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Resilient Nature Based Water Solutions (RNBWS) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA region) por International Water Management Institute

“…Simultaneously, they can support sustainable management of watersheds and agro-ecosystems to benefit human well-being and biodiversity.…”
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A guide to developing quantitative tools for measuring gender norms in agrifood systems por Seymour, Greg, Cole, Steven M., Costenbader, Elizabeth, Mwakanyamale, Devis, Adeyeye, Olajumoke, Feleke, Shiferaw, Ferguson, Nathaniel, Heckert, Jessica

“…Increasingly, gender transformative approaches (GTAs), which seek to transform the underlying causes of gender inequalities, including discriminatory gender norms, are being used in agrifood systems (AFS) interventions. …”
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Food security and food self sufficiency in Bhutan por Minot, Nicholas, Pelijor, Nidup

“…In contrast, food self-sufficiency is defined as being able to meet consumption needs (particularly for staple food crops) from own production rather than by buying or importing. …”
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Institutional and capacity challenges in agricultural policy process: The case of Democratic Republic of Congo por Ragasa, Catherine, Babu, Suresh Chandra, Ulimwengu, John M.

“…Findings suggest that the decentralized platform, through the Agriculture and Rural Management Councils, has shown some improvement in civil society participation in local-level and national-level policy and planning processes; however, these councils are being threatened by sustainability of funds and lack of demonstrated benefits and impact of participation. …”
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Economics of climate change in the Arab world por Verner, Dorte, Breisinger, Clemens

“…The Arab region is already being impacted by climate change through more frequent cyclones, floods, and prolonged droughts. …”
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Agri-environmental policies in a transitional economy: the value of agricultural biodiversity in Hungarian home gardens por Birol, Ekin, Smale, Melinda, Gyovai, Agnes

“…The role of home gardens in the agri-environmental program that is now being formulated by Hungary and the European Union has not been elucidated, though the stated goal of these policies is to support multifunctional agriculture. …”
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Poverty, inequality, and spillover in Mexico's education, health, and nutrition program por Handa, Sudhanshu, Huerta, Mari-Carmen, Perez, Raul, Straffon, Beatriz

“…Hence, instead of focusing on program effects at the individual level, the study focuses on aggregate community-level indicators of well being such as poverty, inequality, and school and health care attendance rates, in order to assess the impact of PROGRESA at this level. …”
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The impact of improved maize germplasm on poverty alleviation: the case of Tuxpeño-derived material in Mexico por Bellon, Mauricio R., Adato, Michelle, Becerril, Javier, Mindek, Dubravka

“…This study documents how poor small-scale farmers in lowland tropical Mexico use improved maize germplasm and how this contributes to their well-being. It does this by assessing both the direct adoption of improved varieties and examining the process of their creolization." …”
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Methods of consensus building for community based fisheries management in Bangladesh and the Mekong Delta por Sultana, Parvin, Thompson, Paul

“…A method of consensus building for management of wetlands and fisheries using a systematic approach to participatory planning and initially developed in Bangladesh is now being applied in both Bangladesh and the Mekong delta. …”
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The impact of improved maize germplasm on poverty alleviation: the case of Tuxpeño-derived material in Mexico por Bellon, Mauricio R., Adato, Michelle, Becerril, Javier, Mindek, Dubravka

“…This study documents how poor small-scale farmers in lowland tropical Mexico use improved maize germplasm and how this contributes to their well-being. It does this by assessing both the direct adoption of improved varieties and examining the process of their "creolization."" …”
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Globalization of food and agriculture and the poor por von Braun, Joachim, Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio

“…Rather than offering a single policy prescription or simplistic messages about globalization being 'good' or 'bad', the book acknowledges the complexity of the subject by including a variety of policy and research perspectives. …”
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Reducing post-harvest losses and enhancing food safety: The role of the midstream traders in the case of mango and vegetable value chains in southern Philippines por Digal, Larry, Carbonell, Alessa Keith, Aguinaldo, Roxanne, Orbeta, Marvin Louie, Shuck, Vlademir, Dijkxhoorn, Youri, Piters, Bart de Steenhuijsen

“…In Mindanao, its share to the total output is higher being an agri-based economy and when agri-based outputs of the industry and service sectors are accounted for, the share of the agri-food system reaches to more than 60% of its economy (World Bank 2017). …”
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Addressing feed gap using resilient forage-based feed options and densification: A perspective from Tunisia por Rudiger, Udo, Peters, Michael, Mwendia, Solomon, P. S. Makkar, Harinder, Hassan, Sawsan, Dey, Bhramar

“…Forage production from a mix of forage species (triticale, oats, fenugreek, and vetch) in different proportions to pellet production using a mix of grains of maize, barley and soybean and locally available feed ingredients such as date palm byproducts, grain brans, tomato plant, saline-tolerant local alfalfa, among others are being increasingly used by small and medium farmers. …”
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Global rangelands data platform por Flintan, Fiona E., Getahun, Yasin, Garcia, Carlos Domenech

“…The global rangelands data platform is being established in response to a gap in rangelands data identified by the UN Environment Assembly through Resolution L17 Innovations in Sustainable Rangelands and Pastoralism 2019 and the complimentary report: A Case of Benign Neglect. …”
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Shocks, sensitivity and resilience: tracking the economic impacts of environmental disaster on assets in Ethiopia and Honduras por Carter, Michael R., Little, Peter D., Mogues, Tewodaj, Negatu, Workneh

“…While the patterns are different across countries, both reveal worlds in which the poorest households struggle most with shocks, adopting coping strategies which are costly in terms of both short term and long term well-being. There is some evidence that shocks threaten long term poverty traps and that they tend to militate against any tendency of the poor to catch up with wealthier households. …”
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Bioenergy and agriculture: Promises and challenges: Brazil's experience with bioenergy por Moreira, José Roberto

“…Although Brazil’s program was criticized as being uneconomic during periods of low oil prices, the ethanol industry today is recognized as an efficient sector that brings substantial benefits to the Brazilian economy. …”
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Zambia: A quiet crisis in African research and development por Elliott, Howard, Perrault, Paul T.

“…It has also enjoyed periods of relative economic well-being and institutional growth based on its copper industry. …”
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Social capital and the reproduction of economic inequality in polarized societies por Mogues, Tewodaj, Carter, Michael R.

“…Among other things the paper shows that holding constant the initial levels of economic polarization and wealth inequality, higher socioeconomic polarization increases subsequent income and wealth inequality. Far from being a distributionally neutral panacea for missing markets, social capital in this model may itself generate exclusion and deepen social and economic cleavages.…”
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A 1992 social accounting matrix (SAM) for Tanzania por Wobst, Peter

“…As part of the Tanzania country study being done under the IFPRI research project on Macroeconomic Reform and Regional Integration in Southern Africa (MERRISA), a social accounting matrix (SAM) has been constructed for the base year 1992. …”
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Gender equality and investments in adolescents in the rural Philippines por Bouis, Howarth E., Palabrica-Costello, Marilou, Solon, Orville, Westbrook, M. Daniel, Limbo, Azucena B.

“…Adolescence is a crucial period in that teenagers can make major contributions to their families’ welfare through their labor and earnings, in and outside the household, but may sacrifice their own wishes and future well-being in the process if such contributions come at the expense of investments in their education. …”
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