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US farm policy and trade: The inconsistency continues por Glauber, Joseph W., Sumner, Daniel A.

“…These policies continue to transfer billions of dollars from taxpayers and consumers to farms and agribusinesses, distort crop prices in global markets, and expose the United States to challenges under WTO rules. …”
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Estimating the Reach of Biofortified Crops to Farm Households: The HarvestPlus Model vs. National Sampling and Genotyping in Uganda por Lybbert, Travis J., Stevenson, James R., Labarta, Ricardo

“…This is a topic of significant importance to CGIAR given the millions of dollars invested in developing and disseminating biofortified varieties over the past 15-20 years. …”
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Mastitis treatment in Karnataka: Results from a qualitative scoping survey por Hiremath, Arpita, Hoffmann, Vivian, Rao, Manaswini, Shenoy, Ashish

“…Bovine mastitis, inflammation of a cow’s mammary gland, is estimated to cost Indian dairy farmers approximately 1.5 billion US dollars each year through the reduction of milk production and quality (Banal and Gupta, 2009). …”
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Trading forest products in South-Eastern Zimbabwe: ecology, economics and politics of woodcarving por Standa-Gunda, W., Braedt, O.

“…The growth of the industry is primarily attributed to (a) the drought years, which forced people to seek alternative livelihood options; (b) the economic structural adjustment programme that devaluate the Zimbabwean dollar thereby attracting more foreign visitors while at the same time resulting in loss of jobs especially in the public sectors as subsidies were removed; (c) the collapse of apartheid in South Africa and the several years of domestic political stability in Zimbabwe, which led to a significant increase in tourist traffic between the two countries. …”
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Climate Smart Agriculture: More Than Technologies Are Needed to Move Smallholder Farmers Toward Resilient and Sustainable Livelihoods por Sullivan, Amy, Mwamakamba, Sithembile Ndema, Mumba, Aliness, Hachigonta, Sepo, Sibanda, Lindiwe Majele

“…Decades and hundreds of millions of dollars invested in research, development and technology transfer have not transformed African smallholders. …”
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Analyses of the poultry value chain and its linkages and interactions with HPAI risk factors in Nigeria por Akinwumi, J.A., Okike, Iheanacho, Bett, Bernard K., Randolph, Thomas F., Rich, Karl M.

“…The outbreaks affected 3,057 commercial and rural household farms causing 1.3 million of the country’s 160 million poultry to be destroyed at the cost of United States Dollars (USD) 5.4 m paid in compensation by the Government of Nigeria (Federal Department of Livestock [FDL], 2008). …”
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Cassava diseases: ecology and control por Legg, James P.

“…Most significantly, the dual cassava viral pandemics caused by cassava mosaic virus disease (CMD) and cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) have affected many of the major cassavaproducing countries in Africa, causing losses amounting to billions of dollars annually. Control programs have primarily focused on developing than deploying host plant resistance. …”
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Priorities for a global cassava research program to improve food security and incomes in developing countries: A survey of experts. por Rusike, Joseph, Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Kleinwechter, U., Creamer, Bernardo, Pemsl, Diemuth E., Kirscht, H., Hareau, Guy

“…This raises the need to identify how to best invest limited resources in order to generate the greatest impacts per dollar invested. The CRPRTB proposes a six stage process for setting priorities. …”
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Improved forages and milk production in East Africa. A case study in the series: Economic foresight for understanding the role of investments in agriculture for the global food sys... por Gonzáles, Carlos, Schiek, Benjamin E., Mwendia, Solomon W., Prager, Steven D.

“…Overall, the model output suggests that investment in a forages research program related to both the qualities of the forage itself as well as programs to enhance dissemination and adoption of new materials would be low risk and with high likelihood for positive outcome, generating discounted net benefits on the order of potentially tens of millions of dollars.…”
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Global seagrass carbon stock variability and emissions from seagrass loss por Krause, Johannes R., Cameron, Clint, Arias-Ortiz, Ariane, Cifuentes Jara, Miguel, y otros más

“…We estimate that seagrass carbon stocks at risk of degradation could emit 1,154 Tg (665 – 1699) CO2 with a social cost of $213 billion (2020 US dollars), if no action is taken to conserve these habitats.…”
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Scoping study report on: National food safety architecture of the horticulture value chain, Kenya por Kang'ethe, Erastus K., Muriuki, Samuel, Karugia, Joseph T., Guthiga, Paul M., Kirui, Leonard

“…It offers employment to over 6 million Kenyans and generates foreign exchange earnings in excess of one billion dollars (USD). This scoping study highlights the food safety control system architecture in the horticulture value chain. …”
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Institutionalization of the water-energy-food-environment nexus in the Niger Basin por Seidou, Ousmane, Ringler, Claudia, Kranefeld, Robert, Abdouramane, Gado Djibo, Traoré, Abdou Ramani, Ibraheem, Olomoda, Agossou, Gadedjisso-Tossou, Esaïe, Kpadonou Gbedehoue, Badou, Djigbo Félicien

“…Using the guidelines can reduce the threat of adverse impacts on the Basin’s shared water and land resources and save millions of dollars of investment funds, while meeting various Shared Vision objectives. …”
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Return on investment of the international potato center-led seed system interventions in Malawi por Feukeng, F.T., Otieno, D.J., Rajendran, S., Demo, P., Parker, M.

“…The basic return on investment found a US$ 6 to US$ 8 return considering a 6% and 12% discount rate, respectively for every dollar invested. Despite these positive results, further investments are needed in the seed production system for the early seed generations. …”
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Nourishing Millions: Stories of change in nutrition [All chapter presentations] por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Malnutrition costs the world trillions of dollars, but global commitment to improving people’s nutrition is on the rise, and so is our knowledge of how to do so. …”
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Bangladesh rice trade and price stabilization: Implications of the 2007/08 experience for public stocks por Dorosh, Paul A., Rashid, Shahidur

“…Import flows in these years generated an estimated total of 1.0 to 1.6 billion US dollars in consumer surplus for Bangladesh households but reduced producer surplus by a similar amount.…”
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The Analysis Pack for Economics of Land Degradation (APELD) por Yigezu, Yigezu

“…The third and last module estimates the cost of implementing the package of innovations over a given planning horizon (or planning period preferably of 10-20 years), the total discounted benefits of action over the entire planning period, and ultimately provides estimates of the returns on investment that are provided in the form of benefit:cost ratios – i.e., the monetary values of the returns on every dollar invested in combating LD. All three modules provide the disaggregated estimates for each province x biome x LD class combination as well as aggregates at LD class, biome, province, and national levels. …”
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Fiche technique USAID/Cinsere Climate Information Services for Increased Resilience and Productivity in Senegal por Dabo, Aissa, Taylor, Zach, Ouédraogo, Issa, Zougmoré, Robert B.

“…Dénommé Projet de Services d’Information Climatique pour Accroître la Résilience et la Productivité au Sénégal (USAID/CINSERE), il aura une enveloppe de 3,5 million de dollars US pour une durée de 3 ans (2016-2019). Le projet sera mis en œuvre par le programme CCAFS en étroite collaboration avec l’ANACIM et l’ISRA.…”
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Divergencias en la rentabilidad según estratos de productores de la región pampeana Argentina por Leavy, Sebastian

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Got forages? Understanding potential returns on investment in Brachiaria spp. for dairy producers in Eastern Africa por Schiek, Benjamin E., Gonzalez Rodriguez, Carlos Eduardo, Mwendia, Solomon W., Prager, Steven D.

“…Overall, the model output suggests that investment in a forages research program related to the qualities of the forage itself as well as programs to enhance dissemination and adoption of new materials would be low risk and have high likelihood for positive outcomes, generating discounted net benefits in the order of multiple tens of millions of dollars over a 30-year time horizon.…”
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Informe preliminar: Limitantes y oportunidades del proceso de adopción y difusión de tecnologías forrajeras en Colombia por Enciso, Karen, Triana Ángel, Natalia, Díaz, Manuel Francisco, Burkart, Stefan

“…The perspectives of national and international scientists and research programs, as well as of professionals of multimillion-dollar companies are integrated here. First, a description of improved forages is presented as innovation technology of consideration. …”
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