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The way forward for nutrition-driven agriculture por Fan, Shenggen, Yosef, Sivan, Pandya-Lorch, Rajul

“…It has assessed the impacts of various agricultural interventions and policies on nutrition, including those that integrate behavior change communication or social protection, and profiled the up-and-down journeys of countries such as Bangladesh, China, Ethiopia, India, and Malawi in integrating nutrition into agriculture policies and program interventions. …”
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Do grassroots interventions relax behavioral constraints to the adoption of nutrition-sensitive food production systems? por Alvi, Muzna, Ward, Patrick S., Makhija, Simrin, Spielman, David J.

“…We use a series of lab-in-field experiments and survey instruments in Odisha, India to elicit male and female farmers’ preferences for risk, aversion to loss, empowerment and aspirations for one’s self and children. …”
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Do grassroots interventions relax behavioral constraints to the adoption of nutrition-sensitive food production systems? por Alvi, Muzna, Ward, Patrick S., Makhija, Simrin, Spielman, David J.

“…We use a series of labin-field experiments and survey instruments in Odisha, India to elicit male and female farmers’ preferences for risk, aversion to loss, empowerment and aspirations for one’s self and children. …”
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Participation, learning, and equity in education: Can we have it all? por Delavallade, Clara, Griffith, Alan, Shukla, Gaurav, Thornton, Rebecca

“…We examine the impact of a multifaceted educational program—delivered to 230 randomly selected primary schools in rural India—on students’ participation and performance. …”
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Role of development policies in combating climate change issues in Indian agriculture: A first order assessment of irrigation and fertilizer policies por Joshi, Pramod Kumar, Aggarwal, Pramod K., Tyagi, N.K., Pandey, Divya

“…The Government of India has pursued policies supporting intensive use of irrigation and fertilizer for the development of agrarian economy. …”
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The political economy of MGNREGS spending in Andhra Pradesh por Sheahan, Megan, Liu, Yanyan, Barrett, Christopher B., Narayanan, Sudha

“…This paper uses expenditure data at the local level in Andhra Pradesh from India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, a rights-based program distributing both public and private goods, to investigate the relationship between voting outcomes and program intensity in the seven years straddling a major election. …”
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Using participatory learning and action to empower women’s groups to improve feeding practices in Madhya Pradesh por Kanani, Shubhada, Singh, Rachna, Baqar, Syed, Mahajan, Uma, Belwal, L.M.

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A4NH 2014 annual report por CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health

“…Several major events took place, including a consultation in Rwanda to mobilize partners on scaling up delivery of biofortification, and another in India to share evidence and experiences on improving nutrition. …”
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Changing sources of growth in Indian agriculture: Implications for regional priorities for accelerating agricultural growth por Birthal, Pratap Singh, Joshi, Pramod Kumar, Negi, Digvijay S., Agarwal, Shaily

“…This paper revisits an earlier study to evaluate how the policy shift influences the patterns and the sources of agricultural growth in India and assesses their implications for regional priorities for higher, more sustainable, and more inclusive agricultural growth.…”
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From bargaining power to empowerment: Measuring the unmeasurable por Quisumbing, Agnes R.

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WTO disciplines on agricultural support: Experience to date and assessment of Doha proposals por Orden, David, Blandford, David, Josling, Timonthy, Brink, Lars

“…The analysis focuses on four developed countries (the United States, the European Union [as a single “country”], Japan, and Norway) and four developing countries (Brazil, China, India, and the Philippines). We highlight the substantial differences among these countries in their notifications of policy measures and the support they provide. …”
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A global assessment of the economic effects of export taxes por Laborde Debucquet, David, Estrades, Carmen, Bouët, Antoine

“…Both developed and emerging economies, such as China and India, would gain from such policies even if they currently impose export taxes. …”
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Getting implicit shadow prices right for the estimation of the Malmquist index: The case of agricultural total factor productivity in developing countries por Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, Yu, Bingxin

“…We find that agricultural TFP has been growing steadily in the past 20 years even if countries like China, Brazil, and India are not considered. Remarkably, we find a clear improvement in the performance of Sub‐Saharan Africa since the mid 1980s.…”
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How to overcome the governance challenges of implementing NREGA: Insights from Bihar using process-influence mapping por Raabe, Katharina, Birner, Regina, Sekher, Madhushree, Gayathridevi, K. G., Shilpi, Amrita, Schiffer, Eva

“…Large-scale social safety net programs such as India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) are difficult to implement due to governance challenges related to elite capture, leakages, and corruption. …”
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Promises and realities of community-based agricultural extension por Feder, Gershon, Anderson, Jock R., Birner, Regina, Deininger, Klaus

“…The paper reviews both quantitative and qualitative studies, focusing on three examples that contain important elements of community-based extension: the National Agricultural Advisory Services program of Uganda, the agricultural technology management agency model of India, and the farmer field school approach. The review finds that in the rather few cases where performance has been relatively carefully studied, elite capture was identified as a major constraint. …”
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Foreign direct investment, globalized agri-food value chains and transformation por Saroj, Sunil, Veeramani, Choorikkad, Roy, Devesh, Kamar, Abul, Pradhan, Mamata

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Do grassroots interventions relax behavioural constraints and improve adoption of nutrition-sensitive food production systems? por Alvi, Muzna, Ward, Patrick S., Makhija, Simrin, Spielman, David J.

“…We test whether grassroots programs can additionally relax behavioural constraints, potentially enhancing the adoption of diversified production systems. In Odisha, India, using a series of laboratory‐in‐field experiments and survey instruments to elicit farmers' preferences for risk, agency and aspirations for themselves and their children, we find that respondents in villages where grassroots interventions were promoted showed significantly lower levels of risk aversion and higher aspirations for themselves and their children, along with improvements in production and consumption diversity. …”
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Incentives and constraints in the transformation of Punjab agriculture por McGuirk, Anya, Mundlak, Yair

“…Incentives and Constraints in the Transformation of Punjab Agriculture, Research Report 87, by Anya McGuirk and Yair Mundlak, examines the factors that determined the pace of implementation of new techniques in agriculture in Punjab, India, from 1960 to 1979.It is widely recognized that new crop varieties usually take many years to fully come into use. …”
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Determinants and implications of the growing scale of livestock farms in four fast-growing developing countries por Delgado, Christopher L., Narrod, Clare, Tiongco, Marites, Barros, Geraldo Sant'Ana de Camargo, Catelo, Maria Angeles O., Costales, Achilles, Mehta, Rajesh, Naranong, Viroj, Poapongsakorn, Nipon, Sharma, Vijay Paul, de Zen, Sergio

“…This report assesses the potential threat, examining various forms of livestock production in Brazil, India, the Philippines, and Thailand. Findings show that the competitiveness of smallholder farms depends on the opportunity cost of family labor and farmers' ability to overcome barriers to the acquisition of production- and market-related information and assets. …”
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Prospects for agricultural production and food deficits in West Asia and North Africa: the role of high-elevation areas por Oram, Peter

“…A main objective of the meeting was to look at the technical potential for improving the productivity of cereals and food legumes in the high elevation areas that compose almost half of the agricultural land of the main producing countries of West Asia and North Africa (Algeria, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, and the Yemen Arab Republic), as well as important areas of Pakistan, India, Nepal, Mongolia, and China. These upland plateau and mountain areas have a harsh climate, with an abrupt transition from very cold winters (when most of the precipitation occurs) to hot arid summers, and very high variability of precipitation. …”
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