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Achieving food security in southern Africa: new challenges, new opportunities by Haddad, Lawrence James

“…Now Southern Africa is experiencing a wave of economic and political reform that has the potential to raise living standards and bring the countries of the region into the world economy as full participants. …”
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Two summers of São Paulo drought: Origins in the western tropical Pacific by Seth, A., Fernandes, K., Camargo, S.J.

“…The warm SST and associated convective heating initiated a wave train across the South Pacific. The resulting anticyclonic geopotential height anomaly over the southwest Atlantic expanded the westward margin of the South Atlantic high and prevented low‐pressure systems from entering southeast Brazil from midlatitudes. …”
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Access to finance and rural youth entrepreneurship in Benin: is there a gender gap? by Senou, M.M., Manda, J.

“…This paper examines the impact of access to finance on rural youths' entrepreneurship in Benin using data from the second wave of the School-To-Work Transition Survey, involving over 900 youths. …”
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COVID-19 undermines incomes, livelihoods in rural Myanmar by Ragasa, Catherine, Lambrecht, Isabel B., Mahrt, Kristi, Aung, Zin Wai, Wang, Michael

“…As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded in early 2020, Myanmar avoided an early wave of infections. However, even before its first cases were confirmed, the country faced a related economic crisis. …”
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The brokerage institution and the development of agricultural markets: New evidence from Ethiopia by Quattri, Maria, Ozanne, Adam, Beyene, Seneshaw Tamru

“…Recognition that policies aimed at ‘getting prices right’ in less-developed countries have not been successful due to incomplete markets has spurred a new wave of reforms aimed instead at ‘getting markets and institutions right’. …”
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Contract Farming in Developing Countries: The promise and its perils by Narayanan, Sudha

“…Contract farming is an institutional arrangement between farmers and businesses to produce and transact agricultural commodities at predetermined prices and conditions, and it has recently received a heightened amount of attention despite being a relatively old phenomenon. A new wave of agricultural industrialization and the emergence of large-scale food retailing in developing countries may be precipitating the unprecedented shift in favor of contract farming. …”
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New U.S. tariff policies: What’s at stake for sub-Saharan Africa? by Piñeiro, Valeria, Gianatiempo, Juan Pablo, Traoré, Fousseini, Glauber, Joseph W.

“…As the United States rolls out a new wave of tariff increases, SSA countries must navigate a newly challenging trade environment. …”
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How ‘reciprocal tariffs’ harm agricultural trade by Glauber, Joseph W., Piñeiro, Valeria, Gianatiempo, Juan Pablo

“…It is also a sector that has historically been highly sensitive to trade policies, retaliatory tariffs, and sudden shifts in market access. As with the wave of tariffs introduced during the first Trump administration, this new regime could reshape trade flows, drive price volatility, and introduce long-term uncertainty into the global food system.…”
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Land-based Investments for rural development?: A grounded analysis of the local Impacts of biofuel feedstock plantations in Ghana by Schoneveld, George C., German, L., Nutakor, E.

“…As part of a contemporary wave of agricultural modernization efforts, it could make invaluable contributions to rural poverty. …”
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Woman in agriculture, and climate risks: hotspots for development by Chanana, Nitya, Aggarwal, Pramod K.

“…The results suggest 36 hotspots across 10 states in India, where large number of women farmers are impacted by high levels of drought probability, excess rainfall and heat wave. The target population in these hotspots comprise 14.4% of the total women farmers in the country. …”
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Cost-effective production of non-fossil energies in the Swedish electricity system including external effects and uncertainty by Sjövall, Karin

“…None of the models have solar PV and wave energy as part of the cost-effective mix. Biomass, offshore wind and small scale hydro are included to a varying extent in the different models. …”

Can information and communication technologies contribute to poverty reduction? Evidence from poor counties in China by Gu, Rui, Zhang, Wei, Chen, Kevin Z., Nie, Fengying

“…This paper uses a unique three-wave panel data set of household surveys, collected from seven officially recognized poor counties in rural China during 2012–2018, to examine the effect of ICT adoption on poverty. …”
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Assessing the vulnerability of West and Central African countries to COVID-19 by Ulimwengu, John M., Domgho, Léa Magne, Collins, Julia

“…The early stages of the pandemic were characterized by apparent lower illness and mortality rates in Africa compared to the other world regions, although significant underreporting of COVID-19 cases and deaths in Africa is likely. 1 However, the economic effects of the pandemic and the measures taken to combat it were expected to impact African countries severely, worsening poverty and hunger and erasing recent economic gains (Bouët, Laborde, and Seck 2021). A “third wave” of the pandemic in mid-2021 saw rapidly escalating health effects and a return to lockdowns and other mitigation efforts in many countries (Mwai 2021). …”
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Gender roles in collective management of aquatic resources in Bangladesh by CGIAR Program on Collective Action and Property Rights

“…Wetland plants also provide natural protection against wave erosion. About 80 percent of rural households catch fish for food or to sell. …”
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Offering defence against pests and diseases: Bioversity International farmer-researcher field trials mark success at several levels by Bioversity International

“…Smallholder farmers in Ecuador who planted diverse bean varieties harvested their crop in spite of a heat wave, while those who invested in one commercial variety lost everything. …”
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Women’s empowerment, productivity, and food security: Nationally representative panel data analysis in Malawi by Ragasa, Catherine, Carrillo, Lucia, Ma, Ning

“…This paper provides new evidence on the relationship between intrahousehold dynamics, agricultural productivity, and dietary diversity using a nationally representative panel household dataset in Malawi (two waves: 2019 and 2021, with 5,067 female and male respondents per wave). …”
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Stories of change in nutrition from Africa and Asia: An introduction to a special series in food security by Gillespie, Stuart, Harris, Jody, Nisbett, Nicholas, van den Bold, Mara

“…This series presents a second wave of studies from six countries (Tanzania, Rwanda, Vietnam, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Nigeria,) and three Indian states (Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu). …”
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Geography of plant breeding systems, agroclimatic similarity, and agricultural productivity: Evidence from Nigeria by Takeshima, Hiroyuki

“…However, the effects of the interactions between these two sets of factors on agricultural productivity have not been studied widely in developing countries, despite potentially important implications on their plant breeding strategies. Using three-wave panel data of agricultural households in Nigeria and spatial data on various agroclimatic parameters, we show that agricultural productivity and technical efficiency at the agricultural household level is significantly positively affected by the similarity of agroclimatic conditions between locations where agricultural households are located, and locations where major plant breeding institutes are located. …”
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Land access, land rental markets and rural poverty dynamics in northern Ethiopian highlands: Panel data evidence using survival models by Ghebru, Hosaena, Holden, Stein

“…There is growing interest in understanding the links between land reforms, land markets and poverty reduction in Africa. The study uses four-wave panel data from Norther highlands of Ethiopia to assess the dynamics of rural poverty taking into account rural households status of participation in the land rental market. …”
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Land rental markets and rural poverty dynamics in Northern Ethiopia: Panel data evidence using survival models by Ghebru, Hosaena, Stein, Holden

“…There is growing interest in understanding the links between land reforms, land markets, and poverty reduction in Africa. The study uses four‐wave panel data from the northern highlands of Ethiopia to assess the dynamics of rural poverty taking into account the status of participation of rural households in the land rental market. …”
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