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Can urban growth reduce rural underemployment? by De Weerdt, Joachim, Cappellen, Hanne van

“…The first is that the jobs created are primarily low-skill, low productivity, and often casual (ganyu). Raising the human capital and productivity of the continually growing pool of rural workers, while simultaneously raising rural incomes to increase demand for the kind of off-farm goods and services they can provide, will be critical. …”
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‘Nachit’, a wild-relative-derived durum wheat resilient to climate change in Morocco by Taghouti, Mona, Bassi, Filippo, Nasrellah, Nsarelhaq, Amri, Ahmed, Motawaj, Jihan, Miloudi, Nachit

“…Hence, it provides a substantial example of exploitation of CWRs to achieve asuperior cultivar adapted to the climatic stresses and responding to human needs.…”
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Jobs in the circular bioeconomy under scrutiny: the challenging reality of compost production in Rwanda by Surchat, M., Irakoze, M., Hansmann, R., Kantengwa, S., Konlambigue, Matieyedou, Spath, L., Wilde, B., Six, J., Krutli, P.

“…Today, most African countries have dysfunctional municipal waste management system, negatively impacting the environment and human health. However, as most of this waste is recyclable, informal actors are making their income out of the collection/sorting of waste. …”
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Reviewing and Changing University Contributions to Development-Oriented Agricultural Research in Sub-Saharan Africa by Michelsen, Heike, Zuidema, Larry, Hoste, C. H., Shapiro, D.

“…In an increasingly competitive world, universities cannot afford to be seen as purely academic institutions only; they are also expected to organize their considerable human and material resources in order to contribute materially to national research and development objectives. …”
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Digital financial services for empowering women in agri-food value chains in the Indonesian region by Putri, Rumanintya Lisaria

“…More importantly, the research highlights four key areas of opportunity to be exploited: the suitability of designing DFS initiatives through an ecosystem approach, with an emphasis on partnerships and cooperation with multilevel stakeholders, including cooperatives and women’s associations; the importance of tailored training and effective communication channels to reach women through DFS initiatives; the relevance of DFS that accompanies it to the human touch and local presence through female agents; and the importance of collecting and analyzing sex-disaggregated data associated with the triple nexus. …”
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Heat wave hazard, vulnerability and risk assessment for India [Abstract only] by Sahana, V., Suresh, N., Mondal, A., Mishra, T.

“…In India, the heatwave situation could break human survivability, thus jeopardizing food security, public health, as well as economic productivity of the country. …”
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Amplified characterization of the Innovahubs: Context-specific analysis and mapping of the Innovahub influence areas in Guatemala and Honduras by Martínez, Jesús David, Borrayo, Andrea, García Masse, Louis N., Loon, Jelle van

“…The 2023 report is structured with the presentation of 2 context-specific analyses on nutrition and market access for rural communities, and the finalization of the technical information of the Innovahubs in Mexico In Chiquimula, Guatemala, a study on diet quality highlighted the crucial role of nutrition for human wellbeing and agricultural outcomes, setting a precedent for similar studies in other regions. …”
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The public health importance and management of infectious poultry diseases in smallholder systems in Africa by Grace, Delia, Knight-Jones, Theodore J.D., Melaku, A., Alders, R., Jemberu, Wudu T.

“…Infectious diseases, especially viral diseases like Newcastle disease and highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) and bacterial diseases, especially colibacillosis and salmonellosis, are responsible for most chicken losses, with downstream effects on human nutrition and health. Beyond production impacts, poultry diseases directly harm public health if zoonotic, can give rise to epidemics and pandemics, and facilitate antimicrobial resistance through treatment attempts. …”
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Chinese artificial intelligence in Africa: Digital colonisation or liberalisation? by Tinarwo, Joseph, Babu, Suresh Chandra

“…However, the Chinese AI has been associated with gross human rights violations and promotion of corrupt practices, such as patronage and rent-seeking behaviour. …”
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Interprovincial food trade aggravates China’s land scarcity by He, Jianjian, Wang, Siqi, Heijungs, Reinout, Yang, Yi, Shu, Shumiao, Zhang, Weiwen, Xu, Anqi, Fang, Kai

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Media analysis for crop protection: Utilizing AI to monitor top five priority diseases in agriculture by Kim, Soonho, Song, Xingyi, Park, Boyeong, Ko, Daeun, Liu, Yanyan

“…The system was evaluated and refined based on human verification, and manual corrections were fed back into the model for improvement. …”
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Shelf-life of four Philippine indigenous leafy vegetables influenced by banana leaf wrapping and evaporative cooling by Bayogan E.V., Sampiano K.F.S., Urquiola M.A.J., Secretaria L.B.

“…Green leafy vegetables are considered important in the human diet due to their vitamin and mineral contents. …”
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Fields of harmony: Pulses and sustainable land management by Nekesa, Tabitha, Jaquet, Stéphanie, Calles, Teodardo, Katsir, Stephanie, Vollmann Tinoco, Vivian

“…Sustainable land management (SLM) entails the judicious use of land resources, incorporating soils, water, animals, and plants, to meet dynamic human needs, while concurrently safeguarding the sustained use of these resources and preserving their environmental functions. …”
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Educator incentives and educational triage in rural primary schools by Gilligan, Daniel O., Karachiwalla, Naureen, Kasirye, Ibrahim, Lucas, Adrienne M., Neal, Derek

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Understanding the pathways to women’s empowerment in Northern Ghana and the relationship with small-scale irrigation by Bryan, Elizabeth, Garner, Elisabeth

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A framework for analysing water security of Tonle Sap Lake in the Mekong River basin: Flow, volume, inundation, productivity and livelihoods by Sithirith, Mak

“…Although there is plenty of literature studying water security, many discuss water security concerning water quality that is harmful to human health, some on the floods and droughts which destroy agriculture and livelihoods of people, and others on water war or water conflict in transboundary river basin; but little discusses water security concerning changing river flow, volume, inundation, productivity and livelihoods in the river–lake system (RLS). …”
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Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI) Database by Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators

“…The interactive benchmarking tool on the ASTI website is a convenient map-based instrument allowing users to make cross-country comparisons and rankings based on a wide set of financial and human resource indicators. The detailed ASTI datasets are available in an easy-to-use data download tool. …”
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ASTI Algeria Database by Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators

“…The interactive benchmarking tool on the ASTI website is a convenient map-based instrument allowing users to make cross-country comparisons and rankings based on a wide set of financial and human resource indicators. The detailed ASTI datasets are available in an easy-to-use data download tool. …”
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ASTI Bangladesh Database by Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators

“…The interactive benchmarking tool on the ASTI website is a convenient map-based instrument allowing users to make cross-country comparisons and rankings based on a wide set of financial and human resource indicators. The detailed ASTI datasets are available in an easy-to-use data download tool. …”
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ASTI Benin Database by Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators

“…The interactive benchmarking tool on the ASTI website is a convenient map-based instrument allowing users to make cross-country comparisons and rankings based on a wide set of financial and human resource indicators. The detailed ASTI datasets are available in an easy-to-use data download tool. …”
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