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Developed country policies: Domestic farm policy reform and global food security by Glauber, Joseph W.

“…Total support in the countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) exceeded US$228 billion in 2016 and, if support policies in major emerging markets such as China, Indonesia, and Russia are included, support levels topped US$508 billion.…”
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Field water management and irrigation practices in rice production in West Africa by Oke, Adebayo, Atengdem, P. B., Zemadim, Birhanu, Cofie, Olufunke O.

“…Effective management includes controlling water flow into fields, ensuring adequate but not excessive flooding, and managing drainage to prevent waterlogging. …”
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Introduction: section 1: overview by Shanley, P., Laird, S.A., Pierce, A.R., Guillen, A.

“…Non-timber forest resources are a more difficult group of products to certify than timber due to a multitude of factors, including their exceedingly diverse and idiosyncratic nature and social and ecological complexity. …”
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Hydro, hydrogeological constraints to managed aquifer recharge in the Indo Gangetic Plains. by Prathapar, Sanmugam A., Sharma, Bharat R., Aggarwal, Pramod K.

“…Albeit a desirable intervention, there is overwhelming evidence that many of the MAR structures are excessively designed, poorly located and therefore reflect poor investment of valuable human and financial resources. …”
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Detection and quantification of pesticide residues in tomatoes sold in urban markets of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso by Dione, Michel M., Djouaka, R., Mbokou, S.F., Ilboudo, Guy S., Ouedraogo, A.A., Dinede, Getachew, Roesel, Kristina, Grace, Delia, Knight-Jones, Theodore J.D.

“…The highest proportions of samples were contaminated with DDT (32.9, 95%CI: 27.9–38.3%), followed by acetamiprid (31.1, 95%CI: 26.2–36.5%), lambda-cyhalothrin (28.4, 95%CI: 23.6–33.6%) and chlorpyrifos (10.7, 95%CI, 7.6–14.6%). 21.3% of samples exceeded Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs) including Acetamiprid (13.1%), DDT (7.3%), lambda-cyhalothrin (2.1%) and chlorpyrifos (0.3%); while 61.3% of sample exceeded European Union (EU) MRLs. …”
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Effects of prenatal nutritional supplements on gestational weight gain in low- and middle-income countries: A meta-analysis of individual participant data by Liu, Enju, Wang, Dongqing, Darling, Anne M., Perumal, Nandita, Wang, Molin, Ahmed, Tahmeed, Christian, Parul, Dewey, Kathryn G., Kac, Gilberto, Kennedy, Stephen, Subramoney, Vishak, Briggs, Brittany, Fawzi, Wafaie W., Huybregts, Lieven, Members of the GWG Pooling Project Consortium

“…Binary outcomes included severely inadequate (percentage adequacy <70%), inadequate (<90%), and excessive (>125%) GWG. Results from individual trials were pooled using fixed-effects inverse-variance models. …”
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Spatial optimization of cropping systems for sustainable intensification in Malawi by Liben, Feyera, Kihara, Job, Mesfin, Tewodros, Abera, Wuletawu, Mkuhlani, Siyabusa, Tamene, Lulseged

“…Mean simulated maize yields under monocropping ranged from 5.8 to 7.9 Mg ha⁻¹ nationally but exhibited strong spatial heterogeneity and substantial interannual variability, with coefficients of variation frequently exceeding 20% in many areas, alongside a declining national trend of −120 kg ha⁻¹ decade⁻¹. …”
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Aflatoxin contamination of milk and dairy feeds in the Greater Addis Ababa milk shed, Ethiopia by Gizachew, D., Szonyi, Barbara, Tegegne, Azage, Hanson, Jean, Grace, Delia

“…Furthermore, 29 (26.3%) milk samples exceeded 0.5 μg/L. All the feed samples were contaminated with AFB1 ranging between seven and 419 μg/kg. …”
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Aflatoxin M1 contamination of milk in the greater Addis Ababa milk shed, Ethiopia by Szonyi, Barbara, Gizachew, D., Tegegne, Azage, Hanson, Jean, Grace, Delia

“…All the milk samples were contaminated with AFM1 and most (92%) of the samples had aflatoxin levels exceeding 50 ppt, which is the FAO/WHO and EU permissible level of AFM1 in milk. …”
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Short-term response of young mandarin trees to desalinated seawater irrigation by Maestre-Valero, José F., Martínez-Álvarez, Victoriano, Jódar-Conesa, Francisco J., Acosta, Jose A., Martín-Gorriz, Bernardo, Robles, Juan M., Pérez-Pérez, Juan G., Navarro, Josefa M.

“…The concentration of Na+ and B3+ in the DSW always exceeded the maximum thresholds for irrigation water proposed in the literature for citrus, and the concentration of Na+ in the leaves exceeded the maximum threshold in summer 2018. …”
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Pesticider i frukt och grönsaker : en litteraturstudie om förekomst och risker för människans hälsa by Alehagen, Magdalena

DeRisking coffee in Vietnem: Piloting a Coffee Climate Protection Insurance scheme to enhance the capacity of smallholders and agribusinesses in coping with climate variability and... by Barlis, Angelica, Swaans, Cornelis P.M., Kath, Jarrod, Mushtaq, Shahbaz, Deniau, Aline

“…The scheme incorporates the use of forecasts into agro-advisories, and an integrated index insurance approach for drought, excessive rainfall and temperature for coffee farmers to reduce risks and encourage good farm-management practices.…”
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Maize grain zinc and iron concentrations as influenced by agronomic management and biophysical factors: a meta-analysis by Job Kihara, Sileshi, Gudeta W., Bolo, Peter Omondi, Mutambu, Dominic Mwanzia, Sila, Andrew Musili

“…Using 1,332 data points in 102 published papers from 24 countries, we estimated a 24% probability of grain-Zn concentrations exceeding the benchmark target of 38 mg kg−1. Metodology:A meta analysis (2023-09)…”
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Highlights: AgriTech4Kenya Consultation Workshop and Launch by CGIAR Accelerate for Impact Platform

“…With annual food imports exceeding USD 1.1 billion and rising, and climate change impacts and urbanization intensifying, there's an urgent need for innovative solutions. …”
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Economic, social and technical considerations determining investments in groundwater in Bangladesh by Johnson, S.H.

“…With a total land area the size of the state of Illinois and a population exceeding 90 million, Bangladesh has one of the highest man-land ratios in the world. …”
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Promotion of Diffused Light Storage by International Potato Center

“…Diffused Light Storage (DLS) is a post-harvest technology which uses natural indirect light instead of low temperature to control excessive sprout growth of potato seeds, extend their storage life, reduce the associated storage losses and improve productivity of the potato crop. …”
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Curb your enthusiasm: Agricultural growth in sub-Saharan Africa by Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, Johnson, Michael E., Yu, Bingxin

“…For the first time, agricultural gross domestic product (AgGDP) per capita has maintained a real growth rate of 2.4 percent per year, while real AgGDP growth rates have exceeded 6 percent, a growth rate last seen in the 1970s. …”
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Conserving genetic resources for agriculture: counting the cost by Koo, Bonwoo, Pardey, Philip G., Wright, Brian D.

“…As improved crop varieties developed by scientific breeding spread throughout the world in the latter half of the 20th century, the risk of excessive reliance by farmers and breeders on a narrowing genetic base was dramatized by the infestation and vulnerability of U.S. hybrid corn with cytoplasm male sterility to southern corn leaf blight. …”
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Production, employment, and income effects of commercialization of agriculture by von Braun, Joachim

“…Any attempt to synthesize and generalize on the basis of the detailed case studies runs the risk of excessively extrapolating from special circumstances and of losing insights gained from these case studies, whose strengths are the detailed assessments of the commercialization-production-income-consumption-nutrition chain and the important feedbacks from these elements. …”
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Fertilizer development and price in international perspective by Stone, Bruce

“…Fertilizer use in Bangladesh exceeded 540,000 metric tons of nutrients in 1983/84 and 1985/B6. …”
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