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Extreme weather is disrupting lives in southern Africa: New policies are needed to keep the peace by Maviza, Gracsious, Gadu, Siyaxola

“…Over the past decades, heavy and more frequent rainfall and dry spells in southern Africa have caused loss and damage to agriculture, livestock, the energy sector, food security and nutrition. …”
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Changing patterns of variability in cereal prices and production by Hazell, Peter B. R.

“…The substantial growth in world cereal production of the past two and onehalf decades has been accompanied by a widening band of variability around the trend. …”
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Public stock management by Disamwalla, Ammar

“…The problems and issues raised by this intervention have been analyzed in a number of studies made during the last decade. An understanding of the role that stocks can play for a commodity can be obtained from the following simple identity between aggregate supply and demand.…”
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Beyond yields: A systems approach is essential for reconciling agriculture and biodiversity by Beillouin, Damien, Jones, Sarah, Rapidel, Bruno, Estrada-Carmona, Natalia

“…We challenge the notion that managing agricultural land solely to optimize yields can halt or reverse the decline of biodiversity. Decades of yield-centric agriculture, divorced from ecological and social concerns, have proven inadequate.…”
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Assessment of Functional AgroBiodiversity in Swedish apple orchards : Field trials and participatory action research by Stranak, Michal

“…The rate of biodiversity loss has in the last decades increased by rates unseen in the history of the humankind. …”

The energy-irrigation nexus in Bangladesh: implications of rapid rural electrification on informal groundwater markets by Varshney, Deepak, Banerjee, Anurag, Chakraborty, Shreya, Mukherji, Aditi

“…This brief provides a summary of research and findings on the impacts of rapid rural electrification in Bangladesh on the informal water markets during the last decade and how these markets in turn have affected irrigation access among smallholder farmers. …”
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The Ecology of Poverty: Nutrition, Parasites, and Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS by Stillwaggon, Eileen

“…HIV/AIDS continues to spread throughout the developing world, in transition countries, and among poor and marginalized populations in industrialized countries. In its third decade, and even with increased resources, global AIDS policy is still failing to stem the epidemic. …”
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Scaling up Multisectoral Approaches to Combating HIV and AIDS by Gillespie, Stuart, Kadiyala, Suneetha, Binswanger-Mkhize, Hans P.

“…The AIDS pandemic is a global crisis with impacts that will be felt for decades to come, demanding massive responses at many levels. …”
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Complete Genome Sequences of Six Copper-Resistant Xanthomonas Strains Causing Bacterial Spot of Solaneous Plants, Belonging to X. gardneri, X. euvesicatoria, and X. vesicatoria, Us... by Richard, Damien, Boyer, Claudine, Lefeuvre, Pierre, Canteros, Blanca Isabel, Beni-Madhu, Shyam, Portier, Perrine, Pruvost, Olivier

“…The first copper-resistant strains were reported some decades later. Here, we fully sequenced six Xanthomonas strains pathogenic to tomato and/or pepper and having a copper-resistant phenotype.…”
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Distribution of macro and micronutrients in ´Rojo Brillante' persimmon and its influence on fruit quality by Vilhena, Nariane Q., Quinones, Ana, Fernández-Serrano, Paula, Salvador, Alejandra

“…The cultivation of Persimmon cv Rojo Brillante in Spain has exponentially growth for the last two decades. The nutritional requirements can vary among persimmon varieties and for "Rojo Brillante" there are no studies that relate the nutrient status with fruit quality parameters. …”
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Meeting the challenges facing wheat production: The strategic research agenda of the Global Wheat Initiative by Langridge, Peter, Alaux, Michael, Almeida, Nuno Felipe, Ammar, Karim, Baum, Michael, Bekkaoui, Faouzi, Bentley, Alison R., Beres, Brian L., Berger, Bettina, Braun, Hans-Joachim, Brown-Guedira, Gina, Burt, Christopher James, Caccamo, Mario Jose, Cattivelli, Luigi, Charmet, Gilles, Civáň, Peter, Cloutier, Sylvie, Cohan, Jean-Pierre, Devaux, Pierre, Doohan, Fiona M., Dreccer, M. Fernanda, Ferrahi, Moha, German Faedo, Silvia Elisa, Goodwin, Stephen B., Griffiths, Simon, Guzmán García, Carlos, Handa, Hirokazu, Hawkesford, Malcolm John, He Zhonghu, Huttner, Eric, Ikeda, Tatsuya M., Kilian, Benjamin, King, Ian Philip, King, Julie, Kirkegaard, John, Lage, Jacob, Gouis, Jacques Le, Mondal, Suchismita, Mullins, Ewen, Ordon, Frank, Ortíz Monasterio, Jose Iván, Özkan, Hakan, Öztürk, Ifran, Pereyra, Silvia A., Pozniak, Curtis J., Quesneville, Hadi, Quincke, Martin C., Rebetzke, Greg John, Reif, Jochen Christoph, Saavedra Bravo, Teresa, Schurr, Ulrich, Sharma, Shivali, Singh, Sanjay Kumar, Singh, Ravi P., Snape, John, Tadesse, Wuletaw, Hisashi Tsujimoto, Tuberosa, Roberto, Willis, Tim G., Zhang, Xueyong

“…Innovations in wheat breeding and agronomy have delivered enormous gains over the past few decades, with the average global yield increasing from just over 1 tonne per hectare in the early 1960s to around 3.5 tonnes in the past decade. …”
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Alternative seafood: Assessing food, nutrition and livelihood futures of plant-based and cell-based seafood by Marwaha, Nisha, Beveridge, Malcolm C. M., Phillips, Michael J., Komugisha, Basiita Rose, Boso, Delvene, Chan, Chin Yee, Kabir, Kazi Ahmed, Sulser, Timothy B., Wiebe, Keith D.

“…Together with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), we developed preliminary future growth scenarios for the plant- and cell-based seafood subsectors over the next decade. These were used to explore how their projected growth might impact global seafood supply and demand and to examine the utility of the International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT) in informing decision-making and prioritizing research.…”
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Sustainable management of black soils: from practices to policies by Fontana, Ademir, Klimanov, Anatoly, Loss, Arcangelo, Clerici, Carlos, Wei, Fan, Qu, Jianhua, Carfagno, Patricia, Baron, Vern, Liu, Xiaoyu, Chen, Xueli, Labaz, Beata

“…In the coming decades, a crucial challenge for humanity will be meeting future food demands without further undermining the integrity of the Earth’s environmental systems. …”
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National report of Ghana. by Nutsukpo, D.K., Amoah, Philip

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Planificación y manejo de los recursos silvestres en América Central: estrategia para una década crítica by MacFarland, C., Morales, R.

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Chapter 19: New horizons: Nutrition in the 21st century [Nourishing Millions] by Gillespie, Stuart, Hodge, Judith, Pandya-Lorch, Rajul, White, Jessica, Yosef, Sivan

“…BY WEAVING STORIES together with analysis and description in this book, we have sought to convey the variety of experiences in tackling malnutrition in different contexts throughout the past five decades. This narrative approach is intended to help the reader translate an experience into his or her own context, showing many examples of what can be done and how success can be achieved. …”
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“The future ain’t what it used to be”: World growth and global governance by Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio

“…Here I focus on just one aspect of that broader discussion: what should we expect of global economic growth in the next decade or so, considering that the challenges for national and global governance would be different depending on the type and pace of world economic growth.…”
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New horizons: Nutrition in the 21st century by Gillespie, Stuart, Hodge, Judith, Pandya-Lorch, Rajul, White, Jessica, Yosef, Sivan

“…BY WEAVING STORIES together with analysis and description in this book, we have sought to convey the variety of experiences in tackling malnutrition in different contexts throughout the past five decades. This narrative approach is intended to help the reader translate an experience into his or her own context, showing many examples of what can be done and how success can be achieved. …”
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Increasing access to infrastructure for Africa's rural poor by Torero, Máximo, Chowdhury, Shyamal

“…In infrastructure development, Africa has lagged behind the Western Hemisphere for centuries, even trailing Latin America in recent decades.…”
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Synopsis: The changing demographics in food systems and implications for future youth engagement in Rwanda by Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane, Mawia, Harriet, Niyonsingiza, Josue

“…This study documents the trends in FS employment in the past two decades observed in Rwanda, focusing on changes in the demographic structure and inclusiveness of FS employment.…”
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