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Milk purchase and consumption patterns in peri-urban low-income households in Kenya by Muunda, Emmanuel, Mtimet, Nadhem, Bett, E., Wanyoike, Francis N., Alonso, Silvia

“…The price and quantities of pasteurized milk purchased were negatively related to the amount of unpacked milk purchased. …”
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Peacebuilding in times of COVID-19: risk-adapted strategies of cooperation and development projects by Eufemia, Luca, Lozano, Camilo, Rodríguez, Tatiana, Rio Duque, Martha Lilia del, Morales Muñoz, Héctor, Bonatti, Michelle, Sieber, Stefan, Löhr, Katharina

“…In Colombia, the coronavirus outbreak threatens to slow the implementation of peace-related projects, while simultaneously violence over control and ownership of land increases. …”
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Humidtropics Evaluation Report by Rwampororo, R.K., Negra, C., Kueneman, E.

“…b) Assessment of the adequacy of systems in place for good organizational performance and responsiveness related to governance, partnerships, collaboration, staff, management, planning, monitoring, finance, and accountability. …”
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Youth entrepreneurship in agribusiness in India by Babu, Suresh Chandra, Yuan Zhou

“…There are several structural constraints related to access to technology, finance, institutional support, market access, and business mentorship. …”
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Population genomics unravels the Holocene history of Triticum-Aegilops species by Zhao, X., Deng, T., Kang, L., Bi, A., Xu, D., Zhang, Z., Jijin, Z.H.G., Yang, X., Xu, J., Xu, S., Song, X., Zhang, M., Li, Y., Kear, P., Wang, J., Yin, C., Liu, Z., Li, W., Lu, F.

“…Despite bread wheat serving as a keystone crop worldwide, the population history of bread wheat and its wild relatives (a.k.a. wheats) remains elusive. By analyzing whole-genome sequences of 795 wheats, we found that bread wheat originated southwest of the Caspian Sea ∼11,700 years ago and underwent a slow speciation process, lasting ∼3,300 years due to persistent gene flow from wild relatives. …”
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Challenging structures: gender transformative interventions by livestock CRP in Ethiopia by Kinati, Wole, Temple, Elizabeth C., Baker, A. Derek, Najjar, Dina

“…Results and discussion: The review shows that the gender-related norms addressed were in line with the identified constraining norms faced by women livestock keepers in the mixed and livestock-based systems. …”
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Terms of Reference: Evaluability Assessments of the Regional Integrated Initiatives, CGIAR by CGIAR Independent Advisory and Evaluation Service

“…Please contact IAES-Evaluation@cgiar.org for related inquiries.…”
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Assessing policy options for sustainable water use in India’s cereal production system by Singh, Vartika, Stevanović, Miodrag, Jha, Chandan Kumar, Beier, Felicitas, Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar, Lotze-Campen, Hermann, Popp, Alexander

“…To this end, we use a dynamic and integrated partial equilibrium model of agricultural production and its impact on the environment to reflect two options: an increase in energy costs for irrigation water (price-related effects), and alternatively, physical quotas on water withdrawals (quantity-related effects). …”
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Development and Scaling of Sustainable Feeds for Resilient Aquatic Food Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: Climate change and environmental analysis by Mubaya, Chipo, Ndebele-Murisa, Mzime, Kapute, Fanuel, Samundengo, Angela, Yossa, Rodrigue

“…The objective was to analyze the climate and environment in relation to local ingredients and current feeds and to identify opportunities for FASA to harness the environment within the novel fish feed landscape and prevailing climatic and environmental conditions in Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia. …”
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Why is GESI policy not implemented? The case of the energy sector in Nepal by Buchy, Marlène, Shakya, Shristi

“…Moreover, shortcomings related to GESI policymaking and implementation should be considered within the broader context of federalism.…”
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Youth orientation in AR4D: Possible dimensions by Thorsen, Dorte, Glover, Dominic, Cabral, Lidia

“…We argue that these perspectives constitute the building blocks of a relational conceptual framework that can guide youth-sensitive research and program design. …”
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Experiential learning and the power of women by Falk, Thomas, Bartels, Lara Bartels, Steimanis, Ivo, Duche, V., Vollan, Björn

“…These communities depend on rainfed dams for complementary irrigation and our game reflected related key management challenges. Our study explores (1) the effect of playing the game on institutional and behavioral change; (2) how women’s participation (not exogenously determined) in economic learning games is related to the interventions’ outcomes and (3) what role women leaders play. …”
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AI-assisted dietary assessment and personalised “nudges” in urban youth: Feasibility and effectiveness of a mobile phone-based intervention to improve diets in Ghana by Gelli, Aulo, Folson, Gloria, Nwabuiku, Odiche, Bannerman, Boateng, Ador, Gabriel, Atadze, Vicentia, Asante, Millicent, McCloskey, Peter, Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Hughes, David

“…Diet-related risks cause 20% of global deaths (~11 million) per year (Afshin et al., 2019). …”
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Climate-informed agronomic advisories for maize in Colombia: Progress report for the Excellence in Agronomy (EiA) initiative Latin America Use Case by Diaz, Maria Victoria, Estrada, Oscar, Llanos, Lizeth, Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando

“…The ML models used, namely, Random Forest (R2=0.64) and CatBoost (R2=0.68) showed relatively high performance. The most important variables in both models were related to climate. …”
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Community voices on climate, peace and security: Kenya by Medina, Leonardo, Souza de Matos, Vanessa, Owuonda, Salome, Lekaram, Alex, Caroli, Giulia, Belli, Anna, Unverdorben, Oliver, Ohenjo, Nyang'ori, Kenduiywo, Benson, Liebig, Theresa Ines, Pacillo, Grazia, Läderach, Peter R.D., Hellin, John, Sieber, Stefan, Bonatti, Michelle

“…Under contexts where hostile relations prevail across neighbouring communities, exacerbated a sense of insecurity in the everyday lives of resource-dependent populations. …”
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Adoption and impact of hybrid rice in India: Evidence from a large-scale field survey by Negi, Digvijay Singh, Kumar, Anjani, Birthal, Pratap Singh, Tripathi, Gaurav

“…The paper also assesses the impact of adoption of hybrids and modern varieties on crop yield, vis-à-vis the old or traditional varieties.Using unit-level data from a large-scale survey of farm households (19,877 paddy cultivators), the authors applied multi-nomial regression method to understand the factors for adoption of hybrid rice and instrumental variable method of regression to estimate its impact.The findings demonstrate that in India, hybrid rice is often grown on relatively poor soils, resulting in greater irrigation costs and for other inputs, such as fertilizers. …”
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Which agreements boost agricultural trade in Africa? by Aboushady, Nora, Ramzy, Myriam, Zaki, Chahir

“…Broader coverage increasingly includes more policy areas that may be trade-related (tariffs and nontariff measures) or non trade-related (behind-the-border policies, intellectual property rights, movement of capital and people, competition policy, and others). …”
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Plot size and sustainable input intensification in smallholder irrigated agriculture: Evidence from Egypt by Abay, Kibrom A., Abdelfattah, Lina Alaaeldin, El-Enbaby, Hoda, Mahmoud, Mai, Breisinger, Clemens

“…Importantly, small plot size is associated with overapplication of nitrogen fertilizer relative to crop-specific agronomic recommendations. …”
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Multi-component cash transfer programs: Evidence from Mali’s social safety net program (Jigisémèjiri) by Hidrobo, Melissa, Huybregts, Lieven, Karachiwalla, Naureen, Roy, Shalini

“…However, the extent to which such multi-component programs lead to changes in behavior and improve-ments in outcomes related to children’s nutrition and health is still not well-understood.…”
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Food consumption and food security during the COVID-19 pandemic in Addis Ababa by Hirvonen, Kalle, de Brauw, Alan, Abate, Gashaw T.

“…We find some changes in the composition of food consumption, but they are not related to shocks found in previous phone surveys conducted with the same households. …”
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