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Grain price and volatility transmission from international to domestic markets in developing countries por Ceballos, Francisco, Hernandez, Manuel A., Minot, Nicholas, Robles, Miguel

“…Understanding the sources of domestic food price volatility in developing countries and the extent to which this volatility is transmitted from international to domestic markets is critical to help design better global, regional, and domestic policies to cope with excessive food price volatility and to protect the most vulnerable groups. …”
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How nutrition-friendly are agriculture and health policies in Bangladesh? por Naher, Firdousi, Barkat-e-Khuda, Ahmed, Shaikh Shamsuddin, Hossain, Mahabub

“…Several interviews with former civil servants and bureaucrats were conducted.The approach to achieving food security has been a partial one, with policy provisions focusing excessively on increasing the availability of food, primarily rice. …”
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Nutrition country profile indicators: Definitions and sources por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Several interviews with former civil servants and bureaucrats were conducted.The approach to achieving food security has been a partial one, with policy provisions focusing excessively on increasing the availability of food, primarily rice. …”
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Trends and spatial patterns in agricultural productivity in Africa, 1961-2010 por Benin, Samuel, Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, Wood, Stanley, Guo, Zhe

“…In many cases, the agricultural investments required are in excess of the 10 percent of total expenditures commitment agreed on under the Maputo declaration. …”
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Urgent actions needed to prevent recurring food crises por Fan, Shenggen, Torero, Máximo, Headey, Derek D.

“…An international working group to regularly monitor the world food situation and trigger action to prevent excessive price volatility.…”
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Bioenergy and agriculture: Promises and challenges: Bioenergy and agricultural research for development por Ortiz, Rodomiro, Crouch, Jonathon H., Iwanaga, Masa, Sayre, Ken, Warburton, Marilyn L., Arous, José Luis, Dixon, John, Bohn, Martin, Reddy, Belum V. S., Ramesh, S., Wani, Suhas P.

“…Agricultural research can mitigate these trade-offs by enhancing the biomass traits of dual-purpose food crops, developing new biomass crops for marginal lands where there is less competition with food crops, and developing sustainable livestock management systems that are less dependent on biomass residuals for feeds. …”
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Impact of prime-age adult mortality on labor supply: Evidence from adolescents and women in South Africa por Yamauchi, Futoshi, Buthelezi, Thabani, Velia, Myriam

“…The recent dramatic increase in prime-age adult mortality in many African countries is largely attributed to the AIDS epidemic. Excess mortality is concentrated among women between the ages of 25 and 39 and among men between the ages of 30 and 44. …”
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Chromosomal introgressions from Oryza meridionalis into domesticated rice Oryza sativa result in iron tolerance por Wairich, Andriele, de Oliveira, Ben Hur Neves, Wu, Lin-Bo, Murugaiyan, Varunseelan, Margis-Pinheiro, Marcia, Fett, Janette Palma, Ricachenevsky, Felipe Klein, Frei, Michael

“…This work demonstrates that introgressions of O. meridionalis into the O. sativa genome can confer increased tolerance to excess Fe.…”
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Breeding efforts to mitigate damage by heat stress to spikelet sterility and grain quality por Ishimaru, Tsutomu, Hirabayashi, Hideyuki, Sasaki, Kazuhiro, Ye, Changrong, Kobayashi, Asako

“…To secure the global food supply and farmers’ income, the development of rice cultivars with heat resilience is a pressing concern. Regarding spikelet sterility, rice cultivars with heat tolerance at different growth stages have been identified in recent years. …”
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Rainfall shocks push people away from the poverty line, making them poorer: Evidence from urban Ecuador por Llerena Pinto, María Cristhina, Mirzabaev, Alisher

“…By applying fixed effects models, we find that rainfall shocks, including excess and lack of rain, significantly worsen socioeconomic conditions, pushing poor urban households further down into poverty. …”
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New arrangements for forest science (discussion paper prepared for the intergovernmental panel on forests, fourth session, New York, Feb 97

“…As forest scientists widen their field of view and look at problems in a across-sectoral way, and with a sense of history, they start to ask, and aswer, more of the pressing questions. If they adopt an analytical, rather than a descriptive approach, they will make many new discoveries. …”
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Nexus-based water management - trade-off analysis in the Chirchik River Basin, Uzbekistan por Gafurov, Zafar, Akcakoca, Fatma, Holmatov, Bunyod, Kenjabaev, Shavkat, Umirzakov, G.

“…Results underscore the necessity of coordinated reservoir management, explicit environmental flow allocation, and cross-sectoral planning to ensure equitable and sustainable outcomes, consistent with recent nexus assessments in Central Asia.…”
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Insecticide use, farmers’ self-reported health status, and genetically modified cowpea in Nigeria: Findings from a clustered randomized controlled trial with causal por Amare, Mulubrhan, Andam, Kwaw S., Spielman, David J., Bamiwuye, Temilolu, Nwagboso, Chibuzo, Zambrano, Patricia, Chambers, Judith A.

“…Excessive insecticide use in smallholder agriculture can threaten human health and the environment. …”
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Effect of different cropping options on plant-available water of surface-drained Vertisols in the Ethiopian highlands por Astatke, A., Mohamed-Saleem, M.A.

“…The productivity of the Vertisols in the Ethiopian highlands could be raised by facilitating the removal of excess water from the field in the main rainy season. …”
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Quantifying Salmonella contamination in pig slaughterhouses in Hung Yen, Vietnam por Sinh Dang Xuan, Hung Nguyen-Viet, Tongkorn Meeyam, Fries, R.

“…This study underlines the necessity of good hygiene practices and management in slaughterhouses. …”
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Assessment of irrigation system performance in south-western Burkina Faso por Dembélé, Y., Yacouba, H., Keita, A., Sally, Hilmy

“…The study makes a critical analysis of some indicators and demonstrates the evidence of the necessity to select among the indicators with regard to the irrigation system context.…”
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Virtual water: a helpful perspective, but not a sufficient policy criterion por Wichelns, Dennis

“…The topic of virtual water has received substantial attention in recent years, both in scholarly literature and the popular press. Many authors have described the "flow of virtual water? …”
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An assessment of the potential and impacts of winter water banking in the Sokh aquifer, Central Asia por Gracheva, I., Karimov, Akmal A., Turral, Hugh, Miryusupov, F.

“…Winter flows have increased and summer releases have declined, but the Syr Darya River cannot pass these larger winter flows and the excess is diverted to a natural depression, creating a 40 ? …”
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Farmers' practices and community management of irrigation: why do they not match in Fatnassa oasis? por Ghazouani, Wafa, Marlet, S., Mekki, I., Harrington, Larry W., Vidal, Alain

“…The extension of date palm plantation and technical dysfunctions played a less important role as they were counterbalanced by cancellation of irrigation in some plots. …”
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Sistema georreferenciado de indicadores de calidad de suelos para los Llanos Orientales de Colombia : Estudio de caso: Municipio de Puerto López, Meta por Rubiano Sanabria, Yolanda, Amézquita Collazos, Edgar, Beaulieu, Nathalie

“…In addition, it has modules in which the user can: (a) to add or to consult space characteristics and of attributes of the soil; (b) to visualize the interpretation of the quality indicators, grouped in limitation ranks; (c) to determine the general aptitude of the soil for a specific culture by means of the comparison between supply (soil) versus demands (requirements of the culture); (d) to calculate the fertilization necessities (e) to generate reports of the variability in depth of some characteristics, for one or more soil; (f) to map the results by means of a link with the MapMaker GIS (g) to visualize maps of space and/or temporary variability (isolines) of the variable used like indicator.…”
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