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Is Scale-Appropriate Farm Mechanization Gendered? Learning from the Nepal Hills by Gartaula, Hom Nath, Singh, Madhulika, Paudel, Gokul Prasad

“…Gender and farm mechanization is getting attention in the academic and public policy domain as a solution to labor scarcity in the smallholder farming systems, which in recent years, is facing challenges of labor shortage due to male labor outmigration. …”
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Are climate and environment- and peace and security-related policy outputs coherent? A policy coherence and awareness analysis for climate security by Schapendonk, Frans, Sarzana, Carolina, Savelli, Adam, Madurga Lopez, Ignacio M., Pacillo, Grazia, Läderach, Peter R.D.

“…The increasingly interconnected nature of our world means that failing to achieve coherence between climate- and peace and security-related policy domains forms a significant climate-related security risk. …”
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Development of AI methods for seed yield prediction using RGB images: Progress Report by Arrechea, Darwin A., Cardoso Arango, Juan Andrés

“…The advent of AI promises a transformative shift in this domain. These technologies have already shown their prowess in various sectors and are now poised to revolutionize agricultural practices. …”
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Women's Empowement Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS): A lean instrument to measure women’s empowerment in nationally representative, multitopic surveys by Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Seymour, Greg, Heckert, Jessica, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Malapit, Hazel J., Paz, Florencia, Faas, Simone, Myers, Emily, Doss, Cheryl, Sinharoy, Sheela S., Johnson, Erin R., Yuk Fai Cheong, Yount, Kathryn M., Hassan, M. Zahidul, Hassan, M. Imrul, Sharma, Sudhindra, Pokhrel, Pankaj, Sagastume, Mónica Dardón, Kanyanda, Shelton S. E., Vundru, Wilbert D., Kilic, Talip, Moylan, Heather

“…WEMNS is a multidimensional index composed of four domains—intrinsic agency, instrumental agency, collective agency, and agency-enabling resources— measured by binary indicators. …”
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Farm-managers or unpaid laborers? Women farmers in male-headed households of Central India by Krishna, Vijesh V., Khed, Vijayalaxmi D., Gartaula, Hom Nath, Badstue, Lone

“…It is important to note that women’s active involvement in agricultural decision-making is closely linked to their participation in decision-making within other domains as well. By recognizing and promoting women’s participation in decision-making processes, AR&D programs can foster inclusive and sustainable agricultural development.…”
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Framework for climate resilience in food systems with a gendered lens by Tank, Nikita, Vishwanath, Drishti, Choudhary, Anjali

“…Further, there has been a growing emphasis on gender in climate resilience, given that women are documented as experiencing greater vulnerabilities and adaptation challenges. In the domain of agriculture and food systems, various studies develop a conceptual framework, as well as identify resilience indicators within these; for example, Waldick identifies key drivers of climate resilience (governance, demographics, markets, etc.) within a framework, and Lipper identifies potential pathways of climate-smart agriculture (CSA). …”
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UAV Sensing of Rice for Precision Nitrogen Monitoring by Gakhar, Shalini, Sahoo, Rabi N., Rejith, R.G., Kondraju, Tarun Teja, Ranjan, Rajeev

“…Progression in the technological facets such as, remote sensing, machine learning, big data analytics, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV’s) etc. have unraveled a new domain of sensor-based, non-invasive, fast, and near-real time assessment of crop conditions for efficient site-specific management. …”
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Haplotype-based phylogenetic analysis and population genomics uncover the origin and domestication of sweetpotato by Yan, M., Li, M., Wang, Y., Wang, X., Moeinzadeh, M., Quispe-Huamanquispe, D.G., Fan, W., Fang, Y., Nie, H., Wang, Z., Tanaka, A., Heider, B., Kreuze, Jan F., Gheysen, G., Wang, H., Vingron, M., Bock, R., Yang, J.M.

“…The tetraploid progenitor of sweetpotato was most likely I. batatas 4x, which donated the B2 subgenome, IbT-DNA1, and the lineage 2 type of chloroplast genome. …”
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The extent of women's empowerment across rural-urban areas and wealth categories and its role in nutrition outcomes of family members in Uttar Pradesh, India by Palani Samy, Venkatesh, Vellaichamy, Sangeetha, Girish Kumar, Jha, Sharma, Nitin, Babu, Suresh Chandra

“…Given this background, we aim to construct a women's empowerment index (WEI) that encompasses all these domains and captures nutrition improvement for their and their family members. …”
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The future of development engineering: Our vision for the next generation of publications in DevEng by Amrose, Susan, Bilton, Amy M., Kramer, Berber

“…However, these insights are often left in the realm of best practices, published in domain-specific journals that are not accessible to the development community, or disappear in appendices of manuscripts that are published years after the innovation was tested or prototyped. …”
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Cognitive interviewing to improve women's empowerment questions in surveys: Application to the health and nutrition and intrahousehold relationships modules for the project‐level W... by Hannan, Anika, Heckert, Jessica, James-Hawkins, Laurie, Yount, Kathryn M.

“…The revised pro‐WEAI health and nutrition and intrahousehold relationships modules will advance the ability to measure changes in these domains and their relationship with the health and nutritional status of women and their children.…”
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Uganda: Policies for Improved Land Management Dataset, 1999-2001 by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Within the study region, communities were selected using a stratified random sample, with the stratification based on population density and development domains defined by the different agro-ecological and market access zones. …”
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Landownership and the gender gap in agriculture: Disappointing insights from Northern Ghana by Yokying, Phanwin, Lambrecht, Isabel B.

“…We use a recursive bivariate probit model and focus on eight different indicators in four distinct domains: decisions on agricultural cultivation, decisions on farm income, agricultural association membership, and time allocation. …”
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Evidence from Ethiopia: Alternative formation of rural savings and credit cooperatives and their implications by Abay, Kibrom A., Koru, Bethlehem, Abate, Gashaw T., Berhane, Guush

“…These empirical characterizations suggest that the optimal size and composition of RuSACCOs may vary across the domains of financial services they are meant to provide. …”
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Gender and age gaps in voice & agency in community governance: The value of female local political representation in India and Africa South of the Sahara under intensifying conflic... by Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Kyle, Jordan, Kosec, Katrina, Raghunathan, Kalyani

“…Women’s VA within communities may strengthen resilience, increase women’s access to essential resources, improve women’s decision-making power in various domains including the household, and facilitate broader social networks for women. …”
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Two linked TBXT (brachyury) gene polymorphisms are associated with the tailless phenotype in fat-rumped sheep by Han, J., Yang, M., Guo, T., Niu, C., Liu, J., Yue, Y., Yuan, C., Yang, B.

“…The c.334G>T transversion led to the conversion of glycine to tryptophan at the 112th amino acid in the T‐box domain of the brachyury protein. In addition, crossbreeding experiments for long‐tailed and tailless sheep showed that CT/CT allele of nucleotides (nt) 333 and 334, a recessive mutation, would cause sheep tails to be shorter, suggesting that these two linked variants at nucleotides 333 and 334 in TBXT are probably causative mutations responsible for the tailless phenotype in sheep.…”
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Determining the sound signatures of insect pests in stored rice grain using an inexpensive acoustic system by Balingbing, Carlito, Kirchner, Sascha, Siebald, Hubertus, Nguyen, Van Hung, Hensel, Oliver

“…Waveforms, root mean square (RMS) energy values, frequency domain, and spectrograms provided characteristics for the sound signal signature specific to each insect. …”
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Empirical models, rules, and optimization: turning positive economics on its head by Cattaneo, Andrea, Robinson, Sherman

“…We show that (i) agents using heuristics can behave as if they were seeking rationally to maximize their dynamic returns; (ii) the approach requires fewer behavioral assumptions relative to dynamic optimization and the assumptions made are based on economically intuitive theoretical results linking rule adoption to uncertainty; (iii) the approach delineates the domain of applicability of maximization hypotheses and describes the behavior of agents in situations of economic disequilibrium. …”
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Prospects and potentials of allele mining in chickpea for qualitative and quantitative traits by Pandey, Sarita, Anand, Abhishek, Rathore, Abhishek, Taddi, Satya, Kole, Chittaranjan

“…With a genome size of approximately 738 Mb, chickpea is cultivated in over 50 countries worldwide. Within the domain of chickpea genomics, a vast repository of genetic sequence data is gathered in publicly accessible databases, a consequence of comprehensive genome sequencing initiatives across crop species. …”
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A Guide for implementing gender-responsive nutrition programs by Nchanji, Eileen, Ouko, Kevin, Cosmas, Lutomia

“…The guide also encourages the involvement of men and youth in nutrition programs, traditionally seen as women’s domain, and advocates for better dietary practices among adolescents and children, promoting intergenerational equity. …”
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