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Domestication of payments for ecosystem services: new evidence from the Andes by Drucker, Adam G., Narloch, U., Pascual, U., Soto, J.L., Pinto, M., Midler, E., Valdivia, E., Rojas, W.

“…However, as shown with respect to the role of wealth and cooperation in determining opportunity costs, this also has implications for the type of farmer to be included in the conservation programme. …”
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Pulse consumption and demand by different population subgroups in Uganda and Tanzania by Larochelle, Catherine, Katungi, Enid M., Cheng, Zhen

“…Results indicate that consumption of pulses tend to increase with wealth and during harvesting periods as well as being higher in locations where production is also high. …”
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Factors affecting household decision to allocate credit for livestock production: Evidence from Ethiopia by Shiferaw, Kaleb, Gebremedhin, Berhanu, Legesse, D.

“…Findings – After controlling for potential selection biases, sex and literacy status of household head, land size, wealth and access to livestock centered extension service are found to have a statistically significant effect on farmers’ decision to allocate credit to livestock production. …”
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Pathways from research on improved staple crop germplasm to poverty reduction for smallholder farmers by Alwang, Jeffrey, Gotor, Elisabetta, Thiele, Graham, Hareau, Guy, Chamberlain, J.

“…The focus of the analysis is the effect of poverty-related variables on adoption/area planted decisions. Farmer wealth, landholding, education, location, and access to support and information services are included to understand how correlates of poverty affect adoption decisions. …”
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On farm performance and farmers evaluation of cassava brown streak tolerant variety Kiroba in the Eastern zone of Tanzania by Muhanna, M., Raya, M., Hillrocks, R.J., Kanju, E., Kiozya, H.

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Effect of arbuscular mycorrhizae on the growth of Cinchona officinalis L. (Rubiaceae) in nursery by Fernandez Zarate, Franklin Hitler, Huaccha Castillo, Annick Estefany, Quiñones Huatangari, Lenin, Vaca Marquina, Segundo Primitivo, Sanchez Santillan, Tito, Guelac Santillan, Marly, Seminario Cunya, Alejandro

“…Cinchona officinalis, commonly called cascarilla or quina, has medicinal value; and is on Peru’s national coat of arms representing its plant wealth (flora), however, it is threatened by anthropogenic activities. …”
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Cold sweetening diversity in Andean potato germplasm from Argentina by Colman, Silvana, Massa, Gabriela Alejandra, Carboni, Martín Federico, Feingold, Sergio Enrique

“…Andean potatoes (Solanum tuberosum Group Andigena) constitute an enormous wealth of potato germplasm that can contribute to increase genetic diversity in breeding programs of many traits, including CIS. …”
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Composición y diversidad de los bosques de la Región Autónoma del Atlántico Norte de Nicaragua: una base para el manejo sostenible by Pérez Flores, Mª Angeles

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Brand equity and corporate responsibility : a review of brand valuation methods by Pakseresht, Ashkan

“…In returns, this relation provides adequate wealth that enables corporate to develop their equipments and efficiencies. …”

Fruits of knowledge by Carlander, Fennia, Lothigius, Karin

“…Cooperatives and BOP have a united aim to strengthen the weak and increase their wealth. The weak infrastructure emphasizes the needs for new solutions. …”
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Understanding poverty-environment interactions by Musoma, Richwell Tryson

“…Although tobacco is associated with environmentally damaging practices especially pollution through extensive agrochemicals use and land degradation through deforestation (cutting wood to cure tobacco leaves), these practices were found to be a function of household decisions and how the farmer perceives the tobacco management benefits (short-term benefits than long-term outcomes) rather than wealth. Although smallholder farmers were found to be the proximate agents/causes of the environmental degradation linked to tobacco, a chain of link analysis has shown a number of local and extra-local factors influencing this. …”
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Livestock production and marketing by Negassa, Asfaw, Rashid, Shahidur, Gebremedhin, Berhanu

“…Livestock fulfills an important function in coping with shocks, accumulating wealth, and serving as a store of value in the absence of formal financial institutions and other missing markets. …”
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Options and strategies for the conservation of farm animal genetic resources: Report of an international workshop, AGROPOLIS, Montpellier, France, 7-10 November 2005 by Gibson, J., Gamage, S., Hanotte, Olivier H., Iñiguez, L., Maillard, J.C., Rischkowsky, Barbara A., Semambo, D., Toll, Jane

“…In addition to food, clothing and other goods, livestock are important for income generation, wealth accumulation, traction and nutrient cycling. …”
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Performance evaluation of highly admixed Tanzanian smallholder dairy cattle using SNP derived kinship matrix by Mujibi, F.D.N., Rao, E.J.O., Agaba, Morris, Nyambo, D., Cheruiyot, E.K., Kihara, Absolomon, Zhang, Yi, Mrode, Raphael A.

“…Based on supplementary feeding, milk productivity and sale as well as household wealth status four clusters were described: low-feed-low-output subsistence, medium-feed-low-output subsistence, maize germ intensive semi-commercial and feed intensive commercial management groups. …”
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Chronic kidney disease and household behaviors in Sri Lanka: historical choices of drinking water and agrochemical use by Balasubramanya, Soumya, Stifel, David, Horbulyk, Ted, Kafle, Kashi

“…We also find that a greater share of CKD affected households historically used agrochemicals, used wells that were geographically removed from surface water sources, and displayed lower proxies of wealth. The implications of these findings are fourfold. …”
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Unlocking plant resources to support food security and promote sustainable agriculture by Ulian, Tiziana, Diazgranados, Mauricio, Pironon, Samuel, Padulosi, Stefano, Liu, Udayangani, Davies, Lee, Howes, Melanie-Jayne R., Borrell, James S., Ondo, Ian, Pérez Escobar, Oscar A., Sharrock, Suzanne L., Ryan, Philippa, Hunter, Danny, Lee, Mark A., Barstow, Charles, Łuczaj, Łukasz, Pieroni, Andrea, Cámara Leret, Rodrigo, Noorani, Arshiya, Mba, Chikelu, Womdim, Rémi Nono, Muminjanov, Hafiz, Antonelli, Alexandre, Pritchard, Hugh W., Mattana, Efisio

“…Furthermore, we explore how fungi could diversify and increase the nutritional value of our diets. NUS, along with the wealth of traditional knowledge about their uses and practices, offer a largely untapped resource to support food security and sustainable agriculture. …”
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Dynamic guardianship of potato landraces by Andean communities and the genebank of the International Potato Center by Luttringhaus, S., Pradel, W., Suarez, V., Manrique, N., Anglin, Noelle L., Ellis, David, Hareau, G., Jamora, Nelissa, Smale, Melinda, Gómez, R.

“…While male plot management decreased survival times compared to female plot management, higher levels of education, labor force, wealth, food insecurity, and geographic location in the southern part of Peru were associ‑ ated with greater survival times. …”
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Gender, Tenure Security and Landscape Governance. Synthesis of Studies from PIM’s Governance of Natural Resources Flagship Program, 2013-2020 by Kristjanson, Patricia M.

“…It discusses the scientific contributions to the broader wealth of related literature by analyzing and summarizing key lessons about gender from these studies, where possible, with respect to outcomes and impacts on natural resource management, food security, and poverty alleviation. …”
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Enset production system diversity across the Southern Ethiopian Highlands by Blomme, Guy, Kearsley, Elizabeth, Buta, Sisay, Chala, Alemayehu, Kebede, Ruhama, Addis, Temesgen, Yemataw, Zerihun

“…The food crop diversity, with an average of 6.4 different food crop species on a farm (ranging from 2 to 15 crops), did not vary with the wealth status of the households or with altitude. …”
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Impacts of Africa RISING in Mali by Haile, Beliyou, Azzarri, Carlo, Tzintzun, Ivan, Boukaka, Sedi Anne, Vitellozzi, Sveva

“…Overall comparisons between households in target and non-target villages show a positive impact of AR on environmental variables such as access to extension services, implementation of intercropping techniques, and adoption of improved crops; on productivity variables such as green bean yield; and on economic variables such as an increase in the non-agricultural wealth index; but no statistically significant effect on human and social indicators, namely household dietary diversity, food consumption scores, and nutritional indicators for children 0–59 months old and women 15–49 years old. …”
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