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The adoption of improved agricultural technologies: A meta-analysis for Africa by Arslan, Aslihan, Floress, Kristin, Lamanna, Christine, Lipper, Leslie, Asfaw, Solomon, Rosenstock, Todd S.

“…Eleven determinants, primarily those related to information access, wealth indicators and tenure security, are found to increase adoption more than chance would dictate in the literature. …”
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Community-based conservation of crop genetic resources by Haan, Stef de

“…Plant genetic resources: A review of current research and future needs surveys the wealth of research addressing these challenges and the opportunity for a more integrated, global approach to protecting and leveraging plant genetic diversity for a more sustainable agriculture. …”
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Mineral fertilizer use in land-scarce conditions: case of Rwanda by Mugabo, J.R., Tollens, E., Chianu, Jonas N., Vanlauwe, Bernard

“…The variable “domestic assets” which is a proxy variable for smallholder farmers’ wealth affects only the intensity of use of mineral fertilizers. …”
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Gender Roles and Native Potato Diversity Management in Highland Communities of Peru by Molina, C.A., Dudenhoefer, D., Polar, Vivian, Scurrah, M., Ccanto, R.C., Heider, B.

“…Women across the globe contribute to biodiversity conservation, and, in the Central Andes region, the cradle of potato diversity, rural women play a vital role in the management of a wealth of native potato diversity. To examine how gender roles and traditions influence the agricultural and conservation practices of male and female custodians of native potato diversity, we undertook a qualitative study in eight farming communities high in the Andes, in the Pasco region of Peru. …”
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Participatory diagnostic toolkits and crop improvement approaches: participatory methods to assess and use plant genetic diversity in the field. by Mengistu, Dejene Kassahun, Jarvis, Devra I., Fadda, Carlo

“…In both developing and developed countries, there is increasing in terest in adopting more inclusive and problem-solving participatory re search methods. While there is a wealth of methods and toolkits for con ducting participatory research in the form of scientific articles, books, and manuals, this manual aims to provide a source of information on available toolkits used in conducting participatory research around plant genetic resources (PGR). …”
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Importance of socio-economic and institutional factors in the collection of dry forest products: The case of gum and resin in Jawi District, Northwest Ethiopia by Sheko, M., Kassa, G., Abebaw, D., Kassa, H.

“…Our findings reveal that age, proximity to the forest, distance to the market, participatory forest management (PFM) membership, frequency of forest extension, and poor wealth status have a substantial impact on a household's engagement in dry forest product collection and the level of income generated from engagement in dry forest product collection. …”
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The CGIAR Initiative on Aquatic Foods: Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Strategy by Adam, Rahma, Kruijssen, Froukje, Amani, Anamika, Pyburn, Rhiannon, Farnworth, Cathy, Mudege, Netsayi, Mapedza, Everisto, Choudhury, Afrina, Haque, S. M. Faridul, Shenoy, Neetha, Eam, Dyna, Sok, Sao, Oo, Ti Tin, Njogu, Lucy, Ragasa, Catherine, Arulingam, Indika, Joshi, Deepa, Allison, Edward (Eddie), Rossignoli, Cristiano, Buisson, Marie-Charlotte

“…The strategy’s main objectives are: (i) to ensure that there is gender inclusiveness and responsiveness in technological, social, financial and institutional innovations; (ii) to provide avenues for wealth generation and improving livelihoods of people relying on small-scale fisheries (SSFs) and sustainable aquaculture; (iii) to pave the way for inclusive governance of land and water commons; and (iv) to provide guidance on how to tackle underlying social norms and structural barriers through gender-transformative approaches (GTAs).…”
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The gendered consequences of COVID-19 for internal migration by Mueller, Valerie, Páez-Bernal, Camila, Gray, Clark, Grépin, Karen A.

“…Rather, rural migrant women in Kenya and Nigeria were less vulnerable to transmission through their network, perhaps related to the possible wealth accumulation from migration or acquired knowledge of averting health risks from previous destinations. …”
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Household dairy production, dairy intake, and anthropometric outcomes in rural Bangladesh by Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab, Hoddinott, John F.

“…Even when we saturate our model with child, maternal, household, wealth, as well as village fixed effects, we retain an association between dairy cow ownership and height-for-age z scores (HAZ) that is meaningful in magnitude – 0.13 standard deviations – and statistically significant at the one percent level. …”
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How can Agricultural Value Chain Finance (AVCF) help expand financial access for smallholder agrifood chains in Southeast Asia? by de Brauw, Alan

“…One such constraint is access to formal finance; smallholders and other agricultural value chain participants frequently cannot access credit necessary to invest in new crops or technologies, deal with risks and shocks, and or savings products to safely carry wealth from harvest to planting. New technologies, markets, and government priorities in several Southeast Asian countries combine to suggest new opportunities are emerging to overcome long-standing challenges to expanding agricultural finance: Those challenges include: (i) high transaction costs to financing in rural areas; (ii) managing risks unique to agriculture; and (iii) knowledge about how to deliver agriculture-based products.…”
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Myanmar Household Welfare Survey (MHWS), Round 1 by 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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Myanmar Household Welfare Survey (MHWS), Round 4 by 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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Myanmar Household Welfare Survey (MHWS), Round 3 by 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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When expectations become aspirations: Reference-dependent preferences and liquidity constraints by Kramer, Berber

“…This paper shows that such reference dependence can affect savings in opposite directions depending on whether people face liquidity constraints. Existing models for wealth and intertemporal choice predict that reference dependence reduces savings but these models abstract from liquidity constraints. …”
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Examining gender inequalities in land rights indicators in Asia by Kieran, Caitlin, Sproule, Kathryn, Doss, Cheryl, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Kim, Sung Mi

“…Despite the important role of land in rural livelihoods and as a form of wealth in many Asian countries, surprisingly few nationally representative data exist on women's property rights in Asia.This paucity hinders the formulation and implementation of appropriate policies to reduce gender gaps in land rights. …”
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Contract farming and smallholder incentives to produce high quality: Experimental evidence from the Vietnamese dairy sector by Saenger, Christoph, Qaim, Matin, Torero, Máximo, Viceisza, Angelino

“…We also find that input choice levels depend on farmers’ socio‐economic characteristics such as wealth, while individual risk preferences seem to be less important. …”
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Cereal production and technology adoption in Ethiopia by Yu, Bingxin, Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, Funes, José, Gemessa, Sinafikeh Asrat

“…We find that access to fertilizer and seed is related to access to extension services and that production specialization together with wealth play a major role in explaining crop area under fertilizer and improved seed. …”
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The Fakara: a semi-arid agro-ecosystem under stress by Hiernaux, Pierre H.Y., Ayantunde, Augustine A.

“…These activities are taking place in Fakara, a natural region, in an administrative district (canton) of western Niger, taking stock of the wealth of knowledge on the functioning of this semi-arid agro-ecosystem that resulted from a series of extensive studies carried out in this site from the 80’s onward. …”
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Income diversification and the rural nonfarm economy by Paudel, Susan, Filipski, Mateusz J., Minten, Bart

“…The contributions of wage work and rural nonfarm businesses are growing in importance as the rural sector moves beyond an agrarian model in which primary agricultural production is the dominant source of wealth. Though the general equilibrium analysis from Chapter 2 shows that agriculture remains a major driver of economic activity, a micro-level analysis finds that activities either downstream in the food value chain or outside of the food system entirely are now responsible for large shares of rural incomes.…”
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Childcare and work: joint decisions among women in poor neighborhoods of Guatemala City by Hallman, Kelly, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Ruel, Marie T., de la Briere, Benedicte

“…Maternal education is an important determinant of utilization of formal day care, but does not have large effects on whether she works for pay or not. Higher household wealth reduces her chances of working, presumably via an income effect. …”
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