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Knowledge, preferences and willingness to pay for coffee sustainability attributes in Honduran consumers by Mamani E., Brenda A.

“…Additionally, a within-subject design was used to report the results from the dictator game. The results suggested that Honduran consumers pay attention and are acquainted with sustainability attributes in coffee, even when they do not always understand them. …”
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The adoption of improved agricultural technologies: A meta-analysis for Africa by Arslan, Aslihan, Floress, Kristin, Lamanna, Christine, Lipper, Leslie, Asfaw, Solomon, Rosenstock, Todd S.

“…Eleven determinants, primarily those related to information access, wealth indicators and tenure security, are found to increase adoption more than chance would dictate in the literature. Our findings provide evidence to support recommendations for future policy and research.…”
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Unmasking gender disparities in cocoa farming: the case of female land ownership in the Ashanti and western north regions of Ghana by Buabeng, K., Lohr, K., Asare, R., Sieber, S.

“…Marital status and the mode of acquiring lands are very important factors that dictate ownership and sole ownership of land. While the results show the importance of land as a resource that can enhance women's agricultural productivity, it also highlights that policies to reduce gender inequality in agriculture by advancing land rights are needed.…”
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Feminization of agriculture in China?: Myths surrounding women's participation in farming by de Brauw, Alan, Li, Qiang, Liu, Chengfang, Rozelle, Scott, Zhang, Linxiu

“…Policies that ensure equal access to land, regulations that dictate open access to credit, and economic development strategies that encourage competitive and efficient markets all contribute to an environment in which women farmers can succeed.…”
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Gender mainstreaming: who wins?: gender and irrigated urban vegetable production in West Africa by Drechsel, Pay, Hope, Lesley, Cofie, Olufunke O.

“…Male farmers, on the other hand, feel significantly oppressed by their dependency on credit and prices dictated by market women, and feel disadvantaged when entering the vegetable retail market. …”
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Unpacking the agroclimatic challenges and determinants of sweetpotato seed conservation and multiplication strategies by smallholder farmers in Southern Ethiopia by Biazin, B., Low, Jan W., McEwan, M., Brouwer, R., Cherinet, M., Aragaw, A.

“…Conservation practices were dictated by farming system and agroecological conditions. …”
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Are rural smallholders ready for agricultural digitalization? Farmer (In)competencies and the political economy of access in digital agricultural extension and advisories in Northe... by Abdulai, Abdul-Rahim

“…This work empirically contributes to the nascent agricultural digitalization literature as it critically positions the challenges to inclusive digitalization within broader political-economic structures dictating digital inequities.…”
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The yak by Wiener, G., Ruijun, L., Han Jianlin

“…Traditionally, yak are managed in a transhumance system dictated by the seasons, but since the 1990s this system has been breaking down as herders are given ownership of animals and rights to parcels of rangeland. …”
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Precision enzyme discovery through targeted mining of metagenomic data by Ariaeenejad, Shohreh, Gharechahi, Javad, Foroozandeh Shahraki, Mehdi, Fallah Atanaki, Fereshteh, Han Jianlin, Ding, Xue-Zhi, Hildebrand, Falk, Bahram, Mohammad, Kavousi, Kaveh, Hosseini Salekdeh, Ghasem

“…The catalytic properties of all enzymes are primarily dictated by their structures, which are predominantly determined by their amino acid sequences. …”
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Banking systems, capital markets, and financing the transformation of food systems: The role of macroeconomics, regulations, and incentives by Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio, Zandstra, Tamsin

“…Public policy cannot dictate directly how those private actors act (for instance, governments cannot mandate that consumers must eat healthy diets), but it can influence those decisions through adequate macroeconomic, regulatory, and incentive frameworks. …”
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Measuring norms and beliefs about gender-based violence among adolescent girls and young women in rural Senegal: Psychometric validation in a novel population and setting by Heckert, Jessica, Dione, Malick, Hidrobo, Melissa, Peterman, Amber, Le Port, Agnes, Seye, Moustapha

“…Norms (i.e., the societal expectations and rules that dictate acceptable behavior in a given context) that consider GBV acceptable in its various forms perpetuate GBV by reinforcing its acceptability. …”
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Genetic resources and genomics for adaptation of livestock to climate change by Hoffmann, I., Baumung, R., Drucker, Adam G., McManus, C., Berg, P., Stella, A., Nilsen, L.B., Moran, D., Naves, M., Thompson, M.C.

“…Demand for animal products is foreseen to increase significantly in the future while competition for resources will intensify, dictating that livestock systems must increase both productivity and efficiency. …”
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One Health ethics: The need for policy before research and action by Cooper, Tarni L., Kirino, Y., Alonso, Silvia, Lindahl, Johanna F., Nga T.H. Le, Grace, Delia

“…We describe the high rate of consent received in livestock research projects, raising questions around legitimacy, and outline a study to improve comprehension and engagement in the informed consent process for livestock keepers. Beneficence dictates that benefits to research participants are maximized. …”
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Priorización de áreas para el pago por servicios ambientales (PSA) en Costa Rica by Imbach, Pablo A.

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Priority areas for payment for environmental services (PES) in Costa Rica by Imbach, Pablo A.

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Citrus pests in a global world by Urbaneja, Alberto, Grout, Tim G., Gravena, Santin, Wu, Fengnian, Cen, Yijing, Stansly, Philip A.

“…Another major factor determining the exigencies of citrus pest management is the fresh vs process fruit dichotomy, which dictates the level of control required to produce a saleable product. …”
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International law of relevance to plant genetic resources: A practical review for scientists and other professionals working with plant genetic resources by Bragdon, S., International Plant Genetic Resources Institute

“…And yet, at the end of the day it is clear that nations and people are interdependent for plant genetic resources. This simple fact dictates that we cooperate to ensure the conservation of PGRFA and its orderly management, including the facilitation of access and fair benefit sharing. …”
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Hydrogeological characterization of crystalline aquifer in the Hout River Catchment, Limpopo Province, South Africa by Abiye, T. A., Tshipala, D., Leketa, K., Villholth, Karen G., Ebrahim, Girma Yimer, Magombeyi, Manuel Simba, Butler, M.

“…Groundwater flow map shows a flow pattern from the southern part of the catchment towards the north-eastern part of the catchment dictated by dolerite dykes and tectonic lineaments that trend in the ENE and E direction (088° and 075°) with the dip angle of 50° to 55°. …”
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Climate change mitigation in forests: Conflict, peacebuilding, and lessons for climate security - Position Paper by Myers, Rodd, Luttrell, Cecilia, Harjanthi, Rahayu, Fisher, Micah R., Menton, Mary, Läderach, Peter R.D., Wollenberg, Eva Karoline

“…Forests have complex governance contexts and are prone to conflict due to histories of colonization and ongoing resource extraction that lead to disputes over who has authority to make decisions, how different actors are compensated, and whose priorities and claims dictate actions in forest areas. CCMIs related to forests are often inserted into these long-standing conflicts. …”
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The effect of land access on youth employment and migration decisions: Evidence from rural Ethiopia by Kosec, Katrina, Ghebru, Hosaena, Holtemeyer, Brian, Mueller, Valerie, Schmidt, Emily

“…Overall, these results affirm the importance of push factors in dictating occupation and migration decisions in Ethiopia.…”
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