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Master of Science in Rangeland Ecosystem Management Curriculum by Mwamburi, Mcharo, Kambura, Ann, Gacheru, James, Maghenda, Marianne, Jalang'o, Dorcas, Waswa, Boaz Shaban, Kinyua, Ivy Wambui, Templer, Noel, Mwongera, Caroline

“…The root cause of these problems is mainly linked to lack of inadequate skilled human resources, trained in rangeland ecosystem management at the postgraduate level, to tackle the complex biodiversity interactions in the rangeland ecosystems. …”
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Rights and representation support justice across aquatic food systems by Hicks, Christina, Gephart, Jessica, Koehn, Zachary, Takeshima, Shin‑nosuke, Payne, Hanna, Allison, Edward H., Belhabib, Dyhia, Cao, Ling, Cohen, Philippa, Fanzo, Jessica, Fluet-Chouinard, Etienne, Gelcich, Stefan, Golden, Christopher, Gorospe, Kevin, Isaacs, Moenieba, Kuempel, Caitlin, Lee, Kai, MacNeil, M, Maire, Eva, Njuki, Jemimah, Rao, Nitya, Sumaila, Ussif Rashid, Selig, Elizabeth, Thilsted, Shakuntala H., Wabnitz, Colette, Naylor, Rosamond

“…However, policies linked to more just food system outcomes centre principles of human rights, specify inclusive decision-making processes and identify and challenge drivers of injustice.…”
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Innovations in capture fisheries are an imperative for nutrition security in the developing world by Hall, Stephen J., Hilborn, Ray, Andrew, Neil L., Allison, Edward H.

“…This article examines two strands of discourse on wild capture fisheries; one that focuses on resource sustainability and environmental impacts, another related to food and nutrition security and human well-being. Available data and research show that, for countries most dependent on fish to meet the nutritional requirements of their population, wild capture fisheries remain the dominant supplier. …”
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A capacity-building toolkit for integrated rice–fish system by Africa Rice Center, Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa, International Water Management Institute

“…Increased reliance on fertilizers and pesticides in rice production has proven unsustainable and ineffective due to soil depletion and pesticide-induced pest outbreaks, rising fertilizer costs, and the negative effects of pesticide and fertilizer use on human health and the environment. The integrated rice-fish system offers a large range of environmental, economic, and social benefits by improving diversification, intensification, profitability, and sustainability through the complementary utilization of land and water uses. …”
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Smart-Valleys toolkit: An e-learning tool for the sustainable use of inland valleys for agricultural development and biodiversity and ecosystem services preservation by Dossou-Yovo, Elliott Ronald, Futakuchi, Kiochi

“…Increased reliance on fertilizers and pesticides in rice production has proven unsustainable and ineffective due to soil depletion and pesticide-induced pest outbreaks, rising fertilizer costs, and the negative effects of pesticide and fertilizer use on human health and the environment. The integrated rice-fish system offers a large range of environmental, economic, and social benefits by improving diversification, intensification, profitability, and sustainability through the complementary utilization of land and water uses. …”
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Mapping policymaker narratives of the climate security nexus on social media: A case study from Kenya by Silveira Carneiro, Bia, Resce, Giuliano, Ruscica, Giosuè

“…Despite increasing awareness of the nexus between climate change and human security, especially in fragile contexts, this complex relationship has yet to be reflected in the policy arena. …”
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Framework for advancing water resource sustainability and climate resilience through local-scale hydrological modeling in the Mekong Delta by Matheswaran, Karthikeyan, Jampani, Mahesh, Sena, Dipaka Ranjan

“…However, climate change and human activities are causing water scarcity, floods and soil salinization, which are a threat to food security and livelihoods. …”
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Recent advances in the extraction of bioactive compounds from plant matrices and their use as potential antioxidants for vegetable oils enrichment by Oubannin, Samira, Bijla, Laila, Nid Ahmed, Moussa, Ibourki, Mohamed, El Kharrassi, Youssef, Devkota, Krishna, Bouyahya, Abdelhakim, Maggi, Filippo, Caprioli, Giovanni, Sakar, El Hassan, Gharby, Said

“…However, owing to their harmful effects on human health, the edible oil industry is seeking safe and healthy natural antioxidants. …”
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High life satisfaction reported among small-scale societies with low incomes by Galbraith, E. D., Barrington-Leigh, C., Miñarro, S., Álvarez-Fernández, S., Attoh, Emmanuel M. N. A. N., Benyei, P., Calvet-Mir, L., Carmona, R., Chakauya, R., Chen, Z., Chengula, F., Fernández-Llamazares, Á., García-del-Amo, D., Glauser, M., Huanca, T., Izquierdo, A. E., Junqueira, A. B., Lanker, M., Li, X., Mariel, J., Miara, M. D., Porcher, V., Porcuna-Ferrer, A., Schlingmann, A., Seidler, R., Shrestha, U. B., Singh, P., Torrents-Ticó, M., Ulambayar, T., Wu, R., Reyes-García, V.

“…Our results are consistent with the notion that human societies can support very satisfying lives for their members without necessarily requiring high degrees of monetary wealth.…”
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Women's leadership in climate-resilient agrifood systems: Defining a future research agenda by Morgan, Miranda Yeen, Bryan, Elizabeth, Elias, Marlène

“…Rather, increasing the leadership of women in all their diversity in climate action is a moral imperative and non-negotiable due to women's human right to have meaningful influence in the decisions that affect their lives. …”
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Introduction [in Securing food for all in Bangladesh] by Ahmed, Akhter, Islam, Nurul, Mujeri, Mustafa K.

“…Food is the most important basic need for sustenance and survival, and the right to food is among the fundamental human rights. Access to sufficient food at all times to meet dietary needs of millions of people in Bangladesh is a matter of critical importance and should be an issue of paramount concern to those responsible for the nation’s welfare. …”
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The short-run economic costs of COVID-19 in developing countries in 2020: A synthesis of results from a multi-country modeling exercise by Pauw, Karl, Smart, Jenny, Thurlow, James

“…As COVID-19 spread across the globe in early 2020, governments had to make difficult choices to balance the socioeconomic costs of social distancing and lockdown measures, on the one hand, and the human costs of increased morbidity and mortality of an unchecked pandemic, on the other. …”
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Travel Time to Markets in Africa South of the Sahara by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…For this, using a newly available accessibility model input datasets, such as new land cover data from satellites, crowdsourced road network data, and updated population of major human settlements across SSA, HarvestChoice Project updated the existing market accessibility data and provides new market accessibility data layers benchmarking around the year 2010. …”
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Migration out of rural areas and implications for rural livelihoods by de Brauw, Alan

“…When investment occurs, the type of investment depends upon relative local returns to investments in agriculture, nonagriculture, or human capital. Some innovative recent work also documents the role of migration in catalyzing technical change. …”
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SDG 2.1 and SDG 2.2: Why open, transparent, and equitable trade is essential to ending hunger and malnutrition sustainably by Fan, Shenggen, Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio, Cho, Emily EunYoung, Rue, Christopher

“…However, as the limited results from the 11th Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires in December 2017 suggest, much remains to be done for humanity to be able to achieve the SDGs by 2030. This paper will briefly consider the importance of trade in achieving the SDGs and transforming food systems. …”
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Africa’s progress toward meeting current nutrition targets by Haddad, Lawrence James, Ag Bendech, Mohamed, Bhatia, Komal, Eriksen, Kamilla, Jallow, Isatou, Ledlie, Natasha

“…Good nutrition provides a vital foundation for human development that is central to meeting our full potential. …”
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Food transfers, cash transfers, behavior change communication and child nutrition: Evidence from Bangladesh by Ahmed, Akhter, Hoddinott, John F., Roy, Shalini

“…The importance of children’s nutritional status for subsequent human capital formation, the limited evidence of the effectiveness of social protection interventions on child nutrition, and the absence of knowledge on the intra-household impacts of cash and food transfers or how they are shaped by complementary programming motivate this paper. …”
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Summary and policy recommendations: Toward a nutrition revolution for Africa by Covic, Namukolo, Hendriks, Sheryl L.

“…Addressing nutrition is an investment with high potential returns in terms of reduced health costs, increased productivity, and improved human resource capacity and economic growth. Although nutrition interventions have been seen as belonging in the health sector, integrated programs that include agriculture and other sectors can create synergies and added value. …”
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The way forward by Bouis, Howarth E., Saltzman, Amy, Low, J. W., Ball, Anna-Marie, Covic, Namukolo

“….  When consumed, the increase in nutrient levels can make a measurable and significant impact on human nutrition.  Farmers are willing to grow biofortified crops and consumers to eat them. …”
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A methodological framework for attributing the burden of animal disease to specific causes by Bruce, M., Jemberu, Wudu T., Larkins, A.J.

“…The Global Burden of Animal Diseases provides an analytical framework to measure the overall health of various farmed animal populations, to estimate the farm-level burden of different diseases, incorporating production losses due to morbidity and mortality as well as health expenditure, and to identify the wider economic and human health impacts of animal disease. Attributing the burden of animal diseases to specific causes or groups of causes requires methodological choices, including the classification of diseases and the resulting health states that manifest in loss of production. …”
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