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Frontier analysis and agricultural typologies by Maruyama, Eduardo, Torero, Máximo, Scollard, Phoebe, Elias, Maribel, Mulangu, Francis, Seck, Abdoulaye

“…PARI’s main goal is to contribute to sustainable agricultural growth and food security in Africa and India by supporting the scaling of proven innovations in the agri-food sector in collaboration with all relevant actors. …”
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Helping oneself, helping each other: Correlates of women’s participation in self-help groups by Arrieta, Alejandra, Jilani, Amir Hamza, Kumar, Neha, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…This paper analyses the correlates of women’s membership in self-help groups (SHGs) using two datasets from India. Older women and those in villages without banks are more likely to join SHGs. …”
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Insurance structure, risk sharing, and investment decisions: An empirical investigation of the implications of individual and group weather index insurance by Munro, Laura

“…Experimental results from a framed field experiment in Gujarat, India, confirm that group pressure leads to an 8 percent reduction in risk taking in contexts with perfect information and group insurance (relative to individual insurance). …”
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Land cover mapping of Bengaluru's urban and surrounding area with Spatiotemporal open-source remote sensing data by Grison, Sylvain, Siddaganga, Rajath, Singh, Renu, Hegde, Shrihari, Brockmann, Axel, Krishnan, Smitha, Guo, Wei

“…In this paper, we present the city of Bengaluru, India (covering an area of 365,879 ha) as a case study. …”
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Climate smart agriculture and food systems that reduce poverty and hunger by Babu, Suresh Chandra

“…Drawing on country experiences – India, Tajikistan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic and Myanmar – with integrated strategies, it looks at how climate strategies such as nationally determined contributions can be aligned with national agricultural and antipoverty strategies; the need for multisector and multistakeholder action and participation; challenges to joint financing for climate action, poverty and hunger goals; and adapting government and donor systems to co-ordinate implementation.…”
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GNR 2014: Appendix 5: How accountable is the Global Nutrition Report by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…This paper discusses findings derived from unique stacked surveys of all value chain segments in seven zones, more and less developed, around Bangladesh, China, India, and Vietnam.…”
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Assessing progress against nutrition status targets by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…In addition we present new data that describe progress made at the subnational Level in India—the country with the largest burden of undernutrition.…”
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Remoteness, farm production, and dietary diversity in Nepal by Singh, Tushar, Kishore, Avinash, Alvi, Muzna

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Assessing the development impacts of bio-innovations: The case of genetically modified maize and cassava in Tanzania by Benfica, Rui, Zambrano, Patricia, Chambers, Judith A., Falck-Zepeda, José B.

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Conservation and use of genetic resources (Genebanks) by Selvarajan, R., Uma, S., Ravi, I., Mayilvaganan, M., Thanagvelu, R., Karpagam, C., Chase, Rachel, Ruas, Max, Carpentier, Sebastien, Roux, Nicolas

“…Additionally, the report discusses the evaluation of 99 banana genotypes for resistance to Fusarium wilt, a serious disease affecting banana crops in India. The genotypes were tested under both glasshouse and field conditions for their reaction to two races of the disease. …”
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What's politics got to do with it: Nutrition and the policy agenda by Fritschel, Heidi, Vivalo, Julia, Gustafson, Sara, Shelton, Peter, Sullivan, Rebecca Harris, Yin, Sandra, Johnson, Ian, Lippincott, Don, Weeks, Jennifer

“…The feature article in this issue of Insights looks at how some developing countries and regions—Ghana, Peru, Thailand, and the state of Maharashtra, India—have made nutrition a political priority and how they’ve turned political commitments into widespread changes on the ground. …”
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Unleashing agriculture's potential for improved nutrition and health in Malawi: Conference report - 26-27 September 2011, Lilongwe, Malawi by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…In February 2011, the 2020 Vision Initiative of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) organized an international conference in New Delhi, India on “Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition and Health.” …”
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Summary of the agro-ecological and socio-economic context for the Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) by Pede, Valerien, Ward, Patrick S., Spielman, David J., Paris, Thelma R.

“…In all, the baseline household survey collected data on 2,628 households across the CSISA hub domains of Haryana, Punjab, eastern Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Tamil Nadu in India; Dinajpur and Gazipur in Bangladesh; and the Terai region of central Nepal.…”
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What role does conflict play in fertilizer use and maize yield response in Nigeria? by Amare, Mulubrhan, Andam, Kwaw S., Balana, Bedru, Olanrewaju, Opeyemi, Edeh, Hyacinth O.

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Globalization of food and agriculture and the poor by von Braun, Joachim, Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio

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Vertical coordination in high-value commodities: implications for smallholders by Birthal, Pratap Singh, Joshi, Pramod Kumar, Gulati, Ashok

“…This paper explores how smallholders can benefit from the emerging opportunities from a silent demand-driven changes in high-value agriculture in India. The study examines the institutional mechanisms adopted by different firms to integrate small producers of milk, broilers and vegetables in supply chain and their effects on producers’ transaction costs and farm profitability. …”
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Nutrition Situation and its Food Policy Links by Kumar, Shubh K.

“…There is little doubt that in "average" years, malnutrition in Africa is a smaller problem than it is in Asian countries such as Bangladesh, India, Nepal, or Sri Lanka. Another reason why nutritional problems do not receive much attention in Africa is that in recent years episodes of severe drought, famine, and starvation have been relatively frequent, and attention has focused more on the shorter-run alleviation of food problems than on longer-term underlying problems. …”
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Gender, caste, and public goods provision in Indian village governments by Gajwani, Kiran, Zhang, Xiaobo

“…Using data from 144 village-level governments in India's Tamil Nadu state, we examine whether the gender and caste of village government leaders influence village public goods provision. …”
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The mungbean transformation diversifying crops, defeating malnutrition: Diversifying crops, defeating malnutrition by Shanmugasundaram, Subramanyam, Keatinge, J. D. H., Hughes, Jacqueline d’Arros

“…National partners in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Thailand collaborated with AVRDC – The World Vegetable Center, using an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to research and develop improved mungbean varieties and technologies. …”
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Do buyers have bargaining power? Evidence from informal groundwater contracts by Yashodha

“…In this paper, I examine the relative bargaining power of sellers and buyers in informal groundwater markets in India. To understand the process of bargaining, a framed-field experiment is conducted with actual buyers and sellers in groundwater contracts. …”
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