Resultados de búsqueda - Shylock~

Informality and the impact of COVID-19 on maize value chains in Uganda: Key findings and policy implications por Nabwire, Leocardia, Van Campenhout, Bjorn

“…As a result, informal value chains such as maize in Uganda may be less able to adapt to common shocks in the long run. The appropriate policy response therefore would be to supplement some of the mitigating policies targeting businesses with more long run social protection policies to also benefit value chain actors upstream.…”
Enlace del recurso

Connected and extracted: Understanding how centrality in the global wheat supply chain affects global hunger using a network approach por Raj, Subhashni, Brinkley, Catherine, Ulimwengu, John M.

“…While global food trade has allowed countries to buffer against domestic food production shortfalls and gain access to larger markets, engaging in trade has also opened economies up to shocks and increased extraction of food resources. …”
Enlace del recurso

Sudan Rural Household Survey 2023: Sampling and implementation procedures for the first round por Kirui, Oliver K., Ahmed, Mosab O. M., Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum, Abushama, Hala, Siddig, Khalid

“…The survey focuses on several critical themes central to household welfare, including food security, coping strategies, employment and income, livelihoods, assets, market access, and exposure to shocks. Analysis of the survey data can provide comprehensive insights into the resilience of and challenges faced by rural communities in Sudan. …”
Enlace del recurso

Myanmar Household Welfare Survey Round Five: Note on Sample Characteristics and Weighting por Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity

“…The objective of the survey was to collect data on a wide range of household and individual welfare indicators–including wealth, livelihoods, unemployment, food insecurity, diet quality, health shocks, and coping strategies–in a country exceptionally hard hit by conflict, severe economic collapse, and several damaging waves of COVID-19. …”
Enlace del recurso

Pakistan Rural Household Panel Survey (PRHPS) 2013, Round 2 por International Food Policy Research Institute, Innovative Development Strategies

“…The survey collected information on a large number of topics including sources of income, nature of employment, consumption patterns, time use, assets and savings, loans and credit, education, migration, economic shocks, governance, and participation in social safety nets. …”
Enlace del recurso

Ethiopian wheat yield and yield gap estimation: A spatially explicit small area integrated data approach por Mann, Michael L., Warner, James

“…Reflecting on the high interannual variability in output per hectare, we explore whether these changes can be explained by weather, shocks to, and management of rain-fed agricultural systems. …”
Enlace del recurso

From famine to food security: Lessons for building resilient food systems por Babu, Suresh Chandra, Dorosh, Paul A.

“…How do countries prepare to prevent shocks—natural and man-made—from generating food crises? …”
Enlace del recurso

Liquid milk: Cash constraints and day-to-day intertemporal choice in financial diaries por Geng, Xin, Janssens, Wendy, Kramer, Berber

“…This share increases ceteris paribus in weeks with either lower inflows of cash or uninsured health shocks. Further, although the market pays on average less than the cooperative, farmers receive more cash per liter of milk sold in the market when non-dairy income is low. …”
Enlace del recurso

Introduction [in Advancing the climate and bioeconomy agenda in Africa for resilient and sustainable agrifood systems] por Yamdjeu, Augustin Wambo, Glatzel, Katrin, Tadesse, Getaw, Savadogo, Moumini

“…The consortium has warned that millions could be pushed into acute hunger unless support is urgently mobilized before the next lean season (WFP 2024). These shocks are seriously disrupting production cycles and hampering the ability of countries to guarantee food security for their populations.…”
Enlace del recurso

Regional variations in rural livelihoods: Challenges and opportunities por Belton, Ben, Filipski, Mateusz J., Lambrecht, Isabel B., Fang, Peixun

Enlace del recurso

Soil biodiversity and ecological intensification for sustainable agriculture por Erktan, Amandine, Blanchart, Eric, Pulleman, Mirjam, Trap, Jean

“…Soil biodiversity is pivotal for ecological intensification of agriculture by enhancing soil functions, sustainable crop production and resilience to environmental shocks and disturbances. However, a detailed understanding of mechanisms in field conditions to inform ecological intensification strategies based on the beneficial effects of soil biodiversity on soil functions remains to be established. …”
Enlace del recurso

Hyperendemic AIDS, food insecurity and vulnerability in southern Africa: A conceptual evolution por Gillespie, Stuart, Drimie, Scott

“…Such responses determine their resilience in the face of concurrent shocks and stresses. Highlighting work undertaken by the Regional Network on AIDS, Livelihoods and Food Security (RENEWAL), this presentation will map out the evolution in the conceptualization of vulnerability in the context of AIDS and food insecurity in southern Africa over the last decade.…”
Enlace del recurso

Risks, ex-ante actions, and public assistance: Impacts of natural disasters on child schooling in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi por Yamauchi, Futoshi, Yohannes, Yisehac, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…In Ethiopia, public assistance plays a more important role than ex-ante actions in mitigating the impact of shocks on child schooling. In contrast, Malawi households rely more on private ex-ante actions than on public assistance. …”
Enlace del recurso

The case of zero-tillage technology in Argentina por Trigo, Eduardo J., Cap, Eugenio, Malach, Valeria, Villarreal, Federico

“…The adoption of zero tillage improved soil fertility by reversing decades of soil degradation, created an estimated 200,000 new farm jobs, and shocked the agricultural commodity markets with additional supplies that helped keep global food prices from escalating. …”
Enlace del recurso

Tariff Analytical and Simulation Tool for Economists (TASTE) por Horridge, Mark, Laborde Debucquet, David

“…The TASTE program itself reads the enormous dataset and performs various operations using optimized routines, in particular:(1) Computing aggregated tariffs; (2) Transformation of scenarios about formula-based changes in bound rates into files of percent change shocks to applied rates -- which could be used by different models such as RunGTAP; (3) Generation of matrices of splitting weights which could be used to split a sector in the trade matrices of a GTAP model database (maybe using the SplitCom method).…”
Enlace del recurso

Global economics crisis and nutrition security in Africa por Babu, Suresh Chandra

“…During 2007 and 2008, though, food and fuel price shocks put inordinate strains on these nations’ balance sheets, growth prospects and potential to reduce poverty. …”
Enlace del recurso

Does financial inclusion enhance farmers' resilience to climate change? Evidence from rural Ethiopia por Negera, M., Alemu, T., Hagos, Fitsum, Haileslassie, Amare

“…It is crucial to enhance the climate resilience of smallholder farmers in the face of severe and unpredictable climate shocks, which disproportionately affect them. However, the level of financial inclusion in Ethiopia remains low, and its impact on the climate resilience of smallholder farmers has not been thoroughly examined using rigorous model and comprehensive dataset. …”
Enlace del recurso

Armed conflict and gendered participation in agrifood systems: Survey evidence from 29 African countries por Ronzani, Piero, Stojetz, Wolfgang, Azzarri, Carlo, Nico, Gianluigi, Mane, Erdgin, Brück, Tilman

“…In the longer term, impacts of conflict on employment two years later are stronger when no more conflict ensues than if further conflict occurs, challenging the widespread idea of one-off conflict shocks fading away over time and suggesting that labour markets adapt to and absorb lasting conflict situations. …”
Enlace del recurso

Strengthen PSNP Institutions and Resilience Phase II (SPIR II), Ethiopia: Group Problem Management Plus (g-PM+) Pilot, Follow-up 2 por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The first part comprises of household-level modules such as household roster, housing, assets, consumption, food security, investments, and occurrence of shocking events. The second part is composed of individual-level modules administered to the individuals screened for the study. …”
Enlace del recurso

Strengthen PSNP Institutions and Resilience Phase II (SPIR II), Ethiopia: Group Problem Management Plus (g-PM+) Pilot Baseline Survey por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The first part comprises household-level modules such as household roster, housing, assets, consumption, food security, investments, and occurrence of shocking events. The second part is composed of individual-level modules administered to the individuals screened for the study. …”
Enlace del recurso