Resultados de búsqueda - culture of poverty

Agricultural and rural mechanisation in Nepal: status, issues and options for future por Gauchan, D., Shrestha, S.

“…Nepal is a small land-locked mountainous country with diverse agroecologies, culture and agriculture. Agriculture is a key source of economic growth, poverty reduction and environmental sustainability in Nepal. …”
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Other books received por Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…The Dynamics of Rural Poverty. FAO, Rome, 232 panes Dixon, R. A. (ed.), 1985. …”
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Enriching impact assessment at CIMMYT por La Rovere, R., Dixon, John A., Hellin, Jonathan

“…In order to enhance its IA culture and institutionalize IA within the Center, ITAU organized a series of workshops that brought together different players amongst CIMMYT's staff and partners. …”
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Ledarskap i en zanzibarisk kultur por Hindström, Jakob, Tullström, Johan

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Research to integrate productivity enhancement, environmental protection, and human development por Sayer, Jeffrey A., Campbell, Bruce M.

“…To meet the challenges of poverty and environmental sustainability, a different kind of research will be needed. …”
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Toward a New Vision and Strategy for the CGIAR: Final Synthesis por Red Internacionale de Methodologia de Investigación de Systemes Producción, Berdegué, Julio A., Escobar, Germán

“…They also found agreement that the CGIAR was suffering from dispersion of effort on too many goals; that its mission must be directly related to the eradication of poverty; that strategic partnerships and alliances had to become a key ingredient of the institutional culture; and that the dichotomy between research on improving genetic resources and research on protecting the environment was false.…”
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The Institutional Learning and Change Initiative: an introduction por CGIAR Institutional Learning and Change Initiative

“…The goal is to enhance the contribution of agricultural research to sustainable poverty reduction. The ILAC Initiative draws on the expanding body of knowledge encompassing complex adaptive systems, innovation processes, organizational learning and program evaluation, and promotes the examination of research paradigms, institutional norms, management practices and professional behaviours. …”
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Dedication: Dirk R. Vuylesteke: Musa scientist and Humanitarian por Ortíz, R.

“…Vuylsteke who died tragically in an air crash on January 30, 2000, while actively engaged in his live long passion, the betterment of efforts to fight hunger and poverty in tropical Africa. Dirk was a leading Musa scientist who contributed to and led a wide range of development projects in tropical Africa. …”
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Conflict, food insecurity and globalization por Messer, Ellen, Cohen, Marc J.

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Non-Farm Activities and Impacts beyond the Economy of Rural Households in Vietnam: A Review and Link to Policies por Mulia, R., Simelton, Elisabeth, Nguyen, T.Q., Jirström, M.

“…The rural development and poverty reduction policies of Vietnam enacted in the past two decades (2000–2020) that promoted livelihood diversification had limited measures addressing socio-cultural impacts of non-farm activities. …”
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Global desertification: Building a science for dryland development por Reynolds, J.F., Stafford Smith, D.M., Lambin, E.F., Turner, B.L., Mortimore, M., Batterbury, S.P.J., Downing, T.E., Dowlatabadi, H., Fernández, R.J., Herrick, Jeffrey E., Huber-Sannwald, E., Jiang, H., Leemans, R., Lynam, T., Maestre, F.T., Ayarza, Miguel Angel, Walker, B.

“…Recent advances in dryland development, however, together with the integrative approaches of global change and sustainability science, suggest that concerns about land degradation, poverty, safeguarding biodiversity, and protecting the culture of 2.5 billion people can be confronted with renewed optimism. …”
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Tortillas on the roaster: Central America’s maize–bean systems and the changing climate por Eitzinger, Anton, Läderach, Peter R.D., Sonder, Kai, Schmidt, A., Sain, Gustavo, Beebe, Stephen E., Rodríguez Sánchez, Beatriz, Fisher M, Hicks P, Navarrete-Frías, C, Nowak, Andreea C.

“…Maize and beans are a vital component of human diets and culture in Central America. More than a million smallholder families grow these crops for subsistence, producing 70% of the maize and 100% of the beans consumed locally. …”
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Inviting all the world's crops to the table: supporting traditional crops to supply future needs por Hart, H.

“…Swaminathan Research Foundation was attended by policymakers and experts from 25 countries around the world and formulated approaches to maximize the contribution of agricultural biodiversity to reducing hunger and poverty. It has only been in the last decade that policymakers and the public havestarted to awaken to the fact that quality of life is dependent not only on quantity of food but also on high quality food from diverse sources. …”
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Empowerment among women and men in monogamous and polygynous households in Northern Ghana por Larson, Janelle, Martey, Edward, Fischer, Kaitlin, Glenna, Leland, Jensen, Leif

“…A key driver of disempowerment among women was time poverty—nearly half of the women (47%) worked more than 10.5 hours per day, compared to 21% of the men. …”
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CGIAR International Centers Week, Washington, DC, October 27-31, 1997: Summary of Proceedings and Decisions por CGIAR Secretariat

“…African Development Bank President Omar Kabbaj gave the Crawford Lecture on poverty in Africa.Much attention was devoted to impact assessment and evaluation, with reports from the IAEG, center impact highlights, and a World Bank comment. …”
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Integrating the development program for agri-food system with climate change policies and commitments in Tajikistan por Babu, Suresh Chandra, Tohirzoda, Sino, Akramov, Kamiljon T., Srivastava, Nandita

“…Unemployment, high incidence of climate shocks, poverty, income inequality, food price inflation, and the decline in foreign currency re serves have engendered the lack of affordability healthy diet (Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) et al 2023).…”
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Opportunities for increasing livestock water productivity in the Nile River Basin por Peden, Donald G., Faki, H., Alemayehu, M., Mpairwe, D.R., Herrero, Mario, Breugel, P. van, Haileslassie, Amare, Taddesse, G., Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele

“…Livestock keeping in the Nile Basin contributes greatly to human security, income, culture and agricultural gross domestic product (GDP). …”
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Challenges in the global cereal supply chain por Ibba, Maria Itria, Timsina, Jagadish, Odjo, Sylvanus, Palacios-Rojas, Natalia, Pawan Kumar Singh, Xinyao He, Alakonya, Amos, Krupnik, Timothy J., Sonder, Kai

“…Their yields per area sown surpass those of other crops, and they are part of human culture, traditions, economies, and politics. With the world population projected to reach about 9.3 billion by 2050, the demand for these crops is expected to increase significantly, especially in developing regions including Africa and Asia, which are anticipated to have the fastest population growth (OECD/FAO, 2021; UN DESA/POP/2022/TR/ NO, 2022). …”
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Livestock in the livelihoods of the underprivileged communities in India: A review por Rangnekar, D.V.

“…Livestock are central to their livelihoods and culture. An extensive review of formal and grey literature addressed the premise that a good understanding by the research and development community of the role of livestock in the livelihoods of the underprivileged and their production and marketing systems are needed to guide effective research and development (R&D) aiming to alleviate poverty. …”
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Strange Changes: Indigenous perspectives of climate change and adaptation in NE Arnhem Land (Australia) por Petheram, L., Zander, K.K., Campbell, Bruce M., High, C, Stacey, Natasha

“…The results suggest that strategies and policies are needed to strengthen adaptive capacity of communities to mitigate over-arching poverty and well-being issues, as well as respond to changes in climate. …”
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