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This book analyzes the sustainability of community seed production
under a rice-wheat farming system from microeconomic perspectives,
considering how seed producers benefit from community seed
production and how those benefits continue into the future. Seed
producers' performance in resource management, governance and
marketing strategies indicates current benefits, whereas soil
conservation and risk-management practices provide the basis for
future benefits. Community seed production is a local-level seed
management system owned by farmers. This system provides the
institutional mechanism to supply diversified seed demands of
open-pollinated varieties of food crops in a cost-effective way in
rural regions. Being able to address the concerns of food
insecurity, poverty, climate stress and biodiversity loss in
programs and policies of development agencies, community seed
production is gaining popularity among the farmers and the policy
makers in developing countries. This book discusses the issues of
organizational governance of the community seed producers' groups
and links them with household-level benefits to understand the
organizational dynamism and the probable development paths of such
organizations in the future. It also highlights the necessity to
institutionalize lessons learned in community seed production in
the stakeholders' programs and policies. These understandings
provide a basis for formulating policies for strengthening the
system in developing countries. Students, researchers, policy
makers and donor agencies working with CSP in the developing world
will find this book useful in broadening their understanding of CSP
in general and its sustainability in particular.
This book introduces readers to the concept and theories of decent
work and provides a framework for measuring it at the micro, meso
and macro level in a given country. Further, it addresses the
importance of measuring decent work in today's world and in
connection with the different challenges countries face depending
on their respective stage of development. The essence of the book
lies in highlighting the practical applications of decent work in
terms of its ability to deliver empirical measurements of
qualitative and subjective phenomena with a mixed-methods approach
combining tools and techniques from economics and statistics.
Moreover, as the applicability of decent work is not confined to
the IT industry and formal sectors of the economy, the book also
provides useful guidelines on how further empirical studies can be
undertaken to measure decent work in non-IT industries. As such,
the book offers a rich compilation of empirical and theoretical
contributions on decent work designed to not only enrich readers'
understanding, but also promote awareness of the practical
relevance and technical aspects of the subject matter.
This book offers a wide, in-depth study of the gender-climate
change-agriculture nexus. The crux of understanding these
connections comprises gender equality and tools to measure gender
discrimination, the evolution of the concept of gender
inclusiveness and its concerns; and the need to address the same by
formulating gender-inclusive policymaking. Despite the fact that
more than 50 years have elapsed since gender concerns were included
in explorations of this nexus, there is still ambiguity around the
foundations, connections, and approaches for planning
gender-inclusive climate policies. This book aims to clear that
ambiguity by: * Being the first to explore exclusively this issue
in detail. * Revealing how and why consideration of gender is so
important for understanding how climate change impacts rural
communities and agricultural systems globally. * Exploring every
dimension of climate change (including belief systems and
perceptions, knowledge, experience, coping strategies, adaptation,
and mitigation strategies) and linking it to gender. It includes
new theoretical and methodological approaches that go far beyond
the household as the unit of analysis (using various approaches,
including intersectional analysis). The book not only throws light
on major themes of research, but also covers different
methodologies ranging from review methods to mathematical models,
conceptual frameworks and empirical analysis. It will be of wide
interest to students, scholars, and researchers in gender studies,
agriculture, climate change and rural development research, and
also to practitioners, extension workers, and planners designing
new climate-resilient practices.
This book introduces readers to the concept and theories of decent
work and provides a framework for measuring it at the micro, meso
and macro level in a given country. Further, it addresses the
importance of measuring decent work in today's world and in
connection with the different challenges countries face depending
on their respective stage of development. The essence of the book
lies in highlighting the practical applications of decent work in
terms of its ability to deliver empirical measurements of
qualitative and subjective phenomena with a mixed-methods approach
combining tools and techniques from economics and statistics.
Moreover, as the applicability of decent work is not confined to
the IT industry and formal sectors of the economy, the book also
provides useful guidelines on how further empirical studies can be
undertaken to measure decent work in non-IT industries. As such,
the book offers a rich compilation of empirical and theoretical
contributions on decent work designed to not only enrich readers'
understanding, but also promote awareness of the practical
relevance and technical aspects of the subject matter.
This book evaluated the role of WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism
towards Developing Countries. The challenges and experiences faced
by developing countries in the existing WTO legal system examined.
However, despite the positive assessment of the WTO dispute
settlement system, the functioning of the system is working against
the interest of developing countries in having an efficient dispute
settlement system that considers their needs and deals fairly with
their disputes. This book provides a much understanding of how the
WTO dispute Settlement System actually operates behind the scenes
for developing Countries
This study reviews the factors affecting reproductive efficiency in
PAC pigs and identifies the major constraints in traditional pig
production systems in relation to climatic environment, nutrition
and management practices in the hills of eastern Nepal.The majority
of the pigs in the hills of Nepal are reared below their LCT
throughout the year, causing estimated loss of 43%of the total feed
intake requirements by climatic penalty. If this feed loss could be
effectively utilised by improving housing conditions, the
productivity of pigs could be greatly improved. Improvement in
housing conditions seems to be the cheapest alternative for
improving efficiency of pig production in Nepalese situations.
Improvements in nutrition of rearing gilts and lactating sows
resulted in improvements of reproductive outputs in both station
and village experiments. Farmers in the hills of Nepal do not rear
boar and sows together due to lack of feed availability. Modified
suckling management in the late lactation followed by use of boar
urine as an alternative to boar mate resulted shorter weaning to
remating interval.
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