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also identified. The review concludes that there is an increasing need to work in partnership and to share knowledge and …
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traditional obstacles to improving their livelihoods. To cope with these obstacles, the rural poor draw on indigenous knowledge … and innovate through local experimentation and adaptation. Indigenous knowledge alone, however, is not enough to deal with … for biofuels require complementary knowledge from formal agricultural research and development (R&D) and support from …
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branches of a supermarket chain in Mumbai, India, a city that hosts one of the world's fastest growing middle … controls (income, gender, and education) gathered through a structured survey instrument implemented following the purchase of … studied consumers' answers to various knowledge, attitude, perception, and practice (KAPP) questions also collected through …
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This research has been undertaken to improve our understanding of stakeholders’ knowledge and perception about … to every individual’s decisionmaking. Knowledge can affect attitudes and behavioral intentions, and a positive attitude …
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As sex ratio imbalances have become a problem in an increasing number of countries, it is important to understand their consequences. With the defeat of the Kuomintang Party in China, more than one million soldiers and civilians, mainly young males, retreated to Taiwan in the late 1940s....
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This paper uses a longitudinal data set from rural Bangladesh to analyze the factors that affect men's and women's ability to participate in groups and to engage in relationships with powerful and influential people. Unlike studies from other countries that find group membership to be positively...
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Assets are an important means of coping with adverse events in developing countries but the role of gendered ownership is not yet fully understood. This paper investigates changes in assets owned by the household head, his spouse, or jointly by both of them in response to shocks in rural...
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We examine the role of gender in adoption and diffusion of orange sweet potato, a biofortified staple food crop being … agricultural intervention with nutrition objectives, intrahousehold gender dynamics regarding decisions about crop choice and child … exchange, suggesting again that gender dimensions of networks may be important to diffusion of the crop. We use data from an …
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