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Impacts of programs and organizations on the adoption of sustainable land management technologies in Uganda by Jagger, Pamela, Pender, John L.

“…Non-government organizations (NGOs) and community-based organizations (CBOs) are being asked to take the lead in the provision of government services such as agricultural extension during the transition to demand driven fee-for-service. …”
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Producer Support Estimates (PSEs) for agriculture in developing countries: measurement issues and illustrations from India and China by Mullen, Kathleen, Sun, Dongsheng, Orden, David, Gulati, Ashok

“…Assessing the effects of these price-based measures is thus important to evaluating whether agriculture is being protected or disprotected by commodity or in the aggregate. …”
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ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL MANAGEMENT PLAN (ESMP) for Pilot of Climate Smart Agricultural InnovaGons and Climate InformaGon Service Technologies in Senegal by Kwaw, Adams, Sene, Serigne Oumar, Koita, Mamoutou

“…The ESMP will serve as a guide for managing and mitigating these risks, and will be consulted regularly with stakeholders, as well as being updated as the project evolves.…”
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Farmers’ perception of viral diseases and their management in pepper (Capsicum spp.) production in Benin by Zohoungbogbo, Herbaud P. F., Ganta, Judicael S. O., Oliva, Ricardo, Chan, Yuan-Li, Adandonon, Appolinaire, Bokonon-Ganta, Aimé H., Ba, Malick N., Achigan-Dako, Enoch G., Barchenger, Derek W.

“…Interestingly, some farmers applied commercial (12%) and homemade (17%) biopesticides, with neem-based preparations being the most widely used. A total of 15% of farmers used companion cropping with maize, mint or basil and 43% of farmers used crop rotation as a cultural management practice to control viral disease and vector pressure in pepper fields. …”
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Resilient Cities urban nutrition profile: Bangladesh by Margolies, Amy, Choo, Esther, Singh, Nishmeet, Parvin, Aklima, Ruel, Marie T., Olney, Deanna K.

“…Some urban nutrition interventions to tackle child undernutrition are being implemented, but few have been rigorously evaluated. …”
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Improving policy coherence in food, land, and water systems to advance sustainable development in India: a case study of Odisha by Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), International Water Management Institute

“…Recognising these interlinkages, India is making significant policy efforts to achieve environmental, economic, and social well-being (PIB 2024a). However, the complexity and evolving nature of these interlinkages necessitate coherent policy efforts (CEEW and IWMI 2023). …”
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Mortality, mobility, and schooling outcomes among orphans: Evidence from Malawi by Ueyama, Mika

“…More interestingly, the impacts of orphanhood on schooling outcomes are significantly gender-dependent: boys face severer negative impacts of being orphans than girls do. These empirical results are robust to sample attrition due to mortality and mobility.…”
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Impacts of inventory credit, input supply shops, and fertilizer microdosing in the drylands of Niger by Pender, John L., Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Ndjeunga, Jupiter, Gerard, Bruno, Kato, Edward

“…The predicted effect of inventory credit on farmers’ income as a result of increased inorganic fertilizer use is an increase of 5,000 to 10,000 FCFA per hectare (about US$10 to US$20 per hectare in 2005) in millet or millet–cowpea production. Similarly, being 10 km closer to an input supply shop is predicted to increase farmers’ income by 3,200 to 4,500 FCFA per hectare. …”
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Agricultural growth and investment options for poverty reduction in Zambia by Benin, Samuel, Thurlow, James, Diao, Xinshen, Kalinda, Henrietta, Kalinda, Thomson

“…Thus, while the MDG1 target appears to be beyond reach for Zambia, achieving the CAADP target should remain a priority, as its more reasonable growth and expenditure scenarios will still substantially reduce the number of poor people living below the poverty line by 2015, and significantly improve the well-being of both rural and urban households.…”
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Biofuels and food security: Balancing needs for food, feed, and fuel by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Biofuels subsidies in developed countries tend to drive up food prices, thus reducing consumption and nutritional well-being for net buyers. The higher prices for commodities resulting from biofuel feedstock production can mean higher incomes for some farmers in developing countries and better agricultural wages for laborers, although the question of distribution among winners and losers remains. …”
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Poverty and nutrition policy analysis: Using SPSS for survey data analysis by Salau, Sheu

“…Thus, many rural Nigerians live under conditions of extreme vulnerability, both economically and physically, with quite limited abilities to cope with shocks and safeguard their current level of well-being. Government efforts at reducing poverty and malnutrition have culminated into numerous programs. …”
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Situation analysis on South African animal medicines, animal health and animal residues in foodstuffs by Molefe, S.M., McCrindle, C.M.E., Botha, C.J., Makita, K., Grace, Delia

“…Food safety of animal products is fragmented as a result of it not being under only one Ministry. Different aspects of legislations fall under the three departments. …”
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Prevalence of Listeria monocytogenes and Listeria species and associated risk factors for contamination of milk and cottage cheese along the value chains in Ethiopia by Hassen, A., Keba, Abdi, Ebrai, M.S., Mamo, H., Geleta, T.K., Tessema, T.S., Vipham, J., Kovac, J., Zewdu, A.

“…Raw milk showed the highest prevalence of <i>Listeria</i> spp. at 15.2 %, followed by pasteurized milk at 12.2 %, and cottage cheese at 5.7 %, with these differences being statistically significant (P = 0.006). The prevalence of <i>Listeria</i> spp. differed significantly (P = 0.001) among the value chain stages (producers, collectors, processors, and retailers) and was 12.5 %, 17.9 %, 17.4 %, and 7.1 %, respectively. …”
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Characterizing soil hydrology in the Indo-Gangetic plain of Bihar, India: Methods and preliminary results by Rossiter, D.G., Arenas-Calle, Laura, Urfels, Anton, Nayak, Harishankar, Sherpa, Sonam, McDonald, Andrew

“…Clusters based on time-series were moderately well predicted in the dry year 2022 by optimized random forest models, with the most important predictors being the number of irrigations, seasonal precipitation, pre-monsoon groundwater levels, seasonal groundwater level change, and pH, this latter as a surrogate for landscape position and other soil properties. …”
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Spatial identification of lost-and-found carbon hotspots at Javanese rice systems, Indonesia by Asmara, Degi Harja, Rala, Arnel, Batas, Mary Ann A., Laborte, Alice, Flor, Rica J., Khumairoh, Uma, Sembiring, Hasil, Yadav, Sudhir

“…The presence of trees outside forests has been recognized as a significant carbon pool, but it is crucial to acknowledge that these trees serve purposes beyond being a carbon sink. This study focuses on integrating border trees and home gardens as distinct land use classes in Indonesian Javanese agricultural land to assess their impact on carbon stock potential and biodiversity connections. …”
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Methodology: ssb-MASS: a single seed-based sampling strategy for marker-assisted selection in rice by Arbelaez, Juan David, Tandayu, Erwin, Reveche, Maria Ymber, Jarana, Annalhea, van Rogen, Petra, Sandager, Line, Stolt, Patrik, Ng, Enghwa, Varshney, Rajeev K., Kretzschmar, Tobias, Cobb, Joshua

“…However, with most genotyping being outsourced to 3rd party service providers’ nowadays, sampling has become the bottleneck for many breeding programs. …”
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A decade of plant proteomics and mass spectrometry: translation of technical advancements to food security and safety issues by Agrawal, Ganesh Kumar, Sarkar, Abhijit, Righetti, Pier Giorgio, Pedreschi, Romina, Carpentier, Sebastien, Wang, Tai, Barkla, Bronwyn J., Kohli, Ajay, Ndimba, Bongani Kaiser, Bykova, Natalia V., Rampitsch, Christof, Zolla, Lello, Rafudeen, Mohamed Suhail, Cramer, Rainer, Bindschedler, Laurence Veronique, Tsakirpaloglou, Nikolaos, Ndimba, Roya Janeen, Farrant, Jill M., Renaut, Jenny, Job, Dominique, Kikuchi, Shoshi, Rakwal, Randeep

“…In this review, we discuss proteomics especially MS, as a platform, being utilized in plant biology research for the past 10 years having the potential to expedite the process of understanding plant biology for human benefits. …”
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Conservation agriculture in mixed crop-livestock systems: Scoping crop residue trade-offs in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia by Valbuena, Diego, Erenstein, Olaf, Homann-Kee Tui, Sabine, Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Claessens, Lieven, Duncan, Alan J., Gerard, Bruno G., Rufino, Mariana C., Teufel, Nils, Rooyen, Andre F. van, Wijk, Mark T. van

“…Conservation Agriculture (CA) is being advocated to enhance soil health and sustain long term crop productivity in the developing world. …”
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The impact of training intervention on levels of indicator bacteria and prevalence of selected pathogens in raw milk from smallholder women dairy farmers in Central Ethiopia by Beyene, A.M., Nigatu, S., Archila-Godinez, J.C., Amenu, Kebede, Kowalcyk, B., Degefaw, D., Mogess, B., Gelaw, B., Gizachew, M., Mengistu, A., Abdelhamid, A.G., Barkley, J., Yousef, A.

“…The estimated cumulative probability of being in the high category was marginally significantly higher (p = 0.0581) pre-training (76%) compared to post-training (64%). …”
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Outlook on Global Oilseed Sector: Research for Development Opportunities by Swamikannu, Nedumaran, Okori, Patrick, Mushoriwa, Hapson, Kumar, Ashok Are, Gupta, Shashi Kumar, Kumar, Shalander, Ravula, Padmaja, Dar, Mansoor, Pasupuleti, Janila, Hauser, Michael, Gumma, Murali Krishna, Haile, Desmae, Singh, Kuldeep, Padmanabhan, Jyosthnaa, Varshney, Rajeev, Afari-Sefa, Victor, Kumar, Arvind

“…Oilseed crops are known for thriving in the drylands as they fit in the low-input cereal-based cropping pattern and come with the comparative advantage of being highly remunerative. The expansion of the research portfolio will increase the operational efficiency of the Institute, leveraging on the rich experience and expertise and state-of-the-art technologies that the Institute possesses and help the Institute deliver better on its mission of enhancing and empowering the livelihoods of the smallholder farmers in the semi-arid tropics. …”
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