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Comparing village characteristics derived from rapid appraisals and household surveys: a tale from northern Mali by Christiaensen, Luc, Hoddinott, John F., Bergeron, Gilles

“…Pairwise comparison of the survey techniques, holding the households constant, shows that the community map leads, on average, to higher estimates of household size and lower estimates of wealth.…”
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Comparing village characteristics derived from rapid appraisals and household surveys: a tale from northern Mali by Christiaensen, Luc, Hoddinott, John F., Bergeron, Gilles

“…Pairwise comparison of the survey techniques, holding the households constant, shows that the community map leads, on average, to higher estimates of household size and lower estimates of wealth. -- Athors' Abstract…”
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Market institutions, transaction costs, and social capital in the Ethiopian grain market by Gabre-Madhin, Eleni Zaude

“…Estimated as the opportunity cost of labor time spent searching for a trading partner and the opportunity cost of holding capital fixed during that search, these costs represent one-fifth of all marketing costs. …”
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Market institutions, transaction costs, and social capital in the Ethiopian grain market by Gabre-Madhin, Eleni Zaude

“…Estimated as the opportunity cost of labor time spent searching for a trading partner and the opportunity cost of holding capital fixed during that search, these costs represent one-fifth of all marketing costs. …”
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Insight Note Vol 3: Innovation Inventory 2021 by Schuetz, Tonya, Poulos, Allison, Sharkey, Rowan Olderman, Rubyogo, Jean Claude, Onyango, Patricia Atieno

“…Recommendations include maintaining an open innovation survey year-round and holding dedicated innovation presentation sessions. 90% of participants rated the session highly successful.…”
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Impact of small scale irrigation on household poverty: empirical evidence from the Ambo district in Ethiopia by Bacha, D., Namara, Regassa E., Bogale, Ayalneh, Tesfaye, A.

“…In addition to irrigation, other variables such as farm size, livestock holding size, land productivity, and family size significantly influence the level of household consumption expenditure. …”
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Scopoletin in cassava products as an inhibitor of aflatoxin production by Gnonlonfin, G.J.B., Adjovi, Y.C.S., Gbaguidi, F., Gbenou, J., Katerere, D., Brimer, L., Sanni, A.

“…Aflatoxin production by a strain of A. flavus holding the cluster Nor1, Omt1 and OmtB responsible for aflatoxin biosynthesis was inhibited by scopoletin and cassava flour at lower concentrations (0.024 mM). …”
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Assessment of hygiene practices of pork retail outlets in Kampala district, Uganda by Kungu, Joseph M., Dione, Michel M., Roesel, Kristina, Ejobi, F., Ocaido, M., Grace, Delia

“…However only 42% of the outlets had a public health certificate. Holding a public health certificate is an important predictor of good practices.…”
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Index-based livestock insurance as an innovative tool against drought loss: Good practices and impact analysis from northern Kenya by Agency for Rangeland Information and Development in Kenya

“…When evolving range conditions predict livestock mortality in excess of a critical threshold (say 15%) over a predetermined area, the insurance pays contract-holding pastoralists for their losses, allowing them to manage their individual risk. …”
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Markanvändningens förändring i vardagslandskapet by Israelsson, Jessica

“…Studies of selected parts of the everyday landscape, that earlier have been settlement with small crofter’s holding, show that the changes in the landscape mostly depends on the human factor and that a lot of the cultivable soil have been replaced with spruce. …”
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Graph theory in veterinary epidemiology : modelling an outbreak of classical swine fever by Widgren, Stefan

“…Thus rapid control measures can be implemented and this should increase the likelihood that possible infectious holdings are found during an early stage of the outbreak. …”

Vårdprogram och underhållsplan för den historiska trädgården vid soldattorpet Rensmyran by Bergström, Marita

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Distansskogsägares självbild, värden och behov by Hörnsten, Fredrik, Tufvesson, Kristian

A comparative Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) study using a non-supervised clustering analysis and an expert knowledge based model - A case study from Ahuachapán, El Salvador by Martin López, Javier Mauricio, Silva, Mayesse Aparecida da, Valencia Gómez, Jefferson, Quintero, Marcela, Keough, Adam, Casares, Francisco

“…We compared two DSM methods to predict soil properties such as Organic Matter “MO” (%), Sand (%), Clay (%), pH (H2O), Phosphorus (mg/kg), Effective Cationic Exchange Capacity “CICE” (cmol/L), Potassium (cmol/L) and Water Holding Capacity (mm/m) for the department of Ahuachapán in El Salvador to support the activities of the Agriculture Landscape Restoration Initiative (ALRI) in the country…”
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Philippines, Smallholder Livestock Production Dataset, 2000-2001 by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The sampled smallholders are household-based backyard growers (who use their own capital and family labor) and/or semi-commercial growers (who employ hired labor and use external financing for livestock production) holding an inventory ranging up to 300 head of hogs at any given period. …”
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Land rights for African development: from knowledge to action by Mwangi, Esther

“…These innovations include: • adjusting received law to customary norms and rules of land holding and access, as opposed to outright replacing customary tenure • altering lending rules by banks and financial institutions to promote land-related investments (even on land regulated by customary and/or religious law) • de-emphasizing the notion of ownership and refocusing on use rights in order to secure women’s rights and access • restructuring conventional land administration systems to support group-based rights structures • encouraging decentralized land management systems that reflect local cultural norms and practices • in situations of multiple, overlapping resource use, strengthening processes of negotiation and conflict resolution as opposed to a generic concern with substantive rights in order to secure the access of permanent and transitory resource users.…”
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Social capital and the reproduction of economic inequality in polarized societies by Mogues, Tewodaj, Carter, Michael R.

“…Among other things the paper shows that holding constant the initial levels of economic polarization and wealth inequality, higher socioeconomic polarization increases subsequent income and wealth inequality. …”
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Grain price stabilization experiences in Asia: what have we learned?” by Cummings, Jr. , Ralph, Rashid, Shahidur, Gulati, Ashok

“…Private institutions have strengthened significantly – or could be strengthened significantly – and should be entrusted for many of the functions that parastatals, or other government agencies, have traditionally performed. Holding on to old practices delays reaping the benefits that changing current policies have to offer.…”
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Seasonal space-time dynamics of cattle behavior and mobility among Maasai pastoralists in semi-arid Kenya by Butt, B.

“…The study relies on the use of handmade collars holding global positioning system (GPS) units to document the spatially and temporally explicit patterns of cattle mobility, field based herd-follows to document cattle behavior, and key informant interviews to document the role of pastoral herding strategies in explaining these patterns. …”
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Impact of homestead farming system on rural economy: A study in South 24 Pargana district of West Bengal by Bhattacharya, A., Deo, Ashutosh D., Sundaray, J.K., Ponniah, A.G.

“…Development of homestead farming system (HFS) has the potential for poverty alleviation in states like West Bengal since irrespective of the land holding size, most of the households in the coastal region of West Bengal, have a small piece of land adjacent to their dwelling where some kind of homestead farming is carried out using the indigenous knowledge. …”
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