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Report of the Science Partnership Committee to CGIAR International Centers Week 2000 by CGIAR Science Partnership Committee

“…CDC Chairman Per Pinstrup-Andersen stressed center contact and collaboration with the broader scientific community, and the tensions centers faced between pursuing basic "upstream" research, and applied "downstream" research aimed at more immediate and specific impacts.The Committee selected three issues for future attention: facilitating understanding of the public policy debate on the direction of agricultural sciences and its implications for the CGIAR; ways in which peer review of center research and development can be achieved or improved; and the balance between core funding and competitive grants.…”
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Asistencia delegación ANPROS a la Segunda Conferencia Mundial de Semillas

“…Como ya ha sido explicado largamente, el nivel de profundidad de las presentaciones y del debate fueron superficiales, orientados a una audiencia en la que habían muchos países con un desarrollo casi nulo en las áreas mencionadas. …”
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Climate Change Impacts on Coffee Production in Mexico and Central America by Bunn, Christian, Lundy, Mark M., Castro-Llanos, Fabio Alexander

“…This information facilitates having a better outlook of the region regarding the effects of climate change on coffee in the region and opens the debate on sustainable practices and necessary investments to face future risks. …”
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Climate Change Impacts on Cocoa Production in Central America and the Caribbean by Bunn, Christian, Lundy, Mark M., Wiegel, Jennifer Rebecca, Castro-Llanos, Fabio Alexander

“…Information that allows us to better understand the big picture of the region regarding the effects of climate change on cocoa in the region and opens the debate on sustainable practices and investments necessary to address future risks. …”
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Evaluating ambition for soil organic carbon sequestration and protection in nationally determined contributions by Wiese-Rozanova, Liesl D., Alcántara Shivapatham, Viridiana, Wollenberg, Eva Karoline, Shelton, Sadie W.

“…Increased international attention on agricultural soil organic carbon (SOC) has raised expectations of its potential contribution to both climate change mitigation and adaptation. Yet, debate on what is achievable and how to monitor or verify improvement in SOC has challenged progress. …”
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Transforming Food Systems Under Climate Change through Innovation by Campbell, Bruce M., Thornton, Philip K., Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María, Dinesh, Dhanush, Nowak, Andreea C.

“…It also contributes to the academic debate on the transformation of food systems, and so will be an invaluable reference for researchers and students alike.…”
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Seven principles for mobilizing open data to power India's Agri Stack by Mothkoor, Venugopal, Reddy, Murali, Koganti, Dharani Kanth

“…Participated by 70 stakeholders representing 54 organizations, the workshop enabled in-depth discussion on the design principles of thematic use cases and facilitated a broader debate on the specific building blocks needed. This document summarizes key principles discussed throughout the workshop.…”
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Detecting threshold effects in price transmission by Traoré, Fousseini, Diop, Insa

“…This technical contributes to the debate between symmetric and asymmetric price transmission and proposes to present the traditional and new approaches for detecting threshold effects in price transmission while focusing on their advantages and limitations. …”
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Revisiting land reforms in developing countries with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa by Ghebru, Hosaena

“…Food security crises in developing countries in the past decades have revived the debate about whether land tenure systems constrain farmer innovation and investment in agriculture. …”
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Guess what’s for dinner tonight? The role of packaged food and soft drinks in global obesity by Paz, Florencia, Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio

“…This paper attempts to shed some light on a specific debate: the role of consumption of different types of packaged foods and soft drinks on obesity trends. …”
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Promoting Agricultural Trade to Enhance Resilience in Africa by Badiane, Ousmane, Makombe, Tsitsi, Bahiigwa, Godfrey

“…The 2013 Annual Trends and Outlook Report (ATOR) contributes to the emerging debate by analyzing Africa’s recent trade performance and future outlook at the global and regional levels, including discussions of the mechanisms of dealing with food price volatility, the scope for increasing trans-border trade, and the potential impacts of weather-related shocks and biophysical factors on intra-regional exports. …”
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Food safety and developing markets: Research findings and research gaps by Unnevehr, Laurian J., Ronchi, Loraine

“…This literature has primarily focused on the market access and economic implications of higher standards in export markets rather than on the extensive debate around market failure and public health benefits that dominates the literature in developed countries. …”
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Tourism sector in Panama: Regional economic impacts and the potential to benefit the poor by Klytchnikova, Irina, Dorosh, Paul A.

“…Tourism is one of Latin America's fastest growing industries, but the impact of tourism on the poor and the effects on developing regions are under debate. Many studies have evaluated the growth impacts of the tourism sector but few have analyzed the impact of tourism on the economy and poverty at the subnational level in developing countries. …”
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The broken broker system? Transacting on agricultural wholesale markets in India (Uttarakhand) by Minten, Bart, Vandeplas, Anneleen, Swinnen, Johan

“…There is a vigorous debate on liberalization of the heavily regulated agricultural markets in India. …”
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The gender implications of large-scale land deals by Behrman, Julia A., Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…This paper strives to introduce a discussion of the gender dimensions into the growing debate on large-scale land deals. It addresses the current information gap on the differential gender effects of large-scale land deals through (1) an overview of the phases of large-scale land deals and discussion of related effects on rural men and women based on new literature on large-scale land deals and past literature on the gender effects of commercialization and contract farming; (2) a presentation of further evidence using several recent case studies on the gender effects of large-scale deals; (3) an identification of knowledge gaps and areas where further research is needed; and (4) a recap of promising initiatives, followed by recommendations and conclusions.…”
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Managing resources in erratic environments: An analysis of pastoralist systems in Ethiopia, Niger, and Burkina Faso by McCarthy, Nancy, Dutilly-Diane, Celine, Drabo, Boureima, Kamara, Abdul, Vanderlinden, Jean-Paul

“…The express purpose of this research is to contribute to the current debate on resource management in highly variable environments, focusing on the impact of climate variability on and the role of cooperation in resource management. …”
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What can food policy do to redirect the diet transition? by Haddad, Lawrence J.

“…There is also a need for research to engage different actors in the policymaking process. In a debate in which much is at stake, there is a potentially powerful role for researchers to bring these actors to the table.…”
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Opciones institucionales para la gestión de las tierras de pastoreo by Ngaido, Tidiane, McCarthy, Nancy

“…Esta teoría ha suscitado un debate sobre la eficacia de la gestión de la propiedad común de los recursos, especialmente en relación con las tierras de pastoreo.…”
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Putting GM technologies to work: Public research pipelines in selected African countries by Sithole-Niang, Idah, Cohen, Joel I., Zambrano, Patricia

“…This is an urgent question, recognizing that advancing GM food crops can be difficult, affected by global debate, and various regulatory protocols. Reaching farmers has been achieved in several countries only for GM cotton for insect resistant while approvals for food and feed crops lag behind. …”
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The economics of GM food labels: An evaluation of mandatory labeling proposals in India by Bansal, Sangeeta, Ramaswami, Bharat

“…Labeling of genetically modified (GM) foods is a contentious issue and internationally, there is sharp division whether such labeling ought to be mandatory. This debate has reached India where the government has proposed mandatory labeling. …”
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