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Intrahousehold allocation, gender relations, and food security in developing countries
Publicado 2007“…Your assignment is to recommend to the government of a country of your choice how gender aspects should be incorporated in government policy to improve household food security and the nutritional status of women and children.…”
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The future of food demand: A global meta-analysis and projections of income and price elasticities
Publicado 2025“…While most data and methodological choices have little effect on price elasticity estimates, income elasticities are influenced by factors such as demand model type, use of conditional specifications, and the choice of expenditure measure. …”
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Finding the right institutional and legal framework for community-based natural forest management: the Tanzanian case
Publicado 1997“…Positive results are giving considerable support to community-based management as the forest management strategy of choice. Implementation has of necessity also prompted a search for accessible mechanisms through which community authority may be embedded legally. …”
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Understanding seed selection decisions among small-scale maize farmers in Machakos County, Kenya: the dominance of market leader varieties
Publicado 2025“…Discussion: This study provides a basis for developing strategies that encourage and influence farmers to broaden their maize seed choice considerations which will ultimately improve domestic maize production as climate change continues. …”
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Transforming AgWise: An inclusive, sustainable, and trustworthy AI-powered agronomic advisory platform in Africa
Publicado 2025“…By integrating spatial soil, climate, and topographic data with crop models and machine‑learning algorithms, AgWise delivers tailored recommendations on fertilizer rates, planting dates, cultivar choice, and soil health management. Deployments in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, and other countries have already demonstrated yield gains of up to 30 percent for selected crops (Liben et al., 2024; CGIAR, 2025). …”
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Management for adaptation
Publicado 2009“…Because of the great variation in local conditions, no recommendations can be made that are applicable to an entire domain. The choice of management option will depend on the likely changes occurring in the forest, the management objectives of that forest, its past management history and a range of other factors. …”
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Assessing willingness to pay for improved sanitation in rural Vietnam
Publicado 2013“…We used the iterative bidding game technique to elicit household WTP that involved a sequence of dichotomous choice questions followed by a final open-ended question. …”
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A global analysis of the comparability of winter chill models for fruit and nut trees
Publicado 2011“…Several models exist for quantifying winter chill, and growers and researchers often tacitly assume that the choice of model is not important and estimates of species chilling requirements are valid across growing regions. …”
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Seasonal forecasts in the Sahel region: the use of rainfall-based predictive variables
Publicado 2014“…Agricultural planning (e.g., decisions about sowing date, fertilizer application date, and choice of crop or cultivar) is based on empirical predictive indices whose accuracy to date has not been scientifically proven. …”
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Manejo de viveros de tolerancia a la sequia en el frijol : perspectiva fisiologica
Publicado 1985“…Compared with random block designs, the use of lattice designs has increased efficiency by over 50 percent. The choice of planting dates on the basis of possible stress periods allows greater precision in the selection of stress periods. …”
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Sustainable intensification and farmer preferences for crop system attributes: Evidence from Malawi' s central and southern regions
Publicado 2016“…Adoption of legumes in Africa remains low despite the much needed soil fertility and nutrition benefits provided by the crops. We employ choice experiments to examine farmers’ preferences for groundnut, soybean, and pigeon pea intercropped with maize and explore barriers and drivers to adoption in Central and Southern Malawi. …”
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Gamification of farmer-participatory priority setting in plant breeding: Design and validation of “AgroDuos”
Publicado 2017“…To achieve these objectives, we followed principles of “gamification” in the design of AgroDuos, a choice experiment that resembles a card game and that involves pairwise ranking of variety traits. …”
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Consumers perceptions and willingness to pay for organically grown vegetables
Publicado 2011“…A hedonic-pricing model (preferences choice) was used to identify determinants of consumer willingness to pay for organically grown vegetables. …”
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Food availability and livelihood strategies among rural households across Uganda
Publicado 2017“…Targeting interventions to improve food security should consider such differences in enterprise choice and include options to improve household market access and off-farm income opportunities.…”
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The Different Dimensions of Livelihood Impacts of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) Schemes: A Systematic Review
Publicado 2018“…Moreover, increased knowledge is needed on the impact of PES on changes in household expenditure and choice, and on trade-offs between household income and inequality in ES provider communities. …”
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Availability and use of dry season feed resources on smallholder dairy farms in central Kenya
Publicado 2000“…There is a need to broaden the choice of fodder crops on such farms to provide a wide range of harvesting management options and to avoid total loss in case of pest or disease outbreaks. …”
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Efficacy of oil palm intercropping by smallholders: Case study in South-West Cameroon
Publicado 2016“…The study therefore, suggests the need for pre-emptive measures—such as food crop choice, planting density amongst others—to be taken into consideration when intercropping annual food crops with oil palm so as not to jeopardize the yield of oil palm at production stage. …”
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Estimates of genetic variances and interrelationships of traits associated with Striga resistance in maize
Publicado 1997“…The choice of the selection method to be used in the genetic improvement of a crop depends upon the type of gene action controlling the characters under study. …”
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Influence of thrips prey species on the lifehistory and behaviour of Orius albidipennis (Reuter) (Heteroptera)
Publicado 2000“…However, the rate of first attack, measured as first larva attacked in dual‐choice assays, was higher for M. sjostedti when a F. schultzei larva was offered simultaneously, and not different when a C. cameroni or Sericothrips adolfifriderici larva was offered. …”
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Effect of watertable depth and salinity on growth dynamics of Rhodes grass (Chloris gayana)
Publicado 2017“…Rhodes grass (Chloris gayana), a tropical perennial forage adapted to saline soils, floods and droughts, is a viable choice for the lowlands in the Pampas region of Argentina.…”
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