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Adjective‐based qualitative comparative analysis: Relating immobility situations across contexts
Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract This paper introduces an adjective‐based qualitative comparative method for analysing complex lived experiences across diverse contexts. By identifying, harmonising, and relationally comparing salient descriptive adjectives derived from qualitative data, the approach enables structured yet interpretively rich cross‐case comparison ...
Josef Novotný +5 more
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Cogent Social Sciences, 2017 This paper provides regional effects of land fragmentation on technical efficiency of 462 cassava farmers selected through a multitage sampling technique from South-West geopolitical zone of Nigeria.
O.L. Balogun, B.E. Akinyemi
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Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sierra Leone's land governance reform policies are often based on the neoliberal assumption that market growth, gender equality and women's empowerment are mutually compatible objectives. Contrary to this assumption, this article argues that while market‐oriented reforms can help to destabilize legal and cultural norms that are discriminatory ...
Mohamed Sesay, Simeon Koroma
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PREDICTIVE CONFIGURATION OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF FARMERS ABOUT IMPROVED METHODS OF CASSAVA CULTIVATION
Annals of Tropical Research, 1985 Ninety cassava farmers were interviewed to determine the configuration of characteristics which would differentiate the low from the high-knowledge level farmers. Results indicate that farmers with these characteristics in the corresponding variables, i.
S Ramanathan, M Anantharaman, KR Lakshmi
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Determinants of DMC technologies adoption among smallholders in the Lake Alaotra area, Madagascar : Document de travail BV lac n° 45 [PDF]
, 2008 Les techniques de systèmes de semis direct sur couverture végétale (SCV) sont diffusées depuis une dizaine d'années à Madagascar. Ils répondent à des objectifs de préservation de l'environnement, de création de revenus et de réduction de la pauvreté, en ...
Andriamalala, Herizo +5 more
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Land Reforms in Cuba: First Empirical Assessment on Productivity Using Crop‐Level Panel Data
Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Land reforms implemented in Cuba since 2008 have aimed to increase agricultural production by distributing state‐owned idle lands with land‐use rights. The reforms restricted farmers with the rights from cultivating perennial and capital‐intensive crops.
Yoshihiko Hashiguchi +1 more
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Comparing fresh root yield and quality of certified and farmer-saved cassava seed. [PDF]
Crop ProtFormal systems supporting the delivery of high-quality cassava seed are being established in several key cassava producing countries in Africa. Questions remain, however, about the value of certified cassava seed when compared to seed which is recycled multiple times, which is standard farmer practice.
Yabeja JW, Manoko MLK, Legg JP.
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Workshop report: Strategies for improving livelihoods through RTB postharvest technologies [PDF]
, 2013 The need to define more specific plans for achieving the objectives of the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) brought together a broad range of stakeholders from 18-22 February 2013 to attend a workshop at CIAT Headquarters in Cali,
Dufour, Dominique
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Conservation and use of genetic resources of underutilized crops in the Americas - A continental analysis [PDF]
, 2014 Latin America is home to dramatically diverse agroecological regions which harbor a high concentration of underutilized plant species, whose genetic resources hold the potential to address challenges such as sustainable agricultural development, food ...
Galluzzi, Gea, López Noriega, Isabel
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Between famine and freedom: Food prices during the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945–9
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper investigates how the Indonesian War of Independence (1945‒9) influenced staple food prices, and how fluctuations in those prices, in turn, shaped the trajectory and dynamics of the conflict. We compiled a dataset comprising more than 8600 prices for staple foods covering the entire Indonesian archipelago from 1939‒49, allowing us to
Ingrid de Zwarte +2 more
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