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Side Event Report. Local-based strategies to sustain food systems targeting household food and nutrition security in Vietnam by National Institute of Nutrition, Ministry of Health, Vietnam, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alliance of Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Embassy of Canada, Vietnam

“…The AMD research initiative is being implemented by CGIAR researchers from the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), WorldFish, the Alliance of Bioversity, and CIAT and the International Water Management Institute (IMWI). …”
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Urban food systems governance in Africa: Toward a realistic model for transformation by Haysom, Gareth, Battersby, Jane

“…Beyond being the recipient of food produced in rural areas, urban areas have largely been neglected in food security policy and governance.…”
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Nature of employment and outcomes for urban labor: Evidence from the latest labor force surveys in India by Roy, Devesh, Saroj, Sunil, Pradhan, Mamata

“…We estimate the probability of being poor based on TOE and occupation where urban casual labor is associated with 7 percentage points higher likelihood of being poor and nearly 17% lower earnings. …”
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Can information improve rural governance and service delivery? by Kosec, Katrina, Wantchekon, Leonard

“…To be impactful, the information must be deemed relevant, in the sense of being salient and having a high perceived signal-to-noise ratio, and individuals must have both the power and incentives to act on it. …”
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The role of interactive radio programming in advancing women’s empowerment and crop and dietary diversity: Mixed methods evidence from Malawi by Ragasa, Catherine, Mzungu, Diston, Kalagho, Kenan, Kazembe, Cynthia

“…The association is greater for women’s empowerment and younger men’s empowerment, the latter being the most disempowered group in the sample.…”
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Farmers' co-learning for effective agroforestry and improved animal welfare in Humbo District, Ethiopia by Berhe, Tsega, Gelan, Eyob, Mokria, Mulugeta, Alemayehu, Gezahegn, Doyle, Rebecca

“…The project also served as a platform for farmers to improve community well-being through the implementation of actions that effect positive change. …”
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A mixed-method review of cash transfers and intimate partner violence in low- and middle-income countries by Buller, Ana Maria, Peterman, Amber, Ranganathan, Meghna, Bleile, Alexandra, Hidrobo, Melissa, Heise, Lori

“…The economic security and well-being pathway hypothesizes decreases in IPV, while the other two pathways have ambiguous effects depending on program design features and behavioral responses to program components. …”
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Revamping Climate Knowledge Products in the Postgraduate Program: Extended Effort from Revamping Knowledge Products in the Undergraduate Program by Belay, Berhanu, Amha, Yosef, Ambaw, Gebermedihin, Demissie, Teferi, Solomon, Dawit

“…As a result, six universities have revamped CKP in 32 PG programs, and the updated curricula are now being utilized for teaching and learning purposes. …”
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Understanding the climate, migration, social protection nexus from a youth mobility dimension: Can social protection address the drivers of climigration? by Ncube, Tomy, Zualii, Lalhmangaihzuali, Murray, Una, Nguyen, Nam, Liebig, Theresa, Krendelsberger, Alexandra, Pacillo, Grazia, McKeown, Peter C., Laderach, Peter, Spillane, Charles

“…Climate change is a threat multiplier for human migration, with those reliant on rain-fed agriculture being particularly vulnerable to climate change. …”
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Genome-wide association study for the level of prolificacy in Cameroon’s native goat by Simo, J.K., Meutchieye, F., Wouobeng, P., Tarekegn, Getinet M., Mutai, Collins, Nandolo, W., Pelle, Roger, Djikeng, Appolinaire, Manjeli, Y.

“…Despite the number of cases being about a quarter of the number of controls, the highest allele frequency of some of the top 20 variants in the cases was indicative of their potential role in the trait. …”
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Impact evaluation of the economic inclusion programme in Kenya: Baseline report for cohort 2 by Abay, Kibrom A., Ayalew, Hailemariam, Gilligan, Daniel O., Hidrobo, Melissa, Kimathi, Sally, Kosec, Katrina, Marilign, Yalew M.

“…The KSEIP is designed to complement and build on the flagship National Safety Net Programme (NSNP) and target those being served by it, moving beyond cash transfers to an integrated Social Protection system to enhance social and economic inclusion services and shock-responsive safety nets for poor and vulnerable households. …”
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Measuring and accounting for community capabilities in Kordofan, Sudan by El-Harizi, Khalid, Klemick, Heather

“…Parallel to the growing attention being devoted to the relationship between empowerment and development, an increasing number of tools are being developed to measure empowerment and determine the link between these two phenomena. …”
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The emergence of insect resistance in Bt-corn: implication of resistance management information under uncertainty by Linacre, Nicholas A., Thompson, Colin J.

“…However, the determinants of adoption are numerous, profit being one of them. We develop a simple model for the spread of resistance based on the logistic growth equation and use it to investigate the effect of uncertainty on farmer decisions to plant Bt-corn and follow EPA management rules. …”
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What determines adult cognitive skills?: Impacts of preschooling, schooling, and post-schooling experiences in Guatemala by Behrman, Jere R., Hoddinott, John F., Maluccio, John, Soler-Hampejsek, Erica, Behrman, Emily L., Martorell, Reynaldo, Ramirez-Zea, Manuel, Stein, Aryeh D.

“…For example, the impact on reading-comprehension scores of not being stunted at age 6 is equivalent to the impact of four grades of schooling. …”
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Salt tolerance in rice: seedling and reproductive stage QTL mapping come of age by Singh, Rakesh Kumar, Kota, Suneetha, Flowers, Timothy J.

“…In this review, we list the varieties of rice released for salinity tolerance traits, those being commercially cultivated in salt-affected soils and summarize phenotyping methodologies. …”
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Genome-wide association study using a Multiparent Advanced Generation Intercross (MAGIC) population identified QTLs and candidate genes to predict shoot and grain zinc contents in... by Liu, Shilei, Zou, Wenli, Lu, Xiang, Bian, Jianmin, He, Haohua, Chen, Jingguang, Ye, Guoyou

“…Among the QTLs, qSZn2-1/qGZn2 and qSZn3/qGZn3 were identified as being associated with both the shoot and grain contents. …”
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Mapping energy use portfolios and household outcomes in Pakistan: Insights from farm and household surveys in Rahim Yar Khan by Sufian, Farha, Alvi, Muzna, Raja, Sehrish

“…This analysis aims to explore how on- and off-farm energy choices impact key aspects of household well-being, including women’s dietary diversity, agency in energy choices, and workload. …”
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Welfare effects and gender dimensions of adoption of climate smart agriculture practices: Evidence from Kenyan small-scale farmers by Okumu, Boscow, Radeny, Maren A.O., Cramer, Laura K.

“…Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) is thus being promoted with the aim of increasing agricultural productivity, adapting to the changing climate, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. …”
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Groundwater must be fully integrated into WASH programmes to make them climate resilient by Robertson, D.J., MacAllister, D.J., Gurmessa, S.K., Matta, J., MacDonald, A., McManus, C., Morse, T., Mukherji, Aditi, Nhlema, M.

“…We argue that without integration – not just coordination - of groundwater into WASH programming, the climate-resilient WASH vision risks being aspirational rather than achievable.…”
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Climate and conflict vulnerability mapping of Northern, Northwestern, Eastern and Uva provinces of Sri Lanka by Dissanayaka, Sujeewa, Eriyagama, Nishadi, Fernando, K., Azmy, N., de Alwis, T., Perera, M., Muthuwatta, Lal, Abeywardana, H. R., Morugama, S., de Silva, Sanjiv, Vinopavan, K.

“…It integrates environmental exposure with social and economic dimensions to identify areas where multiple stressors intersect and may influence local stability and well-being. A Climate and Conflict Vulnerability Index was developed using six categories: economic capacity, social resources, personal well-being, demographic factors, climate exposure, and climate sensitivity drivers. …”
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