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Crop prices, farm incomes, and food security during the COVID-19 pandemic in India: Phone-based producer survey evidence from Haryana State by Ceballos, Francisco, Kannan, Samyuktha, Kramer, Berber

“…Relative to wheat producers affected by the lockdown, reduced income for tomato producers was associated with an increase in borrowing and reduced food security. …”
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Trends in US agricultural since 2000 and implications for the next twenty years by Glauber, Joseph W., Smith, Vincent H.

“…These levels of spending have been criticised as excessive relative to actual losses and likely caused the United States to violate its WTO domestic support commitments. …”
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Affordability of nutritious diets in rural India by Raghunathan, Kalyani, Headey, Derek D., Herforth, Anna

“…However, in absolute terms nutritious diets in 2011 were still expensive relative to unskilled wages, constituting approximately 80–90% of female and 50–60% of male daily wages. …”
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The intertemporal evolution of agriculture and labor over a rapid structural transformation: Lessons from Vietnam by Liu, Yanyan, Barrett, Christopher B., Pham, Trinh, Violette, William

“…We combine nationally representative household and labor force survey data from 1992 to 2016 to provide a detailed description of rural labor market evolution and how it relates to the structural transformation of rural Vietnam, especially within the agricultural sector. …”
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Stunting and wasting among Indian preschoolers have moderate but significant associations with the vegetarian status of their mothers by Headey, Derek D., Palloni, Giordano

“…Objectives: The objective of this study was to examine how nutrition outcomes varied among Indian preschool children in relation to the vegetarian status of their parents. …”
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Empowerment in agricultural value chains: Mixed methods evidence from the Philippines by Malapit, Hazel J., Ragasa, Catherine, Martinez, Elena M., Rubin, Deborah, Seymour, Greg, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…Our results show that, despite the relatively small gender gaps in the Philippines, persistent gender stereotypes influence men's and women's empowerment and VC participation.…”
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Mental models and the potential for crop intensification in coastal Bangladesh: How do farmers’ perceptions reflect proposed agricultural development pathways? by Shahrin, Sumona, Krupnik, Timothy J., Aravindakshan, Sreejith, Groot, Jeroen

“…Use of available water resources for irrigation, intensified farm management, and double cropping are relatively rare. The reasons for this ‘ironic’ situation are complex. …”
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Symposium policy note 4: Moving nutrition further up the development priority list in Egypt by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Promote research to make nutrition policy more effective and efficient, including by increasing collection of nutrition-related data and better sharing of already collected data among ministries, research institutes, and other stakeholders.…”
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Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Maize farmers – Monsoon season phone surveys by Myanmar Agriculture Support Activity

“…Median maize farm sizes fell by one acre in 2021 relative to 2020, though average maize acreages were stable. …”
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Drought Resistance of Maize in Gliricidia-Based Cropping Systems by World Agroforestry Centre, University of California, Davis

“…Data were collected in the field on-site rainfall, air temperature and relative humidity, and photosynthetically active radiation, and in the laboratory on crop grain biomass, gravimetric water content, and soil properties using crop and soil samples from the field. …”
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Malawi: Phosphorus Fertilization in Legume Systems by World Agroforestry Centre, International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources

“…The purpose of the Africa RISING Malawi component is to enhance farmer knowledge and support sustainable intensification (SI) pathways for productivity gains in maize-legume diversified systems, that also integrates livestock-related enterprises such as improved fodder for intensified dairy production. …”
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Rural food markets and child nutrition by Headey, Derek D., Hirvonen, Kalle, Hoddinott, John F., Stifel, David

“…These modest associations may reflect several specific features of our sample which is situated in very poor, food-insecure localities where even the relatively better off are poor in absolute terms and where, by international standards, relative prices for non-staple foods are very high.…”
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Stories of Change: Rwanda: Understanding how Rwanda created an enabling environment for improvements in nutrition and the challenges that remain by Iruhiriye, Elyse, Olney, Deanna K., Ramani, Gayathri V., Heckert, Jessica, Niyongira, Emmanuel, Frongillo, Edward A.

“…Understanding the context-specific causes of child malnutrition, including those related to political commitment and program and policy coherence, is essential for effectively reducing the prevalence of nutrition-related problems such as stunting and anemia and their subsequent negative impacts on human and national development. …”
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The rising costs of nutritious foods: The case of Ethiopia by Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane, Minten, Bart

“…Changes in transaction costs – fuel and transport costs – explained relatively little of the observed food price changes.…”
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Agriculture, nutrition and the green revolution in Bangladesh by Headey, Derek D., Hoddinott, John F.

“…This paper explores agriculture and nutrition linkages in Bangladesh, a country that achieved rapid growth in rice productivity at a relatively late stage in Asia's Green Revolution, as well as unheralded progress against undernutrition. …”
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Cities and agricultural transformation in Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia by Vandercasteelen, Joachim, Tamru, Seneshaw, Minten, Bart, Swinnen, Johan

“…Due to the rapid growth of cities in Africa, many more farmers are now living in rural hinterlands in relatively close proximity to cities where many provide food to urban residents. …”
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Climate change impacts and household resilience: Prospects for 2050 in Brazil, Mexico, and Peru by Andersen, Lykke E., Breisinger, Clemens, Jemio, Luis Carlos, Mason-D'Croz, Daniel, Ringler, Claudia, Robertson, Richard D., Verner, Dorte, Wiebelt, Manfred

“…Climate change impacts tend to be relatively small at an economywide level in all three countries. …”
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A mixed-method review of cash transfers and intimate partner violence in low- and middle-income countries by Buller, Ana Maria, Peterman, Amber, Ranganathan, Meghna, Bleile, Alexandra, Hidrobo, Melissa, Heise, Lori

“…Drawing on these studies, as well as related bodies of evidence, we developed a program theory proposing three pathways through which CT could impact IPV: (a) economic security and emotional well-being, (b) intra-household conflict, and (c) women's empowerment. …”
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Landownership and the gender gap in agriculture: Disappointing insights from Northern Ghana by Yokying, Phanwin, Lambrecht, Isabel B.

“…The link between landownership and women’s empowerment has been relatively well documented in general, but not specifically in relation to agriculture. …”
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Energy use and rural poverty: Empirical evidence from potato farmers in north China by Li, Zihan, Gong, Yazhen, Chen, Kevin Z.

“…These findings indicate that in general, reducing energy costs helps the poor increase their income but is not necessarily helpful to those with high economic standing or a relatively small potato-sown area. If rural development policies are to support poverty reduction and energy savings (at least in major potato production regions), interventions aimed at energy cost reduction may be effective only for the poor whose family income depends, to a relatively high degree, on potato production.…”
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