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The Contribution of Voluntary Sustainability Systems to Women’s Participation and Leadership in Decision-Making (SDG 5.5) by Morgan, Miranda, Elias, Marlène

“…Njuki et al., (2021) find that women’s leadership and decision-making at all levels constitute a particularly underresearched pathway to gender equality and justice in agri-food systems. …”
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Ethiopian Digital Agro-Climate Advisory Platform (EDACaP) Improvement: Progress and Lessons by Ahmed, Jemal Seid, Sotelo, Steven, Tesfaye, Kindie, Tamene, Lulseged D., Ramirez, Julian

“…Varying climatic conditions bring disparities in food demand and supply, which constitute a challenge for the integration of climate-smart agriculture in the agriculture mix. …”
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Phenotyping, genetics and ‘-omics’ approaches to unravel and introgress enhanced resistance against apple scab (Venturia inaequalis) in apple cultivars (Malus x domestica) by Švara, Anže, De Storme, Nico, Carpentier, Sebastien, Keulemans, Wannes, De Coninck, Barbara

“…Implementation of recent ‘-omics’ approaches has provided insights into the complex network of physiological, molecular and signaling processes that occur before and upon scab infection, thereby revealing the importance of both constitutive and induced defense mechanisms. Based on the current knowledge, we outline advances towards more efficient introgression of enhanced scab resistance into novel apple cultivars by conventional breeding or genetic modification techniques. …”
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Can water, energy, and food policies in support of solar irrigation enable gender transformative changes? Evidence from policy analysis in Bangladesh and Nepal by Khadka, Manohara, Uprety, Labisha, Shrestha, Gitta, Shakya, Shristi, Mitra, Archisman, Mukherji, Aditi

“…We found that the governments in both countries commit to gender equality and women’s advancement in their WEF sector policies, institutions, and decision-making by ensuring gender and justice principles in their constitutions and national development frameworks. However, these higher-level aspirational principles are not always operationalized in the WEF sector policies. …”
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Technical report on safe and sustainable vegetable production activities in Benin by Legba, Eric, Dossou, Laurence, Honfoga, Judith, Ramasamy, Srinivasan

“…Benin's agriculture comprises a set of crops, among which vegetable crops constitute one of the strategic sectors and an important agricultural industry that employs thousands of people across urban, peri-urban, and rural areas (ACED, 2020). …”
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Introduction: Political economy of food system transformation by Resnick, Danielle, Swinnen, Johan

“…The ship’s journey symbolized the world’s dependence on grain from the Black Sea—which supplies 30 percent of the world’s wheat exports and constitutes the source of 12 percent of glob ally traded calories (Glauber and Laborde 2022)—and revealed the vulnerability of countries to dependence on concentrated supply sources (IPES 2022). …”
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Trends and determinants of India’s virtual water trade in crop products by Kannan, Elumalai, Kumar, Anjani

“…Among the commodities traded, rice accounted for over one-fourth of the total volume of virtual water exported, and sunflower/safflower oil constitute over one-third of the total volume of virtual water imported. …”
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Equipping young minds: KIPPRA-CIP empowers youth in policy-making by Kirui, Leonard, Maru, Joyce, Saikah, Sheewa

“…In Kenya’s demographic, the youthful population constitutes a higher percentage compared to other age groups, whereby 29% is between the ages 18 and 34. …”
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The state of food security and nutrition in Myanmar: Findings from the Myanmar Household Welfare Survey 2021-2022 by Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity

“…We also look at disaggregated consumption of the different food groups that constitute the diet diversity measures to investigate the change in the consumption pattern of individuals. …”
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A review of leadership and capacity gaps in nutrition-sensitive agricultural policies and strategies for selected countries in sub-saharan Africa and Asia by Aryeetey, Richmond, Covic, Namukolo

“…For most of the countries, there is capacity to articulate what needs to happen, but there are important capacity limitations to translate the given policy/program instruments into effective action.The gaps identified constitute important evidence to inform capacity strengthening of nutrition-sensitive actions for desired nutrition and health outcomes in Africa and Asia.…”
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Affordability of nutritious diets in rural India by Raghunathan, Kalyani, Headey, Derek D., Herforth, Anna

“…However, in absolute terms nutritious diets in 2011 were still expensive relative to unskilled wages, constituting approximately 80–90% of female and 50–60% of male daily wages. …”
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Understanding characteristics, causes, and consequences of migration: Contributions from the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets by CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets

“…While there is a vast literature on migration external to PIM and CGIAR, the results of the PIM investiga-tions constitute valuable inputs into national pol-icies and programs designed to foster economic and social development while maximizing the benefits and reducing the risks of migration.…”
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Voice, access, and ownership: Enabling environments for nutrition advocacy in India and Nigeria by Resnick, Danielle, Anigo, Kola Matthew, Anjorin, Olufolakemi, Deshpande, Shilpa

“…What constitutes an enabling environment for nutrition advocacy in low- and middle-income countries? …”
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Food for thought? Experimental evidence on the learning impacts of a large-scale school feeding program in Ghana by Aurino, Elisabetta, Gelli, Aulo, Adamba, Clement, Osei-Akoto, Isaac, Alderman, Harold

“…Increases in enrolment, grade attainment, and shifts in time use toward schooling time constituted potential mechanisms for impact. We conclude the program combined social protection with equitable human capital accumulation, thus contributing to the imperative of “learning for all” set in the Sustainable Development Goals.…”
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Misreporting month of birth: Implications for nutrition research by Larsen, Anna Folke, Headey, Derek D., Masters, William A.

“…Moreover, the misreporting we identify differs from conventional age-heaping concerns, implying that the metrics described above could constitute useful markers of measurement error in nutrition surveys. …”
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Chapter 1. Introduction to post-harvest challenges and innovations by Mpagalile, Joseph, Odjo, Sylvanus

“…Smallholder farmers, constituting the majority of farms, bear the greatest impact of PHL, underscoring the critical importance of targeted intervention. …”
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Managing the vitamin A program portfolio: A case study of Zambia, 2013–2042 by Fiedler, John L., Lividini, Keith

“…Micronutrient deficiencies continue to constitute a major burden of disease, particularly in Africa and South Asia. …”
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Household Consumption and Expenditures Surveys (HCES): A primer for food and nutrition analysts in low- and middle-income countries by Fiedler, John L., Lividini, Keith, Bermudez, Odilia I., Smitz, Marc-Francois

“…There have been a steadily growing number of studies using household food acquisition and consumption data from a variety of multipurpose, nationally representative household surveys as a proxy measure to overcome this fundamental information gap.To describe the key characteristics of these increasingly available Household Consumption and Expenditures Surveys (HCES) in order to help familiarize food and nutrition analysts with the strengths and shortcomings of these data and thus encourage their use in low- and middle-income countries; and to identify common shortcomings that can be readily addressed in the near term in a country-by-country approach, as new HCES are fielded, thereby beginning a process of improving the potential of these surveys as sources of useful data for better understanding food- and nutrition-related issues.Common characteristics of key food and nutrition information that is available in HCES and some basic common steps in processing HCES data for food and nutrition analyses are described.The common characteristics of these surveys are documented, and their usefulness in addressing major food and nutrition issues, as well as their short-comings, is demonstrated.Despite their limitations, the use of HCES data constitutes a generally unexploited opportunity to address the food consumption information gap by using survey data that most countries are already routinely collecting.…”
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The impact of PROGRESA on work, leisure, and time allocation: final report by Parker, Susan W., Skoufias, Emmanuel

“…The report has two main sections based on progressively broader definition of what constitutes work. In the first, we define work activities we estimate the impact of PROGRESA on work activities of men, women and children using before and after program implementation data (including the November 1997 census (ENCASEH), and the November 1998, June 1999 and November 1999 rounds of the evaluation survey (ENCEL). …”
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New state structure and agriculture governance: A case of service delivery to local farmers in the eastern Gangetic Plains of Nepal by Dahal, Hari, Karki, Madhav, Jackson, Tamara, Panday, Dinesh

“…Under the new constitution adopted in 2015, Nepal embraced the federal structure of government comprising seven provincial and 753 local governments, each with their own legislative, judicial, and executive powers. …”
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