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Lifting quality constraints to agricultural technology adoption in the Ugandan market for maize seed por Miehe, Caroline, Van Campenhout, Bjorn, Sparrow, Robert, Spielman, David J.

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Lifting quality constraints to agricultural technology adoption in the Ugandan market for maize seed por Miehe, Caroline, Van Campenhout, Bjorn, Sparrow, Robert, Spielman, David J.

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Sink or Swim?: Water security for growth and development por Grey, D., Sadoff, Claudia W.

“…To capture this duality, water security is defined here as the availability of an acceptable quantity and quality of water for health, livelihoods, ecosystems and production, coupled with an acceptable level of water-related risks to people, environments and economies. This paper looks broadly at those countries that have achieved water security, the paths they chose and the costs they paid, and those countries that have not achieved water security and how this constrains economies and societies. …”
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Africa agriculture status report 2015: Youth and agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa por Ameyaw, David Sarfo

“…Although this highlights the great challenge of youth unemployment, it could also be a great opportunity – to encourage youth to be the engine behind the growth of Africa’s agriculture-based economies. Illustrated throughout with tables, boxed examples and graphs, this publication highlights progress encouraging the role of young people in Africa’s socio-economic growth through agriculture. …”
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Public food procurement as a game changer for food system transformation por Swensson, Luana, Hunter, Danny, Schneider, Sergio, Tartanac, Florence

“…In the last decade various countries, regions and cities from low-income to high-income economies have been developing Public Food Procurement (PFP) initiatives designed to use government purchasing power and regular demand for food as a policy instrument to promote sustainable development. …”
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Enabling environment for circular bioeconomy sector in Burkina Faso por Sanfo, S., Salack, S., Diarra, K., Ouédraogo, S., Kehinde, O. O., Gebrezgabher, Solomie A.

“…In a country where the industrial sector is still in its infancy, CBE solutions offer significant opportunities for reconfiguring economies, labor and resource use. However, implementing CBE solutions remains at small scale and scaling up faces numerous challenges. …”
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Mechanization of agricultural production in Kenya: Current state and future outlook por Kaumbutho, Pascal, Takeshima, Hiroyuki

“…When the use of mechanization is sufficiently high, it can help improve the overall efficiency of food systems, reduce the costs of producing outputs and providing services, enhance economies of scale, and raise labor productivity and incomes (FAO and AUC 2018; Diao, Takeshima, and Zhang 2020). …”
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Impact of COVID-19-related global trade disruptions on African food systems por Fofana, Ismaël, Camara, Alhassane, Diallo, Mariam A., Sall, Leysa M.

“…The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting national economies through several channels including global primary commodity trade and market disruptions. …”
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Exporting out of agriculture: The impact of WTO accession on structural transformation in China por Erten, Bilge, Leight, Jessica

“…This paper analyzes the effect of China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001 on structural transformation at the local level, exploiting cross-sectional variation in tariff uncertainty faced by county economies pre-2001. Using a new panel of 1,800 Chinese counties from 1996 to 2013, we find that counties more exposed to the reduction in tariff uncertainty postaccession are characterized by increased exports and foreign direct investment, shrinking agricultural sectors, expanding secondary sectors, and higher total and per capita GDP. …”
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Gender and rural transformation por Kosec, Katrina, Doss, Cheryl R., Slavchevska, Vanya

“…Rural transformation refers to the process whereby rural economies diversify into nonfarm activities, agriculture becomes more capital-intensive and commercially oriented, and linkages with neighboring towns and cities grow and deepen (Berdegué, Rosada, and Bebbington 2014). …”
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Environmental concerns and agricultural trade: Building a responsible and effective relationship por Papendieck, Sabine, McNamara, Brian

“…The rapid expansion of goods and services trade over the last several decades has created complex interdependencies between production, consumption, and job creation across economies. At the same time, a range of environmental issues-declining biodiversity, water scarcity, and water pollution, as well as climate change-are becoming more acute and call for strong, immediate, and coordinated international action. …”
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Promoting Decent Employment in Agriculture and Food Sectors of Developing Countries: What Role for CGIAR? por Balié, Jean, Clayton, Andrew

“…This is about providing decent work in rural economies that respect fundamental labor rights and gender equality and provide fair wages and basic social protection. …”
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Domestic and international impacts of rice export restrictions: The recent case of indian non-basmati rice por Valera, Harold Glenn A., Mishra, Ashok K., Pede, Valerien O., Yamano, Takashi, Dawe, David

“…Moreover, the international price transmission to a sample of Asian and African economies shows that all countries are vulnerable, but the degree and kinds of vulnerability differ. …”
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The influence of cattle breed on susceptibility to bovine tuberculosis in Ethiopia por Vordermeier, M., Ameni, G., Berg, S., Bishop, Richard P., Robertson, B.D., Aseffa, A., Hewinson, R.G., Young, D.B.

“…Bovine tuberculosis in domestic livestock such as cattle is an economically important disease with zoonotic potential, particularly in countries with emerging economies. We discuss the findings of recent epidemiological and immunological studies conducted in Ethiopia on host susceptibility differences between native zebu and the exotic Holstein–Friesian cattle that are increasingly part of the Ethiopian National herd, due to the drive to increase milk yields. …”
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Shaping the future of rice production in Latin America: Challenges, trends, and strategic priorities to 2050 por Orjuela, Guillermo, Andrade, Robert, Petsakos, Athanasios, Graterol, Eduardo, Alvarez, Maria Fernanda, Gotor, Elisabetta

“…The brief aims to support evidence based policymaking, guide strategic investment, and inform donors and national partners seeking to strengthen food security, improve rural incomes, and promote sustainable growth in the region’s rice economies.…”
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Extra-sectoral drivers of forest change por Lobovikov, M., German, L., Jaeger, D., Kengen, S., Konijnendijk, C., Buttoud-Kouplevatskaya, I., Komarudin, Heru, McClain, K.M., Nascimento, J.R., Schoneveld, George C., Stadt, J.J.

“…Recent increases in demand for raw materials, especially in emerging economies, increased commodity prices, and the increased scale and pace of extra-sectoral investments in the forest frontier, have contributed to extra-sectoral influences eclipsing sectoral developments as key drivers of forest landscape transformation. …”
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Spore special issue: Structured trading systems: A new vision for trade por Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Six of the world’s ten fastest growing economies over the last decade are in Africa and, as wealth has increased, food import bills have been skyrocketing. …”
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Maize genetic improvement for enhanced productivity gains in West and Central Africa por Ajala, S., Badu-Apraku, Baffour, Menkir, A.

“…These have led to dramatic increases in the production of cassava, maize, soybean, cowpea, and yam in sub-Saharan Africa that have directly contributed to increases in food availability and indirectly to improvements in national economies. This section presents the status, progress, and achievements, and also outlines future work on crop improvement by genetic enhancement in IITA's six crops.…”
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Cryptomonnaies : l'information plutôt que le buzz por Weru, John

“…Il a également pointé le besoin urgent de bien informer les gens sur cette technologie et l'économie qu'elle est en train de façonner.…”
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Enhancing irrigation management: Unsupervised machine learning coupled with geophysical and multispectral data for informed decision-making in rice production por Chaali, Nesrine, Ramírez Gomez, Carlos Manuel, Jaramillo Barrios, Camilo Ignacio, Garr´e, Sarah, Barrero, Oscar, Ouazaa, Sofiane, Calderon Carvajal, John Edinson

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