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Capacity building of women farmers organizations in the local fabrication and operation of GEM parboiler por Diabate, Fatoumata, Mujawamariya, Gaudiose, Dossou-Yovo, E. R

“…The technology addresses challenges like limited access to affordable firewood, smoke exposure, burns, and excessive labor. By adopting GEM, participating women saw a significant income increase of USD 200 per ton of parboiled rice and reduced firewood costs from USD 18.3 to USD 6.4 per ton. …”
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Economic analysis of commercial seed yam production systems in the Subhumid ecologies of the river Niger por Ibana, S., Coyne, Danny L., Claudius-Cole, A.O., McNamara, N., Morse, S.

“…Results suggest that seed-yam production is profitable in the area using both systems, with gross margins (revenue – costs) of between Naira 23,395 and 61,375/ha (or US$175 to $458/ha).…”
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Adapting a yam seed technique to meet farmers’ criteria por Odu, B.O., Coyne, Danny L., Kumar, P. Lava

“…Seed yam is costly, and can carry pests and diseases. To reduce costs and to manage seed health, in the 1970s, the Yam Minisett Technique (YMT) was developed, which involved cutting yams into small pieces to be used as seed. …”
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Banana leaf pruning to facilitate annual legume intercropping as an intensification strategy in the East African highlands por Ocimati, W., Ntamwira, J., Groot, Jeroen C.J., Taulya, Godfrey, Tittonell, Pablo A., Dhed’a, B., Asten, Piet J.A. van, Vanlauwe, Bernard, Ruhigwa, B., Blomme, Guy

“…However, the highest values for gross revenue and benefit-cost ratio were realized for sole banana-all-leaf retention treatment due to a higher labor productivity and lower input costs attributed to the perennial nature of banana. …”
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Enzymatic pretreatment optimizes rice husk decomposition by black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens L. (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) larvae por Dzepe, D., Ndindeng, S.A., Ogbon, E.A., Riggi, L., Lalander, C., Djouaka, R.F.

“…Sensitivity analysis revealed that improvements in BSFL market prices, reductions in enzyme or labor costs, or process scale-up could improve economic viability. …”
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Business models for scaling Climate Smart Agriculture in Bihar, India por Vernet, Pierre Antoine

“…CSA practices provide both farmers and service providers with the opportunity to better manage risks, to save labor and costs and to increase revenues. (Sharma 2015) To determine the feasibility of this research, a socio-economic survey will be carried out in the Samastipur and Vaishali District of Bihar on 17 different service providers (i.e. small businesses) leasing or providing CSA technologies and machineries. …”
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Business models for solar-powered irrigation in Ethiopia por International Water Management Institute

“…Other factors influencing profits include access to markets, and labor and input costs, although these are not unique to solar pump irrigation. …”
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Somatic embryogenesis of Arabica coffee in temporary immersion culture: Advances, limitations, and perspectives for mass propagation of selected genotypes por Aguilar V., María Elena, Xiao-yang, Wang, Escalona, Maritza, Lin, yan, Li-fang, Huang

“…TIS have revolutionized somatic embryogenesis of coffee plants as an alternative for scaling up and reducing costs associated with labor-intensive solid media culture. …”
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Productividad, mano de obra y costos variables en fincas cafetaleras orgánicas y convencionales de Costa Rica por Lyngbaek, A.E., Muschler, R., Sinclair, F.L.

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Att köpa sig tid : hur man kan minska tidsbristen i en småskalig grönsaksproduktion por Johansson, Maja

Can agroforestry provide a future for cocoa? Implications for policy and practice por Olwig, M.F., Asare, R., Vaast, P., Bosselmann, A.S.

“…Yet, as we have shown in this book, the impacts of climate change must be understood in the context of the multiple socioeconomic and biophysical pressures facing cocoa farmers, including the conversion of farms for other land uses, increasing hired labor costs as well as pests and diseases. This final chapter summarizes the book’s overall findings on cocoa agroforestry as climate change adap-tion and points to ways forward in terms of policy, practice and research. …”
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Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods por Ambler, Kate, Herskowitz, Sylvan, Maredia, Karim M.

“…Existing evidence relies heavily on studies that use designated respondents to provide information about their household members, imposing significant costs on these respondents along with possible distortions in the data. …”
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Collective action for water harvesting irrigation in the Lerma-Chapala Basin, Mexico por Scott, Christopher A., Silva-Ochoa, Paula

“…Providing irrigation as a supplement to rainfall for crop production requires considerable collective action at the watershed level to mobilize labor and other resources, as well as to make decisions and implement the distribution of benefits. …”
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Does subsidized childcare help poor working women in urban areas? evaluation of a government-sponsored program in Guatemala City por Ruel, Marie T., de la Briere, Benedicte, Hallman, Kelly, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Coj de Salazar, Nora

“…High urbanization rates in Latin America are accompanied by an increase in women’s participation in the labor force and the number of households headed by single mothers. …”
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Does subsidized childcare help poor working women in urban areas? evaluation of a government-sponsored program in Guatemala City por Ruel, Marie T., de la Briere, Benedicte, Hallman, Kelly, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Coj de Salazar, Nora

“…High urbanization rates in Latin America are accompanied by an increase in women’s participation in the labor force and the number of households headed by single mothers. …”
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Early childhood nutrition, schooling, and sibling inequality in a dynamic context: evidence from South Africa por Yamauchi, Futoshi

“…By the time of transition from primary to secondary school, the healthy child can increase household income by seeking employment in the labor market. In other words, while health capital augments the efficiency of investment in schooling at the early stage, it may increase opportunity costs at the later stage, which may deter investment in schooling.…”
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Combining revealed and stated preference methods to assess the private value of agrobiodiversity in Hungarian home gardens por Birol, Ekin, Kontoleon, Andreas, Smale, Melinda

“…Hungarian home gardens are small-scale farms managed by farm households using traditional management practices and family labor. They generate private benefits for farmers by enhancing diet quality and providing food when costs of transacting in local markets are high. …”
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Determinants and implications of the growing scale of livestock farms in four fast-growing developing countries por Delgado, Christopher L., Narrod, Clare, Tiongco, Marites, Barros, Geraldo Sant'Ana de Camargo, Catelo, Maria Angeles O., Costales, Achilles, Mehta, Rajesh, Naranong, Viroj, Poapongsakorn, Nipon, Sharma, Vijay Paul, de Zen, Sergio

“…Findings show that the competitiveness of smallholder farms depends on the opportunity cost of family labor and farmers' ability to overcome barriers to the acquisition of production- and market-related information and assets. …”
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Early childhood nutrition, schooling, and sibling inequality in a dynamic context: Evidence from South Africa por Yamauchi, Futoshi

“…By the time of transition from primary to secondary school, the healthy child can increase household income by seeking employment in the labor market. In other words, while health capital augments the efficiency of investment in schooling at the early stage, it may increase opportunity costs at the later stage, which may deter investment in schooling.…”
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Assessment of the COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on Agriculture and Food Security in Tajikistan por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The agriculture module focuses on changes in household participation in agricultural activities, land use, access to and costs of inputs, male and female labor, machinery, market access, and information.…”
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