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Agricultural credit access and utilization in Myanmar’s dry zone by Htun, Khun Moe, Tin, Myat Su

“…We analyze access to, terms and utilization of agricultural loans from the Myanmar Agricultural Development Bank (MADB) and other sources over the 12 months preceding the survey. For our analysis, farm households were ranked by area of agricultural land owned, and divided into three equal groups. …”
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Technological Change and Agricultural Labor Use by Delgado, Christopher L., Ranade, Chandrashekhar G.

“…The preceding chapters suggest three aspects of labor use in the agriculture of sub-Saharan Africa that are critical for the design and adoption of improved technology for increasing food production. …”
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Inventory of Policy, Strategic, and Legislative Instruments for the Transformation of the Livestock Sector in Ethiopia by Michael, Melaku, Kassie, Girma, Haile, Aynalem

“…The best illustration for this is the formulation of policy and strategy documents precedes the drafting of legal instruments that aim to facilitate the realization of objectives stipulated in the policy documents. …”
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Incorporating crime in household surveys: a research note by Garrett, James L., Ahmed, Akhter

“…Then it reports on the findings which highlight the multifaceted nature of crime, the number of people affected (one in six interviewees had been a victim of crime in the 12 months preceding the interview), the role of mastaans (local strong-men) in crime, people’s lack of confidence in the police and the legal system (in part because of the lack of official action against perpetrators), and crime’s direct and indirect costs.…”
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Report on the workshop on barriers to the application of forestry research results by Nair, C.T.S., Enters, T., Payne, B.

“…While barriers become visible at the application stage, their origin could be traced to all the preceding stages, including problem identification, research process and communication and extension. …”
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Report of the Impact Assessment and Evaluation Group to the CGIAR Mid Term Meeting 1999 by CGIAR Impact Assessment and Evaluation Group

“…The IAEG Secretariat, while under the auspices of the UNDP, was located in Rome and shared facilities with the TAC Secretariat.The IAEG proposed a cost-benefit analysis of CGIAR investment in integrated pest management (IPM) research over the preceding ten years as the subject of its 1999 annual impacts report. …”
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Is food price inflation really subsiding? by Vos, Rob, Glauber, Joseph W., Laborde Debucquet, David

“…As shown in Figure 1, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) index for internationally traded food commodities, after rising during the initial months of the war, is now back to its pre-war, end of 2021 level — but still remains well above levels of preceding years. This holds for all main components of the index (cereals, meat, dairy, vegetable oils, and sugar). …”
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Randomized Control Trial Baseline Data on Use of Improved Efficient Cookstoves in Mozambique by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…This survey was conducted to collect baseline data for a randomized control trial preceding the introduction of improved energy cookstoves in the Angonia district in Mozambique. …”
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Ghana: Joint sector review assessment: Advancing mutual accountability through comprehensive, inclusive, and technically robust review and dialogue by Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Ghana

“…In Ghana, the first agriculture JSR was instituted in 2008 with the goal of reaching a common point-of-view among key sector stakeholders on important achievements in the preceding year. Stakeholders include the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA); development partners (DPs); other ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs), the private sector, and civil society. …”
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Constraints and opportunities for tree diversity management along the forest transition curve to achieve multifunctional agriculture by Ordoñez, J.C., Luedeling, Eike, Kindt, Roeland, Tata HL, Harja D, Jamnadass, Ramni H., Noordwijk, Meine van

“…As part of a wider interest in tree cover transition curves that link agroforestation stages of landscapes to a preceding deforestation process, we here focus on ‘tree diversity transition curves’ i. as a conceptual framework to understand current processes and how shifts in drivers affect tree diversity and ii. to help identify constraints and opportunities for interventions. …”
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La pomme de terre en Afrique centrale: une étude sur le Burundi, le Rwanda et le Zaïre by Scott, G. J.

“…Le quatrième chapitre est une synthèse comparative des précédents et analyse le rôle de la politique gouvernementale dans ces domaines.…”
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Randomized Control Trial Baseline Data on Use of Improved Efficient Cookstoves in Malawi by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…This survey was conducted to collect baseline data for a randomized control trial preceding the introduction of improved energy cookstoves in the Dedza District in the Central Region of Malawi. …”
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Neighbour effects in the provision of public goods in a young democracy: Evidence from China by Agostini, Claudio A., Brown, Philip, Zhang, Xiaobo

“…In addition, village leaders are strategic in timing the arrival of public projects to increase the probability of re‐election: in the year preceding elections, both the number and budget of public projects increase significantly. …”
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The way forward by Bouis, Howarth E., Saltzman, Amy, Low, J. W., Ball, Anna-Marie, Covic, Namukolo

“…Thus, Africa provides an important first view into learning how to implement biofortification successfully, and its potential to improve nutrition and public health. The preceding articles have summarized the evidence available for biofortification, particularly in the African context. …”
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Seasonality of Tylenchulus semipenetrans Cobb and Pasteuria sp in citrus orchards in Spain by Sorribas, Francisco J., Verdejo-Lucas, Soledad, Forner Valero, Juan B., Alcaide, Antonio, Pons, J., Ornat, C.

“…Numbers of nematodes in soil, females or eggs program of root, of eggs per female were correlated with either temperature or rainfall in the sampling month, 1 month before sampling, or in the second preceding month, depending on the orchard. Members of the Pasteuria group were present in the four citrus orchards, and a positive relationship occurred between nematodes in soil and bacterial parasitism (r(2) = 0.75) in the orchard at Amposta.…”
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Unlocking Africa’s agricultural potential by Roseboom, Johannes, Beintema, Nienke M., Lynam, John K., Badiane, Ousmane

“…The preceding chapters of this volume have covered the spectrum of challenges facing Africa south of the Sahara (SSA) in its efforts to develop an effective and efficient agricultural research and development (R&D) system at national, subregional, and regional levels. …”
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Measuring nutritional dimensions of household food security: Technical guide: strengthening the household food security and nutritional aspects of IFAD poverty alleviation projects... by Morris, Saul Sutkover

“…In the final section of the guide, the preceding theoretical discussions are illustrated using data from Honduras and Northern Ghana.…”
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Reversion of fruit-dependent inhibition of flowering in Citrusrequires sprouting of buds with epigenetically silenced CcMADS19 by Mesejo, Carlos, Marzal, Andrés, Martínez-Fuentes, Amparo, Reig, Carmina, De-Lucas, Miguel, Iglesias, Domingo J., Primo-Millo, Eduardo, Blazquez, Miguel A., Agustí, Manuel

“…Therefore, we propose that flowering in Citrus is necessarily preceded by vegetative sprouting, so that the competence to respond to floral inductive signals is reset in the new leaves.…”
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Developing landscapes : a conceptual proposal for an Agroforestry Training Centre in Musoma, Tanzania, based on a field study by Ahrens, Sanna, Falk, Tove

“…Our conclusions of the results of the field study, the precedents, and theory, which are the base for the proposal, are that the ATC is inaccessible and difficult to comprehend, it lacks excitement, and it expresses its uniqueness weakly. …”
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Results-Based Management Strategy for Phase II (2017-2022): CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…The strategic use of these outputs can help transform them into appropriate outcomes (i.e. changes in practice and behavior of key next users, preceded by changes in knowledge, attitude, and skills). …”
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