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Highlights of IFPRI's partnerships and impacts in China 2015: Reducing poverty and hunger through food policy research por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…In 2003, IFPRI developed a strategy specifically tailored to its work in China and expanded its national program. In collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), IFPRI established the International Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (ICARD) that same year to coordinate the Institute’s propoor research and activities in China and East Asia. …”
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What are the priorities for investment in improved nutrition data? por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Based on a purposive sample, we conducted a structured interview survey of 59 Ministry of Health facilities, 9 district offices, and national-level CDP staff.Only one-third of the facilities implemented all 11 CDP core activities. …”
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Compte-rendu de la réunion préparatoire d’échanges entre l’Alliance of Bioversity & CIAT et la Coordination du projet ProPAD au TCHAD et ses partenaires por Ogou, Anani

“…Les structures représentées étaient : i) l’Alliance of Bioversity International & CIAT, ii) la Coordination du projet ProPAD, iii) l’Institut Tchadien de la Recherche Agricole pour le Développement (ITRAD), iv) le Conseil National de Concertation des Producteurs Ruraux du Tchad (CNCPRT), et v) l’Agence Nationale d'Appui au Développement Rural (ANADER). …”
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The agrifood system in PNG: Structure and drivers of transformation por Diao, Xinshen, Dorosh, Paul A., Escalante, Luis Enrique, Pradesha, Angga, Thurlow, James, Junyan, Tian

“…In the early stages of agricultural transformation, the agriculture sector serves as an engine of rural and national economic growth. Eventually, urbanization, the nonfarm economy, and nonagricultural incomes play more dominant roles in propelling agrifood system development, with urban and rural nonfarm consumers creating most of the demand for agricultural outputs via value chains connecting rural areas to towns and cities (Dorosh and Thurlow 2013). …”
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Collection of cassava landraces and associated farmers' knowledge, genetic diversity and viral incidence assessment in western Kenya por Obare, I.J., Charimbu, M.K., Mafurah, J., Mutoni, C.K., Woyengo, V.W., Shah, T., Ferguson, Morag E.

“…Many cassava landraces from the western region have been seriously affected by two viral diseases, cassava mosaic disease (CMD) and cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) but have not been conserved, together with associated farmer knowledge, in national or international germplasm repositories. This study aimed at collecting landraces and associated farmers’ knowledge, identifying collected cultivars and determining their genetic diversity. …”
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Evaluation Of Mycotoxin Content In Soybean (Glycine max L.) Grown In Rwanda por Niyibituronsa, Marguerite, Onyango, AN, Imathiu, SM, Gaidashova, S, Muhutu, JC, Uwizerwa, M, Wanjuki, I, Nganga, F, Birungi, J, Ghimire, Sita R., Raes, K, De Boevre, M, De Saeger, S, Harvey, Jagger J.W.

“…Promoted by the Rwandan National Agricultural Research System for both adults and as an infant weaning food, soybean is grown by approximately 40% of households. …”
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Reproductive seasonality in African ungulates in relation to rainfall por Ogutu, Joseph O., Piepho, Hans-Peter, Dublin, Holly T.

“…Methods: We relate monthly apparent fecundity and juvenile recruitment rates to monthly rainfall for six ungulate species inhabiting the Masai Mara National Reserve (Mara) of Kenya, using cross-correlation analysis and distributed lag non-linear models. …”
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Water security and climate resilience in the Somali Region, Ethiopia: an assessment of the vulnerabilities of refugee and host communities por Singh, Radhika, Mekuria, Wolde, Dessalegn, Mengistu, Melaku, Dagmawi, Adam-Bradford, A., Ruckstuhl, Sandra

“…Policies, strategies, and frameworks already in place can support the development of anticipatory action and climate adaptation measures to address water-related challenges. National- and regional-level initiatives prioritizing integrating refugee and host communities and developing livelihoods and economic opportunities can help build resilience to economic stresses. …”
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Development of an operational flood early warning system for Black Volta River Basin, West Africa por Padhee, Suman Kumar, Amarnath, Giriraj, Umer, Yakob

“…The UNDRR strongly advocates for flood early warning system (FEWS) with scientific rationale for all nations by 2027, acknowledging that developing countries face financial and human resource challenges in adopting advanced FEWS infrastructure. …”
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Enhancing transboundary flood forecasting for early warnings in the Gash River Basin por Amarnath, Giriraj, Alahacoon, Niranga, Gismalla, Y., Mohammed, Y., Sharma, Bharat R., Smakhtin, Vladimir

“…To generate relevant parameters for modeling, GlobCover land cover data (1000 m), Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) Digital Elevation Model (DEM) at 90 m, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) soil grid data using freely available datasets were used for the Gash River in Eastern Sudan. …”
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Agricultural growth and investment options for poverty reduction in Nigeria por Diao, Xinshen, Nwafor, Manson, Alpuerto, Vida, Akramov, Kamiljon T., Salau, Sheu

“…The DCGE model results show that if certain agricultural subsectors can reach the growth targets set by the Nigerian government, the country will see 9.5 percent annual growth in agriculture and 8.0 percent growth of GDP over the next years. The national poverty rate will fall to 30.8 percent by 2017, more than halving the 1996 poverty rate of 65.6 percent and thereby accomplishing the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG1). …”
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Responding to land degradation in the highlands of Tigray, Northern Ethiopia por Kumasi, Tyhra Carolyn, Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo

“…The commitment of the government at both the national and local levels (through sensitization and mobilization for group formation and provision of tools and construction materials); the ethnic homogeneity of the population; and the existence of the Orthodox Church, where most of the people were members, were major factors for the success of the community mobilization for collective action in Tigray. …”
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The effect of supplementary selenium source on apparent and true absorption, retention, performance, and selenium status in lactating Holstein cows por Cruickshank, K.M., Hatew, Bayissa, Gehman, A.M., Koenig, K.M., Ribeiro, E.S., McBride, B.W., Steele, M.A.

“…Multiparous Holstein cows (n = 24; 597 ± 49 kg of BW) were blocked by DIM (161 ± 18) and randomly assigned to receive 0.3 mg Se/kg of DM (100% of National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine requirements) of either organic Se (ORG; selenized yeast) or inorganic Se (INO; sodium selenite). …”
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Resilient Cities urban nutrition profile: Bangladesh por Margolies, Amy, Choo, Esther, Singh, Nishmeet, Parvin, Aklima, Ruel, Marie T., Olney, Deanna K.

“…Data on urban food environments (FEs) is becoming more available, but there are gaps in knowledge, particularly on the design and evaluation of interventions to counter the influence of the country’s increasingly obesogenic urban FE. National policies include targeted actions to improve urban diets and nutrition. …”
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Role of ICARDA in improving the nutritional quality and yield potential of Grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.) for subsistence farmers in developing countries por Abd El-Moneim, Ali M., van Dorrestein, B., Baum, Michael, Mulugeta, W.

“…These lines were distributed to national program for testing under different environmental conditions. …”
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How can African agriculture adapt to climate change: Global carbon markets: Are there opportunities for Sub-Saharan Africa? por Bryan, Elizabeth, Akpalu, Wisdom, Ringler, Claudia, Yesuf, Mahmud

“…Carbon trading includes allowance-based agreements that impose national caps on emissions and allow participating countries to engage in emission trading as well as project-based transactions (for example, through the CDM or Clean Development Mechanism). …”
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Evolution of food insecurity in Sudan during the ongoing conflict por Kirui, Oliver K., Siddig, Khalid, Fisher, Monica, Abushama, Hala, Ahmed, Mosab O. M., Raouf, Mariam, Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum

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Assessing food consumed away from home in low-and middle-income countries by developing specific modules for household surveys: Experimental evidence from Vietnam and Burkina Faso por Landais, Edwige, Pelloquin, Raphaël, Maître d’Hôtel, Elodie, Truong Tuyet, Mai, Hoang Thu, Nga, Bui Thi Thao, Yen, Do Thi Phuong, Ha, Thu, Trang Tran Thi, Somé, Jérôme, Bene, Christophe, Verger, Eric O.

“…There is a need for the international community to continue to work on developing and validating tools capable to estimate nutritional intakes related to food consumption away from home and that could be added to regular national household-level surveys.…”
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Mapping irrigated areas of Ghana using fusion of 30 m and 250 m resolution remote-sensing data por Gumma, Murali Krishna, Thenkabail, Prasad S., Hideto, Fujii, Nelson, Andrew, Dheeravath, Venkateswarlu, Busia, Dawuni, Rala, Arnel

“…Finally, classes were tested and verified using ground truth data and national statistics. Fuzzy classification accuracy assessment for the irrigated classes varied between 67 and 93%. …”
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Impacts of rodent outbreaks on food security in Asia por Singleton, Grant R., Belmain, Steven, Brown, Peter R., Aplin, Ken, Htwe, Nyo Me

“…We compiled information from agencies of the United Nations, non-government organisations and the authors. …”
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