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Agricultural insurance for development: Past, present, and future por Robles, Miguel

“…Bakst, Sewell, and Wright (2016) report that the Economic Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) identifies five types of farming risk: (1) human and personal risk (such as human health), (2) institutional risk (regarding governmental action), (3) financial risk (such as access to capital), (4) price or market risk, and (5) production risk (such as weather and pests). The HIV/AIDS pandemic in African countries in the early 2000s is an example of a human risk that affected agricultural output and labor supply and demand. …”
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Emerging medium-scale tenant farming, gig economies, and the COVID-19 disruption: The case of commercial vegetable clusters in Ethiopia por Minten, Bart, Mohammed, Belay, Tamru, Seneshaw

“…We further find that the COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant disruptions of this model, as seen by more limited access to services and the unavailability or high price increases in factor markets, especially for labor, and large but heterogenous price changes in output markets.…”
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Food security – Status and determinants – During the COVID-19 lockdown: Evidence from primary survey in eastern India por Kumar, Anjani, Sonkar, Vinay Kumar, Srinivasa, Aditya Korekallu

“…The aim was to provide rapid evidence on the status and determinants of food insecurity and to understand the coping strategies adopted by rural households during the pandemic. Using comprehensive telephone survey data from 2,599 households, we estimated the status of food insecurity using the Food Insecurity Experience Scale. …”
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The COVID-19 nutrition crisis: What to expect and how to protect por Headey, Derek D., Ruel, Marie T.

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has all the makings of a perfect storm for global malnutrition. …”
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Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia por Abate, Gashaw T., de Brauw, Alan, Hirvonen, Kalle, Wolle, Abdulazize

“…The paucity of reliable and timely household consumption data in many low- and middle-income countries have made it practically impossible to assess how global poverty has evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the burst of phone surveys, there has been few attempts to collect household consumption data. …”
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Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Yangon peri-urban poultry farmers - August 2020 survey round por Fang, Peixun, Belton, Ben, Ei Win, Hnin, Zhang, Xiaobo

“…To trace the continuing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their economic activities, a fifth phone survey of poultry farmers was done in August 2020. …”
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Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Yangon peri-urban poultry farmers - November 2020 survey round por Fang, Peixun, Belton, Ben, Ei Win, Hnin, Zhang, Xiaobo

“…To trace the continuing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their economic activities, a sixth round of the phone survey of poultry farmers was done in November 2020. …”
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The politics and governance of informal food retail in urban Africa por Resnick, Danielle

“…Informal retailers—including those who vend in open-air wet markets and hawk on pavements and streets—provide a critical link between agricultural producers and consumers. While the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically highlighted the vulnerability of this constituency (Resnick et al., 2020), informal traders have long been victims of other public health, economic, and climate shocks (Battersby & Watson, 2019). …”
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Food and nutrition security under changing climate and socioeconomic conditions por Rosegrant, Mark W., Sulser, Timothy B., Dunston, Shahnila, Mishra, Abhijeet, Cenacchi, Nicola, Gebretsadik, Yohannes, Robertson, Richard D., Thomas, Timothy S., Wiebe, Keith D.

“…In addition to rebuilding in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the global food system faces inter-related challenges from climate change, trade disruptions, increasing scarcity of water and land, environmental degradation, and evolving food demand patterns, among other factors. …”
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Overview and Recent Challenges [In Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor 2024] por Odjo, Sunday, Zaki, Chahir, Traoré, Fousseini, Hebebrand, Charlotte

“…This first chapter offers an overview of the food security concerns in African countries in the wake of the global crisis related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia–Ukraine war, and the global resurgence of protectionist policies. …”
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Enhancing capacity to comply with sustainability standards in the milk value chain in East Africa: Challenges, prospects, and policy implications por Kilima, F.T.M., Msalya, G.M., Omore, Amos O.

“…The study highlights the importance of localizing these standards, given the greater dependence on local supply chains following the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on milk standards literature and various interventions aimed at promoting systemic change, this review analyses the capacity of marginalized stakeholders in East Africa’s dairy value chains to meet sustainability standards, focusing particularly on the social dimensions of these standards. …”
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Assessing potential impact of avian influenza on poultry in West Africa: a spatial equilibrium model analysis por You, Liangzhi, Diao, Xinshen

“…The study shows that, while most of the attention has focused on preventing global influenza pandemic, preventive measures are also needed at the national, subnational, and local levels, because AI could potentially have a huge negative impact on the poultry industry and the livelihood of smallholder farmers in many regions in West Africa.…”
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HIV/AIDS, growth and poverty in KwaZulu-Natal and South Africa: Integrating firm-level surveys with demographic and economywide modeling por Thurlow, James, George, Gavin, Gow, Jeff

“…Our findings reveal that HIV/AIDS will place a substantial burden on future economic development in KZN and RSA, confirming the need for policies to curb the economic costs of this pandemic.…”
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HIV/AIDS, growth and poverty in KwaZulu-Natal and South Africa: An integrated survey, demographic and economy-wide analysis por Thurlow, James, Gow, Jeff, George, Gavin

“…Moreover, incentives to mitigate HIV/AIDS lie not only with poorer infected households, but also with uninfected higher income households.Our findings reveal the substantial burden that HIV/AIDS places on future economic development in KwaZulu‐Natal and South Africa, and confirms the need for policies to curb the economic costs of the pandemic.…”
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Empowerment after migration: Exploring the association between migration and the empowerment of women who stay behind por Ceballos, Francisco, Heckert, Jessica, Hernandez, Manuel A., Paz, Florencia

“…Even though COVID-19 slowed international migration, it is quickly returning to pre-pandemic levels. Approximately half of migrants are men, and a third are youth (15-24 year olds). …”
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Yangon Peri-Urban Poultry Farmer Phone Survey 2020 por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The Yangon Peri-Urban Poultry Farmer Survey, conducted in 2020, assessed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on poultry production. This phone-based survey was carried out in six rounds: the first four rounds were conducted biweekly in June and July 2020, while the fifth and sixth rounds took place in August and November, respectively. …”
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Evaluation of CGIAR GENDER Platform: Evidence Module Study por Stathers, T., Forsythe, L.

“…The Generating Evidence and New Directions for Equitable Results (GENDER) Platform began in early 2020, just prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Platform’s work is organized into three modules: Evidence, Methods, and Alliances. …”
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Experiences in participatory surveillance and community-based reporting systems for H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza: A case study approach por Mariner, Jeffrey C., Jones, B., Hendrickx, Saskia C.J., El Masry, I., Jobre, Y., Jost, Christine

“…It was applied in Africa and Asia as part of emergency programs to address the H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) pandemic. The approach resulted in markedly increased case detection in countries experiencing HPAI, and a better understanding of the epidemiological situation. …”
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Cross-disciplinary and participatory livestock and human health research for successful control of zoonoses in the developing world por Tibbo, Markos, Schelling, E., Grace, Delia, Bishop, Richard P., Taracha, E.A., Kemp, Stephen J., Ameni, G., Dawo, F., Randolph, Thomas F.

“…In recent years, bovine tuberculosis has become increasingly important with the HIV and AIDS pandemic in the developing world. This paper highlights the past and current research portfolio of ILRI and its partners, focusing on diseases that are transmissible between human and animals in the context of developing countries.…”
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African cassava whitefly, Bemisia tabaci, resistance in African and South American cassava genotypes por Aomongo, Christopher A., Kawuki, Robert S., Bellotti, Anthony C., Alicai, Titus, Baguma, Yona K., Maruthi, M.N., Bua, Anton, Colvin, John

“…These data support the hypothesis that the continuing high populations of cassava B. tabaci in Uganda are due, in part, to the widespread adoption of CMD-resistant cassava varieties during the CMD pandemic. They also show that the whitefly, Aleurotrachelus socialis, resistance present in the South American cassava genotypes could have broader applicability in the Old World.…”
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