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Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Rice millers – October 2020 survey round by Goeb, Joseph, Synt, Nang Lun Kham, Zone, Phoo Pye, Tang, Yulu

“…To understand how Myanmar’s rice value chain has been affected by the COVID-19 crisis, a series of phone interviews is being conducted with rice millers from Ayeyarwady, Bago, and Yangon. …”
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Guidance on farmer participation in the design, testing and scaling of agricultural innovations by Pawera, Lukas, Manickam, Ravishankar, Wangungu, Carolyne, Bonnarith, Uon, Schreinemachers, Pepijn, Ramasamy, Srinivasan

“…Involving farmers in the innovation process from the start increases the likelihood of them being more relevant and having a higher chance of adoption. …”
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Destination-based business cash flow taxes by Martin, Will

“…Destination-based business cash-flow taxes have received a great deal of attention and are being widely considered as a replacement for traditional, origin-based, corporate taxes. …”
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PIM Gender Research in 2016: Review by CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets

“…While there is significant and promising gender research being done within PIM, there are considerable opportunities to strengthen existing gender research as well as incorporate gender analysis into activities and research areas that do not currently do so. …”
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Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato on the Home Grown School Feeding Menu in Nigeria and Ghana by International Potato Center

“…Further, nutritionally enhanced bread made with OFSP is being offered at 10 schools. In Ghana, pilot school feeding efforts began in July of 2016 with a nutritious OFSP meal offered one day a week to students at 2 schools in Kumbungu District in the Northern Region.…”
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WP4 Towards a multi stakeholder to approach breeding : priorities for landrace-derived elite Barley in Ethiopia by Najjar, Dina, Tsige Abebe, Meseret, Oueslati, Dorsaf, M. Oumer, Ali

“…This will ensure stable access to food/malt and feed for smallholder farmers, well-being outcomes (such as better nutrition and drudgery and poverty reduction) and at the same time increasing resilience to new climate-related constraints. …”
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Farmers’ Field Days Report in Makueni, Kitui and Taita Taveta Counties by International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics

“…A total of 1001 beneficiary farmers attended, with 65% being women farmers. The field days showcased cultivation of improved drought-tolerant varieties of pearl millet, sorghum, pigeon pea and green gram, alongside conservation agriculture practices such as minimum tillage, intercropping and mulching for soil fertility management. …”
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Improving infant and young child feeding practices through self-help groups in Bihar: The experience of the Parivartan initiative by Das, Rajshree, Sarangi, Biraj, Rao, Brijesh, Schooley, Janine

“…However, in much of India, that target is not being reached. In an assessment of complementary feeding practices in Bihar, researchers found that only 58 percent children received any complementary foods at six months (Khan et al 2013).…”
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National policies and strategic plans to tackle undernutrition in India: A review by Vir, Sheila, Sreenath, K. C., Bose, Vijayluxmi, Chauhan, Kavita, Mathur, Shivani, Menon, Subhadra

“…This report summarizes all the findings of the review that was conducted over a 6-month period in 2012, placing it in the context of the macro-policy environment in India in which decisions have been, and are being, made to tackle undernutrition. An effort has been made to present the findings in such a way that the review and policy assessments can help strengthen the overall enabling environment that is required to fast-track action in India on undernutrition.…”
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Agricultural growth and climate resilience in the Philippines: Subnational impacts of selected investment strategies and policies by Thomas, Timothy S., Pradesha, Angga, Perez, Nicostrato D.

“…Being a nation of many islands spanning a consider-able range of latitudes, the Philippines is noted for its climatic and ecological diversity. …”
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Delivery of iron pearl millet in India by Cherian, Binu

“…Thus, a deeper understanding of the magnitude, speed, and symmetry to which global milk prices are being transmitted to domestic prices at the farm gate level is a fundamental factor in the design of appropriate policy measures oriented to reduce not only the level of milk price volatility, but also poverty and food insecurity. …”
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Modernisation and Time Preferences in Tanzania: Evidence from a Large-Scale Elicitation Exercise by D'Exelle, Ben, Van Campenhout, Bjorn, Lecoutere, Els

“…This is corroborated by the observed positive correlation between impatience and education; the latter being an important vehicle of modernisation for traditional societies in Tanzania.…”
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Wealth, rights, and resilience: An agenda for governance reform in small-scale fisheries by Ratner, Blake D., Allison, Edward H.

“…This article contrasts three perspectives on governance reform focused alternately on wealth, rights and resilience, and argues that – far from being incompatible – these perspectives serve as useful counterweights to one another, and together can serve to guide policy responses. …”
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Consumption patterns of livestock products in Ethiopia: Elasticity estimates using HICES (2004/05) data by Worku, Ibrahim, Tafere, Kibrom

“…A strong substitution relationship among most livestock products exists, the only exception being dairy products. The results seem to indicate the existence of constraints imposed on the consumption choices for livestock products in Ethiopia.…”
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Patterns in foodgrain consumption and calorie intake by Berhane, Guush, McBride, Linden, Hirfrfot, Kibrom Tafere, Tamru, Seneshaw

“…The quality, quantity, and composition of food consumption are major determinants of the nutritional well-being of individuals, which has, in turn, important implications for individual and household-level health, productivity, and income. …”
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Gender: A key dimension linking agricultural programs to improved nutrition and health by Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Behrman, Julia A., Menon, Purnima, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…Improving the livelihoods and well-being of the rural poor is an important aim of agricultural development, promoted through agricultural intensification and commercialization strategies. …”
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Household preferences and governance of water services: A hedonic analysis from rural Guatemala by Vásquez, William F.

“…Findings indicate that rural households value municipal water services but are indifferent between not having piped water and being connected to a private system. Moreover, the estimated value of community-managed services is negative, which suggests that rural households have an aversion to services managed at the community level. …”
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Randomizing the “Last Mile”: A methodological note on using a voucher-based approach to assess the impact of infrastructure projects by Bernard, Tanguy, Torero, Máximo

“…This methodological note discusses the potential and limits of using voucher-based experiments to randomly evaluate the micro-level impact of infrastructures on households' well-being. We argue that such methods are policy relevant, statistically robust, and ethically correct. …”
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Genetic engineering and trade: panacea or dilemma for developing countries by Pohl Nielsen, Chantal, Robinson, Sherman, Thierfelder, Karen

“…In response to consumer reactions against genetically modified (GM) foods in some countries - particularly in Western Europe - crop production is being segregated into GM and non-GM varieties. This paper investigates how such changes in the maize and soybean sectors may affect international trade patterns, with particular attention given to different groups of developing countries.…”
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Genetic engineering and trade: panacea or dilemma for developing countries by Pohl Nielsen, Chantal, Robinson, Sherman, Thierfelder, Karen

“…In response to consumer reactions against genetically modified (GM) foods in some countries - particularly in Western Europe - crop production is being segregated into GM and non-GM varieties. This paper investigates how such changes in the maize and soybean sectors may affect international trade patterns, with particular attention given to different groups of developing countries.…”
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