Resultados de búsqueda - Economic development projects

Measuring employment and job quality in agrifood systems: Accounting for backward and forward linkages por Corong, Erwin, Gautam, Madhur, Martin, Will, Vos, Rob

“…As the agricultural transformation associated with economic development proceeds, the economic fulcrum of the agrifood system moves from primary production to nonfarm activities, such as input supply, food processing, food services, and wholesale and retail trade. …”
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Growing Rural Youth Agribusiness in Kenya: Stories And Best Practices Of The Vijabiz Project por Smith, Georgina, Koigi, Bob, Cartmell-Thorp, Susanna, Reeve, Sophie, Frost, Olivia, Mutimer, Alice

“…Youth agribusinesses are facing many challenges to grow; an issue the Vijabiz project set out to address. Vijabiz – the Youth Economic Empowerment through Agribusiness project – has been implemented by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and USTADI, with main funding provided by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).…”
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Low-carbon development for Colombia por Johnson, Todd, Fernandes, Erick C.M.

“…While reducing carbon emissions through these and other activities can demonstrate Colombia’s commitment to addressing global climate change, the primary driver of such activities should be that they are part of the country’s economic and sustainable development agenda. Policymakers need to ensure that public policies for climate mitigation support projects that are economic and achieve macroeconomic goals such as generating income and employment. …”
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Forecasting future global agricultural water demand: current projections and future challenges por Amarasinghe, Upali A., Amarnath, Giriraj, Sikka, Alok

“…This chapter re-looks at the current global agricultural water demand estimations and challenges for making reliable future projections, which are crucial for two reasons. First is the large share of the water withdrawals and the population that depend on direct and indirect livelihoods at present in the agricultural sector in developing countries. …”
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2014 Social Accounting Matrix for Lao PDR: A Nexus Project SAM por Pradesha, Angga

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Risk Contingent Credit: A stakeholder engagement to inform project expansion in Kenya por Timu, Anne G., Shee, Apurba, You, Liangzhi, Girvetz, Evan Hartunian, Ghosh, Aniruddha, Chilambe, Pedro Anglaze

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Policy Action for Climate Change Adaptation. Project synthesis report, 2014-2020 por Acosta, Mariola, Bamanyaki, Patricia A., Solomon, Dawit, Alemayehu, Sintayehu, Girvetz, Evan Hartunian, Tesfaye, Lidya, Muchunguzi, Perez

“…Within this context, it has become increasingly crucial that governments and relevant stakeholders in the region develop policy strategies that help adapt to changes in climate and help build more resilient food systems. …”
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Biological control as the primary option in sustainable pest management: the cassava pest project por Herren, H.R.

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CIFOR’s research programme on conservation of tropical forest genetic resources por Boyle, T.J.B.

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Cassava program por International Center for Tropical Agriculture

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2017 Global food policy report por International Food Policy Research Institute

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Development of coordinated research efforts por Mamo, T., Mohamed-Saleem, M.A., Tedla, A.

“…The experience of ICRISAT with the use of Vertisols in semi-arid India indicates that the key to drastically improved productivity of Vertisols is the effective control of surface soil water which then enables rational use of the land for food and feed production. ILCA, therefore, developed and tested on-station and on-farm research in various highland Vertisol areas an animal-drawn implement for broadbed and furrow construction which was to combine technical efficiency of surface drainage construction with economic viability. …”
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Concentrated action module MAC for El Salvador; a proposal submitted to the European Economic Community

“…These efforts will be coor­dinated with the government's development program for the northern zone and CATIE's other system research projects that will be working in the same area. …”
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A standard framework for assessing the costs and benefits of restoration: introducing The Economics of Ecosystem Restoration (TEER) por Bodin, B., Garavaglia, V., Pingault, N., Ding, H., Wilson, S., Meybeck, A., Gitz, V., D'Andrea, S., Besacier, C.

“…To fill this gap, we developed a standard framework to assess the costs and benefits of restoration projects and specific restoration interventions. …”
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Agricultural R&D in Sub-Saharan Africa: An era of stagnation por Beintema, Nienke M., Stads, Gert-Jan

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Developing effective institutions for water resources management: A case study in the Deduru Oya Basin, Sri Lanka por Somaratne, Pallewatte G., Jinapala, K., Perera, L.R., Ariyaratne, Badugodahewa Ranjith, Bandaragoda, Don Jayatissa, Makin, Ian W.

“…This report is based on a research project financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to conduct a regional study for the development of effective water management institutions (ADBRETA no 5812). …”
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Adaptation Atlas Notebook: Formulate a climate rationale for projects / Formuler une justification climatique pour les projets por Steward, Peter, Youngberg, Brayden, Ramirez Villegas, Julian, Achicanoy, Harold, Vyas, Shalika, Rosenstock, Todd

“…By integrating climate risks with socio-economic context, the notebook supports the development of compelling, data-driven justifications for funding proposals and project design.…”
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Integration of economic and hydrologic models: exploring conjunctive irrigation water use strategies in the Volta Basin por Bharati, Luna, Rodgers, C., Erdenberger, T., Plotnikova, M., Shumilov, S., Vlek, Paul L.G., Martin, N.

“…We describe the development, calibration and preliminary application of a dynamically coupled economic-hydrologic simulation-optimization model ensemble for evaluating the conjunctive use of surface and groundwater in small reservoir-based irrigation systems characteristic of the Volta Basin, Africa. …”
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Taller de trabajo para mejorar la capacidad de diagnóstico de sistemas de producción de raíces y tubérculos : Memorias, Cartagena, septiembre 12-16, 1988 por Moreno, R.A.

Materias: “…development projects…”
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Household opportunity costs of protecting and developing forest lands in Son La and Hoa Binh Provinces, Vietnam por Lan, Le Ngoc, Wichelns, Dennis, Milan, Florence M., Hoanh, Chu Thai, Duy Phuong, Nguyen

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