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Millets can have a major impact on improving iron status, hemoglobin level, and in reducing iron deficiency anemia: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Publicado 2021“…Two studies conducted on humans demonstrated that consumption of a pearl millet-based meal significantly increased the bioavailable iron (p < 0.01), with the percentage of bioavailability being 7.5 ± 1.6, and provided bioavailable iron of 1 ± 0.4 mg. …”
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The economic returns to nutrition-specific investments in Southern Asia and Africa South of the Sahara
Publicado 2021“…Childhood undernutrition manifests itself in various ways including stunting, wasting, underweight, and micronutrient deficiencies. Stunting (being too short for the child’s age) captures a state of linear growth retardation and cumulative growth impairment due to chronic nutritional deficiency and illness that deprive a fetus and child of required nutrients. …”
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Deconstructing food losses across the value chain
Publicado 2021“…Even so, policies to address food insecurity or the increasing pressure on the world’s available land that is being caused by growing populations and changing diets have aimed mainly at increasing agricultural yields and productivity. …”
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A rapid assessment of vegetable and irrigation systems in Tigray, Ethiopia, before and after the 2020-2022 conflict
Publicado 2024“…The situation after the conflict is that vegetable production remains low with only 30% of total irrigable land being utilized, down from 70% pre-conflict. A diversity of vegetables is still be grown, however, including tomato, onion, peppers, cabbage, Swiss chard, and lettuce, among others. …”
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Total and Partial Factor Productivity in Developing Countries
Publicado 2012“…An increase in TFP implies that more output is being produced from a constant amount of resources used in the production process. …”
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Fertilizer Microdosing
Publicado 2017“…The scope of activities being implemented include: packaging of new legume and cereal varieties with over 120% yield advantage, packaging and validation of integrated productivity enhancing technologies for cereals, legumes, legume trees and soil health technologies, food safety primarily to reduce aflatoxin contamination and integration of livestock into the cropping systems. …”
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Baseline Evaluation of the Impact of E-Verification on Counterfeit Agricultural Inputs and Technology Adoption in Uganda: Community Listing Exercise
Publicado 2015“…The sample ultimately resulted in 2,378 households being surveyed. The study is designed to measure the impact of e-verification interventions on glyphosate herbicide, hybrid maize seed and inorganic fertilizer. …”
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Evaluating Fertilizer Recommendations with Farmers
Publicado 2017“…The scope of activities being implemented include: packaging of new legume and cereal varieties with over 120% yield advantage, packaging and validation of integrated productivity enhancing technologies for cereals, legumes, legume trees and soil health technologies, food safety primarily to reduce aflatoxin contamination and integration of livestock into the cropping systems. …”
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The impacts of task shifting on the management and treatment of malnourished children in Northern Kenya: A cluster-randomized controlled trial
Publicado 2024“…Task shifting, a strategy of transferring specific tasks to health workers with shorter training and fewer qualifications, is being considered as an effective approach to enhancing health outcomes in primary healthcare. …”
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A community-based cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of different bundles of nutrition-specific interventions in improving mean length-for-age z scor...
Publicado 2017“…Length and other anthropometric measurements, nutritional intake and other relevant data on mother and children are being collected during enrolment, twice during pregnancy, postpartum monthly till 6 months, and every third month thereafter till 24 months. …”
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Evaluating risk of aflatoxin field contamination from climate change using new modules inside DSSAT
Publicado 2019“…At the end of the paper, we examine why aflatoxin concentrations in Nepal as reported by the modeling results appear low despite aflatoxins being a significant issue for the country.…”
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The International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT): Model description for version 3
Publicado 2015“…IMPACT is continually being updated and improved to better inform the choices that decisionmakers face today. …”
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2015 Global hunger index by severity
Publicado 2015“…Inequitable resource allocations between households and within households are also taken into consideration since the latter affect the physical well-being of children. Sufficient food availability at the household level does not guarantee that all members benefit from it in equal measure. …”
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Backcasting supports cross-sectoral collaboration and social-technical innovation bundling: Case studies in agri-food systems
Publicado 2024“…Many food and agricultural innovations are being developed and scaled but these innovations often target sector-specific problems and remain disconnected from the more complex demand for transformative change at scale. …”
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Revolutionising multi-sectoral nutrition policy: Insights from the Ethiopian National Information Platform for Nutrition (NiPN) approach
Publicado 2024“…Food insecurity is particularly evident among the poor, with women and children in rural areas being the most affected [1,2,8]. In 2022 alone, an alarming 230 million children under the age of five experienced some form of malnutrition. …”
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Socio-economic analysis of farmer preferences of fodder legumes attributes and information flow among smallholder dairy farmers in Central Kenya: A case study of Calliandra and Des...
Publicado 2007“…Tobit results showed that sharing out of fodder legumes technology from original farmers to other farmers was strongly influenced by farmer being an official in a farmer group or having a community responsibility. …”
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An integrated economic and social analysis to assess the impact of vegetable and fishpond technologies on poverty in rural Bangladesh
Publicado 2003“…There were also gains through the overall use of the sustainable livelihoods framework as a way of sharpening understanding of the different entry points at which technology can impact on household well-being and vulnerability.…”
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Agricultural technology choices for poor farmers in less-favored areas of South and East Asia
Publicado 2007“…To address these problems, alternative technological approaches to the conventional Green Revolution technologies are being advocated to address the problems of poor farmers in less-favored areas of Asia, including low external input and sustainable agricultural approaches, organic agriculture and biotechnology. …”
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Structural changes in the Philippine pig industry and their environmental implications
Publicado 2008“…Further, farmers in the industrial pig sector, which is concentrated in peri-urban areas favored by market access or feed availability, may consider being located as close as possible to cropland that they can use to dispose of the wastes in pig production. …”
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Agricultural technology choices for poor farmers in less-favored areas of South and East Asia
Publicado 2008“…To address these problems, alternative technological approaches to the conventional Green Revolution technologies are being advocated to address the problems of poor farmers in less-favored areas of Asia, including low external input and sustainable agricultural approaches, organic agriculture and biotechnology. …”
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