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Chinese food security and climate change: Agriculture futures por Ye, Liming, Tang, Huajun, Wu, Wenbin, Yang, Peng, Nelson, Gerald C., Mason-D’Croz, Daniel, Palazzo, Amanda

“…Climate change has relatively little effect on calorie availability within a pathway scenario.The authors conclude that Chinese agriculture is relatively resilient to climate change. …”
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All eggs in one basket: A reflection on Malawi’s dependence on agricultural growth strategy por Droppelmann, Klaus, Makuwira, Jonathan, Kumwenda, Ian

“…However, Africa has received little attention despite the fact that its rural areas seem to be very poor and unproductive relative to urban areas. This case study provides a reflection on challenges faced and development strategies adopted by successive governments in Malawi. …”
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Modeling the global trade and environmental impacts of biofuel policies por Bouët, Antoine, Valin, Hugo, Dimaranan, Betina

“…In this paper, we develop a methodology for assessing the indirect land use change effects related to biofuel policies in a computable general equilibrium framework. …”
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"The bad job brings the good one": photovoice study with female and male waste workers in Rwanda por Surchat, M., Irakoze, M., Kantengwa, S., Konlambigue, M., Spath, L., Wilde, B., Six, J., Krutli, P., Stauffacher, M.

“…The results show that the workers valued their jobs for their social relations at work, being responsible for a task, being productive, and generating savings. …”
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Monitoring food system change in Dhaka: Evidence from Dhaka Food System Project por Hossain, Mashiat, Pamuk, Haki, Parvez, Md Shahnewaz, Herens, Marion

“…The project followed a comprehensive approach that considered various aspects of the food system, including short-term challenges related to food security, availability, and consumption, as well as long-term challenges regarding urban food policy and planning. …”
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Adaptation to drought/delayed rainfall in rice cultivation, Bihar, India. por Munshi, Sugandha, Samaddar, Arindam, Srivastava, Amit, Urfels, Anton, Patil, Vikram, Sherpa, Sonam, Bhanjdeo, Arunditha, Veettil, Prakashan Chellattan, Malik, R. K., Craufurd, Peter Q., Kumar, Virender

“…As far as the engagement of household members in agriculture is concerned, it was found that both men and women are involved in agriculture but with variations related to the degree of women’s active involvement based on farmer categories. …”
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Scaling up HIV/AIDS interventions through expanded partnerships (STEPs) in Malawi por Kadiyala, Suneetha

“…This paper discusses enabling and constraining factors related to the scaling-up of the Scaling Up HIV/AIDS Interventions Through Expanded Partnerships (STEPs) initiative, supported by Save the Children U.S.A. …”
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Scaling up HIV/AIDS interventions through expanded partnerships (STEPs) in Malawi por Kadiyala, Suneetha

“…This paper discusses enabling and constraining factors related to the scaling-up of the Scaling Up HIV/AIDS Interventions Through Expanded Partnerships (STEPs) initiative, supported by Save the Children U.S.A. …”
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An operational tool for evaluating poverty outreach of development policies and projects por Zeller, Manfred, Sharma, Manohar, Henry, Carla, Lapenu, Cecile

“…The authors then describe the method of principal component analysis used to construct a poverty score as the measure of relative poverty. The paper concludes with a summary of results from four country case studies (two in Sub-Saharan Africa, one in South Asia, and one in Central America).…”
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Using a sustainable food systems framework to examine gender equality and women’s empowerment in aquatic food systems por Adam, Rahma, Dam Lam, Rodolfo, Lozano, Denise, McDougall, Cynthia, Rajaratnam, Surendran, Ouko, Kevin, Manyungwa-Pasani, Chikondi, Forsythe, Lora, Rossignoli, Cristiano

“…This results in gendered disparities in dietary outcomes, low achievements in relation to gender equality and women’s empowerment, and less adaptive capacity in relation to developing resilient livelihoods. …”
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Empowerment through technology: Gender dimensions of social capital build-up in Maharashtra, India por Padmaja, Ravula, Bantilan, Cynthia

“…Finally, it is suggested that further insights into the role of social networks and power relations in the village may be examined in greater detail by establishing the village network architecture, especially marginalized groups.…”
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The impact of CAFTA on poverty, distribution, and growth in El Salvador por Morley, Samuel, Nakasone, Eduardo, Piñeiro, Valeria

“…This raises the growth rate of output by over 1% per year and lowers poverty incidence in 2020 by over 25% relative to what it would be in the baseline scenario. …”
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European Union: Shadow WTO agricultural domestic support notifications por Josling, Timothy Edward, Swinbank, Alan

“…This paper reproduced the E.U. notifications relating to 2003/04 and extends these with official statistics to the year 2006/07. …”
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A preliminary evaluation of the sample sizes used for the evaluation of the Education, Health, and Nutrition Program (PROGRESA) of Mexico por Behrman, Jere R., Todd, Petra E.

“…This research report focuses solely on the question of the sample sizes and how they relate to alternative ways of phasing in the current evaluation control households/localities into treatment. …”
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Implications for the European Union of the May 2008 draft agricultural modalities por Jean, Sébastien, Josling, Timothy Edward, Laborde Debucquet, David

“…The first section of the paper gives some background information on the nature of the CAP as it relates to the disciplines introduced in the URAA. …”
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Natural variation in maize gene ZmSBR1 confers seedling resistance to Fusarium verticillioides por Yunxia Song, Peipei Ma, Jingyang Gao, Chaopei Dong, Zhao Wang, Yifan Luan, Jiafa Chen, Doudou Sun, Pei Jing, Xuecai Zhang, Weibin Song, Zijian Zhou, Jianyu Wu

“…The length of the stem rot lesion caused by F. verticillioides increased by 86% in mutant seedlings, and the relative length of the adult plant stalk rot increased by 35% in mutant plants compared to the wild type after inoculation with Fusarium graminearum. …”
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Genome assembly, comparative genomics, and identification of genes/pathways underlying plant growth-promoting traits of an actinobacterial strain, Amycolatopsis sp. (BCA-696) por Gandham, Prasad, Vadla, Nandini, Saji, Angeo, Srinivas, Vadlamudi, Ruperao, Pradeep, Selvanayagam, Sivasubramani, Saxena, Rachit K., Rathore, Abhishek, Gopalakrishnan, Subramaniam, Thakur, Vivek

“…A comparative analysis of the BCA-696 genome with publicly available closely related genomes of 14 strains of Amycolatopsis has also been conducted. …”
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Screening pearl millet genotypes for resistance to Striga hermonthica and compatibility to Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. strigae por Rouamba, Armel, Hussein Shimelis, Drabo, Inoussa, Mrema, Emmanuel, Gangashetty, Prakash Irappa

“…The selected genotypes are useful parents to breed for Striga resistance and integrated management in Burkina Faso and related agroecologies.…”
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Overexpression of TdNACB improves the drought resistance of rice por Fangyi Gong, Tian Zhang, Yusen Lu, Velu, Govindan, Ruiqin Liu, Jia Liu, Xiangquan Wang, Dengcai Liu, Youliang Zheng, Lin Huang, Bihua Wu

“…The result demonstrated that TdNACB positively regulates drought resistance through increasing proline content and enhancing activity of enzyme related to ROS scavenging. The results of this study provides candidate genes for improving wheat drought resistance and guide as reference for studying the molecular mechanisms of wheat drought resistance.…”
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Diets, fruit and vegetables consumption, and nutritional status in Benin: A scoping review por Bliznashka, Lilia, Pather, Kamara, Mitchodigni, Irene M., Hess, Sonja Y., Olney, Deanna K.

“…Additional research is needed to improve our understanding of diets, F&V intake, and diet-related nutritional challenges and how they evolve over time and across different population groups. …”
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