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Getting implicit shadow prices right for the estimation of the Malmquist index: The case of agricultural total factor productivity in developing countries by Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, Yu, Bingxin

“…The Malmquist index has become extensively used in international comparisons of agricultural productivity since it does not require prices for its estimation, which are normally not available. …”
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IFPRI's Strategy for Africa by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Since then, new developments in the global food and financial markets, responses by African countries to these developments, and their progress in efforts to implement the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) have resulted in changes with potential long term strategic consequences. …”
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Pathways of development in the hillsides of Honduras: causes and implications for agricultural production, poverty, and sustainable resource use by Pender, John L., Scherr, Sara J., Durón, Guadalupe

“…Based on a survey of 48 communities in central Honduras, this paper identifies the major pathways of development that have been occurring in central Honduras since the mid-1970s, their causes and implications for agricultural productivity, natural resource sustainability, and poverty. …”
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Agriculture and food security by Badiane, Ousmane

“…Figure 1 below shows that the average rate of agricultural and overall GDP growth has increased steadily since the middle of the 1990s. More importantly, growth is also spreading to more countries, with an increasing number of countries growing at higher rates towards the end of the period under consideration. …”
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Economywide impact of avian flu in Nigeria – a dynamic CGE model analysis by Diao, Xinshen, Alpuerto, Vida, Nwafor, Manson

“…Since its emergence in Africa in 2006, the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus of the H5N1 subtype has spread rapidly to poultry farms in several countries, including Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Niger, and Nigeria (FAO 2006; OIE 2006). …”
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Tangled crises in Turkana: investigating the spread of Prosopis in Kenya's northern drylands by Derbyshire, Samuel F., Leakey, Acacia, Lowasa, Lucas

“…While exacerbated by drought, these problems were perceived to reflect a much more fundamental crisis, with prevalent views at the time envisaging pastoralism as unsustainable, destructive and in need of overhaul – a narrative dating to colonial times that has since been discredited. Since its introduction, etirae has spread relentlessly, invading riparian land, encroaching on cultivation plots and growing to new heights and thicknesses. …”
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Livestock futures to 2020: How will they shape food, environmental, health, and global security? by McDermott, John J., Enahoro, Dolapo K., Herrero, Mario

“…It offers new insights building on lessons learned since the 2008 and 2011 global food price spikes sparked political unrest that toppled multiple governments and spurred a global land rush unlike any seen since the nineteenth century. …”
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Determinants of Food Security in Kenya, a Gender Perspective by Kassie, Menale, Ndiritu SW, Shiferaw, Bekele

“…Both parametric and non-parametric econometric techniques are used to ensure robustness of the results from the econometric analyses. Since the assumption of pooled regression is rejected, we run separate food security regressions at plot level both for Male Headed Households (MHHs) and Female Headed Households (FHHs). …”
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Factors affecting farmer demand and pour-on treatments in Ethiopia by Wangila, J., Swallow, B.M., Tesfamichael, N., Okello, O., Kruska, Russell L.

“…Since December 1992, farmers have paid 3 Ethiopian Birr (US$0.50) for each pour-on treatment offered once a month at 9 supply centres. …”
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Long-term trends in calcifying plankton and pH in the North Sea by Beare, Douglas J., McQuatters-Gollop, Abigail, Hammen, Tessa van der, Machiels, Marcel, Teoh, Shwu Jiau, Hall-Spencer, Jason M.

“…Certain calcified plankton have proliferated in the central North Sea, and are tolerant of changes in pH that have occurred since the 1950s but bivalve larvae and pteropods have declined. …”
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Markets for three bark products in Zimbabwe: a case study of markets for bark of Adansonia digitata, Berchemia discolor and Warburgia salutaris by Veeman M, Cocks M, Muwonge F, Choge SK, Campbell, Bruce M.

“…The number of sellers has increased since the 1980s and has remained relatively stable since then. …”
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Farmer-to-Farmer Extension by Franzel, Steven, Degrande, Ann, Kiptot, Evelyne, Kirui, Josephine, Kugonza, Jane, Preissing, John, Simpson, Brent

“…F2FE programmes date back considerably and have been used in the Philippines since the 1950s and in Central America since the 1970s. (1) F2FE programmes have grown tremendously in Africa in recent years (2) and are now quite common, with 78% of development organisations using the approach in Malawi (3) and one-third using it across seven regions of Cameroon. (4) As common as these programmes are, training materials on the use of the approach and analyses, and comparisons of F2FE programmes are scarce.…”
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Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management in Tanzania: A Gender Policy Review by Acosta, Mariola, Ampaire, Edidah L., Okolo, Wendy, Twyman, Jennifer, Jassogne, Laurence T.P.

“…More than twenty years have passed since the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action, where gender mainstreaming was acknowledged as an indispensable global strategy for achieving gender equality. …”
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Meeting the challenge of the plantain (Musa spp.) subsector economic restructuring in cameroon by Tetang, J.T., Kwa, M., Temple, L., Bikoï, A., Njukwe, E., Staver, Charles, Ottou, J.F.

“…An analysis of the sector reveals that,despite the work done so far by the stakeholders to sustain the sector, production(1,315 t in 2004) has remained relatively stagnant since 1975 and production doesn’tmeet demand for consumption. …”
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Natural resource conservation with peoples' participation in the uplands of the Maribios Volcanic Ranges of Nicaragua. I. Appropriate land use and rural social diversity by Sharma, P.N

“…Biophysical and socioeconomic problems related to natural resource conservation of the uplands of the Maribios volcanic ranges of Nicaragua are discussed. Since the USDA method for land classification was found to be unsatisfactory, the FAO method, as adapted to the conditions of the Maribios, was used to develop appropriate land use maps of two (Nos. 3 and 4) of the eight upland watersheds of the Western Maribios. …”
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Stadsklimat/Gatuklimat by Kjellström, Linda

“…Furthermore there is a need to bring forth this climate element since the center of attention usually lies on the solar access and very often is the wind ignored and seen as an element which can not be modified. …”

Pepparmyntans bioaktiva ämnen - hur påverkar de människors hälsa? by Pallin, Anton

“…Since early civilization, herbal tea has been used as remedies for an abundance of different diseases. …”

Exploring the role of Integrated Water Resource Management in Lake Sevan, Armenia : a systemic approach by Kirakosyan, Tatevik

“…In addition the new integrated approach towards management of water resources used since the late 1999s has been ineffective for multiple reasons. …”

Wennovation Hub agritech incubation program by Odetayo, Wole

“…Wole Odetayo, from Nigeria, created Wennovation Hub in 2011. he shares his experience on the Agritech incubation program that he has been organising since 2015 .…”
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Telecentres: Support at the centre by Agbenyo, Stephen, Ken Kubuga, Ken, Koopman, Martine

“…In the years since they were first established, Ghana's community information centres have faced a wide range of challenges as they bring ICTs to rural communities. …”
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