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FR2.3: Women's Voices in Civil Society Organizations: Evidence from a Civil Society Mapping Project in Mali por Kosec, Katrina, Bleck, Jaimie, Gottlieb, Jessica

“…However, they are not typically recognized by outside actors; their strong networks and group infrastructure represent untapped social capital. CSOs comprised of women have lower informational and technical capacity, including lower levels of political knowledge, and incur a higher cost of sanctioning public officials. …”
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Problemscapes and hybrid water security systems in Central Ethiopia por Polaine, X. K., Nicol, Alan, Amezaga, J., Berihun, Mulatu L., Dessalegn, Mengistu, Haile, Alemseged Tamiru

“…We apply the method for establishing and utilizing a problemscape analysis across the Central Rift Valley, Upper Awash, and Abbay basins, as well as the capital city of Addis Ababa. The interactions in this part of Central Ethiopia are notoriously complex, with sets of critical water management issues at national and international scale, hybrid water security challenges across user communities, and contested management at different scales amidst multiple, and sometimes competing, ideologies. …”
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Welfare impacts of improved groundnut varieties adoption and food security implications in the semi-arid areas of West Africa por Lokossou, Jourdain C., Affognon, Hippolyte D., Singbo, Alphonse, Vabi, Michel B., Ogunbayo, Ayoni, Tanzubil, Paul, Segnon, Alcade C., Muricho, Geoffrey, Desmae, Haile, Ajeigbe, Hakeem A.

“…Hence, encouraging households to adopt improved groundnut varieties for consecutive years could help capitalize on income gains and contribute to raising households above the poverty threshold.…”
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Rice subsector development and farmer efficiency in Nepal: implications for further transformation and food security por Choudhary, Dyutiman, Banskota, Kamal, Khanal, Narayan Prasad, McDonald, Andrew J., Krupnik, Timothy J., Erenstein, Olaf

“…Unavailability of labor and capital, land fragmentation, and the lack of consistent access to seed and fertilizers contribute to reduced efficiency. …”
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Morocco: ClimBeR Inception Workshop Report por Rose, Sabrina, Valencia, Lina, Hodur, Janet, Govind, Ajit

“…The loss of productive assets and human capital, coupled with the effect of uncertainty on agricultural investments, stymie smallholders’ efforts to improve livelihoods, exacerbating poverty and social tensions. …”
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Effects of land use land cover change on streamflow of Akaki Catchment, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia por Negash, E. D., Asfaw, Wegayehu, Walsh, C. L., Mengistie, G. K., Haile, Alemseged Tamiru

“…This study aims to provide evidence on the effects of LULC change on the streamflow of the Akaki catchment that hosts Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia. Since the comparative performance of classification algorithms is poorly understood, we compared the performance of one parametric and five non-parametric machine learning methods for LULC mapping using Landsat imageries. …”
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Climate change, income sources, crop mix, and input use decisions: Evidence from Nigeria por Amare, Mulubrhan, Balana, Bedru

“…We also propose targeted pro-poor interventions, such as low-cost financing options for improving smallholders' access to climate-proof agricultural inputs and technologies, and policy measures to reduce the inequality of access to livelihood capital such as land and other productive assets.…”
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Roundtable Convening on Women and Youth SMEs in Agribusiness por The Rallying Cry

“…Stakeholders from local capital providers, entrepreneur support organisations and relevant government ministries provided input into and expanded possible solutions and roles for applicable ecosystem players. …”
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Farmers’ perspective toward a demand led yam breeding in Nigeria por Kalu, C., Nnabue, I., Edemodu, A., Agre, A.P, Adebola, P.O., Asfaw, A., Obidiegwu, J.E.

“…A three-staged multisampling procedure was employed and 792 yam farmers from four geopolitical zones, comprising 10 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja in Nigeria were randomly selected. …”
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Value of biodiversity on Patagonian rangeland: Estimation via a Hedonic Price Index por Duarte Guardia, Sandra, Peri, Pablo Luis, Martínez Pastur, Guillermo, Lasagno, Romina, Lencinas, Maria Vanessa, Thomas, Evert, Ladd, Brenton

“…Nevertheless, these calculations do provide a starting point for broadening the discussion around the importance and value of natural capital in southern Patagonia. The results are consistent with theory and suggest that plant diversity has instrumental and monetary value as well as insurance value that may increase the resistance of rangeland ecosystems to global change drivers.…”
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Concerns for Sustainability: Integration of Natural Resource and Environmental Issues in the Research Agenda of NARS por Crosson, Pierre, Anderson, Jock R.

“…Achievement of sustainable agricultural systems requires farm technologies and management practices that indefinitely accommodate increasing demand for food and fiber at economic and environmental costs consistent with rising per capital welfare of people. To achieve sustainable agricultural systems in this sense the national agricultural research systems (NARS) in the less-developed countries must systematically integrate into their research agenda the effects of new technologies and practices on the natural resource base and environment. …”
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A Comparative Analysis of Barriers and Enablers to Men and Women’s Use and (Non) Adoption of Mechanization Technology from East and Southern Africa por Enokenwa Baa, Ojong, Davis, Kristin E., Ngoma, Hambulo, Simutowe, Esau

“…However, their agricultural activities are often hindered due to unequal ownership of quality farmland and the need for more capital, technology, information, and other resources to invest in agriculture. …”
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Advancing women’s nutrition by leveraging women’s groups and movements in South Asia: Potential opportunities por Shrivastav, Monica, Desai, Sapna, Hazra, Avishek

“…The basic tenets of group/movement-based engagement, i.e., womencentered and women-led programming, strengthening social capital and leadership while building networks and community advocacy, are instructive in how to improve future nutrition programming in South Asia. …”
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Unpacking the Gender-smartness of Climate-smart Agriculture in India por Tyagi, Niharika, Neog, Kangkanika, Khandelwal, Apoorve

“…The gender gap in agriculture is a global pattern in which women in agriculture have limited access to land, productive resources, financial capital, information, technology and advisory services when compared to male farmers. …”
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Convergence and Self-Help Groups: Conduits for advancing gender equality and social inclusion in agri-food systems por Munshi, Sugandha, Kumar, Ashok, Kumar, Virender

“…As a result, it becomes crucial to brainstorm, design and innovate strategies and approaches that are gender responsive and equally create a conducive platform for transformative agri-food systems. The role of social capital and the local/traditional system becomes critical to have a sustainable approach toward achieving the goal of an inclusive agriculture system where women have an equal and level playing field to that of men. …”
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Designing gender-transformative interventions in the commercialized cassava seed system in Tanzania por Liani, Millicent L., Cole, Steven M., Hillenbrand, Emily, Mtunda, Kiddo, Egesi, Chiedozie, Tufan, Hale Ann

“…Key constraints identified included—women’s and youth’s lack of access to land, financial capital, and agricultural extension services; women’s lack of decision-making powers and disproportionate involvement in unpaid care work, and gender-based violence—all of which are shaped by discriminatory formal and informal social institutions. …”
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From seeds of change to harvesting equality: Women in India’s agro-ecology based agri-food systems por Singh, Sonali

“…Within this context, agroecology has emerged as a comprehensive methodology that aims to reshape food systems by harnessing the interconnectedness between indigenous knowledge, local conservation practices, social capital and strategies for adapting to the climate crisis. …”
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Investment Action Plan for Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato Processed Products Using Manual Equipment in Rwanda por Mwizerwa, H., Ojwang, S.O., Low, Jan W., Sartas, M.

“…This document outlines a strategy that capitalizes on a market analysis for OFSP products, a new manual for OFSP processing technologies, training programs for local producers, and marketing strategies. …”
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Supporting women's empowerment by changing intrahousehold decision making: A mixed methods analysis of a field experiment in rural south-west Tanzania por Lecoutere, Els, Lan Chu

“…Such approaches need to be complemented by interventions to increase women's human capital, knowledge of enterprises, and personal resources. …”
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Strengthening anticipatory action through flood forecasting and early warning systems to mitigate flood impacts in Nigeria por Oke, Adebayo, Amarnath, Giriraj, Okem, Andrew, Dembélé, Moctar

“…In 2022, another major flood led to the loss of 600 lives and 3.2 million people were affected across 34 of the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory. The Nigeria Bureau of Statistics in 2023 reported the devastation to be in the range of US$3.79 billion to $9.12 billion. …”
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