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Collecting evidence of FLEGT-VPA impacts: Guyana country report by Leszczynska, N., Ploeg, L. van der, Goetghebuer, T., Newbery, J., Almeida, B., Cerutti, P.O.

“…This Guyana report is part of a series of seven country level studies (Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guyana, Honduras, Indonesia and Republic of Congo) which intend to gather qualitative and quantitative evidence of the impacts of the Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade – Voluntary Partnership Agreement (FLEGT-VPA) process to date. …”
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Collecting evidence of FLEGT-VPA impacts: Honduras country report by Goetghebuer, T., Fourmy, R., Leszczynska, N., Almeida, B., Newbery, J., Cerutti, P.O.

“…This Honduras report is part of a series of seven country level studies (Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guyana, Honduras, Indonesia and Republic of Congo) which intend to gather qualitative and quantitative evidence of the impacts of the Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade – Voluntary Partnership Agreement (FLEGT-VPA) process to date. …”
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Collecting evidence of FLEGT-VPA impacts: Indonesia country report by Goetghebuer, T., Breyne, J., Dermawan, A., Leszczynska, N., Almeida, B., Newbery, J., Ploeg, L. van der, Cerutti, P.O.

“…This Indonesia report is part of a series of seven country level studies (Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guyana, Honduras, Indonesia and Republic of Congo) which intend to gather qualitative and quantitative evidence of the impacts of the Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade – Voluntary Partnership Agreement (FLEGT-VPA) process to date. …”
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Collecting evidence of FLEGT-VPA impacts: Republic of the Congo country report by Leszczynska, N., Tsanga, R., Goetghebuer, T., Newbery, J., Almeida, B., Cerutti, P.O.

“…This Republic of Congo report is part of a series of seven country level studies (Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guyana, Honduras, Indonesia and Republic of Congo) which intend to gather qualitative and quantitative evidence of the impacts of the Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade – Voluntary Partnership Agreement (FLEGT-VPA) process to date. …”
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Opportunities for orphan crops: Expected economic benefits from biotechnology by Zambrano, Patricia, Wood-Sichra, Ulrike, Ruhinduka, Remidius D., Phillip, Dayo, Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, Komen, John, Kikulwe, Enoch Mutebi, Falck-Zepeda, José B., Dzanku, Fred M., Chambers, Judith A.

“…This paper focuses on case studies involving insect-resistant cowpea in Nigeria and Ghana; disease-resistant cassava in Uganda and Tanzania; and disease-resistant banana in Uganda. …”
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Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) Mid-year report 2022 by Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa

“…AICCRA investments are concentrated in six anchor countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Senegal, and Zambia, but spillover benefits are being realized in many other ‘spillover’ countries, such as Tanzania, Uganda, Chad, Niger and Nigeria among many more, as AICCRA works with Africa’s regional economic communities (RECs) and their associated regional agricultural research and climate change networks.The AICCRA project runs from early 2021 to 31 December 2023. …”
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Effects of EU illegal logging policy on timber-supplying countries: A systematic review by Polo Villanueva, F.D., Tegegne, Y.T., Winkel, G., Cerutti, P.O., Ramcilovic-Suominen, Sabaheta, McDermott, C.L., Zeitlin, J., Sotirov, M., Cashore, B., Wardell, D.A., Haywood, A., Giessen, L.

“…The EU has invested more than 1.5 billion euros in VPAs; however, only one of the seven concerned countries has managed to complete all the necessary requirements to expire FLEGT licences. …”
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Household economics of cocoa agroforestry: costs and benefits by Boadi, S.A., Bosselmann, A.S., Owusu, K., Asare, R., Olwig, M.F.

“…Since cocoa systems vary among different agro-ecological zones in Ghana, we recommend that interventions aimed at increasing tree diversity consider the specific management practices of each farming household and the location in question.…”
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Emerging ecological trends in West Africa: implications on soil organic matter and other soil quality indicators by Mesele, S.A., Ocansey, C.M., Bougma, A., Azeez, J.O., Ajiboye, G.A., Logah , V., Compaore, H., Veenendaal, E.M., Lloyd, J.

“…Methods We evaluated soil organic matter (SOM) and other soil quality indicators such as macro- and micronutrients (including the absence of some hazardous trace metals) using standard methodologies across 11 settlements in Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Nigeria. The degree of soil quality improvement/degradation and soil quality were assessed using empirical models. …”
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Contract farming, contract design and smallholder livelihoods by Ruml, Anette, Ragasa, Catherine, Qaim, Matin

“…Here, we examine associations between contract farming and farm household income in the oil palm sector of Ghana, explicitly differentiating between two types of contracts, namely simple marketing contracts and more comprehensive resource-providing contracts. …”
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Agricultural mechanization and child labour in developing countries: Background study by Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Vos, Rob

“…The new FAO-IFPRI study provides a rigorous quantitative assessment for seven developing countries in Asia (India, Nepal and Viet Nam) and sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria and Tanzania) based on comparable farm household survey data.…”
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Stories of change in nutrition from Africa and Asia: An introduction to a special series in food security by Gillespie, Stuart, Harris, Jody, Nisbett, Nicholas, van den Bold, Mara

“…This series presents a second wave of studies from six countries (Tanzania, Rwanda, Vietnam, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Nigeria,) and three Indian states (Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu). …”
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Risk assessment for E. coli O157:H7 in marketed raw and fermented milk in selected African countries by Omore, Amos O., Grace, Delia, Randolph, Thomas F., Mohammed, H.

“…Quality standards and regulations for hygienic milk handling are put in place to protect consumers from milk-borne hazards. …”
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The politics and governance of informal food retail in urban Africa by Resnick, Danielle

“…This brief synthesizes research on informal traders conducted under the “Economywide Factors Affecting Agricultural Growth and Rural Transformation” flagship of the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) led by IFPRI. The research spanned Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, and Zambia and involved comparative analysis across capital cities based on media events data, surveys with traders, and interviews with urban bureaucrats. …”
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Renforcement de capacités en Agriculture Intelligente face au Climat (AIC): Bonnes pratiques et exemples d’illustration dans le cadre des visites de terrain au Togo by Akponikpè, Pierre B.I., Zakari, Sissou, Kpadenou, Anani K, Kpadonou, G. Esaïe, Adjogboto, André, Orou Barre Fousseni, Imorou, Segnon, Alcade Christel, Zougmore, Robert Bellarmin

“…Dans le cadre de la série de renforcement de capacités des acteurs aux niveaux national et local sur l’Agriculture Intelligente face au Climat (AIC) dans cinq pays de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (Bénin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger, et Togo), des visites de terrains ont été organisées pour illustrer l’apprentissage théorique en salle avec des exemples pratiques sur le terrain dans chaque pays. …”
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Renforcement de capacités en Agriculture Intelligente face au Climat (AIC) : Bonnes pratiques et exemples d’illustration dans le cadre des visites de terrain au Niger by Akponikpè, Pierre B.I., Zakari, Sissou, Moussa, Abdou, Kpadonou, G. Esaïe, Adjogboto, André, Orou Barre Fousseni, Imorou, Segnon, Alcade Christel, Zougmore, Robert Bellarmin

“…Dans le cadre de la série de renforcement de capacités des acteurs aux niveaux national et local sur l’Agriculture Intelligente face au Climat (AIC) dans cinq pays de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (Bénin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger, et Togo), des visites de terrains ont été organisées pour illustrer l’apprentissage théorique en salle avec des exemples pratiques sur le terrain dans chaque pays. …”
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Renforcement de capacités en Agriculture Intelligente face au Climat (AIC): Bonnes pratiques et exemples d’illustration dans le cadre des visites de terrain au Burkina Faso by Akponikpè, Pierre B.I., Zakari, Sissou, Kindo, Yassia, Kpadonou, G. Esaïe, Adjogboto, André., Orou Barre Fousseni, Imorou, Segnon, Alcade Christel, Zougmore, Robert Bellarmin

“…Dans le cadre de la série de renforcement de capacités des acteurs aux niveaux national et local sur l’Agriculture Intelligente face au Climat (AIC) dans cinq pays de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (Bénin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger, et Togo), des visites de terrains ont été organisées pour illustrer l’apprentissage théorique en salle avec des exemples pratiques sur le terrain dans chaque pays. …”
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Renforcement de capacités en Agriculture Intelligente face au Climat (AIC): Bonnes pratiques et exemples d’illustration dans le cadre des visites de terrain au Bénin by Akponikpè, Pierre B.I., Zakari, Sissou, Legbagah, Sèna H., Kpadonou, G. Esaïe, Adjogboto, André, Orou Barre Fousseni, Imorou, Segnon, Alcade Christel, Zougmore, Robert Bellarmin

“…Dans le cadre de la série de renforcement de capacités des acteurs aux niveaux national et local sur l’Agriculture Intelligente face au Climat (AIC) dans cinq pays de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (Bénin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger, et Togo), des visites de terrains ont été organisées pour illustrer l’apprentissage théorique en salle avec des exemples pratiques sur le terrain dans chaque pays. …”
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Focus Group Discussions-Agrobiodiversity Assessment by International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The project aimed at testing the hypothesis that the application of sustainable intensification technologies (cereal-legume-vegetable-livestock integrated systems) by smallholder households in North Ghana changes the level of inter and intra-specific crop diversity managed on-farm at household level. …”
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Consistency in climate change impact reports among indigenous peoples and local communities depends on site contexts by Schunko, C., Álvarez-Fernández, S., Benyei, P., Calvet-Mir, L., Junqueira, A. B., Li, X., Porcuna-Ferrer, A., Schlingmann, A., Attoh, Emmanuel M. N. A. N., Carmona, R., Chengula, F., Fernández-Llamazares, Á., Singh, P., Torrents-Ticó, M., Reyes-García, V.

“…We conducted cross-cultural research among iTaukei (Fiji), Dagomba (Ghana), fisherfolks (Tanzania), Tsimane’ (Bolivia), Bassari (Senegal), ribeirinhos (Brazil), Mapuche (Chile), Mongolian (China), Tibetan (China) and Daasanach (Kenya) communities using semi-structured interviews, focus groups, and surveys among 1860 individuals. …”
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