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Smallholder farmer resilience to water scarcity por Aguilar, F.X., Hendrawan, D., Cai, Z., Roshetko, J.M., Stallmann, J.

“…Water scarcity poses one of the most prominent threats to the well-being of smallholder farmers around the world. We studied the association between rural livelihood capitals (natural, human, social, financial, and physical) and resilience to water scarcity. …”
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Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) Mid-year report 2022 por Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa

“…Activities financed under AICCRA are being implemented by a broad coalition of CGIAR partners working at the regional, sub-regional, and national levels. …”
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Streamlining climate change, climate risk management in Agriculture, climate information services, and climate-smart agriculture innovations into undergraduate university curriculu... por Belay, Berhanu, Ambaw, Gebermedihin, Amha, Yosef, Makonnen, Brook T., Solomon, Dawit

“…The country is considered a climate hotspot where climate change poses grave threats to human well-being and natural environments. The accelerating pace of climate change in the region is invariably being felt through increased extreme weather and variability, which affects the frequency, intensity, spatial distribution, duration and timing of severe weather and climate events. …”
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Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) Mid-year report 2023 por Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa

“…Activities financed under AICCRA are being implemented by a broad coalition of CGIAR partners working at the regional, sub-regional, and national levels. …”
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The benefits and limitations of farm equipment supply subsidy: Experiences and lessons from Senegal por Tadesse, Getaw, Goundan, Anatole, Sarr, Saer

“…Because of the design of the program—being procured and supplied by the government—we argue that the effect of this program on adoption of improved farm equipment depends on the supply and price benefits as well as the relative importance of ownership to access farm equipment. …”
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Economic development, mobility, and political discontent: An experimental test of Tocqueville’s thesis in Pakistan por Healy, Andrew, Kosec, Katrina, Mo, Cecilia Hyunjung

“…As predicted by the theory, political discontent rises when declining personal well-being coincides with high mobility to create unrealized aspirations. …”
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The impact of household health shocks on female time allocation and agricultural labor participation in rural Pakistan por Gajate-Garrido, Gissele

“…The paper shows how these changes in time allocation affect households’ overall well-being.…”
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Agricultural diversification and poverty in India por Birthal, Pratap S., Roy, Devesh, Negi, Digvijay S.

“…Using data from a nationally representative survey, we establish that households diversifying toward HVCs are less likely to be poor, the biggest impact being for smallholders. Furthermore, using continuous treatment matching, we establish the relationship between degree of diversification (share of area dedicated to HVC) and economic well-being of the farmers. …”
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Women and youth in agriculture por Lambrecht, Isabel B., Mahrt, Kristi, Cho, Ame, Ei Win, Hnin

“…Without such evidence, policies and projects risk being designed on the basis of false assumptions, at best lowering efficiency and, at worst, leading to harmful outcomes. …”
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Animal health and the role of communities: an example of trypanasomosis control options in Uganda por McCarthy, Nancy, McDermott, John, Coleman, Paul

“…The rights and responsibilities for providing various public goods are being decentralized to lower levels of government administration, and/or being devolved directly to local citizens or user groups themselves. …”
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The importance of women's status for child nutrition in developing countries por Smith, Lisa C., Ramakrishnan, Usha, Ndiaye, Aida, Haddad, Lawrence J., Martorell, Reynaldo

“…Until recently, too little attention has been paid to an obviously relevant yet little noticed issue: the role that the capabilities and well-being of children’s caretakers, usually their mothers, play in children’s nutritional well-being. …”
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Melatonin is responsible for rice resistance to rice stripe virus infection through a nitric oxide-dependent pathway por Lu, Rongfei, Liu, Zhiyang, Shao, Yudong, Sun, Feng, Zhang, Yali, Cui, Jin, Zhou, Yijun, Shen, Wenbiao, Zhou, Tong

“…In this study, there was a difference in MT content between two rice varieties that correlated with one being susceptible and one being resistant to RSV, which suggested that MT is related to RSV resistance. …”
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Estimating multidimensional development resilience por Lee, Seungmin, Abay, Kibrom A., Barrett, Christopher B., Hoddinott, John F.

“…Existing measures of resilience are typically based on a single well-being indicator. This is problematic in contexts where households face deprivations across multiple dimensions. …”
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Effects of fertilizer and weeding in no-tillage and tilled maize por Kang, B.T., Moody, K., Adesina, J.O.

“…On the newly cleared Apomu soil, broadleaved weeds comprised the major portion of the weed flora, with the shrubs being more important under no-tillage. More grasses and sedges were present when the soil was tilled. …”
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Forest science research needs and priorities for sustainable forest management por Byron, R.N., Sayer, Jeffrey A.

“…The global public goods value of forests is being recognised at the same time that traditional role of state forest agencies in production forestry is declining, in part being taken over by multi-national corporations. …”
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Modelling the impacts of group ranch subdivision on agro-pastoral households in Kajiado, Kenya por Thornton, Philip K., BurnSilver, S.B., Boone, Randall B., Galvin, K.A.

“…If subdivision occurs, even to parcels as large as 196 km2, livelihood strategies may need to be modified to maintain current levels of household well-being. Model results have been discussed in community meetings in southern Kajiado, but more work is needed on communication mechanisms to utilise more effectively the results of imperfect but useful integrated assessments of complex problems concerning land use and human well-being.…”
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Cultivation and conservation in Ngorongoro conservation area, Tanzania por Boone, Randall B., Galvin, K.A., Thornton, Philip K., Swift, D.M., Coughenour, M.B.

“…Our results indicate that having <1% of NCA in cultivation, in its current distribution, is not overly detrimental to wildlife or livestock populations, and is important to Maasai well-being.…”
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Improving crop water productivity under stressed environment por Sharma, Bharat R.

“…As a consequence, pollution is increasing and rivers are drying up because of greater agricultural production and water consumption; land and water resources are being stressed through erosion, salinization, nutrient depletion and the intrusion of seawater; and groundwater levels are declining rapidly in densely populated areas of North Africa, North China, India, and Mexico because of overexploitation. …”
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Institutions and transition: does a better institutional environment make water users associations more effective in Central Asia? por Gunchinmaa, Tumur, Yakubov, Murat

“…Integrated water resource management (IWRM) is a widely recognized management framework that is currently being adopted throughout post-Soviet Central Asia to inform and guide national water sector reforms, and to keep up with the pace of the faster moving land reforms taking place in the region. …”
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Genetics effects for maize traits in acid and non-acid soils por Pérez Velásquez, Juan Carlos, Souza Junior, C.L. de, Narro Leon, LA, Pandey, S., León, C. de

“…Epistatic effects were significant for some crosses only, being more pronounced for plant height than for the other traits. …”
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