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A revival dictated by necessity by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

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Dictating participation? Rethinking the adaptive co-management of socio-ecological systems in West Africa by El Vilaly, Audra, El Vilaly, Mohamed Abd Salam

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Does host quality dictate the outcome of interference competition between sympatric parasitoids? Effects on their coexistence by Cebolla, Ruth, Bru, Pablo, Urbaneja, Alberto, Tena, Alejandro

“…Here, we report the first results on whether the quality of host instars might dictate the outcome of interference competition between sympatric parasitoids of the genus Aphytis (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) when they attack low-quality (second) and high-quality (third) instars of their common host Aonidiella aurantii (Hemiptera: Diaspididae). …”
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Host quality does not dictate the outcome of intrinsic competition between sympatric parasitoids: effect on their coexistence. by Cebolla, Ruth, Urbaneja, Alberto, Tena, Alejandro, Bru, Pablo

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Landscape positions dictating crop fertilizer responses in wheat-based farming systems of East African Highlands by Amede, Tilahun, Gashaw, Tadesse, Legesse, Gizachew, Tamene, Lulseged D., Mekonen, Kindu, Thorne, Peter J., Schulz, Steffen

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Using AquaCrop as a Decision-Support Tool for Small-Scale Irrigation Systems Was Dictated by the Institutional and Market Incentives in Ethiopia by Biazin, B., Wondatir, S., Tilahun, G., Asaro, N., Amede, T.

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Ask me why: Using vignettes to understand patterns of intrahousehold decision making in rural Senegal by Bernard, Tanguy, Doss, Cheryl, Hidrobo, Melissa, Hoel, Jessica B., Kieran, Caitlin

“…We find that while male dictators achieve better outcomes than most decision-making structures, households in which husbands (wives) decide because they are most informed produce more milk than households in which husbands (wives) decide because they are dictators.…”
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Experimental measures of intra-household resource control by Ambler, Kate, Jones, Kelly M., Recalde, María P.

“…We implement two incentivized tasks: (1) a game that measures willingness to pay for resource control in the household, and (2) dictator games played privately and jointly by spouses. …”
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Measurement of intra-household resource control: Exploring the validity of experimental measures by Ambler, Kate, Jones, Kelly M., Recalde, Maria P.

“…We implement two incentivized tasks; (1) a game that measures willingness to pay to control resources, and (2) private and joint dictator games that measure preferences for resource allocation and the extent to which those preferences are reflected in joint decisions. …”
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In search of private partners by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…It is a marriage dictated by necessity: Agricultural research institutes in the South are increasingly teaming up with the private sector to source funding. …”
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Farmers of the world, unite! by Melo, Ivaro Soares de

“…Yet forces outside agriculture dictate its production and...…”
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PLANTAIN PRICES IN DOUALA by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…The volatility of banana prices can mainly be explained by seasonal variations in supply, which in turn are dictated by plantation,...…”
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Measuring women's empowerment: Gender and time-use agency in Benin, Malawi and Nigeria by Eissler, Sarah, Heckert, Jessica, Myers, Emily, Seymour, Greg, Sinharoy, Sheela, Yount, Kathryn

“…The article finds that time-use agency is salient among women and men and dictates how they can make and act upon strategic decisions related to how they allocate their time. …”
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Analysis of factors influencing adoption of dairy technologies in western Kenya by Makokha, S.N., Karugia, Joseph T., Staal, Steven J., Oluoch-Kosura,Willis

“…The source of labour supply dictated choice of variables to be used as proxies for labour availability. …”
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Overcoming water scarcity and quality constraints: Integrated Management of Water in River Basins by Svendsen, Mark

“…Natural features and forces largely dictated river flow regimes, and natural biota were the primary water users. …”
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Research on goats: Opportunities and challenges by Devendra, C.

“…The justification for ensuring relevance and demonstrable impact is dictated by diminishing interest and research budgets and donor support.…”
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Changing hearts and minds: Community conversations in Ethiopia by International Livestock Research Institute

“…And deeply ingrained cultural practices dictate everything from who decides to sell animals, to who feeds them and how they are eaten. …”
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Perceived tenure (in)security in the era of rural transformation: Gender-disaggregated analysis from Mozambique by Ghebru, Hosaena, Girmachew, Fikirte

“…Results also show that land-related legal awareness seems to be more significant in dictating the (positively) perceived tenure security of women as compared to their male counterparts. …”
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Intensive animal feeding practices for optimum feed utilisation by Abate, A., Dzowela, B.H., Kategile, J.A.

“…It is suggested that economics will ultimately dictate the solution to the three-way interaction between feed availability, intensive feeding systems and labour.…”
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Response to case studies of eco-regional approaches at the farm/enterprise level by Fernández Rivera, S., Hiernaux, Pierre H.Y., Kaufmann, Ralph R. von, Turner, M., Williams, Timothy O.

“…The papers indicate that eco-regional research needs to be broad enough to cover analysis at the micro, meso and macro levels. Realism dictates that a solid foundation is needed at the lower levels before issues at the macro level are addressed. …”
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