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Nigeria zero hunger/IITA policy brief No. 4: Nigeria zero hunger strategic review - nutritional status of children under the age of 5 in Sokoto state, Nigeria by Okike, Iheanacho, Ayoola, G.B., Ogundapo, A.T., Ojide, M., Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Dashiell, Kenton E., Manyong, Victor

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Nigeria zero hunger/IITA policy brief No. 5: Nigeria zero hunger Strategic review - nutritional status of children under the age of 5 in Kebbi state, Nigeria by Okike, Iheanacho, Ayoola, G.B., Ogundapo, A.T., Ojide, M., Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Dashiell, Kenton E., Manyong, Victor

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Nigeria zero hunger/IITA Policy brief No. 1: Nigeria zero hunger strategic review - nutritional status of children under the age of 5 in Benue state, Nigeria by Okike, Iheanacho, Ayoola, G.B., Ogundapo, A.T., Ojide, M., Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Dashiell, Kenton E., Manyong, Victor

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Routledge Handbook of African Peacebuilding by Charbonneau, Bruno, Ricard, Maxime

“…Bringing together an international line-up of expert contributors, this book will be an essential read for students and scholars of African politics, post-conflict reconstruction, security, and peace and conflict studies.…”
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Estudios del microbioma y su aplicación en el control biológico de fitopatógenos by Caro Quintero, Alejandro, González Almario, Carolina, Balbín Suárez, Alicia, Wisniewski, Michael, Berg, Gabriele, Smalla, Kornelia, Cotes Prado, Alba Marina

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Social science research and conservation management in the interior Borneo: unravelling past and present interactions of people and forests by Eghenter, C., Sellato, B., Devung, G.S.

“…By pointing at the interface between research and forest management, this book offers tools for easing the antagonism between applied and scholarly research, and building much needed connections across fields of knowledge.…”
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Making the Link: Agricultural Research and Technology Transfer in Developing Countries by Kaimowitz, David

“…Agricultural scientists and technology transfer workers, managers of agricultural research and extension organizations, policy makers concerned with public ad ministration, and scholars interested in these issues will find special value in this fresh approach to agriculture in the developing world.…”
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Welcoming the newcomers our way by Takaindisa, Joyce

“…Consequently, the bulk of research studies have tended to focus on integration of persons who have crossed borders to seek refuge or asylum in another country, akin to what has been described as the mono-directional conceptual flow sourced in the Global North. Rarely do scholars and policy makers consider the role of traditional integration mechanisms in fostering social cohesion and peace among IDPs and receiving communities.…”
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Bumbling bureaucrats, sluggish courts and forum-shopping elites by Mwangi, E.

“…For close to two decades Maasai herders in Southwestern Kenyan have been struggling to subdivide their collectively held group ranches into individually owned and titled parcels. Scholars have indicated that conflicts over property assignment are resolved where more powerful individuals can either bear the costs of extended conflict or can credibly threaten retaliation. …”
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Africa agriculture status report 2014: Climate change and smallholder agriculture in sub-saharan Africa by Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa

“…As the second in the series of the African Agriculture Status Report, this volume seeks to provide an in-depth and comprehensive analysis of emerging issues and challenges faced by African smallholder farmers, and allow scholars and professionals to contribute practical and evidence-based solutions. …”
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The rural : knowing where we are by retracing our steps by Hallnäs, David

“…The thought behind this attempt is that a clearer under-standing of how the Rural has been conceptualised and reconceptualised will inform our present thought, allowing us a glimpse into where our scholarly efforts have been, and perhaps how we ended up with our present thoughts. …”

Local governance in anticipatory action and crisis response: A new study in Mali by Bleck, Jamie, Gottlieb, Jessica, Kosec, Katrina, Kyle, Jordan, Soumano, Moumouni

“…How best to deliver aid programs in fragile contexts and whether donors can support resilience in these contexts are long-standing questions among development practitioners and scholars. While there is widespread agreement that “local context” matters and should be taken into account when designing and delivering aid programs, it is difficult to know what aspects of local context matter and when, who to involve in locally driven decision-making (when there are myriad social and political forces), and how potential tradeoffs between competing preferences, needs, and priorities of local actors differ across space. …”
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Does Trade Policy Impact Food and Agriculture Global Value Chain Participation of Sub-Saharan African Countries? by Balié, Jean, Del Prete, Davide, Magrini, Emiliano, Montalbano, Pierluigi, Nenci, Silvia

“…The emergence of food and agriculture global value chains (GVCs) is challenging the way scholars look at trade data, as well as how policy makers establish their trade policies. …”
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A multi-level approach to analyse the impact of forestland allocation on land management in Northern Vietnam by Clement, Floriane, Amezaga, Jaime M., Orange, Didier, Calder, I.R.C., Large, A.R.G.

“…Often largely supported by donors and non-governmental international organizations, the success of these initiatives in improving livelihoods and forest or land management has been challenged by an increasing number of scholars for the last few years. Based on the case study of the Northern uplands of Vietnam, this paper investigates why forestland allocation has hardly achieved its intended objectives regarding land use and management. …”
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Persuasion, facilitation… contestation? by Lindemer, August

“…The projected scope of its consequences and the underdetermination thereof causes much public contestation. Scholars of climate change communication express various positions towards the nature of the issue and the purpose of science communicative efforts. …”
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Water Availability and Row Spacing Effects on Nitrogen Use Efficiency in No-Till Maize by Barbieri, Pablo, Echeverria, Hernan Eduardo, Sainz Rozas, Hernan Rene

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Livestock epidemic by Grace, Delia, McDermott, John J.

“…Organised into five inter-related sections, this Handbook contains sixty-five contributions from leading scholars. Section One situates hazards and disasters in their broad political, cultural, economic, and environmental context. …”
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"Stop calling me a youth!": Understanding and analysing heterogeneity among Ugandan youth Agripreneurs by Turolla, M., Swedlund, H.J., Schut, Marc, Muchunguzi, P.

“…The African “youth” population is growing at a fast and steady pace, attracting attention from scholars, policymakers, and politicians. Yet, we know relatively little about this large and heterogeneous segment of the population. …”
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Using theory to understand how policy change happens: Insights from agricultural research for development by Douthwaite, Boru, Proietti, Claudio, Polar, Vivian, Thiele, Graham

“…This is not straightforward because of the complex nature of policy change. Scholars suggest the use of theory to help answer the ‘how’ question. …”
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Assessment of climate change adaptation interventions for livestock through a gender lens by Chan-Dentoni, Jacqueline, Kacha, Gabrielle, Rosenstock, Todd S.

“…A rapid evidence review of scholarly and grey literature was conducted to assess the gender impacts of climate-smart livestock interventions. …”
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