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Educating agricultural researchers: a review of the role of African universities by Beintema, Nienke M., Pardey, Philip G., Roseboom, Johannes

“…The number of higher-education institutions and the students enrolled in them has grown rapidly throughout Africa since the early 1960s. …”
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A community education intervention to improve bovine trypanosomiasis knowledge and appropriate use of trypanocidal drugs on smallholder farms in Kenya by Machila, N., Emongor, Rosemary, Shaw, A.P.M., Welburn, S.C., McDermott, John J., Maudlin, I., Eisler, M.C.

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Effect of supplementation of grazing sheep with groundnut cake and wheat bran by Abebe, Yenenesh, Melaku, S., Tegegne, Azage

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Those who leave and those who stay: Individual migration in Myanmar during a time of crisis by Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity

“…Significantly more men migrated than women. Over the period, more individuals left for work within Myanmar than for overseas work or for other reasons including marriage, education, or to join family. …”
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Long-term impact of investments in early schooling: Empirical evidence from rural Ethiopia by Mani, Subha, Hoddinott, John F., Strauss, John

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Population estimates, consequences, and risk factors of obesity among pregnant and postpartum women in India: Results from a national survey and policy recommendations by Chopra, Mansi, Kaur, Naman, Singh, Konsam Dinachandra, Maria Jacob, Chandni, Divakar, Hema, Babu, Giridhara R., Nguyen, Phuong Hong

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Addressing parent-adolescent roles and interactions to improve adolescents’ diets in Ethiopia by Kim, Sunny S., Sununtnasuk, Celeste, Vu, Thu Trang, Sanghvi, Tina, Walissa, Tamirat, Nguyen, Phuong Hong

“…Higher parents’ education level was associated with lower junk food consumption among adolescents (OR=0.55). …”
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Chapter 3: Off to the best start: The importance of infant and young child feeding [Nourishing Millions] by Hodge, Judith

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Pre-colonial religious institutions and development: Evidence through a military coup by Malik, Adeel, Mirza, Rinchan Ali

“…Our results suggest that the increase in average literacy rate would have been higher by 13% in the post-coup period in the absence of shrine influence. …”
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Gender focused training and knowledge enhances the adoption of climate resilient seeds by Dar, Manzoor H., Waza, Showkat A., Nayak, Swati, Chakravorty, Ritadhi, Zaidi, Najam W., Hossain, Mosharaf

“…Adoption of any agricultural technology depends upon the way in which farmers are being informed about its benefits. Educational status, caste, gender and other social issues also play a significant role in the adoption process. …”
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Structural change in a poor African country: New historical evidence from Ghana by Osei, Robert Darko, Jedwab, Rémi

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Challenges for women's participation in communal forests: Experience from Nicaragua's in digenous territories by Evans, K., Flores, S., Larson, A.M., Marchena, R., Müller, P., Pikitle, A.

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Moderate Accuracy of Survey Responses about Infant and Young Child Feeding Counseling Reported by Mothers with Children Less than 1 Year of Age in India by Kim, Sunny S., Ashok, Sattvika, Avula, Rasmi, Mahapatra, Tanmay, Gokhale, Priya, Walton, Shelley, Heidkamp, Rebecca A., Munos, Melinda K.

“…IYCF counseling is an information-based intervention that may be received from various sources, and it may be challenging to achieve higher reporting accuracy over a longer recall period. …”
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Off to the best start: The importance of infant and young child feeding by Hodge, Judith

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Risk analysis of a rainfed rice production system in Tarlac, Central Luzon, Philippines by Pandey, S., MASICAT, P., VELASCO, L., VILLANO, R.

“…Farmers with higher levels of education had lower variability of rice income than farmers with a lower level of education. …”
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Förändringar i skogsbranschens organisation på 1990-talet : antalet tjänster, kompetens och utbildningsinsatser by Törrö, Mari

“…Therefore the demand for competence and guidance is larger than before. At the same period of time organisations where slimmed and trimmed during a economic recession and the question is how this has affected the number of employees on different levels in the organisations, the competence of the employees and their internal education and if these changes affects the possibility of implementing the forest policy. …”

Costa Rica: Agricultural R&D indicators factsheet by Stads, Gert-Jan, de los Santos, Luis

“…Costa Rica stands out from other Central American countries in that its higher education section plays a preponderant role in the country’s agricultural research system. …”
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Sources of income inequality and poverty in rural Pakistan by Adams, Richard H., Jr., He, Jane J.

“…According to this report, changes in physical assets (such as landownership) and the household labor force (through education and migration) account for about one-quarter of the changes in income of the poor.; Why do some people receive higher incomes than others with similar talents and abilities? …”
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Varför prisras på åkermark i Danmark? : hur de institutionella reglerna och skuldsättningen påverkat prisraset på åkermark i Danmark och varför inte samma ras går att observera i... by Andersson, Åsa, Servin, Rebecca

Locking crops to unlock investment: Experimental evidence on warrantage in Burkina Faso by Delavallade, Clara Anne, Godlonton, Susan

“…Households with access to warrantage primarily store sorghum and maize and sell their production over an extended period of time, earning higher average prices and resulting in higher sales revenue ($248, or 33 percent, on average). …”
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