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Household perception and demand for better protection of land rights in Ethiopia by Ghebru, Hosaena, Koru, Bethlehem, Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum

“…Moreover, disaggre-gated regression results indicate that ownership and boundary-related disputes characterize peri-urban locations and vibrant communities, whereas perceived risk of government expropriation of land is mainly manifested in predominantly rural com-munities and areas where administrative land redistribution is a recent practices. …”
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Is access to tractor service a binding constraint for Nepali Terai farmers? by Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Adhikari, Rajendra Prasad, Kumar, Anjani

“…It was found that, on average, the supply of tractor services might have evolved to a relatively efficient level in the Terai so that those who benefited from renting in tractors generally had access to such services. …”
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Returns to agricultural public spending in Ghana: Cocoa versus noncocoa subsector by Benin, Samuel

“…Different regression methods and related diagnostic tests are used to address potential endogeneity of agricultural expenditure, cross-subsector dependence of the production function error terms, and within-subsector serial correlation of the error terms. …”
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Row planting teff in Ethiopia: Impact on farm-level profitability and labor allocation by Vandercasteelen, Joachim, Dereje, Mekdim, Minten, Bart, Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum

“…Using an innovative Randomized Controlled Trial set-up, we show that the implementation of row planting at the farm level significantly increases total labor use, but not teff yields, relative to broadcast planting, resulting in a substantial drop in labor productivity when adopting row planting. …”
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Synopsis: 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. However, empirical evidence on how urbanization affects these farmers is scarce. …”
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Synopsis: Row planting teff in Ethiopia: Impact on farm-level profitability and labor allocation by Vandercasteelen, Joachim, Dereje, Mekdim, Minten, Bart, Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum

“…Using an innovative Randomized Controlled Trial set-up, we show that the implementation of row planting at the farm level significantly increases total labor use, but not teff yields, relative to broadcast planting, resulting in a substantial drop in labor productivity when adopting row planting. …”
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Spatial examination of social and environmental drivers of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) across Kenya by Lawrence, T.J., Kangogo, G.K., Fredman, A., Deem, S.L., Fèvre, Eric M., Gluecks, Ilona, Brien, J.D., Shacham E.

“…Our research questions focused on: (1) How MERS-CoV in dromedary camels has varied across geographic regions of northern Kenya, and (2) what climate, agriculture, and socio-demographic factors of agro-pastoralism were spatially related to the geographic variation of MERS-CoV cases in dromedary camels. …”
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Synopsis: Enhancing smallholder farmers’ profitability through increased crop commercialization in Rwanda by Mugabo, Serge, Warner, James

“…Despite existing trends, this indicates that commercialization can take place on any size land holdings for relative income gains. Additionally, the study highlights the impact of factors like labor decisions and crop choice can significantly influence economic outcomes. …”
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Implementation of paddy drying technology: Introducing small/medium paddy dryers in remote areas by Alam, Md. Monjurul, Kalita, Prasanta Kumar, Saha, Chayan Kumer, Sarkar, Surajit, Winter-Nelson, Alex

“…Such observations would allow confirmation about parameters related to annual capacity utilization which are important determinants of business viability…”
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Introduction and executive summary for the supplement micronutrients in Latin America: Current state and research by Soto-Méndez, María J., Boy, Erick

“…It also informed that 3.1 billion people could not afford a healthy diet.2 On the one hand, economic shocks, war, violence, and climate-related disruptions are the leading causes of the current steep increase in the global burden of hunger in all its forms. …”
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The effect of crop insurance in Ecuadorian rice farming: a technical efficiency approach by Castro, Marcelo, Reyes Duarte, Alvaro, Villegas, Andrés, Chanci, Luis

“…However, since scale efficiencies are relatively high, it appears that inefficiencies are explained by inadequate input use. …”
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A novel SINE family occurs frequently in both genomic DNA and transcribed sequences in ixodid ticks of the arthropod sub-phylum Chelicerata by Sunter, J.D., Patel, S.P., Skilton, Robert A., Knowles, Donald P., Scoles, Glen A., Nene, Vishvanath M., Villiers, Etienne P. de, Bishop, Richard P.

“…Reassociation kinetics and flow cytometry data indicate that ixodid tick genomes are large, relative to most arthropods, containing ≥ 109 base pairs. …”
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Leveraging agriculture for nutrition in South Asia and East Africa: Examining the enabling environment through stakeholder perceptions by Gillespie, Stuart, van den Bold, Mara, Hodge, Judith, Herforth, Anna

“…Recent scoping assessments have also revealed a paucity of information on wider political, institutional and policy-related challenges relating to the agriculture-nutrition nexus globally. …”
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Brazil’s achievements in improving stunting prevalence and breastfeeding practices: Ingredients of success by Requejo, Jennifer

“…The objective of this research is to examine the relative influence of maternal prepregnancy weight (PPW) and gestational weight gain (GWG) on birth size for 971 singleton live births born to women who participated in a pre‐conceptional micronutrient supplementation trial in Vietnam. …”
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Comparison of sedentary behaviors between children with autism spectrum disorders and typically developing children by Must, Aviva, Phillips, Sarah M., Curtin, Carol, Anderson, Sarah E., Maslin, Melissa, Lividini, Keith, Bandini, Linda G.

“…We also determined how sedentary behavior was related to child weight status (body mass index z-score). …”
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Status of One Health implementation in Botswana by Kgosimore, Moatlhodi, Mokhondo, N., Pfukenyi, D.M., Tlale, L., Sebolai, B., Segopolo, I., Mmopi, K., Ntshiamisang, K., Tselaesele, N.M., Baikitse, G., Babayani, N., Phokoje, S., Ntshebe, O., Malambane, G., Knight-Jones, Theodore J.D., Caron, Alexandre, Richards, Shauna, Pule-Meulenberg, Flora

“…One Health (OH) is a collaborative, multisector and transdisciplinary approach to mitigate various issues related to the health of animals, plants, humans and ecosystems and their interactions for optimal health. …”
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Impact of climate change on trade in Africa by Mamboundou, Pierre, Traoré, Fousseini, Zaki, Chahir

“…Other crops’ production may be less affected, but their future expansion may be limited by climate change–related factors.…”
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How do food safety technical working groups within a One Health framework work? Experiences from Vietnam and Ethiopia by Lam, Steven, Sinh Dang-Xuan, Bekele, Meseret, Amenu, Kebede, Alonso, Silvia, Unger, Fred, Hung Nguyen-Viet

“…Methods: We assess the process used to establish and support the technical working groups against six critical success factors for multisectoral collaboration: drive change, define, design, realise, relate, and capture success. To do so, we review meeting minutes, Terms of Reference, and other related publications. …”
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Effect of packaging and storage conditions on the pasting and functional properties of pretreated yellow-fleshed cassava flour by Ekeledo, E., Abass, A., Muller, J.

“…The effect of packaging materials (cylindric polyvinyl containers and aluminum ziplock pouch bags) on quality attributes of pretreated yellow-fleshed cassava flour (YFCF) samples stored in two storage conditions a (cooling chamber at 5 °C and 30 % relative humidity and; in a climate chamber at 30 °C and 50 % relative humidity) was investigated for 8 weeks. …”
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Flagship report on policy coherence of food, land and water systems in Nigeria by Osei-Amponsah, Charity, Appiah, Sarah, Balana, Bedru, Sanchez Ramirez, Juan Carlos, Nicol, Alan

“…This flagship report focuses on (in)coherence in policies related to FLW systems in Nigeria, through the lens of Policies and Institutions Landscape Analysis Framework. …”
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