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Food markets and diets in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A geographical overview (2004–2005) por Marivoet, Wim

“…The results of this descriptive study point to inefficient domestic food markets, with Kinshasa being a case in point: it is deficient, poorly connected to its hinterland and highly dependent on imports. …”
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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

“…We exploit the randomized roll-out of Mali's national cash transfer program to estimate its impact on measures of psychological and emotional well-being, time preferences, and cognitive function among households’ primary decision-makers. …”
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The nutrition and health risks faced by pregnant adolescents: Insights from a cross-sectional study in Bangladesh por Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Sanghvi, Tina, Tran, Lan Mai, Afsana, Kaosar, Mahmud, Zeba, Menon, Purnima, Massimo Ciccozzi

“…Little is known about nutrition and well-being indicators of pregnant adolescents and the availability and use of nutrition interventions delivered through maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) programs. …”
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Estimating multidimensional development resilience por Lee, Seungmin, Abay, Kibrom A., Barrett, Christopher B., Hoddinott, John F.

“…Existing measures, however, relate resilience to a single well-being indicator. This may be problematic in contexts where households face deprivations in multiple dimensions. …”
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Reforming and promoting local agricultural markets: a research approach por Badiane, Ousmane, Nuppenau, Ernst-August

“…Although the techniques that are being used have become much more sophisticated, recent methodological developments in market research have hardly gone beyond the econometric test of market integration. …”
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Mycotoxin contamination in foods: anti-nutritional factors por Cardwell, K. F.

“…In developing countries, monitoring and enforcement of standards is rare. People are being exposed to unsafe levels of various mycotoxins, often in mixtures, and the consequences in terms of public health burden have been ignored. …”
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Capacity Building In Scaling Smart-Valleys Approach For Land And Water Development In Inland Valleys In Mali por Djagba, Justin, Doumbia, Salif, Konake, Sory, Dossou-Yovo, Elliott

“…Since the launch of the “Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA)”, numerous climate-smart agricultural technologies are being deployed at a large scale in Mali. Smart-Valleys is one of these CSA technologies. …”
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Poverty, agricultural intensification, and the environment por Pinstrup-Andersen, Per, Pandya-Lorch, Rajul

“…I Intensive use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and irrigation technology, in combination with higher-yielding crop varieties, has led to enough food being produced in the world such that if it were evenly distributed, no one would go hungry. …”
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Continental dispersal of the cassava green mite, an exotic pest in Africa, and implications for biological control por Yaninek, J.S.

“…The cassava green mite,Mononychellus tanajoa (Bondar) (Acari: Tetranychidae), has been found to be dispersed across the cassava belt of Africa in less than 10 years after first being discovered in 1971. This mite disperses within plants by walking, and within and between fields by drifting aerially. …”
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New arrangements for forest science to meet the needs of sustainable forest management por Byron, R.N., Turnbull, J.W.

“…There appears to be a contradiction: just when it is being recognised that there is an expanding need for more, better and better-integrated socio-economic and public policy research in support of SFM, many of the institutions which might have done that are being dismantled. …”
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Intrahousehold gender relations and sustainable farming: Survey evidence from four African countries por Ragasa, Catherine, Lambrecht, Isabel B., Cole, Steven, Ma, Ning

“…-Intra-household power relations (Ambler et al. 2021; Annan et al. 2021) Asymmetry in power and subjective perceptions: -Intra-spousal communications -Agreement: Less Intra-household friction -> faster decision-making and speedy actions -Disagreement: Underlying conflict and slower joint evaluation of options Disagreement -> Poorer development outcomes: -Reproductive health care use (Story and Burgard, 2012) -Children’s well-being (Annan et al., 2021), Women’s well-being (Ambler et al., 2021) -Agricultural outcomes? …”
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From bark to hartwood: gender issues in sustainable forest management por Colfer, C.J.P., Wadley, R.L., Woelfel, J., Harwell, E.

“…A variety of methods is currently being tested for cost effectiveness and reliability, in the hopes that people’s well being and their roles in forest management can be routinely assessed. …”
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Access to resources in forest-rich and forest-poor contexts por Porro R., Tiani, A.M., Tchikangwa, B., Sardjono, M.A., Salim, A., Colfer, C.J.P., Brocklesby, M.A.

“…This chapter examines the results from two pebble sorting methods designed to help assess important elements of human well-being, relating to access to resources and benefits from the forest (both intra and intergenerationally). …”
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Miombo woodlands and rural livelihoods in Malawi por Lowore, J.D.

“…Over the years the woodlands and the way they have been used have changed, but their contribution for maintaining well being and providing peoples’ basic needs appears to have remained important. …”
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Multifunctional agroforestry systems in India por Pandey, D.N.

“…To promote well-being of the society, management of multifunctional agroforestry needs to be strengthened by innovations in domestication of useful species and crafting market regimes for the products derived from agroforestry and ethnoforestry systems. …”
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Tissue distribution and prevalence of Wolbachia infections in tsetse flies, Glossina spp por Cheng, Q, Ruel, T.D., Zhou, W., Moloo, S.K., Majiwa, Phelix A.O., O'Neill, S.L., Aksoy, S.

“…(Diptera: Glossinidae) harbor three different symbiotic microorganisms one being an intracellular Rickettsia of the genus Wolbachia. …”
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Irrigation management and crop diversification (Sri Lanka). Vol. 1- Synthesis of findings and recommendations Kirindi Oya and Uda Walawe Projects - Vol. 2 - Kirindi Oya Project - V... por International Irrigation Management Institute

“…This study of Irrigation Management and Crop Diversification is being carried out under a Technical Assistance Agreement (T.A. …”
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Simulating impacts of irrigation on the hydrology of the Karagan Lagoon in Sri Lanka por Stanzel, P., Oze, A., Smakhtin, Vladimir U., Boelee, Eline, Droogers, Peter

“…The evaluation of this impact is the subject for a long-term study that is presently being carried out by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI). …”
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Regional experience with forage Arachis in other tropical areas: Asia, Africa, and the Pacific por Stür, Werner W., Ndikumana, J.

“…But there are a few instances where forage Arachis is being used by farmers for heavily grazed pastures or as a cover crop in fruit tree operations. …”
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Weather index insurance: lessons learned and best practices for Bangladesh. Workshop Report, 8-9 September 2013, Dhaka, Bangladesh por Ahmed, T., Hasemann A

“…Index insurance has been operating for about 10 years in many countries but is still at an early stage in Bangladesh, where there are two schemes currently being piloted and three other projects being developed. …”
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