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interest to the US Government’s Feed the Future initiative. These poverty, health, and nutrition outcomes include both …
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In this paper we explore how a value chain framework can inform the design of interventions for achieving improved nutrition. Conceptually, there are three main channels for value chains to improve nutrition: (1) through increased consumption of nutritious foods (a demand side pathway); or (2)...
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This paper analyzes the effectiveness of local-level (territory) multistakeholder platforms using data from 55 CARGs in 23 randomly selected territories in three provinces (Bandundu, Bas-Congo, and Kinshasa) of the DRC. The first CARG was established in 2008, and the survey was conducted three...
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This study is motivated by the idea that even though participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) is widely accepted as a tool to manage development programs to be effective, its application is widely constrained by its high start-up resource requirements in terms of both finance and time....
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"This article uses combined household- and community-level data collected from the Maule Region (VII) of Chile to … variation in participation decisions, contribution amounts, variable input purchases, and subsequent farm revenues." from …
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investigate the processes by which social capital formation, participation in networks and groups, and trusting behavior comes … to a number of formal and informal groups and networks, but participation differs according to household characteristics …
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community-level factors influencing women's and men's decisions to participate in off-farm activities, either in the off …-farm labor market or in local community groups, and the relationship with on-farm crop returns. Results indicate that crop … returns are not affected by increased labor availability over a certain labor-land ratio. Female participation in off …
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of their participation. By analyzing the role of stakeholder participation in the formulation of agricultural and rural … development strategies in West Africa, this paper finds that a lack of broad-based participation in these strategies was not a …
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sustainable way. Like many other countries, Ghana has adopted a community-based approach to meet this challenge. Community … supported by water and sanitation teams of each district administration and by the Community Water and Sanitation Agency, an … independent agency that has been created to facilitate the community-based approach. This paper is based on the analysis of two …
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