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How to develop and manage your own community seed bank: Farmers’ handbook (Booklet 3 of 3) [Nuer version] por Vernooy, Ronnie, Bessette, Guy, Sthapit, Bhuwon R., Porcuna Ferrer, Anna

“…Each booklet focuses on a theme presented by the members of a community seed bank in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Translation and adaptation to the local language is encouraged. …”
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Inclusive innovation in agricultural value chains: lessons from use of a systems approach in diverse settings por Horton, D., Devaux, A., Bernet, T., Mayanja, S., Ordinola, M., Thiele, Graham

“…We assessed applications of the Participatory Market Chain Approach (PMCA), which combines elements of innovation system and value chain approaches, in eight cases in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. We found that the PMCA performed best where the policy environment favoured value chain development, the chain offered significant potential for value addition, and the PMCA was implemented with high fidelity to its basic principles, and as part of a larger development effort. …”
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How to develop and manage your own community seed bank: Farmers’ handbook (Booklet 2 of 3) [Dinka version] por Vernooy, Ronnie, Bessette, Guy, Sthapit, Bhuwon R., Gupta, Arnab

“…Each booklet focuses on a theme presented by the members of a community seed bank in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Translation and adaptation to the local language is encouraged. …”
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Mapping Climate-Agriculture-Gender Inequity Hotspots to Build Resilience por Mishra, Avni, Lecoutere, Els, Puskur, Ranjitha, Koo, Jawoo, Azzarri, Carlo

“…To this end, we studied 87 low- to middle-income countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to understand different climate change risks as well as impacts on women engaged in agriculture. …”
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Philippines: ClimBeR Inception Workshop Report por Castillo, Rowena, Gutiérrez, Mary Anne, Gutiérrez, Rosendo, Velásquez, Esther

“…Building Systemic Resilience against Climate Variability and Extremes (ClimBeR) is a Climate Resilience Initiative of CGIAR which aims to transform the climate adaptation capacity of food, land, and water systems in the Philippines and 5 countries in Africa (Kenya, Morocco, Senegal, and Zambia) and Latin America (Guatemala). Through the ClimBeR initiative, CGIAR aims to create gender-sensitive and innovative financial mechanisms, while incorporating science that combines climate information, credit, and insurance, to build resilience among agriculture actors across the value chain while recognizing that while innovative technological interventions are critical, the enabling social, institutional and governance environment drives the transformative process. …”
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Changes in the fatty acid profile and phenol content of milk from cows fed tanniferous plants por Birkinshaw, A., Schwarm, A., Marquardt, S., Kreuzer, M., Terranova, M.

“…In the first (short-term) experiment, six cows were fed six phenolic plants in a Latin Square design in comparison to a low-phenol plant (lucerne). …”
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How to develop and manage your own community seed bank: Farmers’ handbook (Booklet 2 of 3) [Ma’di version]. por Vernooy, Ronnie, Bessette, Guy, Sthapit, Bhuwon R., Gupta, Arnab

“…Each booklet focuses on a theme presented by the members of a community seed bank in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Translation and adaptation to the local language is encouraged. …”
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How to develop and manage your own community seed bank: Farmers’ handbook (Booklet 3 of 3). Ma’di version. por Vernooy, Ronnie, Bessette, Guy, Sthapit, Bhuwon R., Porcuna Ferrer, Anna

“…Each booklet focuses on a theme presented by the members of a community seed bank in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Translation and adaptation to the local language is encouraged. …”
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How to develop and manage your own community seed bank: Farmers’ handbook (Booklet 2 of 3). Otuho version. por Vernooy, Ronnie, Bessette, Guy, Sthapit, Bhuwon Ratna, Gupta, Arnab

“…Booklet 1 of 3 can be found here https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131371 and booklet 3 of 3 here https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131375 Each booklet focuses on a theme presented by the members of a community seed bank in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Translation and adaptation to the local language is encouraged. …”
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Amplified characterization of the Innovahubs: Context-specific analysis and mapping of the Innovahub influence areas in Guatemala and Honduras por Martínez, Jesús David, Borrayo, Andrea, García Masse, Louis N., Loon, Jelle van

“…Through these integrated efforts, Resilient AgriLAC reaffirms its commitment to the integrated development of Innovahubs in the region, facilitating people-centered innovation and the creation of resilient food systems in Latin America.…”
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Global maize production, consumption and trade: trends and R&D implications por Erenstein, Olaf, Debello, Moti J., Sonder, Kai, Mottaleb, Khondoker A., Prasanna, Boddupalli M.

“…It is a versatile multi-purpose crop, primarily used as a feed globally, but also is important as a food crop, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, besides other non-food uses. This paper reviews maize production, consumption, and international trade to examine the changing trends in global supply and demand conditions over the past quarter century and the implications for research and development (R&D), particularly in the Global South. …”
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Quiet Revolution by SMEs in the midstream of value chains in developing regions: Wholesale markets, wholesalers, logistics, and processing por Reardon, Thomas, Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda O., Minten, Bart

“…Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the midstream (processors, wholesalers and wholesale markets, and logistics) segments of transforming value chains have proliferated rapidly over the past several decades in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Their spread has been most rapid in the long transitional stage between the traditional and modern stages, when value chains grow long and developed with urbanization but are still fragmented, before consolidation. …”
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Cash transfers, polygamy, and intimate partner violence: Experimental evidence from Mali por Heath, Rachel, Hidrobo, Melissa, Roy, Shalini

“…Cash transfer programs primarily targeting women in Latin America and East Africa have been shown to reduce intimate partner violence (IPV), but knowledge gaps remain on how impacts differ by program features and context. …”
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Overview: Structural change, fundamentals, and growth por McMillan, Margaret S., Rodrik, Dani, Sepúlveda, Claudia

“…This growth was led by the efforts of China, India, and a small number of other Asian countries, and assisted by the weaker economic performance of the rich countries. Latin America and Africa resumed growth as well, catching up with—and often surpassing—the growth rates they experienced during the 1950s and 1960s. …”
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Review of Food security and sociopolitical stability by Christopher B. Barrett por Alderman, Harold

“…Papers discuss food or consequences—food security and its implications for global sociopolitical stability; the future of the global food economy—scenarios for supply, demand, and prices; what we know about the climate of the next decade; the global land rush; global freshwater and food security in the face of potential adversity; managing marine resources for food and human security; crop technologies for the coming decade; livestock futures to 2020—how they will shape food, environmental, health, and global security; labor migration and food security in a changing climate; trade policies and global food security; food security and political stability—a humanitarian perspective; moral economics of food security and protest in Latin America; food security and sociopolitical stability in Sub-Saharan Africa; lessons from the Arab Spring—food security and stability in the Middle East and North Africa; food security and sociopolitical stability in Eastern Europe and Central Asia; food security and sociopolitical stability in South Asia; when China runs out of farmers; and food security and sociopolitical stability in East and Southeast Asia. …”
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Review: The potential of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) as a vehicle for iron biofortification por Petry, Nicolai, Boy, Erick, Wirth, James, Hurrell, Richard F.

“…Common beans are a staple food and the major source of iron for populations in Eastern Africa and Latin America. Bean iron concentration is high and can be further increased by biofortification. …”
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Shaping multilateral trade: The changing institutional landscape por Peralta, Gloria Abraham, Campos Azofeifa, Adriana

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Roots and tubers for the 21st century: trends, projections and policy options por Scott, Gregory J., Rosegrant, Mark W., Ringler, Claudia

“…How the production and use of these commodities have changed and will continue to change over time are all the more important to understand because of the contribution they make to the diets and income-generating activities of the rural and urban poor in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. This paper provides a fuller understanding of the prospects of roots and tubers for food, feed, and other uses in developing countries in the decades ahead. " (excerpted from Forward by Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Hubert Zandstra)…”
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Roots and tubers for the 21st century: trends, projections and policy options por Scott, Gregory J., Rosegrant, Mark W., Ringler, Claudia

“…How the production and use of these commodities have changed and will continue to change over time are all the more important to understand because of the contribution they make to the diets and income-generating activities of the rural and urban poor in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. This paper provides a fuller understanding of the prospects of roots and tubers for food, feed, and other uses in developing countries in the decades ahead." …”
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Economic growth and development por Pandya-Lorch, Rajul

“…The magnitude of poverty is also anticipated to increase in Latin America and the Caribbean and in the Middle East and North Africa between now and 2000, but to decline by more than half in East Asia from 182 million in 1985 to 73 million in 2000. …”
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