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Unlock the potential of vaccines in food-producing animals by Laxminarayan, R., Gleason, A., Sheen, J., Saad-Roy, C.M., Metcalf, C.J., Palmer, G.H., Fèvre, Eric M.

“…Improvement could simultaneously help mitigate climate change and pandemic risk, tackle antimicrobial resistance, and fight poverty. …”
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Uganda coffee agronomy training: Impact evaluation report by Hoffmann, Vivian, Murphy, Mike, Harigaya, Tomoko

“…The program period spanned the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns, which significantly affected how training could be delivered and likely reduced its impact.…”
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Understanding the links between agriculture and health: Agriculture and HIV/AIDS by Gillespie, Stuart

“…By mainstreaming HIV/AIDS into the policy process and carefully monitoring the results, policymakers will help build up evidence of what works in different contexts, enhance learning, and ultimately leave people better equipped to address the multiple threats of the pandemic.…”
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Understanding the links between agriculture and health: Occupational health hazards of agriculture by Cole, Donald

“…By mainstreaming HIV/AIDS into the policy process and carefully monitoring the results, policymakers will help build up evidence of what works in different contexts, enhance learning, and ultimately leave people better equipped to address the multiple threats of the pandemic.…”
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Understanding the links between agriculture and health: Fish and health by Roos, Nanna, Wahab, Md. Abdul, Chamnan, Chhoun, Thilsted, Shakuntala H.

“…By mainstreaming HIV/AIDS into the policy process and carefully monitoring the results, policymakers will help build up evidence of what works in different contexts, enhance learning, and ultimately leave people better equipped to address the multiple threats of the pandemic.…”
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HIV/AIDS and the Agricultural Sector in Eastern and Southern Africa: Anticipating the Consequences by Jayne, Thomas S., Villarreal, Marcela, Pingali, Prabhu, Hemrich, Gunter

“…This chapter is intended to respond to the need to better understand the implications of the AIDS pandemic for the agricultural sectors in the hardest-hit countries of eastern and southern Africa. …”
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The potential intersections of COVID-19, gender and food security in Africa by Doss, Cheryl R., Njuki, Jemimah, Mika, Helena

“…We draw on evidence from past health crises, reports from the Covid-19 pandemic, and literature on gender and food security, to draw out potential gendered effects across four nodes: production, processing, trading, and consumption. …”
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Navigating the challenges of a warmer climate: strategies for mitigating impacts and fostering resilience in India by Ravindra, K., Bhardwaj, S., Gandhi, A. P., Attri, S. D., Mor, S.

“…The paper also underscores the relationship between increased temperatures and the possibility of a pandemic in the future, as increased temperatures have the ability to change the pathogen behavior, and understanding the relationship between both is essential to formulate policies and future interventions.…”
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Replication Data for Persistence of Individual and Social Preferences in Rural Settings by International Food Policy Research Institute, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral

“…The study examines the stability of individual and social preferences in rural settings, using the COVID-19 pandemic as a major global shock. The data comprise a panel of 1,262 agricultural households located across 86 communities in the departments of Huehuetenango, Quich, and San Marcos in Guatemala. …”
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Agricultural service delivery during turmoil: The state of agricultural extension and crop advisory services in Myanmar by Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity

“…Before the COVID-19 pandemic and the political crisis, the provision of digital extension services grew rapidly, linked to the rapid expansion of mobile cellphone networks and the spread of cheap smart phones. …”
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Advance equitable livelihoods by Neufeld, Lynnette M., Huang, Jikun, Badiane, Ousmane, Caron, Patrick, Forsse, Lisa Sennerby

“…These issues have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic is having a significant impact on global commodity markets and trading systems, economic growth, incomes, and poverty levels, with a likely disproportionate burden falling on vulnerable communities in both urban and rural areas. …”
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First report of mixed infection of cassava brown streak virus and Ugandan cassava brown streak virus on cassava in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo by Casinga, C.M., Monde, G., Shirima, R.R., Legg, James P.

“…Eastern DRC is on the ‘front’ of the westwards-spreading pandemic of CBSD, and it is vital to understand the identity and epidemiology of viruses associated with this outbreak. …”
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COVID-19 and food security in Africa: Building more resilient food systems by Shilomboleni, Helena

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the fragility of our food systems. …”
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Challenges and prospects for the conservation of crop genetic resources in field genebanks, in In Vitro collections and/or in liquid nitrogen by Panis, Bartholomeus, Nagel, Manuela, Houwe, Ines van den

“…Finally, the importance of establishing safe and long-term conservation methods and associated backup possibilities is highlighted in the frame of the global COVID-19 pandemic.…”
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Mainstreaming NUS for nutrition sensitive agriculture: a holistic approach by Padulosi, Stefano, Meldrum, Gennifer, Mathur, Shantanu, Hunter, Danny

“…Actions meant to increase the use of NUS to strengthen the resilience of communities in the face of the recent COVID-19 pandemic are also proposed.…”
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How can we respond to the climate security crisis Latin America? by Taylor, Alice, Dutta Gupta, Tanaya, Schapendonk, Frans, Kommerell, Víctor, Martínez Barón, Deissy, Pacillo, Grazia, Läderach, Peter R.D.

“…The 2021 Global Peace Index (GPI) reports that the average level of global peacefulness deteriorated for the ninth time in thirteen years in 2020, in part due to increased political instability and civil unrest fuelled by the COVID-19 pandemic (Institute for Economics & Peace 2021). The evidence on conflicts around the world since the turn of the century points to a simple conclusion: conflicts, grievances and insecurities are increasingly being affected by changing climates, environmental degradation, food insecurity, and the struggle to control a finite pool of natural resources. …”
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Climate Smart Mechanization in Central Asia by Devkota Wasti, Mina Kumari

“…The agricultural sector is vital for addressing the challenges in combating food insecurity, reducing poverty, enabling recovery from the pandemic (like COVID-19), and building resilience. …”
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COVID-19 will mostly spare young children; the economic crisis will not by Ruel, Marie T., Headey, Derek D.

“…In a pair of commentaries published in The Lancet in August 2020, we and our colleagues in the Standing Together for Nutrition Consortium (STfN) and the leaders of four UN agencies called for immediate action to address the escalating problems of child malnutrition and excess mortality triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic (Fore et al. 2020; Headey et al. 2020). Although child mortality from the virus itself is low compared to other age groups, the social, economic, and health systems crises it has prompted pose a serious threat to young children’s nutrition, health, and survival in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).…”
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Impact of COVID-19 on livestock sector in India: An economic analysis by Swain, Braja, Kennady, Vijayalakshmy, Rahman, Habibar

“…In addition, there is a rumour that COVID-19 can be spread through the consumption of animal products. The coronavirus pandemic has been a public health emergency all over the world, and the continuous phase of lockdown for a long period has created a major impact in the different sector of the world. …”
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Africa Common Position on Food Systems: A summary of the official Africa Common Position presented in September 2021 as part of the United Nations Food Systems Summit by Trautman, Sabrina, Chevallier, Romy, Cramer, Laura K., Gosling, Amanda, Mutamba, Manyewu

“…Africa presented a Common Position to the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), whose narrative was guided by the current challenges related to feeding the growing population amid the environmental footprint of global agriculture, worsening climate crisis, and deepening inequality amplified by the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic. Informed by existing continental and regional policy frameworks and outcomes from the national dialogues on the UNFSS, the Africa Common Position demonstrates the continent's commitment to contributing to setting the agenda for global food systems transformation. …”
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