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Vida urbana: retos y opciones para los pobres en la ciudad por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…More than half of the population of Africa and Asia will live in urban areas by 2020. More than three-quarters of Latin Americans already do. …”
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Watershed development projects in India: an evaluation por Kerr, John M.

“…It offers important insights for IFPRI's research in other parts of the world, including work under way in the East African highlands, the hillsides of Central America, and the West Asia and North Africa regions. While much has been written about watershed development, there have been few efforts to systematically evaluate it. …”
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Groundwater markets in Pakistan: participation and productivity por Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…Although selling water from private wells is a long-standing practice in South Asia, these informal arrangements are only now being examined in detail. …”
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Microfinance por Sharma, Manohar

“…Literally hundreds of similar examples can be found in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.…”
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Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI) por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…This transformation will initially focus on Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia and will hopefully be rolled out to other regions in the near future.…”
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An operational tool for evaluating poverty outreach of development policies and projects por Zeller, Manfred, Sharma, Manohar, Henry, Carla, Lapenu, Cecile

“…The paper concludes with a summary of results from four country case studies (two in Sub-Saharan Africa, one in South Asia, and one in Central America).…”
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Impacts of Urochloa hybrid forage seed adoption in the global tropics 2001-2023 por Burkart, Stefan, Jauregui, Rosa, Notenbaert, An, Atieno, Mary, Peters, Michael

“…This puts the cattle industry in a difficult position, central to political debates on how to sustainably increase productivity while minimizing environmental harm. …”
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The impact of agricultural extension programs on women’s empowerment in agriculture and food systems in the global south: A systematic review por Acosta, S.L.

“…Most studies in this review involved communities in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia and provided training on the several different types of agriculture topics: irrigation, climate change resilience, inputs and fertilizer, plant breeding, and more. …”
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Market conditions for circular bioeconomy in emerging economies por Taron, Avinandan, Bhandarkar, Supriya, Bodach, Susanne, Gebrezgabher, Solomie A.

“…Wastewater reuse is most advanced in water-scarce MENA nations, where treated water supports irrigation and landscaping. However, South Asia and Latin America struggle with low treatment coverage and public resistance. …”
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Combining ability and hybrid breeding in pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum [L.] R. Br.) for agronomic traits and resistance to Striga hermonthica por Rouamba, Armel, Hussein, Shimelis, Drabo, Inoussa, Mrema, Emmanuel, Mashilo, Jacob, Mwadzingeni, Learnmore

“…Br., 2n = 2x = 14) is a nutrient-dense and climate-resilient crop widely cultivated in the dry regions of Africa and Asia. In Burkina Faso, the actual mean yield of the crop is < 1 ton/ha compared with a potential yield of 3 tons/ha. …”
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Physical and virtual global food reserves to protect the poor and prevent market failure por von Braun, Joachim, Torero, Máximo

“…Speculative bubbles have built up, and the gap between cash and futures prices has risen, stimulating overregulation in some countries and causing some commodity exchanges in Africa and Asia to halt grain futures trading. Some food aid donors have defaulted on food aid contracts. …”
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Causes and consequences of changing land tenure institutions in Western Ghana por Otsuka, Keijiro, Aidoo, J. B., Tachibana, Towa, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…Land tenure institutions in customary land areas of Sub-Saharan Africa have been evolving towards individualized ownership. …”
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Agriculture and climate change: The importance of property rights in climate change mitigation por Markelova, Helen, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…Millions of hectares of forest and pastoral land in Asia and Latin America are similarly listed as state land, although used by communities, especially those of indigenous people or other marginalized ethnic groups. …”
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Genomic prediction from multi-environment trials of wheat breeding por Garcia Barrios, Guillermo, Crespo Herrera, Leonardo A., Cruz-Izquierdo, Serafín, Vitale, Paolo, Sandoval-Islas, José Sergio, Gerard, Guillermo Sebastián, Aguilar Rincón, Víctor Heber, Corona-Torres, Tarsicio, Crossa, José, Pacheco Gil, Rosa Angela

“…In this study, genomic prediction models were implemented in three target populations of environments (TPE) in South Asia. Four models that incorporate genotype x environment interaction (G x E) and genotype x genotype (GG) were tested: Factor Analytic (FA), FA with genomic relationship matrix (FA + G), FA with epistatic relationship matrix (FA + GG), and FA with both genomic and epistatic relationship matrices (FA + G + GG). …”
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Screening of CIMMYT and South Asian bread wheat germplasm reveals marker-trait associations for seedling resistance to Septoria nodorum blotch por Mandal, Rupsanatan, Xinyao He, Singh, Gyanendra, Kabir, Muhammad Rezaul, Joshi, Arun Kumar, Singh, Pawan Kumar

“…In the current study, a total of 174 bread wheat accessions from South Asia and CIMMYT were assessed for SNB reactions at the seedling stage in three greenhouse experiments at CIMMYT, Mexico. …”
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Integrating rainfall index-based insurance with optimal crop management strategies can reduce financial risks for Australian dryland cotton farmers por Thong Nguyen-Huy, Kath, J., Kouadio, L., King, R., Mushtaq, S., Barratt, J.

“…We used the Agricultural Production Systems Simulator (APSIM)-Cotton model to simulate cotton lint yields for various sowing dates, taking into account different management strategies, across three dry-land cotton research farm sites – Dalby, Goondiwindi, and Theodore – from 1940 to 2022. …”
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Economic, social and environmental ex ante impacts of scaling mechanized direct-seeded rice technology package : evidence from Cambodia por Oyakhilomen Oyinbo, Chamberlin, Jordan, Gbegbelegbe, Sika, Flor, Rica J.

“…Direct broadcast seeding, the dominant rice establishment method among smallholder farmers in Southeast Asia, is associated with suboptimal rice productivity, profitability and environmental sustainability. …”
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Genetic diversity for grain nutrients content in finger millet (Eleusine Coracana (L.) Gaertn.) germplasm por Ojulong, H., Manyasa, E.O., Patrick, S., Oduori, C.A., Adikini, S., Nyaligwa, L., Mushoriwa, H., Solanke, A.U., Kole, C.

“…Most of the nutrients were positively correlated with each other, implying that they can simultaneously be improved. …”
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PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS AND ESTIMATED BREEDING VALUES FOR SELECTING SUITABLE PARENTAL GENOTYPES IN RICE (ORYZA SATIVA L.) por Khatun, M.

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Meta-QTL s and haplotypes for efficient zinc biofortification of rice por Joshi, Gaurav, Soe, Yan Paing, Palanog, Alvin, Hore, Tapas Kumer, Nha, Chau Thanh, Calayugan, Mark Ian, Inabangan-Asilo, Mary Ann, Amparado, Amery, Pandey, Indra Deo, Sta. Cruz, Pompe C., Hernandez, Jose E., Swamy, B.P. Mallikarjuna

“…Biofortification of rice with improved grain zinc (Zn) content is the most sustainable and cost‐effective approach to address Zn malnutrition in Asia. Genomics‐assisted breeding using precise and consistent Zn quantitative trait loci (QTLs), genes, and haplotypes can fast‐track the development of Zn biofortified rice varieties. …”
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