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Shifting gender relations in agriculture and irrigation in the Nepal Tarai-Madhesh by Karn, Sujeet, Sugden, Fraser, Sah, K.K., Maharjan, J., Shah, T.N., Clement, Floriane

“…Women should be ensured meaningful participation, including leadership roles. Finally, this report recommends linking irrigation user groups to other income-generation schemes, and facilitating access to better credit, finance and agricultural inputs.…”
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Promoting forage legume–pollinator interactions: Integrating crop pollination management, native beekeeping and silvopastoral systems in tropical Latin America by Narjes, Manuel Ernesto, Cardoso, Juan Andrés, Burkart, Stefan

“…We further discuss the challenges and opportunities of scaling sustainably intensified cattle production systems that integrate legume forage-seed production with principles of pollinator ecology and native beekeeping. Finally, we provide interested stakeholders, policy-and decision-makers with a perspective on how such agroecosystems may be designed and scaled into multifunctional landscapes.…”
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Communities’ Adaptation and Vulnerability to Climate Change: Implications for Achieving a Climate-Smart Landscape by Widayati, A., Louman, Bastian, Mulyoutami, E., Purwanto, E., Kusters, K., Zagt, R.

“…Such adaptation actions benefit households in the short term but may be at odds with long-term adaptation objectives at the landscape level. Finally, we found that perceptions about vulnerability differed between landscapes, and between communities at the landscape level and stakeholders at the district level. …”
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Diversified approaches to evaluate wide genetic resources of cowpea for enhancing new variety development for west Africa and its social implementation by cowpea research program o... by Ishikawa, H., Matsumoto, R.

“…Notably, Japanese scientists have made constructive contributions to the progress in cowpea research at IITA over the past 50 years. Finally, in terms of research for development, collaborative measures among various national and international stakeholders for the appropriate delivery and social implementation of research achievements in the future are discussed.…”
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Master of Science in Climate-Smart Agriculture Curriculum by Mwamburi, Mcharo, Kambura, Ann, Gacheru, James, Maghenda, Marianne, Jalang'o, Dorcas, Waswa, Boaz Shaban, Kinyua, Ivy Wambui, Templer, Noel, Mwongera, Caroline

“…Its design explicitly focuses on addressing productivity and climate change mitigation and adaptation with consideration of the interactions and tradeoffs existing between them. Finally, the CSA program aims to support funding opportunities for innovation and technology development for extension through research investment.…”
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Agroecology can promote climate change adaptation outcomes without compromising yield in smallholder systems by Dittmer, Kyle M., Rose, Sabrina, Snapp, Sieglinde S., Kebede, Yodit, Brickman, Sarah, Shelton, Sadie, Egler, Cecelia, Stier, Milena, Wollenberg, Eva Karoline

“…Gaps in adaptation and mitigation strategies and areas for policy and research interventions are finally discussed.…”
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Local knowledge and practices among Tonga people in Zambia and Zimbabwe: A review by Yanou, M.P., Ros-Tonen, M.A.F., Reed, J., Sunderland, T.C.H.

“…The findings contribute to greater recognition and validation of Tonga local knowledge and practices in natural resource governance, particularly how such knowledge can contribute to integrated landscape governance. Finally, the review helps to define a future research agenda based on the knowledge gaps identified.…”
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Evaluating cereal market (dis)integration in less developed and fragile markets: The case of Sudan by Abay, Kibrom A., Abdelfattah, Lina Alaaeldin, Breisinger, Clemens, Siddig, Khalid

“…For example, cereal markets in Darfur are not integrated with cereal markets in the rest of the country, despite exhibiting some level of spatial integration within the Darfur region. Finally, we also observe relatively stronger spatial market integration in sorghum markets than in wheat markets. …”
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Amplified characterization of the Innovahubs: Context-specific analysis and mapping of the Innovahub influence areas in Guatemala and Honduras by Martínez, Jesús David, Borrayo, Andrea, García Masse, Louis N., Loon, Jelle van

“…The 2023 report is structured with the presentation of 2 context-specific analyses on nutrition and market access for rural communities, and the finalization of the technical information of the Innovahubs in Mexico In Chiquimula, Guatemala, a study on diet quality highlighted the crucial role of nutrition for human wellbeing and agricultural outcomes, setting a precedent for similar studies in other regions. …”
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Income variability, evolving diets, and elasticity estimation of demand for processed foods in Nigeria by de Brauw, Alan, Herskowitz, Sylvan

“…In the absence of credible exogenous variation, we argue for the importance of panel methods and household fixed effects to control for time invariant factors likely to confound cross‐sectional estimates. Finally, we examine semiparametric Engel curves for different food groups and find that apparent curvature in the relationships between food budget shares and overall food expenditure levels in the raw data become nearly linear when removing variation explained by time‐invariant household factors.…”
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Red tape and corruption along ECOWAS trade corridors by Bouët, Antoine, Cissé, Brahima, Sy, Abdourahmane, Traoré, Fousseini

“…For example, in the first quarter of 2020, these practices were equivalent to a tax of 22.6 percent on the corridor linking Abidjan in Côte d'Ivoire to Lagos in Nigeria. Finally, we make policy recommendations. These recommendations should take into account the environment in which these practices take place. …”
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Labor (mis?)measurement in agriculture by Ambler, Kate, Herskowitz, Sylvan, Maredia, Mywish K.

“…Looking by sector of work, women and youth are disproportionately more likely to have agricultural contributions “missed,” while we find no corresponding bias in undercounting of non-agricultural work. Finally, we test the effect of randomly positioning the task-based questions before the listing of major activities but do not find significant effects on the number or type of activities reported.…”
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Synopsis: Geography of public service delivery in rural Ethiopia by Abate, Gashaw T., Dereje, Mekdim, Hirvonen, Kalle, Minten, Bart

“…We did not find similar evidence in the health sector. Finally, for both sectors, we found that the last mile matters: more remote households within villages were less likely to receive both types of extension services.…”
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Cooperation in polygynous households by Barr, Abigail, Dekker, Marleen, Janssens, Wendy, Kebede, Bereket, Kramer, Berber

“…Co-wives are least cooperative toward each other and polygynous husbands are less cooperative with each of their wives than monogamous husbands are with their one wife. Finally, there are differences across the household types in the way husbands and wives condition their cooperativeness on how much they believe their spouses and co-wives will cooperate. …”
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Continent-wide genomic analysis of the African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) by Talenti, A., Wilkinson, T., Cook, Elizabeth A.J., Hemmink, Johanneke D., Paxton, E., Mutinda, M., Ngulu, S.D., Jayaraman, S., Bishop, Richard P., Obara, I., Hourlier, T., Giron, C.G., Martin, F.J., Labuschagne, M., Atimnedi, P., Nanteza, A., Keyyu, J.D., Mramba, F., Caron, A., Cornelis, D., Chardonnet, P., Fyumagwa, R., Lembo, T., Auty, H.K., Michaux, J., Smitz, N., Toye, Philip G., Robert, C., Prendergast, J.G.D., Morrison, L.J.

“…Estimated effective population sizes indicated a substantial drop occurring in all populations 5-10,000 years ago, coinciding with the increase in human populations. Finally, signatures of selection were enriched for key genes associated with the immune response, suggesting infectious disease exert a substantial selective pressure upon the African buffalo. …”
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Who will be fed in the 21st century? challenges for science and policy by Wiebe, Keith D., Ballenger, Nicole, Pinstrup-Andersen, Per

“…They also consider the roles that institutions must play in meeting the challenge of global hunger. Finally, they outline the policy priorities required to achieve a food-secure world in the 21st century.…”
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Community and household shocks: Findings from the seventh round of the Myanmar Household Welfare Survey (January–June 2024) by Myanmar Agrifood Program for Strategy and Analysis

“…Another crucial challenge is that 13 percent of respondents felt that it was dangerous for them to move around and do everyday tasks. Finally, three percent of respondents revealed that there was a risk of kidnapping in their community.…”
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Micronutrient malnutrition, obesity, and chronic disease in countries undergoing the nutrition transition: potential links and program/policy implications by Eckhardt, Cara L.

“…This paper also explores recent literature linking micronutrient malnutrition in adults to increased risk and severity of chronic disease. Finally, this paper discusses the program and policy implications of these relationships. …”
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High night temperature effects on wheat and rice: Current status and way forward by Impa, Somayanda M., Raju, Bheemanahalli, Hein, Nathan T., Sandhu, Jaspreet, Prasad, P.V. Vara, Walia, Harkamal, Jagadish, Krishna S.V.

“…Impacts of HNT on grain developmental dynamics focused on grain‐filling duration, post‐flowering senescence, changes in grain starch and protein composition, starch metabolism enzymes and chalk formation in rice grains are summarized. Finally, we highlight the need for high‐throughput field‐based phenotyping facilities for improved assessment of large‐diversity panels and mapping populations to aid breeding for increased resilience to HNT in crops.…”
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Enhancing the rate of genetic gain in public-sector plant breeding programs: lessons from the breeder’s equation by Cobb, Joshua N., Juma, Roselyne U., Biswas, Partha S., Arbelaez, Juan D., Rutkoski, Jessica, Atlin, Gary, Hagen, Tom, Quinn, Michael, Ng, Eng Hwa

“…With an abundance of new technologies available, breeding teams need to evaluate carefully the impact of any new technology on selection intensity, selection accuracy, and breeding cycle length relative to its cost of deployment. Finally breeding data management systems need to be well designed to support selection decisions and novel approaches to accelerate breeding cycles need to be routinely evaluated and deployed.…”
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