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Design metrics for extreme events in a non-stationary world. [Abstract oly] by Read, L., Vogel, R., Lacombe, Guillaume

“…However, when non-stationary conditions lead to trends in the moments and parameters of extreme value processes, new methods for understanding the impacts of such changes on traditional design metrics are needed to insure sensible planning and design efforts. We document the general behavior of various metrics of return period, risk, and reliability assuming extreme events follow a nonstationary lognormal distribution. …”
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Returns to social capital among traders by Fafchamps, Marcel, Minten, Bart

“…The analysis indicates that three dimensions of social network capital should be distinguished: relationships with other traders, which help firms economize on transactions costs; relationships with individuals who can help in times of financial difficulties, which insure traders against liquidity risk; and family relationships, which reduce efficiency, possibly because of measurement error. …”
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Innovations in rural and agricultural finance: Determinants of microcredit repayment in federations of Indian self-help groups by Deininger, Klaus, Liu, Yanyan

“…This practice allows microfinance programs to rely mainly on accountability and mutual trust among group members rather than financial collateral to insure against default. Given that the poor often lack appropriate financial collateral, group lending programs offer a feasible way of extending credit to poor people who are usually kept out of traditional banking systems.…”
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Living like there's no tomorrow: The psychological effects of an earthquake on savings and spending behavior by Filipski, Mateusz J., Jin, Ling, Zhang, Xiaobo, Chen, Kevin Z.

“…We present a model of post-disaster savings that reveals two opposing tendencies: the need to self-insure through increased savings, and the drive to “enjoy life while it lasts” through increased spending. …”
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Availability and use of feed resources in crop-animal systems in Asia by Devendra, C., Sevilla, C.C.

“…The production of fodder from food crop systems and the establishment of multi-purpose trees and shrubs are potentially important for insuring adequate feed supplies for ruminants and improving soil fertility, but there has been limited adoption on small farms to date. …”
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Delivering climate information to rural households: Forecasts and capacity building by World Agroforestry Centre

“…All these are key for adapting the productive system to climate conditions and for designing risk-mitigation instruments (e.g., insurances). Most smallholders do not have access to the information they need in a systematic, reliable way. …”
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Institutional development plan 1995-2002

“…Five processes have been identified that, working together, will contribute to transforming CATIE from a Center that is financially unstable, with serious constraints on its ability to set its own research, education and outreach agendas, into a Center that is able to efficiently use and build on its experience in these areas to contribute to sustainable development in its member countries and the rest of tropical America. 1) Strengthen the technical areas with human and financial resources 2) refocus the Center’s research and education programs greater emphasis on outreach and problem solving 3) place socioeconomic concerns, and gender, indigenous and minority issues prominently on the agenda of the Center’s research, education, management and outreach programs 4) establish a constructive relationship with the international donor community 5) institute a program of measures aimed at strengthening the Center’s core budget in order to insure financial and operational stability. A program for implementation based on assumption of adequate resources has still to be worked out in detail. …”
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The impact of small scale irrigation on household food security: the case of Filtino and Godino Irrigation Schemes in Ada Liben District, East Shoa, Ethiopia by Tesfaye, A., Bogale, A., Namara, Regassa E.

“…Access to irrigation enabled the sample households to grow crops more than once a year; to insure increased and stable production, income and consumption; and improve their food security status. …”
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Effect of Income Diversification on Poverty Reduction and Income Inequality in Rural Nigeria: Evidence from Rice Farming Households by Awotide, B.A., Awoyemi, T.T., Diagne, A., Kinkingnihoun, F.M., Ojehomone, V.

“…The desire to increase household income and insure against agricultural production risk has led rural households to increasingly diversify their income sources. …”
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Can engaging local people’s interests reduce forest degradation in Central Vietnam? by Boissiere, M., Sheil, Douglas, Basuki, I., Wan, M., Le, H.

“…However, suitable safeguards and incentives need to be in place to insure sustainable use of the forest resources…”
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La producción de maracuyá (passiflora edulis) en Colombia: perspectivas para la conservación del hábitat a través del servicio de polinización by Calle, Z., Guariguata, Manuel R., Giraldo, E., Chará, J.

“…Eventual interventions to insure the provision of natural pollination services would differ. …”
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Land and water productivity: trends across Punjab canal commands by Tahir, Zubair, Habib, Zaigham

“…The sustainability of agriculture can be largely insured through proper and better management of water resources. …”
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The impact of small-scale irrigation on household food security: the case of Filtino and Godino irrigation schemes in Ethiopia by Tesfaye, A., Bogale, A., Namara, Regassa E., Bacha, D.

“…Access to small scale irrigation enabled the sample households to grow crops more than once a year; to insure increased and stable production, income and consumption; and improve their food security status. …”
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Implementing farmers' rights in genetic resources: Approaches to benefit sharing by Pachico, Douglas H.

“…Farmer's Rights is a concept that has emerged to seek to insure appropriate compensation to farmers for their contributions to crop improvement and genetic conservation. …”
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Un programa de selección para Coffea arabica by Eigueta, Manuel

“…There is some experimental evidence, though not yet conclusive that, as in other plants, the correlation between the parent coffee tree and its progeny is lou The fact that self-pollination in coffee is prevalent, indicates that reproduction by seed is the logical form of distribution of improved material, and that, in a selection by lines, a good percentage of them will be sufficiently uniform to insure the reproduction of its characteristics when seed is used. …”
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Katterna på Kattstallet i Åkeshov by Rosell, Elin

“…It´s therefore important to work with disease control to insure that as few cats as possible get sick during their stay at the shelter since illness do affect the cat’s welfare. …”
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The triangle of microfinance: financial sustainability, outreach, and impact by Zeller, Manfred, Meyer, Richard L.

“…The initial success of microfinance programs in the 1970s led pioneers to think that many essential problems of the poor might be resolved by access to credit alone -- the ability to acquire assets, to start businesses, to finance emergency needs and to insure against illness and disaster. Part of that vision has certainly been realized. …”
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Policy research and African agriculture: time for a dose of reality? by Omamo, Steven Were, Farrington, John

“…To make policy advice more relevant requires a better understanding not only of how markets (mal)function, but also of implementation issues: what constrains implementability, how constraints can be overcome or bypassed, and what policy measures have greater or lesser prospects of implementation.It concludes that: The policy discourse in African agriculture has been dominated by agricultural economics, yet many of the standard assumptions of quantitative modelling are challenged by the reality of:; markets which are routinely non-competitive because of, eg. high barriers to entry, increasing returns to scale, and non-insurable risk; deliberate efforts by firms to maintain market imperfections by, e.g. building information exchange networks which exclude newcomers; the absence of market pressures towards more competitive structure, conduct or performance The major task of including the poor more fully in markets will continue to be neglected for as long as policy advice remains dominated by unrealistic assumptions; concerning the structure, conduct and performance of markets; This discourse has tended to ignore political priorities such as achieving (or denying) developmental balance among regions or tribes; In addition, the discourse has generally sought some ideal of policy design, disregarding questions of implementability. …”
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Avlivning av sällskapsdjur, utförd av annan än veterinär : ett djurskyddsproblem? by Erixson, Anna Maria

“…We know that more than 2/3 of insured dogs in Sweden are put to death by a veterinarian, which means that almost one third are killed in trauma, lost or die in some other way. …”

Transition Pathway Toward Agroecology in Agroforestry Systems: Case of Kesra by Shiri, Zahra, Alary, Veronique, Ouerghemmi, Hassen, Dhraief, Mohamed Zied, Oueslati-Zlaoui, Meriem, Majri, Rihab, Rudiger, Udo, Frija, Aymen, Idoudi, Zied, Souissi, Asma, Dhehibi, Boubaker, Mannai, Amal, Rekik, Mourad, Rejeb, Hichem

“…The AE transition pathway identified in Kesra suggests an emphasis on the diversification of local and natural based products to insure synergies between system components as a basis of a swift transition. …”
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