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Små urbana grönytor som mentalt välgörande miljöer por Magnusson, Lisa

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School-based nutrition interventions had impacts on dietary diversity and meal frequency of adolescent girls in Ethiopia por Sununtnasuk, Celeste, Berhane, Hanna, Kim, Sunny S., Menon, Purnima, Oumer, Abdulaziz, Sanghvi, Tina, Walissa, Tamirat

“…Adolescence is a critical period of physical and psychological development, especially for girls as poor nutrition can affect their well-being as well as the well-being of their children. …”
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Liberalise trade in machines por Ajmani, Manmeet Singh, Roy, Devesh, Takeshima, Hiroyuki

“…This move is symptomatic of heterodox opening policies, being open on the export side while being closed on the import side. …”
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Small-Scale Surface (Tank) Irrigation in Asia por Palanisami, K., Easter, K. William

“…Tank irrigation is an ancient tradition in Asia which is now being reviewed as a potential model for future irrigation expansion. …”
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Why projections on China's future food supply and demand differ por Fan, Shenggen, Agcaoili-Sombilla, Mercedita

“…Projections vary greatly, from China being self‐sufficient in grain to being a net importer of 369 million metric tons of grain in 2030. …”
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Takaful program: Giving Egypt’s poor a hand up, not just a handout por Karachiwalla, Naureen, Gilligan, Daniel O., Kurdi, Sikandra

“…Egypt’s Takaful program, launched in 2015, is a flagship example, targeting poor households with monthly cash transfers to improve their well-being. While cash transfers are increasingly popular and being scaled up globally, their effectiveness is often debated—especially when it comes to their short-, medium,- and long-term impacts.…”
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Social sustainability por Wollenberg, Eva Karoline, Colfer, C.J.P.

“…Social sustainability can be defined as the maintenance of people's well-being (with a focus on the people most dependent on the resource), the actions of people to sustain the resource, or the maintenance of equitable benefits across generations. …”
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Bamboo forestry in China: toward environmentally friendly expansion por Ruíz Pérez, M., Fu Maoyi, Yang Xiaosheng, Belcher, B.

“…Bamboo products are also being substituted for wood products, a process that has been accelerated by a variety of policy measures. …”
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Village economic opportunity, forest dependence, and rural livelihoods in East Kalimantan, Indonesia por Dewi, S., Belcher, B., Puntodewo, A.

“…Increased economic diversity, larger areas of forests, more intensive land use, higher endowments of agricultural land and forest, and higher village population are related to increased well-being.…”
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Emergency seed aid In Kenya: a case study of lessons learned por Sperling, L.

“…While focusing on a single season just after a drought, it draws on a history of almost 10 years of repeated seed aid, with yet another intervention being organized as this report is being written. …”
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Increasing rural employment in sub-Saharan Africa por Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Sub-Saharan Africa faces enormous socio-economic challenges, one of the greatest being the lack of work in rural areas. Already, tens of millions of rural Africans have no work, or not enough to lift themselves out of poverty. …”
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Prospects for microbial control in West Africa por Langewald, J., Cherry, A.

“…Apart from commercially oriented pathways, alternative methods of pathogen propagation and implementation are being studied, to serve the needs of those agricultural sectors which do not provide sufficient profit margins, such as the mainly traditional subsistence systems. …”
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Les insectes et le Sillon Dahomeen: fragmentation et refuges forestiers por Le Gall, P., Goergen, Georg E., Neuenschwander, Peter

“…A dozen insect species are provisionally defined as being endemic to the Dahomey Gap.…”
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Role of ICRAF in agroforestry development por NAIR, P.K.R., ICRAF, Nairobi (Kenia)

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Forests, trees and poverty alleviation: Policy implications of current knowledge por Miller, D.C., Mansourian, S., Gabay, M., Hajjar, R., Jagger, P., Kamoto, J.F.M., Newton, P., Oldekop, J.A., Razafindratsima, O.H., Shyamsundar, P., Sunderland, T.C.H., Wildburger, C.

“…Major advances have been made over the past two decades in our understanding of the contribution forests and trees outside forests make to human well-being across the globe. Yet this knowledge has not always been incorporated into broader poverty and development policy agendas. …”
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CRP-Commissioned External Evaluation of the CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Cereals por Hillocks, Rory, Kumar, Ravinder, Martin, Adrienne, Robinson, Jonathan, Rothschild, George, Thangata, Paul

“…Is the Dryland Cereals generating synergy among centers and improving integration among disciplines and teams? Is knowledge being shared, technologies exchanged and capacity being built across countries and partners? …”
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Predicting the distribution of plant species from southern South America: Are the hotspots of genetic diversity threatened by climate change? por Soliani, Carolina, Ceccarelli, Viviana, Lantschner, María Victoria, Thomas, Evert, Marchelli, Paula

“…Biodiversity in all its dimensions is being threatened by climate change and the impact of human activities. …”
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Risk aversion, impatience, and adoption of conservation agriculture practices among smallholders in Zambia por Simutowe, Esau, Ngoma, Hambulo, Manyanga, Mark, Silva, ‪João Vasco, Baudron, Frédéric, Nyagumbo, Isaiah, Kalala, Kelvin, Habeenzu, Mukwemba, Thierfelder, Christian

“…Being risk averse is correlated with a decreased chance of adopting basins by 2.8 percentage points. …”
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Agricultural production diversity, child dietary diversity and nutritional status in poor, rural Gansu Province of China por Liu, Xinghua, Liu, Chengfang, Chen, Kevin Z.

“…We find that both agricultural production richness score and revenue generated from selling agricul tural products are positively associated with food variety score, with the relationship being stronger for the latter. Moreover, production diversity score is positively associated with chil dren’s dietary diversity score whereas negatively associated with their probability of being stunted, but not with their probabilities of being wasted or zinc deficient. …”
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Spousal concordance in joint and separate households: Survey evidence from Nepal por Ambler, Kate, Doss, Cheryl R., Kieran, Caitlin, Passarelli, Simone

“…These results highlight that spousal concordance is not necessarily indicative of wives’ well-being, especially in joint households.…”
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