Search Results - class struggle

Gendered implications of COVID-19 on wastewater reuse agri-food value chains in Egypt: Current context and practical recommendations by International Water Management Institute

“…There is no one category of women gendered inequalities are cut across by class, age, education, health – as well as by family ownership of land, location of cultivated plots which determine access to clean or drainage water. …”
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Heterogeneous pro–poor targeting in India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme by Liu, Yanyan, Barrett, Christopher B.

“…The other half of India’s states struggle to avoid high rates and regressive patterns of administrative rationing of MGNREGS jobs to which the poor have a legal right. …”
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AI-powered detection and quantification of Post-harvest Physiological Deterioration (PPD) in cassava using YOLO foundation models and K-means clustering by Gomez Ayalde, Daniela, Giraldo Londono, Juan Camilo, Quiroga Mosquera, Audberto, Luna-Melendez, Jorge Luis, Gimode, Winnie, Tran, Thierry, Zhang, Xiaofei, Selvaraj, Michael Gomez

“…The integration of YOLO foundation models, alongside SAM and image processing methods, has demonstrated promising precision even in scenarios where experts struggle to differentiate closely related classes. …”
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Coaching, not monitoring? Insights from a school accountability reform in Pakistan by Karachiwalla, Naureen, Kosec, Katrina, Asad, Saher, Habib, Masooma, Leaver, Clare, ur Rehman, Attique

“…We find null treatment effects for all pre-registered student and educator outcomes. In-class teaching practices improved from baseline to endline, but these sizeable changes were similar in magnitude in all schools. …”
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Assessing women's empowerment in agricultural research by Elias, Marlène, Cole, Steven M., Quisumbing, Agnes R., Valencia, Ana Maria Paez, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Twyman, Jennifer

“…Then, it was about collective struggles to challenge patriarchal structures, and intersecting structures of class, ethnicity, caste, and race, that shape women’s (subordinate) position in society (Batliwala 2007). …”
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Innovation in African food processing enterprises: Patterns and drivers by Tadesse, Getaw, Gachango, Florence

“…Industrial development is key for structural transformation, which many African countries are struggling with, to sustain and deepen the observed solid economic growth of the last two decades (Newfarmer, Page, and Tarp 2019; Newman et al. 2016). …”
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Native tourism, natural forests and local incomes on Ilha Grande, Brazil by Wunder, Sven

“…Obviously not, since limits are subjective and differ enormously between, on the one hand, the low-spending students – and the camping ground owners catering to them – and, on the other, the higher middle-class tourist – and the up-market hostel owners with considerable investments at stake. …”
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Participation and inclusiveness in process and design by Johannesson, Emma, Östlund, Maria

“…Who is included and has the right to shape public spaces is constantly contested through power struggles and expressions of politics and culture, where conflicting interests shape urban development. …”
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Failure to scale in digital agronomy: An analysis of site-specific nutrient management decision-support tools in developing countries by Sida, Tesfaye Shiferaw, Gameda, Samuel, Chamberlin, Jordan, Andersson, Jens A., Getnet, Mezegebu, Woltering, Lennart, Craufurd, Peter Q.

“…Despite their acclaimed yield benefits, we find that SSNM-DST have struggled to reach scale over the last few decades and, with strong heterogeneity in adoption among intended stakeholders and tools. …”
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Water Insecurity in Coastal Bangladesh: A Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Perspective by Joshi, Deepa, Sarker, Mou Rani, Basnet, Sahara

“…This study seeks to fill this gap by examining the complexities of both agricultural (productive) and domestic water insecurity through an intersectional lens, considering differences across gender, class, land ownership, age, and social identity. …”
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From feminism to gender equality by Huynh, Samantha

“…The identified simplistic views of feminist energy policy and gender equality accept the premise, although not explicitly, that the group “women” is a large homogenous group of white and middle-class women. This not only obscures the struggles of those who fall outside of this description but also reproduces the notion that inequality only exists between women and men. …”
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Livelihoods and Welfare: Findings from the sixth round of the Myanmar Household Welfare Survey (June – November 2023) by Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity

“…The share of households with an unemployed member decreases by asset class (15 percent in asset poor households compared to 8 percent in asset rich households). …”
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