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| Engle, Patrice L.; Menon, Purnima; Garrett, James L.; Slack, Alison. |
| The UNICEF-expanded model for nutrition is used to analyze the circumstances of care in urban environments. The model postulates that there are six major types of care behaviors: feeding and breast-feeding, food preparation and handling, hygiene behavior, psychosocial care, care for women, and home health practices. These behaviors require the resources of education and knowledge of the caregivers, the physical and mental health of caregivers, autonomy in decisionmaking, time availability, and the social support of the family and community in order to ensure adequate care for the child. This paper describes each of these constraints, and two of the behaviors (feeding and health care utilization) in urban and rural areas. Data from Demographic and Health... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Child Feeding; Food handling; Urban health; Urbanization; Education; Research; Gender; Health and Nutrition; Education; Childcare and work; Livelihoods; Urban programming; Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 1997 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/97296 |
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| Brennan, John P.; Singh, Rajinder Pal; Singh, Inder Pal. |
| Researchers have abundant technical opportunities to select various options for improvement of nutritional characteristics of feed grains. Choosing between those opportunities is a difficult issue for research funding organisations. In this paper, an attempt to address those research resource allocation issues is reported. The approach to use in analysing improvements in the feed quality of grains is discussed. By defining the problem as a cost reduction for the livestock industries, the impact of improvements in grain nutrition can be defined by their impact on the least-cost feed rations for different livestock categories. Using that approach, the benefits of improved feeds can be evaluated, and research priorities can be determined on the basis of which... |
| Tipo: Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Feed grain; Nutrition; Value; Research; Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123789 |
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| Coronado Herrera, Marta; Vega y Leon, Salvador; Gutierrez Tolentino, Rey; Perez Gonzalez, Jose Jesus; Diaz Gonzalez, Gilberto. |
| The aim of this investigation is to enrich the knowledge about nutrigenetics, a scientifictechnologyc paradigm in nutritional sciences. This new knowledge implies the interaction between nutrition and human genetic polymorphisms. However, the development of nutrigenetics will only be successful if the consumer, who has an essential role in this field, perceives clear health benefits, and if industries see a high potential for the development and innovation of food or genetic products, and commercial applications could be profitable. However, in order to achieve significant advances, it will be necessary a extensive economic investment in genomic research. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Nutrigenetic; Research; Development.; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/99474 |
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| Coble, Keith H.; Barnett, Barry J.. |
| Agricultural economists have for many decades concerned ourselves with gaining an understanding of individual behavior when confronted with risk, and developing tools to address decision-making under risk. This area of research has recently gained renewed attention for a variety of reasons. This paper attempts to provide a review of the current status of risk related research, to assess areas where we have made significant progress, and also areas where expected benefits of future work are greatest. Theoretical advancements have contributed to our understanding of portfolio trade-offs, optimal input and output decisions, and the use of instruments such as futures and insurance. Advances in the ability to quantify risk with more robust methodologies... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Risk; Insurance; Research; Risk and Uncertainty. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15803 |
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| Heiman, Amir; Miranowski, John A.; Zilberman, David; Alix-Garcia, Jennifer Marie. |
| While the demand for traditional agricultural economics is diminishing, there is a growing need for the economics and management of the food sector and the environment. Departments of agricultural economics have shown great flexibility in including agribusiness in their Bachelor's and Master's teaching programs. Ph.D and research programs appear to adjust more slowly to changing demand. Although agricultural economics programs are providing a variety of service course offerings, opportunities for joint programs with biological, physical, and natural sciences, particularly resource management, are not being exploited. If business schools decide to compete for agribusiness students in the future, missed opportunities with other departments and schools may... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Agricultural economics; Education; Extension; Research; Agribusiness; Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14657 |
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| Johnson, Nancy L.; Ravnborg, Helle Munk; Westermann, Olaf; Probst, Kirsten. |
| Many watershed development projects around the world have performed poorly because they failed to take into account the needs, constraints, and practices of local people. Participatory watershed management—in which users help to define problems, set priorities, select technologies and policies, and monitor and evaluate impacts—is expected to improve performance. User participation in watershed management raises new questions for watershed research, including how to design appropriate mechanisms for organizing stakeholders and facilitating collective action. Management of a complex system such as a watershed may also require user participation in the research process itself. An increasing number of watershed research projects are already participatory,... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Watershed; Participatory watershed management; Participation; Research; Collective action; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55439 |
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| Sharma, Manohar P.; Zeller, Manfred. |
| This paper analyzes the repayment rates of credit groups belonging to three group-based credit programs in Bangladesh: the Association for Social Advancement (ASA), the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), and the Rangpur Dinajpur Rural Service (RDRS). Hypotheses are drawn from economic theory relating group responsibility, and the resulting monitoring by peers, to a more effective enforcement of contractual obligations as well as to improved ability of the group as a whole to repay loans. Specific tests are performed on the following hypothesized determinants: group size, size of loans, degree of loan rationing, enterprise mix within groups, demographic characteristics, social ties and status, and occurrence of idiosyncratic shocks. Analysis is... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Credit; Research; Methodology; Bangladesh; Financial Economics. |
| Ano: 1996 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/97302 |
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| Membership in the European Community (EC) for Greece, Spain, and Portugal may reduce trade between the United States and the EC in selected commodities; prospects for a North American Common Market are not bright; and the diversion of agricultural crops from export to fuel alcohol production would very likely increase, rather than reduce, balance-of-payment deficits for the United States and Brazil. The first meeting of the Consortium on Trade Research, established by the Economics and Statistics Service's International Economics Division and several universities, focused on and continues to analyze these and other global topics. |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Trade; Research; European Community; North American Common Market; Fuel alcohol; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 1980 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51822 |
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| Arregui, Patricia McLauchlan de. |
| Este documento, buscando describir la situación de la ciencia y tecnología en América Latina, presenta y analiza las principales estadísticas disponibles para medir la producción, la distribución por áreas temáticas, el impacto y la calidad de la investigación científica y tecnológica realizada en América Latina entre 1973 y 1984. El documento contiene, también, una evaluación de los indicadores convencionales de resultados de la investigación (publicaciones, citaciones, patentes y premios científicos), describe las fuentes de donde provienen los datos y la metodología utilizada para la elaboración de los resultados presentados. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Ciencia y tecnologia; Investigacion; Indicadores; America Latina; Science and technology; Research; Indicators; Latin America; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; O30. |
| Ano: 1988 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42291 |
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