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The challenges of aligning aggregation schemes with equitable fruit and vegetable delivery: Lessons from Bihar, India by Cooper, G.S., Rich, Karl M., Shankara, B., Rana, V.

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Returns to food and agricultural R&D investments in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1975–2014 by Pardey, Philip G., Andrade, Robert Santiago, Hurley, Terrance, Rao, Xudong, Liebenberg, Frikkie

“…Yet, investments in research and development (R&D) targeted to many national food and agricultural economies throughout Africa are fragile and faltering. …”
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Mapping degraded lands in Indonesia for bioenergy production potential by Jaung, W., Wiraguna, E., Okarda, B., Artati, Y., Goh, C.S., Syahru, R., Leksono, B., Prasetyo, L.B., Lee, S.M., Baral, H.

“…In addition, many of these degraded lands were limited to support economies of scale for biofuel production due to their small land sizes. …”
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Development and validation of a food safety system performance tool for African countries by Alonso, Silvia, Oliveira, A.R.S., Mader, R., Iulietto, M.F., Dohoo, I., Thinh Nguyen, Hung Nguyen-Viet, Grace, Delia

“…Available tools, mostly developed in high-income countries, are data-demanding and unsuitable to developing economies. We developed, tested and validated a tool for the assessment of food safety system performance based on secondary data. …”
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Participatory methodologies for sustainable technological innovation in cocoa systems: at the Colombian southwest region by Chavarro, Mónica Juliana, Melo, William Felipe, Pulleman, Mirjam Margreet

“…In Colombia, cocoa has positioned as a production system that stimulates territorial development processes in areas affected by violence, where a presence of illegal economies exists. It is a crop that enables productive reconversion by offering medium and long-term economic alternatives for farming family’s livelihoods. …”
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Linking SDG 7 to assess the renewable energy footprint of nations by 2030 by He, Jianjian, Yang, Yi, Liao, Zhongju, Xu, Anqi, Fang, Kai

“…Here, we establish a Footprint-Driver-Scenario (FDS) framework for accounting for the renewable energy footprint of 189 global economies based on a global multi-regional input − output (MRIO) model and identifying the major drivers behind based on the logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) in 1990–2015, and projecting the national renewable energy footprint by 2030 based on the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) scenarios. …”
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Consumer demand for milk and the informal dairy sector amidst COVID-19 in Nairobi, Kenya by Alonso, Silvia, Angel, Moira Donahue, Muunda, Emmanuel, Kilonzi, Emily, Palloni, Giordano, Grace, Delia, Leroy, Jef L.

“…Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had large negative effects on countries’ economies and individual well-being throughout the world, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. …”
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Willingness to pay for agricultural mechanization services by smallholder farmers in Malawi by Tufa, Adane H., Alene, Arega D., Ngoma, Hambulo, Marenya, Paswel Phiri, Manda, Julius, Md Abdul Matin, Thierfelder, Christian L., Chikoye, David

“…One of the main barriers to adopting smallholder agricultural mechanization in developing countries is the mismatch between the economies of scale of machines and farm size. Private sector-led mechanization services hold a promise to address this challenge, but there is a lack of evidence on demand for smallholder mechanization services. …”
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Intensive and extensive margins of India's agricultural trade: implications for export diversification and development by Elumalai, Kanan, Kumar, Anjani

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Long-term relationships of beef and dairy cattle and greenhouse gas emissions: Application of co-integrated panel models for Latin America by Sandoval, Danny, Junca Paredes, Jhon Jairo, Enciso Valencia, Karen Johanna, Díaz Baca, Manuel Francisco, Bravo Parra, Aura María, Burkart, Stefan

“…The cattle sector plays a pivotal role in the economies of numerous Latin American and Caribbean countries. …”
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Impact of gender targeting in ICT hubs: Cluster randomized controlled trial in Malawi by Ragasa, Catherine

“…Access to information and improved technologies is a major constraint for improving agricultural productivity and incomes in many agriculture-based economies, including Malawi. A combination of digital agricultural extension services and facilitation of group learning 50 BOOK OF ABSTRACTS through ICT hubs is being piloted in Malawi under the Scaling Up Radio and ICTs for Enhanced Extension Delivery (SRIEED) II project. …”
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Impact of women’s empowerment in agriculture on farm productivity and household resilience in rural Bihar by Gupta, Shweta

“…These results suggest women’s empowerment is crucial to achieve sustained agricultural productivity and food security and should be an important basis of poverty alleviation programs in agrarian economies.…”
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Measuring women’s empowerment and gender equality in national statistical systems and national agri-food policy processes by Ragasa, Catherine

“…The second tool is the Gender in Agriculture Policy tool (GaPo) used to assess 83 main agricultural policies of low, lower-middle and upper-middle-income economies. The third tool is the Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS), which captures indicators and survey questions to help measure women’s empowerment in national statistical systems. …”
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CAUSE: A multidimensional framework for a digital inclusivity index for food, land, and water systems by Opola, Felix Ouko, Langan, Simon J., Arulingam, Indika, Schumann, Charlotte, Singaraju, Niyati, Joshi, Deepa, Ghosh, Surajit

“…This potential is particularly pronounced in less industrialised, agrarian-based economies. Digital advancements promise enhanced communication, improved data management, democratic and transparent governance, accessible financial services, and decision-making support. …”
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RIICE tool for near real time monitoring of rice area, yield and climate change impacts in Mali and spillover countries by Mathieu, Renaud, Murugesan, Deiveegan, Maunahan, Aileen, Quicho, Emma, Sataphaty, Sushree, Dossou-Yovo, Elliott Ronald, Salif, Doumba, Akpoffo, Marius, Gatti, Luca

“…The Remote Sensing based Information for Insurance and Crops in Emerging Economies (RIICE) was calibrated and validated in Mali to provide the government with reliable rice production data at harvest time and yield losses due to climate related stresses (flood and drought) to support planning in rice development and reduce the vulnerability of smallholder rice farmers by contributing to setting up affordable insurance schemes and scaling climate resilient innovations to the most affected people. …”
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Cocoa irrigation in southern Nigeria: A Technical Report of the IITA irrigated cocoa farm by Oke, Adebayo, Hauser, Stefan, Schmitter, Petra S., Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe

“…Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia, and Togo are leading economies and significant hubs for cocoa production. …”
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Examining export advantages in Indian horticulture: An approach based on product mapping and seasonality by Saxena, Reka, Kumar, Anjani, Singh, Ritambhara, Paul, Ranjit Kumar, Raman, M. S., Kumar, Rohit, Khan, Mohd Arshad, Agarwal, Priyanka

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Vulnerability of Nigerian maize traders to a confluence of climate, violence, disease and cost shocks by Vargas, Carolina M., Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda O., Reardon, Thomas

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Synopsis: Crop commercialization in Rwanda: Current market participation and drivers by Warner, James, Benimana, Gilberthe Uwera, Mugabo, Serge, Ingabire, Chantal

“….  Crop value per hectare is not correlated with land size, revealing that crop choices drive value and not increasing land-related economies of scale. This finding underscores the pivotal role of crop selection in determining agricultural productivity and economic returns, rather than mere expansion of land holdings.  Irrigation, land size, hiring labor and input purchases increase market participation as well as percentage of sales. …”
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Symposium policy note 2: Digitalization of agricultural services and policy analysis in Egypt by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…This policy note highlights how digital tools can help improve monitoring, evaluation, and extension services in Egypt’s agriculture sector and how policy analysis can be institutionalized to guide transformation of the food system and rural economies. Four recommendations are discussed: Building on ongoing efforts, continue to digitize agricultural information systems, build and link agricultural databases, and exploit new sources of data. …”
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