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Unleashing the potential of solar irrigation in Bangladesh: key lessons from different implementation models por Mitra, Archisman, Buisson, Marie-Charlotte, Osmani, A. Z., Mukherji, Aditi

“…The transition to solar-powered irrigation in South Asia offers an opportunity to cut greenhouse gas emissions and reduce dependency on expensive diesel. …”
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Information Policy for Agricultural Research (IPAR) - Republic of Iran por International Service for National Agricultural Research

“…Iran already has one of the most developed telephone infrastructures in Asia. In May 1995, the Deputy Chairman of TCI noted that there were 5.5 million telephone numbers in the country and that almost 5.0 million more were planned by the end of the second plan period. …”
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Who does what: A novel tool to rapidly assess intra-household participation in agriculture and food-related tasks por Kumar, Neha

“…The findings will deepen our understanding of how food is prepared and consumed, which is essential to develop feasible and sustainable solutions for healthy diets in South Asia.…”
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A critical focus on men and masculinities in a feminist pedagogy: Lessons from the GREAT training course por Mwiine, Amon Ashaba, Mangheni, Margaret Najjingo, Asiimwe, Elizabeth, Businge, Martha, Sanya, Losira Nasirumbi

“…Using selected experiences from transformative gender training for non-gender-specialist biophysical and social science agricultural research practitioners from sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, we take stock of the GREAT model’s motivation to include masculinities, the pedagogical approach used, and participants’ reactions and feedback on the value of understanding masculinities in gender-responsive agricultural research and their experiences with the sessions. …”
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Essential Connections: Gender Equality and Social Inclusion within Agrifood Systems por Stepanovic, Serena, Ganira, Jedidah

“…Since summer 2022, this approach has been piloted in five sub-Saharan countries and this will be expanded to Southeast Asia. …”
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Intervention protocol for reducing antimicrobial dependence in tilapia-dominant-fish farming system in Bangladesh por Rheman, Shafiq, Khor, Laura, Hossain, Sabrina, Delamare-Deboutteville, Jerome, Chadag, Vishnumurthy Mohan

“…This Initiative is implemented by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the International Water Management Institute, and WorldFish in Africa and Asia. In Bangladesh, WorldFish with ILRI and IFPRI, is working on reducing AMU and the occurrence and distribution of antimicrobial-resistant pathogens of zoonotic importance in aquaculture settings. …”
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Integrated policies to improve the energy–water–food system nexus to achieve the SGDs por Bollino, Carlo Andrea, Anbumozhi, Venkatachalam, Babu, Suresh Chandra, Eiji, Yamaji, Galeotti, Marzio

“…The suggestion is to promote policies to (1) facilitate which determinants are best suited to enhance the convergence of policy process, such as economic diversification, subsidy removal, and liberalization through a multisectoral approach; and (2) support increasing electricity access using alternative sources of energies in remote rural areas in Asia, Africa, and Latin America through integrated Official Development Assistance (ODA) and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).…”
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Evolution of agricultural mechanization in Nigeria por Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Lawal, Akeem

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Modelling the global economic consequences of a major African swine fever outbreak in China por Mason-D’Croz, Daniel, Bogard, Jessica R., Herrero, Mario, Robinson, Sherman, Sulser, Timothy B., Wiebe, Keith D., Willenbockel, Dirk, Godfray, H. Charles J.

“…African swine fever is a deadly porcine disease that has spread into East Asia where it is having a detrimental effect on pork production. …”
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The evolution of agricultural mechanization in Sri Lanka por Abeyratne, Fredrick, Takeshima, Hiroyuki

“…Rice in Sri Lanka has a substantial irrigation infrastructure, a strong plant breeding system, and historical examples of success in location-specific breeding strategies (Pain 1986). Furthermore, tractor use in rice cultivation grew very quickly, especially given the relatively small amount of arable land in the country and the lack of direct subsidies, but with certain incentives. …”
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Household resilience and coping strategies to food insecurity: An empirical analysis from Tajikistan [in Tajik] por Rajiv, Sharanya, Aliev, Jovidon

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Addressing conflict through collective action in natural resource management por Ratner, Blake D., Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Hellin, Jon, Mapedza, Everisto D., Unruh, Jon D., Veening, Wouter, Haglund, Eric, May, Candace, Bruch, Carl

“…Focusing on this latter theme, this review synthesizes evidence from cases in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Building on an analytical framework designed to enable such comparative analysis, we present several propositions about the dynamics of conflict and collective action in natural resource management, and a series of recommendations for action. …”
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Changes in Ghanaian farming systems: Stagnation or a quiet transformation? por Houssou, Nazaire, Johnson, Michael E., Kolavalli, Shashidhara, Asante-Addo, Collins

“…The overall trend suggests a gradual move toward intensification through increasing use of labor-saving technologies rather than land-saving inputs—a pattern that contrasts with Asia’s path to its Green Revolution. The findings in this paper provide evidence of the dynamism occurring in African farming systems; hence, they point toward a departure from stagnation narratives that have come to prevail in the debate on agricultural transformation and intensification in Africa South of the Sahara. …”
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Costs of diesel pump irrigation systems in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains: What options exist for efficiency gains? por Foster, Timothy, Adhikari, Roshan, Urfels, Anton, Adhikari, Subash, Krupnik, Timothy J., International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, International Rice Research Institute

“…Groundwater irrigation plays a critical role in supporting food security, rural livelihoods and economic development in South Asia. Yet, large disparities in groundwater access and use remain across the region. …”
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Advancing research, policy, and capacity for food system transformation: Synthesis of achievements from the feed the future innovation lab for food security policy por Resnick, Danielle, Haggblade, Steven, Benson, Todd, Crawford, Eric

“…As outlined in Box 1, FSP efforts targeted five main activity areas, with a regional emphasis on Africa and Asia.…”
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Labor and welfare impacts of a large-scale livelihoods program: Quasi-experimental evidence from India por Pandey, Vivek, Gupta, Abhishek, Gupta, Shivani

“…Improving the livelihoods of poor households and transitioning more women back to the labor force is a major challenge in South Asia. Self-employment promoted through women's groups has often been cited as a promising intervention towards this end. …”
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Structural change in a poor African country: New historical evidence from Ghana por Osei, Robert Darko, Jedwab, Rémi

“…Each country has its own story of how it developed, but at the regional level, some stark patterns stand out. For Asia, the development path was rather traditional, with the decline of agriculture and the rise of manufacturing (that is, industrialization) and services. …”
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Tajikistan spatial: A national development and food security atlas por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Tajikistan Spatial is a collaborative project involving the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the University of Central Asia (UCA), Local Development Committee under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan (LDC), supported by the CGIAR Research Programs on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) and Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH), the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).…”
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The recent growth boom in developing economies: The role of services por Diao, Xinshen, McMillan, Margaret S., Rodrik, Dani

“…First, the services sector has contributed to labour productivity growth in developing economies through structural change (primarily Africa) and through productivity improvements within the services sector (primarily Latin America) and sometimes through both channels (primarily East Asia). Second, in many African countries, within-sector productivity growth in the services sector (and in most other sectors, with the exception of agriculture) has been weak and sometimes negative. …”
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Feasibility of nationwide warehouse receipt system: An assessment of the potential for a nationwide warehouse receipt system and recommendation for the requisite legal and regulato... por Narayanan, Sudha, Hussain, Siraj, Rashid, Shahidur

“…To do this we review global evidence as well as evidence closer to home, within South Asia, to understand the pre-conditions and prerequisites for a successful system.…”
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