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Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Rice millers – March 2023 survey round por Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity

“….  Wages paid by mills increased by about 18 percent, working capital requirements to buy paddy rose significantly for both larger and smaller mills, and milling commission fees increased for both mill types compared to last year.  Paddy and rice prices for Emata and Pawsan varieties have significantly increased in March 2023, surpassing prices from March 2021 and 2022 due to currency devaluation and a slight increase in global rice prices. …”
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Do private consultants promote savings and investments in rural Mozambique? por Christian, Parul, Glover, Steven, Kondylis, Florence, Mueller, Valerie, Ruzzante, Matteo, Zwager, Astrid

“…We find the follow‐up visits increase ‘hidden savings’ in the form of new capital investments on farmers’ own account. Thus, the visits may have changed savings’ habits by leading farmers to invest in technologies that were not directly subsidized. …”
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Creating an enabling environment for developing and deploying market-ready science-based innovations for sustainable food systems por Adeniyi, Daniel, Rampa, Francesco, Menza, Gianpiero

“…These include: i) embedding innovation in local contexts and bundling innovations; ii) providing support for incubators and creative agrifood-tech start-ups; iii) deploying more comprehensive, robust, and institutionalised technological transfer mechanisms; iv) offering more and ‘patient’ capital for the ‘last-mile’, including for coordinating across relevant actors and institutions; v) facilitating improved multi-actor dialogues and collaborations; vi) ensuring greater state roles in innovation and enabling national regulations and policies; and vii) fostering enhanced international cooperation on food systems R&I.…”
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Understanding the production of “protective” foods in East Africa: A cross-country analysis of drivers and options por Haile, Beliyou, You, Liangzhi, Headey, Derek D., Ru, Yating, Mahrt, Kristi

“…Investing in and expanding irrigation-especially small-scale irrigation-has strong poten-tial to yield high returns in East Africa, especially for poor households that cannot afford to invest in capital-intensive irrigation technologies. Irrigation investments may need to be complemented by investments in roads, rural elec-trification, and cold storage chains to promote efficiency of postharvest supply chains and reduce marketing costs.…”
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The intertemporal evolution of agriculture and labor over a rapid structural transformation: Lessons from Vietnam por Liu, Yanyan, Barrett, Christopher B., Pham, Trinh, Violette, William

“…As rural households rely more heavily on the labor market, human capital accumulation (rather than land endowments) have become the key correlate of improvements in rural household well-being.…”
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The nutritional benefits of cash transfers in humanitarian crises: Evidence from Yemen por Kurdi, Sikandra

“…At the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016 the long-standing divide between humanitarian and development approaches was challenged with a call for responses that both meet immediate needs and protect human capital for eventual recovery. In this regard, the use of cash transfers in humanitarian settings is an emerging trend; however, it has been limited by a lack of evidence on how well cash transfers improve nutritional outcomes given the challenges of conducting rigorous evaluations in a crisis context. …”
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Patterns of change in Malawi’s economy under sector-focused investment strategies: Results of scenarios run through 2030 using an economy-wide model for Malawi por Benson, Todd, Hartley, Faaiqa

“…Malawi’s economic future is dependent upon a transformation of the economy that will involve increased economic productivity overall and considerable movement of labor and capital out of agriculture and into manufacturing and services. …”
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Bangladesh, Commercial Vegetable and Polyculture Fish Production 1996-1997 por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Topics in the household survey include income, household value of consumed goods; social capital; shock history; credit given and obtained; inheritance/assets at wedding/divorce; family background; health care and birth control use; household sanitation behavior; reproductive history and mortality; nutrition knowledge; food preferences; women's autonomy and decision making. …”
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Informal Food Retail Trade in Nigeria's Secondary Cities por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The aim of the survey is to gather information on the livelihoods of these traders and the governance constraints they encounter outside of the region’s capital and primate cities. Interviews with 1,097 informal food vendors – 530 in Calabar and 567 in Minna – across nine markets in each city, allow for a better understanding of the role of informal food vendors in secondary cities as a key component of agricultural transformation and food security, while also examining how their treatment by government officials affects their own food security and their ability to facilitate agricultural transformation. …”
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Programme de Filets Sociaux Jigisemejiri: Baseline Survey por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…In 2014 the Government of Mali began implementing its “Filets Sociaux (Jigisémèjiri)” program that aims at reducing poverty and improving human capital accumulation through targeted cash transfers, accompanying measures (or trainings), and preventive nutrition packages. …”
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Assessing the Effect of Residue Quantity and Quality, and Water Conservation on Maize Productivity and Nitrogen Dynamics on Smallholder Farms in Malawi por International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

“…These residues decompose to provide mineral N to crops grown in sequence, as well as being an important source for SOM capitalization. Residues of legumes crops have a narrow C/N ration and are hypothesized to improve N cycling and benefit the rotational crop, whereas residues of maize, which have a wide C/N ratio, promote immobilization. …”
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Micronutrient-rich food consumption, intra-household food allocation and child stunting in rural Nigeria por Fadare, Olusegun, Mavrotas, George, Akerele, Dare, Oyeyemi, Motunrayo

“…The combined effect of micronutrient-rich food consumption and vitamin A supplementation was stronger on the likelihood of stunting reduction than the separate effect of each.Assets ownership, human capital and knowledge of micronutrient-rich foods improve consumption of micronutrient-rich foods among the study population. …”
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Aspirations and women’s empowerment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan por Kosec, Katrina, Akramov, Kamiljon T., Mirkasimov, Bakhrom, Song, Jie

“…It can increase household income and asset wealth by ensuring that women are economically active and have high levels of human capital; increase technical efficiency on the farm; and improve health, nutrition, and education outcomes for children. …”
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Cities and agricultural transformation in Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia por Vandercasteelen, Joachim, Tamru, Seneshaw, Minten, Bart, Swinnen, Johan

“…In particular, we analyze data from teff producing farmers in major producing areas around Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital. We find that farmers located closer to Addis Ababa face higher wages and land rental prices, and because they receive higher teff prices they have better incentives to intensify production. …”
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Food for thought? Experimental evidence on the learning impacts of a large-scale school feeding program in Ghana por Aurino, Elisabetta, Gelli, Aulo, Adamba, Clement, Osei-Akoto, Isaac, Alderman, Harold

“…We conclude the program combined social protection with equitable human capital accumulation, thus contributing to the imperative of “learning for all” set in the Sustainable Development Goals.…”
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Limitations of contract farming as a pro-poor strategy: The case of maize outgrower schemes in Upper West Ghana por Ragasa, Catherine, Lambrecht, Isabel B., Kufoalor, Doreen S.

“…Yield increases are not high enough to compensate for higher input requirements and the cost of capital under the schemes. Despite higher yields, the costs to produce one metric tonne of maize under CF schemes are higher than on maize farms without CF schemes, twice that of several countries in Africa, and more than seven times higher than that of major maize-exporting countries (the United States, Brazil, and Argentina). …”
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Farm transition and indigenous growth: The rise to medium- and large-scale farming in Ghana por Houssou, Nazaire, Asante-Addo, Collins, Chapoto, Antony

“…Unfortunately, past and current policy discussions have not featured these emergent farmers sufficiently in the quest to transform agriculture in Ghana. Government should capitalize on these emergent farmers who have a demonstrated ability to graduate productively as it strives to address challenges in the smallholder sector.…”
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Food markets and nutrition in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2004–2005) por Marivoet, Wim

“…First, overall efficiency of domestic food markets seems extremely poor. The capital city of Kinshasa is a good example of this; it is food deficient and poorly connected to its own hinterland and therefore highly dependent on foreign food imports. …”
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Household resilience to drought: The case of Salima District in Malawi por Banda, Taonga F., Phiri, M.A.R., Mapemba, L.D., Maonga, Beston B.

“…Appreciating that smallholder farmers actively respond to events that threaten their livelihoods, the study identified how factors such as household assets, social capital, the size of land held by the farming household, and others factors help farmers to absorb adverse welfare effects resulting from prolonged dry spells and droughts. …”
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Locus of control and technology adoption in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia por Abay, Kibrom A., Blalock, Garrick, Berhane, Guush

“…Our results highlight that improving farmers’ psychological capital (non-cognitive skills) and providing commitment devices may facilitate agricultural transformation. …”
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