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Kommunikationskanaler för nystartade företag inom servicebranschen : en fallstudie av Akretus AB por Lahtinen, Hanna

Growth and poverty reduction in Pakistan por Saeed, Wajiha, Davies, Stephen

“…In comparison to 1987-88, the richest 20% now consume seven times more than the poorest 20%, and, while multidimensional poverty is less than 10% in major cities, it is more than 90% in some districts. …”
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Informal vendors and food systems planning in an emerging African city por Giroux, Stacey, Blekking, Jordan, Waldman, Kurt, Resnick, Danielle, Fobi, Daniel

“…We map vendors’ networks of food suppliers, and describe sources of operating capital and labor assets to show the range of services vendors utilize and the types of institutions, businesses, and individuals that vendors use to support their work. …”
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Learning together: Experimental evidence on the impact of group-based nutrition interventions in rural Bihar por Raghunathan, Kalyani, Kumar, Neha, Gupta, Shivani, Chauhan, Tarana, Kathuria, Ashi Kohli, Menon, Purnima

“…We provide evidence from a cluster-randomized controlled trial in the state of Bihar of the impact of a health and nutrition intervention that provided behavior change communication to SHG members and worked to strengthen utilization of services. Over the course of 2.5 years, the intervention resulted in a 7% increase in the number of food groups consumed by children and a 30% increase in the proportion of women achieving minimum dietary diversity but had no impact on women’s body mass index or child underweight and wasting. …”
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Policy action plans for young entrepreneurs to increase economic water productivity in olive and milk value chains in Morocco por Amarasinghe, Upali, Ait El Mekki, Abdelkader, Amarnath, Giriraj

“…This report presents suggested action plans based on stakeholder consultations on investment and institutional strategies for assisting young entrepreneurs in increasing the economic water productivity, i.e., the value or profit of water consumed in the olive and milk value chains in Morocco. …”
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Involving rural youth in agroecological nature-positive farming and culinary agri-ecotourism for sustainable development: The Indian scenario por Rana, Jai Chand, Bisht, Ishwari Singh, Mathur, Prem, Fadda, Carlo, Mittra, Sarika, Ahlawat, Sudhir Pal, Vishwakarma, Harinder, Yadav, Rashmi

“…Industrial food systems produce most of the food that we consume globally today. But many observers acknowledge that industrial agriculture cannot be sustained in the long run. …”
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Digital finance and agri-food value chains: Case studies from Nigeria por Russel, Yeshua

“…Within this sector, agri-food value chains constitute the connective tissue that links smallholder farmers, processors, traders, input suppliers, and consumers, both within the domestic economy and across international markets. …”
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Tortillas on the roaster: Central America’s maize–bean systems and the changing climate por Eitzinger, Anton, Läderach, Peter R.D., Sonder, Kai, Schmidt, A., Sain, Gustavo, Beebe, Stephen E., Rodríguez Sánchez, Beatriz, Fisher M, Hicks P, Navarrete-Frías, C, Nowak, Andreea C.

“…In the years to come, a harsher climate together with soil degradation1, widespread poverty, and rural people’s limited access to services and infrastructure will pose challenging obstacles to production. …”
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Pastoralism in Kenya and Tanzania: Challenges and opportunities in animal health and food security por Wakhungu, Judi W., Wesongah, J., Tura, G., Msalya, G., Grace, Delia, Unger, Fred, Alonso, Silvia

“…We highlight pastoral community high livestock dependency for food and income, market access to livestock products, access to animal and human health services, livestock-wildlife interaction, factors that hinder increase of livestock assets and explore the knowledge of disease and exposure to zoonoses within the pastoral community.…”
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A 2019 nexus social accounting matrix for Sudan por Randriamamonjy, Josee, Raouf, Mariam, Siddig, Khalid

“…The 2019 SAM for Sudan is a snapshot capturing the structure of the Sudanese Economy and depicting the different transactions between the production activities, factors of production and other income generating and consuming entities in the economy besides the good and services (produced and consumed). …”
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Local-scale bat guild activity differs with rice growth stage at ground level in the Philippines por Sedlock, Jodi L., Stuart, Alexander M., Horgan, Finbarr G., Hadi, Buyung, Como Jacobson, Angela, Alviola, Phillip A., Alvarez, James D. V.

“…Given the well-documented, sequential arrival of insect guilds with growth stage, these data suggest that at ground level edge-space bats may be important consumers of detritivores (e.g., mosquitoes). Moreover, our data suggest that just as habitat heterogeneity enhances the services of arthropod predators, these management practices also enhance bat activity and, presumably, their contribution to pest suppression.…”
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Biosecurity measures in meat and milk value chains: A study in Bura Sub-county, Kenya. por Nyokabi, S.N.

“…Zoonotic diseases pose a public health risk to people producing, handling, processing and consuming animal products; with value chains creating a contact networks for transmission. …”
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Social and behaviour change communications strategy for improving livestock derived food consumption: IPSR Innovation Profile por Ouma, Emily A., Omosa, Esther B., Flax, Valerie L., Schreiner, Mary-Ann, Colverson, Kathleen E., Girard, Amy W., Dominguez-Salas, Paula, Baltenweck, Isabelle

“…The messages were delivered through community health workers, model fathers, and reminders sent through short messaging services and megaphone blasts.…”
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Gender and start-up capital for agrifood MSMEs in Indonesia and Viet Nam por Ambler, Kate, de Brauw, Alan, Herskowitz, Sylvan, Murphy, Mike

“…Moreover, constraints affecting MSME performance in one part of the value chain may impact other value chain actors both up and downstream, including smallholder farmers, consumers, and exporters. As has been observed more broadly about MSMEs, marginalized groups such as women, low-income households, and ethnic minorities often face additional barriers to finance and adoption suitable financial services.1 If so, then the most vulnerable populations may be unintentionally excluded from emerging economic opportunities in the agriculture sector.…”
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Svenska livsmedel - varför? por Lindberg, Andreas, Petersson, Richard

“…Within these sectors the final consumer in many cases put less effort in the origin of the raw source of food. …”
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Exploring varietal uptake through a gender lens: Insights from a multi-country, multi-crop qualitative study por Cavicchioli, Martina

“…Among the most reoccurring are trait preferences (as referred to local production and consumption habits as well as gender roles in crops’ farming and processing), access to seed promotion and dissemination channels (radio, extension services, champion farmers), participation in community networks, availability of fertile soil, and income.…”
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Integrating research on food and the environment: An exit strategy from the rational fool syndrome in agricultural science por Ashby, Jacqueline A.

“…Historically, a main concern of such research has been to maximize high levels of food production together with low prices to consumers. As a result, mainstream agricultural science has ignored negative impacts or externalities, which has contributed to a crisis of credibility with the general public and politically sensitive decision makers. …”
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Developing a Nigerianspecific food and nutrient coding database por Day, R.S., Douglass, D.L., Maziya-Dixon, B.B.

“…USDA data had only 214 of the basic foods reported consumed by Nigerians. Researchers developed food descriptions and nutrient profiles for another 117 foods specific to Nigerian intake. …”
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Parasitoid nutritional ecology in a community context: the importance of honeydew and implications for biological control por Tena, Alejandro, Wackers, Felix L., Heimpel, George E., Urbaneja, Alberto, Pekas, Apostolos

“…This analysis can reveal opportunities to increase the biocontrol services provided by parasitoids. Moreover, honeydew can be a resource-rich habitat for insect pathogens; or contain plant secondary chemicals sequestered by hemipterans or systemic insecticides toxic for the parasitoid. …”
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Vegetable market chain analysis in Amhara National Regional State: the case of Fogera Woreda, South Gondar Zone por Akalu, A.W.

“…Capacity building for all actors in the chain and strong extension service on product handling and marketing to farmers should get focus. …”
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