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Gender, demand for agricultural credit and digital technology: Survey evidence from Odisha por Kramer, Berber, Pattnaik, Subhransu, Ward, Patrick S.

“…Moreover, we find that the gender gap in demand for agricultural credit is explained, in part, by differences in empowerment between women and men, suggesting that increasing women’s empowerment could help bridge gender gaps in credit access and utilization. Using a cluster randomized trial, we assess whether gender sensitization has an effect on women’s empowerment and demand for credit, but we do not find that gender trainings help shift women’s empowerment or demand for credit. …”
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Drivers of adoption of small-scale irrigation in Mali and its impacts on nutrition across sex of irrigators por Nkonya, Ephraim M., Kato, Edward, Ru, Yating

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Developing survey-based measures of gendered freedom of movement for use in studies of agricultural value chains por Heckert, Jessica, Myers, Emily, Malapit, Hazel J.

“…Nevertheless, there is no agreement on how to measure freedom of movement in large-scale surveys. First, we develop a conceptual framework for studying gendered freedom of movement that considers individual and household characteristics, along with the broader social environment. …”
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Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Agricultural input retailers – June 2021 survey round por Myanmar Agriculture Support Activity

“…To understand the effects of recent disruptions on Myanmar’s agricultural input sector, a phone survey of input retailers was conducted in June 2021. …”
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Survey Data for Mapping Technology Adoption in East and Central Africa por International Food Policy Research Institute, Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa

“…This dataset include survey instrument and data used in a collaborative technology adoption study conducted by the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA) and IFPRI. …”
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Micro-econometric and Micro-Macro linked models: Impact of the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) Program of Uganda—Considering different levels of likely contaminatio... por Benin, Samuel, Nkonya, Ephraim M., Okecho, Geresom, Randriamamonjy, Josee, Kato, Edward, Lubade, Geofrey, Kyotalimye, Miriam

“…An important problem in causal inference and estimation of treatment effects is identifying a reliable comparison group (control observations) against which to compare those that have been exposed to the treatment (treated observations). …”
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Analysis of the drivers of change in women’s anemia in Tanzania 2005-2015 por Heckert, Jessica, Headey, Derek D., Ndiaye, Biram, Brero, Mauro, Assey, Vincent

“…Thus, it is important to document the factors that may have contributed to improvements in anemia status. Using a regression decomposition approach, which previously has been applied to identifying potential drivers of changes in stunting, we examine which improvements in the underlying determinants of anemia contributed to improvements in the overall prevalence of anemia among women of reproductive age in Tanzania. …”
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Water, sanitation and child health: Evidence from subnational panel data in 59 countries por Headey, Derek D., Palloni, Giordano

“…To overcome some of the limitations of both literatures, we construct a panel of 442 subnational regions in 59 countries with multiple Demographic Health Surveys. …”
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Consumer choices and demand for tilapia in urban Malawi: What are the complementarities and trade-offs? por Chikowi, Christopher T. M., Ochieng, Dennis O., Jumbe, Charles B. L.

“…We use data collected from a sample of 584 urban households in Malawi’s two major cities, Blantyre and Lilongwe. …”
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Educator incentives and educational triage in rural primary schools por Gilligan, Daniel O., Karachiwalla, Naureen, Kasirye, Ibrahim, Lucas, Adrienne M., Neal, Derek

“…These educators hope to avoid the negative attention that authorities direct to a school when its students perform poorly on the primary leaving exams that governments use to certify primary completion and eligibility for secondary school. …”
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How do perceptions of relative poverty affect women's empowerment? Evidence from Papua New Guinea por Kosec, Katrina, Mo, Cecilia Hyunjung, Schmidt, Emily, Song, Jie

“…How do perceptions of one’s relative economic status affect gender attitudes, including support for women’s economic participation and involvement in decision-making? We conducted a 2018 survey experiment with female and male adults in approximately 1,000 households in Papua New Guinea. …”
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Maternal nutrition practices in Uttar Pradesh, India: Role of key influential demand and supply factors por Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Kachwaha, Shivani, Avula, Rasmi, Young, Melissa, Patil, Sumeet, Menon, Purnima

“…This paper examined multifactorial determinants (personal, family, community, and health services) associated with maternal nutrition practices in Uttar Pradesh, India. Data were from a household survey of pregnant (n = 667) and recently delivered women (n = 1,835). …”
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Findings across agricultural public expenditure reviews in African countries por Mink, Stephen D.

“…The analysis results in evidence-based recommendations that address, inter alia, budget planning, budget execution, and monitoring for accountability; the creation of a reliable database; more effective intra-and intersectoral coordination; and the cost-effectiveness of different spending policies for meeting various objectives…”
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Soil carbon sequestration and land use change associated with biofuel production: empirical evidence por Qin, Zhangcai, Dunn, Jennifer B., Kwon, Ho Young, Mueller, Steffen, Wander, Michelle M.

“…Soil organic carbon (SOC) change can be a major impact of land use change (LUC) associated with biofuel feedstock production. …”
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The economic value of seasonal forecasts stochastic economywide analysis for East Africa por Rodrigues, Joao, Thurlow, James, Landman, Willem, Ringler, Claudia, Robertson, Richard D., Zhu, Tingju

“…Stochastic seasonal simulations produce value distributions for forecasts of varying accuracy and varying levels of farm coverage. A timely and accurate forecast adopted by all farmers generates average regional income gains of US$113 million per year. …”
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Leveraging browse and grazing forage estimates to optimize index-based livestock insurance por Kahiu, Njoki, Anchang, J., Alulu, Vincent, Fava, Francesco P., Jensen, Nathaniel D., Hanan, N.P.

“…For total livestock mortality, LAIP yielded the lowest RMSE (5.9 TLUs) and higher R2 (0.83), surpassing NDVI and LAIA models RMSE (9.3 TLUs) and R2 (0.6). A similar pattern was observed for species-specific livestock mortality. …”
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Temporary and permanent migrant selection: Theory and evidence of ability-search cost dynamics por Chen, Joyce J., Kosec, Katrina, Mueller, Valerie

“…We integrate two workhorses of the labor literature, the Roy model and a search model, to illustrate the implications of migration duration for patterns of self-selection. …”
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At-scale delivery of Essential Nutrition Interventions (ENIs) in India is limited by variable gaps in policy, design, implementation and demand por Avula, Rasmi, Kim, Sunny S., Kohli, Neha, Chakrabarti, Suman, Tyagi, Parul, Singh, Kavita, van den Bold, Mara, Kadiyala, Suneetha, Menon, Purnima

“…We studied provision of and demand for ENIs in two states ‐ Odisha & Madhya Pradesh, using primary data collection [a survey of frontline workers (FLW) (N=1140) and households with children aged 0‐2 y (N=2300) in 3 districts per state; semi‐structured interviews with officials and health workers at multiple levels]. …”
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Women’s empowerment, household dietary diversity, and child anthropometry among vulnerable populations in Odisha, India por Ogutu, Sylvester, Mockshell, Jonathan, Garrett, James, Ritter, Thea, Labarta, Ricardo, Alvarez, Diego, Nedumaran, Swamikannu, Gonzalez, Carolina, Gotor, Elisabetta

“…We conclude that women’s empowerment contributes to improved dietary diversity and child nutrition and is a promising strategy to improve farm household diets and child nutrition among vulnerable populations. …”
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Determination of abundance and symbiotic effectiveness of native rhizobia nodulating soybean and other legumes in Rwanda por Nzeyimana, F., Onwonga, R.N., Ayuke, F., Chemining'wa, G.N., Nabahungu, N.L., Bigirimana, J., Josiane, U.K.N.

“…It was also established that total N was dependent on the number of rhizobia cells and that there is a strong correlation between organic carbon and N content. …”
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