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A global value chain of knowledge to end hunger sustainably por Laborde Debucquet, David, Murphy, Sophia, Porciello, Jaron, Smaller, Carin

“…Motivated by the need to support tools for evidence-based policy-making, three partner organizations—Cornell University, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)—formed a three-year partnership in 2018 called Ceres2030:Sustainable Solutions to End Hunger. …”
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Social and financial incentives for overcoming a collective action problem por Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab, Guiteras, Raymond, Levinsohn, James, Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq

“…Each person’s sanitation behavior can affect the health of neighbors. We report on a cluster randomized controlled trial conducted with 19,000 households in rural Bangladesh where we randomized (1) either group financial incentives or a non-financial “social recognition” reward, and (2) asking each household to make either a private pledge or a public pledge to maintain hygienic latrines. …”
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Toward a medium-term agricultural and rural development strategy por Dorosh, Paul A., Minten, Bart

“…Finally, Chapter 14, “Toward a Medium-Term Agricultural and Rural Development Strategy,” highlights the book’s major themes and discusses implications for policy. …”
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Impacts of agricultural investments on growth and poverty: A review of literature por Martin, Will

“…Agricultural development is crucial in developing countries, and particularly in the poorest countries where it accounts for large shares of employment and income and whose poverty is due simply to having a large share of the workforce in low-productivity agriculture. …”
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Exploring women’s empowerment using a mixed methods approach por Doss, Cheryl, Rubin, Deborah

“…Interest in the meaning and measurement of women’s empowerment has become a stated goal of many programs in international development. …”
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Conflict and child mortality in Mali: A synthetic control analysis por Masset, Edoardo

“…A civil conflict broke out in northern Mali in 2012, which is continuing to the present day. …”
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Gender and promoting quality seeds in Africa: A literature review por Brearley, Emily, Kramer, Berber

“…However, many of these approaches are not tested with a gender lens. In fact, many innovations risk increasing productivity for a small segment of the farming population, thereby potentially further widening the large gender gaps in empowerment in agriculture. …”
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Myanmar migration in a time of transformation: 2011-2020 [in Burmese] por Van Campenhout, Bjorn, Minot, Nicholas, Kabir, Razin, Vos, Rob, Narayanan, Sudha, Rice, Brendan, Aredo, Samson Dejene

“…Rural out-migration to both domestic and international destinations counts among the key phenomena that defined a decade of transformation in Myanmar from the 2011 economic reforms until the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. …”
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A study of commodity debt: The case of Punjab province-Pakistan por Rana, Abdul Wajid

“…The state intervention in the agriculture market and trade policies, including ad-ministered prices or protective trade policies, with the objective of supporting food secu-rity, income generation for growers, and affordability for consumers has a long history. Most of these have been phased out through the late 1980s and 1990s though, wheat (through domestic procurement, temporary import/export control imposing regulatory duties, and sub-sidized sales to select flour mills) and sugarcane (through import tariffs, as well as indicative prices and export subsidies) still are the two major crops with public intervention. …”
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Rights of Wetlands: a new relationship with wetlands in Sri Lanka por International Water Management Institute

“…IWMI, with partners from Kenya, the USA, the UK and Sri Lanka, is addressing wetland loss and degradation using a “rights of wetlands” approach, whereby wetlands are afforded the same consideration and protection as human beings…”
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Sowing the seeds of tomorrow, one school garden at a time por Borelli, Teresa, Tognoli, Flora

“…Quizzes and competitions make learning fun and lessons are complemented with practical, hands-on training in which children are involved in establishing a school garden and learn to grow and care for NUS.…”
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A framework for an African Water Quality Program (AWaQ) por Mukuyu, Patience, Dickens, Chris, Jayathilake, Nilanthi, Tijani, M., Chapman, D. V., Warner, S.

“…Development of this framework needs to be followed by a strategic implementation plan that would provide a road map for implementing AWaQ. …”
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Building a case for increased investment in agricultural research in Africa por Stads, Gert-Jan, Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, Beintema, Nienke M.

“…In fact, in a large number of African countries, the national government funds the salaries of researchers and support staff, but little else, leaving nonsalary-related expenses highly dependent on donors and other funding sources.…”
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A 2007 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) Database for Zambia por Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research, International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The national SAM is built using new input-output use tables, national accounts, government budgets, and balance of payments, and so provides a detailed representation of the Zambian Economy. …”
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A&T Ethiopia Complementary Feeding Baseline Survey 2015: Households por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Twenty woredas (districts) were purposively selected as potential areas of work by A&T HQ and Save the Children, and the select woredas were randomly assigned as 10 intervention (or A&T-intensive, A&T-I) and 10 comparison (or A&T-Non intensive, A&T-NI) woredas. …”
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A&T Ethiopia Complementary Feeding Endline Survey 2017: Community por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Twenty woredas (districts) were purposively selected as potential areas of work by A&T HQ and Save the Children, and the select woredas were randomly assigned as 10 intervention (or A&T-intensive, A&T-I) and 10 comparison (or A&T-Non intensive, A&T-NI) woredas. …”
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A 2006 Social Accounting Matrix for Nigeria: Methodology and Results por Nwafor, Manson, Diao, Xinshen, Alpuerto, Vida

“…Each cell in the matrix represents the flow of economic activities in monetary terms from a column account (expenditure or outflow) to a row account (income or inflow). …”
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A 2000 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for the Slovak Republic por Koronczi, Karol

“…Slovak Republic is in process of transformation from a centrally planned to a market economy. It is a process that requires constant development and adjustment of various systems, including the national statistics. …”
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A&T Ethiopia Complementary Feeding Endline Survey 2017: Households por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Twenty woredas (districts) were purposively selected as potential areas of work by A&T HQ and Save the Children, and the select woredas were randomly assigned as 10 intervention (or A&T-intensive, A&T-I) and 10 comparison (or A&T-Non intensive, A&T-NI) woredas. …”
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A&T Ethiopia Complementary Feeding Baseline Survey 2015: Community por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Twenty woredas (districts) were purposively selected as potential areas of work by A&T HQ and Save the Children, and the select woredas were randomly assigned as 10 intervention (or A&T-intensive, A&T-I) and 10 comparison (or A&T-Non intensive, A&T-NI) woredas. …”
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