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Beyond emergency relief: What will it take to ensure a resilient recovery for agriculture and the rural economy of Myanmar by Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity

“…The recent history of rural economic transformation in Myanmar and the effects of COVID-19 and the military coup in February 2021 provide important lessons for the design and implementation of plans to help the country recover from these scourges. …”
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Conservation in a wicked complex world: challenges and solutions by Game, E.T., Meijaard, E., Sheil, D., McDonald-Madden, E.

“…To help illustrate these challenges and solutions, we point to parallels between conservation and military operations.…”
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Efter den Kungliga Krigsflygskolan : hur brukas F5 Ljungbyhed idag? by Lindell, Martin

Vulnerability and welfare during multiple crises by van Asselt, Joanna, Lambrecht, Isabel B., Aung, Zin Wai

“…The triple transition that took place between 2011 and 2019 in Myanmar—from a planned to an open market economy, from military to civilian rule, from conflict to peace—was not without its limitations. …”
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Hunden i statens tjänst by Ericzén, Sofie, Eriksson, Eva, Sandberg, Agneta, Sandell, Ann-Sofie

Myanmar's microfinance sector, agriculture, and COVID-19: Emerging insights and new challenges by Myanmar Agriculture Support Activity

“…The events since the military takeover are creating new challenges, exacerbating the aforementioned impacts, and raising new risks of MFI insolvency and broader crises around food security, indebtedness, and poverty. …”
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Achieving the 2020 vision in the shadow of international terrorism: 2000 World Food Prize Laureate address (October 19, 2001) by Pinstrup-Andersen, Per

“…Fighting terrorism involves more than identifying and eradicating its organizers and perpetrators through military and financial means. We must also wage a campaign to eliminate the conditions that propel terrorism: Poverty, hunger, malnutrition, and mismanagement of natural resources.…”
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Dietary quality and nutrition: Past progress, current and future challenges by Mahrt, Kristi, Headey, Derek D., Ecker, Olivier, Comstock, Andrew R., Tauseef, Salauddin

“…Prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and the military coup in 2021, Myanmar was experiencing a period of rapid economic growth and transformation in the wake of economic and political liberalization. …”
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Informal traders in African cities are being used as political pawns by Resnick, Danielle

“…In response the country’s President Edgar Lungu called in police and the military to raze makeshift food stalls in the city. …”
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Haiti: The impact of COVID-19 and preliminary implications: Interim report by Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio, Piñeiro, Valeria, De Salvo, Carmine Paolo, Laborde Debucquet, David

“…The democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was then driven from office by yet another military coup in 1991 but, after UN sanctions, free elections were again held in 1995. …”
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COVID-19 and public actions for the urban poor by Rashid, Shahidur, Bin Khaled, Muhammad Nahian

“…Dealing with nation-wide disruptions is nothing new to Bangladesh. Political unrest, military coups, and natural disasters in the country have time and again made global news headlines, often with sad imageries. …”
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Globalization, poverty, and food security: Summary Paper from the International Conference on Sustainable Food Security For All By 2020 by Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio

“…Diaz-Bonilla outlines important policies both in developing and in industrialized countries and concludes that making globalization work for the poor and hungry requires adequate domestic policies in developing countries and, also, a pro-poor international environment on the part of the industrialized countries, through diplomatic, military, trade, financial, technological, environmental, and institutional policies.…”
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Resena historica de la investigacion sobre politicas en Centro America by Kaimowitz, D., Murrar, A.

“…Regional rural policy research began with the institutions developed around the Central American Common Market in the 1960s and 1970s, then became heavily tainted by the region's military conflicts in the 1980s, and came under the predominant influence of CGIAR centres and international agencies in the 1990s. …”
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Revingefältet genom kamerans lins by Espegren Lindeberg, Johanna

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Myttingelinjen by Åkerström, Jonas

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Transformation of Sudan's agrifood system structure and drivers by Diao, Xinshen, Pauw, Karl, Raouf, Mariam, Siddig, Khalid, Thurlow, James, Ellis, Mia

“…The political conflict between the civilians and military entities after the fall of the Inghaz regime and the ongoing conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are driving further deterioration of the economy (Abushama et al. 2023).…”
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Back to the brink? Madagascar’s polarizing presidential elections by Resnick, Danielle

“…Since the beginning of October, Madagascar’s capital city of Antananarivo, has been on edge. A massive military and police presence hovers along Independence Avenue in front of the mayor’s office to deter demonstrators from protesting the upcoming November 16 presidential elections. …”
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Food processing: A stalled transformation by Minten, Bart, Ecker, Olivier, Comstock, Andrew R., Mahrt, Kristi, Fang, Peixun, Goeb, Joseph, Zone, Phoo Pye

“…The aim of this chapter is to analyze the state and evolution of food processing in Myanmar and to assess the effect of the crises (COVID-19 and the military coup) on the different segments—production, trade, and consumption—of the sector. …”
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Agricultural value chains: Examples of quiet transformation by Belton, Ben, Ame, Cho, Fang, Peixun, Win, Myat Thida, Mather, David

“…This perception is partly rooted in the legacy of Myanmar’s military socialist government (1962–1988). During this period, most private business was nationalized, agricultural production in the lowlands was brought under a command-and-control system, and the state assumed all responsibility for the provision of agricultural inputs, services such as mechanization, and crop procurement and marketing.…”
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How have foreign exchange market distortions and conflict affected agricultural production incentives in Myanmar? by Myanmar Agrifood Program for Strategy and Analysis

“…This study examines changes in agricultural prices at the export, wholesale, and farm level in the case of Myanmar, which experienced a surge in conflicts from 2021 onward, following a military coup. The major findings are as follows: • Regarding macroeconomic impacts, the military government implemented a dual exchange rate system, maintaining a fixed exchange rate significantly below the market rate and effectively imposing an across-the-board export tax on all export commodities of approximately 24 percent between August 2022 and August 2024. …”
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