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Survival in the Sahel: An Ecological and Developmental Challenge by Leisinger, Klaus M., Schmitt, Karin

“…Fourth, even organizations that do not have development assistance as their main raison d'etre can and should be involved in the development of the Sahel…”
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Gender and MSMEs in the food environment in Viet Nam by Berg, Marrit van den

“…Yet even many wealthier people still do at least part of their food shopping at small traditional sellers. …”
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Pakistan: A cost-benefit analysis of puddled planted rice vs. direct seeded rice by Rana, Abdul Wajid, Gill, Sitara, Akram, Iqra

“…Research indicates that if current climate change patterns persist and farmers do not adopt suitable climate resilient methods, rice production in Pakistan could decline by as much as 36 percent by the year 2099.…”
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Facts, interests, and values: Identifying points of convergence and divergence for food systems by Deconinck, Koen

“…This chapter argues that the difficulty lies in disagreements over facts, interests, and values—alone or in combination.¹ For Sunstein (2018), politically contentious issues “are fundamentally about facts rather than values,” and “[i]f we can agree on the facts, we should be able to agree on what to do—or at least our disagreements should be narrowed greatly.” …”
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Gender: Promoting equality in fragile and conflict-affected settings by Malapit, Hazel J., Brown, Lynn R.

“…The same pattern is shown by the Global Gender Gap Report — 72 percent of the countries ranked in the bottom quartile of gender parity are considered fragile, and a numt ber of countries affected by conflict, such as Haiti, Somalia, and South Sudan, do not even have sufficient data to be included in the ranking.…”
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Does accountability undermine service delivery? The impact of devolving agriculture in Ghana by Resnick, Danielle

“…Budget allocations, however, do reflect the preferences of local citizens, a majority of whom value using elections to sanction their district politicians. …”
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China - Tariff rate quotas for certain agricultural products: Against the grain: Can the WTO open Chinese markets? A contaminated experiment by Glauber, Joseph W., Lester, Simon

“…. - China trade relations and the effectiveness of WTO disputes. First, do international obligations based on transparency and fairness work in relation to an authoritarian country not known for the rule of law domestically? …”
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Measuring time use in developing country agriculture: Evidence from Bangladesh and Uganda by Seymour, Greg, Malapit, Hazel J., Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…Using data from Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) surveys in Bangladesh and Uganda, it finds that stylized questions do not always produce shorter interviews compared to time diaries, and recall accuracy may depend on the regularity and saliency of the activity and enumerator abilities. …”
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Food price spikes: Is a cereal export ban the right response for Ethiopia? by Aragie, Emerta A., Balié, Jean, Morales-Opazo, Cristian

“…We find that international price shocks not only do affect domestic prices but could also considerably suppress domestic food production and supplies. …”
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Forecasting commodity prices using long-short-term memory neural networks by Ly, Racine, Traoré, Fousseini, Dia, Khadim

“…Our results show that machine learning methods fit reasonably well with the data but do not outperform systematically classical methods such as Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) or the naïve models in terms of out of sample forecasts. …”
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Increasing the adoption of conservation agriculture: A framed field experiment in Northern Ghana by Ambler, Kate, de Brauw, Alan, Murphy, Mike

“…There is no overall effect of peer information, but we do find evidence that information about long-term adoption increased adoption, particularly when that information shows that production gains have been achieved.…”
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Information and regulation for technology adoption: lessons from Uganda by Gilligan, Daniel O., Karachiwalla, Naureen

“…Key Messages - Adoption of productivity-enhancing agricultural technology is low, partly because many of these products are of low-quality and because farmers cannot distinguish between high- and low-quality products. Consequently, farmers do not purchase the products and high-quality producers exit markets. - Governments and/or private regulators can create opportunities for farmers to learn about product quality and increase adoption. …”
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The gap between technology awareness and adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa: A literature review for the DeSIRA project by Kazembe, Cynthia

“…As evidenced from the results of the FGDs conducted in Malawi in 2018, despite the visible benefits of the new technologies, farmers often do not adopt or take a long time to adopt them. …”
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Technological innovation and sustainable intensification: Highlights, lessons learned, and priorities for One CGIAR by CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets

“…What are the key drivers of change in agrifood systems? What challenges do these drivers present to achievement of sustainable food and nutrition security at global, regional, and national scales? …”
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Exploring gender, tenure security, and landscape governance approaches and findings: Lessons from eight years of research by Kristjanson, Patricia, Larson, Anne, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…An important focus of this work involves the following questions: (1) who has what rights with respect to these resources (particularly for women and members of marginalized groups), (2) what are their roles in managing natural resources, and (3) what livelihood benefits do they receive? Without a contextualized understanding of these questions, policies and practices can inadvertently exclude women, reinforce historical practices of gender injustice, or introduce new inequalities that worsen natural resource management and poverty.…”
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Philippines, Smallholder Livestock Production Dataset, 2000-2001 by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…To understand why some smallholders participate in hog production and others do not, a total of 291 households were randomly identified from a stratified sample frame, of which 150 households were hog producers (including 50 small-scale contract farms) and 141 households were non-livestock raisers. …”
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Replication Data for "Trade-Offs and Synergies Between Yield, Labor, Profit, and Risk in Malawian Maize-Based Cropping Systems" by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Household survey data collected as part of the Africa Research In Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation (Africa RISING) program, along with secondary data from journal articles and the Malawian Agricultural Market Information System, as well as other biophysical and economic data have been harmonized and analyzed using Stata. Stata do files have been created for data processing and analysis as noted in the "Documentation" file included in this study.…”
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Replication Data for "The Gendered Impacts of Income Fluctuations on Household Departure, Labor Supply, and Human Capital Decisions" by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…These files consist of the do-files and data for reproducing results presented in the article, ""The Gendered Impacts of Income Fluctuations on Household Departure, Labor Supply, and Human Capital Decisions"" (Kosec et al., 2021). …”
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Harmonized Data for Measuring the Effects of Weather Variability by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Household survey data, a time series of monthly precipitation and temperature, as well as other biophysical data have been harmonized and analyzed using Stata software. Several Stata do files have been created for data processing and analysis as noted in the attached “READ ME.txt” file. …”
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Replication Data for "Development of the Project-Level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI)" by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…This data package contains baseline data from five GAAP2 projects and Stata .do files necessary for replicating the results of Malapit et al. (2019). …”
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