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Village livestock promoters (VLPs): A new approach for integrated delivery of livestock inputs and services in Nepal by Jaishi, M., Singh, T., Teufel, Nils, Varijakshapanicker, Padmakumar

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Is there an enabling environment for nutrition-sensitive agriculture in East Africa?: Stakeholder perspectives from Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda by Hodge, Judith, Herforth, Anna, Gillespie, Stuart, Beyero, Mesfin, Wagah, Margaret, Semakula, Richard

“…While agriculture has the potential to be a strong driver of malnutrition reduction and serves as the main source of livelihood for approximately two-thirds of East Africa’s population, its potential to reduce malnutrition is currently not being realized.Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in East Africa is a research study based in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda that seeks to understand the enabling environment necessary for optimizing the contribution of the food and agriculture sector to nutrition outcomes. …”
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Is there an enabling environment for nutrition-sensitive agriculture in South Asia?: Stakeholder perspectives from India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan by van den Bold, Mara, Kohli, Neha, Gillespie, Stuart, Zuberi, Samar, Rajeesh, Sangeetha, Chakraborty, Barnali

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Leveraging agriculture for nutrition in South Asia and East Africa: Examining the enabling environment through stakeholder perceptions by Gillespie, Stuart, van den Bold, Mara, Hodge, Judith, Herforth, Anna

“…Contextualized research into policy processes and the political economy of agriculture and nutrition is needed to better characterize "enabling environments" for agriculture to benefit nutrition, and how these environments can be shaped and sustained. …”
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Contract farming, farmers’ income and adoption of food safety practices: Evidence from remote areas of Nepal by Kumar, Anjani, Roy, Devesh, Tripathi, Gaurav, Adhikari, Rajendra

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Resilience in technical efficiency and enabling factors: Insights from panel farm enterprise surveys in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan by Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Djanibekov, Nodir, Abduvalieva, Nilufar, Mirkasimov, Bakhrom, Akramov, Kamiljon T.

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Early childhood nutrition, schooling, and sibling inequality in a dynamic context: evidence from South Africa by Yamauchi, Futoshi

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Early childhood nutrition, schooling, and sibling inequality in a dynamic context: evidence from South Africa by Yamauchi, Futoshi

“…Based on a comparison of siblings, this analysis concludes that improving children’s health significantly lowers the age when they start school, increases grade attainment, and decreases grade repetition in the early stage of schooling. …”
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Early childhood nutrition, schooling, and sibling inequality in a dynamic context: Evidence from South Africa by Yamauchi, Futoshi

“…Based on a comparison of siblings, this analysis concludes that improving children’s health significantly lowers the age when they start school, increases grade attainment, and decreases grade repetition in the early stage of schooling. …”
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Enabling adoption of stress-tolerant rice varieties and associated production management technologies by smallholder farmers in Cambodia by Vergara, Georgina V., Srey, Sinath, Flor, Rica Joy, Ouk, Akhara, Keo, Sokheng, Seyla, Sem, Leng, Layhout, Uch, Chanthol, Velasco, Lourdes, Valencia, Shiela, Laborte, Alice, Pede, Valerien, Hadi, Buyung A., Ismail, Abdelbagi M.

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Marker-assisted breeding to develop the drought-tolerant version of Sabitri, a popular variety from Nepal by Dixit, Shalabh, Yadaw, Ram Baran, Mishra, Krishna Kumar, Kumar, Arvind

“…Based on their performance, these NILs can be deployed in rainfed areas in Nepal and other countries of South Asia to increase yield stability.…”
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A multidisciplinary phenotyping and genotyping analysis of a mapping population enables quality to be combined with yield in rice by Calingacion, Mariafe, Mumm, Roland, Tan, Kevin, Quiatchon-Baeza, Lenie, Concepcion, Jeanaflor C. T., Hageman, Jos A., Prakash, Sangeeta, Fitzgerald, Melissa, Hall, Robert D.

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Responses by farmers to the apple snail invasion of Ecuador's rice fields and attitudes toward predatory snail kites by Horgan, Finbarr G., Felix, Maria Imelda, Portalanza, Diego E., Sánchez, Luis, Moya Rios, Walter M., Farah, Simón E., Wither, Javier A., Andrade, Cesar I., Espin, Edwin B.

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Long-term changes in yield and soil fertility in a twenty-year-rice-wheat experiment in Nepal by S., Gami, J., Ladha, Pathak, H., M., Shah, Pasuquin, E., Pandey, S., P., Hobbs, D., Joshy, R., Mishra

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Vulnerability and risk mapping at the municipality level in Dailekh and Sarlahi Districts of Nepal: visualization through an online dashboard by Nepal, Santosh, Aryal, Anil, Shrestha, U. B.

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Training of national government livestock personnel in Nepal on the Africa Asia Dairy Genetics Gains (AADGG) Platform by Ojango, Julie M.K., Kosgei, Gideon, Nepal, Yanamani, Basnet, Suresh

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What adults in rural South Asia eat and when they eat it: Evidence from Bangladesh, India, and Nepal by Scott, Samuel P., Patwardhan, Sharvari, Ruel, Marie T., Chakrabarti, Suman, Neupane, Sumanta, Manohar, Swetha, Moursi, Mourad, Menon, Purnima

“…One-third of adults did not eat breakfast in Nepal, and snacking was twice as common in males (63%) versus females (33%) in Bangladesh. …”
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Outmigration and the rural-urban transition: Challenges and opportunities to crop-livestock interactions in Nepal - A systematic review by Koirala, Pankaj, Adhikari, Tikaram, Mponella, Powell, Krupnik, Timothy J., Shrestha, Nirman, Lopez-Ridaura, Santiago

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Enabling socio-technical innovation bundles (STIBs) implementation in Ethiopia: a literature review of the policy context by Chakona, G., Mapedza, Everisto D., Nigussie, Likimyelesh, Nchanji, E., Ketema, D. M., Gartaula, H. N., Joshi, Deepa, Puskur, R.

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Fostering tenure security for forest landscape restoration in Ethiopia: Creating enabling conditions for the 2018 Forest Proclamation by McLain, Rebecca, Kassa, Habtemariam, Lawry, Steven, Yazew, Belay

“…The goal and the challenge for Ethiopia’s current forest reform effort is to get the balance right between communities and the state in terms of how rights and governance functions are distributed, to enable the government to adapt to its new roles and ensure that communities receive the support they need to actualize their rights and discharge their forest management responsibilities as per agreed-upon management plans.…”
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