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Covid-19 lockdowns, income distribution, and food security: An analysis for South Africa por Arndt, Channing, Davies, Rob, Gabriel, Sherwin, Harris, Laurence, Makrelov, Konstantin, Robinson, Sherman, Anderson, Lillian

“…Labor with low education levels are much more strongly affected than labor with secondary or tertiary education. As a result, households with low levels of educational attainment and high dependence on labor income would experience an enormous real income shock that would clearly jeopardize the food security of these households. …”
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Cognitive interviewing to improve women's empowerment questions in surveys: Application to the health and nutrition and intrahousehold relationships modules for the project‐level W... por Hannan, Anika, Heckert, Jessica, James-Hawkins, Laurie, Yount, Kathryn M.

“…The pro‐WEAI includes new modules with previously untested survey questions, including a health and nutrition module (focused on women's agency in this area) and an intrahousehold relationships module. …”
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COVID-19 risks to global food security por Laborde Debucquet, David, Martin, Will, Swinnen, Johan, Vos, Rob

“…We outline the main threats COVID-19 poses to food security and suggest critical responses that policy-makers should consider to prevent this global health crisis from becoming a global food crisis.…”
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Intimate partner relationships and gender norms in Mali: The scope of cash transfers targeted to men to reduce intimate partner violence por Lees, Shelley, Kyegombe, Nambusi, Diatta, Ampa Dogui, Zongrone, Amanda, Roy, Shalini, Hidrobo, Melissa

“…Mali has implemented the Filets Sociaux (Jigisémèjiri) program that aims to reduce poverty through cash transfers (CTs) to predominantly male heads of household with accompanying measures. This paper reports on a qualitative study of the effects of the program on intimate partner relationships. …”
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2021 China and global food report: Rethinking agrifood systems for the post-COVID world por Academy of Global Food Economics and Policy, China Agricultural University (AGFEP), China Academy for Rural Development, Zhejiang University, Centre for International Food and Agricultural Economics, Nanjing Agricultural University (CIFAE), Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (IAED), International Food Policy Research Institute, Fan, Shenggen, Chen, Kevin Z.

“…Moreover, with many people losing their jobs during the COVID-19 outbreak and therefore facing a dramatic income decrease, the number of people confronted with food crises and extreme poverty increased significantly. …”
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Investing in women livestock advisers and farmers: Jharkhand Opportunities for Harnessing Rural Growth Programme in India por Kumar, Anish, Kumar, Ashok, Kumar, Manish, Bhardwaj, Rajeev, Bhengra, Vishal, Davis, Kristin E., Dutta, Pratham, Ekka, Nilima, Gilbert, Rachel, Kumar, Priti, Leitch, Helen, Ngwenya, Hlamalani, Niraj, Nawanit, Oraon, Dhananjay, Pratyush, Ranjan

“…Investing in farmers – or agriculture human capital – is crucial to addressing challenges in our agri-food systems. A global study carried out by the FAO Investment Centre and the International Food Research Institute, with support from the CGIAR Research Programme on Policies, Institutions and Markets and the FAO Research and Extension Unit, looks at agriculture human capital investments, from trends to promising initiatives. …”
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Professionalizing farmer organizations through private sector-led models: Capacity development initiatives in Cameroon and Côte d’Ivoire por Gordon, Ann

“…Investing in farmers – or agriculture human capital – is crucial to addressing challenges in our agri-food systems. A global study carried out by the FAO Investment Centre and the International Food Research Institute, with support from the CGIAR Research Programme on Policies, Institutions and Markets and the FAO Research and Extension Unit, looks at agriculture human capital investments, from trends to promising initiatives. …”
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Fiscal and monetary responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: Some thoughts for developing countries and the international community por Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio

“…In any case, money always enters into the economy through specific actors (at present, mainly the owners of the assets being bought by the central banks), and not by equally endowing each citizen with the same amount of currency (as in Milton Friedman’s parable of “helicopter money”; Friedman 1969). A universal income would do the latter, and some of the recent rescue packages in developed countries moved in that direction. …”
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Investing in farmers: Agriculture human capital investment strategies por Davis, Kristin E., Gammelgaard, Johanna, Preissing, John, Gilbert, Rachel, Ngwenya, Hlamalani

“…Investing in farmers – or agriculture human capital – is crucial to addressing challenges in our agri-food systems. A global study carried out by the FAO Investment Centre and the International Food Research Institute, with support from the CGIAR Research Programme on Policies, Institutions and Markets and the FAO Research and Extension Unit, looks at agriculture human capital investments, from recent trends to promising initiatives in Cameroon, Chile, Côte d’Ivoire, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Peru, Rwanda and the United States of America. …”
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Commercial poultry and pig farming in Yangon's peri-urban zone por Belton, Ben, Cho, Ame, Payongayong, Ellen, Mahrt, Kristi, Abaidoo, Eric

“…This report presents results from a comprehensive structured survey of medium and large-scale pig and poultry farms conducted in the peri-urban zone surrounding Yangon. …”
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Food supply chains: Business resilience, innovation, and adaptation por Reardon, Thomas, Vos, Rob

“…Private sector enterprises all along food supply chains must play a central role in food system resilience and transformation; the pandemic revealed some of the sector’s weaknesses and strengths that can help to build greater resilience and reach other Sustainable Development Goals. …”
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Toward inclusive food systems: Pandemics, vulnerable groups, and the role of social protection por Kumar, Neha, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Gelli, Aulo, Gentilini, Ugo, Shapleigh, Sara

“…Vulnerable groups have been most affected by disruption to food systems, such as lockdowns, through loss of employment and incomes. Social protection has a key role to play in times of health and economic shocks. …”
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Gender, tenure security, and landscape governance: Synthesis of studies of PIM’s Governance of Natural Resources flagship program 2013-2020 por Kristjanson, Patricia

“…Policies and interventions aimed at improving the governance of natural resources and landscapes need to benefit women as well as men. A failure to address differing needs, roles and responsibilities of women and men, and underlying gender relations and how they are changing, reduces their effectiveness and will risk perpetuating gender inequality. …”
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Picture-based crop insurance (PBI): Using farmers’ smartphone pictures to reduce basis risk and costs of loss verification por Ceballos, Francisco, Kramer, Berber, Mishra, Azad, Robles, Miguel, Toor, Mann S.

“…Policymakers hence seek ways to improve farmers’ resilience, and delivery of risk management strategies, including crop insurance, has become a major objective on policy agendas. Existing insurance products, however, face several challenges. …”
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Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) and the adoption of modern agricultural technologies in Uttar Pradesh, India por Varshney, Deepak, Joshi, Pramod Kumar, Roy, Devesh, Kumar, Anjani

“…This study, based on 1,406 farmers of Uttar Pradesh and using a binary choice model, examines the scheme’s targeting accuracy and the correlates of farmers’ spending patterns. …”
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Agrifood market participation, household economies of specialization and diversification: Evidence from Vietnam por Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Ajmani, Manmeet Singh, Roy, Devesh, Fadhillah, Aniq, Liu, Yanyan

“…The results shed more light on how exactly smallholders in Vietnam persist in the face of agrifood market growth, and what kind of their relations with such a growing market can be promoted in ways that enhance their livelihoods in the short- to medium- terms.…”
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Project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture: Results from cognitive testing in Myanmar por Lambrecht, Isabel B., Sproule, Kathryn, Synt, Nang Lun Kham, Ei Win, Hnin, Win, Khin Zin

“…This paper reports on the lessons learned from two rounds of pretesting and cognitive testing of the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) in a total of five States/Regions in Myanmar. We assess if respondents understand the modules as intended and which questions require modification based on the cultural context. …”
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Five years of regional risk pooling: An updated cost-benefit analysis of the African risk capacity por Kramer, Berber, Rusconi, Rob, Glauber, Joseph W.

“…An initial cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of the African Risk Capacity (ARC), published in 2013, showed that regional risk pooling for severe droughts could increase benefits to poor households by as much as US$ 1.90 per dollar invested, due to the speed, cost and targeting gains from improved risk financing and contingency planning of a humanitarian response. We revisit the assumptions underpinning this initial CBA to reflect current ARC operations, and we update the CBA using new methods for evaluating the costs and benefits of regional risk pooling to finance disaster risk management. …”
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Research-policy linkages: Empirical evidence from agroeconomic research in India por Balaji, S. J., Babu, Suresh Chandra, Pal, Suresh

“…To broaden our understanding, we employ latent Dirichlet allocation, a natural language processing technique that identifies crucial issues and automates their classification under appropriate clusters, to examine synergies between the research and policy systems. …”
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Engaging young agripreneurs: Options to include youth in private sector extension and advisory services in Rwanda and Uganda por Franzel, Steven, Miiro, R., Uwitonze, Nicolas, Davis, Kristin E., Luzobe, B., Rurangwa, Raphael

“…Engaging young agripreneurs in private sector extension and advisory services (EAS) is critical for livelihoods in rural areas where millions of youth are unemployed and face many barriers to entry into agriculture. A study in Rwanda and Uganda examined this and found seven models to engage youth in EAS as providers or recipients of the services: (1) training youth to become agripreneurs; (2) village agents; (3) youth-led and other fee-based EAS providers; (4) paraprofessional EAS workers; (5) EAS internships; (6) credit and financial services; and (7) youth agripreneurship awards (Table 1). …”
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