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Medlemmens nytta av vidareförädling i ett lantbrukskooperativt företag por Mauritz, Jeanette

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Overcoming gender gaps in rural mechanization: Lessons from reaper-harvester service provision in Bangladesh por Theis, Sophie, Sultana, Nasrin, Krupnik, Timothy J., International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, International Rice Research Institute

“…However, a number of technical, economic, and cultural barriers constrain women’s full participation in these benefits. …”
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Biofortified Crops for Improved Human Nutrition : a Challenge Program Proposal Presented by CIAT and IFPRI por International Center for Tropical Agriculture, International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The costs of these deficiencies in terms of lives lost, forgone economic growth, and poor quality of life are staggering. …”
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Remote sensing and machine learning for food crop production data in Africa post-COVID-19 por Ly, Racine, Dia, Khadim, Diallo, Mariam A.

“…While the pandemic appears to be less severe on the African continent than in other geographic regions (Global Change Data Lab 2021), its economic impact is significantly more pronounced. COVID-19 is upending livelihoods, damaging business and government balance sheets, and threatening to reverse development gains and growth prospects for years to come in Africa south of the Sahara (IFC 2020). …”
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Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato Puree: A Breakthrough Product for the Bakery Sector in Africa por Moyo, M., Truong, V., Šimunović, J., Pankuku, J., Abong, G.O., Amagloh, F.K., Fuchs, R., Magnaghi, A., Rajendran, S., Grant, F., Muzhingi, T.

“…Replacing some of the wheat flour in breads and pastries with OFSP (orange-fleshed sweetpotato) puree can increase the market demand for these nutritious varieties and would offer economic opportunities for smallholders, including women and youths. …”
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EX-Ante Carbon balance Tool (EX-ACT) por Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

“…The tool helps project designers to estimate and prioritize project activities with high benefits in economic and climate change mitigation terms. The amount of GHG mitigation may also be used as part of economic analyses as well as for the application for additional project funds. …”
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A technical guideline on integrated aquaculture performance assessment por Zeller, Manfred, Khor, Ling, Tran, Nhuong, Shikuku, Kelvin, Rajaratnam, Surendran, Chan, Chin Yee, Aung, Yee, Campos, Natalia

“…The integrated assessment comprises three domains: economic, social and environmental. We use the experience from SPAITS for illustration. …”
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Can cooperatives commercialize farming in Malawi? por Davis, Kristin E., Kazembe, Cynthia, Benson, Todd, De Weerdt, Joachim, Duchoslav, Jan

“…Smallholder farmers constitute the largest group of economic actors in Malawi and there is increasing recognition that the small scale at which they operate does not offer for most a pathway out of poverty, let alone to prosperity. …”
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Future of fish for food and nutrition security in Nigeria por Chan, Chin Yee, Long Chu, Hoang, Tran, Nhuong, Sari, Evren Can, Cheong, Kai Ching, Olagunju, Olanrewaju, Shikuku, Kelvin, Byrd, Kendra, Diyzee, Kanar, Subasinghe, Rohana, Siriwardena, Sunil

“…The model incorporates both quantitative and qualitative insights from 63 stakeholders with various expertise in Nigeria to verify data, validate preliminary projection results and explore six alternative scenarios. Under the business-as-usual (BAU) scenario, the demand for fish in Nigeria would increase relatively fast, fueled by economic and demographic growth. …”
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Better Life Alliance in Zambia: Climate change mitigation as a co-benefit of improved landscape, agroforestry, soil, and fertilizer management por Nash, Julie, Grewer, Uwe, Bockel, Louis, Galford, Gillian L., Pirolli, Gillian, White, Julianna M.

“…The GHG impact due to BLA's interventions is estimated at –902,531 tCO2e/yr, equivalent to saving 2,089,550 barrels of oil. - BLA's business model linked prevention of degradation and conversion of shrubland to market-based incentives for agricultural crops, thereby providing farmers with economic incentives for conservation and climate change mitigation…”
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Motivation, ledarskap och kvinnligt entreprenörskap på landsbygden por Egnell, Amanda, Lidell, Filippa

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FR2.1: Improving agricultural value chain coordination and gender inclusiveness in Papua New Guinea por Kosec, Katrina, Schmidt, Emily, Carrillo, Lucia, Peixun Fang, Ivekolia, Mark, Ovah, Raywin

“…This study is meant to guide policymakers and stakeholders toward ways of improving economic opportunities and inclusiveness in the agriculture and livestock sectors.…”
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Scaling women smallholder farmer’s access to mechanization: Analysis of farmer groups’ services in Bangladesh por Jones, Maria, Lindgren, Samantha, Mozumdar, Lavlu, Alrawashdeh, Ghaida

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Linking smallholders to livestock markets: Combining market and household survey data in Tanzania por Pica-Ciamarra, U., Baker, Derek, Chassama, J., Fadiga, M.L., Nsiima, L.

“…Linking farmers to markets is widely viewed as a milestone towards promoting economic growth and poverty reduction. However, market and institutional imperfections along the supply chain thwart perfect vertical and spatial price transmission and prevent farmers and market actors from getting access to information, identifying business opportunities and allocating their resources efficiently. …”
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Developing small-scale bamboo enterprises for livelihoods and environmental restoration in Benishangul-Gumuz Regional State, Ethiopia por Boissière, M., Atmadja, S., Benmakhlouf, S., Beyessa, M., Kassa, H., Hunde, T., Assefa, F.

“…There are multiple bamboo management approaches that open economic opportunities for SSEs in the region. There needs to be more clarity on how to secure land use rights over bamboo forests, accessible financing, market linkages, business training, and low-tech/low-cost technologies to encourage the development of bamboo SSEs.…”
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‘Clearing the air’: Common drivers of climate-smart smallholder food production in Eastern and Southern Africa por Branca, G., Perelli, Chiara

“…Business links between technology-ready smallholders and small-to-medium enterprises must be created to enable the uptake and scaling-up of innovations and the development of industrial application models. …”
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Competitiveness of pig and poultry production in Vietnam: Outcome of policy analysis matrix por Akter, S., Jabbar, M.A., Ehui, Simeon K.

“…Unless targeted support is provided to small farms, they are likely to be pushed out of business in a more liberalized economic environment.…”
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Improving data collection and measurement of complex farms por Kling, Catherine L., Mackie, Christopher D., Panel on Improving Data Collection and Reporting about Agriculture with Increasingly Complex Farm Structures, Committee on National Statistics, Division of behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Arbuckle Jr., J. Gordon, Bradburn, Norman M., Dunn, Richard A., Featherstone, Allen M., Glauber, Joseph W., Hueth, Brent, Katchova, Ani L., Mold, Doris, Opsomer, Jean, Peterson, Greg, Poppe, Krijn J., Sumner, Daniel A., Wagner, James, Weber, Jeremy G.

“…Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) and Economic Research Service (ERS) to help identify effective methods for collecting data and reporting information about American agriculture, given increased complexity and other changes in farm business structure in recent decades.…”
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Gender and preferences for non-farm income diversification: A framed field experiment in Ghana por Kramer, Berber, Lambrecht, Isabel B.

“…In a framed field experiment with 1,527 men and women in Ghana, we elicit preferences for investments in crop farming versus other business activities. We analyze whether gender differences in preferences for non-farm diversification, if any, can be ascribed to differential access to physical and human capital, and to what extent a gender gap is explained by differences in socio-economic characteristics, skills, perceptions and norms. …”
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Plant spacing assessment in cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) agroforestry systems in the Colombian Pacific region por Perez Zuñiga, Jose Ives, Rojas Molina, Jairo, Zabala Perilla, Andrés Felipe

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