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Social networks and gender dimensions in use of irrigation by farmers in Alamata Woreda, Southern Tigray, Ethiopia by Hailemariam, M.

“…Identifying the factors for choice of crops by farmers in using irrigation was also another additional objective of the study. …”
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An evaluation of the impacts of transaction cost and market outlet risks on market partcipation of smallholder dairy farmers in Central Kenya. by Ngigi, M.W.

“…A basic conclusion of the study is that smallholder's market-outlet choice behaviour is not based on the levels of price alone; it is also influenced by some other important contractual elements of exchange. …”
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Hovkräfta - en litteraturgenomgång by Ekeberg, Cecilia

“…Hovkräfta (pododermatitis chronica verrucosa sive migrans) eller i den engelska litteraturen hoof canker definieras som ett kroniskt tillstånd med hyperproliferation av hornproducerande celler och dermatit som drabbar den kaudala delen av mittstrålfåran och sidostrålfårorna initialt och som kan sprida sig till andra delar av hoven. …”

Drivers of demand for animal-source foods in low-income informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya by Domínguez-Salas, Paula, Lepine, A., Kadiyala, S., Bukachi, S., Ngutu, M.

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Settlement and land use by Fulani pastoralists in case study areas by Waters-Bayer, Ann, Taylor-Powell, E.

“…Discusses reasons of choice of site, pattern & right of grazing and access to land.…”
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Marknadsundersökning om markägarens val av skogspartner by Johansson, Markus

Resistance to the legume pod borer, Maruca vitrata Fabricius and the probable modalities involve in wild Vigna by Jackai, L.E.N., Padulosi, S., Ng, Q.

“…A large number of accessions belonging to selected wild Vigna species namely V. unguiculata subspecies dekindtiana, V. oblongifolia, and V. vexillata were evaluated using choice (DCAT) and no-choice (NCFT) laboratory feeding bioassays to determine their resistance to the pod borer, Maruca vitrata Fabricius. …”
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Host stage selection and sex allocation by Gyranusoidea tebygi (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidea), a parasitoid of the mango mealbug, Rastrococcus invadens (Homoptera: Pseudococcidae) by Boavida, C., Ahounou, M., Vos, M., Neuenschwander, Peter, Alphen, J.J.M. van

“…Host stage selection and sex allocation by Gyranusoidea tebygi Noyes (Hym,, Encyrtidae) were studied in choice and no-choice experiments in the laboratory. …”
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Report on methodology for screening of spider mites resistance in a diversity panel by Espitia, Paula A., Hernández, Luis Miguel

“…An experimental unit for no-choice tests under greenhouse conditions was developed and tested. …”
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Price, credit or ambiguity? Increasing small-scale irrigation in Ethiopia by Balasubramanya, Soumya, Buisson, Marie-Charlotte, Mitra, Archisman, Stifel, D.

“…In this paper, we examine farmers’ willingness to adopt smallholder private irrigation packages in response to lower pump prices following tax breaks, loan availability, and reduction in ambiguities related to borehole drilling, using a discrete choice experiment (DCE) in two districts of Ethiopia. …”
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Consumer preferences, and willingness to pay for safe pork products in rural Kenya by Gichuyia, Cianjo M., Mtimet, Nadhem, Fèvre, Eric M., Thomas, Lian F., Gathura, P., Onono, J.O., Akaichi, F.

“…This study aimed to determine purchase patterns, consumers' preferences, and willingness to pay for safe pork attributes; specifically, the presence of a veterinary inspection stamp and the cleanliness of the butchery. A discrete choice experiment-based survey was used to investigate the purchasing behavior of 401 pork consumers: 253 buying raw pork for household consumption, and 148 buying cooked pork for out-of-home consumption. …”
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Centering context when characterizing food environments: The potential of participatory mapping to inform food environment research by Downs, Shauna, Manohar, Swetha, Staromiejska, Wiktoria, Keo, Chanvuthy, Say, Sophea, Chhinh, Nyda, Fanzo, Jessica, Sok, Serey

“…This is part of the Journal Research Topic: Measuring Diets and Food Choice in the Context of a Changing World (https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/47398/measuring-diets-and-food-choice-in-the-context-of-a-changing-world/magazine#articles).…”
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Health care demand in rural Mozambique: evidence from the 1996/97 household survey by Lindelow, Magnus

“…Also, prices, defined in the model as the composite of user fees and time costs associated with consultations at different providers, are found to be important determinants of choice. The results indicate that the eradication of poverty, independent of improvements in physical access to health care and education, will have only a negligible effect on health care choices.…”
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Health care demand in rural Mozambique: evidence from the 1996/97 household survey by Lindelow, Magnus

“…Also, prices, defined in the model as the composite of user fees and time costs associated with consultations at different providers, are found to be important determinants of choice. The results indicate that the eradication of poverty, independent of improvements in physical access to health care and education, will have only a negligible effect on health care choices.…”
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A latent class approach to investigating consumer demand for genetically modified staple food in a developing country: The case of GM bananas in Uganda by Kikulwe, Enoch, Birol, Ekin, Wesseler, Justus, Falck-Zepeda, José B.

“…Choice data come from 421 banana-consuming households randomly selected from three regions of Uganda. …”
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“Did you control for rainfall?”: Geospatial weather data, measurement error and the consistency of farm model estimates in Ethiopia by Bisrat Gebrekidan, Chamberlin, Jordan

“…Our results suggest that the choice of rainfall dataset does not significantly affect analytical conclusions about fertilizer response.…”
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Congruence between selection on breeding values and farmers’ selection criteria in sheep breeding under conventional nucleus breeding schemes by Gizaw, Solomon, Getachew, T., Tibbo, Markos, Haile, Aynalem, Dessie, Tadelle

“…We also elicited determinants of farmers’ ram choice. Low but significant correlations were found between rankings of rams based on farmers’ selection criteria, estimated breeding values (EBV) and body weight (BW). …”
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Consumer preference and willingness to pay for fish farmed in treated wastewater in Ghana by Gebrezgabher, Solomie A., Amewu, Sena, Amoah, Philip

“…We utilize a dichotomous-choice contingent valuation methodology to estimate willingness to pay for fresh Tilapia and smoked Catfish farmed in treated wastewater and analyze factors that affect consumer choice. …”
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Interactions among vegetable-infesting aphids, the fungal pathogen Metarhizium anisopliae (Ascomycota: Hypocreales) and the predatory coccinellid Cheilomenes lunata (Coleoptera: Co... by Bayissa, W., Ekesi, S., Mohamed, S., Kaaya, G.P., Wagacha, M., Hanna, R., Maniania, N.K.

“…Female adult C. lunata to which fungus-infected aphids were offered as prey never accepted them as food source in non-choice bioassays. However, live and dead non-infected aphids were fed upon. …”
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Assessing the effects of policy change on households and children’s milk consumption in peri-urban Nairobi, Kenya by Schneider, F.A.

“…It additionally fits a choice experiment on changes in purchase and consumption levels based on an increase in raw milk prices. …”
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