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The future of agriculture and food: Evaluating the holistic costs and benefits por Sandhu, Harpinder, Müller, Alexander, Sukhdev, Pavan, Merrigan, Kathleen, Zhang, Wei

“…In addition, the prevailing economic and policy systems do not reflect these damages in its accounting systems and standards. …”
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Women’s land tenure security: A conceptual framework por Doss, Cheryl, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…Studies considering how policies or projects may change tenure security in a particular context often do not provide sufficient information on the regional or national context to allow comparisons across countries. …”
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Compact 2025: Accelerating the end of hunger and undernutrition por Compact2025

“…We can eliminate both, and we can do so by 2025—which will also help end extreme poverty and will contribute to achieving multiple Sustainable Development Goals. …”
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Adoption of improved seeds, evidence from DRC por Bernard, Tanguy, Lambert, Sylvie, Macours, Karen, Vinez, Margaux

“…Demand is highly price sensitive, but demand curves do not display strong discontinuity at low prices. …”
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Food crisis and export taxation: The cost of noncooperative trade policies por Bouët, Antoine, Laborde Debucquet, David

“…What are the effects of such policy measures? And why do governments restrict exports in times of food crisis?…”
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Ghana’s macroeconomic crisis: Causes, consequences, and policy responses por Younger, Stephen D.

“…While large, Ghana has recovered from similar shocks in the past, and with luck, should be able to do so now. But this will require reversal of the large increases in the public sector wage bill that drove much of the fiscal shock.…”
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Stories of change in nutrition: An overview por Gillespie, Stuart, van den Bold, Mara

“…This requires better documentation of the experiences of policymakers, nutrition leaders, program managers and implementers in making decisions on what to do in real time, such as coordinating and implementing multisectoral nutrition plans in dynamic country contexts. …”
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Have coffee producers benefited from the new domestic cherry market?: Evidence using panel data from Rwanda por Murekezi, Abdoul, Jin, Songqing, Loveridge, Scott

“…Findings from combined first differenced with instrumental variable specification and other estimation methods provide evidence that farmers who sell to the cherry market do not increase their expenditures compared to farmers selling to the traditional parchment market. …”
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Modern input promotion in Africa: Overview of evidence and future policy direction por Rashid, Shahidur, Jayne, Thomas S., Minot, Nicholas

“…The central objective of this paper is to highlight the evolving policy options and, to do so, we analyze the trends in fertilizer and seed use and synthesize the evidence on the impacts of modern input promotion policies.…”
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Understanding the rapid reduction of undernutrition in Nepal, 2001-2011 por Headey, Derek D., Hoddinott, John F.

“…Given recent interest in reducing undernutrition–particularly the role of nutrition-sensitive policies–this paper aims to quantitatively understand this surprising success story by analyzing the 2001, 2006, and 2011 rounds of Nepal’s Demographic Health Surveys. To do so, the authors first construct and test basic models of the intermediate determinants of child and maternal nutritional change and then decompose predicted changes in nutrition outcomes over time.…”
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Urban governance and service delivery in African cities: The role of politics and policies por Resnick, Danielle

“…Consequently, central governments do not always have an incentive to help municipal governments improve their performance. …”
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Collective action within the household: insights from natural resource management por Doss, Cheryl, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…But neither unitary nor bargaining models of the household provide frameworks to analyze the conditions under which households work collectively and when they fail to do so. Drawing on the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework based in the natural resource management literature, this paper explores the factors that encourage and inhibit collective action and provides insights into how to understand collective action problems within the household as dynamic, multi-actor situations with outcomes that can be evaluated by multiple criteria, not just efficiency.…”
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Compact 2025: Ending hunger and undernutrition 2015 por Compact 2025

“…We can eliminate both, and we can do so by 2025—which will also help end extreme poverty and will contribute to achieving multiple Sustainable Development Goals. …”
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Examining the relationship between the use of supermarkets and over-nutrition in Indonesia por Umberger, Wendy J., He, Xiaobo, Minot, Nicholas, Toiba, Hery

“…After controlling for individual and household characteristics and using standard and Lewbel instrumental variable approaches to control for unobservable characteristics, we do not find a statistically significant relationship between use of supermarkets and adult nutrition measures. …”
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MoreMilkIT - Household baseline survey por Omore, Amos, Baltenweck, Isabelle, Kariuki, Eunice, Njehu, Alice, Githinji, Julius

“…The project is primarily targeted at pre-commercial marginalized smallholder cattle-keeping men and women who do not currently participate fully in dairy value chains. …”
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Nigeria [In West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis] por Hassan, Shuaib M., Kuenobe, Celestine E., Jalloh, Abdulai, Nelson, Gerald C., Thomas, Timothy S.

“…Our purpose in this chapter is to help policymakers and researchers better understand and anticipate the likely impacts of climate change on agriculture and on vulnerable households in Nigeria. We do this by reviewing current data on agriculture and economic development, modeling anticipated changes in climate between now and 2050, using crop models to assess the impact of climate change on agricultural production, and globally modeling supply and demand for food to predict food price trends.…”
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The formation of job referral networks: Experimental evidence from urban Ethiopia por Caria, Antonia Stefano, Hassen, Ibrahim Worku

“…In a mid-size town in northern Ethiopia, where these mechanisms are at work, we observe that many individuals do not access local job contact networks. Models of strategic network formation and behavioral decision theory suggest that given the right incentives, job contact networks should be more inclusive. …”
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Collective action and collaborative management of forests por CGIAR Program on Collective Action and Property Rights

“…Forestry Ministries or their equivalents usually do this by offering local people access to selected forest products or forest land, income from forest resources, or opportunities for communicating with government forestry officials. …”
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The Feminization of Agriculture with Chinese Characteristics por de Brauw, Alan, Huang, Jikun, Rozelle, Scott

“…While this expansion is important, we further demonstrate that when women do a majority of farm work or manage the farm, their farms are equally as efficient as farms managed by men.…”
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Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health: Connecting the Dots por Pandya-Lorch, Rajul, Fritschel, Heidi, Karelina, Zhenya, Yosef, Sivan

“…With 1 billion people continuing to suffer from food insecurity, and with vitamin and mineral deficiencies compromising the nutrition and health of billions of people, the international development community began to ask how much more could agriculture do to improve human wellbeing if it explicitly included nutrition and health goals? …”
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