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, agriculture-nutrition linkages have received a lot of attention in recent years. Researchers have analysed the link between the … third agriculture-nutrition link has been largely neglected in recent years: the impact of how food is produced on human … outcomes substantially and that this neglected agriculture-nutrition linkage deserves more scientific and political attention …
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agriculture, opens the field to more studies on technology adoption and time-use and suggests that gender roles are changing with … paper, the effects of agricultural mechanization on time-use in smallholder farming households in Zambia were investigated … mechanization with regard to time-use during land preparation, which leads to gender differentiation; for households using manual …
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, agriculture-nutrition linkages have received a lot of attention in recent years. Researchers have analysed the link between the … third agriculture-nutrition link has been largely neglected in recent years: the impact of how food is produced on human … outcomes substantially and that this neglected agriculture-nutrition linkage deserves more scientific and political attention …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014104731
agriculture, opens the field to more studies on technology adoption and time-use and suggests that gender roles are changing with … paper, the effects of agricultural mechanization on time-use in smallholder farming households in Zambia were investigated … mechanization with regard to time-use during land preparation, which leads to gender differentiation; for households using manual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012109799
details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the …Agricultural innovations are seen as a key avenue to improve nutrition and health in smallholder farm households. But … adoption of agricultural technologies, most studies primarily focus on impacts in terms of productivity and income. Nutrition …
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With the commercialization of agriculture, women are increasingly disadvantaged because of persistent gender … investigate the gender implications of recently established farmer groups. Traditionally, banana has been a women’s crop in Kenya … negative gender implications of farmer groups can be reduced or avoided when women are group members themselves. In the poorest …
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This survey reviews the existing literature, identifying the contribution of agriculture, schooling, and nutrition to … is that positive technology shocks to agriculture have played a key role in igniting a transition from traditional to … modern agriculture and to long-term economic growth in almost all countries. Improvements in agricultural technologies …
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in Sub-Saharan Africa. Food insecurity remains a major issue among African smallholders. Mobile phones could potentially … facilitate access to food markets and thus improve food security and nutrition, but research on such types of effects remains …
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Agricultural mechanization is on the rise in Africa. A widespread replacement of manual labor will change the face of … African agriculture. Despite this potentially transformative role, only few studies have looked at the potential effects of … and conflicts also play out across gender. Some effects remain ambiguous. For example, depending on local factors …
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In this paper, we examine the impact of soil conservation adoption on gender-specific resource allocations within … households in Zambia. The extension of funding of conservation farming (CF) training sessions in 2007 in specific districts in … Zambia provides variation in CF takeup. We use this variation to implement a difference-in-differences strategy on a number …
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