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The effect of land access on youth employment and migration decisions: Evidence from rural Ethiopia by Kosec, Katrina, Ghebru, Hosaena, Holtemeyer, Brian, Mueller, Valerie, Schmidt, Emily

“…Overall, these results affirm the importance of push factors in dictating occupation and migration decisions in Ethiopia.…”
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Household perception and demand for better protection of land rights in Ethiopia by Ghebru, Hosaena, Koru, Bethlehem, Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum

“…However, focusing similar interventions in predominantly agrarian communities and communities with recent administrative land distributions may not be advisable since expropriation risk seems to be dictating perceived tenure insecurity of households in such locations. …”
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In pursuit of votes: The capture of the allocation of local public goods by the central state in Ghana by Horowitz, Leah, Palaniswamy, Nethra

“…In particular, we show that this political rationale is expressed through an informal model of vote buying, and this vote buying is dictated by a national political agenda. Our findings suggest that ignoring this informal institution is likely to undermine the current efforts to reform decentralized public-resource allocation in Ghana.…”
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The rice processing industry in Nepal: Constraints and opportunities by Joshi, Krishna Dev, Upadhyay, Santosh, Chaudhary, Pashupati, Shrestha, Suchit, Bhattarai, Kamal, Tripathi, Bhaba Prasad

“…The rice milling industry in Nepal largely influences the adoption or non-adoption of any specific type of rice variety by dictating specific brands in the market and this has important implications for rice research and development. …”
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Bridging Genes and Sensory Characteristics in Legumes: Multi-Omics for Sensory Trait Improvement by Sharma, Niharika, Mukhopadhyay, Soumi Paul, Onkarappa, Dhanyakumar, Yogendra, Kalenahalli, Ratanpaul, Vishal

“…By integrating data from genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics, the genetic and biochemical networks that directly dictate sensory perception can be comprehensively unveiled. …”
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Participatory characterization of the Short-eared Somali goat and its production environment around Dire Dawa, Ethiopia by Gebreyesus, G., Haile, Aynalem, Dessie, Tadelle

“…The community generally practices selective pure breeding employing rather complex indigenous knowledge and traditional practices aimed at polishing the gene pool towards the dictates of the environment. Patchy color patterns were generally dominant (59.8%) in the goat population, while 34% of the patched goats had a unique pattern of black spots on the center core of the face and a black stripe across the spine. …”
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Improving the productivity and income of Ghanaian cocoa farmers while maintaining environmental services: what role for certification? by Gockowski, J., Afari-Sefa, Victor, Sarpong, D.B., Osei-Asare, Y.B., Agyeman, N.F.

“…These concerns have given rise to certification. Certification dictates the way cocoa can be produced and consequently affects producers’ incomes and environmental services. …”
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Reaction of selected common bean genotypes to physiological races of Phaeoisariopsis griseola occurring in Kenya by Wagara, I. N., Mwang’ombe, A.W., Kimenju, J.W., Buruchara, Robin Arani, Kimani, P.M.

“…The wide pathogenic variability occurring in Phaeoisariopsis griseola, the causal agent of angular leaf spot of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), dictates that new sources of resistance be continuously identified. …”
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Farm differentiation and intervention targeting in Mixed Farming Systems of Coastal and Inland Bangladesh by Mponela, Powell, Ahmed, Sharif, Farah Deba Keya, Ishrat Jahanara, Masud Rana, Lopez-Ridaura, Santiago, Krupnik, Timothy J.

“…Economic conditions can dictate cropping intensity: limited finances may constrain farmers in southern Bangladesh, while those in the north can optimize crop choices for better returns. …”
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Perceptions of the impacts of urban sprawl among urban and peri-urban dwellers of Hyderabad, India: A latent class clustering analysis by Hatab, Assem Abu, Ravula, Padmaja, Nedumaran, Swamikannu, Lagerkvist, Carl Johan

“…Finally, membership in community development organisations was a key factor in dictating membership of the negative perceivers’ class. …”
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Modeling the dynamics of landscapes and livelihoods in Malinau District, Indonesia by Suwarno, A., Campbell, Bruce M.

“…For several decades, land use in Malinau district was dictated by the central government through the allocation of land to agriculture, timber concessions and mining companies. …”
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The effect of land access on youth employment and migration decisions: Evidence from rural Ethiopia by Kosec, Katrina, Ghebru, Hosaena, Holtemeyer, Brian, Mueller, Valerie, Schmidt, Emily

“…Overall, the results reaffirm the notion that push factors dominate pull factors in dictating occupational and migration decisions in Ethiopia and highlight youth preferences to use migration or non-agricultural employment as a last resort after exhausting other means of accessing land, such as temporary land rental.…”
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Grain marketing parastatals in Asia: why do they have to change now? by Rashid, Shahidur, Cummings, Jr., Ralph, Gulati, Ashok

“…Relative to the private sector, the costs of the grain parastatals have been high and are increasing, as special interests and rent- seeking are increasingly dictating their operation. This is being manifested in various forms, such as excessive public stocks in India, vacillating import policies in Indonesia and Pakistan, questionable government foodgrain import decisions in the Philippines, and politically-determined ceiling and floor prices in India. …”
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Designing methods for the monitoring and evaluation of household food security in IFAD-funded rural development projects: Technical Guide: Strengthening the Household Food Security... by Carletto, Calogero, Morris, Saul Sutkover

“…However, if the conditions dictate, statistical techniques can still provide the evaluation team with effective tools for a well-founded impact evaluation. …”
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Reducing Global Warming Potential through Sustainable Intensification of Basmati Rice-Wheat Systems in India by Sapkota, Tek Bahadur, Shankar, Vivek, Rai, Munmun, Jat, Mangi Lal, Stirling, Clare M., Singh, Love Kumar, Jat, Hanuman Sahay, Grewal, Mohinder S.

“…Methane emissions were only observed under flooded conditions in CT rice plots; otherwise, emissions were negligible in all other treatment combinations. N2O emissions were dictated by N fertilizer application with no other treatment effects. …”
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AgroFIMS: A tool to enable digital collection of standards-compliant FAIR data by Devare, Medha, Aubert, Céline, Benites Alfaro, Omar Eduardo, Pérez Masias, Ivan Omar, Laporte, Marie-Angélique

“…Agricultural research has been traditionally driven by linear approaches dictated by hypothesis-testing. With the advent of powerful data science capabilities, predictive, empirical approaches are possible that operate over large data pools to discern patterns. …”
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Legacy effects of intercropping and nitrogen fertilization on soil N cycling, nitrous oxide emissions, and the soil microbial community in tropical maize production by Canisares, Lucas P., Poffenbarger, Hanna, Brodie, Eoin L., Sorensen, Patrick O., Karaoz, Ulas, Villegas, Daniel Mauricio, Arango, Jacobo, Momesso, Letusa, Crusciol, Carlos Alexandre Costa, Cantarella, Heitor

“…Thus, the nitrification inhibition potential of tropical grasses can be outweighed by their impacts on soil moisture, N recycling, and the soil microbiome that together dictate soil N2O fluxes.…”
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Improving nitrogen use efficiency and reducing nitrogen surplus through best fertilizer nitrogen management in cereal production: the case of India and China by Sapkota, Tek Bahadur, Singh, Bijay, Takele, Robel

“…Nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) at farmers' fields dictates both production of food crops as well as loss of N to the environment including efforts to curb climate change due to N2O emission. …”
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Spatiotemporal variability of soil moisture over Ethiopia and its teleconnections with remote and local drivers by Jimma, Tamirat B, Demissie, Teferi, Diro, Gulilat T, Ture, Kassahun, Terefe, Tadesse, Solomon, Dawit

“…Furthermore, analyses indicate that interannual variability of SM is dictated substantially by RF, though the impact on some regions is weaker. …”
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Status of agricultural water management practices in Africa: a review for the prioritisation and operationalisation of the Africa Union’s irrigation development and agricultural wa... by Dirwai, Tinashe Lindel, Taguta, C., Senzanje, A., Nhamo, L., Cofie, Olufunke O., Lankford, B., Nyambe, H. N., Mabhaudhi, T.

“…The study indicates that most agricultural production systems are mainly under pathways 1 and 2, which dictate the subsequent AWM practices. Pathway 4 had isolated adoption in North Africa. …”
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