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Food purchasing behavior in Rangpur, Bangladesh: Shopping practices, food perceptions, and aspirations by Gupta, Ishika, Avula, Rasmi, Afsana, Kaosar, Boncyk, Morgan, Isanovic, Sejla, Vecci, Joseph, Khan, Asfand Yar, Veettil, Prakashan Chellattan

“…Using data collected in February– March 2023, this data note describes who is shopping for food in households, frequency, place of purchase, reasons for preferences for places of purchase, and perceptions about food. …”
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Food purchasing behavior in Surkhet, Nepal: Shopping practices, food perceptions, and aspirations by Gupta, Ishika, Avula, Rasmi, Kole, Subir, Boncyk, Morgan, Isanovic, Sejla, Vecci, Joseph, Khan, Asfand Yar

“…Using data collected in March- April 2023, this data note describes who is shopping for food in households, frequency, place of purchase, reasons for preferences for places of purchase, and perceptions about food. …”
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Food purchasing behavior in Rajshahi, Bangladesh: Shopping practices, food perceptions, and aspirations by Gupta, Ishika, Avula, Rasmi, Afsana, Kaosar, Boncyk, Morgan, Isanovic, Sejla, Vecci, Joseph, Khan, Asfand Yar, Veettil, Prakashan Chellattan

“…Using data collected in February– March 2023, this data note describes who is shopping for food in households, frequency, place of purchase, reasons for preferences for places of purchase, and perceptions about food. …”
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Food purchasing behavior in Banke, Nepal: Shopping practices, food perceptions, and aspirations by Gupta, Ishika, Avula, Rasmi, Kole, Subir, Boncyk, Morgan, Isanovic, Sejla, Vecci, Joseph, Khan, Asfand Yar, Veettil, Prakashan Chellattan

“…Using data collected in March- April 2023, this data note describes who is shopping for food in households, frequency, place of purchase, reasons for preferences for places of purchase, and perceptions about food. …”
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Food purchasing behavior in Nalanda, India: Shopping practices, food perceptions, and aspirations by Gupta, Ishika, Avula, Rasmi, Mohanty, Suva, Boncyk, Morgan, Isanovic, Sejla, Vecci, Joseph, Khan, Asfand Yar, Veettil, Prakashan Chellattan

“…Using data collected in March- April 2023, this data note describes who is shopping for food in households, frequency, place of purchase, reasons for preferences for places of purchase, and perceptions about food. …”
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Farmers on the front line: Perceptions, practices and discrepancies from the Aral Sea's Karakalpakstan and Khorezm regions by Djumaboev, Kakhramon, Amirova, I., Primov, A., Ishchanov, J.

“…Undesirable changes in surface water and groundwater resources and land quality for biophysical and institutional reasons will further endanger the livelihoods of people in Central Asia. …”
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A new approach to monitoring farmer prices: Method and an application to Malawi by Baulch, Bob, Kok, Seng Kiong, Jolex, Aubrey

“…An application to Malawi illustrates the feasibility of this approach in a setting where internet connectivity is limited but mobile phone coverage is reasonable. The majority of farmers reporting sold to assemblers or small traders and received substantially less than official minimum farm gate prices. …”
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Gender: Promoting equality in fragile and conflict-affected settings by Malapit, Hazel J., Brown, Lynn R.

“…Yemen, Afghanistan, Chad, Iraq, Pakistan, and the Central African Republic — all of which are considered extremely fragile and are affected by conflict (except Pakistan) — score the lowest on the Gender Development Index. …”
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Toward gender equality: A critical assessment of evidence on social safety nets in Africa by Peterman, Amber, Kumar, Neha, Pereira, Audrey, Gilligan, Daniel O.

“…By 2017, every country on the continent had at least 1 SSN, with the number ranging from 2 (Republic of the Congo and Gabon) to 56 (Burkina Faso), and the average country having 15 (Beegle, Coudouel, and Monsalve 2018).…”
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Evolution of agricultural mechanization in Vietnam: Insights from a literature review and multiple rounds of a farm household survey by Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Liu, Yanyan, Nguyen, Cuong Van, Masias, Ian

“…The relatively high level of tractor uses up to the early-1980s were partly due to political and military reasons, as both the West and the Soviet Union gave substantial support in providing heavy machinery, including tractors. …”
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Lessons from a stocktaking evaluation of IFPRI’s experience with country programs by Hazell, Peter B. R., Place, Frank, Tollens, Eric

“…These teams worked in newly opened country program offices in Africa south of the Sahara (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Uganda) as well as in Bangladesh, China, Costa Rica, India, and Pakistan.…”
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Using quantitative tools to measure gender differences within value chains by Madrigal, Lucia, Torero, Máximo

“…This is an important oversight, because in most value chains men and women play different roles, and failure to account for gender in a randomized controlled trial, quasi-experimental, or participatory intervention may significantly alter the results of these studies. To resolve this gap in the literature, the authors focus on several tools and metrics to incorporate gender in value-chain impact evaluations. …”
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Climate smart agriculture and food systems that reduce poverty and hunger by Babu, Suresh Chandra

“…Drawing on country experiences – India, Tajikistan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic and Myanmar – with integrated strategies, it looks at how climate strategies such as nationally determined contributions can be aligned with national agricultural and antipoverty strategies; the need for multisector and multistakeholder action and participation; challenges to joint financing for climate action, poverty and hunger goals; and adapting government and donor systems to co-ordinate implementation.…”
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Economics of land degradation: The costs of action versus inaction by Nkonya, Ephraim M., Gerber, Nicolas, von Braun, Joachim, De Pinto, Alessandro

“…Policy action and research are needed to resolve this paradox of high-value land and low levels of investment.…”
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Globalization, poverty, and food security: Summary Paper from the International Conference on Sustainable Food Security For All By 2020 by Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio

“…He looks at some of the reasons for the disparity of views including differences about the facts and how to interpret them, the meaning of globalization, its main drivers, and its outcomes. …”
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The economics of generating and maintaining plant variety rights in China by Koo, Bonwoo, Pardey, Philip G., Qian, Keming, Zhang, Yi

“…Seeking and maintaining PVPs reserves options to an expected revenue stream from the future sale of protected varieties, the value of which varies for a host of reasons. In this paper we empirically examine the pattern of plant variety protection applications in China since its PVP laws were first introduced in 1997. …”
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Agricultural commercialization, economic development, and nutrition by von Braun, Joachim, Kennedy, Eileen T.

“…There are two compelling reasons. First, concerns and suspicions about adverse effects on the poor of commercialization of subsistence agriculture persist and influence policy of developing countries and of donor agencies. …”
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Training video on the integration of the leguminous Mucuna cover crop in coffee and banana systems in central Africa. by Ntamwira, Jules Bagula, Kitumaini Safari, Nancy, Blomme, Guy, Katera, Issa, Ocimati, Walter

“…Mucuna pruriens is a shade- and drought-tolerant, fast-growing nitrogen-fixing cover crop that has been shown to contribute to increased farm productivity, restoration of degraded lands through improving soil physical, chemical, and biological properties and carbon sequestration in banana and coffee fields in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Mucuna in banana and coffee systems can also reduce weed burden, improving the quality of life for women and children who provide most of the labor for weeding. …”
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Isolation and agricultural productivity by Stifel, David, Minten, Bart

“…We isolate the following reasons why productivity might decline with isolation: (i) transportation‐induced transaction costs, (ii) the inverse relationship between plot size and productivity, (iii) increasing price variability and extensification onto less fertile land, and (iv) insecurity.…”
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Assessing Losses in Rice Due to Insects and Diseases in Bangladesh by Catling, H.D., Alam, Shamsul, Miah, S.A.

“…An economic threshold of 5–10% damaged tillers (‘deadhearts’ and ‘onion shoots’) was indicated for early attacks of stem borers and gall midge. Possible reasons are given for the usually low incidence of insect pests and diseases in Bangladesh rice.…”
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