Resultados de búsqueda - Small groups.

Challenges, barriers, and determinants of farmers’ adoption of agroecological practices in Tunisia: A Case study of Hamam biadha and Elles por Khader, Amina

“…Data has been collected through interviewing 40 farmers, 16 key informant interviews (KII’s) and 2 focus groups discussions (FGD’s) targeting stakeholders. …”
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Enhancing youth's retention in potato farming enterprise through consortium agribusiness models in Tanzania por Ngozi, S., Feleke, S.

“…Youth potato farmers participating in the consortium business model have higher profit per hectare (2,392,326.5TZS/Ha) than youth in groups not utilizing the consortium business model to the group membership (2,170,405 TZS/Ha). …”
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Crafting combinations to govern groundwater: Knowledge, motivation, and agency por Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Bruns, Bryan

“…The articles cover a range of scales from small groups playing experiential games to international agreements about transboundary aquifers. …”
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Socio-economic differentials in child stunting are consistently larger in urban than rural areas: analysis of 10 DHS data sets por Menon, Purnima, Ruel, Marie T., Morris, Saul Sutkover

“…The prevalence of stunting was lower in urban than in rural areas for all countries, but rural–urban odds ratios were relatively small (< 3.3). As hypothesized, the gap between low and high SES was markedly larger in urban (median OR, 4) than rural (median OR, 1.8) areas, and differentials were statistically significant (interaction between area and SES in logistic regression) in all but three countries. …”
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Cattle farming, armed conflict, and climate change: Possibilities and limitations in a case study in the Colombian Amazon por Castillo Sanchez, Verenice, Orduz Ramos, Daniela, Pazos Cardenas, Mateo, Triana Ángel, Natalia

“…Using qualitative methods including workshops, focus groups, and key informant interviews with 32 cattle farming families, we found that traditional cattle systems in the region leave small producers particularly vulnerable to extreme weather events, with limited access to adaptation strategies. …”
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Resilient Cities urban nutrition profile: Kenya por Margolies, Amy, Amunga, Dorcas, Pather, Kamara, Craig, Hope, Olney, Deanna K.

“…The national school meals program serves only a small portion of schools, and urban food policies are still underdeveloped.…”
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Performance and cost-benefit evaluation of farmer-managed solar-powered groundwater irrigation in Attapeu Province, Lao PDR: interim results from the first year of operation of fou... por Douangsavanh, Somphasith, Pavelic, Paul, Kotchofa, Pacem, Dubois, Mark

“…This system is managed by local farmers and was designed to help small-scale farmers overcome water shortages, improve crop productivity, and build resilience to climate change. …”
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Characterization of an insect cell-derived Theileria parva sporozoite vaccine antigen and immunogenicity in cattle por Nene, Vishvanath M., Inumaru, S., McKeever, Declan J., Morzaria, S.P., Shaw, M., Musoke, A.J.

“…Previous data showed that six out of a group of nine cattle inoculated with NS1-p67, a recombinant form of a 67-KDa Theileria parva sporozoite surface protein, were immune to East Coast fever. …”
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A quantitative model for understanding and exploring land use decisions by smallholder agrowetland households in rural areas of East Africa por Sakane, N., Wijk, Mark T. van, Langensiepen, M., Becker, M.

“…Shifts in relative distributions of farm types were simulated within and between wetland cluster groups, where all upland dependent crop-based farmers disappeared. …”
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Inheritance of seed iron and zinc concentrations in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) por Blair, Matthew W., Astudillo, Carolina, Grusak, M.A., Graham, R, Beebe, Stephen E.

“…Micronutrients are essential elements needed in small amounts for adequate human nutrition and include the elements iron and zinc. …”
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Infection-interactions in Ethiopian village chickens por Bettridge, Judy M., Lynch, Stacey E., Brena, M.C., Melese, K., Dessie, Tadelle, Terfa, Z.G., Desta, T.T., Rushton, S., Hanotte, Olivier H., Kaiser, P., Wigley, Paul, Christley, Robert M.

“…It was found that only a small proportion of variation in the data could be explained by the risk factors measured. …”
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The potential of cow traction in the East African highlands por Zerbini, E., Gebre-Wold, A., Shapiro, Barry I.

“…Work output more than compensated for the small decline in milk production and number of calvings and greater daily metabolic intake of working supplemented compared to non-working supplemented cows. …”
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Comparative assessment of yield potentials of improved cowpea breeding lines using performance index and ranking methods por Ajeigbe, Hakeem A., Mohammed, S., Singh, B.

“…Therefore, there is a need for another method which can further discriminate among these small groups of varieties. This study was undertaken to assess the efficacy of the performance index (PI) and rank total (RT) methods in identifying the best variety from a variety trial. …”
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Arthropod Pest Management in Organic Vegetable Greenhouses por Weintraub, Phyllis G., Recht, Eitan, Mondaca, Lilach Lily, Harari, Ally R., Diaz, Beatriz Maria, Bennison, Jude

“…Our discussion covers greenhouse structure; the first line of defense, regulatory, and phytosanitary measures; various management methods; and finally specific management of primary pest groups, mites, thrips, hemipterans (aphids, mealybugs, and whiteflies), and small Lepidoptera.…”
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Field margins vs. insecticides : factors affecting the density of predators attacking Plutella xylostella por Grönberg, Lina

“…Unfortunately, generalist predators have been exploited to a small extent in biological control and little is known about how different factors can affect their density. …”

Unpacking taste : the social life of wine por Waldin, Henrik Mikael

“…Importers and consumers shape groups through the market creating subfields such as natural wine. …”

Are Malawian diets changing? An assessment of nutrient consumption and dietary patterns using household-level evidence from 2010/11 and 2016/17 por Gilbert, Rachel, Benson, Todd, Ecker, Olivier

“…Of particular concern, the poorest households have very low nutrient consumption per person and have diets that rely on only a few foods from a small number of food groups. For all six nutrients, nationally just over half of the total amount of nutrient consumed came from food that was purchased. …”
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Influence of feeding sheep on oilseed cake following the consumption of tanniferous feeds por Nsahlai, I.V., Umunna, N.N., Osuji, P.O.

“…The difference in LWG between sesbania and acacia groups was small using the mixture strategy (10 g/day; P>0.05) and substantial using the sequence strategy (23 g/day; P<0.01). …”
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Attityder hos råvaruleverantörer till ett sågverksföretag por Arvidsson, Christian

“…The result shows that the segment small forest owners consider services offered as the most important factor when choosing a buyer of lumber. …”
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Utfodringens betydelse för proteinhalten i mjölken por Häggblad, Helena

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