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L'élevage d'ici 2020: la prochaine révolution alimentaire by Delgado, Christopher L., Rosegrant, Mark W., Steinfeld, Henning, Ehui, Simeon, Courbois, Claude

“…La consommation totale de viande, d'oeufs et de lait des pays en développement a augmenté d'environ 50% du début des années 70 au début des années 90.…”
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Le secteur non agricole et le developpement rural: analyse des problèmes et des faits by Islam, Nurul

“…Dans la plupart des pays en developpement, la main-d'oeuvre rurale connalt une augmentation rapide, mais les possibilites d'emploi n'en suivent pas Ie rythme. …”
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Local markets, local varieties: Rising food prices and small farmers' access to seed by Smale, Melinda, Cohen, Marc J., Nagarajan, Latha

“…Following the Green Revolution model, delivery of improved varieties of seed, fertilizers, and other inputs, along with targeted, short-term subsidies, would augment production through higher yields rather than area expansion, so that scarce land can be reserved for other crops and uses. …”
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Early childhood nutrition, schooling, and sibling inequality in a dynamic context: Evidence from South Africa by Yamauchi, Futoshi

“…In other words, while health capital augments the efficiency of investment in schooling at the early stage, it may increase opportunity costs at the later stage, which may deter investment in schooling.…”
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Technology adoption under seed access constraints and the economic impacts of improved pigeonpea varieties in Tanzania by Shiferaw, Bekele A., Kebede, Tewodros A., You, Liangzhi

“…Adoption of new varieties is therefore analyzed using an augmented double hurdle model that allows estimating variety adoption conditional on seed access thresholds accounting for the additional information on sample separation. …”
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Toward a green revolution in Africa: What would it achieve, and what would it require? by Diao, Xinshen, Headey, Derek D., Johnson, Michael E.

“…First, an economy‐wide multimarket model, augmented with existing poverty–growth elasticities, is developed to assess the likely impacts of a rapid acceleration in food production (of the kind witnessed in previous Green Revolutions) on food prices, consumption and demand, farmer revenue, and poverty. …”
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Artificial intelligence in plant breeding by Farooq, Muhammad Amjad, Shang Gao, Hassan, Muhammad Adeel, Zhangping Huang, Awais Rasheed, Hearne, Sarah, Prasanna, Boddupalli M., Xinhai Li, Huihui Li

“…Leveraging AI-enabled precision breeding can augment the efficiency of breeding programs and holds promise for optimizing cropping systems at the grassroots level. …”
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Genotype by environment interaction effect and fresh root yield stability of cassava genotypes under contrasting nitrogen regimes by Mbe, J.O., Dzidzienyo, D., Abah, S.P., Njoku, D.N., Aghogho, C.I., Onyeka, J., Tongoona, P., Egesi, C.

“…Experiments were conducted using an augmented block design with three replications for two years in three locations in Nigeria. …”
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No farmer is an Island: Mechanisms behind successful climate services in and around Honduras by Giraldo Mendez, Diana

“…The thesis also synthesizes an extensive body of systematic literature that has emerged within the climate service for agriculture domain over the past decade, augmenting our overall understanding of the nature of climate services, their evolution, and the existing gaps and challenges. …”
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Linking types of East Javanese rice farming systems to farmers' perceptions of complex rice systems by Khumairoh, Uma, Teixeira, Heitor Mancini, Yadav, Sudhir, Schulte, Rogier P.O., Batas, Mary Ann, Asmara, Degi Harja, Flor, Rica Joy, Agustina, Rohmatin, Setiawan, Adi, Nurlaelih, Euis E., Purnomo, Mangku, Groot, Jeroen C.J.

“…Complex rice systems (CRS) are polycultures in which rice is grown together with one or more plant or animal species using combined methods of practices from indigenous knowledge and modern science in augmenting ecological processes to foster ecosystem services in rice agroecosystems. …”
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Do buyers have bargaining power? Evidence from informal groundwater contracts by Yashodha

“…Nevertheless, factors like interpersonal relationships between buyers and sellers, such as kinship ties, long contractual history, and higher education of buyers augment buyers' power relative bargaining power.…”
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Institutional, policy and farmer responses to drought: El Nino events and rice in the Philippines by Dawe, David, Moya, Piedad, Valencia, Shiela

“…Communication between irrigation system managers and farmer irrigation associations is also strong, and together they have developed response options that attempt to augment supplies of and more efficiently allocate scarce water. …”
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Income dynamics and pathways out of rural poverty in Bangladesh, 1988-2004 by Nargis, Nigar, Hossain, Mahabub

“…The reduction in poverty appears to be vitally dependent on the enhancement of the endowment of human and physical capital that augments the poor households' capability to better exploit income‐generating opportunities and place the households on a sustainable route out of poverty.…”
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An ecophysiological model for interspecific competition, applied to the influence of chenopodium-album l on sugar-beet .2. Model evaluation by Kropff, M.J., SPITTERS, C. J. T., SCHNIEDERS, B.J., JOENJE, W., DE GROOT, W.

“…Des caractéristiques morphologiques comme le taux de croissance relative de la surface foliaire dans les premiers stades, la surface spécifique foliaire et l'augmentation de hauteur, déterminent grandement la vigueur de compétition d'une espèce. …”
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Statistics from space: Next-generation agriculture production information for enhanced monitoring of food security in Mozambique by Centro de Estudo de Políticas e Programas Agroalimentares (CEPPAG)

“…The Statistics from Space project (SFS) seeks to support the Government of Mozambique to produce and disseminate accurate crop production statistical data leveraging satellite remote sensing data and artificial intelligence augmented analytics. The project, funded by the Government of the Republic of Korea (Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs; MAFRA), aims to provide the Mozambican Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development with production estimates of major crops across three provinces namely Gaza, Manica and Zambézia in a sufficiently timely manner so that all market participants can use the information for decision-making. …”
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AgroTutor: Localised generative AI infrastructure for agri advisories by Nagaraji, Satish, Gardeazábal Monsalve, Andrea, Narasimhan K.V., Swathi Vurrakula, Saji, Sherin Maria, Sandya N.R., Achar, Fredrick, Bautista Ramirez, Rosa Elena, Mahto, Sanjeev

“…By employing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), low-cost language models, and multi-modal data integration, AgroTutor addresses critical challenges such as context localisation, resource optimisation, and quick deployment of RAG. …”
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Multiobjective optimization of the trade-offs in smallholder dairy farming intensification by Mulinge, W.M., Oluoch-Kosura,Willis, Staal, Steven J., Mbogoh, S.

“…The findings indicate various strategies for smallholder farmers with small land holdings such as land-augmenting (off-farm feed resources, more intensive cropping and dairy enterprises, and continuous as well as mixed cropping). …”
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The prevention and mitigation of famine: policy lessons from Botswana and Sudan by Teklu, Tesfaye

“…To provide continuity and stabilization of market operations in times of distress, the country channels sufficient food through market chains, provides price support to preempt market collapse and augments the income of consumers through public income transfer programs to prevent demand failure. …”
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Investment and productivity in Canadian and U.S. food marketing by Chan-Kang, Connie, Buccola, Steven, Kerkvliet, Joe

“…Le Canada pourrait améliorer sa compétitivité face aux Etats‐Unis en réduisant le prix des denrées et des entrées intermédiaires ou en augmentant l'investissement dans la recherche et le développement.…”
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Developing a water budget for the Amman-Zarqa Basin using Water Accounting Plus and the pixel-based soil water balance model by Amdar, Nafn, Seyoum, S., Al-Bakri, J., Rutten, M., Jewitt, G., Mul, M.

“…This underscores the pressing need to investigate supply augmentation and conservation methods. Future studies could focus on improving the representation of groundwater dynamics in the modified framework by improving groundwater dynamics in PixSWAB and testing the modified framework with other remote sensing datasets.…”
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