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Modeling impacts of faster productivity growth to inform the CGIAR initiative on crops to end hunger por Wiebe, Keith D., Sulser, Timothy B., Dunston, Shahnila, Rosegrant, Mark W., Fuglie, Keith, Willenbockel, Dirk, Nelson, Gerald C.

“…Income increased most in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Faster productivity growth in rice and wheat reduced the population at risk of hunger by 11 million people and 6 million people respectively, followed by plantain and cassava with reductions of about 2 million people each. …”
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Women and youth in Myanmar agriculture por Lambrecht, Isabel B., Mahrt, Kristi, Cho, Ame

“…Limited quantitative information is available on this topic from Southeast Asia in general, and particularly from Myanmar. We use nationally representative data to document women’s and youth’s involvement in agriculture in rural Myanmar. …”
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Agricultural mechanisation and child labour in developing countries por Vos, Rob, Takeshima, Hiroyuki

“…The present study aims to fill some of this void by studying the evidence from comparable farm household survey data in seven developing countries, including three in Asia (India, Nepal, and Vietnam) and four in sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, and Tanzania). …”
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Effects of a large-scale alcohol ban on population-level alcohol intake, weight, blood pressure, blood glucose, and domestic violence in India: A quasi-experimental population-base... por Chakrabarti, Suman, Christopher, Anita, Scott, Samuel P., Kishore, Avinash, Nguyen, Phuong Hong

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Global Nutrition Report 2016: From Promise to Impact: Ending Malnutrition by 2030 por International Food Policy Research Institute, Haddad, Lawrence, Hawkes, Corinna, Udomkesmalee, Emom, Achadi, Endang, Bendech, Mohamed Ag, Ahuja, Arti, Bhutta, Zulfiqar, De-Regil, Luzmaria, Fanzo, Jessica, Fracassi, Patrizia, Grummer-Strawn, Laurence M., Kimani, Elizabeth, Martin-Prével, Yves, Menon, Purnima, Koukoubou, Eunice Nago, Nugent, Rachel, Oenema, Stineke, Randel, Judith, Requejo, Jennifer, Slaymaker, Tom, Swinburn, Boyd, Flores-Ayala, Rafael, Bhatia, Komal, Eriksen, Kamilla, Ledlie, Natasha, Lofthouse, Josephine, Shyam, Tara

“…The economic consequences represent losses of 11 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) every year in Africa and Asia, whereas preventing malnutrion delivers $16 in returns on investment for every $1 spent. …”
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Introduction and geographic availability of new antibiotics approved between 1999 and 2014 por Kållberg, Cecilia, Årdal, Christine, Salvesen, Blix, Klein, Eili Y., Martinez, Elena M., Kindbaek, Morten, Outterson, Kevin, Røttingen, John-Arne, Laxminarayan, Ramanan

“…Antibiotics originated from and/or marketed by companies from the US or Europe had greater geographic availability compared to Japanese antibiotics, which seldom reached outside of Asia. For 20 NCEs developers chose to fully or partially sublicense marketing rights to a number of companies of different sizes. …”
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Biochemical characterisation of a cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) diversity panel for post-harvest physiological deterioration: Metabolite involvement and environmental influenc... por Drapal, Margit, Ovalle Rivera, Tatiana M, Luna Melendez, Jorge Luis, Perez-Fons, Laura, Tran, Thierry, Dufour, Dominique, Becerra Lopez Lavalle, Luis Augusto, Fraser, Paul D.

“…Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) produces edible roots, a major carbohydrate source feeding more than 800 million people in Africa, Latin America, Oceania and Asia. Post-harvest physiological deterioration (PPD) renders harvested cassava roots unpalatable and unmarketable. …”
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Quantifying the impact of weather extremes on global food security: A spatial bio-economic approach por Gbegbelegbe, Sika, Chung, Uran, Shiferaw, Bekele, Msangi, Siwa, Tesfaye, Kindie

“…In addition, the hardest-hit regions would remain the same, whether the weather extreme occurs in 2012 instead of 2050: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), South Asia and the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region. …”
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The enabling environment is improving, but not quickly enough por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Starting with CHW and sugar fortification, it phases in vitamin A maize, oil, wheat flour, and maize meal (in that order) to eventually include all six individual interventions.Combining cost and Household Consumption and Expenditure Survey (HCES) data provides a powerful evidence-generating tool with which to understand how individual micronutrient programs interact and to quantify the tradeoffs involved in selecting alternative program portfolios.…”
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Food security portal por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The portal will contain relevant food crisis response information initially on its 20 partner countries (mostly in Sub-Sahara Africa, but also in Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean) and shall be expanded beyond these pre-selected countries in the context of the project. …”
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Raices y tuberculos para el siglo 21: tendencias, projecciones y opciones de politica por Scott, Gregory J., Rosegrant, Mark W., Ringler, Claudia, International Potato Center

“…Gregory J.Scott, Mark W.Rosegrant, y Claudia Ringler han sintetizado una cantidad significativa de datos sobre raices y tuberculos, en un esfuerzo para brindar una vision mas clara de su pasado, su presente y su papel futuro en los sistemas de alimentos de los paises en desarrollo. Resulta de vital importancia comprender como han cambiado y como cambiaran en el futuro la produccion y el uso de estos productos primarios a lo largo del tiempo, debido justamente a su contribucion en las dietas y en las actividades generadoras de ingresos de la poblacion pobre, rural y urbana en Asia, Africa y America Latina.…”
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Promising approaches to address the needs of poor female farmers por Quisumbing, Agnes R., Pandolfelli, Lauren

“…These approaches were identified in the course of a review of projects and interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. However, while many of these interventions are innovative, most of them have not been rigorously evaluated. …”
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When speculation matters por Robles, Miguel, Torero, Máximo, von Braun, Joachim

“…Speculative price spikes built up, and the gap between spot and futures prices widened, stimulating overregulation and trader policing in some countries and causing some commodity exchanges in Africa and Asia to halt grain futures trading. Some food aid donors defaulted on food aid contracts. …”
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Drivers of adolescents’ food choices: exploring the influence of the school food environment por Karunanayaka, M.M.S., Thalwaththa, T., Rajapaksha, I.P., Madurangi, A.P.H., Indramali, O.S., Perera, T., Mohotti, J., Hunter, Danny, Silva, K.D.R.R.

“…Presented at the 2024 Delivering for Nutrition in South Asia Conference. Adolescence is one of the critical stages of life as dietary behaviors developed during this period are likely to be carried into adulthood. …”
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Genomic prediction and QTL analysis for grain Zn content and yield in Aus-derived rice populations por Hore, Tapas Kumer, Balachiranjeevi, C.H., Inabangan-Asilo, Mary Ann, Deepak, C.A., Palanog, Alvin D., Hernandez, Jose E., Gregorio, Glenn B., Dalisay, Teresita U., Diaz, Maria Genaleen Q., Neto, Roberto Fritsche, Kader, Md. Abdul, Biswas, Partha Sarathi, Swamy, B.P. Mallikarjuna

“…Zinc (Zn) biofortification of rice can address Zn malnutrition in Asia. Identification and introgression of QTLs for grain Zn content and yield (YLD) can improve the efficiency of rice Zn biofortification. …”
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Simultaneous improvement and genetic dissection of drought and submergence tolerances in rice (Oryza sativa L.) by selective introgression por Zhang, Chaopu, Li, Min, Rey, Jessica Domingo, Feng, Ting, Lafitte, Renee, Zheng, Tianqing, Lv, Yamei, Wu, Fengcai, Fu, Binying, Xu, Jianlong, Zhang, Fan, Zeng, Wei, Liu, Erbao, Ali, Jauhar, Wang, Wensheng, Li, Zhikang

“…Moreover, group b QTLs were involved in the *Sub1*regulated pathway that were negatively associated with most group aQTLs. …”
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Factors contributing to farm-level productivity and household income generation in coastal Bangladesh’s rice-based farming systems por Emran, Shah-Al, Krupnik, Timothy J., Aravindakshan, Sreejith, Kumar, Virender, Pittelkow, Cameron M.

“…Large changes have taken place in smallholder farming systems in South Asia’s coastal areas in recent decades, particularly related to cropping intensity, input availability, climate risks, and off-farm activities. …”
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Balancing the double‐edged sword effect of increased resistant starch content and its impact on rice texture: its genetics and molecular physiological mechanisms por Parween, Sabiha, Anonuevo, Joanne J., Butardo, Vito M., Misra, Gopal, Anacleto, Roslen, Llorente, Cindy, Kosik, Ondrej, Romero, Marissa V., Bandonill, Evelyn H., Mendioro, Merlyn S., Lovegrove, Alison, Fernie, Alisdair R., Brotman, Yariv, Sreenivasulu, Nese

“…Resistant starch (RS) is the portion of starch that escapes gastrointestinal digestion and acts as a substrate for fermentation of probiotic bacteria in the gut. Aside from enhancing gut health, RS contributes to a lower glycemic index. …”
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Identification of quantitative trait loci associated with nutrient use efficiency traits, using SNP markers in an early backcross population of rice (Oryza sativa L.) por Jewel, Zilhas Ahmed, Ali, Jauhar, Mahender, Anumalla, Hernandez, Jose, Pang, Yunlong, Li, Zhikang

“…The development of rice cultivars with nutrient use efficiency (NuUE) is highly crucial for sustaining global rice production in Asia and Africa. However, this requires a better understanding of the genetics of NuUE-related traits and their relationship to grain yield. …”
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Integrating a genome‐wide association study with a large‐scale transcriptome analysis to predict genetic regions influencing the glycaemic index and texture in rice por Anacleto, Roslen, Badoni, Saurabh, Parween, Sabiha, Butardo, Vito M., Misra, Gopal, Cuevas, Rosa Paula, Kuhlmann, Markus, Trinidad, Trinidad P., Mallillin, Aida C., Acuin, Cecilia, Bird, Anthony R., Morell, Matthew K., Sreenivasulu, Nese

“…Reliably generating rice varieties with low glycaemic index (GI) is an important nutritional intervention given the high rates of Type II diabetes incidences in Asia where rice is staple diet. We integrated a genome‐wide association study (GWAS) with a transcriptome‐wide association study (TWAS) to determine the genetic basis of the GI in rice. …”
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