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Citizen participation in managing water: Do Conversatorios generate collective action? por Córdoba, Diana M., White, D.

“…The SCALES project researched and fostered collective action. …”
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Evaluation of alternative school feeding models on nutrition, education, agriculture and other social outcomes in Ghana: Rationale, randomised design and baseline data por Gelli, Aulo, Masset, Edoardo, Folson, Gloria, Kusi, Anthony, Arhinful, Daniel K., Asante, Felix, Ayi, Irene, Bosompem, Kwabena M., Watkins, Kristie, Abdul-Rahman, Lutuf, Agble, Rosanna, Anase-Baden, Gertrude, Mumuni, Daniel, Aurino, Elisabetta, Fernandes, Meena, Drake, Lesley

“…The randomly assigned interventions are: 1) a school feeding programme group, including schools and communities where the standard government programme is implemented; 2) ‘home-grown’ school feeding, including schools and communities where the standard programme is implemented alongside an innovative pilot project aimed at enhancing nutrition and agriculture; and 3) a control group, including schools and households from communities where the intervention will be delayed by at least 3 years, preferably without informing schools and households. …”
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Strategies and organization procedures for PR developed: Output 2 por International Center for Tropical Agriculture

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Letter of Agreement between the World Bank and the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute Regarding Improvement of Banana and Plantain Development por International Plant Genetic Resources Institute

“…The World Bank is the executing agency for the project. Letter establishes cooperation between the two parties in the work relating to the improvement of banana and plantain and the development of more efficient pest control practices. …”
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Assessing the impact of feed technology adoption by smallholders in sweet potato-pig systems in Sichuan, China por Lapar, Ma. Lucila, Toan, N.N., Zou, C., Liu, J., Li, X., Randolph, Thomas F.

“…Five villages were in the project intervention sites (experimental group) and one village was not exposed to project intervention (control group). …”
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Increasing cassava productivity in Nigeria: the commodity value chain development approach por Tarawali, G., Iyangbe, C., Ilona, Paul, Udensi, U.E., Asumugha, G.N.

“…In this market-led model, farmers are empowered to use best agronomic practices and disease resistant cassava varieties to increase their yields, while readiness of major input dealers to provide agro-chemicals to the farmers at affordable prices, and loans from the financial institution is facilitated. The project is also highly responsive to emerging opportunities that enable the value chain to be efficient, for example establishment of demonstration plots for farmers' training and commercial weed control business groups who can assist farmers with cost effective weed control practices are brought into the arrangement. …”
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Biofortification, crop adoption and health information: Impact pathways in Mozambique and Uganda por de Brauw, Alan, Eozenou, Patrick, Gilligan, Daniel O., Hotz, Christine, Kumar, Neha, Meenakshi, J.V.

“…In both countries, two intervention models that differed in training intensity and cost had comparable impacts relative to the control group. The project increased the knowledge of key nutrition messages; however, added knowledge of nutrition messages appears to have minimally affected adoption, conditional on assumptions required for causal mediation analysis. …”
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Vouchers to increase fruit affordability in Nigeria and Vietnam por Ambler, Kate, Brouwer, Inge D., de Brauw, Alan, Herskowitz, Sylvan, Mai, Truong Tuyet, Pastori, Giulia, Samuel, Folake, Shittu, Oluyemisi, Talsma, Elise F.

“…In Nigeria, the increase in consumption during the program along with a post-project decline suggest a lack of household resources to sustain consumption once the project concluded. …”
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Planning an integrated agriculture and health program and designing its evaluation: Experience from Western Kenya por Cole, Donald C., Levin, C., Loechl, C., Thiele, Graham, Grant, F., Webb Girard, A., Sindi, K., Low, Jan W.

“…We describe the context, program development process, and evaluation design of the Mama SASHA project (Sweetpotato Action for Security and Health in Africa) which promoted production and consumption of a bio-fortified, orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP). …”
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Farmers' participation in cassava technology transfer in the Philippines por Gundaya, Editha A., Evangelio, Fernando A.

“…Results of some of these extension activities shows that farmers. involvement in technology testing and modification and in the over-all decision making process of a project, led to the development of technologies that are better suited to the needs of the clienteles and helps to build up their capacity to manage the project on their own. …”
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Evaluating the impact of canal restoration in Kotagala, Nuwara Eliya District, Sri Lanka por Herath, H. M. M., Alahacoon, Niranga, Sivananthan, Piriyanka, Attoh, Emmanuel M. N. A. N., Amarnath, Giriraj

“…The impact evaluation of the canal restoration project in Kotagala, Nuwara Eliya District, Sri Lanka, highlights the significant benefits of locally led adaptation measures in addressing climate risks, particularly flooding. …”
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Community-Based Cash Transfer in fragile and conflict-affected communities por Abay, Kibrom A., Berhane, Guush, Gilligan, Daniel O., Tafere, Kibrom, Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum

“…This project evaluates the impact of community-based cash transfers on household welfare in conflict affected and fragile settings. …”
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Biological Sampling, Fish Nest Monitoring por Sean, Vichet, Ou, Phichong, Freed, Sarah, Sun, Vathanak

“…The purpose of this research, monitoring and evaluation is to report on required indicators and evaluate the effectiveness of CFR interventions on 1) Improving fish biodiversity within the CFR, as assessed by Biological monitoring and 2) Improving maintenance of fish biomass and abundance within the CFR during the dry season (Nov-May), as assessed by Biological monitoring Five CFR project sites will be selected as treatment sites and three unmanaged water bodies will be selected as control sites, for a total of eight sites to receive biological sampling. …”
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Resource allocation and empowerment of women in rural Bangladesh por International Food Policy Research Institute

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Transforming Nyhamnen por Karlsson, Elin, Skagerling, Elin

“…This master’s project aims at investigating how an evolutionary rather than static approach to design can be applied to harbour areas undergoing urban redevelopment. …”
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Local participation in natural resource management initiatives por Koromah, Idriss Duramany

“…The findings reveal that decision-makers i.e., the project implementers and non-elected local elites used their positions of power within the social field to gain control of the forest management system. …”
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An integrated agriculture - nutrition program in Burkina Faso can change gender norms on land and asset ownership. por Bold, M. van den, Pedehombga, A., Ouédraogo, M., Quisumbing, Agnes R., Olney, Deanna K.

“…HKI partnered with the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP) to measure the impact of the program’s interventions on men’s and women’s accumulation, ownership, and control over productive assets, and to assess changes in norms and perceptions regarding the ownership, use, and control over these assets.…”
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An evaluation of the accuracy of DEM-derived altitude and slope values por Byne, S., Bell, William C., Leclerc, Gregoire

“…This project was set up to investigate the level of accuracy which can be expected for slope and altitude values derived from low-cost Digital Elevation Models (DEMs). …”
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Role of men in a women’s empowerment initiative: Evidence from Uganda por Ambler, Kate, Jones, Kelly M., O'Sullivan, Michael

“…Though women participate in labor related to sugarcane, they are infrequently involved in any of the sugar-related marketing activities, meaning that men generally control the sugar-related income.…”
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Materials and information on participatory research approaches, analytical tools, indigenous knowledge and organizational principles, developed: Output 4 por International Center for Tropical Agriculture

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