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Assessing the impacts of COVID-19 on the coffee value chain in Guatemala: Evidence from coffee growers in the Midwest and East by Hernandez, Manuel A., Ceballos, Francisco, Paz, Cynthia, Berrospi, Maria Lucia

“…Coffee is produced by around 25 million farmers, which are mainly smallholders in developing and least developed countries, and over 70% of the coffee produced is exported, resulting in about 20 billion US dollars annual foreign exchange earnings (ICO, 2020). …”
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La crise économique en Asie: signifie-t-elle une régression de la croissance et une progression de la pauvreté à l'avenir? by Rosegrant, Mark W., Ringler, Claudia

“…Entre Ie second semestre de 1997 et Ie printemps de 1998, les monnaies de cinq de ces pays (Coree du Sud, Indonesie, Malaisie, Philippines et Thariande) ont chute de 40 a 80% par rapport au dollar americain, precipitant une crise economique et financiere dont les effets a longue echeance sont incertains.…”
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A good global investment for Canada: How investing in CGIAR reduces global poverty and benefits Canadian citizens by Hill, Ruth Vargas, Martin, Will, McNamara, Brian, Nia, Reza, Spielman, David J., Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Vos, Rob

“…It has also helped prevent billions of dollars in potential damage from pests and diseases that threaten Canadian farm livelihoods. …”
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La fumure des agrumes by González-Sicilia, Eusebio

“…Ces chiffres de production et de commerce international représentent, selon notre estimation, 358 et 239 millions de dollars respectivement. En Espagne l’on cultive des agrumes sur une surface de 100.000 hectares à peu près, dont un peu plus de 80% sont enclavés dans la région de la Méditerranée (provinces de Castellon, Valence, Alicante et Murcie)…”
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Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) by World Agroforestry Centre

“…Billions of dollars have already been invested in CSA programs, with even more spending planned in coming years. …”
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Global assessment of the impacts of COVID-19 on food security by Béné, Christophe, Bakker, Deborah, Chavarro, Mónica Juliana, Even, Brice, Melo, Jenny, Sonneveld, Anne

“…In contrast, grocery stores and supermarkets made billions of dollars in profits in 2020.…”
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Payoffs to a half century of CGIAR research by Alston, Julian, Pardey, Philip G., Rao, Xudong

“…These comprised a selective review of nine (“billion‐dollar”) studies reporting large‐scale benefits to CGIAR investments and an approximation approach based on an attribution of total factor productivity growth. …”
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Profiling of bean seed and variety information dissemination channels used by seed producers in Eastern and Southern Africa by Rubyogo, Jean-Claude, Aseete, Paul, Kalemer, Sylvia

“…Having low variety turn over makes several dollars invested in developing new varieties go to waste since the superior varieties are not in use and not in farmer hands. …”
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Asset maintenance as hidden investment among the poor and rich: Application to housing by Hernandez, Manuel A., Trupkin, Danilo R.

“…We find that the income elasticity of maintenance is higher among low- versus high-income households and that the adjustment differences are more acute for permanent than for transitory income changes. For every dollar increase in the estimated permanent and transitory income, home maintenance expenses will increase by 5.2 and 2.9 cents in the lower income tertile and by zero and 0.5 cents in the upper tertile.…”
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AIDS and rural livelihoods: Dynamics and diversity in sub-Saharan Africa by Niehof, Anke, Rugalema, Gabriel, Gillespie, Stuart

“…Yet despite millions of dollars of aid and research, there has previously been little detailed on-the-ground analysis of the multifaceted impacts on rural people. …”
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Anatomy of a crisis: The causes and consequences of surging food prices by Headey, Derek D., Fan, Shenggen

“…Some explanations, especially rising oil prices, the depreciation of the US dollar, biofuel demand, and some commodity-specific explanations, hold up much better than some others. …”
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Estimating opportunity costs of avoided deforestation (REDD): Application of a flexible stepwise approach to the Indonesian pulp sector by Pirard, R.

“…These values range from zero to one thousand dollars per hectare per year. To use such a framework would help gain credibility and achieve fairness in negotiations between host countries and other stakeholders, in particular those who fund activities to reduce deforestation…”
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Current status of agrometeorological services in South Asia, with special emphasis on the Indo-Gangetic Plains by Ramakrishna, YS

“…In 2005, more than 40 percent of the region’s population lived on less than 1 dollar a day, as compared to 50 percent in sub-Saharan Africa (World Bank 2010). …”
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Payment for ecosystem services for energy, biodiversity, conservation and poverty reduction in Costa Rica. by Estrada-Carmona, Natalia, DeClerck, Fabrice A.J.

“…The valuation of these services was brought to light by (Costanza et al. 1997) who estimated that ecosystems provide humanity with 33trilliondollarsperyearinservices,whichwashigherthanglobalGrossNationalProduct,18 trillion dollars, when the analysis was conducted. The notion of ecosystem services was further popularized by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA 2005) that identified four classes of services: provisioning, regulating, cultural, and supporting. …”
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Poverty in Pakistan: trends and issues by Ashfaq, M., Jehangir, Waqar A., Hussain, Intizar, Mudasser, Mudasser

“…However, most of the studies indicate that poverty in Pakistan is concentrated in rural areas of Pakistan. Applying dollar a day poverty line shows that the poverty in Pakistan is higher as compared with many other Asian countries.…”
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Poverty reduction with irrigation investment: an empirical case study from Tigray, Ethiopia by Gebregziabher, Gebrehaweria, Namara, Regassa E., Holden, S.

“…The regional government of Tigray has invested millions of dollars to develop irrigation schemes as a strategy of poverty reduction. …”
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The links between food security and seed security and seed security : facts and fiction that guide response by McGrath, S., Sperling, L.

“…Hence, in response to high food prices, seed resources worth hundreds of millions of US dollars are being shipped into vulnerable farming systems across the world. …”
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Informing CSA implementation at national, regional, and continental scales by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…The funding landscape for CSA is rapidly developing, meaning that both Practical Guides have the potential to influence millions of dollars of investments in the near future.…”
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How Do Commercial Children’s Foods Influence Their Growth and Development? A Map of Commercially Available Children’s Foods in Honduras by Santana H., Adriana

“…The average price per product serving is lower than one US dollar ($0.81). 46% and 6% of the products place sugar and salt, respectively, among the first five positions in their ingredient lists. …”
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Manejo integral de la moniliasis del cacao :una propuesta técnica y educativa by Mantilla Blanco, Jairo, Palencia C., Gildardo, Calle Hoyos, Luz María, Mujica Jaimes, Jaime, Aranzazu Hernández, Luis Fabio, Agudelo C., Andrés, Peñaloza R., Leonardo, Arguello Angulo, Aura Linda

“…En Colombia, por causa de esta enfermedad y su inadecuado manejo, se reportan pérdidas en la producción entre el 40% y 70%, que alcanzan hasta 22.000 toneladas al año, con un valor estimado de {dollar}72.000 millones anuales.…”
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