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Ethnicity Differences in Uses and Management Practices of Bitter Kola Trees (Garcinia kola) in Cameroon by Yogom, B.T., Avana-Tientcheu, M.L., Mboujda, M.F.M., Momo, S.T., Fonkou, T., Tsobeng, A., Barnaud, Adéline, Duminil, J.

“…Savanna farmers applied sustainable harvesting as they extract fruits and seeds and planting more trees in order to increase the species’ contribution to their livelihood. …”
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Leveraging digital tools and crowdsourcing approaches to generate high-frequency data for diet quality monitoring at population scale in Rwanda by Manners, Rhys, Adewopo, Julius, Niyibituronsa, M., Remans, R., Ghosh, A., Schut, Marc, Egoeh, S.G., Kilwenge, R., Fraenzel, A.

“…Exploratory analyses show that >70% of respondents consume tubers and starchy vegetables, leafy vegetables, fruits, legumes, and wholegrains. Women consumed better quality diets than male respondents, revealing a sex-based disparity in diet quality. …”
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Child feeding practices in rural Ethiopia show increasing consumption of unhealthy foods by Tizazu, Woinshet, Laillou, Arnaud, Hirvonen, Kalle, Chitekwe, Stanley, Baye, Kaleab

“…With an average of only three food groups consumed, the consumption of nutrient-dense foods like animal source foods, fruits and vegetables was very low particularly among younger children. …”
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End-user quality characteristics and preferences for cassava, yam and banana products in rural and urban areas - a review by Osunbade, A.O., Alamu, Emmanuel Oladeji, Awoyale, W., Akinwande, B., Adejuyitan, A., Maziya-Dixon, Busie

“…Plantains fingers of medium to large size, light yellow pulp, no black marks on the peel, firm texture, a medium intensity aroma and flavor, medium sweet fruits, and a shelf-life of 7–9 days under room temperature were preferred by consumers. …”
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Spatial farming systems diversity and micronutrient intakes of rural children in Ethiopia by Moges, Tibebu, Brouwer, Inge D., Delbiso, Tefera Darge, Remans, Roseline, Baudron, Frédéric, Belachew, Tefera, Groot, Jeroen C.J.

“…Consumption of animal sourcefoods, vitamin A-rich fruits and vegetables was low. We found a high prevalence ofinadequate intake of vitamin A and zinc (85.4% and 49.5%, respectively). …”
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Context matters: Oil palm production and women's dietary diversity in the tropical forest of Cameroon by Tabe-Ojong, Martin Paul Jr.

“…We explore heterogeneity in the various food groups consumed by women and show that oil palm production is associated with lower consumption of mainly pulses, fruits and vegetables. These findings contrast with the literature that has established some positive dietary diversity implications of oil palm expansion in Southeast Asia. …”
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Papua New Guinea food price bulletin: July 2023 by International Food Policy Research Institute, Hayoge, Greg, Kedir Jemal, Mekamu, Schmidt, Emily

“…Vitamin-dense foods: On average, vegetable (aibika, choko-tips, English cabbage, carrot, and capsicum) prices increased 15 percent between Q1 and Q2, except in Goroka, Kokopo, and Mt Hagen, where the price of aibika, English cabbage, and carrot decreased by 8 percent. Fresh Fruits: Lemon and orange prices decreased 15 percent and 8 percent between Q1 and Q2, while ripe banana, watermelon, and pawpaw slightly increased by 4 percent. …”
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Sudan’s agrifood system: Structure and drivers of transformation by Diao, Xinshen, Pauw, Karl, Raouf, Mariam, Siddig, Khalid, Thurlow, James

“…Comparing sources of future growth in Sudan’s agrifood system across ten different agrifood value chains shows that fruits, root crops, and cereals rank highest in their potential to contribute to a range of development outcomes, including reductions in poverty, improvement in diet quality, job creation, and growth in national GDP. …”
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The state of food security and nutrition in Myanmar 2022: Findings from four rounds of the Myanmar Household Welfare Survey by Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity

“…Decreases in diet quality among adults is driven by lower consumption of milk and dairy products as well as Vitamin A rich fruits, meat, fish, and eggs. More than a third of all children aged 6-23 months and 15.9% of all children aged 24-59 months have inadequate diet quality. …”
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Peer effects in the valuation and practices of food safety: Findings from the study of dairy consumers in India by Chandra, Raj, Munasib, Abdul, Roy, Devesh, Sonkar, Vinay Kumar

“…Perhaps, a similar campaign in matters related to food safety could be very fruitful.The methodology and the issue are unique. …”
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Evolving food value chains by Minten, Bart, Dereje, Mekdim, Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane, Tamru, Seneshaw

“…Over the past two decades, calorie consumption has risen, the share of starchy staples in the diet has fallen, and the shares of high-value products (such as animal-sourced foods, fruits and vegetables, processed convenience foods, and out-of-home food consumption) have risen. …”
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Food security and social assistance in Sudan during armed conflict: Evidence from the first round of the Sudan Rural Household Survey (November 2023–January 2024) by Kirui, Oliver K., Ahmed, Mosab O. M., Siddig, Khalid, Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum, Abushama, Hala, Dorosh, Paul A., Krishnaswamy, Siddharth, Monetta, Cinzia, Clough, Alice, Gualtieri, Alberto, Leaduma, Amos

“…The primary components of diets were cereals and oils, with nutrient-rich foods, such as meats and fruits, consumed less frequently, highlighting a critical gap in nutritional adequacy. …”
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Exploring host resistance against chilli leaf curl disease in a tolerant chilli genotype by Mangal, Manisha, Srivastava, Arpita, Mandal, Bikash, Solanki, Vikas, Mirajkar, Shriram J., Shashank, Pathour R., Kalia, Pritam, Rana, Jai Chand, Sharma, Vinod Kumar

“…The putative tolerant line displayed reduced virus infection at the seedling stage, with increasing resistance during vegetative, flowering, and fruiting stages. Both DLS-Sel-10 and PM could be infected with ChiLCV, although DLS-Sel-10 remained symptomless. …”
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Food avoidance among breastfeeding mothers in Myanmar and its impacts on maternal dietary quality by Myanmar Agrifood Program for Strategy and Analysis

“… • Forty percent of all Myanmar women aged 15-49 believe that breastfeeding mothers should avoid at least one healthy food, with vegetables the most widely cited food to be avoided, followed by fruits, fish, meat and beans/nuts. • Beliefs were prevalent throughout Myanmar’s diverse regions and across both genders, but more common in majority Buddhist regions (and less common in majority Christian regions). • Beliefs in food avoidance during breastfeeding were less prevalent among women with more formal education and nutritional knowledge, and with exposure to nutrition counselling from community health workers. • Mothers in the Yangon panel saw minimum dietary diversity of women (MDD-W) fall by 46 percentage points from pregnancy to the first month after birth, stemming from significant declines in eight of the ten MDD-W food groups…”
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Socio-economic, environmental and health trade-offs in Bangladesh’s food system transformation by de Lange, Thijs, van Dijk, Michiel, Kuiper, Marijke, van Zeist, Willem-Jan, Bartelings, Heleen, Mizan, Arefin, van Meijl, Hans

“…The BAU diet has a higher intake of animal products and sugar, and a lower intake of vegetables, fruits, legumes and nuts than the EAT-Lancet and FBDG diets. …”
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Socio-economic, environmental and health impacts of dietary transformation in Bangladesh by de Lange, Thijs, van Dijk, Michiel, Kuiper, Marijke, van Zeist, Willem-Jan, Bartelings, Heleen, Mizan, Arefin

“…The BAU diet has a higher intake of animal products and sugar, and a lower intake of vegetables, fruits, legumes, and nuts than the EAT-Lancet and FBDG diets. …”
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Achieving transformational sustainable land Intensification: Integrated general equilibrium and portfolio analysis for Senegal by Pradesha, Angga, Siddig, Khalid, Pauw, Karl, Thurlow, James

“…Socioeconomic and environmental benefits are found to be greater when the country promotes high-value crops in its portfolio, such as fruits and vegetables, compared to grain crops. Our findings also contribute to ongoing debates around land-sparing versus land-sharing strategies and offer new insights into the drivers of cropland expansion in light of current global land use patterns.…”
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Collaborative participatory research as a learning process: the case of CIP and CARE in Peru by Ortíz, Oscar, Frias, Guillermo, Ho, Raul, Cisneros, Hector, Nelson, Rebecca, Castillo, Renee, Orrego, Ricardo, Pradel, W., Alcázar, Jesus, Bazan, Mario

“…The CIP-CARE case shows that research and developmentoriented organizations can interact fruitfully using PR as a mechanism to promote learning, as well as flexibility in interaction and innovativeness, and that a process of osmosis of information occurs between groups that use PR in a specific case to other groups within the organizations, influencing behavior. …”
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Issues and prospects for the sustainable use and conservation of cultivated vegetable diversity for more nutrition-sensitive agriculture by Meldrum, G., Padulosi, S., Lochetti, G., Robitaille, R., Diulgheroff, S.

“…A total of 1097 vegetables were identified in a review of the Mansfeld Encyclopedia of Agricultural and Horticultural Plants, including species used for leaves (n = 495), multiple vegetative parts (n = 227), roots (n = 204), fruits or seeds (n = 90), and other parts like flowers, inflorescences, and stems (n = 81). …”
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Natural enemies of the maize cob borer Mussidia nigrivenella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) in Benin, West Africa by Sétamou, M., Schulthess, F., Goergen, Georg E., Poehling, H.M., Borgemeister, C.

“…Logistic regression analysis indicated that this parasitoid was more prevalent on fruits of Gardenia spp. (Rubiaceae) than on the other host plant species including maize used by M. nigrivenella, and was most abundant between February and September. …”
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