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Do girls pay the price of civil war? Violence and infant mortality in Congo by Dagnelie, Olivier, De Luca, Giacomo, Maystadt, Jean-François

“…This paper documents the impact of the violent civil war affecting the Democratic Republic of Congo in the period 1997–2004 on infant mortality. …”
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Report of the NGO Committee Meeting for the period November 2000 to May 2001 by CGIAR NGO Committee

“…The report focused on Committee efforts relating to civil society inputs into the CGIAR and its change design and management process underway during the same period. …”
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Determining baselines and trends of Eastern chimpanzees and forest elephants in a Central African protected area after civil strife by Funk, S.M., Nkono, J., Lushimba, A., Fa, J.E., Williams, D.

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La participación de la sociedad civil en el Estado : análisis del Consejo Local Asesor de la Estación Experimental Agropecuaria San Juan del INTA = The participation of civil socie... by Hernandez, Juan Jesus, Moscheni Bustos, Margarita del Carmen

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Can social assistance reduce violent conflict and civil unrest? Evidence from a large-scale public works program in Ethiopia by Hirvonen, Kalle, Machado, Elia, Simons, Andrew M.

“…The region, home to 60% of the world’s poor (World Bank 2023), saw statebased armed conflict events nearly triple between 2007 and 2023 (Rustad 2024), while protests more than quadrupled from 2007 to 2019 (OECD 2021). Over this period, poverty reduction in Africa has been particularly sluggish in fragile and conflict-affected areas (Beegle et al. 2018a), likely due to the substantial economic losses associated with violent conflict and civil unrest.…”
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Can social assistance reduce violent conflict and civil unrest? Evidence from a large-scale public works programme in Ethiopia by Hirvonen, Kalle, Machado, Elia, Simons, Andrew M.

“…We assess how one of the largest public works programmes in the world—Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP)—affected violent conflict and civil unrest. Using difference-in-differences methods and linking administrative and geocoded conflict event data, we find that the PSNP did not change the risk of violent events, but reduced the likelihood of civil unrest by almost half when compared to non-PSNP districts. …”
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Building popular support for post-conflict constitutions: Lessons from Nepal by Kyle, Jordan, Resnick, Danielle

“…In early 2023, the United Nations announced that the world is facing the highest number of violent conflicts since World War II, with a majority of these being civil conflicts. Historically, ending civil conflict and fostering democratic transitions has involved constitutional reforms that address the grievances that originally sparked violence. …”
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CAMPAGNE DE SAISIE POUR LE RENFORCEMENT DE LA BASE DE DONNEES METEOROLOGIQUES POUR LA PERIODE DE REFERENCE : 1991 à 2020 by Agence Nationale de l'Aviation Civile et de la Météorologie (ANACIM)

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Climate-adaptation effort cuts hunger in African villages by Gilbert N

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Access to health services, food, and water during an active conflict: Evidence from Ethiopia by Abay, Kibrom A., Abay, Mehari Hiluf, Berhane, Guush, Chamberlin, Jordan, Croke, Kevin, Tafere, Kibrom

“…Civil conflict began in Ethiopia in November 2020 and has reportedly caused major disrup tions in access to health services, food, and related critical services, in addition to the direct impacts of the conflict on health and well-being. …”
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Rice productivity in Myanmar: Assessment of the 2022 dry season and farmers’ expectations for the monsoon of 2022 by Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity

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Rätten till Norrland by Oskarsson, Johan, Busk, Martin

“…The whole legislation was built on patriarchal ideas about Lappish and the legislators where periodically influenced both by racist ideas and hierarchic ideas of civilization. …”
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Predicting poaching hotspots in the largest remnant of the Atlantic Forest by combining passive acoustic monitoring and occupancy models by Martinez Pardo, Julia, Cruz, Paula, Moya, Sergio, Pizzio, Carlos Esteban, Folleto, Fernardo, Robino, Facundo, Aquino, Jesica, Costa, Sebastian, Barros, Yara, Cleo, Falcao, Di Bitetti, Mario Santiago, Iezzi, Maria Eugenia, Paviolo, Agustín, De Angelo, Carlos

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Cassava production trends in Africa by Nweke, F., Polson, R., Strauss, J.

“…The expansion is in response to demographic and market pressures as well as to periodic famine caused by drought, plant pests and disease or by civil disturbances. …”
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Ending hunger in our lifetime: food security and globalization by Runge, C. Ford, Senauer, Benjamin, Pardey, Philip G., Rosegrant, Mark W.

“…It began with generous support from the Ford Foundation in the late 1990s, during a period of unparalleled prosperity in the rich countries but persistent poverty and hunger in many poor ones. …”
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Ethiopia’s agrifood system structure and drivers of transformation by Diao, Xinshen, Pauw, Karl, Thurlow, James, Ellis, Mia

“…The global COVID-19 pandemic coupled with an armed civil conflict that started in November 2020 and continued for two years caused a significant slowdown in economic growth during the 2020–2022 period. …”
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Chapter 13: Reaching new heights: 20 years of nutrition progress in Nepal [Nourishing Millions] by Cunningham, Kenda, Singh, Akriti, Headey, Derek D., Rana, Pooja Pandey, Karmacharya, Chandni

“…However, Nepal’s recent experience presents yet another enigma: a rapid reduction in maternal and child undernutrition during a period of civil war and prolonged political and economic instability. …”
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Reaching new heights: 20 years of nutrition progress in Nepal by Cunningham, Kenda, Singh, Akriti, Headey, Derek D., Pandey Rana, Pooja, Karmacharya, Chandni

“…However, Nepal’s recent experience presents yet another enigma: a rapid reduction in maternal and child undernutrition during a period of civil war and prolonged political and economic instability. …”
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Coping with food price volatility in ACP countries by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Such fluctuations occurred in 2007, exacerbating malnutrition and triggering civil unrest. Yet, when a new period of instability occurred in 2010, experts attending a Brussels Development Briefing were able to recommend measures to limit price swings and mitigate their effects. …”
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The cash for nutrition intervention in Yemen: Impact evaluation study by Kurdi, Sikandra, Ghorpade, Yashodhan, Ibrahim, Hosam

“…This evaluation of Yemen’s Cash for Nutrition intervention, a cash transfer program combined with nutritional trainings implemented by the Yemen Social Fund for Development (YSF), examines the program’s impacts on child nutrition indicators and related intermediate variables during a period of conflict. The decline in several indicators of welfare for the sample population that occurred after the beginning of the civil conflict in Yemen is also traced. …”
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