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Travel Time to Markets in Africa South of the Sahara by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…For this, using a newly available accessibility model input datasets, such as new land cover data from satellites, crowdsourced road network data, and updated population of major human settlements across SSA, HarvestChoice Project updated the existing market accessibility data and provides new market accessibility data layers benchmarking around the year 2010. …”
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Randomized Control Trial Baseline Data on Use of Improved Efficient Cookstoves in Mozambique by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The data also includes a section on discrete choice experiments that test several price subsidy policy options and their impact on the possible uptake of improved cookstoves. …”
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Randomized Control Trial Baseline Data on Use of Improved Efficient Cookstoves in Malawi by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The data also includes a section on discrete choice experiments that test several price subsidy policy options and their impact on the possible uptake of improved cookstoves. …”
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Modelling the crop variety demand of semi-subsistence households: Bananas in Uganda by Edmeades, Svetlana, Phaneuf, Daniel J., Smale, Melinda, Renkow, Mitch

“…We estimate variety demand equations using a more complete representation of the choice set upon which observed planting decisions are made. …”
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ILCA's strategy for improving the output of livestock in sub-Saharan Africa based on six research thrusts by Watanabe, S.

“…This paper outlines ILCA's strategy of choice, i.e., ILCA's formal mandate, ILCA's altimate goal, the centres' fundamental choice, ILCA's research program for the 1989-93 period, and mode of operation, and research thrusts, and highlights of the achievements. …”
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In praise of meat, milk and eggs by Cherfas, Jeremy

“…Excluding animal products from your diet as a vegetarian or vegan is a choice some people have the luxury to make, and if they know what they’re doing, and take care, they can be perfectly healthy. …”
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The matter of access to capitals : a case study of gender-differentiated vulnerability to flooding in Laos PDR by Ernerot, Jacqueline

“…Gendered differentiations in access capitals do not only restrain the options for livelihood diversification but also determine the choice of which strategy to approach to be able to reduce the impacts from flooding. …”

Breeding practices and trait preferences of smallholder farmers for indigenous sheep in the northwest highlands of Ethiopia: Inputs to design a breeding program by Abebe, A.S., Alemayehu, K., Johansson, A.M., Gizaw, Solomon

“…Questionnaire survey and choice experiment methods were used to collect data from 370 smallholder farmers. …”
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Awareness and practices among dairy producers and consumers in Sri Lanka by Gedara, Pradeepa Korale, Roy, Devesh, Sonkar, Vinay Kumar, Weerahewa, Jeevika, Kanthilanka, Hemali, Hemachandra, Dilini, Vithanage, Kasun, Rathnasekara, Hasara, Boss, Ruchira

“…In this paper, focusing on dairy in Sri Lanka, we assess the awareness and choice of practices by producers and consumers towards food safety. …”
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Global High-resolution Soil Profile Database for Crop Modeling Applications by International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Michigan State University, International Food Policy Research Institute

“…For other required variables, HarvestChoice’s HC27 database are used as a reference. Final outputs are provided in *.SOL file format (DSSAT soil database) for each country at 5-min resolution. …”
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Food acquisition, preparation, and consumption practices in South Asia: A scoping review of assessment tools by Patwardhan, Sharvari, Boncyk, Morgan, Avula, Rasmi, Blake, Christine E., Akter, Fahmida, Das, Jai K., Silva, Renuka, Menon, Purnima, Scott, Samuel P.

“…Assessing behaviors related to food choice at individual- and household-levels is essential for improving household diets, but assessment tools are limited. …”
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Playing games to save water: Collective action games for groundwater management in Andhra Pradesh, India by Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Janssen, Marco A., Kandikuppa, Sandeep, Chaturvedi, Rahul, Rao, Kaushalendra, Theis, Sophie

“…However, games can contribute to social learning about the role of crop choice and collective action, to motivate behavior change toward more sustainable groundwater extraction.…”
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Clean planting materials and management practices for sustained production of banana and plantain in Africa by Tenkouano, A., Hauser, S., Coyne, Danny L., Coulibaly, O.

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Enfermedades virales y bacterianas. by Payán Moreno, Jaime

“…Como enfermedades virales se relacionan la fiebre porcina clásica (cólera porcina o peste porcina clásica), la parvovirosis, la fiebre aftosa y la estomatitis vesicular, estas 2 últimas agrupadas como enfermedades vesiculares, resaltando: agente causante, síntomas clínicos y medidas profilácticas. …”
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Terapival vid behandling av lunginflammation hos kalv by Holmquist, Jenny

“…Of the respondents, 73 % use Penicillins as their first choice of drug for treating calves with symptoms of pneumonia, and as their second choice 64 % use Tetracycline. …”
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More than market info by Rowan-Campbell, Dorienne, Tandon, Nidhi

“…The mobile phone is certainly the instrument of choice for farmers and traders. With a mobile, farmers can check prices and give accurate delivery dates…”
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Putting it all together: Aggregating impacts of school-feeding programmes on education, health and nutrition: two proposed methodologies by Gelli, Aulo, Espejo, Francisco, Shen, Jing, Kristjansson, Elizabeth

“…One involves a discreet choice experiment to derive utility scores combining outcomes into one measure. …”
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Valuing genetic resources in peasant economies: the case of ‘hairless’ creole pigs in Yucatan by Scarpa, R., Drucker, Adam G., Anderson, S., Ferraes-Ehuan, N., Gómez, V., Risopatron, C., Rubio-Leonel, O.

“…We report the results of a choice-experiment study to model preferences over a selection of breed traits of ‘creole’ pigs. …”
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Diagnóstico de pacientes caninos (Canis lupus familiaris) diagnosticados con hemopatógenos y su relación con trastornos cardiovasculares, clínica veterinaria Pet Friends Animal Cl... by Blandón Agüero, Janayna del Carmen, Will Gutiérrez, Renné Alexandra

“…En los pacientes en fase crónica, se realizaron estudios inmunocromatográficos empleando el kit CANIV-4 de BIONOTE y evaluaciones cardíacas mediante electrocardiograma y ecocardiograma. …”
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Economic cost evaluation of selected vegetable post-harvest losses in Babati District Tanzania by Mtui, M.A.

“…Lastly quantity harvested, education level and access to extension services had significant (p<0.1) positive influence on choice of post-harvest handling techniques while household income and farm-size had significant (p<0.1) negative influence. …”
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