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Private sector partnership increased adoption of Aflasafe, reducing aflatoxin accumulation and improving net incomes for smallholders in Nigeria by CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health

“…The project stimulated exponential Aflasafe uptake and increased each smallholder’s net income from maize by $318 and use of AT maize as food by 13%. …”
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Net Energy Intake Rate as a Common Currency to Explain Swan Spatial Distribution in a Shallow Lake by Gyimesi, Abel, Varghese, Sam, Leeuw, Jan de, Nolet, Bart A.

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Social Safety Nets and COVID-19: Experience from Ethiopia and Strengthen PSNP4 Institutions and Resilience (SPIR) by Mamo, Tigist

“…Tigist Mamo POLICY SEMINAR Virtual Event - Social Safety Nets and COVID-19: Can we protect food security and nutrition? …”
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Can payments reconcile agriculture and conservation? A meta-analysis of dynamic conservation games played in NetLogo by Bell, Andrew Reid, Rakotonarivo, O. Sarobidy

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Approaches for the leveraging small and medium enterprises to improve nutrition: A net-map assessment of actors and activities in Ghana by Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, International Food Policy Research Institute, Aberman, Noora-Lisa

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Targeting social safety nets using proxy means tests: Evidence from Egypt’s Takaful and Karama program by Kurdi, Sikandra, Breisinger, Clemens, ElDidi, Hagar, El-Enbaby, Hoda, Gilligan, Daniel O., Karachiwalla, Naureen

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Complementarities between social protection and health sector policies: Evidence from the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia by Hirvonen, Kalle, Bossuyt, Anne, Pigois, Remy

“…In this study, we explore complementarities between three major national social protection programs in rural Ethiopia: the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP), the Health Fee Waiver (HFW) system, and the Community Based Health Insurance (CBHI) in the Ethiopian highlands (Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, and Tigray regions).…”
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What is the optimal locus of control for social assistance programs? Evidence from the productive safety net programme in Ethiopia by Simons, Andrew M.

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Safety nets in Bangladesh: Which form of transfer is most beneficial? Operational performance of the transfer modality research initiative by Ahmed, Akhter, Sraboni, Esha, Shaba, Fiona K.

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Understanding the policy landscape for climate change adaptation: A cross-country comparison using the Net-map method by Aberman, Noora-Lisa, Birner, Regina, Haglund, Eric, Ngigi, Marther, Ali, Snigdha, Okoba, Barrack, Koné, Daouda, Alemu, Tekie

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Implementing large scale food security programs in rural Ethiopia: Insights from the Productive Safety Net Program by Hoddinott, John F., Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel, Berhane, Guush, Handino, Mulugeta, Kumar, Neha, Lind, Jeremy, Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum, Tefera, Mulugeta

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How can safety nets do more with less?: general issues with some evidence from Southern Africa by Haddad, Lawrence J., Zeller, Manfred

“…This paper reviews design features by which safety nets might do more with less. It reviews the current evidence on their success in practice–including three brief reviews of southern Africa experience–and suggests a role for future policy research in furthering the goal of designing safety nets that reduce poverty in a cost-effective way. …”
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Opportunities for mitigating net system greenhouse gas emissions in Southeast Asian rice production: A systematic review by Zhang, Zhenglin, Macedo, Ignacio, Linquist, Bruce A., Sander, Bjoern Ole, Pittelkow, Cameron M.

“…Integrating all four components of net system emissions into one analysis underscores the following two main takeaways. …”
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Net-Map: Collecting social network data and facilitating network learning through participatory influence network mapping by Schiffer, E., Hauck, J.

“…The authors describe how to use Net-Map,1 a low-tech, low-cost, interview-based mapping tool that can be used by researchers, facilitators, and implementers to (1) visualize implicit knowledge and understand the interplay of complex formal and informal networks, power relations, and actors’ goals; (2) uncover sources of conflicts as well as potentials for cooperation; (3) facilitate knowledge exchange and learning processes; and (4) develop visions and strategies to achieve common goals. …”
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Distress rentals and the land rental market as a safety net: contract choice evidence from Tigray, Ethiopia by Gebregziabher, Gebrehaweria, Holden, S.T.

“…Rural households in the semiarid Northern Ethiopian highlands are net buyers of food. Crop failure due to erratic and unpredictable rainfall occurs frequently and leads to food shortages and income shocks. …”
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Effect of partial substitution of commercial concentrate by cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) on smallholder milk production and net income in Honduras by Reiber, Christoph, Schultze-Kraft, Rainer, Peters, Michael

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IBRootNet: A collaborative platform for distributed sweetpotato root architecture phenotyping for enhanced crop improvement and management. by Carey, E.E., Andrade, M.I., Sweany, R., Clark, C., Villordon, A.

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Impact of the productive safety net program on farmers' investments in sustainable land management in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia by Adimassu, Zenebe, Kessler, A.

“…This study assesses the impact of the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) on farmers' investments in sustainable land management (SLM) practices in the Central Rift Valley (CRV) of Ethiopia. …”
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Risk attitudes, resource rationalization and dairy intensification in Uganda: stochastic dominance with observed and optimal net farm benefits by Nanyeenya, W.N., Mugisha, J., Staal, Steven J., Baltenweck, Isabelle, Romney, Dannie L., Fawcett, R.H., Halberg, N.

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Effect of climate warming on the annual terrestrial net ecosystem CO2 exchange globally in the boreal and temperate regions by Zhiyuan Zhang, Renduo Zhang, Cescatti, A., Wohlfahrt, G., Buchmann, Nina, Juan Zhu, Guanhong Chen, Moyano, F., Pumpanen, J., Takashi Hirano, Kentaro Takagi, Merbold, Lutz

“…The net ecosystem CO2 exchange is the result of the imbalance between the assimilation process (gross primary production, GPP) and ecosystem respiration (RE). …”
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