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Rural clean energy access: Accelerating climate resilience by Ringler, Claudia, Belete, Alebachew Azezew, Mathetsa, Steven Matome, Uhlenbrook, Stefan

“…According to a recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, annual investments of US$2.4 trillion (2010 dollars) in energy systems are needed to limit global warming to 1.5°C. …”
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Types, levels and causes of post-harvest milk and dairy losses in sub-Saharan Africa and the Near East: Phase two synthesis report by Lore, Tezira A., Omore, Amos O., Staal, Steven J.

“…Based on the dry season rapid appraisal data, the total value of post-harvest milk losses per year amounted 9.9, 14.2, 17.8 and 23.9 million US dollars for Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda, respectively. …”
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Programa de producción de sorgo: 1972-1975. by Quintero, Mario, Vélez, Eduardo, Mejía, Javier, Valle E, Augusto del, Tarazona Sepúlveda, Jorge, García, James, París Navarro, Rafael, Chacón, Eduardo, González, José Vicente, Cassalett Dávila, Clímaco

“…Los precios de 1970 - 1971 disminuyeron de {dollar}1.320/ton a {dollar}1.200 en promedio. El consumo aparente del sorgo durante 1962 - 1971 ha aumentado en 248000 ton. …”
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Producción y comercio internacional del frijol de soya. by López Forero, M. T, García Gutiérrez, E.

“…En el año 2003 los precios de contado de la soya producida en América del Sur oscilaron entre {dollar}285,7 y {dollar}342,7 dólares por tonelada métrica. …”
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Producción, ensilaje, ripiado y secado de la caña de azúcar para fincas ganaderas ajuste y transferencia de tecnología en la Región del Caribe, Llanos Orientales y Magdalena Medio by Albarracín Calderón, Luis Carlos

“…El costo de la energía metabolizable (mega caloría) en la caña seca es menor que en la melaza: para reemplazar 1Kg. de melaza ({dollar}800) se requiere 1,3 Kg. de caña seca (1,3x{dollar}207), lo cual representa un beneficio económico para el productor. …”
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Estudio del mercado del almidón de yuca en Valledupar, Riohacha y Barranquilla. by Mora J, G.E., Olazabal B, M.

“…Se indica que el precio pagado por el almidón, al por mayor o al detal en Valledupar es bastante alto, este varía entre {dollar}64 y {dollar}70/kg de almidón por el intermedioario del 35 por ciento de comercialización captado por el intermediario del 35 por ciento del precio pagado por el consumidor, el márgen neto de comercialización asciende a 37 por ciento para mayorista y un 28 por ciento para minorista. …”
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When power plants leave town: Environmental quality and the housing market in China by Deng, Guoying, Hernandez, Manuel A., Xu, Shu

“…The estimated monthly aggregate effect of the closures on the local housing market is over 50 million US dollars during the first 2 years after the relocations.…”
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Learning in times of lockdown: How Covid-19 is affecting education and food security in India by Alvi, Muzna, Gupta, Manavi

“…However, the education sector has remained absent from this effort, including in India’s central government’s 250 billion dollar stimulus package. In this paper, we discuss the implications of lockdown-induced school and rural child-care center closures on education and health outcomes for the urban and rural poor. …”
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Moving out of agriculture: Structural change in Viet Nam by McCaig, Brian, Pavcnik, Nina

“…These changes catapulted Viet Nam out of the poorest quintile of countries (ahead of Cambodia and Bangladesh, but behind Laos and Kenya) in 1986, when its GDP per capita in PPP (2005 international dollars) was around only $800. At that point, the highly agrarian nature of Viet Nam’s economy placed it in the top quintile of countries with the largest share of agriculture in GDP and among the top 10 percent of countries with the highest share of workers in agriculture throughout the 1990s.…”
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United States agricultural policy: Its evolution and impact by Glauber, Joseph W., Effland, Anne

“…And while many would argue that the form and function of today’s agricultural programs are less distortionary than before, the level of support provided to the sector is several billion dollars annually.…”
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Progress in understanding Pseudocercospora banana pathogens and the development of resistant Musa germplasm by Alakonya, A.E., Kimunye, J., Mahuku, George S., Amah, D., Uwimana, Brigitte, Brown, A., Swennen, Rony L.

“…Banana and plantain (Musa spp.) are important food crops in tropical and subtropical regions of the world where they generate millions of dollars annually to both subsistence farmers and exporters. …”
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Mesure, notification et vérification de l’agriculture intelligente face au climat: changement de perspective, changement de possibilités ? Conclusions de l’auto-évaluation national... by Rosenstock, Todd S., Wilkes, Andreas, Nowak, Andreea C., Akamandisa, Vincent M., Bondo, Austin, Kimaro, Anthony A., Lucas, Irene, Makoko, Kondwani, Masikati, Patricia, Malozo, Mponda, Morongwe, Sepa, Ngwira, Gomezyani, Njoloma, Joyce, Nyoka, Isaac, Pedzisa, Tarisayi, Shoo, Aikande, Temu, Emmanuel, Fay, John

“…Depuis 2009, des milliards de dollars ont été investis dans des programmes d’AIC dans le but d’aider les petits exploitants à augmenter leur productivité tout en s’adaptant aux changements climatiques et en contribuant à les atténuer. …”
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Battling a killer cattle disease by International Livestock Research Institute

“…Trypanosomiasis is a wasting disease of livestock that maims and eventually kills millions of cattle in Africa and costs farmers billions of dollars annually. In 2011, a group of geneticists at the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya, and other institutes in the UK identified two genes that enable Africa's ancient N'Dama cattle breed to resist development of the disease trypanosomiasis when infected with the causative, trypanosome, parasite. …”
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Economic benefits and returns to rural feeder roads by Stifel, David, Minten, Bart, Koru, Bethlehem

“…Using a quasi-experimental setting, we find that the benefits of reducing transportation costs by 50 US dollars per metric ton of goods (agricultural surplus, purchased consumption goods, purchased agricultural inputs) would result in benefits worth roughly 35 percent of household consumption. …”
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Guinea: Recent developments in agricultural research by Stads, Gert-Jan, Béavogui, Famoï, Diawara, Sékou

“…In 2008, the country employed 229 full-time equivalent (FTE) agricultural researchers, and public agricultural R&D expenditures totaled 3.9 billion Guinean francs or 3.2 million PPP dollars (both in constant 2005 prices), which is well below the levels recorded in the 1980s. …”
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The GAPVU cash transfer program in Mozambique: an assessment by Datt, Gaurav, Payongayong, Ellen, Garrett, James L., Ruel, Marie T.

“…Although the mean transfer amount is just over a dollar per capita per month, it still represents about 13 percent of the beneficiaries' per capita consumption. …”
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1982 CGIAR Integrative Report by CGIAR Secretariat

“…Part II described an environment characterized by declining growth in contributions by existing donors, fewer new donors coming aboard, persistent inflation, and the impact of the strong US dollar on the value of contributions in other denominations. …”
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Cassava varietal improvement in Vietnam by Tran Ngoc Ngoan, Tran Ngoc Quyen, Trinh Phuong Loan, Kawano, Kazuo

“…The additional economic benefit resulting from adoption of the new cultivars was estimated to have reached 0.95 million US dollars in 1995 and is expected to reach 5 million US dollars in 1996. …”
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Grönt ljus för gröna kemikalier? Pilotstudie om hållbar etylenoxid by Ingmar, Erik

“…Resultaten visar, givet vissa grundläggande ekonomiska antaganden, att en etylenoxidfabrik kan anläggas för 20,2 miljoner dollar. Känslighetsanalysen visar att grundinvesteringen varierar mellan 9,3–41,5 miljoner dollar. …”

OOPS: The Ontology of Plant Stress: A semi-automated standardization methodology by Meier A., Laporte, Marie-Angélique, Elser J., Cooper L., Preece, J., Jaiswal, P., Poolen, J.

“…Massive amounts of research dollars are spent generating data to combat plant diseases and environmental stress. …”
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