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Concept Note: Development of Climate Risk Profiles for Agricultural Commercialization Clusters (ACC) por Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

“…These Climate Risk Profiles will systematically describe key climate vulnerabilities, entry points for CSA in the ACC value chains, policy/institutional enabling conditions, and co-finance opportunities along the value chain. These profiles will take a full value chain approach assessing these issues from variety selection and provision of inputs, to on-farm production, to harvest storage and marketing tailored to agro-ecological contexts across the clusters. …”
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Smarter metrics in climate change and agriculture: Business guidance for target-setting across productivity, resilience and mitigation por Stephenson, Jim, Jarvis, Andrew, Bonilla Findji, Osana, Anderson-Berens, Dylan, Richards, Meryl B.

“…The audience for this guide is sustainability and risk professionals working in agri- and food businesses, and finance companies. Working together, these groups can ensure you apply this guide using existing resources.…”
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Youth Farmer’s Training : Business Model for Scaling Happy Seeder Technology por Jat, Mangi Lal, Bijarniya, Deepak, Kalvaniya, Kailash C., Choudhary, Kajod Mal, Kumar, Yogesh, Rana, Dharamvir Singh

“…In addition to knowledge of agricultural production and processing techniques and the relative know-how, young farmers need access to information about finance, land and markets.The training strongly emphasized participatory extension principles and entrepreneurship as means of increasing farm productivity amongst young farmers. …”
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State and outlook of agroforestry in ASEAN – Status, trends and outlook 2030 and beyond por Lin, T., Catacutan, D.C., Noordwijk, M. van, Finlayson, R.F., Rogel, C.N., Orencio P.

“…It will help address the much needed governance, institutional, finance and capacity constraints, especially for promoting smallholder-oriented agroforestry systems in rural areas. …”
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Science-driven Accelerator Program for Climate-Smart Agribusinesses: IPSR Innovation Profile por Dahl, Hauke, Zulu-Hume, Mercy F.

“…This demo-day provides access to finance and other market linkages for the agri small- and medium- sized enterprise (SME) portfolio, hereby offering them the opportunity to grow their businesses and subsequently realize a higher impact of their climate-smart agriculture-related project activities.…”
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Agriculture Intelligente face au Climat (AIC) et Systeme d'information Climatique (SIC): Formation pour le Secteur Privé por Siagbe, Golli, Derenoncourt, Marie Ena, Chabot, Philippe, Jaquet, Stéphanie

“…This includes: (1) Basic understanding of climate change (2) Climate-Smart Agriculture Practices (3) Climate Information Services (4) Bundling opportunities including CSA and CIS (4) Impact of Climate Risk on Business Operations, Profitability and Cash Flow (6) Gender-Smart Investing Roadmap for agricultural SME financing. Value chain actors (producers, processors, aggregators) and financial actors (banks, impact investors, insurance companies) that finance the agricultural sector participated in the workshop.…”
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Impact of informal institutions on youth agribusiness participation in southern Benin por Magbondé, K.G., Mignouna, Djana B., Manyong, Victor, Adeoti, R., Sossou, A.O.

“…Though easing access to finance is crucial for the youths to initiate agribusiness activities, findings make a case for long-term policies that aim to increase the societal levels of trust and desirability for the agribusiness sector.…”
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Benchmark Study. The Agricultural Technology Development Fund for Contract Research: An INIA (Uruguay) Initiative por Hobbs, S. Huntington, Valverde, Carlos, Indarte, Eduardo, Lanfranco, Bruno

“…It describes how Uruguay's national institute for agricultural research (INIA) introduced a novel way of strengthening agricultural research in the country by creating a competitive fund called FPTA (agricultural technology development fund) to help finance research done outside INIA, by non-INIA researchers. …”
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Ending the food box program was the right move por Glauber, Joseph W.

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Malawi financial markets and household food security, 1995 por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…About half of the sample participated in credit groups by the Malawi Rural Finance Company, Malawi Mudzi Fund, MOWCACDSW's credit program 'Promotion of Micro-Enterprises for Rural Women', and Malawi Union of Savings and Credit Cooperatives; the other half of the sample either previously participated in the former credit program of the Smallholder Agricultural Credit Administration or never participated in a formal credit program. …”
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Sustainable prevention of food crises in Sub-Saharan Africa por Badiane, Ousmane, Collins, Julia, Fujita, Yasuo, Laborde Debucquet, David, Martin, Will, Terero, Maximo, Vos, Rob, Yamauchi, Futoshi

“…The G20 should support and invigorate region-wide efforts to: (a) massively expand irrigation systems for smallholder farms to boost agricultural productivity and enhance resilience against the impacts of climate change, (b) achieve a “big push” in infrastructure, technology and finance to develop robust agri-food systems, and (c) enact concerted reforms of agricultural price and trade policies to strengthen trade integration, diversify domestic food supplies, and enhance country-level capacity to adjust to food shortages.…”
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Major developments affecting Africa’s trade performance: A summary of key literature por Sabwa, Nicholas, Collins, Julia

“…Trends affecting trade include developments within Africa—such as increasing urbanization and the rise of a middle class, the growing agro-processing sector, and the surge in the use of information and communications technologies in agriculture and finance—and changes at the global level—such as climate change, oil shocks, and biotechnology. …”
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Growth of modern service providers for the African agricultural sector: An insight from a public irrigation scheme in Ghana por Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Agandin, John, Kolavalli, Shashidhara

“…Surpluses and experiences from their years of rice production are likely to have provided the primary finance and knowledge required for entry. The service providers emerged by exploiting both the economies of scale and the economies of scope, keeping rice production as the primary source of income, instead of specializing only in service provisions. …”
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Stories of change in nutrition: A tool pool por Gillespie, Stuart, van den Bold, Mara

“…These tools apply to 11 subthemes, which are to some extent sequential within policy/programming cycles: (1) assessing the nutrition problem, (2) stakeholder and institutional analysis/mapping, (3) understanding enabling environments for nutrition, (4) agenda setting and political commitment for nutrition, (5) policy formulation and policy processes, (6) multisectoral coordination, (7) implementation and vertical coherence, (8) scaling up, (9) assessing capacity, (10) assessing finance, and (11) monitoring, evaluation, and accountability. …”
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A field study for assessing risk-contingent credit for Kenyan pastoralists and dairy farmers por Shee, Apurba, Turvey, Calum G., Woodard, Joshua

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Beyond emissions reduction: Climate change mitigation’s path to sustainable development. por Gutierrez Zapata, Diana Maria, Vanegas Cubillos, Martha Cristina, Borda, Carlos Andres, Casallas, Ivon Maritza, Sylvester, Janelle Marie, Castro Nunez, Augusto

“…Understanding and leveraging the co-benefits of climate change mitigation will advance the achievement of the SDGs by attracting finance, building support and informing strategic policy decisions. …”
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Bumper crops, producer incentives and persistent poverty: implications for food aid programs in Bangladesh por Dorosh, Paul A., Shahabuddin, Quazi, Aziz, M. Abdul

“…Food aid has played a useful role in Government of Bangladesh efforts to increase food security in the last three decades, adding to foodgrain availability, supplying wheat for targeted distribution to poor households, and helping to finance development projects and programs. However, sustained increases in domestic production of both rice and wheat have increased the likelihood of disincentive effects arising from continued large inflows of food aid. …”
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Designing and implementing experiments within local bureaucratic systems: A cautionary tale from an educator incentive program por Asad, Saher, Habib, Masooma, Karachiwalla, Naureen, Kosec, Katrina, Leaver, Clare, ur Rehman, Attique

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Fiscal decentralization and political centralization in China: implications for regional inequality por Zhang, Xiaobo

“…Regions initially endowed with a broader nonfarm tax base do not need to rely heavily on new and existing firms to finance public goods provision, which creates a healthy investment environment in support of nonfarm sector growth. …”
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Climate change: Minimizing the risks and maximizing the benefits for the poor por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Developing countries could finance climate adaptation and mitigation strategies through cap-and-trade and carbon-tax instruments that support agricultural and rural development, but the impacts of these and other approaches need to be better understood. …”
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