Search Results - "Decadence"

Evolving food value chains by Minten, Bart, Dereje, Mekdim, Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane, Tamru, Seneshaw

“…Ethiopia’s food systems are changing rapidly as high population growth, rapid urbanization, major infrastructure investments, and substantial income growth are leading to dietary, agricultural, and supply chain transformations. Over the past two decades, calorie consumption has risen, the share of starchy staples in the diet has fallen, and the shares of high-value products (such as animal-sourced foods, fruits and vegetables, processed convenience foods, and out-of-home food consumption) have risen. …”
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Agriculture and economic transformation in the Middle East and North Africa: A review of the past with lessons for the future by Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, El-Enbaby, Hoda, Figueroa, Jose Luis, ElDidi, Hagar, Breisinger, Clemens

“…More specifically, the report provides answers to the following questions: • What development strategies and policies did governments in MENA put in place over the past three decades and how did they affect the performance of agriculture? …”
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Proceedings of the workshop ‘Biofortified food - Working together to get more nutritious food to the table in India’ by Mitra-Ganguli, Tora, Boyd, Katrina, Uchitelle-Pierce, Benjamin, Walton, Jenny

“…HarvestPlus is the global leader in biofortification and has been leading biofortification efforts in India for nearly a decade. A workshop hosted by HarvestPlus was held in April 2019 in New Delhi to discuss ways to increase the scale, reach and impact of naturally nutritious (biofortified) foods in India by working in partnership with the food industry. …”
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Rice production and climate change in Northeast China: evidence of adaptation through land use shifts by Hu, Yanan, Fan, Lingling, Liu, Zhenhuan, Yu, Qiangyi, Liang, Shefang, Chen, Shi, You, Liangzhi, Wu, Wenbin, Yang, Peng

“…Rising RAT over the past three decades increased rice production by 4.44% (equal to a relative contribution of 0.87% to production growth) in NEC, while the majority of rice production growth (79.6%) resulted from increased agricultural inputs. …”
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Strategic public spending: Scenarios and lessons for Ghana by Aragie, Emerta A., Artavia, Marco, Pauw, Karl

“…Growth in Ghana during the last decade has not translated into meaningful benefits for rural households who experienced an increase in poverty in recent years. …”
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2016 IFPRI annual report by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…As part of the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition and in follow-up to the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), IFPRI participated in the International Symposium on Sustainable Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Improved Nutrition, which explored options for shaping food systems to deliver nutritious food for healthy diets. …”
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Characterizing 40-years of inter-regional migration in Southern Mauritania as a result of environmental changes by El Vilaly, Mohamed Abd Salam, El Vilaly, Audra, Mahe, Gil

“…The results also show distinctive interactions between vegetation dynamics, rainfall variations, and inter-regional migration during the last four decades: between 1977 and 1988, changes in rainfall bore the greatest impact on migration.…”
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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... by Nimmagadda, Sneha, Gopalakrishnan, Lakshmi, Avula, Rasmi, Dhar, Diva, Diamond-Smith, Nadia, Mani, Sneha, Menon, Purnima, Nguyen, Phuong Hong

“…Introduction -- Millions of children in India still suffer from poor health and under-nutrition, despite substantial improvement over decades of public health programmes. The Anganwadi centres under the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) provide a range of health and nutrition services to pregnant women, children <6 years and their mothers. …”
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Engaging nutrition stakeholders in Poyentanga: A case study on local-level multisector coordination by Billings, Lucy, Wullingdool, Emmanuel

“…There has been a strong effort in the past decade to establish multisector coordination at the national level among member states of the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement. …”
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Agricultural public expenditures, sector performance, and welfare in Nigeria: A state-level analysis by Mavrotas, George, Mogues, Tewodaj, Oyeyemi, Motunrayo, Smart, Jenny, Xiong, Zhe

“…We also find that agricultural expenditures are more capital intensive than are overall public expenditures at state level, but that capital expenditures as a share of total agriculture spending has decline over the last decade, as is the case overall in Nigeria’s industrial sectors. …”
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Determinants of chemical fertilizer use in Nepal: Insights based on price responsiveness and income effects by Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Adhikari, Rajendra Prasad, Kaphle, Basu Dev, Shivakoti, Sabnam, Kumar, Anjani

“…Although overall chemical fertilizer use has grown steadily in Nepal in the past two decades, much of that growth has occurred in the Terai agroecological belt while use has stagnated in the Hills and the Mountains regions. …”
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Empowerment, adaptation, and agricultural production: Evidence from Niger by Wouterse, Fleur

“…Although productivity in Niger has shown a positive trend, agriculture has been strongly affected in recent decades by several crises partly or entirely due to extreme weather events. …”
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Evaluating nutrition-sensitive programs: Challenges, methods, and opportunities by Leroy, Jef L., Olney, Deanna K., Ruel, Marie T.

“…By doing so, we hope that the evidence gap in nutrition-sensitive programming, which has characterized the past decades of development, will quickly be filled and that future investments will benefit from a strong body of evidence on what works to improve nutrition, how it works, and at what cost.…”
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Findings across agricultural public expenditure reviews in African countries by Mink, Stephen D.

“…This paper examines whether the consensus reached by the late 2000s among African Union member countries and their external partners on the need to reverse the decades-long decline in spending for essential public goods and services in agriculture has begun to result inimproved levels and quality of national expenditure programs for the sector. …”
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Policies for improved land management and agricultural market development in the Ethiopian highlands by Pender, J.L., Ruben, R., Jabbar, M.A., Gabre-Madhin, E.Z.

“…IFPRI has worked for more than a decade in Ethiopia studying the root causes of the interrelated problems of famine, rural poverty, low agricultural productivity and natural resource degradation, and helping to identify strategies and policies to overcome these problems. …”
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Strong democracy, weak state: The political economy of Ghana’s stalled structural transformation by Resnick, Danielle

“…This paper addresses this question by focusing on Ghana, which has achieved sustained economic growth in recent decades and is broadly lauded for its environment of political pluralism, respect for human rights, free and fair elections, and vocal civil society. …”
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A review on nitrogen flows and obstacles to sustainable nitrogen management within the Lake Victoria Basin, East Africa by Masso, Cargele, Gweyi-Onyango, J., Luoga, H.P., Yemefack, M., Vanlauwe, Bernard

“…The population in the catchment is growing rapidly and the lake is facing several environmental problems. During the past few decades, numerous efforts have been made across the five countries, with the coordination of the Lake Victoria Basin Commission (LVBC) to reduce the loading of reactive nitrogen (Nr) into the lake and Lake Watershed. …”
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Commercializing dairy and forage systems in Ethiopia: An innovation systems perspective by Lemma, T., Puskur, Ranjitha, Hoekstra, Dirk, Tegegne, Azage

“…Two factors triggered the need for understanding the innovation systems: Ethiopian dairy subsector has not been able to take-off despite decades of research and development efforts; and the context for the subsector development is changing. …”
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Can Growth Monitoring and Promotion (GMP) improve child growth and development? A critical review of the epidemiological foundations by Leroy, Jef L., Larson, Leila M., Brander, Rebecca L., Frongillo, Edward A., Ruel, Marie T., Avula, Rasmi

“…Objectives: GMP programs have been globally implemented for many decades, but the epidemiological foundations of GMP have never been reviewed. …”
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Is small still beautiful? a comparative study of rice farm size and productivity in China and India by Wang, Jianying, Chen, Kevin Z., Das Gupta, Sunipa, Huang, Zuhui

“…Few studies address this issue for China, and those that do only with outdated data sets poorly representing the current situation after the past decade of rapid change, which includes the rapid development of land rental markets, village labor out-migration and use of farm machines. …”
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