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Replication Data for "Subnational Socio-economic Dataset Availability" by International Food Policy Research Institute

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Opportunities for co-developing groundwater governance in Barahathawa, Nepal by Bruns, Bryan, Khadka, Manohara, KC, Sumitra, Rauniyar, Amrita

“…Research supported by IWMI, IFRPI, and local partners in Nepal indicates that crop-choice groundwater games, combined with participatory mapping and monitoring, crop-water budgeting, and multistakeholder processes, could improve groundwater governance.…”
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Teams with moral hazard and non-verifiable quality assessment by Saak, Alexander E.

“…This paper shows that buying from a team of sellers can be optimal for the buyer in a static model where the buyer has private information about quality, sellers have private information about the cost and choice of effort, and quality is not contractible.…”
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Conflict, Cooperation, and Institutional Change on the Commons by Coleman, E.A., Mwangi, E.

“…Rational choice scholarship posits two principal theories to explain why political institutions emerge and change: cooperation theory and conflict theory. …”
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Evaluation of early-generation tropical maize testcrosses for grain-yield potential and weevil (Sitophilus zeamais Motschulsky) resistance by Sserumaga, Julius P., Makumbi, Dan, Oikeh, Sylvester O., Otim, Michael, Machida, Lewis, Anani, Bruce Y., Nhamucho, Egas, Beyene, Yoseph, Mugo, Stephen

“…Hybrid grain from field trials was subjected to Sitophilus zeamais infestation in a choice and no choice test under laboratory conditions. …”
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From cassava to gari: mapping of quality characteristics and end-user preferences in Cameroon and Nigeria by Ndjouenkeu, R., Kegah, F.N., Teeken, Béla, Okoye, B.C., Madu, Tessy, Olaosebikan, O., Chijioke, Alamu Ugo, Bello, A.A., Osunbade, A.O., Owoade, D., Takam-Tchuente, N.H., Njeufa, E.B., Chomdom, I.L.N., Forsythe, L., Maziya-Dixon, Busie, Fliedel, G.

“…Choice of cassava varieties for farming is mainly determined by the multiple end uses of the roots, their agricultural yield and the processing determinants of roots that support their major high‐quality characteristics: size, density, low water content, maturity, colour and safety. …”
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User Needs Assessment for Climate Services in Zambia by Clarkson, Graham, Dorward, Peter, Poskitt, Samuel, Mambwe, Dina, Mtonga, Radhia K., Below, Till

“…For example, information on the amount of rainfall to expect in a season can aid decision making on choice of land preparation and cultivation methods, choice of crop variety, weeding, as well requirements for pest and disease management in cattle.…”
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Applying agroclimatic seasonal forecasts to improve rainfed maize agronomic management in Colombia by Ordoñez, Leonardo, Vallejo, Eliana, Amariles, Daniel, Mesa, Jeison, Esquivel, Alejandra, Llanos Herrera, Lizeth, Prager, Steven D., Segura, Cristian, Valencia, Jhon Jairo, Duarte, Carmen Julio, Rojas, Diana Carolina, Obando, Diego, Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando

“…They also predict the optimal choice of genotype correctly around 50–70 % of the time depending on the site or season of interest. …”
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Exploring the interaction between the built food environment and intra-household gastronomy through photovoice in India by Ynion, Jhoanne, Banerjee, Deep, Custodio, Marie Claire, Samaddar, Arindam, Veetil, Prakashan Chellattan

“…Understanding the systemic cultural drivers of food choice, interventions promoting sustainable dietary choices can be more effectively contextualized leading to improved nutritional status. …”
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CELL5M: A Geospatial Data and Analytics Platform of Harmonized Multi-disciplinary Data Layers for Africa South of the Sahara by International Food Policy Research Institute, University of Minnesota

“…For Africa South of the Sahara (SSA) region, the HarvestChoice CELL5M Database was developed in this spirit of moving multidisciplinary data into one harmonized, geospatial database. …”
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Evaluating sunn hemp as a dead-end trap crop for sustainable management of the legume pod borer (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) by Yule, Sopana, Srinivasan, Ramasamy, Othim, Stephen Tarmogin Omburo

“…Laboratory oviposition assays indicated that sunn hemp was significantly less preferred than cowpea in dual-choice conditions, whereas no significant preference was detected relative to lablab bean. …”
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Analysis of quality control in the informal seed sector: case of smallholder bean farmers in Bondo Sub-County, Kenya by Odhiambo, Wilfred, Ngigi, Margaret, Lagat, Job, Binswanger, Hans P., Rubyogo, Jean-Claude

“…A multinomial logit model was used to analyse the effects of socio-economic characteristics on the choice of seed sources. Descriptive statistics were used to illustrate the seed quality control methods. …”
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Attraction of the predatory mites Typhlodromalus manihot and Typhlodromalus aripo to cassava plants infested by cassava green mite by Gnanvossou, D., Hanna, R., Dicke, M., Yaninek, S.

“…Satiated T. aripo was significantly attracted to infested cassava leaves whereas satiated T. manihoti did not discriminate between infested and non-infested leaves. When a choice was given between either two or four leaves infested with 200 female M. tanajoa and an equivalent number of non-infested leaves, 2 h-starved T. manihoti and T. aripo were significantly attracted to each of the infested groups of cassava leaves. …”
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A participatory appraisal of Imperata management strategies for sustainable land use in the subhumid savanna of Nigeria by Kormawa, P.M., Ellis-Jones, J., Ibana, S., Chikoye, David, Schulz, S., Nielsen, O.K., Douthwaite, Boru, Udensi, U.E.

“…Ensuring household food security and prevailing land ownership rights governed the choice of crops grown as well as investment in land management technolo- gies for sustainable Imperata control. …”
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Foraging niche separation of social wasps in an invaded area: Implications for their management by Masciocchi, Maite, Unelius, Carl Rikard, Buteler, Micaela

“…We found that V. germanica wasps prefer to forage at ground level regardless of the resource, while V. vulgaris prefers protein resources at the shrubland level given a choice between a protein bait at ground or at shrubland level. …”
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Consumer Information Needs and Sensory Label Design for Fresh Fruit Packaging. An Exploratory Study in Spain by Fernández-Serrano, Paula, Tarancón, Paula, Besada, Cristina

“…Ninety percent of the participants stated having an interest in receiving information when purchasing fruit, but their choice between packaged or loose fruit was not conditioned by their information needs. …”
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Destete precoz de becerras bajo condiciones desfavorables: El uso de varios niveles de heno de alfalfa by Butterworth, M.H., Renteria, J.J.

“…An economic evaluation of the data indicated that free-choice alfalfa was not to be recommended under the conditions normally prevailing in the area.…”
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Olfactory responses of the parasitic wasp, Trybliographa rapae (Hymenoptera: Figitidae) by Eriksson, Anna

“…A strong attraction to buckwheat of female wasps was shown in two-choice bioassays, whereas the males showed no interest for either buckwheat or infested cabbage. …”
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Possible nutritional output of rapid-deployable CEA greenhouses for emergency scenarios by Blomqvist, Tor

“…Subsequently, the calculations led to a proposal of new metrics that measures the nutritional quality of the potential output, which may fill a gap in current crop choice methods.…”

Avlivning av häst by Johansson, Camilla

“…The purpose of this study was to, through a questionnaire, investigate Swedish veterinarian’s choice of method for euthanasia and their attitude towards Somulose®. …”
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