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Towards poor-centred value chain for sustainable development: a conceptual framework by Minh, Thai Thi, Osei-Amponsah, Charity

“…Based on a comprehensive literature review, this article offers reasons why evidence on VCD impacts on poverty reduction is uncertain. …”
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Desempeño financiero y económico de alternativas de rehabilitación y renovación (R&R) de los cafetales agroforestales de la República Dominicana by Peguero, F., Sánchez, R.O., Peñaló, J.P., Mejía, E., Álvarez Varela, D., Somarriba, E.

“…The rehabilitation schemes include seven different scenarios, including: coffee plantations without pruning; pruning of recepa according to the traditional pruning from the Dominican Republic distributed in one year (here called complete recepa in which the entire plantation is pruned in one year); two, three, four and five years; and a new system pruning that emulates the one used in Honduras. …”
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Analysing policy-induced effects on the performance of irrigated rice by Touré, A.A., Groenewald, J., Seck, P.A., Diagne, A.

“…Improving local rice production capacity is a key element on the agenda of most countries in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). There are several reasons for this drive: (1) the high levels of rice imports, which constitute a burden on the countries' financial resources; (2) the relatively high contribution of the commodity to national food security programmes; (3) income generation for smallholder farm communities; and (4) the contribution of rice to the improvement of nutritional status. …”
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Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA): Grievance Mechanism by Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

“…It outlines the principles and provides arrangement for receiving, resolving and managing complaints from the community through the in-country research institution up to the Program Management Unit. …”
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Misperceiving and misreporting input quality: implications for input use and productivity by Assfaw Wossen, T., Abay, Kibrom A., Abdoulaye, Tahirou

“…Farmers in developing countries routinely misperceive or misreport input quality for various reasons, which introduces substantial measurement error in farm survey data. …”
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Participatory land use planning in pastoral areas: IPSR Innovation Profile by Flintan, Fiona E., Kalenzi, Deus, Nindi, Stephen, Gebremeskel, Tigistu, Terefe, Bogale, Robinson, Lance W., Otieno, Ken, Luambano, Isaac, Faustin, Zacharia, Asimwe, Lovince, Dioniz, Boniphace, Akilimali, Abraham

“…PLUP for pastoral areas aims to keep rangelands and particularly grazing lands intact working across administrative boundaries through joint PLUP agreements strengthening reciprocal relations, collective tenure and good governance and resolving and preventing conflicts between land users. …”
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Climate Resilient Technologies/Practices to Support Pond Aquaculture and Beel Fisheries under APART, Assam, India by Chand, Bimal, Rajendran, Suresh, Chadag, Vishnumurthy Mohan

“…One of the probable reasons for this is the vulnerability of the state to the climate induced hazards like flood, erosion, drought, etc. which are adversely impacting the fishery sector of the state. …”
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Flexible grazing strategies for sustainable rangeland resources management by Louhaichi, Mounir, Hassan, Sawsan, Gamoun, Mouldi

“…This new approach suggests that the duration of livestock grazing exclusion (gdel) should be decided depending on the climatic and the site-specific conditions not on a fixed period (3 years) which will offer a cost-effective intervention to resolving one of technical hurdle on the way toward optimizing the sustainable use of rangelands and strengthening the resilience of the pastoral communities.…”
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Gender Equality, Climate Change and Agriculture in the MENA region: Priorities and Possibilities by Baruah, Bipasha, Najjar, Dina

“…Although we must be wary of over-generalizing about women’s needs and experiences across such a diverse set of geographic, ecological, cultural, socio-economic, political, and institutional contexts, the existing body of research on gender and climate change in MENA does enable us to comment reasonably certainly on what we know and what we do not know about the opportunities and challenges women experience in agriculture, the gendered effects and outcomes of climate change upon agriculture, and the roles women have played and could play in the future in adapting and building resilience to climate effects. …”
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The Agricultural Innovation System of Azerbaijan: An Assessment of Institutional Linkages by Temel, Tugrul, Janssen, Willem G., Karimov, Fuad

“…Since independence in 1991, Azerbaijan has had to contend with severe adverse developments including civil unrest, the dismantlement of inter-republic trade links, and economic blockade by its neighbors. …”
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Planning Linkages between Research, Technology Transfer, and Farmers' Organizations by Eponou, Thomas, Peterson, Warren, Wuyts-Fivawo, Anna, Wilks, M.

“…The report is based on a project designed to assist four participating countries (Senegal, Mali, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe) in addressing their research-user linkage problems, in building a capacity to analyze and resolve these problems, in improving methods and guidelines for linkage planning and implementation, and in disseminating linkage knowledge, lessons, and experiences. …”
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Forsa pilot program and evaluation plan by El Shabrawy, Atef, Gilligan, Daniel O., Kurdi, Sikandra, Palloni, Giordano, Yassa, Basma

“…Forsa, which means “Opportunity” in Arabic, is a new economic inclusion program of the government of the Arab Republic of Egypt. Implemented by the Ministry of Social Solidarity, the program aims to graduate beneficiaries of the national cash transfer program, the Takaful & Karama Program (TKP), from being dependent on transfers from TKP to economic self-reliance by enabling them to engage in wage employment or sustainable economic enterprises. …”
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Forsa pilot program and evaluation plan [in Arabic] by El Shabrawy, Atef, Gilligan, Daniel O., Kurdi, Sikandra, Palloni, Giordano, Yassa, Basma

“…Forsa, which means “Opportunity” in Arabic, is a new economic inclusion program of the government of the Arab Republic of Egypt. Implemented by the Ministry of Social Solidarity, the program aims to graduate beneficiaries of the national cash transfer program, the Takaful & Karama Program (TKP), from being dependent on transfers from TKP to economic self-reliance by enabling them to engage in wage employment or sustainable economic enterprises. …”
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Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Rice millers – November 2021 survey round by Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity

“…We present evidence of the current situation in relation to previous survey rounds, including 1) disruptions in milling caused by the political and health crises; 2) changes in operations such as throughput, paddy and rice storage, and working capital; 3) reasons for expected throughput changes in the 2021 monsoon harvest season; and 4) prices of paddy, rice, and byproducts.…”
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The political economy of agricultural and food policies by Swinnen, Johan

“…Food and agriculture have been subject to heavy-handed government interventions throughout much of history and across the globe, both in developing and developed countries.1 Political considerations are crucial to understand these policies since almost all agricultural and food policies have redistributive effects and are therefore subject to lobbying and pressure from interest groups and used by decision-makers to influence society for both economic and political reasons. Some policies, such as import tariffs or export taxes, have clear distributional objectives and reduce total welfare by introducing distortions in the economy. …”
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WTO dispute settlement cases involving the agreement on agriculture, 1995–2019 by Glauber, Joseph W., Xing, Xiaorong

“…Since the birth of World Trade Organization (WTO), a significant number of member countries have used the dispute settlement mechanism (DSM) for resolving the disputes in agriculture. The DSM has played an important role not only for those parties involved in the disputes, but also by helping member countries to better understand the WTO rules, and therefore help guide them in developing domestic policies and trade policies that are consistent with WTO requirements. …”
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Market institutions and price relationships: The case of coffee in the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange by Hernandez, Manuel A., Rashid, Shahidur, Lemma, Solomon, Kuma, Tadesse

“…We discuss the underlying reasons and implications of this finding.…”
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Vitamin A cassava in Nigeria: Crop development and delivery by Ilona, Paul, Bouis, Howarth E., Palenberg, M., Moursi, Mourad, Oparinde, Adewale

“…By 2016, HarvestPlus and its partners had successfully developed and delivered vitamin A cassava varieties to more than one million farming households in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). HarvestPlus has established the proof of concept that vitamin A cassava varieties can be developed without compromising yield levels and that these varieties are widely accepted. …”
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Africa’s agricultural research pool by Beintema, Nienke M., Stads, Gert-Jan, Flaherty, Kathleen

“…In contrast, less than half of researchers in Botswana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Liberia, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe hold graduate degrees.…”
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A nutrition-sensitive circular bioeconomy for food systems transformation in Africa by Abe-Inge, Vincent, Aidoo, Raphael, Kwofie, Ebenezer Miezah, Ulimwengu, John M.

“…However, the implementation momentum of the bioeconomy is incumbent on a well-planned and objective-oriented policy framework that supports generation of scientific evidence and reasonable investment structures, among other requirements for implementation (East African Community 2022; Pachón et al. 2018).…”
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