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Basis Risk, Social Comparison, Perceptions of Fairness and Demand for Insurance: A Field Experiment in Ethiopia by Kramer, Berber, Porter, Maria, Wassie Bizuayehu, Solomon

“…In addition, providing complete insurance coverage for crop losses increases farmers’ perceived fairness of outcomes and willingness to pay, without introducing jealousy over neighbors receiving different payouts. Finally, we find that the increase in willingness to pay for complete insurance is concentrated among men and risk averse respondents.…”
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National Stakeholder Consultation Workshop for the Development of a Curriculum on Agricultural Climate Risk Management by Aboubacara, Diallo, Salif, Doumbia, Dossou-Yovo, Elliott Ronald

“…Besides, the workshop provided a platform to collectively present, review, and evaluate existing educational materials. Finally, the participants formulated a roadmap outlining the steps for the development and implementation of a curriculum on climate services specifically tailored to the context of Mali.…”
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Accelerating technical change through ICT: Evidence from a video-mediated extension experiment in Ethiopia by Abate, Gashaw T., Bernard, Tanguy, Makhija, Simrin, Spielman, David J.

“…While our results also point to greater extension access and greater knowledge among female spouses in locations where both male and female spouses were targeted by the program, we do not find clear evidence that a more inclusive approach translates into higher uptake of the subject technologies. Finally, we find that the video-mediated approach becomes less costly as the scale of operation increases.…”
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Measuring women’s empowerment and gender equality through the lens of induced innovation by Quisumbing, Agnes R., Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Malapit, Hazel J.

“…WEAI-related metrics have demonstrated the importance of women’s empowerment for development outcomes, helping governments and civil society organizations design and implement gender-sensitive agricultural development programs. Finally, the adoption of SDG5 on women’s empowerment and gender equality created a demand for a measure of women’s empowerment for use by national statistical systems. …”
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Adoption of multiple sustainable land management practices among irrigator rural farm households of Ethiopia by Bekele, Rahel Deribe, Mirzabaev, Alisher, Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework

“…The evidence highlights that farmers adopt more SLM practices in their plots with pump irrigation compared to those plots where gravity irrigation is applied because pump irrigation systems enhance complementarities with SLM practices. Finally, the findings underscore that the type of irrigation water management and the irrigation technology applied play an important role in restoring degraded lands and maintaining soil fertility, even when farmers’ adoption of irrigation was not explicitly triggered by concerns for soil health.…”
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A snapshot of coal-fired power generation in Bangladesh: A demand–supply outlook by Islam, Aminul, Ahmed, Mohammad Tofayal, Mondal, Md. Hossain Alam, Awual, Md. Rabiul, Monir, Minhaj Uddin, Islam, Kamrul

“…The water resource supply for coal‐based power plants and approaches for reducing CO2 and other emissions were also addressed. Finally, initiatives for fulfilling Sustainable Development Goals in the Bangladesh energy sector were also discussed in this review.…”
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A scoping review of the contributions of farmers’ organizations to smallholder agriculture by Bizikova, Livia, Nkonya, Ephraim M., Minah, Margitta, Hanisch, Markus, Turaga, Rama Mohana Rao

“…Natural resource management should also be more widely incorporated in the services provided by FOs to mitigate risks associated with environmental degradation and climate change. Finally, farmers who are already marginalized because of poor education, land access, social status and market accessibility may require additional support systems to improve their capacities, skills and resources before they are able to benefit from FO membership.…”
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Can urbanization improve household welfare? Evidence from Ethiopia by Abay, Kibrom A., Tiberti, Luca, Mezgebo, Tsega G., Endale, Meron

“…Other potential impact pathways, such as an increase in consumer prices or migration explained little (if any) of the change in household welfare. Finally, our quantile and inequality analyses suggested that the observed urbanization had a negligible effect on the distribution of household welfare. …”
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South African Social Accounting Matrices (SAM) for 1993 and 2000 by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The population groups include African, White, and Other Races. Finally, households are disaggregated across nine provinces, two area types (rural and urban), three population groups, and five per capita expenditure quintiles.The SAM construction took place in two stages. …”
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Extension officers’ perceptions of extension and innovation in South Africa by Davis, Kristin E., Landini, F., van Niekerk, J., Green, K., Terblanche, S. E.

“…In addition, results provide evidence that extension institutions tend to support conventional agriculture, while extension workers are more concerned with potential negative impacts. Finally, the Likert-scale responses show that while much South African extension work is based on dialogue and horizontal coordination using a participatory approach, transfer of technology still exists, and farmers are blamed for their problems.…”
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Global institutions: Governance reform for food, nutrition, and agriculture by von Braun, Joachim

“…A third is posed by the need to address production constraints and environmental risks, including low agricultural productivity growth, climate change, increased soil and land degradation, and loss of biodiversity. Finally, food and nutrition policy must account for the complexity related to global integration through trade and investment, most notably contested positions on fair and free trade, risks of market and price volatility, food industries’ international roles, and the protection of food safety. …”
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Conclusions [In The political economy of agricultural policy reform in India] by Birner, Regina, Gupta, Surupa, Sharma, Neeru

“…The advocates for change in policy are fewer and less articulate and consistent in their message. Finally, the reform of fertilizer subsidies has been stymied by the inadequate supply of natural gas in India.…”
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Genetic basis and exploration of major expressed QTL qLA2-3 underlying leaf angle in maize by Yonghui He, Chenxi Wang, Xueyou Hu, Youle Han, Feng Lu, Huanhuan Liu, Xuecai Zhang, Zhitong Yin

“…On the basis of verifying the genetic effect of qLA2-3, a fine map was used to narrow the candidate interval, and finally, the target segment was located at a physical distance of approximately 338.46 kb (B73 RefGen_v4 version), containing 16 genes. …”
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Soybean pod shattering resistance allele pdh1 and marker-assisted selection by Shimbwambwa, D., Nachilima, C., Hamabwe, S., Kuwabo, K., Chigeza, G., Bilyeu, K., Kamfwa, K.

“…Of the 59 genotypes, 57 (96.6%) carried the resistance allele pdh1 while only two genotypes (3.6%) carried the susceptible allele, suggesting near-fixation of the resistance allele pdh1 in the IITA germplasm. …”
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Dataset: Census of individual trees of Tucunare Vichada (2020) by Ruiz-Hurtado, Andres Felipe, Pérez Bolaños, Juliana, Arrechea-Castillo, Darwin Alexis, Matiz Rubio, Natalia, Costa Junior, Ciniro, Arango Mejia, Jacobo, Cardoso Arango, Juan Andres

“…The map tiles were downloaded from Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 Bucket and processed using additional steps: merging and clipping tiles to cover the region of interest of Tucunare, vectorizing, filtering, and georeferencing individual trees to derive attributes like area, perimeter, equivalent diameter, and circularity representing the visual crown of each tree, and finally applying zonal statistics to assign tree height values. …”
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Institutional analysis defining the crucial factors for scaling low-emissions rice production: Evidence from Bangladesh by Vu, H. Trang, Nelson, Katherine, Samsuzzaman, Syed, Rahman, Saidur, Rashid, Mamunur, Salahuddin, Ahmad, Sander, Bjoern Ole

“…Additionally, AWD leads to a lower frequency of pumping resulting in reduced costs compared to the continuous-flooding practice. Finally, the results guide the formulation of recommendations to create favourable conditions for AWD outscaling, which contributes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and advancing sustainable rice production in Bangladesh.…”
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Market information and R&D investment under ambiguity: A framed artefactual experiment with plant breeding professionals by Trachtman, Carly, Kramer, Berber, do Nascimento Miguel, Jérémy

“…However, participants do not consider differences in information quality, instead over extrapolating from noisy and biased information signals. Finally, while most participants are willing to use experimental funds to purchase market information, around half prefer lower quality information even if higher quality information is available at the same price. …”
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Urban sprawl, food security and agricultural systems in developing countries: A systematic review of the literature by Hatab, Assem Abu, Cavinato, Maria Eduarda Rigo, Lindemer, August, Lagerkvist, Carl Johan

“…Moreover, the results imply that UFS are complex interlinked systems and therefore that policies intending to assure food security in developing countries need to consider these interlinkages and approach them holistically. Finally, an absence of studies examining urban and rural systems from an interconnected perspective was identified. …”
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Household Vegetable Gardening in Quezon City, Philippines: Practices, Benefits, and Constraints by Lagdameo, John Luis D., Dejaresco, Angelica Nicolette B., Gonzalez, Ma. Cecilia M., Ignowski, Liz, Schreinemachers, Pepijn, Bertuso, Arma R.

“…Diet quality was evaluated using a 24-hour recall, detailing the types of vegetables, meat products, and desserts consumed in the last 24 hours. Finally, the study examined food insecurity experiences over a one-month period, noting the preferred foods that respondents were unable to eat due to a lack of resources, the frequency of going to bed hungry, and the reduction in the number of meals consumed per day due to resource constraints.…”
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PowderBot: An automated device for decision-making in crop breeding programs based on DNA extraction from seed powder by Díaz Rodríguez, Harold Andrés, Macea, Eliana, Escobar, Roosevelt, Beebe, Stephen, Tohme, Joseph, Raatz, Bodo

“…This leads us to infer that the method works effectively and can be applied for marker assisted selection (MAS) in bean and other crop breeding programs. Finally, germination and vigor tests indicated the sampling process did not significantly compromise perforated seed germination rate, physiological quality or viability.…”
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