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2019 Social Accounting Matrix for Papua New Guinea (PNG) por Pradesha, Angga, Dorosh, Paul A.

“…Statistics are continuously being revised and errors are often only identified when data is used for analysis, and so we welcome your suggestions on how the SAMs can be improved to reflect new and/or better information.…”
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COVID-19-induced disruptions of school feeding services exacerbate food insecurity in Nigeria por Abay, Kibrom A., Amare, Mulubrhan, Tiberti, Luca, Andam, Kwaw S., Wang, Michael

“…The COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdown policies have disrupted education, health, and nutrition services globally, with severe implications for children’s well-being. As the pandemic spread, more than 190 countries implemented countrywide school closures, affecting 1.6 billion children around the world. …”
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Wastewater based epidemiology as a public health resource in low- and middle-income settings por Hamilton, Katie A., Wade, M.J., Barnes, K.G., Street, R.A., Paterson, S.

“…The last decade has seen the rapid development of wastewater and environmental surveillance (WES) to address public health challenges, which has led to establishment of wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) approaches being deployed to monitor a range of health hazards. …”
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Climate-resilience policies and investments for Egypt’s agriculture sector: Sustaining productivity and food security por Perez, Nicostrato D., Kassim, Yumna, Ringler, Claudia, Thomas, Timothy S., ElDidi, Hagar, Breisinger, Clemens

“…However, the sector’s resiliency is gradually being corroded by climate change, with lasting, harmful effects for agriculture and food systems. …”
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Leveraging on agri-food sector for revival of Lankan economy in post-COVID-19 era por Weerahewa, Jeevika, Roy, Devesh

“…The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy of Sri Lanka like anywhere else in the world will be complex to predict in terms of magnitude, but directions are predictable. Being a trade dependent island nation, Sri Lanka will likely suffer from the expected recession in addition to the disruptions in global and domestic supply chains. …”
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Agricultural growth, urbanization, and poverty reduction por Dorosh, Paul A., Thurlow, James

“…Unfortunately, agricultural and urban policies are usually developed in isolation from each other and are often viewed as being in competition. This perceived competition between sectors has led many countries to adopt policies aimed at curbing internal migration or redirecting scarce public resources toward agriculture. …”
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The impacts of COVID-19 on migrants, remittances, and poverty in China: A microsimulation analysis por Zhang, Yumei, Zhan, Yue, Diao, Xinshen, Chen, Kevin Z., Robinson, Sherman

“…This led to about 50 percent of remittance-receiving households being affected adversely by falling remittances, and the average decline in such income was more than 45 percent. …”
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Measuring time use in developing country agriculture: Evidence from Bangladesh and Uganda por Seymour, Greg, Malapit, Hazel J., Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…Broadening the scope of time-use research to other aspects of well-being can help identify how time constraints contribute to gender inequality and inform the design of policies and interventions to relieve those constraints.…”
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Feeling relatively poor increases support for women in the workplace – but men still don’t want them making household decisions por Kosec, Katrina, Mo, Cecilia Hyunjung

“…We used a special type of survey technique to subtly alter respondents’ perception of their economic well-being in relation to other households. Half of the study participants were randomly primed to feel that they were at the bottom of a wide income distribution.…”
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Gender, time-use, and energy expenditures in rural communities in India and Nepal por Picchioni, Fiorella, Zanello, Giacomo, Srinivasan, C. S., Wyatt, Amanda, Webb, Patrick

“…Women’s patterns of time-use, which proxy the work burdens associated with productive and reproductive activities, are an important determinant of nutrition and well-being in LMICs. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence on how patterns of time-use translate into patterns of physical activity and energy expenditure, particularly in rural areas where seasonal agricultural labour plays such an important role. …”
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Decentralization without democracy por Kosec, Katrina, Mogues, Tewodaj

“…Increasingly, decentralization is being adopted by countries in which assumptions made by formal models of decentralization, such as electoral accountability and population mobility, fail to hold. …”
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How many farmers are really there in India? A critical assessment of nationally representative data por Narayanan, Sudha, Saha, Shree

“…This has important implications for policies that end up, often by construction, being exclusionary. This paper suggests the need for a coherent set of definitions. …”
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Post COVID-19 Era: Leveraging on agri-food sector for SL’s economic revival por Weerahewa, Jeevika, Roy, Devesh

“…The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy of Sri Lanka like anywhere else in the world will be complex to predict in terms of magnitude, but directions are predictable. Being a trade dependent island nation, Sri Lanka would likely suffer from the expected recession in addition to the disruptions in global and domestic supply chains. …”
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The impacts of cash transfers on mental health and investments: Experimental evidence from Mali por Hidrobo, Melissa, Karachiwalla, Naureen, Roy, Shalini

“…In this paper, we estimate the impacts of Mali's national cash transfer program, Filets Sociaux (Jigis-émèjiri), on measures of psychological well-being, cognition, and time preferences. We find that receiving the program improved household decision-makers' perceptions of economic and food security and reduced their self-reported anxiety. …”
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Assessment of the use of outputs from PIM-supported work on national SAMs and CGE models por Somwaru, Agapi

“…The report seeks to document what decisions were made based on the contribution of SAM/CGE models’ outputs that effectively shaped work or what changes were made because of CGIAR PIM– supported economywide modeling being available to decision makers. Based on the above, the report makes recommendations for CGIAR PIM–supported single economywide modeling work on how to effectively increase decision makers’ use of SAM/CGE outputs.…”
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Crop Diversification in Maize-Based Cropping System: Maize-Sesame Intercropping por International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Savannah Agricultural Research Institute

“…Project abstract: Mono-cropping of sesame(Sesame indicum L.) is being promoted for cash to diversify smallholder income in the northern Ghana. …”
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Bangladesh Agricultural Value Chain (AVC) Impact Evaluation: Midline Survey por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Funded under the Feed the Future (FTF) Initiative, the Bangladesh Agricultural Value Chains (AVC) project being implemented by Development Alternatives International (DAI) is working to improve food (and nutrition) security through strengthened agricultural value chains. …”
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Pigeonpea Ratooning Trial Under Conservation Agriculture, 2020 por International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Zambian Agriculture Research Institute

“…This dataset includes data generated from the on-station trial that was conducted to evaluate the various management methods that are being advocated in the Southern Africa region. The following treatments were used for this trial. - Sole maize continuous; - Full Pigeonpea/maize rotation; - Maize + Pigeonpea full growth no ratooning; - Maize + Pigeonpea, uprooting at harvest and re-seeding every year; - Maize + Pigeonpea, ratooning at harvest and at seeding; - Maize + Pigeonpea, ratooning at harvest and 2 weeks after maize seeding; - Maize + Pigeonpea, ratooning at harvest and 3 weeks after maize seeding; - Maize + Pigeonpea, strip harvest of pigeonpea pods (no ratooning), plant maize and pigeonpea at seeding time, cut pigeonpea at ground level 2 weeks after maize planting; - Maize + Pigeonpea, strip harvest of pigeonpea pods (no ratooning), delay planting of maize by a minimum of 14 days, cut pigeonpea at base, reseed pigeonpea with maize 14 days after the planting window.…”
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Replication Data for “Learning Together: Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Group-Based Nutrition Interventions in Rural Bihar" por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The dataset includes information on various primary and secondary outcomes, individual, household, and village characteristics, as well as many other key variables related to the impact pathways being studied.…”
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Perspectives on Iran's environmental policy process: Issues and constraints por Aghmashhadi, Amir Hedayati, Babu, Suresh Chandra, Daroodi, Masoud, Zahedi, Samaneh, Kazemi, Azadeh

“…Further, it is also important to incorporate environmental considerations in the current policies being implemented in sectors such as the agriculture or energy sector. …”
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