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Feminist research in agriculture: moving beyond gender-transformative approaches by Cole, S.M., Rajaratnam, S., Liani, M., Joshi, D., Basnet, S., Bisht, M., Shijagurumayum, M.S., Jain, M., Kumar, P., Fischer, K., Puozaa, D.K., Reyes, A., Velasco, H.

“…In this chapter, we suggest a few key reasons to help explain their lack of use in agriculture. …”
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Building climate resilience in the agriculture sector of Asia and the Pacific by International Food Policy Research Institute, Asian Development Bank

“…Asia and the Pacific accounts for 37% of the world’s total emissions from agricultural production, and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) alone accounts for more than 18% of the total.…”
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Water, health, and income: a review by Hoddinott, John F.

“…It argues that the biological pathways are reasonably well understood, with the effectiveness of interventions being ordered in the following way: improved household sanitation and hygiene practices; improvements in both quality and quantity of water supplies; increased quantity of water consumed and better water quality. …”
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Advancing water adaptation indicators by bridging global ambitions and local realities in the UAE–Belém Work Programme by Attoh, Emmanuel M. N. A. N., Osei-Amponsah, Charity, Akpoti, Komlavi, Alegbeleye, Oluwadara, Seidou, O., Okem, A. E., Adhiambo, P., Kimanzi, M., Denje, T., Kung’u, F., Naalamiley, C., Awolala, D., Wamukoya, G.

“…It underscores that the reliance on standardized, biophysical metrics risks is perpetuating the very inequalities it seeks to resolve. We argue that Africa’s emerging leadership in blending indigenous knowledge, community-driven innovation, and robust regional frameworks presents a transformative opportunity to reshape these indicators into tools of equity and resilience. …”
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Tajikistan Rural Household Survey (TRHS) 2025 by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The TRHS interviewed 3,267 households in the country's three most populated regions (Sughd Region, Khatlon Region, and Districts of Republic Subordination). The in-person household survey includes a household-level questionnaire that was administered to any knowledgeable adult household member. …”
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Agricultural mechanization in Honduras: characterization, challenges, and opportunities for maize, beans, and coffee production systems by Patiño Espejel, Joshua Esaú, Cabrera Meraz, Jeimy, Vásquez, Emil, McLean, Denisse, Leal González, Abel Jaime, Van Loon, Jelle

“…It also includes information about access to mechanization services, reasons for lacking machinery, perceived benefits of using machinery, and cropping cycle stages that need mechanization, among other details. …”
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Home-grown school feeding in Latin America and the Caribbean: a review of 12 countries by Food Environment and Consumer Behavior Team, Alliance Bioversity International & CIAT

“…The countries covered by this review include Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Peru.…”
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Desmatamento na Amazonia: indo alem da "emergencia cronica" by Alencar, A., Nepstad, D.C., McGrath, D., Moutinho, P., Pacheco, P., Carmen Vera Diaz, M. del, Soares Filho, B.

“…The fact that most of 80 percent of the region remains as forest leaves us the opportunity to build the way towards sustainable development. This is a time to resolve the antagonism between development and conservation, and to adopt a new model of sustainable development which could be able to embrace social and economic goals, along with conservation objectives. …”
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When donors get cold feet: the community conservation concession in Setulang (Kalimantan, Indonesia) that never happened by Wunder, Sven, Campbell, Bruce M., Frost, P., Sayer, Jeffrey A., Iwan, R., Wollenberg, Eva Karoline

“…This paper explores some reasons why potential biodiversity buyers may hesitate. …”
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Farmers’ perspectives about agroforests conversion to plantations in Sumatra: lessons learnt fro m Bungo district (Jambi, Indonesia) by Therville, C., Feintrenie, L., Levang, P.

“…A multidisciplinary approach combining perception surveys and satellite-image analysis was designed to find out the reasons for these differences. In 12 villages grouped in 3 categories according to their agroforest conversion rate between 1993 and 2005, farmers were queried about the pros and the cons of the major cropping systems, their attitude towards conservation, and how they envisaged the future of their landscape. …”
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Extent and consequences of tropical forest degradation: Successive policy options for Bangladesh by Kibria, M.G., Rahman, S.A., Imtiaj, A., Sunderland, Terry C.H.

“…An extensive literature review and structured interviews of key informants have been used to collect relevant information to understand the reasons and consequences of forest degradation in the country. …”
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Application of non-linear techniques for daily weather data reconstruction and downscaling coarse climate data for local predictions by Quiróz, R., Posadas, A., Yarleque, C., Heidinger, Haline, Raymundo, R., Carbajal, M., Cruz, Mariana, Guerrero, J., Mares, V., Silvestre, Elisabeth, Jones, C., Carvalho, Leila M. V., Dinku, Tufa

“…Downscaling techniques aim at resolving the scale discrepancy between climate change scenarios and the resolution demanded for impact assessments. …”
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The effect of oxytetracycline on Theileria parva in vitro by Spooner, P.R.

“…The results may explain the action of tetracyclines when used prophylactically during immunization against East Coast fever, and also the reasons for the ineffectiveness of these drugs when used therapeutically during patent disease.…”
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Resource recovery from urban waste: options and challenges for community based composting in Sub-Saharan Africa by Cofie, Olufunke O., Drechsel, Pay, Agbottah, S., Veenhuizen, René van

“…This paper tries to analyse related reasons by drawing from a larger feasibility study in Ghana and a survey of compost stations in different parts of Africa. …”
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Resource recovery from urban waste: options and challenges for community based composting in Sub-Saharan Africa by Cofie, Olufunke O., Drechsel, Pay, Agbottah, S., Veenhuizen, René van

“…This paper tries to analyse related reasons by drawing from a larger study in Ghana and a survey of compost stations in different parts of Africa. …”
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Analysis of genes controlling photoperiod sensitivity in common bean using DNA markers by Gu, WK, Zhu, JQ, Wallace, D.H., Singh, Shree P., Weeden, N

“…Two loci affecting photoperiod response were resolved, the previously defined primary locus (Ppd), at which the dominant allele confers sensitivity to photoperiod, and a second locus (herein defined as Hr), which influences the degree to which a plant responds to photoperiod. …”
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Improving technology delivery mechanisms: Lessons from bean seed systems research in eastern and central Africa by David, S., Sperling, L.

“…Based on bean seed systems research in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, it shows four commonly-held basic assumptions to be false, namely that: first, small-scale farmers do not buy bean seed; they mainly rely on their own stocks or obtain seed from other farmers; second, that small-scale farmers cannot afford to buy seed of newly introduced bean varieties or will not risk it; third, that farmer seed networks function efficiently in varietal diffusion; and lastly, that a good variety will sell itself. …”
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Biotechnology in animal agriculture and poverty alleviation: An NGO perspective by Bayer, W., Wanyama, J.

“…Biotechnology has only limited potential to alleviate poverty in rural Africa because it does not address the main reasons for poverty such as weak infrastructure, bad governance and unfavourable terms of trade. …”
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The potential benefits and challenges of agricultural animal biotechnology to pastoralists by Loquang, T.M., Köhler-Rollefson, Ilse

“…Furthermore, the questions of intellectual property rights over genetically engineered livestock need to be resolved otherwise there is the danger of the genetic traits of indigenous livestock being pirated by industrial breeders. …”
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Savouring diversity: first steps in implementing a strategy to support community seedbanks in South Africa’s smallholder farming areas by Maluleke, Nkat Lettie, Moila, P., Phora, G., Dibiloane, A., Vernooy, Ronnie, Sthapit, B.R.

“…This report presents the findings of a field mission to Limpopo and Eastern Cape provinces of the Republic of South Africa, following a previous mission which had recommended establishing pilot community seedbanks in each province. …”
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