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Gender Analysis of Vietnam’s Mekong River Delta policy documents by Kawarazuka, Nozomi

“…The date sets compiled and analyzed the gender and social aspects of development and related policies in Vietnam’s Mekong River Delta.…”
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Electricity supply to agriculture in Andhra Pradesh and Punjab: Evolution and reform initiatives by Birner, Regina, Sharma, Neeru

“…This chapter describes the political processes related to electricity subsidies, power-sector reforms, and irrigation- and groundwater-management policies.…”
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Annex I – Core Patent Dataset by Kock, Michael

“…Annex I – Core Patent Dataset, comprising 399 patent families related to naturally occurring (native) traits…”
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Some research and development implications for pastoral dairy production in Africa by Kerven, C.

“…Examines the relative merits of milk versus meat production by African pastoralists. …”
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Climate-Smart Village AR4D Approach: Synthesis of lessons learned by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…Evidence is needed on which options generate CSA-related outcomes, where the options should be targeted, the costs involved, their expected co-benefits or trade-offs with other outcomes. …”
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Evidence from the virobacterial agglutination test for the existence of eight serogroups of cocoa swollen shoot virus by Hughes, J., Adomako, D., Ollennu, L.A.

“…The largest group comprising those isolates closely related to CSSV 1A is sub‐divided into four further groups. …”
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Mainstreaming gender in climate services: a new tool from CCAFS/IRI by Turner, Jacquelyn

“…However, due to gender-related factors, women and men can face differing challenges and opportunities to access climate-related information as well as using it to improve management and benefitting from those improved management decisions. …”
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Welfare impacts of climate-smart agriculture in Ghana: does row planting and drought-tolerant maize varieties matter? by Martey, E., Etwire, P.M., Abdoulaye, Tahirou

“…Specifically, the magnitude of the impact is relatively higher for adopters of row planting relative to adopters of drought-tolerant maize seeds. …”
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Report on Climate Bulletin Automation of the Ethiopian Meteorological Institute by Teshome, Asaminew, Mersha, Yonas, Demissie, Teferi Dejene

“…Whereas, the second pillar is providing accurate and reliable meteorological forecast and early warning advisory service and the third focus is conducting Meteorological and related research activities to improve the forecasting and climate services in the country.…”
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The Growth of the Federal Crop Insurance Program, 2010–22 by Glauber, Joseph W.

“…Key Points: Two major trends have defined the federal crop insurance program over the past 12 years: the replacement of farm yield–based insurance with farm revenue–based products and the explosion of area- and index-based insurance for pasture, rangeland, and forage crops. Though still relatively small, enrollment in two relatively new products has grown over the past decade: supplemental insurance based on county yields designed to cover deductibles associated with farm yield–based policies and livestock insurance. …”
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From resilience to empowerment: The Gender and Climate Empowerment Index for climate-resilient agriculture by Huyer, Sophia

“…The Gender and Climate Empowerment Index for climate-resilient agriculture is based on four major measurable indicator domains—political, economic, agricultural, and social. Empowerment in relation to climate change relates to degree of vulnerability and ability to respond, recover from and adapt to climate change. …”
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Intellectual Property Rights for Agricultural Biotechnology: Options and Implications for Developing Countries by Wijk, Jeroen van, Cohen, Joel I., Komen, John

“…In this report, the introductory chapters summarize the increasing significance of intellectual property rights for agricultural biotechnology and current international trade- and development-related debates on IPR and developing-country responses to these issues. …”
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Structural change and women’s employment potential in Myanmar by Mueller, Valerie, Schmidt, Emily, Kirkleeng, Dylan

“…We use the Integrated Household Living Conditions Survey to evaluate the extent women are included in Myanmar’s dynamic transformation process and the relative barriers that prohibit their inclusion between 2005 and 2010. …”
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Women’s land tenure security: A conceptual framework by Doss, Cheryl, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…It is an attempt to develop some shared definitions and concepts to facilitate aggregation of the lessons from individual analyses and case studies by outlining the key elements that may be related to women’s tenure security. Many studies identify one or two of the elements without discussing how the others may be related. …”
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Who Talks to Whom? An Analysis of Information Flows in Malawi’s Agricultural Research Network by Yauney, Jason, Thangata, Paul Howard, Droppelmann, Klaus, Mapila, Mariam A.T.J.

“…A Social Network Analysis (SNA) of agricultural research institutions in Malawi was performed to investigate networking and knowledge sharing in relation to the implementation of the Agricultural Sector Wide Approach (ASWAp). …”
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WEAGov implementation manual by Kyle, Jordan, Ragasa, Catherine

“…It also aids in monitoring progress towards women’s empowerment in agrifood systems governance and related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This implementation manual describes WEAGov’s approach and methodology and provides guidance for its use. …”
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Orphans in Malawi: prevalence, outcomes, and targeting of services by Sharma, Manohar

“…As in many Sub-Saharan countries, the issue of orphan-care has risen to the top of social protection agenda in Malawi, where the prevalence of orphaned children has dramatically increased because of early deaths of parents infected by the HIV/AIDS virus...In Malawi, most orphans, whether in rural or urban areas, live in households of the surviving parent or close relatives, not in institutional homes. This means that orphan-related policy and/or public assistance programs have to operate, not directly with the orphaned children themselves, but through the agency of the household unit they live in. …”
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Uncovering the Intersections of Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality in Climate Adaptive Capacities in Climate Hotspots for Women in Zambia by Kihoro, Esther, Lecoutere, Els, Mishra, Avni

“…Climate change risks exacerbating gender inequalities in agrifood systems; hence, the importance of understanding how women’s empowerment and gender equality of climate adaptive capacities relate. Using primary gender-disaggregated intrahousehold data collected in climate hotspots in Zambia, this study shows a positive relationship between women’s empowerment in the household and intrahousehold gender equality in access, knowledge and adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices. …”
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Effect of liming on the availability of three rock phosphate sources in two West African Ultisols by Juo, A.S.R., Kang, B.T.

“…Without liming, the relative effectiveness of the four P sources is in the order of NCR>TSP>MR>TR; while with liming, the sequence becomes: TSP≥NCR>MR>TR. …”
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Breeding cassava for resistance to cassava mosaic disease by Hahn, S.K., Terry, E.R., Leuschner, K.

“…Changes in population size and in activity of the white-fly vector to CMD (Bemisia tabaci Genn.) in relation to changes in environmental conditions such as amount and distribution of rainfall, light intensity and temperature are discussed in relation to screening for resistance to CMD. …”
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