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Understanding the perceptions of secondary school youth toward agricultural careers in Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya and Nigeria por Mulei, W., Larinde, B., Adefioye, A., Bobo, P., Woomer, P.L.

“…Nearly half (46%) that were averse to agriculture as a career path based their decision upon excessive labor requirements (30%), difficulties in securing land (25%), and low returns to effort (20%). …”
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Revisiting the adequacy of the economic policy narrative underpinning the Green Revolution por Etten, Jacob van

“…Assessing the adequacy of Schultz’s contribution, from a narrative approach, shows how he ‘got the story wrong’ and that the Green Revolution policy narrative has an excessively narrow intellectual basis. New narratives should reserve a much more important place for institutional change in agricultural development.…”
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Aflatoxin contamination of maize, groundnut, and sorghum grown in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger and aflatoxin exposure assessment por Falade, Titilayo D.O., Neya, A., Bonkoungou, S., Dagno, K., Basso, A., Senghor, A.L., Atehnkeng, J., Ortega Beltran, A., Bandyopadhyay, R.

“…Several samples were extremely unsafe, exceeding manyfold regulatory levels of diverse countries (up to 2000 times more). …”
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Response of chickpea to varying moisture stress conditions in Ethiopia por Korbu, Lijalem, Fikre, Asnake, Tesfaye, Kassahun, Funga, Assefa, Bekele, Dagnachew, Ojiewo, Christopher Ochieng

“…The kabuli cultivars were found more sensitive compared with the desi types. Yield penalty exceeded 70% under severe drought. Conversely, cultivars tested under mild and severe stress drought showed average yield gain of 22 and 48%, respectively, relative to the irrigated treatment. …”
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Cold season soil NO fluxes from a temperate forest: drivers and contribution to annual budgets por Medinets, Sergiy, Gasche, Rainer, Skiba, Ute, Schindlbacher, A., Kiese, Ralf, Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus

“…Except for freeze-thaw periods NO fluxes significantly exceeded those for N2O during the cold season period. …”
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Ghana’s agrifood system structure and drivers of transformation por Diao, Xinshen, Ellis, Mia, Pauw, Karl, Randriamamonjy, Josee, Thurlow, James

“…Economic growth rebounded to 5.4 percent in 2021, but this growth was fueled by excessive government borrowing to finance an ambitious public infrastructure campaign and ushered in a severe financial crisis in Ghana. …”
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Status quo and challenges of rice production in sub-Saharan Africa por Saito, Kazuki, Senthilkumar, Kalimuthu, Dossou-Yovo, Elliott Ronald, Ali, I., Johnson, J.M., Mujawamariya, Gaudiose, Rodenburg, J.

“…Rice production in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has increaed ten-fold since 1961, whereas its consumption has exceeded the production and the regional self-sufficiency rate is only 48% in 2020. …”
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An analytical framework for understanding the political economy of crop diversification: A case study focused on Bangladesh por Nandi, Ravi, Krupnik, Timothy J., Kabir, Wais

“…Environmental concerns included the excessive use of fertilizers and pesticides and the predominance of monoculture, leading to resistance breakdown and soil fertility degradation. …”
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A mid-density single-nucleotide polymorphism panel for molecular applications in cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp) por Ongom, Patrick Obia, Fatokun, Christian, Togola, Abou, Garcia Oliveira, Ana Luisa, Eng Hwa Ng, Kilian, Andrzej, Lonardi, Stefano, Close, Timothy J., Boukar, Ousmane

“…The panel was informative, with over 78% of SNPs exceeding a minor allele frequency of 0.20. The panel decoded three stratifications in the constituted population, as was expected. …”
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Dietary intake and occupational status among female youths of Thai Nguyen, Vietnam por Tran, Lan Mai, Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Hoang, Nga Thu, Truong, Duong Thuy Thi, Tran, Trang Huyen Thi, Bui, Diep Ngoc, Hoa, Hanh Thi Hong, Hua, Diem Thi, Bergeron, Gilles

“…Two-thirds of the sample showed energy intake lower than the estimated energy requirement, while a substantial percentage had insufficient or excessive intake of carbohydrate and fat. The mean probability of adequacy of nutrient intakes was low (0.33) and not different across all three occupational groups except for folate, which favored workers. …”
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Show me what you eat: Assessing diets remotely through pictures por Ceballos, Francisco, Hernandez, Manuel A.

“…Such rich consumption data can help identify and better understand vulnerabilities and nutritional imbalances —including specific macronutrient or micronutrient gaps or excesses—, and open the door for low-cost, individually tailored digital interventions to promote healthier diets. …”
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Trends in US agricultural since 2000 and implications for the next twenty years por Glauber, Joseph W., Smith, Vincent H.

“…These levels of spending have been criticised as excessive relative to actual losses and likely caused the United States to violate its WTO domestic support commitments. …”
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African commitments for agricultural development goals and milestones for Cote d’Ivoire por Diallo, Souleymane Sadio, Fofana, Ismaël, Diallo, Mariam Amadou

“…Thus, the country could achieve investment targets by slightly exceeding the 10% share of public expenditure in total government expenditure and a significant increase in private investment in agriculture. …”
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Empowerment in agricultural value chains: Mixed methods evidence from the Philippines por Malapit, Hazel J., Ragasa, Catherine, Martinez, Elena M., Rubin, Deborah, Seymour, Greg, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…Pro-WEAI results suggest that respect within the household and attitudes about gender-based violence (GBV) are the largest sources of disempowerment for both women and men, followed by control over use of income and autonomy in income-related decisions. Excessive workload and lack of group membership are other important sources of disempowerment, with some variation across VCs and nodes along VCs. …”
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Nutrient adequacy is low among both self-declared lacto-vegetarian and non-vegetarian pregnant women in Uttar Pradesh por Bellows, Alexandra L., Kachwaha, Shivani, Ghosh, Sebanti, Kappos, Kristen, Escobar-Alegria, Jessica, Menon, Purnima, Nguyen, Phuong Hong

“…Compared to non-vegetarians, lacto-vegetarians (~46%) were less likely to report excessive carbohydrate (78% vs. 63%) and inadequate fat intakes (70% vs. 52%). …”
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Five years of regional risk pooling: An updated cost-benefit analysis of the African risk capacity por Kramer, Berber, Rusconi, Rob, Glauber, Joseph W.

“…Under the revised methods and assumptions, the increase in benefits to the poor will have exceeded the costs of regional risk pooling, but not by as much as US$ 1.90 per dollar invested. …”
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Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults por NCD Risk Factor Collaboration, Le Port, Agnès

“…There is an urgent need for an integrated approach to rural nutrition that enhances financial and physical access to healthy foods, to avoid replacing the rural undernutrition disadvantage in poor countries with a more general malnutrition disadvantage that entails excessive consumption of low-quality calories.…”
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Evaluation design for the environmental and natural resource management project in Malawi por Coen, Thomas, Mamun, Arif, Ringler, Claudia, Nkonya, Ephraim M., Velyvis, Kristen, Xie, Hua, Powell, Helen, Brecher-Haimson, Jeremy, Dumitrescu, Anca, Sloan, Matt

“…However, the rapid growth of invasive aquatic weeds limits the free flow of water in the river, leading to costly blockages and breakdowns that interrupt the power supply and reduce generative capacity (Government of Malawi 2013; Lea and Hanmer 2009). Excessive sedimentation in the Shire River reduces active storage at hydropower plants, hindering the ability of plant operators to optimize plant production. …”
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Iron + folic acid distribution and consumption through antenatal care: identifying barriers across countries por Sununtnasuk, Celeste, D'Agostino, Alexis, Fiedler, John L.

“…There were only two countries in which the percentage of pregnant women consuming 180 or more tablets exceeded 30 %.While most women receive and take some IFA tablets, few receive or take enough. …”
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Management of Fall Armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) on Summer Maize in Lebanon por Kumari, Safaa, Choueiri, Elia, Moukahel, Abdulrahman, Kemal, Seid Ahmed

“…Currently, fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda, is the most important insect pest of maize planted in spring and summer in Lebanon. This led to the excessive use of insecticides to combat FAW using 2 to 3 unsafe pesticides weekly. …”
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