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AgriTech4Uzbekistan Innovation Challenge: Demo Day by CGIAR Accelerate for Impact Platform

“…The project is implemented in collaboration with Hackonnect, IT Park, innoWIUT Entrepreneur’s Lab of Westminster International University in Tashkent, the United Nations Development Programme Uzbekistan, FAO, the Agency of Innovative Development under the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation of Uzbekistan, the Ministry of Agriculture of Uzbekistan through the AKIS Center, Indorama, the Uzbekistan Venture Capital Association, the Tashkent State Agrarian University, and the International Agriculture University. …”
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Technical Report : Barriers to the Adoption of new Agricultural Technologies in Morocco: A systematic review by Boughlala, Mohamed, Dhehibi, Boubaker, Souissi, Asma, Moussadek, Rachid, Baum, Michael

“…The report underscores that innovation is not purely technological but also requires the development of commercial strategies and supportive institutional frameworks, including state subsidies, and effective coordination between research, extension, and development services. …”
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Adoption impact and heterogeneity of mobile agricultural advisory technologies among smallholder farmers in Nigeria by Abioye, O., Fadare, D.A., Omitoyin, S.A., Ogunniyi, A.I., Olinya, P., Shaibu, A., Nwilene, F.E., Akande, A.

“…Using primary data from 795 farmers in Ebonyi State, the study applies a Propensity Score Matching (PSM) framework to estimate the causal effect of adoption on productivity while addressing potential selection bias arising from non-random participation. …”
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Factors affecting adoption of legume technologies and its impact on income of farmers: The case of Sinana and Ginir Woredas of Bale Zone by Tegegne, Y.

“…The objective of this study was to analyze factors influencing the adoption of improved agricultural technologies (improved seed and fertilizer) and its impact on income of farm households of legume producers in Sinana and Ginir Woredas’ of Bale Zone of Oromiya National Regional State. Primary data were collected from a sample of 210 households selected through stratified sampling techniques. …”
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Global review of rural community enterprises : the long and winding road to creating viable businesses, and potential shortcuts by Donovan, Jason, Stoian, Dietmar, Poole, Nigel

“…Structural adjustment programs substantially reduced or eliminated state-backed marketing boards and production cooperatives, thus opening new spaces for RCEs in the commercializa-tion of agriculture and forest products. …”
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Förebyggande hälsovårdsarbete i mjölkkobesättningar : vad påverkar den veterinära insatsen? by Rawley, Viktoria

Attitudes concerning conservation in two different wildlife areas in Kenya by Larsson, Karin

“…Economical factors are also important, it is often stated that having more money results in a better attitude. …”
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Situational analysis of Nyamagana Social-Ecological Landscape in the Cibitoke Province of Burundi by Niyuhire, M. C., Emera, W. D., Kagisye, A., Havyarimana, D., Niyoyankunze, J. M. V., Nkurunziza, C., Atampugre, Gerald, Tilahun, Seifu A., Cofie, Olufunke O.

“…This research aims to conduct a comprehensive situational analysis, shedding light on how drivers and pressures converge to define the state and impacts of SEL, while also emphasizing institutional and stakeholder responses. …”
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Impact of climate smart agriculture on households’ resilience and vulnerability: an example from Central Rift Valley, Ethiopia by Ali, H., Menza, M., Hagos, Fitsum, Haileslassie, Amare

“…The results show that livestock holding, land size, level of education, and state of food consumption are major explaining factors of resilience, whereas educational level of households, livestock holding, and access to credit are found to be major factors explaining vulnerability. …”
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Myanmar Household Welfare Survey Round Four: Note on Sample Characteristics and Weighting by Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity

“…The households were selected randomly from the phone database, in the same townships as the attrition households, and retained if they had similar characteristics to the attrition households in terms of urban/rural, gender, farm and low education. If the survey team could not meet those criteria, they called households with similar characteristics from the same state/region. …”
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Myanmar Household Welfare Survey Round Six: Note on Sample Characteristics and Weighting by Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity

“…The households were selected randomly from the phone database, in the same townships as the attrition households, and retained if they had similar characteristics to the attrition households in terms of urban/rural, gender, farm and low education. If the survey team could not meet those criteria, they called households with similar characteristics from the same state/region. …”
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Gender disparities in the adoption of improved management practices for soybean cultivation in North East Nigeria by Kamara, A.Y., Kamsang, L., Mustapha, A., Kamara, A., Kolapo, A., Kamai, N.

“…This study examined gender disparities in the adoption and intensity of improved soybean management practices among 800 farming households in Borno State, Nigeria, with equal representation of male-led and female-led households. …”
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Swidden Transformations and Rural Livelihoods in Southeast Asia by Cramb, R., Colfer, C.J.P., Dressler, W., Laungaramsri, P., Le, Q.T., Mulyoutami, E., Peluso, N.L., Wadley, R.L.

“…These processes of differentiation can be accentuated by heavy-handed state interventions based on swidden stereotypes. …”
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Social networks and diffusion of agricultural technology: the case of sorghum in Metema Woreda, North Gondar, Ethiopia by Molla, D.K.

“…This study was undertaken in Metema woreda of North Gondar Zone, Amhara National Regional State and has been designed to throw light on the existing formal and informal social networks among re-settlers. …”
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Responsabilidad empresarial ambiental en el manejo y gestión de recursos naturales y cuencas hidrográficas en Costa Rica by Fernández González, Eloy

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Resilience pathways: Understanding remittance trends in post-coup Myanmar by Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity

“…Migrants with lower education are less likely to send remittances. Those migrating for employment and with work agreements are more likely to send remittances. …”
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The production and diffusion of policy knowledge: a bibliometric evaluation of the International Food Policy Research Institute by Pardey, Philip G., Christian, Jason E.

“…This partly reflects the limited capacity to perform food policy research in many developing countries — itself a reflection of local priorities for education and limited, long-term international support to increase scientific capacity in developing countries — and also underscores the role IFPRI could, and arguably should, play in redressing this state of affairs." -- Authors' Abstract.…”
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Corporate environmental responsability in the management of watersheds and natural resources in Costa Rica by Fernández González, Eloy

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Adoption of chemical weed control technology among cassava farmers in south eastern Nigeria by Udensi, U.E., Tarawali, G., Ilona, Paul, Okoye, B.C., Dixon, A.

“…Probit analysis shows that factors related to the adoption of weed control technologies were gender at 5% in the negative direction in Abia North (Zone 1) and 10% in the positive direction in Abia Central (Zone 2); age at 5% negatively in Zone 1, educational status at 5% in the positive direction in Zone 1 and 10% pooled (entire State), house-hold size at 5% and 1% positively in Zone 2 and the entire State, respectively. …”
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Hur uppfattas pcSKOG AB och pcSKOG-gård av privata skogsägare? : en undersökning av en programvara för privatskogsbruket by Svedberg, Peter

“…The differences are for example due to the genus of the forest owners who live on the estate, their level of education and how important they state that the forest is for their economy. …”