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The impact of community-based monitoring on public service delivery: A randomized control trial in Uganda por Mogues, Tewodaj, Van Campenhout, Bjorn, Miehe, Caroline, Kabunga, Nassul

“…We discuss some of the potential reasons for this finding, including assumptions underlying the impact pathways, the political context in which the program was implemented, and challenges related to the evaluation of large policy programs.…”
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Genome 10K: a proposal to obtain whole-genome sequence for 10 000 vertebrate species por Genome 10K community of scientists

“…For this purpose, we, the Genome 10K Community of Scientists (G10KCOS), will assemble and allocate a biospecimen collection of some 16 203 representative vertebrate species spanning evolutionary diversity across living mammals, birds, nonavian reptiles, amphibians, and fishes (ca. 60 000 living species). …”
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Factors Affecting the Adoption and use of NERICA Varieties among Rice Producing Households in Ghana por Asante, B.O., Wiredu, A.N., Dogbe, W., Asuming-Boakye, A., Frimpong, B.N., Haleegoah, J., Nortey, J., Diagne, A.

“…This could be achieved through identification of certified rice seed growers in strategic locations throughout the country and supported with necessary logistics to produce NERICA seeds at reasonable proximities to rice producing communities. …”
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Lusaka Market Study on Taxation and Service Delivery por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…To answer these questions and explore the potential reasons for low compliance, the survey is composed of 9 modules: Sampling (SA) – preliminary characteristics of the informal trader General Information (ID) – basic demographics, educational and household background information Tax Attitudes (TX) – range of fees and taxes paid and the benefits received from those payments Service Delivery and Accountability (SD) – services offered in the market and who could best deliver them Public Participation and Associational Membership (PP) – involvement in different associations and participation in public and community affairs Value Chains (VC) – source, frequency, and method of payment for merchandise sold Social Protection (SP) – plans made for retirement or difficult times Household Welfare (HW) – details on household assets and services Final (FI) – enumerator observations…”
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Regional Workshop on Agribusiness Public-Private Partnerships in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam por Phounvisouk, L., Sonethavixay, Sengphachanh, Inphonephong, Souphalack

“…This report documents the regional workshop on agribusiness public-private partnership (agriPPP), organized in Luangprabang, Laos, from 15–16 March 2024, with 47 participants from Cambodia, Vietnam and Lao People Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). The event was hosted by the Policy Think Tank (PTT) initiative of the National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute (NAFRI) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF). …”
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Navigating around the DRC’s statistical potholes: New estimates on welfare and poverty trends (2005-2012) following a spatially disaggregated approach por Marivoet, Wim, De Herdt, Tom, Ulimwengu, John M.

“…Relying on two rounds of household budget data (2005 and 2012), this paper presents a proposal for an integrated analysis of the most recent changes in welfare and poverty in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Confronted with various methodological challenges, it proposes four ways to improve comparability of welfare and poverty across time and space. …”
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Food safety management and regulation: International experiences and lessons for China por Unnevehr, Laurian J., Hoffmann, Vivian

“…In this context, food safety can become a greater concern for a variety of reasons. The purpose of this article is to review the international experiences and lessons regarding food safety management, regulation, and consumer behavior, with the goal of identifying how to improve food safety in middle income countries such as China. …”
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Agricultural diversification and poverty in India por Birthal, Pratap S., Roy, Devesh, Negi, Digvijay S.

“…As stress on Indian agriculture increases because of several reasons, such as continuous fragmentation of landholdings and climate change, there is a serious threat to livelihood based on farming. …”
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Close eye or closed eye: The case of export misinvoicing in Bangladesh por Gupta, Pranav Kumar, Roy, Devesh, Ahmad, Kaikaus

“…After a more careful analysis, however, the positive incentives for under-invoicing can be explained by reasons such as black market premium (BMP) in foreign exchange markets or domestic tax evasion (among other factors). …”
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Analyzing intersectoral convergence to improve child undernutrition in India: Development and application of a framework to examine policies in agriculture, health, and nutrition por Ved, Rajani, Menon, Purnima

“…Our framework notes that issues related to convergence must be resolved in relation to three major steps in the policy process: policy formulation, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation. …”
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The role of rural producer organizations for agricultural service provision in fragile states por Ragasa, Catherine, Golan, Jennifer

“…This research was conducted to identify strategies and approaches to strengthen local institutions in the agricultural sector of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Using a semi-structured interview approach with 181 rural producer organizations in three provinces of western DRC, this study finds varying types of rural producer organizations in the study areas and shows various internal and external factors affecting these organizations’ capacity to provide and facilitate agricultural services for their members. …”
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Production objectives and management strategies of livestock-keepers in Southeast Kenya: implications for a breeding programme por Hanotte, Olivier H., Drucker, Adam G.

“…A survey of pastoralist and agropastoralist households in south-east Kenya was conducted to determine their production objectives and management strategies in order to optimize and extend a breeding programme for indigenous small East African Shorthorn Zebu cattle. The reasons for keeping cattle and the breed/trait preferences identified reflect the multiple objectives of the livestock keepers, with both adaptive traits and productive/reproductive traits rated as important. …”
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The case of tomato in Ghana: Processing por Robinson, Elizabeth J. Z., Kolavalli, Shashidhara

“…Processing of highly perishable non-storable crops, such as tomato, is typically promoted for two reasons: as a way of absorbing excess supply, particularly during gluts that result from predominantly rainfed cultivation; and to enhance the value chain through a value-added process. …”
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Assessing and attributing the benefits from varietal improvement research: evidence from Embrapa, Brazil por Pardey, Philip G., Alston, Julian M., Chan-Kang, Connie, Magalhaes, Eduardo, Vosti, Stephen A.

“…In general, reported rates of return to agricultural R&D are high, but questions have been raised about upward biases in the evidence. Among the reasons for this bias, insufficient attention to attribution aspects. …”
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The robustness of poverty profiles reconsidered por Tarp, Finn, Simler, Kenneth R., Matusse, Cristina, Heltberg, Rasmus, Dava, Gabriel

“…We find that regional and provincial rankings of Foster, Greer, and Thorbecke poverty indices are not robust to the method of poverty line determination, but that the characteristics of the poor are reasonably similar under all methods. The FEI poverty lines often yield counterintuitive results, whereas the family of CBN poverty lines was more robust. …”
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Conference on agricultural sustainability, growth, and poverty alleviation in East and Southeast Asia por Witcover, Julie, Rosegrant, Mark W.

“…Their debate, however, brought to light major issues to be researched and resolved along the way to "sustainable intensification."…”
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PROGRESA and its impacts on the welfare of rural households in Mexico por Skoufias, Emmanuel

“…Yet in spite of these improvements in the program, the evaluation findings suggest that some issues remain to be resolved.…”
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Prospects for agricultural production and food deficits in West Asia and North Africa: the role of high-elevation areas por Oram, Peter

“…A main objective of the meeting was to look at the technical potential for improving the productivity of cereals and food legumes in the high elevation areas that compose almost half of the agricultural land of the main producing countries of West Asia and North Africa (Algeria, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, and the Yemen Arab Republic), as well as important areas of Pakistan, India, Nepal, Mongolia, and China. …”
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The Asian Green Revolution por Hazell, Peter B. R.

“…Even with the success of the Green Revolution, there are remaining social and environmental problems that still need to be resolved and a continuing need to increase yields to meet Asia’s growing food needs. …”
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Efficiency of axenically grown Rhizoctonia solani inoculum types in evaluating sheath blight development on rice genotypes por Lore, Jagjeet S., Jain, Jyoti, Hunjan, Mandeep S., Kamboj, Ishwinder, Zaidi, Najam W., Singh, Uma Shankar

“…Among the inoculum types, mycelial ball produced significantly higher level of disease variables in all the genotypes and resolved level of resistance better than the other two methods. …”
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