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In a context of greater financing for conservation projects with a focus on territorial market development in the Peruvian Amazon, this research seeks to understand how the livelihoods of indigenous women producers can configure the dynamics of value chains through their trajectories. Therefore, the present study is based on the experience of the community of Shampuyacu, where the NGO Conservation International intervenes through agreements and conservation projects. Specifically, the case of the Bosque de las Nuwas Association and its tourism and infusion value chain initiatives will be analyzed. To analyze this case, we describe the dynamics of the chain, characterize the configuration of women's livelihoods, and analyze how the association of women's different assets and the trajectories they have in the value chain is interrelated to its dynamics. The qualitative and exploratory study finds that women's trajectories differ by virtue of their social assets, mediated by ethnicity and relations between clans, the generalized context of gender violence, and support systems for care. Regarding human assets, the level of education can define the adoption of leadership in the chain or generate exclusion, causing conflicts. Finally, the use of natural assets such as family gardens can be an opportunity to scale up the chain, but the lack of coordination between actors doesn't make it possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The text presents the author’s perspective on problems of the food economy sector in the context of innovations and technological transformations. The role and importance of food economy, innovative knowledge and human capital with regard to the smooth and efficient functioning of the agricultural facility, as well as current problems of technological disproportion in food economy related industries’ development have been outlined. The vectors for the formation of a target agricultural education model as a factor of the innovative and creative development of the food economy both at the state and regional level, are determined. Global economic history is characterized with the mutual relationship of world economic development by two basic factors - population growth, and the technical and accelerated development of modern technical and technological transformations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study examined the effect of developing human capital on Nigeria's economic growth. Contextual analysis served as the main information source for this study, in addition to various documentary and electronic sources. The human capital theory is the foundation of this study. The study concludes that there is a clear and evident link between the development of human capital and economic growth in Nigeria and makes several recommendations, including encouraging private sector investment in health and education to increase their involvement in the delivery of human capital services to the populace. This assumes that government spending on the health sector is ineffective in addressing health challenges without private investment in health. Also, an increase in the welfare programs for health care workers in order to lower the misery index in Nigeria and prevent a mass flight of doctors and other health professionals from the country's shores is important as this would improve the quality of life for Nigerians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]