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Will promotion of agricultural mechanization help prevent child labour? by Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, International Food Policy Research Institute, Vos, Rob, Takeshima, Hiroyuki

“…The new FAO-IFPRI study provides a rigorous quantitative assessment for seven developing countries in Asia (India, Nepal and Viet Nam) and sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria and Tanzania) based on comparable farm household survey data.…”
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Agrifood market participation, household economies of specialization and diversification: Evidence from Vietnam by Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Ajmani, Manmeet Singh, Roy, Devesh, Fadhillah, Aniq, Liu, Yanyan

“…Despite the growth of agrifood markets, and gradual structural transformation, smallholders persist in Asia. Such patterns are at odds with the views that market growth should encourage more specialization whereby smallholders’ transition to either larger farmers or specialized non-farm households. …”
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Impacts of COVID-19 on global poverty, food security and diets by Laborde Debucquet, David, Martin, Will, Vos, Rob

“…The increases in poverty are concentrated in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa with impacts harder in urban areas than in rural. …”
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Impact Evaluation of the DFID Programme to Accelerate Improved Nutrition of the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh by Hoddinott, John F., Roy, Shalini, Karachiwalla, Naureen, Naher, Firdousi, Nisbett, Nick, Tranchant, Jean Pierre

“…Meanwhile, evidence from South Asia shows that high rates of economic growth and reduction in poverty have not led to similarly large reductions in undernutrition (see 1, 2, 3). …”
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AReNA's DHS-GIS Database by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Advancing Research on Nutrition and Agriculture (AReNA) is a 6-year, multi-country project in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, being implemented from 2015 through 2020. …”
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Understanding veterinary drug shop workers' knowledge and practices to identify drivers of antibiotic use in Vietnamese livestock farms by Nohrborg, S., Thinh Nguyen-Thi, Huyen Nguyen Xuan, Yen Luu Thi Hai, Lindahl, Johanna F., Boqvist, S., Järhult, J.D., Magnusson, Ulf

“…Antibiotic use (ABU) drives AMR development, and several hotspots for ABU, and AMR, in livestock have been identified in Southeast Asia, including Vietnam. There are often multiple drivers of ABU at farms, and to identify all of them there is a need to look beyond farm level. …”
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Genetic Engineering: A Powerful Tool for Crop Improvement by Bhattacharjee, Mamta, Meshram, Swapnil, Dayma, Jyotsna, Pandey, Neha, Naglaa A, Abdallah, Hamwieh, Aladdin, Mahmoud, Nourhan Fouad, Acharjee, Sumita

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Scaling antimicrobial resistance surveillance nationally: The case of the Fleming Fund in Kenya by Kasudi, Mitchelle R., Muloi, Dishon M., Murungi, Maurice K., Azegele, A., Ndanyi, R., Gunturu, R., Ombajo, L., Tanui, E., Onsare, R.S., Omuse, G., Kariuki, S., Fèvre, Eric M.

“…The Fleming Fund, a UK Overseas Development Aid program managed by the UK’s Department of Health and Social Care, aims to improve AMR and antimicrobial use (AMU) surveillance data in Africa and Asia by generating, sharing, and using data to improve antimicrobial use and encourage investment in AMR research and development. …”
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Rural food markets and child nutrition by Headey, Derek D., Hirvonen, Kalle, Hoddinott, John F., Stifel, David

“…Child dietary diversity is poor in much of rural Africa and developing Asia, prompting significant efforts to leverage agriculture to improve diets. …”
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An egg for everyone: Pathways to universal access to one of nature's most nutritious foods by Morris, Saul Sutkover, Beesabathuni, Kalpana, Headey, Derek D.

“…Eggs are unavailable, expensive, and infrequently consumed by children in much of South Asia and sub‐Saharan Africa. The base scenario results in modest increases in production in low‐income regions. …”
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Taking stock of IFPRI’s experience with country programs by Hazell, Peter B. R., Place, Frank, Tollens, Eric

“…Ideally, the external evaluation would have included CPs in both Africa and Asia, but this was not possible with the available budget. …”
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Transformation and sources of growth in Southeast Asian agriculture by Joshi, Pramod Kumar, Roy, Devesh, Pandey, Ghanshyam, Birthal, Pratap Singh

“…Over the past few decades, the agricultural sector of Southeast Asia has experienced robust growth and undergone a structural transformation albeit differentially across the countries in the region. …”
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Value chain transformation by Hernandez, Ricardo, Belton, Ben, Reardon, Thomas, Hu, Chaoran, Zhang, Xiaobo, Ahmed, Akhter

“…First, aquaculture is growing fast in Asia. From 1984 to 2014, Bangladesh’s farmed fish jumped from 124,000 metric tons to 1.96 million metric tons, increasing by 1,580 percent. …”
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Welfare and poverty impacts of aquaculture growth by Rashid, Shahidur, Minot, Nicholas, Lemma, Solomon

“…The adverse consequences would have been particularly severe for the developing countries of Asia, where fish is an important part of the diet and where fish production and marketing provide the livelihoods for millions of poor households.…”
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Agricultural transformation and market integration in the ASEAN region: Responding to food security and inclusiveness concerns summary report on the national inception workshop in... by Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture

“…The project is a response to the challenges confronting Southeast Asia’s food security and inclusive agricultural growth agenda due to structural transformation in the region. …”
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Agriculture, nutrition and the green revolution in Bangladesh by Headey, Derek D., Hoddinott, John F.

“…This paper explores agriculture and nutrition linkages in Bangladesh, a country that achieved rapid growth in rice productivity at a relatively late stage in Asia's Green Revolution, as well as unheralded progress against undernutrition. …”
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Climate and jobs for rural young people by Brooks, Karen, Dunston, Shahnila, Wiebe, Keith D., Arndt, Channing, Hartley, Faaiqa, Robertson, Richard D.

“…Of the slightly more than 500 million rural young people projected globally in 2030, two thirds will be in sub-Saharan Africa and in South Asia. In many African countries farming still employs over half of a rapidly growing labour force, and the absolute number of agricultural workers is still rising (although the share of the labour force is falling with structural transformation). …”
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Entitlement fetching or snatching? Effects of arbitrage on India’s public distribution system by Chakrabarti, Suman, Kishore, Avinash, Roy, Devesh

“…Drèze and Sen (2013), however, posit the opposite—an entitlement-fetching effect, where an increase in arbitrage increases the value of PDS entitlement. …”
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Evidence from Odisha’s Mamata scheme: Can conditional cash transfers improve the uptake of nutrition interventions and household food security? by Raghunathan, Kalyani, Chakrabarti, Suman, Avula, Rasmi, Kim, Sunny S.

“…There is considerable global evidence on the effectiveness of cash transfers in improving health and nutrition outcomes; however, the evidence from South Asia, particularly India, is limited. In the context of India where more than a third of children are undernourished, and where there is considerable under-utilization of health and nutrition interventions, it is opportune to investigate the impact of cash transfer programs on the use of interventions. …”
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Global and regional pulse economies: Current trends and outlook by Joshi, Pramod Kumar, Rao, P. Parthasarathy

“…For developing countries, two new centers of production emerged in Eastern Africa and Southeastern Asia (Myanmar).…”
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