practices in Zambia by Agova

“…Farmers will be drawn from iDE’s network, with the organization leading on CSA training and seed-system formalization through capacitation of seed multipliers and Community Agents (CAs). Agova will oversee project management alongside monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL). …”
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Recent advances in cowpea IPM in West Africa by Togola, A., Datinon, B., Laouali, A., Traoré, F., Agboton, C., Ojo, J.A., Ongom, P.O., Pittendrigh, B.R., Boukar, O., Tamò, Manuele

“…Numerous IPM options have been developed, tested and validated for combating cowpea insect problems in West Africa by research institutions and disseminated through farmer field schools (FFS), field demonstrations, training sessions, and community-based education. …”
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D4N2025 Presentation Showcase – Thematic Session 3A: Bridging knowledge & action: Nutrition education for all stakeholders by Farooqui, Arsala Jameel, Rathnayake, MPS, Malik, Mohammad Azeem, Wanasinghe, Thilak, Saroj, Rahman, Atiya

“…Presentation 2: A Socio-Ecological Model for Comprehensive Food Literacy Education in Sri Lankan Secondary Schools by Menikgedara Poornima Sujeewa Rathnayake. …”
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Aeolian Remobilisation of the 2011-Cordón Caulle Tephra-Fallout Deposit: Example of an Important Process in the Life Cycle of Volcanic Ash by Dominguez, Lucia, Bonadonna, Costanza, Forte, Pablo, Jarvis, Paul Antony, Cioni, Raffaello, Mingari, Leonardo, Bran, Donaldo Eduardo, Panebianco, Juan Esteban

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Promoting and valuing neglected and underutilized species for sustainable livelihoods and climate change adaptation: insights from Kenya, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe by Vernooy, Ronnie, Fusire, Marcelline, Graybill, Munkombwe, Kimani, Dominic, Mitei, Dalmus, Otieno, Gloria Atieno, Recha, Tobias

“…Central to the initiative is the engagement with multiple stakeholders including the private seed sector, civil society organizations (local seed businesses, Farmer Field Schools, community seed banks) and local (county government) and national governmental and non-governmental organizations, that are well-positioned to take up and further develop strategies, methods and tools and integrate them in their daily work. …”
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Gender-inclusive consumer studies improve cassava breeding in Nigeria by Madu, T., Onwuka, S., Nwafor, S., Ejechi, M., Ofoeze, M., Onyemauwa, N., Ukeje, B., Eluagu, C., Olaosebikan, Olamide, Benjamin Okoye

“…Gender research techniques include participatory varietal selection (PVS), participatory plant breeding (PPB), mother-baby trials, focus group discussions (FGD), surveys, value chain mapping, G+ tools, experiments in farmer field schools (FFS), demonstration farms, and tricot. These gave the cross-cutting team a better understanding of gender relations, power, decision-making, ownership and control of resources, and have mitigated operational and field challenges during the surveys. …”
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Climate-smart villages in southeast Asia: The pivotal role of seed systems in rice-based landscapes by Wassmann, Reiner, Gonsalves, Julian, Sprang, Peter, Yen, Bui Tan, Villanueva, Jerome, Nelakhom, Phalida, Okumu, Bernard

“…The experience of a CSV in Lao PDR clearly shows community-based seed (CBS) systems as a viable CSV component. …”
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Circular labor migration and subsistence agriculture: a case of the Iban in West Kalimantan, Indonesia by Wadley, R.L.

“…Wages are used to pay for consumer goods, subsistence foods when crops fail, and schooling for children and younger siblings. Chronic male absence negatively affects the home community in a number of ways, including increased workloads on women in farming and domestic activities. …”
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Perceptions of relative deprivation and women’s empowerment by Kosec, Katrina, Mo, Cecilia Hyunjung, Schmidt, Emily, Song, Jie

“…How do perceptions of one’s relative economic status affect gender attitudes, including support for women’s economic participation and involvement in decision-making in their community and household? We conducted a 2018 survey experiment with female and male adults in approximately 1000 households in Papua New Guinea. …”
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Environmental heterogeneity modulates the effect of plant diversity on the spatial variability of grassland biomass by Daleo, Pedro, Alberti, Juan, Chaneton, Enrique J., Iribarne, Oscar, Tognetti, Pedro Maximiliano, Bakker, Jonathan D., Borer, Elizabeth T., Bruschetti, Martín, MacDougall, Andrew S., Pascual, Jesús, Peri, Pablo Luis, Hautier, Yann

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Agricultural extension and rural advisory services: What have we learned? What’s next? by Davis, Kristin E., Makhija, Simrin, Spielman, David J.

“…An expansive literature examines the promises and pitfalls of common approaches, including training-and-visit extension systems, farmer field schools, and many others (Anderson and Feder 2004; Anderson et al. 2006; Waddington and White 2014; Scoones and Thompson 2009). …”
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Funktionsnedsättning inom ridsporten ur ridlärares perspektiv : en kvalitativ intervjustudie by Apelgren, Ida, Karlsson, Malin

Agriculture and the rural economy in Pakistan: Issues, outlooks, and policy priorities by Spielman, David J., Malik, Sohail Jehangir, Dorosh, Paul A., Ahmad, Nuzhat

“…Further, beyond agriculture is the wider rural economy, including nonfarm economic activities such as small enterprises, transport services, village retail shops, local schools, and clinics, all of which account for an estimated 40 to 57 percent of total rural household income. …”
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The use of habitat interventions to enhance natural pest regulation services in Spanish orange orchards by Mockford, Alice

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Digital Platforms For Inclusive Scaling Of Climate Information Services: Insights And Lessons Learned From 2022 To 2025 In Mali by Suh, Neville Ndohnwi, Diarra, Afoussatou, Dossou Yovo, Elliott Ronald

“…Adoption accelerates when digital platforms are combined with human intermediaries - trained extension agents, community leaders, and facilitators, who translate information into practical advice for farmers. …”
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