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Multiple factors influence the consistency of cropland datasets in Africa por Wei, Yanbing, Lu, Miao, Wu, Wenbin, Ru, Yating

“…In terms of spatial consistency, disagreement is about 37.9 % at continental scale, and the disparate proportion even exceeds 50 % in approximately 1/3 of the countries at national scale. We further found that there is a strong and significant correlation between spatial agreement and cropland fragmentation, suggesting that regions with higher landscape fragmentation generally have larger disparities. …”
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Clustering lifestyle risk behaviors among Vietnamese adolescents and roles of school: A Bayesian multilevel analysis of global school-based student health survey 2019 por Khương, Long Quỳnh, Hoang, Ngoc-Anh Thi, Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Tran, Tuyet-Hanh Thi, Park, Kidong, Takeuchi, Momoe, Nguyen, Lam Tuan

“…Methods We analyzed data of 7,541 adolescents aged 13–17 years from the 2019 nationally representative Global School-based Student Health Survey, conducted in 20 provinces and cities in Vietnam. …”
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Drivers of youth engagement in agriculture: Insights from Guatemala, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Uganda por Babu, Suresh Chandra, Franzel, Steven, Davis, Kristin E., Srivastava, Nandita

“…The framework presented here can be applied to study youth engagement issues in any country or in sub-national, decentralized contexts to generate evidence to guide the design of youth-in-agriculture development programs. …”
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The relative commercial orientation of smallholder farmers in Nigeria: Household and crop value-chain analyses por Benson, Todd, Amare, Mulubrhan, Ogunniyi, Adebayo

“…Appropriately targeting agricultural development efforts towards commercially oriented farming households has important second-round development benefits for rural economies. We use nationally representative data from the Nigeria General Household Survey Panel to examine the characteristics of households and their context that determine their level of commercial orientation in 2015/16. …”
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Country water quality profiles: towards developing an African Water Quality Program (AWaQ) por Mukuyu, Patience, Jayathilake, Nilanthi, Tijani, M., Nikiema, Josiane, Dickens, Chris, Mateo-Sagasta, Javier, Chapman, D. V., Warner, S.

“…The African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW) Secretariat committed to design and implement an African Water Quality Program (AWaQ) in its Strategic Operational Plan (2020-2024) considering the guiding frameworks it uses such as the Africa Water Vision 2025, United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the African Union Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want. …”
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South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study (KIDS), 1993-1999 por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…This dataset combines the KwaZulu-Natal portion of the first South African national household survey, the Project for Statistics on Living Standards and Development (PSLSD), which was undertaken in the last half of 1993 under the leadership of the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit at the University of Cape Town with a re-survey of the same households from March to June 1998. …”
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Africa RISING Tanzania- Maize Intensification Using Fertilizer por World Agroforestry Centre, Sokoine University of Agriculture

“…The project team is comprised of national partners (e.g. ARI-Hombolo, District Agricultural Officers, SUA and UDOM) and CG Partners (CIMMYT and ICRAF) under the leadership of ICRISAT. …”
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Food Policy Research Capacity Indicators (FPRCI), 2011-2017: 2018 Global Food Policy Report Annex Table 4 por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Strong local policy research institutions help in shaping an evidence-based policy-making process. Measuring national capacity for food policy research is important for identifying capacity gaps in food policy research and guiding allocation of resources to fill those gaps. …”
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Analysis of Soil Related Constraints for Sustainable Intensification por World Agroforestry Centre, Sokoine University of Agriculture

“…The project team is comprised of national partners (e.g. ARI-Hombolo, District Agricultural Officers, SUA and UDOM) and CG Partners (CIMMYT and ICRAF) under the leadership of ICRISAT. …”
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Food Policy Research Capacity Indicators (FPRCI), 2011-2018: 2019 Global Food Policy Report Annex Table 3 por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Strong local policy research institutions help in shaping an evidence-based policy-making process. Measuring national capacity for food policy research is important for identifying capacity gaps in food policy research and guiding the allocation of resources to fill those gaps. …”
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2019 Global report on food crises: Joint analysis for better decisions por Food Security Information Network, Vos, Rob

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Some lessons from a life in food policy por Fan, Shenggen

“…The global agri-food policy landscape has changed in many ways and have shown me that the world's agri-food systems are increasingly connected across national and regional boundaries, as well as linked to other sectors and forces. …”
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A user guide to Ethiopia Africa research in sustainable intensification for the next generation (Africa RISING) baseline evaluation survey data por Azzarri, Carlo, Haile, Beliyou, Mengistu, Kassahun, BDS Center for Development Research, Enkhbayar, Sundui, Roberts, Cleophelia

“…Ethiopia Africa RISING is being implemented in Goshe Bado, Gudo Beret, Salka, Ilu-Sanbitu, Jawe, Upper Gana, Emba Hasti, and Tsibet kebeles in Amhara, Oromia, Southern Nationalities and People’s (SNNP), and Tigray regions of Ethiopia, within the FTF Zones of Influence. …”
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Building locally led agricultural policy analysis capacity: Lessons from experience in developing countries por Jayne, Thomas S., Babu, Suresh Chandra, Boughton, Duncan, Hendriks, Sheryl L., Mkandawire, Elizabeth, Dorosh, Paul A., Savadogo, Kimsey

“…In this report, the term “locally led” refers to institutions registered in the host country, led by nationals of the host country, and often, but not necessarily, affiliated with a public university or government unit in the host country. …”
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Impacts on trust and social capital of a youth employment program in Yemen: Evaluation of the rural and urban advocates working for development intervention for the Social Fund for... por Bertelli, Olivia, Kurdi, Sikandra, Mahmoud, Mai, Al-Maweri, Mohamad, Al Bass, Tareq

“…The main results suggest that reinforcing social ties across regions in Yemen is an important benefit of the Social Fund for Development’s role as a national development agency and an achievable objective to consider in planning development interventions to contribute to future post-conflict reconstruction.…”
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Long-term drivers of food and nutrition security por Laborde Debucquet, David, Majeed, Fahd, Tokgoz, Simla, Torero, Máximo

“…Since achieving and maintaining food and nutrition security (FNS) remains a goal for all countries, it is important to understand the individual, national, and global factors that affect FNS. This paper proposes an analytical framework to identify and analyze the respective roles of key long-term drivers of FNS. …”
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Social franchising and a nationwide mass media campaign increased the prevalence of adequate complementary feeding in Vietnam: A cluster-randomized program evaluation por Rawat, Rahul, Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Tran, Lan Mai, Hajeebhoy, Nemat, Nguyen, Huan Van, Baker, Jean, Frongillo, Edward A., Ruel, Marie T., Menon, Purnima

“…Alive & Thrive applied principles of social franchising within the government health system in Vietnam to improve the quality of interpersonal counseling (IPC) for infant and young child feeding combined with a national mass media (MM) campaign and community mobilization (CM). …”
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Consumption, sources, and perceptions of unhealthy foods Among adults and adolescents in rural South Asia por Samin, Sharraf, Kim, Sunny S., Scott, Samuel P., Blake, Christine E., Patwardhan, Sharvari, Chauhan, Alka, Neupane, Sumanta, Gavaravarapu, SubbaRao M., Pandey, Pooja, Menon, Purnima

“…Objectives: South Asian nations are experiencing a nutritional shift, transitioning from traditional diets to more energy-dense and processed alternatives containing added sugars, high salt, and saturated or trans fats, commonly known as unhealthy foods. …”
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Mechanisms behind high N2O emissions from livestock enclosures in Kenya revealed by dual-isotope and functional gene analyses por Xiantao Fang, Harris, S.J., Leitner, Sonja, Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus, Conz, R.F., Merbold, Lutz, Dannenmann, M., Oyugi, A., Shuwei Liu, Jianwen Zou, Six, Johan, Barthel, M.

“…Manure is usually not removed from bomas but left to accumulate, leading to excessive local nitrogen loads, making these bomas an overlooked N2O emission hotspot in SSA that is currently not accounted for in national and regional GHG budgets. Here, we present the first in-situ isotope measurements of N2O fluxes from 37 cattle bomas along an age gradient ranging from 0 to 5 years after boma abandonment in Kenya along with functional gene analysis of soil and manure samples. …”
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Quantifying future climate extreme indices: implications for sustainable urban development in West Africa, with a focus on the greater Accra Region por Siabi, E. K., Awafo, E. A., Kabobah, A. T., Derkyi, N. S. A., Akpoti, Komlavi, Anornu, G. K., Yazdanie, M.

“…The findings of the study are expected to inform climate policies and the nationally determined contribution of the Paris Agreement as well as address the sustainable development goal 11 (Sustainable cities) and 13 (Climate action) in West Africa.…”
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