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Livestock, capture fisheries, and aquaculture in Myanmar: Status and recent trends por Belton, Ben, Fang, Peixun

“…We examine levels of livestock ownership, participation in capture fisheries and aquaculture, reasons for rearing livestock, ownership of fishing assets, and household earnings from all three activities. …”
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ICTs to address information inefficiencies in food supply chains por Van Campenhout, Bjorn

“…In this article, I review some of the earlier services that generally targeted farmers with price information to reduce search costs and increase their bargaining power vis-a-vis traders. I reflect on the reasons why these initiatives often led to disappointing results and provide examples of (complementary) interventions that look more promising. …”
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Agricultural development and food security in Eastern Europe and Central Asia por Burkitbayeva, Saule, Liefert, William, Swinnen, Johan

“…In almost all countries, agricultural output fell substantially during the transition decade of the 1990s, especially in the livestock sector. Key reasons for the decline included the institutional and allocative disruptions and high transaction costs stemming from the move from planned to market economies, as well as the severe reduction in the large subsidies to agriculture under the planned system that maintained high-cost production. …”
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Effective organizational functioning capacity needs of rural advisory service networks: A Delphi study por Lamm, Kevan W., Lamm, Alexa J., Davis, Kristin E., Powell, Alyssa, Bommidi, Jyothi Swaroop

“…Among the 38 specific items, five primary themes emerged: (1) an extension network should be transparent about its policies, procedures, and organizational intent; (2) knowledge sharing and collaboration within an extension network is critical; (3) general policies and management guidelines should be in place; (4) the development and maintenance of intentional, long-term relationships with various actors in extension, including stakeholders, policy-decision makers, and the private sector is critical; (5) reasonable expectations and guidelines should be established for both extension network officers and network members. …”
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Evaluating food options in Bangladesh: Analysis of costs, benefits, and tradeoffs between targeted distribution versus public agricultural and infrastructure investments por Dorosh, Paul A., Thurlow, James, Pradesha, Angga, Raihan, Selim

“…While food imports can cushion the effects of these short-term climate shocks, there is always uncertainty about whether shortages in global commodity markets will coincide with domestic production shortfalls, leading to particularly adverse outcomes, especially for poor farmers and net consumers. This is one of the reasons why Bangladesh’s government has maintained a long-standing public grain procurement and storage system, as well as a large social protection program that distributes subsidized rice and wheat to poor households. …”
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Post-harvest loss in Mozambique: Estimating maize loss in Manica and Zambezia provinces por Delgado, Luciana, Laborde Debucquet, David, Piñeiro, Valeria

“…Weaknesses in post-harvest systems, which contribute to both a lower supply and higher food prices (due to post-harvest losses) are key reasons behind these food shortages. Currently, none of the post-harvest losses programmes conducted in Mozambique provides loss estimates along the entire value chain for a given commodity. …”
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Domestic and trade policies affecting the world cotton market por Traoré, Fousseini

“…In addition to providing producers with cash income, cotton also appears to be a key product for fighting rural poverty and achieving food security for several other reasons.…”
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Expecting too much, foreseeing too little? Behavioral explanations for the sell low-buy high puzzle in smallholder market participation por De Weerdt, Joachim, Dillon, Brian, Hami, Emmanuel, Van Campenhout, Bjorn, Nabwire, Leocardia

“…A second potential explanation focuses on household income, where motivated reasoning leads farmers to sell too early and/or at low prices. …”
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Towards a sustainable soil fertility strategy in Ghana: Report submitted to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture Government of Ghana por Jayne, Thomas S., Kolavalli, Shashidhara, Debrah, Kofi, Ariga, Joshua, Brunache, Pierre, Kabaghe, Chance, Nunez-Rodriguez, Walter, Owusu Baah, Kwaku, Bationo, Andre A., Huising, Elzo Jeroen, Lambrecht, Isabel B., Diao, Xinshen, Yeboah, Felix K., Benin, Samuel, Andam, Kwaw S.

“…Most efforts to raise fertilizer use in SSA over the past decade have focused on fertilizer subsidies and targeted credit programmes with hopes that these programmes could later be withdrawn once the profitability of fertilizer use has been made clear to adopting farmers and once they have become sufficiently capitalized to be able to afford fertilizer on their own. This line of reasoning under-emphasizes the evidence that many smallholder farmers obtain very low crop response rates to inorganic fertilizer application and hence cannot use it profitably at full market prices. …”
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Spatial Analysis of Livestock Production Patterns in Ethiopia por Tilamun, Helina, Schmidt, Emily

“…Livestock production and markets vary substantially across space in Ethiopia due to a variety of reasons including topographical variations, market access, water availability, and population characteristics. …”
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Constraints to fertilizer use in Nigeria: Insights from agricultural extension service por Banful, Afua Branoah, Nkonya, Ephraim M., Oboh, Victor

“…To provide insights on the reasons for the low fertilizer use in Nigeria, this paper presents an analysis of the extension service as well as some perspectives of village extension agents. …”
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The dragon and the elephant: Agricultural and rural reforms in China and India por Gulati, Ashok, Fan, Shenggen

“…This book investigates the reasons for these staggering accomplishments and the lessons that can be applied both to other developing nations and to the problem of poverty that remains in these two countries. …”
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Managing price volatility in an open economy environment: the case of edible oils and oilseeds in India por Srinivasan, P. V.

“…Price stability in the edible oil sector is important at least for two reasons. It can help realize the growth potential in the production of edible oils and improve the nutritional security of Indian households. …”
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Micro-lending for small farmers in Bangladesh: does it affect farm households' land allocation decision? por Rashid, Shahidur, Sharma, Manohar, Zeller, Manfred

“…Despite higher profitability of High Yielding Varieties (HYVs), it has long been hypothesized that lack of access to credit is one of the main reasons, why farmers in developing countries continue to allocate a portion of their land to traditional crop varieties. …”
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An evaluation of the impact of PROGRESA cash payments on private inter-household transfers: final report por Teruel, Graciela, Davis, Benjamin

“…At first sight, it is reasonable to assume that any government social program that gives monetary transfers to poor families has a positive effect in raising their income. …”
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The power mapping tool: A method for the empirical research of power relations por Schiffer, Eva

“…The result is a three dimensional sketch that provides quantitative data and guides the qualitative discussion about reasons for and effects of the power of different actors. …”
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Promoting a strong seed sector in Sub-Saharan Africa por Minot, Nicholas

“…Although the private sector can effectively carry out many seed production and distribution activities, for reasons discussed in this brief, private companies acting on their own will not develop and produce optimal amounts of appropriate seeds for Sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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Commentaries on Foreign Assistance por Mensah, Moïse C., Lattre, Anne de, Johnston, Bruce F.

“…While the disaggregation would be difficult, at least a reasonable approximation is necessary. Likewise, we need a better picture of the domestic resources made available by government, local communities, individual farmers, and so forth. …”
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Genomes of 13 domesticated and wild rice relatives highlight genetic conservation, turnover and innovation across the genus Oryza por Stein, Joshua C., Yu, Yeisoo, Copetti, Dario, Zwickl, Derrick J., Zhang, Li, Zhang, Chengjun, Chougule, Kapeel, Gao, Dongying, Iwata, Aiko, Goicoechea, Jose Luis, Wei, Sharon, Wang, Jun, Liao, Yi, Wang, Muhua, Jacquemin, Julie, Becker, Claude, Kudrna, Dave, Zhang, Jianwei, Londono, Carlos E. M., Song, Xiang, Lee, Seunghee, Sanchez, Paul, Zuccolo, Andrea, Ammiraju, Jetty S. S., Talag, Jayson, Danowitz, Ann, Rivera, Luis F., Gschwend, Andrea R., Noutsos, Christos, Wu, Cheng-chieh, Kao, Shu-Min, Zeng, Jhih-wun, Wei, Fu-Jin, Zhao, Qiang, Feng, Qi, El Baidouri, Moaine, Carpentier, Marie-Christine, Lasserre, Eric, Cooke, Richard, Rosa Farias, Daniel da, da Maia, Luciano Carlos, dos Santos, Railson S., Nyberg, Kevin G., McNally, Kenneth L., Mauleon, Ramil, Alexandrov, Nickolai, Schmutz, Jeremy, Flowers, Dave, Fan, Chuanzhu, Weigel, Detlef, Jena, Kshirod K., Wicker, Thomas, Chen, Mingsheng, Han, Bin, Henry, Robert, Hsing, Yue-ie C., Kurata, Nori, de Oliveira, Antonio Costa, Panaud, Olivier, Jackson, Scott A., Machado, Carlos A., Sanderson, Michael J., Long, Manyuan, Ware, Doreen, Wing, Rod A.

“…Using 13 reference genomes spanning the Oryza species tree, we show that despite few large-scale chromosomal rearrangements rapid species diversification is mirrored by lineage-specific emergence and turnover of many novel elements, including transposons, and potential new coding and noncoding genes. Our study resolves controversial areas of the Oryza phylogeny, showing a complex history of introgression among different chromosomes in the young ‘AA’ subclade containing the two domesticated species. …”
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More fruit diversity for food security por Carpentier, Sebastien, Machida, Lewis, Tazuba, Anthony Fredrick, Van Gils, Daan

“…Banana (Matooke) is a staple crop in Uganda and the east and central African region (Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, and Democratic Republic of Congo). Climate change is expected to increase the growing area of bananas in general but for Matooke this is expected to decrease due to the increased evaporative demand. …”
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