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2021 - IFAD-EU/CCAFS CSA Monitoring: Basona Werana & Doyogena Climate-Smart Villages, Ethiopia. Rural Household Multi-Indicator Survey (RHoMIS) by Hammond, James, Wijk, Mark T. van, Milner, Daniel, Recha, John W.M., Ambaw, Gebermedihin, Abera, Wuletawu, Tamene, Lulseged D., Tesfaye, Abonesh, Nigussie, Abebe, Dawit, Solomon, Thornton, Philip K.

“…The survey was conducted using the Rural Household Multi-Indicator Survey (RHoMIS) tool, which has been documented elsewhere (see related publications below). Most questions were asked relating to the previous 12 months, and pitched at the farm-household level. …”
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Seafood in Food Security: A Call for Bridging the Terrestrial-Aquatic Divide by Stetkiewicz, Stacia, Norman, Rachel A., Allison, Edward H., Andrew, Neil L., Ara, Gulshan, Banner-Stevens, Gill, Belton, Ben, Beveridge, Malcolm C.M., Bogard, Jessica R., Bush, Simon R., Coffee, Pete, Crumlish, Margaret, Edwards, Peter, Eltholth, Mahmoud, Falconer, Lynne, Ferreira, Joao G., Garrett, Angus, Gatward, Iain, Islam, Faruk U., Kaminski, Alexander M., Kjellevold, Marian, Kruijssen, Froukje, Leschen, William, Mamun, Abdullah-Al, McAdam, Bruce, Newton, Richard, Krogh-Poulsen, Birgitte, Pounds, Alexandra, Richardson, Belinda, Roos, Nanna, Röös, Elin, Shapper, Andrea, Spence-McConnell, Tori, Suri, Sharon K., Thilsted, Shakuntala H., Thompson, Kim D., Tlusty, Michael F., Troell, Max F., Vignola, Raffaele, Young, James A., Wenbo Zhang, Little, David C.

“…Furthermore, seafood and terrestrial production remain siloed, with very few papers addressing the combined contribution or relations between terrestrial and aquatic systems. …”
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Food Outlook Report (Rabi) 2022 - Rabi crops 2021-22 by Raja, Sehrish, Tauqir, Aisha, Qureshi, Tehseen Ahmed, Rana, Abdul Wajid

“…The purpose of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Food Outlook Report is to understand the trends and forecasts relating to area, production, yield, and price of four major rabi crops of KP i.e., wheat, gram, garlic, and onion for 2021-22 cropping season. …”
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Urbanization and structural transformation by Schmidt, Emily, Dorosh, Paul A., Kedir Jemal, Mekamu, Smart, Jenny

“…By 2050 urbanization is expected to reach 38 percent with major implications for relative wage rates in rural versus urban areas, infrastructure needs, and public service delivery. …”
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The G20, global trade and investment regimes, and a sustainable food future by Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio, Callaway, Victoria

“…These are likely to require collective action on behalf of G20 countries through the Trade and Investment Working Group and related bodies. They include (i) considering better categories for trade negotiations; (ii) encouraging public expenditure reviews focused on sustainable food and agricultural systems and the related SDGs; (iii) promoting a full review of rural financial markets and the financing of value chains and food systems in order to remove the obstacles to the funding of the required transformations; and (iv) creating a project preparation and support facility to develop projects that scale up the use of climate-smart agricultural technologies among small and family farms, and to help mobilise private sector resources…”
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Children’s diets, nutrition knowledge, and access to markets by Hirvonen, Kalle, Hoddinott, John F., Minten, Bart, Stifel, David

“…We find that nutrition knowledge leads to considerable improvements in children’s diets, but only in areas with relatively good market access.…”
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A database user manual for SPEED: Statistics on public expenditures for economic development by International Food Policy Research Institute, Lowder, Sarah K., Rotondi, Jimena, Diao, Xinshen, Masias, Ian, Smart, Jenny

“…Significant effort has been put into recording the sources, methods, and issues related to each individual data point so as to allow for easy replication or verification of any data value.…”
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Agricultural bias in focus by Balino, Sofia, Laborde Debucquet, David, Murphy, Sophia, Parent, Marie, Smaller, Carin, Traoré, Fousseini

“…A key finding was that agricultural transformation succeeded when governments removed the policies and addressed the market failures that disadvantaged the agricultural sector relative to the rest of the economy. We referred to this relative disadvantage as the anti-agricultural bias. …”
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Impacts of alternative investment scenarios by Kim, Soonho, Cenacchi, Nicola, Wiebe, Keith D., Sulser, Timothy B., Dunston, Shahnila, Vos, Rob, Dimaranan, Betina, Allen, Summer L., Rice, Brendan, Gustafson, Sara

“…The report was developed in collaboration with scientists from all 15 CGIAR Centers and was intended to inform decision-making by the CGIAR and its partners in relation to agricultural research and development.…”
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Making African agriculture and food systems work for nutrition: What has been done, and what needs to be done? by Gillespie, Stuart, Dufour, Charlotte

“…In April 2016, the UN General Assembly enacted a Decade of Action for Nutrition, and nutrition is directly or indirectly related to all of the Sustainable Development Goals. …”
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Synopsis: Children’s diets, nutrition knowledge, and access to markets by Hirvonen, Kalle, Hoddinott, John F., Minten, Bart, Stifel, David

“…We find that nutrition knowledge leads to considerable improvements in children’s diets, but only in areas with relatively good market access.…”
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The evolution of tractorization in India’s low-wage economy: Key patterns and implications by Bhattarai, Madhusudan, Joshi, Pramod Kumar, Shekhawa, R. S., Takeshima, Hiroyuki

“…Growth in tractor use in India, unlike that in the United States and Japan, has occurred at relatively low wage rates and with a substantial majority of the workforce remaining in the agricultural sector. …”
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Population Pressure and Livelihood Dynamics: Panel Evidence from Bangladesh by Rashid, Shahidur, Tefera, Nigussie, Lemma, Solomon, Yunus, Mohammad

“…Since the publication of the World Development Report 2008, two related strands of research have emerged-one on the validity of smallholder-led development strategy and the other on agricultural intensification under population pressure. …”
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Predictive mapping of wholesale grain prices for rural areas in Tanzania : A replicable modeling framework for predicting agricultural prices across time and space by Madaga, Lavinia, Chamberlin, Jordan, Bisrat Gebrekidan, Silva, João Vasco, Mkondiwa, Maxwell, Hijmans, Robert J.

“…We present a methodology for predicting local market prices over time and space, using relatively sparse pooled observations on crop commodity market prices at different locations and times. …”
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Mesures mises en oeuvre aux champs pour reduire les risques pour la santé humaine et l’environnement lies aux constituants chimiques des eaux usees. In French. [Farm-based measures... by Simmons, Robert W., Qadir, Manzoor, Drechsel, Pay

“…There is a significant imbalance between the number of publications describing potential and actual environmental and health impacts from chemically contaminated wastewater, and reports outlining concrete options to minimize the related risks where conventional wastewater treatment is not available. …”
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Farm-based measures for reducing human and environmental health risks from chemical constituents in wastewater by Simmons, Robert W., Qadir, Manzoor, Drechsel, Pay

“…There is a significant imbalance between the number of publications describing potential and actual environmental and health impacts from chemically contaminated wastewater, and reports outlining concrete options to minimize the related risks where conventional wastewater treatment is not available. …”
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Economic assessment of water storage for adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa [Abstract only]. by Xenarios, Stefanos, McCartney, Matthew P.

“…Though based on the underlying principle of economic efficiency, the approach proposed avoids some crucial weaknesses 01 cost-benefit related analyses. The methodology has been evaluated to six case studies in Ethiopia and Ghana through the introduction 01 socioeconomic and environmental related indicators.…”
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The effect of a period of water shortage on the growth and yield of cassava by Connor, D.

“…An explanation for the behavior of both cv. is sought in the relative effects of water shortage on DM production and allocation, canopy dynamics and internal plant water relations. …”
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Livelihood implications of in situ-on farm conservation strategies of fruit species in Uzbekistan by Gotor, Elisabetta, Bellon, M.R., Turdieva, M.K., Baymetov, K.I., Nazarov, P., Dorohova-Shreder, E., Arzumanov, V., Dzavakyants, M., Abdurasulov, A., Chernova, G., Butkov, E., Caracciolo, Francesco

“…The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of a set of interventions related to on-farm/in situ conservation and use of fruit species (cultivated and wild) on farmers’ livelihoods and species diversity in Central Asia. …”
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A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production by Dainese, Matteo, Martin, Emily A., Aizen, Marcelo Adrian, Albrecht, Matthias, Bartomeus, Ignasi, Bommarco, Riccardo, Carvalheiro, Luisa G., Chaplin-Kramer, Rebecca, Gagic, Vesna, Garibaldi, Lucas Alejandro, Cavigliasso, Pablo, Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf

“…Human land use threatens global biodiversity and compromises multiple ecosystem functions critical to food production. Whether crop yield–related ecosystem services can be maintained by a few dominant species or rely on high richness remains unclear. …”
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