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Women’s empowerment in agriculture: What role for food security in Bangladesh? por Sraboni, Esha, Malapit, Hazel J., Quisumbing, Agnes R., Ahmed, Akhter

“…Accounting for potential endogeneity of empowerment, we find that increases in women’s empowerment are positively associated with calorie availability and dietary diversity at the household level. Overall, household wealth, education, and occupation are more important than women’s empowerment as determinants of adult nutritional status, although negative impacts of group membership and credit on male BMI suggest that intrahousehold trade-offs may exist.…”
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Aspirations in rural Pakistan por Kosec, Katrina, Hausladen, Stephanie, Khan, Huma

“…The analysis explores aspirations of four types: income, wealth, education, and social status. The report concludes that particular groups—especially women, the uneducated, and agricultural wage laborers—have especially low aspirations. …”
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Rural-urban transformation in Uganda por Mukwaya, Paul, Bamutaze, Yazidhi, Benson, Todd, Mugarura, Samuel

“…However, this shift in the sources of wealth in the economy has not been accompanied by a shift in employment out of agriculture to the other sectors. …”
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Mother-father resources and girl-boy health in rural Bangladesh por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Second, a higher degree of female command over household wealth may encourage parents in subsequent generations to invest more in daughters. …”
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Strategies for sustainable agricultural development in the Ethiopian Highlands por Pender, John L., Gebremedhin, Berhanu, Benin, Samuel, Ehui, Simeon

“…In contrast, better market access and some credit and technical assistance programs were associated with improvement (or less decline) in land quality, wealth and food security; suggesting the possibility of “win-win-win” development outcomes with appropriate interventions. …”
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Policies for Livestock Development in the Ethiopian Highlands por Benin, Samuel, Ehui, Simeon, Pender, John L.

“…Furthermore, they act as a store of wealth and determine social status within the community. …”
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Myanmar Household Welfare Survey (MHWS), Round 5 por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The objective of the survey was to collect data on a wide range of household and individual welfare indicators–including wealth, livelihoods, unemployment, food insecurity, diet quality, health shocks, and coping strategies–in a country exceptionally hard hit by conflict, severe economic collapse, and several damaging waves of COVID-19. …”
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Doing better rather than promising more: a basic principle applicable to both climate modelling and climate policies por Douville, H.

“…Examples are given how both common statistical methods and emerging technologies can be readily used to exploit the wealth of existing knowledge to drive adaptation policy. …”
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Applying reduced impact logging to advance sustainable forest management: international conference proceedings 26 February to 1 March 2001, Kuching, Malaysia por Enters, T., Durst, P.B., Applegate, G., Kho, P.C.S., Man, G.

“…This book helps fill that critical information gap. It includes a wealth of information that was presented during the International conference on the application of reduced impact logging to advance sustainable forest management, 26 February to 1 March 2001, Kuching, Malaysia. …”
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Is China unique?: exploring the behaviour of Chinese and European firms in the Cameroonian logging sector por Cerutti, P.O., Assembe-Mvondo, Samuel, German, L., Putzel, L.

“…China’s growing presence in Africa’s extractive industries has been the subject of much debate in recent years, reflecting concerns about both environmental sustainability and the governance of resource wealth for long-term benefit. In Cameroon, since 2000 the largest timber concession in the country has been held by a Chinese company. …”
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Farming's climate-smart future: placing agriculture at the heart of climate-change policy por Pye-Smith, Charlie

“…Containing a wealth of up-to-date research and examples, this booklet highlights the ‘cause and effect’ relationship between agriculture and climate change. …”
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Patterns of acquisition and consumption of milk and other dairy products in Bamako, Mali por Sissoko, K., Debrah, S.K., Soumare, S.

“…It covers a sample of 240 urban households stratified by wealth category (rich, medium income and poor). Taking all dairy products together, an average consumption of 18 kg liquid milk equivalent (LME) person per year was estimated. …”
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Reducing subsistence farmers vulnerability to climate change: evaluating the potential contributions of agroforestry in western Kenya por Thorlakson, T., Neufeldt, Henry

“…By comparing farmers engaged in an agroforestry project with a control group of neighboring farmers, we find that involvement in agroforestry improves household s general standard of living via improvements in farm productivity, off-farm incomes, wealth and the environmental conditions of their farm. …”
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Africa RISING Baseline Evaluation Survey (ARBES) report for Tanzania por Charles, A., Azzarri, Carlo, Haile, Beliyou, Comanescu, M., Roberts, C., Signorelli, S.

“…This report presents overall summaries and cross-tabulations, and empirical means-difference tests across household type, location, wealth, and gender of head, for data that cover 810 households in Africa RISING areas in northern and north-central Tanzania in three districts (Babati, Kiteto and Kongwa) and twenty-five villages in which Africa RISING was either operational or pre-operational at the date of the survey (February-April 2014). …”
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The diversity of gendered adaptation strategies to climate change of Indian farmers: a feminist intersectional approach por Ravera, F., Martín López, B., Pascual, U., Drucker, Adam G.

“…Intersecting identities, such as caste, wealth, age and gender, influence decisions and reveal power dynamics and negotiation within the household and the community, as well as barriers to adaptation among groups. …”
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Household exposure to livestock and health in the CHILILAB HDSS Cohort, Vietnam por Sinh Dang-Xuan, MacDonald, L.E., Schurer, J.M., Hung Nguyen-Viet, Phuc Pham Duc

“…Bivariate analyses indicated that female gender was a significant risk factor for all 3 health symptoms, whereas age (≥60 years), suburban living, low education level, and household wealth were risk factors for 2 symptoms. Overall, we found no indication that biogas production or exposure to livestock and manure adversely affected human health. …”
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From self-subsistence farm production to khat: driving forces of change in Ethiopian agroforestry homegardens por Gebrehiwot, M., Elbakidze, M., Lidestav, G., Sandewal, M., Angelstam, P., Kassa, H.

“…It was found that khat production was increasing regardless of household wealth status. The proximate causes included better financial income for households, smaller sizes of farms due to farm land redistribution, favourable market conditions for khat, access to irrigation, decrease in governmental subsidies to buy fertilizer and quality seeds for food crop production, a positive experience of other farmers in khat production, and minimizing risks of theft and wildlife damage. …”
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Spatial multivariate cluster analysis for defining target population of environments in west Africa for yam breeding por Alabi, T.R., Adebola, P.O., Asfaw, A., Koeyer, D. de, López Montes, Antonio José, Asiedu, Robert

“…A better understanding of the environmental context in the region is essential to unlock the crop’s potential for food security and wealth creation. The article aims to characterize the production environments into homologous mega-environments, having operational significance for breeding research. …”
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CGIAR Annual General Meeting, Mexico City, Mexico, October 27-28, 2004 : Summary Record of Proceedings of the Stakeholder Meeting por CGIAR Secretariat

“…The Ministerial Roundtable on Public Private Partnerships for Innovation : what does the future hold for the rural poor is summarized as well as the 2004 Crawford Lecture "The Mystery of Capital: Role of Property Rights in Creating Wealth and Alleviating Poverty" by Hernando de Soto. …”
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Bioversity and domestication of yams in West Africa: Traditional practices leading to Dioscorea rotundata Poir. por Dumont, R., Dansi, A., Vernier, Philippe, Zoundjihékpon, J.

“…This original field offers a wealth of prospects for scientific progress at a time when scientists are becoming increasingly aware of the fact that local farmers' knowledge and practices relating to genetic resource management substantially enhances the potential for technical progress and adaptation to environmental change. …”
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