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CACCI country profile Tajikistan por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Some of the main challenges in efficiently adopting climate change measures include legal and institutional obstacles and lack of sufficient and appropriate technical capacity in the country.…”
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WOCAT SLM Approach: “The 4-Wheels Approach for sustainable scaling [Tunisia]” por Frija, Aymen, Idoudi, Zied, Rudiger, Udo

“…An underlying belief is that technologies primarily capable of generating income or reducing workload for farmers or their organizations will be adopted and can be scaled.…”
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Key descriptors for forage grasses por Muchugi, Alice, Hanson, Jean, González-Guzmán, J.J, Habte, Ermias, Sime, Yonas, Alercia, Adriana Raquel, Cerutti, Ana Laura, López, Francisco

“…These are all grasses that are already being adopted by smallholder farmers worldwide.…”
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Scaling-out gender transformative approaches in agriculture research for development por Hillenbrand, Emily, Obi, Chinedu, McDougall, Cynthia, Rossignoli, Cristiano

“…Despite the enthusiasm and high momentum for doing gender transformative work across the organizations, this study also surfaces serious reservations about how rapidly the terminology and/or tools related with GTA are being adopted, while there remain widely varying levels of understanding, gender expertise, and funding for the type of intensive effort that is required to achieve a true paradigm shift in the sector.…”
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Women’s Empowerment in Agrifood Governance (WEAGov): An Assessment Framework por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The policy design component focuses on how different policy problems rise to the policy agenda, how policy solutions are formulated and designed, and how and whether policy solutions are adopted. The policy implementation component looks at how policies are implemented in practice, including budgetary outlays and organizational strategies for the delivery of services. …”
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Growth in milk consumption and reductions in child stunting: Historical evidence from cross-country panel data por Haile, Beliyou, Headey, Derek D.

“…However, experimental research on dairy’s impacts on child growth in developing countries is very limited, and non-experimental evidence is confined to cross-sectional surveys. In this study we adopt a more macro lens by using a cross-country panel to show that increases in milk consumption over time are associated with large reductions in child stunting even after controlling for important confounding factors. …”
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Should Sri Lanka attempt to achieve self-sufficiency in pulses? por Natarajan, Kiruthika, Thibbotuwawa, Manoj, Babu, Suresh Chandra

“…Nonetheless, food and nutrition security remain a major challenge: nearly 3.9 million people, or 17 percent of Sri Lankans, experience moderately acute food insecurity; nearly 10,000 are severely acute food insecure; and 56 percent of households have adopted food-based coping strategies, including reducing meal portion sizes (36 percent) and skipping meals (19 percent) (FAO 2023a). …”
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Changing Chinese diets to achieve a win–win solution for health and the environment por Sheng, Fangfang, Wang, Jingjing, Chen, Kevin Z., Fan, Shenggen, Gao, Haixiu

“…If all Chinese consumers adopt one of the healthy reference diets all the time, the incidence of diet‐related chronic disease and mortality would be significantly reduced. …”
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Adolescents. capabilities and aspirations across gender and generations in Amhara, Ethiopia por Gebre, B., Lecoutere, Els, Jones, N.

“…This study investigates the capabilities and aspirations of adolescent girls and boys and their evolution in Amhara against the background of three successive political regimes that governed Ethiopia over the last 90 years, the Haile-Selassie imperial regime (1930–1974), the socialist military Derg regime (1974–1991), and the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (1991–2019), each with their own institutions, structures and infrastructure, and gender- and age-related relations and norms. The study adopts a capability approach with a gender and generationing development lens as a framework and relies on qualitative data collected through community- and mixed-generation group discussions. …”
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Demand for complementary financial and technological tools for managing drought risk por Ward, Patrick S., Spielman, David J., Ortega, David L.

“…Findings indicate that farmers are generally unwilling to adopt the drought-tolerant variety independent of insurance, largely due to a yield penalty under non-drought conditions. …”
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Determinants of change and household responses to food insecurity: Empirical evidence from Nigeria por Edeh, Hyacinth O., Gyimah-Brempong, Kwabena

“…This has resulted in food shortages; and they had to adopt various consumption-related strategies to mitigate the effect of the shortfalls. …”
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Nutrition and diet profile: Sri Lanka por Koyratty, Nadia, Silva, Renuka, Ranathunga, Thilanka, Olney, Deanna K.

“… • Many government-issued diet- and nutrition-related policies, strategies, and programs have been adopted in Sri Lanka. However, these often do not place enough emphasis on F&Vs…”
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The partially liberalized cocoa sector in Ghana: Producer price determination, quality control, and service provision por Kolavalli, Shashidhara, Vigneri, Marcella, Maamah, Haruna, Poku, John

“…The overall objective of this study is to examine the competitiveness of the cocoa sector by focusing on four aspects of the current set of institutions, including (1) the process of determining producer prices; (2) the outcomes of the introduction of private licensed buying companies; (3) COCOBOD’s role in maintain quality, and the costs and benefits of this process; and (4) trends in COCOBOD expenditure on the provision of various goods and services. The methodology adopted for this study is primarily that of an expenditure review.…”
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Institutional and capacity challenges in agricultural policy process: The case of Democratic Republic of Congo por Ragasa, Catherine, Babu, Suresh Chandra, Ulimwengu, John M.

“…The paper develops a conceptual framework and adopts an innovative mapping tool to identify capacity and incentive challenges impeding the effective design and implementation of policy processes. …”
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Introduction [In The political economy of agricultural policy reform in India] por Birner, Regina, Gupta, Surupa, Sharma, Neeru

“…As a consequence, the government of india (GoI) adopted policies that aimed at making the country self-sufficient in foodgrain production (Subramaniam 1995). …”
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Feeding the cities: food supply and distribution por Argenti, Olivio

“…City authorities need to adopt policies that support those involved in food supply and distribution activities by promoting private investment, getting involved in food supply and distribution themselves (by facilitating urban and peri-urban agriculture and by providing the necessary planning, infrastructure, facilities, services, information, and regulations), coordinating public and private development initiatives, and mediating between the central government and the private food sector. -- from Text…”
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On gender norms, innovation and smallholder farming: Patterns and processes of change in rural Uganda por Rietveld, Anne

“…The second objective is to adapt and design approaches and methodologies - to conduct gender research in the framework of AR4D - that have potential to contribute to gender equality, avoid reinforcing inequalities and that raise the critical consciousness of researchers and other stakeholders of AR4D. I adopt a systems’ approach and, across the different chapters, study gender as a system or apply a gender lens to study gender dimensions of farming systems. …”
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Rice fish farming in Andhra Pradesh, India: A case study por Samaddar, Ayan, Padiyar Panemangalore, Arun, Maliappan, Sudharsan, Borah, Gulshan, Sikka, Alok, Kumar, Gopal

“…In order to alter the rice production system in alignment with fish and horticultural crops under an Integrated Farming System (IFS), Rythu Sadhikara Samstha (RySS) adopted the integrated rice-fish culture system as part of the Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) initiative. …”
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Vertical coordination in high-value commodities: implications for smallholders por Birthal, Pratap Singh, Joshi, Pramod Kumar, Gulati, Ashok

“…The study examines the institutional mechanisms adopted by different firms to integrate small producers of milk, broilers and vegetables in supply chain and their effects on producers’ transaction costs and farm profitability. …”
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The world food situation: an overview por von Braun, Joachim

“…We will need new insights into the complex interactions between agriculture, health, and lifestyles, and to adopt a stronger focus on gender issues. We will need to invest in appropriate insurance systems and social security policies. …”
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