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Reaching End Users (REU) Socioeconomic Endline Survey 2009, Mozambique by International Food Policy Research Institute, International Potato Center

“…The project strategy involved conducting a coordinated three-pronged approach to encourage adoption and consumption of OFSP including: (i) vine distribution and agricultural extension (seed systems), (ii) demand creation through nutrition trainings; and (iii) trainings in marketing and product development. …”
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A&T Bangladesh Urban Maternal Nutrition Endline Survey 2022: Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) Case Observation by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…These include building capacity for health providers and nutritional counselors in urban health clinics, creating friendly environment for maternal, infant, and young child nutrition (MIYCN) counseling in clinic settings, community mobilization for demand creation of MIYCN services, interpersonal counseling on diet during pregnancy and consumption of iron-folic acid (IFA) and calcium, promotion of adequate weight-gain monitoring during pregnancy, and counseling on breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices. …”
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A&T Bangladesh Urban Maternal Nutrition Endline Survey 2022: Healthcare Provider by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…These include building capacity for health providers and nutritional counselors in urban health clinics, creating a friendly environment for maternal, infant, and young child nutrition (MIYCN) counseling in clinic settings, community mobilization for demand creation of MIYCN services, interpersonal counseling on diet during pregnancy and consumption of iron-folic acid (IFA) and calcium, promotion of adequate weight-gain monitoring during pregnancy, and counseling on breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices. …”
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A&T Bangladesh Urban Maternal Nutrition Endline Survey 2022: Antenatal Care Case Observation by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…These include building capacity for health providers and nutritional counselors in urban health clinics, creating friendly environment for maternal infant, and young child nutrition (MIYCN) counseling in clinic settings, community mobilization for demand creation of MIYCN services, interpersonal counseling on diet during pregnancy and consumption of iron-folic acid (IFA) and calcium, promotion of adequate weight-gain monitoring during pregnancy, and counseling on breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices. …”
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A blue revolution in sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Ghana’s tilapia value chain by Ragasa, Catherine, Andam, Kwaw S., Kufoalor, Doreen S., Amewu, Sena

“…This paper describes the fast-growing tilapia value chain in Ghana to demonstrate the features of a nascent blue revolution in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and to illustrate its potential for job creation and reducing poverty and food insecurity there. …”
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Clusters as drivers of local industrial development in Egypt: Which are the promising sectors and locations? by Abdelaziz, Fatma, El-Enbaby, Hoda, Zhang, Xiaobo, Breisinger, Clemens

“…In-depth case studies for specific, promising clusters should follow to help local governments and entrepreneurs to fully harness the unique opportunities that clusters can provide for local industrial development and job creation in Egypt.…”
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Agriculture and the economic transformation of Ethiopia by Mellor, John W., Dorosh, Paul A.

“…High agricultural growth also helps avoid the creation of megacities with large slum populations. …”
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Collective action for the conservation of on-farm genetic diversity in a center of crop diversity: an assessment of the role of traditional farmers’ networks by Badstue, Lone Bech, Bellon, Mauricio R., Berthaud, Julien, Ramírez, Alejandro, Flores, Dagoberto, Juárez, Xóchitl, Ramírez, Fabiola

“…The system is based on the creation of trust, which is needed because seed is not transparent—that is, it is not possible to fully predict the plant phenotype that may result from a given seed simply by looking at the seed. …”
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Tài liệu tập huấn: Sử dụng công cụ theo dõi hoạt động sản xuất lúa và tính toán phát thải khí nhà kính FarMoRe by Trung tâm khuyến nông quốc gia (National Agriculture Extension Center)

“…This curriculum is based on materials developed by IRRI, particularly the document "Co-Creation with FarMoRe: Collaborative training for agroecological transition" (Tran et al., 2024), which is a product of the ATDT Project. …”
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A systematic review of irrigation development and agricultural water management in Mali by Mabhaudhi, T., Dirwai, Tinashe Lindel, Taguta, C., Kanda, E. K., Nhamo, L., Cofie, Olufunke O.

“…Rain-fed and irrigated agriculture are key to economic growth, job creation, food security, and livelihoods across Africa. …”
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Women at the forefront: raising awareness of climate-resilient varieties to transform the informal seed trade in Tanzania by Mwakatwila, Atupokile, Ochieng, Justus, Cheyo, Esther, Kimisha, Joseph, Mchau, Devotha, Ndunguru, Agness, Kadege, Edith, Bujiku, Anthony, Kabyemela, Anatolius, Mbapila, Shadrack, Mbiu, Julius, Radegunda, Kessy, Rubyogo, Jean Claude

“…Moreover, the current promotion and awareness-creation efforts by public and private partners often target smallholder farmers, with limited success in increasing adoption and replacing old varieties. …”
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Entrenamiento sobre perfiles de produc-tos objetivo, BMS, índices de selección, Trips y diseño de ensayos para los socios del proyecto KoLFACI sobre fri-joles. Equipo de Frijol... by Guerrero, Alberto Fabio, Cadena, Christian Camilo, Gomez Jimenez, Maria Isabel, Buendia Castellanos, Hector Fabio, Valderrama Florez, Luis Alfonso, Wilker, Jennifer Leanne, Mosquera Cifuentes, Gloria Maria

“…In addition, hands-on exercises were conducted using BMS for germplasm queries, experiment creation, and data management. Participants expressed strong interest in continuing to use these platforms, and technical support and a follow-up virtual meeting were agreed upon. …”
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The effects decentralisation on forests and forest industries in Berau district, East Kalimantan by Obidzinski, K., Barr, C.

“…Many of these were assigned to ‘foundations’ established by local entrepreneurs to coordinate the creation of logging ventures with village cooperatives and other community groups in parts of Berau with valuable stands of timber. …”
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Control of Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia: Knowledge, attitudes, perceptions and practices in Narok District of Kenya by Kairu-Wanyoike, S.W., Kiara, Henry K., Heffernan, C.L., Kaitibie, S., Gitau, G.K., McKeever, Declan J., Taylor, N.M.

“…Consequently there is need for monitoring and management of post vaccination reactions and awareness creation on CBPP prevention and interventions and their merits and demerits. …”
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Marshalling water resources: a chronology of irrigation development in the Chi-Mun River Basin, Northeast Thailand by Floch, P., Molle, Francois

“…Apart from that, the Thai government's support for irrigation development has served many additional goals: food security and self-sufficiency, the creation of rural employment opportunities along with the support of agribusiness development, a counterstrategy against migration to the rural and national economic centers, and the fight against insurgency and the spread of communism. …”
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Decentralising Zimbabwe's water management: the case of Guyu-Chelesa irrigation scheme by Tambudzai, R., Mapedza, Everisto D., Gideon, Z.

“…The findings were that whilst the scheme is a model of a decentralised entity whose importance lies at improving food security and employment creation within the community, it falls short in representing a downwardly accountable decentralised irrigation scheme. …”
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Commercialization of Ethiopian agriculture: Extension service from input supplier to knowledge broker and facilitator by Gebremedhin, Berhanu, Hoekstra, Dirk, Tegegne, Azage

“…It is also recommended that support is provided to the extension services to develop pluralistic and interactive operational models geared towards market oriented agricultural development including involvement of the private sector extension through co-operatives and large-scale commercial production and marketing companies. The creation of agricultural innovation teams both at the federal and regional levels will help develop innovative approaches and capacities at the district level, thus contributing to the alleviation of the top-down nature of the extension service. …”
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Adoption of chemical weed control technology among cassava farmers in south eastern Nigeria by Udensi, U.E., Tarawali, G., Ilona, Paul, Okoye, B.C., Dixon, A.

“…Policies need to be designed to convert tenurial arrangements to more secure forms to increase the rate of adoption of weed control technology by the creation of markets for cassava, and the provision and subsidization of chemicals for weed control.…”
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Comparative effectiveness of silvicultural interventions for increasing timber production and sustaining conservation values in natural tropical production forests: A systematic re... by Petrokofsky, G., Sist, P., Blanc, Lilian, Doucet, J.L., Finegan, B., Gourlet-Fleury, S., Healey, J.R., Livoreil, B., Nasi, Robert, Peña-Claros, M., Putz, F.E., Zhou, W.

“…Although it is essential to preserve undisturbed primary forests through the creation of protected areas, these areas alone will not be able to ensure the conservation of all species on a pan-tropical scale, for social, economic and political reasons. …”
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Measure The Chain: Tools For Assessing GHG Emissions In Agricultural Supply Chains by Richards, Meryl B.

“…Climate change poses a number of risks to food and agricultural companies that impact their corporate performance and long-term value creation. Land use change (LUC) from commodity crop and subsistence agriculture, particularly in Latin America and Southeast Asia, where the production of beef, soy, palm oil and cocoa have led to 87 percent of all tree cover loss between 2001 and 2015, have an outsized impact on greenhouse gas emissions (FAO, 2016). …”
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