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Advancing a global collaborative partnership framework for sustainability standards and regulations by Halimatussadiah, Alin, Buchori, Damayanti, Carazo, Felipe, Swinnen, Johan, Adriansyah, Muhammad, Ghiffari, Muhammad Nur, Algamar, Rizal, Anky, Wildan Al Kautsar

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The COVID-19 pandemic and food security in low- and middle-income countries: A review by Bloem, Jeffrey R., Farris, Jarrad

“…We first focus on several studies—seven from countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and one from India—that estimate immediate changes in food insecurity associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Preschool quality and women’s off-farm labor force participation: Evidence from China by Li, Shaoping, Liu, Chengfang, Chen, Kevin Z., Luo, Renfu, Yu, Yanying, Wang, Xinyu

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Seasonal variation in the proximal determinants of undernutrition during the first 1000 days of life in rural South Asia: A comprehensive review by Madan, Emily M., Haas, Jere D., Menon, Purnima, Gillespie, Stuart

“…In this review, the influence of seasonal variation on undernutrition during the first 1000 days of life of life inrural South Asia is conceptualized using a modified framework developed under the “Tackling the Agricultureand Nutrition Disconnect in India” project. Evidence for the existence and extent of seasonality is summarizedfrom 14 studies reporting on six proximal determinants of undernutrition. …”
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Agricultural transformation in Sri Lanka: policy implications and way forward by Rao, P. Parthasarathy, Babu, Suresh Chandra, Weerahewa, Jeevika, Joshi, Pramod Kumar

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Do agriculture interventions increase aspirations? An examination from the lens of caste and gender by Alvi, Muzna, Ward, Patrick S., Spielman, David J., Makhija, Simrin

“…We use priming, a concept popular in social psychology, to study the effect of identity salience on aspirations for one’ self and children as part of an impact evaluation in Odisha, India. We measure the effect of an individual’s gender- and caste-identity salience on improving aspirations for their children’s profession and education. …”
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JEEViKA Multisectoral Convergence Initiative in Bihar: Engaging women’s groups to improve nutrition: Summary report by Gupta, Shivani, Kumar, Neha, Menon, Purnima, Pandey, Shinjini, Raghunathan, Kalyani

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Lessons from a stocktaking evaluation of IFPRI’s experience with country programs by Hazell, Peter B. R., Place, Frank, Tollens, Eric

“…These teams worked in newly opened country program offices in Africa south of the Sahara (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Uganda) as well as in Bangladesh, China, Costa Rica, India, and Pakistan.…”
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Drivers of nutritional change in four South Asian countries: A dynamic observational analysis by Headey, Derek D., Hoddinott, John F., Park, Seollee

“…This paper quantifies the factors explaining long‐term improvements in child height for age z‐scores in Bangladesh (1996/1997–2011), India (1992/1993–2005/2006), Nepal (1997–2011) and Pakistan (1991–2013). …”
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Launch workshop: Agricultural transformation and market integration in the ASEAN region: Responding to food security and inclusiveness concerns by Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture

“…More than 50 experts from international organizations, government agencies, academic institutions, civil society, and the private sector representing Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, the Philippines, Vietnam, China, India, the United States of America, and Italy took part in the discourse on global, regional, and national perspectives on agricultural transformation and market integration in the ASEAN region.…”
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Delivering for nutrition in Madhya Pradesh: Insights from a study on the state of essential nutrition interventions by Avula, Rasmi, Kim, Sunny S., Chakrabarti, Suman, Tyagi, Parul, Kohli, Neha, Kadiyala, Suneetha, Menon, Purnima

“…In India, policies are in place to address the set of nutrition-specific interventions that will accelerate progress in nutrition, if implemented at scale. …”
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The changing landscape of Indian agriculture by Gulati, Ashok, Ganguly, Kavery

“…Of course, the public sector played a pivotal and catalytic role when India ushered in the Green Revolution in late 1960s and early 1970s. …”
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Trade liberalization, market reforms and competitiveness of Indian dairy sector by Sharma, Vijay Paul, Gulati, Ashok

“…From chronic shortages of milk, India has emerged today as the largest producer of milk in the world crossing 80 million tonnes (GOI, 2002). …”
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Scaling up Kudumbashree -- collective action for poverty alleviation and women's empowerment by Kadiyala, Suneetha

“…This paper discusses the factors that enabled and constrained the scaling up of a multisectoral poverty alleviation program called Kudumbashree, initiated by the government of Kerala (GOK), India, in 1998 to eradicate poverty by 2008. It also discusses some potential threats to and trade-offs of scaling up Kudumbashree. …”
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Three criteria for establishing the usefulness of biotechnology for reducing micronutrient malnutrition by Bouis, Howarth E.

“…A simulation model for India and Bangladesh demonstrated that $42 million invested in conventional breeding in developing and planting iron- and zinc-dense varieties of rice and wheat on only 10% of the acreage used for these crops would return $4.9 billion in improved nutrition (including a total of 44 million prevented cases of anemia over 10 years) and higher agricultural productivity.…”
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Poverty mapping with aggregate census data: what is the loss in precision? by Minot, Nicholas, Baulch, Bob

“…In some countries (notably China and India), however, national statistics agencies are reluctant, for reasons of confidentiality, to release household-level census data to outside researchers. …”
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Toolkit to advance gender equality in agrifood value chains by Shijagurumayum, Meghajit, Elias, Marlène, Morgan, Miranda

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Institutional reforms in Indian irrigation by Gulati, Ashok, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Raju, K. Vengama

“…Irrigation is critical to food security and economic growth in contemporary India. The performance of irrigation systems is of serious concern to farmers who rely on them for their crops and livelihoods and to governments that have invested heavily in their development. …”
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The development promise: Can the doha development agenda deliver for least developed countries? by Berisha-Krasniqi, Valdete, Bouët, Antoine, Laborde Debucquet, David, Mevel, Simon

“…This initiative has to be supported by both Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and BrIC (Brazil, India, and China) countries. It is in the interests of Asian LDCs to prioritize full openness of OECD markets (a 100-percent DFQF regime) and full access to the U.S. market in particular, while African countries will draw more benefits from a geographic extension of this regime to BrIC countries.…”
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Update on bacterial blight of rice: Fourth International Conference on Bacterial Blight by Sundaram, Raman. M., Chatterjee, Subhadeep, Oliva, Ricardo, Laha, Gouri Sankar, Vera Cruz, Casiana, Leach, Jan E., Sonti, Ramesh V.

“…The Fourth International Conference on Bacterial Blight (4th ICBB) of Rice was held in Hyderabad, India on 2–4 December 2013, and was jointly organized by the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Directorate of Rice Research (DRR) and the Society for the Advancement of Rice Research. …”
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