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Agricultural wages and food prices in Egypt: a governorate-level analysis for 1976-1993 by Datt, Gaurav, Olmsted, Jennifer

“…But the rise and fall of real wages masks a complex dynamic process by which nominal wages adjust in response to changes in food prices. …”
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Near real-time agriculture monitoring at national scale at parcel resolution: Performance assessment of the Sen2-Agri automated system in various cropping systems around the world by Defourny, Pierre, Bontemps, Sophie, Bellemans, Nicolas, Cara, Cosmin, Dedieu, Gérard, Guzzonato, Eric, Hagolle, Olivier, Inglada, Jordi, Nicola, Laurentiu, Rabaute, Thierry, Savinaud, Mickael, Udroiu, Cosmin, Valero, Silvia, Bégué, Agnès, Dejoux, Jean-François, El Harti, Abderrazak, Ezzahar, Jamal, Kussul, Nataliia, Labbassi, Kamal, Lebourgeois, Valentine, Miao, Zhang, Newby, Terrence, Nyamugama, Adolph, Salh, Norakhan, Shelestov, Andrii, Simonneaux, Vincent, Sibiry Traoré, Pierre C., Traoré, Souleymane S, Koet, Benjamin

“…The independent validation of the monthly cropland masks provided for most sites overall accuracy values higher than 90%, and already higher than 80% as early as the mid-season. …”
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Sub-Saharan African agricultural research: Recent investment trends by Beintema, Nienke M., Stads, Gert-Jan

“…Nonetheless, this continent-wide trend masks significant variation among countries. During 1991–2000, about half the countries in the authors’ 27-country sample experienced negative annual growth in total agricultural research and development (R&D) spending. …”
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Rural household vulnerability and COVID-19: Evidence from India by Tian, Junyan

“…The impacts of the gender of the household head, access to masks, consumption loans, and COVID-related information are nevertheless insignificant. …”
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New strategies and partnerships for the sustainable use of plant genetic resources by Vernooy, Ronnie, Halewood, Michael, López Noriega, Isabel, Galluzzi, Gea

“…This high level of farmer seed autonomy masks the fact that almost everywhere local seed systems and the diverse agricultural production practices that depend on them are under some form of stress. …”
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Weathering conflict: The effect of resource shocks on livestock raids by Jensen, Nathaniel D., López-Rivas, Jose D., Morsink, Karlijn, Rikken, Emma E.

“…Leveraging exogenous variation in drought insurance, we find that while insurance reduces conflict on average, this masks important heterogeneity. Ex post indemnity payments mitigate conflict during droughts, but ex ante insurance coverage exacerbates conflict when pasture is abundant in rainy seasons. …”
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Agriculture in intergenerational relations: Ethnic Thai youth in northern Vietnam by Kawarazuka, Nozomi, Nguyen Thi Van Anh, Vu Xuan Thai

“…The economic focus of research on agriculture as a source of income masks this important aspect of agriculture within ethnic minority communities. …”
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A machine learning algorithm for mapping small reservoirs using Sentinel-2 satellite imagery in Google Earth Engine by Siabi, Ebenezer K., Akpoti, Komlavi, Zwart, Sander J.

“…The process concludes with image cleaning and permanent water masking, exporting the data in raster format for analysis. …”
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Livelihoods and agro-ecological gradients: A meso-level analysis in the Indo-Gangetic Plains, India by Erenstein, Olaf, Thorpe, W.R.

“…The apparent homogeneity of vast irrigated plains masks significant diversity in assets, livelihood strategies and livelihood outcomes. …”
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Recent developments in the conduct of Latin American agricultural research: Paper prepared for the International Conference on Agricultural Science and Technology, Beijing, Novembe... by Beintema, Nienke M., Pardey, Philip G.

“…Nonetheless, this regional trend masks significant variation among the various countries. …”
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Tobacco cultivation, food production, and nutrition among smallholders in Malawi by Peters, Pauline E., Herrera, M. Guillermo

“…Although Malawi has an enviable record in achieving national food self-sufficiency, it has achieved that at a very low level of the supply-demand balance; the aggregate picture masks widespread food insecurity at the household level. …”
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Efficacy and costs of handheld sprayers in the subhumid savanna for cogongrass control by Nielsen, O.K., Chikoye, David, Streibig, J.C.

“…Even though the KS and VLV generally gave better control levels than the RW, the latter is more user-friendly because it does not require protective masks, which are often unavailable in sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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Variety demand within the framework of an agricultural household model with attributes: the case of bananas in Uganda by Edmeades, Svetlana, Smale, Melinda, Renkow, Mitch, Phaneuf, Dan

“…Grouping varieties together masks individual differences, and differences may be important for predicting the adoption of new technologies such as genetically transformed, endemic or local varieties. …”
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Agricultural R&D in Sub-Saharan Africa: An era of stagnation by Beintema, Nienke M., Stads, Gert-Jan

“…This continentwide trend masks significant variation among countries. During 1991–2000, about half the countries in our 27-country sample experienced a contraction in total agricultural research and development (R&D) spending. …”
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Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) Full Proposal 2017-2022 by CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems

“…Global agriculture is one of humanity’s great success stories because we produce more food than ever before. But this success masks two uncomfortable truths. First, while responding to the rising demand for food, agricultural growth is depleting the natural resource base on which it depends. …”
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Analyzing trade integration in North African markets: A border effect approach by Chebbi, Houssem Eddine, Abbassi, Abdessalem, Tamini, Lota D.

“…Our results also show that the border effect is stable over time. The mean value masks differences that are quite substantial in market integration when considering agricultural products or industrial products, the borders effects being lower for the latter. …”
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Exponeringsrisker i samband med inhalationsbehandling av häst by Kalimo, Taru

“…The results of this study suggest that there is leakage from the inhalation masks sufficient to expose both the person treating the horse, and neighbouring, untreated horses to inhaled medications.…”

A framework for disaggregating remote-sensing cropland into rainfed and irrigated classes at continental scale by Owusu, Afua, Kagone, S., Leh, Mansoor, Velpuri, Naga Manohar, Gumma, Murali K., Ghansah, Benjamin, Thilina-Prabhath, Paranamana, Akpoti, Komlavi, Mekonnen, Kirubel, Tinonetsana, Primrose, Mohammed, I.

“…The HCCM was generated for calibration and validation of the crop partitioning framework as an alternative to individual cropland masks which exhibit high disagreement. The accuracy of the framework in partitioning the HCCM was evaluated using an independent validation dataset, yielding an overall accuracy rate of 73 %. …”
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Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Agricultural input retailers – June 2021 survey round by Myanmar Agriculture Support Activity

“…Sixty percent of input retailers adopted at least one practice, but only 44 percent were regularly washing their hands and only 47 percent were wearing masks. ▪ Higher input costs and lower access to credit will likely result in lower purchased input use and lower yields for monsoon crops. …”
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Livestock water productivity in the Blue Nile Basin: assessment of farm scale heterogeneity by Haileslassie, Amare, Peden, Donald G., Gebreselassie, S., Amede, Tilahun, Wagnew, A., Taddesse, G.

“…This implies that aggregating water productivity (to a system scale) masks hotspots and bright spots. Our result also revealed a positive trend between water productivity (LWP and crop water productivity, CWP) and farm households’ access to resources. …”
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