Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9251097380
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
This publication reviews the features of market information systems (MIS) development for agriculture, focusing on price information and new technologies for price data collection and dissemination.
BUILDING Agricultural Market Information Systems
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9251097380
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
This publication reviews the features of market information systems (MIS) development for agriculture, focusing on price information and new technologies for price data collection and dissemination.
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9251097380
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
This publication reviews the features of market information systems (MIS) development for agriculture, focusing on price information and new technologies for price data collection and dissemination.
Market Information Services
Author: Andrew Shepherd
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251039649
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251039649
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Digital tools and agricultural market transformation in Africa: Why are they not at scale yet, and what will it take to get there?
Author: Abay, Kibrom A.
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
This paper presents results from a framed field experiment in which participants make decisions about extraction of a common-pool resource, a community forest. The experiment was designed and piloted as both a research activity and an experiential learning intervention during 2017-2018 with 120 groups of resource users (split by gender) from 60 habitations in two Indian states, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan. We examine whether local beliefs and norms about community forest, gender of participants, within-experiment treatments (non-communication, communication, and optional election of institutional arrangements (rules)) and remuneration methods affect harvest behaviour and groups’ tendency to cooperate. Furthermore, we explore whether the experiment and subsequent community debriefing had learning effects. Results reveal a “weak” Nash Equilibrium in which participants harvested substantially less than the Nash prediction even in the absence of communication, a phenomenon stronger for male than female participants in both states. For male groups in both states, both communication and optional rule election are associated with lower group harvest per round, as compared to the reference non-communication game. For female groups in both states, however, communication itself did not significantly slow down resource depletion; but the introduction of optional rule election did reduce harvest amounts. For both men and women in Andhra Pradesh and men in Rajasthan, incentivized payments to individual participants significantly lowered group harvest, relative to community flat payment, suggesting a possible “crowding-in” effect on pro-social norms. Despite the generally positive memory of the activity, reported actual changes are limited. This may be due to the lack of follow-up with the communities between the experiment and the revisit. The fact that many of the communities already have a good understanding of the importance of the relationships between (not) cutting trees and the ecosystem services from forests, with rules and strong internal norms against cutting that go beyond the felling of trees in the game, may have also meant that the game did not have as much to add. Findings have methodological and practical implications for designing behavioral intervention programs to improve common-pool resource governance.
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
This paper presents results from a framed field experiment in which participants make decisions about extraction of a common-pool resource, a community forest. The experiment was designed and piloted as both a research activity and an experiential learning intervention during 2017-2018 with 120 groups of resource users (split by gender) from 60 habitations in two Indian states, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan. We examine whether local beliefs and norms about community forest, gender of participants, within-experiment treatments (non-communication, communication, and optional election of institutional arrangements (rules)) and remuneration methods affect harvest behaviour and groups’ tendency to cooperate. Furthermore, we explore whether the experiment and subsequent community debriefing had learning effects. Results reveal a “weak” Nash Equilibrium in which participants harvested substantially less than the Nash prediction even in the absence of communication, a phenomenon stronger for male than female participants in both states. For male groups in both states, both communication and optional rule election are associated with lower group harvest per round, as compared to the reference non-communication game. For female groups in both states, however, communication itself did not significantly slow down resource depletion; but the introduction of optional rule election did reduce harvest amounts. For both men and women in Andhra Pradesh and men in Rajasthan, incentivized payments to individual participants significantly lowered group harvest, relative to community flat payment, suggesting a possible “crowding-in” effect on pro-social norms. Despite the generally positive memory of the activity, reported actual changes are limited. This may be due to the lack of follow-up with the communities between the experiment and the revisit. The fact that many of the communities already have a good understanding of the importance of the relationships between (not) cutting trees and the ecosystem services from forests, with rules and strong internal norms against cutting that go beyond the felling of trees in the game, may have also meant that the game did not have as much to add. Findings have methodological and practical implications for designing behavioral intervention programs to improve common-pool resource governance.
Zambia
Author: International Monetary Fund
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1451841183
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix examines the economic developments in Zambia during the 1990s. Economic activity recovered significantly in 1996. Real GDP expanded by almost 61⁄2 percent, compared with a cumulative decline of 121⁄2 percent in 1994–95. Good rains stimulated agricultural production, while the other nontraditional and mining sectors also contributed to the turnaround in economic activity. However, owing to a sharp deterioration in the terms of trade, largely on account of falling copper prices, real national income increased by only 2 percent.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1451841183
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix examines the economic developments in Zambia during the 1990s. Economic activity recovered significantly in 1996. Real GDP expanded by almost 61⁄2 percent, compared with a cumulative decline of 121⁄2 percent in 1994–95. Good rains stimulated agricultural production, while the other nontraditional and mining sectors also contributed to the turnaround in economic activity. However, owing to a sharp deterioration in the terms of trade, largely on account of falling copper prices, real national income increased by only 2 percent.
Electronic Government
Author: Maria A. Wimmer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642147984
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference, EGOV 2010, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, in August/September 2010. The 36 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 111 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on foundations, transformation, evaluation, adoption and diffusion, citizen perspectives and social inclusion, infrastructure, and business process modell,
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642147984
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference, EGOV 2010, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, in August/September 2010. The 36 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 111 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on foundations, transformation, evaluation, adoption and diffusion, citizen perspectives and social inclusion, infrastructure, and business process modell,
Private Sector Response to Agricultural Marketing Liberalization in Zambia
Author: Dennis Chiwele
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171064363
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
This report examines the efficacy of the agricultural sector reforms that have been implemented in Zambia since 1991/92 when the MMD government of Fred Chiluba was elected to office. On the basis of empirical material gathered in the field, the report demonstrates the limitations of the reform and identifies a number of constraints that have hampered the private sector and made the agricultural marketing system remain relatively underdeveloped.
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171064363
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
This report examines the efficacy of the agricultural sector reforms that have been implemented in Zambia since 1991/92 when the MMD government of Fred Chiluba was elected to office. On the basis of empirical material gathered in the field, the report demonstrates the limitations of the reform and identifies a number of constraints that have hampered the private sector and made the agricultural marketing system remain relatively underdeveloped.
Zambia: Main report
Author: Dennis Chiwele
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural productivity
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural productivity
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Strategic Grain Reserves
Author: John Lynton-Evans
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251039793
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251039793
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
ICT in Agriculture (Updated Edition)
Author: World Bank
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 1464810230
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Information and communication technology (ICT) has always mattered in agriculture. Ever since people have grown crops, raised livestock, and caught fish, they have sought information from one another. Today, ICT represents a tremendous opportunity for rural populations to improve productivity, to enhance food and nutrition security, to access markets, and to find employment opportunities in a revitalized sector. ICT has unleashed incredible potential to improve agriculture, and it has found a foothold even in poor smallholder farms. ICT in Agriculture, Updated Edition is the revised version of the popular ICT in Agriculture e-Sourcebook, first launched in 2011 and designed to support practitioners, decision makers, and development partners who work at the intersection of ICT and agriculture. Our hope is that this updated Sourcebook will be a practical guide to understanding current trends, implementing appropriate interventions, and evaluating the impact of ICT interventions in agricultural programs.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 1464810230
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Information and communication technology (ICT) has always mattered in agriculture. Ever since people have grown crops, raised livestock, and caught fish, they have sought information from one another. Today, ICT represents a tremendous opportunity for rural populations to improve productivity, to enhance food and nutrition security, to access markets, and to find employment opportunities in a revitalized sector. ICT has unleashed incredible potential to improve agriculture, and it has found a foothold even in poor smallholder farms. ICT in Agriculture, Updated Edition is the revised version of the popular ICT in Agriculture e-Sourcebook, first launched in 2011 and designed to support practitioners, decision makers, and development partners who work at the intersection of ICT and agriculture. Our hope is that this updated Sourcebook will be a practical guide to understanding current trends, implementing appropriate interventions, and evaluating the impact of ICT interventions in agricultural programs.
Zambia: Summary report
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description