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Producer Support Estimates (PSEs) for agriculture in developing countries: measurement issues and illustrations from India and China by Mullen, Kathleen, Sun, Dongsheng, Orden, David, Gulati, Ashok

“…The results for India suggest that ignoring factors such as internal transport costs, marketing margins and quality differences can result in inaccurate price support estimates and PSEs that may be of the wrong sign. …”
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Intensive and extensive margins of India's agricultural trade: implications for export diversification and development by Elumalai, Kanan, Kumar, Anjani

“…There was a positive and significant effect of the free trade agreement (FTA) on export margins.More disaggregated commodity-specific studies on value chain analysis would provide valuable insights into the issues hindering exports and realizing the untapped export potential.There is a scarcity of holistic and recent studies illustrating the role of IM and EMs in agricultural trade growth, covering a large number of commodities and geographies associated with Indian agricultural trade. …”
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Tax policy to reduce carbon emissions in a distorted economy: Illustrations from a South Africa CGE Model by Devarajan, Shantayanan, Go, Delfin S., Robinson, Sherman, Thierfelder, Karen

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The challenge of effective model scoping: a FLORES case study from the Mafungausti forest margins, Zimbabwe by Haggith, M., Prabhu, Ravi, Mudavanhu, H., Matose, F., Mutimukuru, T., Nyirenda, R., Standa-Gunda, W.

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Input use under cost-of-production crop insurance: Theory and evidence by He, Juan, Zheng, Xiaoyong, Rejesus, Roderick, Yorobe, Jose

“…A survey data set from corn farmers in the Philippines is then used to empirically illustrate how a particular COP insurance product influences input use in a real‐life context. …”
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Towards an economic framework for evaluating potential benefits from research into weed-control by Pandey, S., Lindner, R.K., Medd, R.W.

“…Reduced seedling survival gave the highest benefits in most cases, but achieving such improvement by improving herbicide efficacy may have a high marginal cost given that the tactic is already well‐researched. …”
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The competitiveness of beef exports from Burkina Faso to Ghana by Rich, Karl M., Wane, Abdrahmane

“…Market segmentation strategies, infrastructure development, and animal productivity all generate marginal improvements in competitiveness, but not enough to compete with third-country supplies. …”
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Breeding in bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc): strategic considerations by Massawe, F., Nwale, S., Azam-Ali, S.N., Roberts, J.

“…This paper shows how different strategies have been combined to establish the basis of a strategic breeding programme in bambara groundnut. The paper also illustrates the use of landraces in the bambara groundnut breeding programme, as an example of the contribution that landraces can make to increasing productivity in marginal environments and the conservation of a crop’s genetic resources on-farm.…”
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Evaluating agricultural weather and climate services in Africa: A learning agenda on climate information services in sub-Saharan Africa by Vaughan, Catherine, Hansen, James, Roudier, Philippe, Watkiss, Paul, Carr, Edward R.

“…Developed with a variety of methods, these estimates are also wide ranging (some users lose, while others experience up to 66% marginal gains) and illustrate how impact is conditioned on a number of characteristics of the service, the user, and the context in which both operate. …”
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An approach to the optimal allocation of conservation funds to minimize loss of genetic diversity between livestock breeds by Simianer, H., Marti, S., Gibson, John P., Hanotte, Olivier H., Rege, J.E.O.

“…The methodology is illustrated with an example of 23 African zebu and zenga cattle breeds. …”
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Trade-Offs in Multi-Purpose Land Use under Land Degradation by Vlek, Paul L.G., Khamzina, Asia, Azadi, Hossein, Bhaduri, Anik, Bharati, Luna, Braimoh, Ademola, Martius, Christopher, Sunderland, Terry C.H., Taheri, Fatemeh

“…In some situations, the public cost of agriculture in marginal environments outweighs the private gains, even with the best technologies in place. …”
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‘Our own law is making us beggars’ by Kativu, Saymore Ngonidzashe

“…Yet despite these aspirations and commitments to mining development that does not continue to disenfranchise communities, voices of communities remain peripheral to commitments to improve the mining industry that has historically been illustrated unequal, stimulating scholarship on the natural resource curse and recently unequal ecological exchange. …”
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Analysis of smallholders’ livelihood vulnerability to drought across agroecology and farm typology in the Upper Awash Sub-Basin, Ethiopia by Maru, H., Haileslassie, Amare, Zeleke, T., Esayas, B.

“…Results: The result illustrated a diverse magnitude of vulnerability index (VI) ranging from -1.956 to -4.253 for AEZ. …”
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Trait‐based approaches for guiding the restoration of degraded agricultural landscapes in East Africa by Lohbeck, M., Winowiecki, Leigh Ann, Aynekulu, Ermias, Okia, C., Vågen, Tor-Gunnar

“…Synthesis and applications. This work illustrates how functional ecology can provide much‐needed evidence for designing strategies to restore degraded agricultural land and the ecosystem services on which farmers depend. …”
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Two new species of the family Nippobodidae (Acari, Oribatida), including a description of the leg-folding process by Fernandez, Nestor, Theron, Pieter Daniel, Leiva, Sergio Dante

“…The leg-folding process is described and illustrated. Nippobodes panemorfis sp. n. is characterised by interlocking, double hook-shaped, posterior prodorsal condyle and anterior zone humeral apophysis; posterior prodorsal depression present. …”
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Policies affecting the competitiveness of dairy production in Sweden, Denmark and Germany by Andersson, Carl-Martin, Gotting, Mattias

“…The effect from the subsidies then make the marginal cost lower which gives the farmers a competitive advantage in form of cost advantage. …”
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Soil data for yield gap assessment and soil suitability index for sustainable intensification by Claessens, Lieven, Cassman, Kenneth G., Wart, Justin van, Grassini, Patricio, Vanlauwe, Bernard, Ittersum, Martin K. van, Bussel, Lenny G. J. van, Boogaard, H., Stoorvogel, J.J., Wolf, Joost, Yang, Haishun

“…However, for any of these interventions to be effective, soil quality and responsiveness to improved management is critical because very marginal or degraded soils cannot support intensified systems in a sustainable fashion. …”
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First Report of Maize chlorotic mottle virus Infecting Maize in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Lukanda, M., Owati, A., Ogunsanya, P., Valimunzigha, K., Katsongo, K., Ndemere, H., Kumar, P. Lava

“…Symptoms were prominent on newly emerging leaves that later developed marginal necrosis resembling the symptoms of maize lethal necrosis (MLN), caused by a dual infection of Maize chlorotic mottle virus (MCMV, genus Machlomovirus) and Sugarcane mosaic virus (SCMV, genus Potyvirus). …”
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Human and animal health in nomadic pastoralist communities of Chad: Zoonosis, morbidity and health services by Schelling, E.

“…Human serum retinol concentrations were significantly correlated to livestock milk retinol, illustrating the significance of milk as a dietary component. …”
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The Lower Krishna Basin: basin closure and shifting waterscape in South India by Venot, Jean-Philippe, Turral, Hugh, Samad, Madar

“…Currently, this is not affecting existing water uses as volumes considered remain marginal but in case of drought it could further deprive agricultural uses in the large irrigation projects located downstream. …”
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