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Irrigation infrastructure quality management system toolkit for Sub-Saharan Africa using Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda as a case study: volume I – guidelines by Amare, Melkamu, Abdella, Y., Seid, Abdulkarim, Haileslassie, Amare

“…Volume I covers the reasoning behind the toolkit, its goals and scope, and provides guidelines on how to use the toolkit. …”
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Introducing integrated rice-fish farming in Lao PDR: policy engagements by Inphonephong, Souphalack, Mam, K., Phounvisouk, L., Dubois, Mark

“…This report outlines policies and recommended policy engagements to promote agroecology practices in food production systems in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). Literature reviews and field consultation visits were used to collect data on factors and challenges influencing the integrated rice-fish farming practices by farmer households and policy engagements to enhance their local potential and address challenges that may prevent further expansion and sustainable practices. …”
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Too fast or too slow: The speed and persistence of adoption of conservation agriculture in southern Africa by Ngoma, Hambulo, Marenya, Paswel P., Tufa, Adane H., Alene, Arega D., Md Abdul Matin, Thierfelder, Christian, Chikoye, David

“…This can only be achieved with reasonably fast, widespread, and sustained adoption of CA. …”
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Urban flash flood hazard mapping using machine learning, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia by Leggesse, E. S., Derseh, W. A., Zimale, F. A., Tilahun, Seifu A., Meshesha, M. A.

“…The study highlights the potential of ML for urban flood modeling, offering reasonable accuracy and supporting early warning systems. …”
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The Fakara: a semi-arid agro-ecosystem under stress by Hiernaux, Pierre H.Y., Ayantunde, Augustine A.

“…Then, the document reports more specifically on the research by International Livestock Research Institute in collaboration with the National Institute of Agriculture Research (INRAN), theInternational Crop Institutes for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), and also with the regional Center AGRHYMET and ‘ Projet Intrants’, a rural development project developed by FAO and the Ministry of Agriculture Development of the Republic of Niger.…”
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Conclusion: From recovery to renewal of the agrifood system by Boughton, Duncan, Minten, Bart

“…Recovery from the multiple crises Myanmar has faced since 2020 will require a combination of effective humanitarian assistance and sustained policy reforms and investment to resolve infrastructure limitations and constraints to sustainable productivity growth. …”
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What has happened to growth in Latin America by Morley, Samuel

“…Mexico, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic did well, but every country in South America has suffered a reduction in exports with the exception of Colombia where they were constant. …”
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Moving forward with complementary feeding: indicators and research priorities by Ruel, Marie T., Brown, Kenneth H., Caulfield, Laura E.

“…For a number of reasons, progress in improving child feeding practices in the developing world has been remarkably slow. …”
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Why contexts matter for gender equal outcomes in research-based plant breeding: the case of maize in Nigeria by Yami, M., Cavicchioli, M., Cole, S. M., Assfaw Wossen, T., Abdoulaye, T.

“…To boost gender equal outcomes, maize breeding programs should identify the reasons motivating women’s and men’s varietal preferences and their different capacities to access improved varieties with the suited characteristics. …”
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Impact of Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), on maize yield in humid tropical zones of Central Africa by Agbodzavu, K.M., Nanga, S.N., Abang, A.F., Fotso-Kuate, A., Bamba, Z., Masso, C., Fiaboe, K.K.M.

“…High yield losses across the continent were predicted based on farmers’ perceptions, but existing agroecological differences were not considered. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, experiments were conducted to assess fall armyworm damage and yield losses in maize farms with and without treatment. …”
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Key Issues for the Sustainable Development of Smallholder Agriculture in the East African Highlands by Pender, John L., Place, Frank, Ehui, Simeon

“…This book includes a series of studies of income strategies, land use, and agricultural dynamics and their impacts on welfare and natural resources in the highlands of Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda. There are several reasons for focusing on the highlands. First, the complex problems of severe poverty, low productivity, and poor natural resource management seem to be the rule rather than the exception. …”
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An overview assessment of the revised draft WTO modalities for agriculture by Gifford, Mike, Montemayor, Raul

“…However, there are still a large number of issues which remain open and which will need to be narrowed down further by senior officials before ministers can be asked to resolve the most politically sensitive. The Chair has suggested half a dozen to a dozen issues are about the maximum ministers could be realistically asked to settle. …”
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Looking beyond the obvious: Uncovering the features of natural resource conflicts in Uganda by Nkonya, Ephraim M., Markelova, Helen

“…The type of conflict also matters for the type of institution chosen to resolve it with the conflicts over commons being mediated through customary institutions, while all the others are usually channeled though the local government. …”
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Factors influencing Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation efficiency in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) by Thiyagarajan, Karthikeyan, Noguera, Luis Miguel, Pacheco, Mario, Govindan, Velu, Vikram, Prashant

“…Additionally, antioxidants and growth regulators were adjusted to obtain better results towards reasonable transformation frequency. Additional varieties were also tested and selected against the selectable marker PPT based on the optimization for the variety Fielder. …”
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Poverty and food insecurity disparities and their causes in the Eastern Indian State of Odisha by Mohapatra, Bidhan K.

“…However, it should not be misinterpreted that education is the only indicator that can resolve the complex issues of poverty and food insecurity. …”
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V1: Targeting and Scaling Out by Barron, Jennie, Chadwick, Matthew, Cinderby, Steve, Kemp-Benedict, Eric

“…However, the question whether an intervention successfully applied in one location has a reasonable chance of success at any other location remains extremely difficult to answer. …”
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Can machine-learning models predict gendered labor statistics using mobile phone and geospatial data? by Seymour, Greg, Follett, Lendie, Henderson, Heath, Ferguson, Nathaniel

“…Although our models predict mobile phone subscribers’ sex with reasonable accuracy, they predict women’s and men’s labor-market outcomes only slightly better than random guessing. …”
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The effects of migration and remittances on inequality in rural Pakistan by Adams, Richard H., Jr.

“…For example, Stark, Taylor and Yitzhaki (1986) fmd that internal and international remittances in Mexico have an egalitarian effect on rural income distribution.1 Two major reasons appear to account for such lack of consensus on the effect of remittances upon rural income distribution: the use of local-level data collection techniques that preclude making unambiguous empirical judgements about the effects of remittances; and the reluctance or inability to use predicted income functions to accurately estimate income before and after remittances.…”
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Adoption of Integrated Food-Energy Systems: Improved Cookstoves and Pigeonpea in Southern Malawi by Orr, Alistair, Kambombo, Blessings, Roth, Christopher, Harris, Dave, Doyle, Vincent

“…Households ranked early maturity, fuelwood and yield as the three most important reasons for preferring Mthawajuni over other varieties of pigeonpea. …”
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CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology: Technical report on the types, availability, quantities and spatial distribution of organic resources in Kiambu and Makueni Counties by Kuria, Anne, Wamaitha, Mercy, Mwangi, Victor, Onyango, Kevin, Bolo, Peter, Wanyama, Rosina, Adoyo, Beatrice, Fuchs, Lisa Elena, Korir, Hezekiah, Lelei, David, Awiti, Alex

“…To analyze the types and composition of organic resources, including their volumes, frequency of production, availability, uses, benefits, reasons for use, potential substitutes, outsourcing and purchasing costs, as well as sales and income generation. 3. …”
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