Resultados de búsqueda - Educational innovations.

Digital agriculture profile: Guatemala por Kropff, Wietske, Martinez, Karen Michelle, Hernandez, Monica Paola, Navarro Racines, Carlos Eduardo, Bouroncle, Claudia, Giraldo Mendez, Diana Carolina, Martinez Salgado, Jesus David, Rios, David, Eitzinger, Anton, Ramirez Villegas, Julian Armando

“…Digital technology is set to transform the agricultural sector in Guatemala. These innovations address important challenges faced by farmers, such as climate-related risks, access to real-time alerts and advice, access to credit and insurance, and post-harvest losses. …”
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A decade of One Health implementation in Somalia: Challenges and opportunities for institutionalization por Hared, Y.A., Mumin, F.I., Mor, Siobhan M., Mohamed, S.A., Nguka, G., Knight-Jones, Theodore J.D., Richards, Shauna

“…The study identified several critical challenges and opportunities within the Somali context, focusing on innovations in governance, education, and implementation. …”
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Improving Agricultural Research at Universities in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Study Guide por Michelsen, Heike, Zuidema, Larry, Hoste, C. H., Shapiro, D.

“…The question is especially acute in the agricultural sector, where national agricultural research organizations, which have previously supplied the innovations on which sustainable development depends, have been severely weakened by cuts in public-sector spending. …”
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Recent advances in cowpea IPM in West Africa por 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. Reviewing these environmentally safer and scalable IPM innovations will provide cowpea stakeholders with insights into workable, sustainable solutions for minimizing crop pest problems, reducing reliance on harmful pesticides and ultimately ensuring the long-term viability of cowpea production and its contribution to food security.…”
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Investment by Ethiopian Government Universities to Run Community-based Breeding Programs (CBBPs) in Nearby Villages as part of their Outreach Program por Belay, Berhanu, Getachew, Tesfaye, Haile, Aynalem

“…CBBP is a proven innovation that has been tested over the years through the engagement of multiple stakeholders. …”
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Adoption Rate and Use Intensity of Bundled Climate Information Services and Climate-Smart Agricultural Technologies in Ethiopia por Tesfaye, Abonesh, Ambaw, Gebermedihin, Solomon, Dawit

“…Our findings revealed an adoption rate of 73%, 68%, and 18% for site-specific fertilizer recommendation, Climate-smart integrated small ruminant innovations (Smart Pack), and user-centric bundled digital climate agro advisories, respectively. …”
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Returns to public agricultural and rural investments in China por Fan, Shenggen, Cho, Emily EunYoung, Rue, Christopher

“…Returns to overall agricultural GDP were highest for agricultural R&D, followed by education, roads, and telephones. Investment in education had the greatest returns to poverty reduction, as well as to nonfarm GDP and overall rural GDP. …”
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Diversidad y complejidad de los modelos de toma de decisiones y organización productiva en el sector agropecuario del Noreste Pampeano. Aportes para la mejora de la extensión y el... por Torrado Porto, Roberto

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Catalog of technical options for solid waste management in Bangladesh por Majumder, Ayan, Ulrich, Andreas, Taron, Avinandan

“…Behavior change interventions through Information, Education, and Communication (IEC) and Behavior Change Communication (BCC) campaigns are recognized as vital for achieving sustained public participation and source-level waste segregation. …”
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A Review of Evidence on Gender Equality, Women's Empowerment, and Food Systems por Njuki, Jemimah, Eissler, Sarah, Malapit, Hazel J., Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Bryan, Elizabeth, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

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Beyond the pandemic: Transforming food systems after COVID-19 por Swinnen, Johan, McDermott, John, Yosef, Sivan, Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio, Vos, Rob

“…. - COVID-19 caused widespread loss of livelihoods and incomes and reduced access to services, safety nets, and education, threatening the food security, health, and nutritional status of poor and marginalized people around the world. - Food system transformation must be pursued to regain this lost ground and achieve the SDGs by 2030. - Yet the pandemic and associated responses exposed weaknesses and inequalities within food systems, including among different world regions, rural and urban communities, rich and poor populations, and disadvantaged groups such as women. - Some food systems and sectors were more resilient than others, depending on their structure, governance, and roles of the public and private sector. - 2020 offered lessons, innovations, and opportunities that can help make food systems more resilient to future shocks and more inclusive, efficient, sustainable, and healthy.…”
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Are there gender differences in access to and demand for East Coast fever vaccine? Empirical evidence from rural smallholder dairy farmers in Kenya por Jumba, Humphrey, Kiara, Henry K., Owuor, G., Teufel, Nils

“…Women lag in the adoption of agricultural innovations compared to men, mainly due to gender inequalities in access to complementary inputs, capital, and knowledge/information. …”
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Peru’s native potato revolution. por Horton, D., Samanamud, K.

“…The main benefits of market chain innovation and increased market demand for potatoes have accrued to early innovators characterized by higher levels of education, larger land holdings, better access to credit and input supplies and to markets for their products, and superior endowments of financial and social capital and entrepreneurial capabilities.…”
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Are there gender differences in access to and demand for East Coast fever vaccine? Empirical evidence from rural smallholder dairy farmers in Kenya por Jumba, Humphrey, Kiara, Henry K., Owuor, G., Teufel, Nils

“…Women lag in the adoption of agricultural innovations compared to men, mainly due to gender inequalities in access to complementary inputs, capital, and knowledge / information. …”
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Circular bioeconomy practices and their associations with household food security in four RUNRES African city regions por Sekabira, H., Feleke, S., Manyong, V., Spath, L., Krutli, P., Simbeko, G., Vanlauwe, B., Six, J.

“…Associations regarding using organic waste as compost are generally positive but insignificant, while those with sorting waste are significantly and consistently negative. Thus, CBE innovations aiming to enhance household food security could prioritize organic waste valorization into livestock feed consider socio economic aspects such as access to land, access to market, education level, using mobile phone, income and city regions where interventions took place. …”
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Information flows within farmer networks and the implications for farmer-to-farmer extension: evidence from the Kenyan dairy sector por Morrison, Rosie, Cassar, Xandru G.G.N.A., Duncan, Alan J., Rao, E.J.O., Barnes, Andrew P.

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An assessment of social and ecological factors influencing the management and productivity of smallholder aquacultural systems in Northern Province, Zambia por Johnson, J.W., Jacobson, M., Cole, S.M., Syapwaya, M., Kaminski, A.M., Karsten, H., Stauffer, J., Jensen, L., Lundeba, M.

“…Stakeholders emphasize research is needed to understand aquaculture’s functions at household and farm scales. Innovations to improve productivity must consider agroecological contexts, local knowledge, and adaptations to situate aquaculture within local livelihood. …”
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Small-scale versus large-scale cocoa farming in Cameroon por Fule, Chi Bemieh

“…Smallholding in the cocoa sector has been seen as a hindrance to production and productivity growth due to the ageing of the cocoa farmers, limited access to credit, low level of education and low adoptability of innovations. In order to curb this, policy makers have resorted to implementing policy instruments that encourage the extension of small rural farms into larger farms, thereby undermining the challenges that large-scale farmers might have to deal with. …”
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Dryland Cereals and Legumes Agri-Food Systems: Full Proposal 2017-2022 por CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Cereals and Legumes

“…The overarching logic of the Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC) CRP is that improved capacities of agrifood systems of key cereal and legume crops will enable coherent production, market and policy innovations that deliver resilience, inclusion, poverty reduction, nutritional security and economic growth. …”
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Creating spaces for sustainability transformation at universities por Anderson, Lakin

“…Since 1992 CEMUS has developed and nurtured ways of operating that offer insights into new ways of organising university activities for sustainable development. Analysing innovative social practices for implementing sustainability in higher education, and institutional contexts for enabling such practices, this study explains the creation of a 'shadow space' for social learning, semi-detached from institutional context, in which some innovative capacities for meeting the challenges of implementing sustainable development at universities has built up and been nurtured over time. …”
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