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Nature of employment and outcomes for urban labor: Evidence from the latest labor force surveys in India by Roy, Devesh, Saroj, Sunil, Pradhan, Mamata

“…Using latest three rounds of nationally representative Periodic Labor Force Surveys (PLFS), we assess the outcomes for urban workers based on TOE. …”
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Southern Africa: economic structure, trade, and regional integration by Mukherjee, Natasha, Robinson, Sherman

“…To date, the cross-entropy method has been applied to the Social Accounting Matrices (SAMs) for the MERRISA countries, including the SAM for Zimbabwe.…”
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Assessing the contribution of managed aquifer recharge programs on groundwater storage in the Ramganga Basin by Alam, Mohammad Faiz, Pavelic, Paul, Sharma, Navneet, Sikka, Alok

“…Managed aquifer recharge (MAR) programs, which replenish aquifers during periods of surplus surface water, have emerged as a national strategy to bolster groundwater security. …”
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Remote sensing and census based assessment and scope for improvement of rice and wheat water productivity in the Indo-Gangetic Basin by Cai, X.L., Sharma, Bharat R.

“…The average ET by rice and wheat is 368 mm and 210 mm respectively, accounting for only 69% and 65% of potential ET, and 67% and 338% of rain-fall of the crop growth period measured from Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM). …”
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Increasing influence of heat stress on French maize yields from the 1960s to the 2030s by Hawkins, E., Ho CK, Osborne, Tom M., Fricker TE, Ferro CAT, Challinor, Andrew J.

“…Firstly, the effects on historical crop yields of improved technology, precipitation and daily maximum temperatures are modelled empirically, accounting for a nonlinear technology trend and interactions between temperature and precipitation, and applied specifically for a case study of maize in France. …”
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Adoption of resource management technologies : lessons from the Brazilian savanna by Smith, J., Cadavid Herrera, JV, Ayarza, Miguel Angel, Agiar, J.L.P.

“…In Brazil, soybean had contributed significantly to economic development, accounting for 8 percent of total exports. The current survey was conducted on a red-yellow Latosol in southeastern Minas Gerais. …”
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Estudio de los grupos taxonómicos de las papas silvestres by Cardenas, Martin

“…The taxonomic position of weed potatoes and of species whose position is doubi-ful, are considered An account of the bolivian wild species found since 1900 includes mention of the collectors names, places visited and a belief that although the number of bolivian species represent 7 of the 17 series accounting for almost a third of the material reported from the Americas, there remains much to be explored and discovered. …”
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Sources of inefficiency and growth in agricultural output in subsistence agriculture: A stochastic frontier analysis by Nisrane, Fantu, Berhane, Guush, Asrat, Sinafikeh, Getachew, Gerawork, Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum, Hoddinott, John F.

“…A stochastic frontier analysis is used because, in addition to accounting for sources of growth in agricultural output, this method explicitly incorporates efficiency differences in the analysis. …”
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Fluxes of CH4, CO2, NO, and N2O in an improved fallow agroforestry system in Eastern Amazonia by Verchot, Louis V., Brienza, S., Oliviera, V.C. de, Mutegi, J.K., Cattanio, J.H., Davidson, E.A.

“…Sampling for the first fallow period was done in 1996 and 1997 while that for the second fallow was done in 1999 and 2000. …”
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Genetic base of irrigated rice in Latin America and the Caribbean 1971 to 1989 by Cuevas Pérez, Federico E., Guimarães, Elcio Perpétuo, Berrío Orozco, Luis Eduardo, González Tous, Daniel I.

“…A group of 14 ancient cultivars contributed to at least one cultivar during the four periods considered, accounting for nearly 70% of the genes and contributing to an increased relationship among parents of cultivars. …”
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Poverty and food insecurity during COVID-19: Evidence from the COVID-19 Rural and Urban Food Security Survey (RUFSS) - June and July 2020 round by Headey, Derek D., Goudet, Sophie, Lambrecht, Isabel B., Oo, Than Zaw, Maffioli, Elisa Maria, Field, Erica, Toth, Russell

“…The IFPRI study projects massive declines in GDP across a range of sectors during lockdown periods, including large increases in unemployment (5 million during the lockdown period) and declines in household income of 20 to 30 percent for April to June, albeit with fast recovery thereafter.…”
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of adopting rice methane mitigation measures in southern China by Chen, Kevin Z., Hu, Shuang

“…In particular, methane emissions from paddy fields account for a substantial share, making rice systems a key point for achieving mitigation targets in the agricultural sector. …”
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Occurrence and distribution of long-term variability in precipitation classes in the source region of the Yangtze River by Ahmed, N., Zhu, L., Wang, G., Adeyeri, O. E., Shah, S., Ali, S., Marhaento, H., Munir, Sarfraz

“…The same increasing trend was evident in seasonal periods. On a daily scale, light precipitation (0–5 mm) covered most of the days during the entire period, with rainy days accounting for 83.50%, 84.5%, and 81.30%. …”
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Evaluating climate hazard hotspots and hazard impacts in Sri Lanka: an analysis of historically reported data by Alahacoon, Niranga, Thathsarani, Geethya, Sivananthan, Piriyanka, Amarnath, Giriraj

“…Among these, strong winds emerged as the most prevalent hazard, accounting for approximately 35% of total incidents, followed by floods at 21%. …”
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Exploring new opportunities for improving AFOLU emissions reporting and the current status of AFOLU emissions for non-annex I countries by Nyawira, Sylvia S., Mulatu, Kalkidan Ayele, Verchot, Louis V.

“…In a first instance, it aims to give an overview of how non-Annex I countries are currently communicating on the necessary elements (targets, monitoring plans, accounting mechanisms, implementation and achievements) for tracking their Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) progress. …”
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Transformation of Kenya’s agrifood system structure and drivers by Diao, Xinshen, Pauw, Karl, Smart, Jenny, Thurlow, James, Ellis, Mia

“…Kenya experienced significant economic development in the 2009 to 2019 period. Gross domestic product (GDP)—an indicator of the economy’s size—expanded by an annual average of 5 percent (KNBS 2022). …”
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How do sustainability policies emerge in the Colombian political system? Analysis of the Policy for Sustainable Cattle 2022-2050 by Díaz, Manuel F., Moreno Lerma, Leonardo, Burkart, Stefan

“…Global projections for the agricultural sector indicate that environmental indicators like deforestation, loss of biodiversity, and greenhouse gas emissions will continue to rise for the period of 2018–2030, with livestock accounting for more than 80% of this increase. …”
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Transformations and recovery of residue and fertilizer nitrogen15 in a sandy Lixisol of West Africa by Ibewiro, B., Vanlauwe, Bernard, Sanginga, P., Merckx, Roel

“…At the end of the study, 4–19% of microbial biomass N was derived from the added residue/fertilizer-N, accounting for 1–3% of added residue-N. Averaged across treatments, particulate SOM fractions accounted for less than 1% of the total soil by weight but contained 20% of total soil C and 8% of soil N. …”
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Malaria control and elimination in Kenya: Economy-wide benefits and regional disparities by Elnour, Zuhal, Grethe, Harold, Siddig, Khalid, Munga, Stephen

“…Consequently, household welfare decreases during the strategy implementation period. In the long run, household labour endowment increases due to reduced malaria incidences and deaths (indirect malaria costs). …”
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Nitrogen fixation and N contribution by promiscuous nodulating soybeans in the southern Guinea savanna of Nigeria by Sanginga, N., Dashiell, Kenton E., Okogun, J.A., Thottappilly, G.

“…The proportion of Ndfa, however, increased with the growing period. At the physiological maturity (R8), N2 fixed accounted for an average of 70% of total N accumulated in the seeds. …”
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