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Editorial: Food safety in low- and middle-income countries por Grace, Delia, Bonfoh, B., Häsler, B., Hung Nguyen-Viet

“…The is the result of growing appreciation of the enormous burden of foodborne disease in LMICs: the health burden is comparable to that of malaria, HIV/AIDs or tuberculosis and the economic cost is more than 100 billion USD a year (Havelaar et al., 2015; Jaffee et al., 2019). …”
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La Fusariose du bananier: Manuel de formation por Blomme, Guy, Kearsley, Elizabeth, Ocimati, Walter, Dita Rodriguez, Miguel Angel

“… • Module 3: La lutte contre la fusariose à l'aide de cultivars résistants. • Module 4: Pratiques de gestion agricole qui peuvent aider à supprimer le pathogène et à maintenir la production de bananes dans les zones touchées. …”
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A simplified measure of nutritional empowerment: Using machine learning to abbreviate the Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition Index (WENI) por Saha, Shree, Narayanan, Sudha

“…Developing A-WENI can thus aid in an expansion of efforts to measure nutritional empowerment; this is key to understanding better the barriers and challenges women face and help identify ways in which women can improve their nutritional well-being in meaningful ways.…”
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Validation of 24‐h dietary recall for estimating nutrient intakes and adequacy in adolescents in Burkina Faso por Arsenault, Joanne E., Moursi, Mourad, Olney, Deanna K., Becquey, Elodie, Ganaba, Rasmané, Pedehombga, Abdoulaye, Anick Ouattara, Sosthene Kere

“…For OWR, all foods consumed by adolescents from the first to last meal of the day were weighed; for 24HR adolescents reported foods consumed using portion aids. Food intakes were converted to nutrients. Nutrient intakes by both methods were tested for equivalence by comparing the ratios (24HR/OWR) with equivalence margins of within ±10%, 15% and 20% of the ratio. …”
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Unraveling reforms? Cotton in the 2018 Farm Bill por Glauber, Joseph W.

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Agricultural prices during drought in Ethiopia: An updated assessment using national producer data (January 2014 to June 2016 por Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane, Yimer, Feiruz, Minten, Bart

“…Moreover, this decline in cereal costs was highest in areas most affected by the drought, possibly indicating the effect of major cereal imports and food aid directed to these areas. Considering crop and livestock prices jointly, the analysis reveals that livestock-cereal terms of trade improved. …”
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Bigger change faster: Integrated development, health and environment actions for a sustainable future por Goldstein, Joshua, Tallis, Heather, Linou, Natalia, Small, Roy, Ringler, Claudia, Bernal, Luisa, Bok, Ludo, Bryan, Elizabeth, Chao, Verania, Cooper, Simon, Zhang, Wei

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An updated assessment using national producer data (January 2014 to January 2017): Agricultural price evolution in drought versus non-drought affected areas in Ethiopia por Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane, Yimer, Feiruz, Minten, Bart

“…Moreover, this decline in cereal costs was highest in areas most affected by the drought, possibly indicating the effect of major cereal imports and food aid directed to these areas. Considering crop and livestock prices jointly, the analysis reveals that livestock-cereal terms of trade improved. …”
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Effects of an mHealth intervention for community health workers on maternal and child nutrition and health service delivery in India: Protocol for a quasi-experimental mixed-method... por Nimmagadda, Sneha, Gopalakrishnan, Lakshmi, Avula, Rasmi, Dhar, Diva, Diamond-Smith, Nadia, Mani, Sneha, Menon, Purnima, Nguyen, Phuong Hong

“…This system is intended to be a job aid for frontline workers, supervisors and managers, aims to ensure better service delivery and supervision, and enable real-time monitoring and data-based decision-making. …”
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Global increase and geographic convergence in antibiotic consumption between 2000 and 2015 por Klein, Eili Y., Van Boekel, Thomas P., Martinez, Elena M., Pant, Suraj, Gandra, Sumanth, Levin, Simon A., Goossens, Herman, Laxminarayan, Ramanan

“…Tracking antibiotic consumption patterns over time and across countries could inform policies to optimize antibiotic prescribing and minimize antibiotic resistance, such as setting and enforcing per capita consumption targets or aiding investments in alternatives to antibiotics. …”
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How do fruit and vegetable markets operate in rural India? A qualitative study of the impact of supply and demand on nutrition security por Kehoe, Sarah H., Dhurde, Varsha, Bhaise, Shilpa, Kale, Rashmi, Kumaran, Kalyanaraman, Gelli, Aulo

“…The value chains for nutrition approach aims to study supply and demand of such foods. This may aid in development of interventions to improve diets and livelihoods.(1) To identify how fruit and vegetables are accessed, (2) to describe and map the structure of value chains for exemplar foods, (3) to understand how foods are priced, and (4) to explore factors that affect decisions about which crops are grown, marketed, and sold.After stakeholder consultation, we identified 2 fruits (mango and guava) and 2 vegetables (shepu and spinach) as exemplar foods. …”
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Sampling strategies for genotyping common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) Genebank accessions with DArTseq: a comparison of single plants, multiple plants, and DNA pools por Correa Abondano, Miguel, Ospina, Jessica Alejandra, Wenzl, Peter, Carvajal-Yepes, Monica

“…This study provides insights and serves as a valuable guide for gene bank researchers embarking on genotyping initiatives to characterize their collections. It aids curators in effectively managing the collections and facilitates marker-trait association studies, enabling the identification of candidate markers for key traits.…”
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The use of UAV-derived bathymetric data for hydraulic modelling to inform e-flow assessments por Maharaj, U., Harvey, T. A., Pike, T., Singh, K. R.

“…This workflow has the potential to further enhance E-flow assessments, aiding in the development of ecologically sound water management strategies. …”
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Behavior change counseling (BCC) by frontline health workers (FHW) and a mass media campaign improved complementary feeding (CF) practices more than mass media alone in rural Bangl... por Saha, Kuntal K., Rawat, Rahul, Khaled, Adiba, Ruel, Marie T., Menon, Purnima

“…Exposure to FHW and television spots (TVS) on 6 child feeding themes was measured using aided recall methods. CF practices were measured using WHO‐recommended indicators. …”
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Design, construction and evaluation of a drone-tethered river survey vessel por Maharaj, U., Singh, K., Pike, T., Pike, C.

“…As part of the CGIAR Initiative on Digital Innovation, GroundTruth, in partnership with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), investigated the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to aid in performing bathymetric and water quality surveys. …”
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Policies for improved land management in Uganda: Second National Workshop por Nkonya, Ephraim M., Sserunkuuma, Dick, Pender, John L.

“…Contents: Welcome And Introduction; Opening of the Workshop; Policies for Improved Land Management in Uganda: Project Objectives, Activities, and Opportunities; Summary of Main Themes and Key Findings; Development Pathways and Land Management in Uganda: Causes and Implications; A Spatially Based Strategic Planning Framework for Sustainable Land Use in Uganda; Alternative Growth Scenarios for Ugandan Coffee to 2020; Potentials And Constraints to Coffee Development: Aiding the Coffee Replanting Program; The Relationship Between Socio-Economic Characterisitics of Maize Farmers and Household Food Security in Eastern Uganda; Land Management Problems and Potentials in the Lakeshore Intensive Banana-Coffee Farming System; A Review of Land Use Change and Soil Degradation in the Southwestern Highlands of Uganda; Ugandan Crop Market Development: Characteristics, Constraints and Opportunities; Dynamics of Maize Market Integration in Post-Liberalized Uganda; Information Asymmetry Among Output Traders, Processors and Farmers in Uganda; Determinants and Implications of Development Pathways and Land Management in Uganda; Soil Conservation Practices and Non-Agricultural Activites in the Southwestern Highlands of Uganda; Common Property and Collective Action in Natural Resource Management: The Case of Doho Rice Scheme in Tororo District, Eastern Uganda; Motivating Smallholder Investments in Sustainable Land Management: Emerging Roles For NGOs and CBOs in Uganda; Soil Organic Matter and Its Relationship to Soil Fertility Changes in Uganda; Determinants of Nutrient Balances In Maize Plots In Eastern Uganda; The Potential Benefit of Velvet Bean (Mucuna Pruriens) And N Fertilisers in Maize Production on Contrasting Soils in Uganda; Modelling Approach to Identify Sustainable Land Management Techniques on Erosion-Affected Slopes; Technologies for Improved Livelihood in Southwestern Uganda; Land Management and Technology Adoption in Uganda: An Integrated Bio-Economic Modeling Approach; Modeling Policy Impacts Using an Agriculture-Focused Cge Model; Appendix A: Workshop Agenda; Appendix B: List of Participants…”
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2008 Global Hunger Index: The challenge of hunger por von Grebmer, Klaus, Fritschel, Heidi, Nestorova, Bella, Olofinbiyi, Tolulope, Pandya-Lorch, Rajul, Yohannes, Yisehac

“…High prices also reduce the amount of food aid that donors can supply with a given amount of funds.…”
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Resilient Cities urban nutrition profile: Ethiopia por Margolies, Amy, Amunga, Dorcas, Zerfu, Taddese Alemu, Ruel, Marie T., Olney, Deanna K.

“…-Concurrent conflict and climate shocks are causing acute nutritional needs in some regions. Humanitarian food aid is key to reducing food insecurity and should be provided to households without access to land who rely on income for food purchases, such as those in urban areas. …”
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Local markets, local varieties: Rising food prices and small farmers' access to seed por Smale, Melinda, Cohen, Marc J., Nagarajan, Latha

“…Until recently, public complacency regarding food abundance has contributed to a prolonged decline in agricultural investment by aid donors and developing-country governments. In-depth field research—undertaken by IFPRI with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and other partners in India, Kenya, and Mali—brings to light new evidence about farmers’ access to seed and the role of village markets in supplying it, with a focus on semi-arid environments. …”
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Conflict, aspirations, and women’s empowerment: Household survey evidence from farmer-herder conflicts in Nigeria por Amare, Mulubrhan, Carrillo, Lucia, Kosec, Katrina, Kyle, Jordan

“…Near conflict, women are less likely to be members of mutual aid groups and to contact government officials and more likely to engage local security groups for protection and to be members of political parties. …”
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