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Identifying Opportunities and Challenges for Creating a Climate-Smart Food System in Vietnam by Baruah, Sampriti, Mohanty, Samarendu

“…Since Vietnam’s economy continues to grow with doubling of GDP in the next decade, per capita rice consumption both in urban and rural and across different income will continue to decline.…”
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The development of key national policies with respect to rainwater management in Ethiopia: A review by Ethiopian Economics Association

“…Several national economic and sectoral policies and strategies were developed, adopted and being implemented over the last couple of decades in Ethiopia. These policies and strategies provide frameworks and guides for economic management in a wide range of aspects. …”
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Creating markets for orphan crops: Bioversity International supports marketing link in food value chain by Bioversity International

“…These plant species and varieties are often highly nutritious, locally adapted and highly resilient crops that, for a variety of reasons, have been left out of the agricultural advances of recent decades, neglected by scientists who concentrate on only a few major staples and no longer used by farmers. …”
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An Introduction to the climate-smart agriculture papers by Rosenstock, Todd S., Rohrbach, David, Nowak, Andreea C., Girvetz, Evan Hartunian

“…Over the last decade, international concerns about climate change have stimulated broad investment in the pursuit of agriculture that is more climate-smart. …”
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Livestock CRP Vietnam 2019-2021 Site selection process by Douxchamps, Sabine, Teufel, Nils, Nguyen Thinh, Hung Nguyen-Viet, Poole, Elizabeth J.

“…While poverty rates have reduced rapidly over the past decade at national level, there remain sizable pockets of poverty at regional level, particularly in North-West, Central Highlands and Mekong Delta regions. …”
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Endophytic animations to blossom sub-Saharan agriculture by Kaushal, M.

“…Considering economically and feasibility terms of food security for small holder farmers, an urgent switching on alternative is a compulsion. From decades, endophytic microbiome has been linked to host for improved production and maintenance of plant health. …”
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Public food procurement as a game changer for food system transformation by Swensson, Luana, Hunter, Danny, Tartanac, Florence, Schneider, Sergio

“…The last decade has seen various countries, regions, and cities from low-income to high-income economies develop public food procurement (PFP) initiatives designed to use government purchasing power and regular demand for food as a policy instrument to promote sustainable development. …”
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Agroforestry-Based Ecosystem Services by Noordwijk, M. van

“…The Sustainable Development Goals have called attention to the need for the multifunctionality of landscapes that simultaneously contribute to multiple goals. In the UN decade of landscape restoration, as well as in response to the climate change urgency and biodiversity extinction crisis, an increase in global tree cover is widely seen as desirable, but its management by farmers or forest managers remains contested. …”
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Diverse Options Exist for Securing Sustainable Feedstock for Charcoal in the Global South by Mwampamba, T.H., Njenga, M., Doggart, N., Meshack, C., Dahdouh-Guebas, F., Satyanarayana, B.

“…In Africa alone, which produces 65% of global production, an estimated 195million people are engaged in the production of firewood and charcoal. Despite decades of efforts to transition away from charcoal, consumption is growing and expected to increase in the foreseeable future as it continues to be the most affordable, accessible and preferred cooking fuel. …”
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Taro in west Africa: status, challenges, and opportunities by Oladimeji, J.J., Kumar, P. Lava, Abe, A., Vetukuri, R.R., Bhattacharjee, Ranjana

“…However, West Africa (WA), which has been a major producer of the crop for several decades, is experiencing a significant decline in production as a result of taro leaf blight (TLB), a disease caused by Phytophthora colocasiae Raciborski. …”
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Policy Roundtable on Agri-Food Transformation and Doubling Farmers’ Income in Odisha by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The challenges faced by these farmers have been exacerbated in the last few decades due to climate change which has resulted in an increased intensity as well as frequency of adverse weather events. …”
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Key facts series: Key facts sheet on inequality by Hami, Emmanuel

“…Across a wide range of inequality measures, survey data measure lower levels of inequality in 2019/20 compared to a decade earlier in 2010/11. The latest survey data put Malawi’s Gini Coefficient at 0.38. …”
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Collaborative Forest Management in Uganda: Policy, implementation, and longevity by Egunyu, F.

“…Collaborative Forest Management (or CFM) has been undertaken in Uganda to address the serious loss of forest that has taken place over recent decades. CFM is seen to provide forest-adjacent communities a chance to participate in and benefit from forest management. …”
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Banana bunchy top virus threat to African bananas by Kumar, P. Lava

“…Since the first report in the 1960s, the virus has spread to 17 countries, eight of those in the last decade, including a recent spread in Uganda and Tanzania. …”
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The Rigor Revolution in Impact Assessment: Implications for CGIAR by Stevenson, James R., Macours, K., Gollin, D.

“…This synthesis study highlights major changes in methodology and standards of evidence in impact assessment that have taken place over the past decade, taking as its starting point the publication of the landmark report When will we ever learn? …”
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Local to national: Thailand’s Integrated Nutrition Program [Nourishing Millions] by Gillespie, Stuart, Tontisirin, Kraisid, Zseleczky, Laura

“…THAILAND REDUCED CHILD undernutrition by more than half within one decade—an achievement recognized by the nutrition community as one of the best examples of a successful national nutrition program. …”
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Championing nutrition: Effective leadership for action [Nourishing Millions] by Nisbett, Nicholas, Wach, Elise, Haddad, Lawrence James, El Arifeen, Shams, Reddin, Samantha, Gatellier, Karine, Covic, Namukolo, Drimie, Scott, Harris, Jody, Yosef, Sivan

“…THE CALLS FOR strong leadership in the fight against global and national malnutrition have multiplied during the past decade. The role of nutrition champions in advocating for nutrition, formulating policies, and coordinating and implementing action in nutrition have increasingly been recognized in such countries as Peru, Brazil, Thailand, and the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra. …”
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Editorial : Model organisms in plant science : Maize by Butron, Ana, Santiago, Rogelio, Gowda, Manje

“…Therefore, this Research Topic aimed (1) to put forward the importance of research focuses in maize as a model organism, presenting recent developments and important accomplishments in moving forward the study of plants, and (2) to shed light on the progress made in the past decade working with maize as an important crop used worldwide.…”
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Analysis of a National Biosafety system: Regulatory Policies and Procedures in Argentina by Burachik, M., Traynor, Patricia L.

“…Biosafety is achieved by assessing and managing environmental and health risks of new technologies, evaluating the potential ecological and health consequences, and weighing these against potential benefits. During the past decade, national biosafety systems have gained importance as mechanisms for ensuring the safe use of biotechnology products without imposing unacceptable risk to human health or the environment, or unintended constraints to technology transfer. …”
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The Great Wall of Surajpura by Srivastava, Roli

“…The soil even today appears loose but the wall passed its strength test last year when it arrested rainwater runoffs, and the trench channelled the water to parched farms in the drought-prone region, reviving them for the first time in over two decades. ​For the 650 residents of this village in the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan, who toiled on the wall for six months in 2022, it is nothing short of an architectural marvel. …”
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