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Agricultural mechanization and gendered labor activities across sectors: Micro-evidence from multi-country farm household data by Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Diao, Xinshen

“…This study aims to partly fill these knowledge gaps through micro-evidence from 8 countries (Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, India, Nepal, Tajikistan and Vietnam), using several nationally representative panel data and supplementary data, and applying Correlated-Random-Effects Double-Hurdle models with Instrumental-Variables. …”
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Nourishing millions: Stories of change in nutrition by Gillespie, Stuart, Hodge, Judith, Yosef, Sivan, Pandya-Lorch, Rajul

“…They shed light on nutrition success stories on the ground in places ranging from Bangladesh, Brazil, Nepal, Peru, Thailand, and Vietnam to Ethiopia and the state of Odisha in India. The book also examines how nutrition “champions” emerge and drive change. …”
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Stories of Change - Rwanda, Final Report by Iruhiriye, Elyse, Olney, Deanna K., Ramani, Gayathri V., Heckert, Jessica, Niyongira, Emmanuel, Frongillo, Edward A.

“…The Stories of Change (SoC) case studies, originally conducted in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India (Odisha state), Nepal, Senegal, and Zambia, and now in Rwanda, aim to fill some of these knowledge gaps by examining the “drivers of change” in reducing malnutrition across different contexts.…”
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Assessing agricultural market integration of Cambodia within and beyond ASEAN by Ajmani, Manmeet Singh, Joshi, Pramod Kumar, Roy, Devesh, Renjini, V. R.

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Engaging women’s groups to improve nutrition: Findings from an evaluation of the Jeevika multisectoral convergence pilot in Saharsa, Bihar by Gupta, Shivani, Kumar, Neha, Menon, Purnima, Pandey, Shinjini, Raghunathan, Kalyani

“…This report presents the endline findings of an impact evaluation of the JEEViKA Multisectoral Convergence pilot, designed as an effectiveness trial, in one district in Bihar, India. JEEViKA, a rural livelihoods project, supports self-help groups (SHGs) - savings and credit-based groups of about 15-20 women, mostly targeted toward those from poor households - with the aim of improving their livelihoods and enhancing household incomes. …”
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Leveraging agriculture for nutrition in South Asia: What do we know, and what have we learned? by Gillespie, Stuart, Poole, Nigel, van den Bold, Mara, Bhavani, R. V., Dangour, Alan D., Shetty, Prakash

“…The Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA) research consortium (2012–2018) set out to improve understanding about how agriculture and related food policies and programs in South Asia (specifically in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan) can be better conceptualised and implemented in order to enhance impacts on nutrition outcomes, especially those of young children and adolescent girls. …”
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The quiet revolution in Asia's rice value chains by Reardon, Thomas, Chen, Kevin Z., Minten, Bart, Adriano, Lourdes, Dao, The Anh, Wang, Jianying, Das Gupta, Sunipa

“…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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Climate shocks and fertilizer responses: Field-level evidence for rice production in Bangladesh by Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Kishore, Avinash, Kumar, Anjani

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Can participation in agricultural programmes improve youth agribusiness performance? Insights from the Enable Programme in East Africa by Adeyanju, Dolapo, Ejima, Joseph, Balana, Bedru, Mburu, John

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Modern input promotion in sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from Asian green revolution by Rashid, Shahidur, Dorosh, Paul A., Malek, Mehrab, Lemma, Solomon

“…Using case materials from four major cereal growing countries in Asia (Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, and Pakistan), the article analyzes key aspects of agricultural input policies in Asia. …”
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Leveling with friends: Social networks and indian farmers’ demand for agricultural custom hire services by Magnan, Nicholas, Spielman, David J., Lybbert, Travis J., Gulati, Kajal

“…The technology in question is laser land leveling (LLL)-a resource-conserving technology-which we introduced in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India as part of the study. Using an experimental auction, we obtain farmers’ willingness-to-pay for the technology and identify potential adopters. …”
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Rethinking the global food crisis: The role of trade shocks by Headey, Derek D.

“…However, observations that international rice prices surged in response to export restrictions by India and Vietnam suggested that trade-related factors could be an important basis for overshooting, especially given the very tangible link between export volumes and export prices. …”
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Rice trade liberalization and poverty by Gulati, Ashok, Narayanan, Sudha

“…While poor countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, and India tend to “disprotect” rice sectors, the rich countries of East Asia (Japan and Korea), Europe, and the United States heavily support their rice producers. …”
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Rice trade liberalization and poverty by Gulati, Ashok, Narayanan, Sudha

“…While poor countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, and India tend to “disprotect” rice sectors, the rich countries of East Asia (Japan and Korea), Europe, and the United States heavily support their rice producers. …”
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Report on the scoping study for the project “nature positive solutions for shifting agrifood systems to more resilient and sustainable pathways" by Manibhai, Desai Nagar

“…This Scoping Study was conducted in the Akole cluster of Maharashtra, India. Secondary research was conducted and the findings were triangulated with primary studies. …”
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IFPRI and the abolition of the wheat flour ration shops in Pakistan: a case-study on policymaking and the use and impact of research by Islam, Yassir, Garrett, James L.

“…Started as a food rationing program during World War II in colonial India, it had degenerated by the 1980s into a wasteful corrupt system that failed to reach the poor. …”
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Collective action and property rights for poverty reduction: Lessons from a global research project by Mwangi, Esther, Markelova, Helen, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…To examine the role of the institutions of collective action and property rights on poverty reduction, the Systemwide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi) of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) undertook a global research project with study sites in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Indonesia, India, Cambodia, and the Philippines. The main goal of the project was to contribute to poverty-reduction efforts by identifying effective policies and practices that enhance the ways that collective action and property rights are used to build secure assets and income streams for and by the poor. …”
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Agriculture and climate change: Reducing methane emissions from irrigated rice by Wassmann, Reiner, Hosen, Yasukazu, Sumfleth, Kay

“…Midseason drainage (a common irrigation practice adopted in major rice growing regions of China and Japan) and intermittent irrigation (common in northwest India) greatly reduce methane emissions. Similarly, rice environments with an insecure supply of water, namely rainfed rice, have a lower emission potential than irrigated rice. …”
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Transmission of world food price changes to African markets and its effect on household welfare by Minot, Nicholas

“…A number of countries, including Argentina, India, Russia, and Vietnam, responded by restricting rice and wheat exports in an attempt to keep domestic prices from rising. …”
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Genetic mapping by sequencing more precisely detects loci responsible for anaerobic germination tolerance in rice by Ignacio, John Carlos I., Zaidem, Maricris, Casal, Carlos, Dixit, Shalabh, Kretzschmar, Tobias, Samaniego, Jaime M., Mendioro, Merlyn S., Weigel, Detlef, Septiningsih, Endang M.

“…ASD1, a landrace from India, possesses several traits desirable for direct-seeded fields, including tolerance to anaerobic germination (AG). …”
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