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Challenges and opportunities in applying genomic selection to ruminants owned by smallholder farmers by Burrow, H.M., Mrode, Raphael A., Okeyo Mwai, Ally, Coffey, M.P., Hayes, B.J.

“…Genomic selection has transformed animal and plant breeding in advanced economies globally, resulting in economic, social and environmental benefits worth billions of dollars annually. Although genomic selection offers great potential in low- to middle-income countries because detailed pedigrees are not required to estimate breeding values with useful accuracy, the difficulty of effective phenotype recording, complex funding arrangements for a limited number of essential reference populations in only a handful of countries, questions around the sustainability of those livestock- resource populations, lack of on-farm, laboratory and computing infrastructure and lack of human capacity remain barriers to implementation. …”
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Digital innovations: Using data and technology for sustainable food systems by Koo, Jawoo, Kramer, Berber, Langan, Simon J., Ghosh, Aniruddha, Monsalue, Andrea Gardeazabal, Luni, Tobias

“…In the United States, the number of days between billion-dollar weather-related disasters has fallen from more than 80 in the 1980s to just 18 in recent years. …”
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Agricultural productivity: A changing global harvest by Fuglie, Keith O., Nin-Pratt, Alejandro

“…In fact, at the global level, the long-run trend since at least 1900 has been one of increasing food abundance: in inflation-adjusted dollars, food prices fell by an average of 1 percent per year over the course of the 20th century (Figure 1). …”
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Indus basin of Pakistan: Impacts of climate risks on water and agriculture by Yang, Yi-Chen, Yu, Winston, Savitsky, Andre, Alford, Donald, Brown, Casey, Wescoat, James, Debowicz, Dario, Robinson, Sherman

“…Damages from this single flood event were estimated at US dollar 10 billion, half of which were losses in the agriculture sector. …”
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Incorporating project uncertainty in novel environmental biotechnologies: illustrated using phytoremediation by Linacre, Nicholas A., Whiting, Steven N., Angle, J. Scott

“…Pollution of the environment by metals and organic contaminants is an intractable global problem, with cleanup costs running into billions of dollars using current engineering technologies. The availability of alternative, cheap and effective technologies would significantly improve the prospects of cleaning-up metal contaminated sites. …”
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A good global investment for the United States: How investing in CGIAR makes America stronger, safer and more prosperous by Hill, Ruth Vargas, McNamara, Brian, Ringler, Claudia, Spielman, David J., Thurlow, James, Berrospi, Maria Lucia, Chambers, Judith A., Falck-Zepeda, José B., Gilligan, Daniel O., Glauber, Joseph W., Hernandez, Manuel A., Headey, Derek D., Hoffmann, Vivian, Kosec, Katrina, Martin, Will, Nia, Reza, Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, Piñeiro, Valeria, Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Vos, Rob, Zambrano, Patricia, Zhang, Wei

“…It has also helped prevent billions of dollars in potential damage from pests and diseases that threaten U.S. food security and farm livelihoods. …”
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International Cooperative Development of Techniques for Sustainability when Managing and Restoring Degraded Rangelands by Yespolov, Tlektes, Beksultanov, Marat, Strohmeier, Stefan, Haddad, Mira, Weltz, Mark, Nouwakpo, Sayjro, Spaeth, Kenneth, Burns, Ian, Arslan, Awadis, Toledo, David, Nesbit, Jason

“…Estimated annual costs of direct and indirect damage caused by soil erosion in the United States is $27 billion dollars. More than 50% of Asia and 70% of Middle Eastern rangelands are degraded. …”
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Técnicas de reducción de inóculo para controlar la moniliasis del cacao en Santander by Rodríguez Polanco, Eleonora

“…La importancia del sector cacaotero en Colombia está representada en 86.000 hectáreas con una producción de 49.000 toneladas y un valor cerca de {dollar}108.780 millones anuales, actividad de la cual dependen 25.000 familias y genera cerca de 7.9 millones de jornales al año. …”
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Outcome evaluation of climate-smart research on solar-powered irrigation in India by Shepherd, Keith D.

“…The main focus of the evaluation was on the solar power as a remunerative crop (SPaRC) model, also known as KUSUM-C under the multibillion-dollar Kisan Urja Shakti evam Utthan Mahabhiyan (KUSUM) initiative of the Government of India. …”
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Stay in the game: A randomized controlled trial of a sports and life skills program for vulnerable youth in Liberia by Beaman, Lori, Herskowitz, Sylvan, Keleher, Niall, Magruder, Jeremy

“…Thousands of organizations, millions of participants, and hundreds of millions of dollars are invested in sports-based development programs each year. …”
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Kenya: Recent developments in public agricultural research by Flaherty, Kathleen, Murithi, Festus M., Mulinge, Wellington, Njuguna, Esther

“…Since the early 1990s, public agricultural research and development (R&D) spending in Kenya has varied considerably from year to year, while agricultural research capacity showed a more stable trend.1 In 2008, Kenya spent 4.5 billion Kenyan shillings or 154 million PPP dollars (both in 2005 constant prices) on agricultural R&D. …”
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Agricultural growth as a key to poverty alleviation by Brown, Lynn R., Haddad, Lawrence J.

“…Over 1.1 billion people live in households that earn a dollar a day or less per person. Almost half of the population of South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa lives in absolute poverty; only East Asia has managed to substantially reduce the proportion of its population that is absolutely poor. …”
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The economic impact of productivity maintenance research: breeding for leaf rust resistance in modern wheat by Marasas, Carissa N., Smale, Melinda, Singh, R. P.

“…When discounted by 5%, the net present value was US$ 5.36 billion in 1990 dollars, and the benefit‐cost ratio was 27:l. These findings emphasise the economic importance of maintenance research in crop breeding programs.…”
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Implications of the food crisis for long-term agricultural development by Minot, Nicholas

“…These price hikes have been catalyzed by various factors including the rising cost of oil, biofuel subsidies in the US and Europe, the depreciation of the US dollar, the prolonged drought in Australia, and restrictions on the export of rice and wheat by various countries including Vietnam, India, Russia and Argentina. …”
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Anatomy of a crisis: The causes and consequences of surging food prices by Headey, Derek D., Fan, Shenggen

“…Some explanations turn out to hold up much better than others, especially rising oil prices, the depreciation of the U.S. dollar, biofuels demand, and some commodity‐specific explanations. …”
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1979 CGIAR Integrative Report by CGIAR Secretariat

“…TAC proposed budget reductions combined with technical adjustments were sufficient to almost eliminate the consequent funding gap.Under the heading of longer term planning, the report proposed a five year financial plan for the doubling in current dollars of the funds available to the CGIAR centers. …”
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Colombia: sanidad animal 1995. by Peña Beltrán, Nestor E., Urbina Amaris, Mairo E., Zúñiga Arce, Ismael

“…Las inversiones realizadas por parte del estado en el desarrollo de actividades orientadas a la prevención y control de enfermedades ascendieron a {dollar}7.030.000.000 y las realizadas por el sector privado en la sola compra y aplicación de vacuna antiaftosa fueron de {dollar}8.768.344.443. …”
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Genetic progress and economic benefit of community-based breeding programs for sheep out- and upscaling options in Ethiopia by Mueller, Joaquin Pablo, Haile, Aynalem, Getachew, Tesfaye, Rekik, Mourad, Rischkowsky, Barbara

“…Genetic progress in six-month weight and economic benefit in US dollars with a reference planning horizon (H) of 20 years and a discount rate (r) of 0.07 were calculated using gene flow techniques. …”
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Análisis de las pérdidas de peso en el ganado por movilización al mercado: Llanos Orientales - Costa Atlántica by Chudt López, L.A.

“…Las mermas de peso se presentaron con las pérdidas más importantes, en la Costa Atlántica estas fueron debidas por transporte y representaron un promedio de 27.2 kilos, mientras que para la región de los Llanos, fué de 24.9 kilos, el valor económico promedio de res-kilómetro fué {dollar}0.36 para la zona costeña y de {dollar}0.88 para los Llanos. …”
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A comparative analysis of technical efficiency and profitability of agribusiness and non-agribusiness enterprises in eastern DRC by Nyamuhirwa, D.A., Awotide, B.A., Kusinza, D.B., Bishikwabo, K., Mignouna, J., Bamba, Z., Dontsop Nguezet, Paul M.

“…The cost–benefit ratio shows that every dollar invested in agribusiness earns investors US $2.8, while it earns investors in non-agribusiness US $2.1. …”
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