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Still waters run deep by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

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When communities pull their weight: The economic costs of an integrated agriculture and nutrition home-grown preschool meal intervention in Malawi by Margolies, Amy, Gelli, Aulo, Daryanani, Roshan, Twalibu, Aisha, Levin, Carol

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Hur påverkas dvärghamstrar av att vistas i hamsterbollar? by Karlsson, Maria

“…Their eyesight is poor, but is compensated by their well-developed hearing and olfaction. “Run about balls” are made of plastic and the hamster is placed inside it where after the ball is placed on the floor and the hamster can then run protected outside the cage. …”
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Future management of Laisriver Brown trout by Landström, Isak

“…The three forms of trout; sea-run, lake-run and resident, can all be present in the same location at some period of their life cycle, e.g. during the parr stage or at spawning. …”
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Food price spikes temporary, inflation likely to fall in 2022 by Glauber, Joseph W., Smith, Vincent H.

“…According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for All Urban Consumers rose 7.0 percent for the 12 months ending December 2021, the largest increase since the 12-month period ending June 1982.1 The average price of the basket of foods consumed both at home and away from home (in fast food and other outlets) has also increased. …”
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Macroeconomic change, competitiveness and timber production: a five-country comparison by Wunder, Sven

“…This study analyzes how long-run macroeconomic fluctuations have affected timber production levels in five tropical oil-producing countries: Gabon, Cameroon, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Venezuela, and Ecuador. …”
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Enhancing School diets through climate-smart vegetable production by Coyne, D.L., Kisaakye, James, Njeri, Ann, Nyambura, Eva Ivy, Miringu, Newton Nyagah, Odera, Janet Achieng, Irungu, Miriam, Nyabuto, Mellen, Awino, Martha

“…Currently, school feeding programs have grown significantly in Kenya, and according to Food for Education, 450,000 children currently depend directly on school feeding program meals daily. The home-grown school feeding (HGSF) model plays a huge role in ensuring that feeding programs are sustainable in the long run. …”
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Zambia Report on the Africa Wide Training on the Improved NextGen Approach (PyCPT2.5) for Seasonal and Subseasonal Forecasting by Sinachikupo, Kenneth

“…The objective of the training was to strengthen knowledge of seasonal and sub-seasonal forecasting tools: Global Climate Models (GCMs) and observed data and statistical methods; introduce PyCPT 2.5: structure, inputs, outputs, workflow, examples, and automation; configure and run PyCPT 2.5 to make the best seasonal and subseasonal forecasts of precipitation and related quantities in participants’ home countries, including forecast verification; and capitalize on GCM forecast products from WMO Global Producing Centres and U.S. research centers, accessible through the IRI Data Library (NMME, C3S, S2S, and SubX databases), as well as online global precipitation datasets and offline prediction data files.…”
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Volunteer motivation in Vancouver's Green Streets Program by Kristensson, Ingrid

“…Vancouver´s Green Streets Program is run by the City of Vancouver and started initially because citizens were asking for it. …”
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West Africa Regional Training On the Improved NextGen Seasonal Forecasting Approach (PyCPT 2) by Grossi, Amanda, Robertson, Andrew, Trzaska, Sylwia, Dinku, Tufa, Zougmoré, Robert B., Minoungou, Bernard, Mohamed, Hamatan

“…In particular, the major objectives of the training were to strengthen the knowledge and understanding of national meteorological services of seasonal forecasting tools, introduce the new advances and functionalities of the Python (PyCPT2) interface for the NextGen forecasting approach, configure and run PyCPT version 2 to make the best- available forecasts in participants’ home countries, including forecast verification, and provide foundational training on best practices for forecast communication including the flexible forecast format.…”
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Economics of land degradation in Niger by Nkonya, Ephraim M., Ru, Yating, Kato, Edward

“…Building on work past studies, this study uses new satellite data which have higher resolution and run for longer time – thus capturing the longterm land management dynamics. …”
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East and Southern Africa Regional Training On the Improved NextGen Seasonal Forecasting Approach (PyCPT 2) by Grossi, Amanda, Robertson, Andrew, Muñoz, Angel, Singh, Bohar, Dinku, Tufa, Demissie, Teferi Dejene, Solomon, Dawit

“…In particular, the major objectives of the training were to strengthen the knowledge and understanding of regional and national meteorological services of seasonal forecasting tools and approaches, introduce the new advances and functionalities of the Python (PyCPT2) interface for the NextGen forecasting approach, configure and run PyCPT version 2 to make the best-available forecasts in participants’ home countries, including forecast verification, and provide foundational training on best practices for forecast communication including the Flexible Forecast format.…”
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Urban educated group's perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic management in Bangladesh: A qualitative exploration by Joarder, Taufique, Bin Khaled, Muhammad Nahian, Joarder, Mohammad A. I.

“…They should adopt a science-based response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the short term while striving to develop a more resilient health system in the long run.…”
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Limitations of contract farming as a pro-poor strategy: The case of maize outgrower schemes in upper West Ghana by Ragasa, Catherine, Lambrecht, Isabel B., Kufoalor, Doreen S.

“…Sustainability of these CF schemes will depend on, from the firms’ perspective, minimizing the costs to run and monitor them, and from the farmers’ perspective, developing and promoting much-improved varieties and technologies that may lead to a jump in yields and gross margins to compensate for the high cost of credit.…”
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Kvinnligt och manligt företagande : lantbrukarnas syn på olikheter och möjligheter i de gröna näringarna by Olander, Cecilia, Broo, Hanna

Household modelling and trade-off analysis to design resilient crop- livestock farming systems in dry regions of Senegal by Kumar, Shalander, Pramanik, Soumitra, Yessofou, Adjani Nourou-Dine, Worou, Omonlola Nadine, Anthony, Whitbread

“…We have completed and validated only few initial scenarios. We have also run additional scenarios evaluating the effect of interventions such as introducing small scale home gardening, watermelon, mango, climate information services, improved sowing machine and other climate smart agricultural practices, however these scenarios still need to be validated by the stakeholders, hence not included in this publication.…”
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Den privata företagaren : en studie om hur företagare på landsbygden påverkas av sin omgivning med utgångspunkt i Östhammar kommun by Larsson, Claes

Millesgården by Qvist, Per

“…It contains the buildings which were the home and studios of the artist Carl Milles and his artist wife Olga. …”
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Jatropha oil ? an alternative to kerosene by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…A simple lantern than runs on home-grown oil…”
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En kvalitativ intervjustudie av alternativa överlåtelseformer för generationsskifte i lantbruksföretag : varför är det ovanligt med, share-farming, delägarskap eller kooperativ i s... by Danielsson, Anna, Kronberg, Ebba