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Water-Wise: Smart irrigation strategies for Africa by Malabo Montpellier Panel, Glatzel, Katrin, Tankari, Mahamadou Roufahi, Demmler, Kathrin

“…A discussion on the potential to expand irrigation across Africa and barriers to uptake including an analysis of the inherent risks and desired outcomes of irrigation forms the next section. The report reviews the traditional and new, innovative smallscale and large-scale irrigation approaches and technologies that have been implemented in Africa, followed by an analysis of the experiences of six African countries that have been particularly innovative and successful in terms of their institutional and policy design for irrigation. …”
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Food policy indicators: Tracking change by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…IFPRI develops and shares global public goods, including datasets and indicators, as part of its mission to provide research-based policy solutions that sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition. This section provides updates on data generated by IFPRI research in 2018. …”
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Ensuring human resource capacity to secure agricultural transformation by Beintema, Nienke M., Elliott, Howard

“…This section addresses the kinds of policy and institutional measures needed to support the development of human resource capacity in agricultural research across the region.…”
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Private-sector investment in African agricultural research by Byerlee, Derek, Nagarajan, Latha, Pray, Carl E.

“…The approach is not comprehensive, but is analyzed through a series of case studies. The next section provides an overview of three types of private agricultural R&D and their main drivers as a preamble to a more detailed case study review centered on the typology. …”
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Game-changing solutions for transforming Africa’s food systems: Successful cases by African Union Development Agency-NEPAD, Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa

“…It also presents other overarching and cross-cutting continental strategies and action plans that have been developed since the UNFSS and provides food system transformation accelerators for the national level. The last section of the report draws upon literature to provide a selection of African cases where game-changing interventions have successfully contributed (or have considerable potential to contribute) to food systems transformation.…”
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The impact of land titling on labor allocation: Evidence from rural Peru by Nakasone, Eduardo

“…These estimations are robust to different specifications within a cross-section and a four-round panel dataset.…”
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Reducing child undernutrition: how far does income growth take us? by Haddad, Lawrence J., Alderman, Harold, Appleton, Simon, Song, Lina, Yohannes, Yisehac

“…In addition, data on the undernutrition rates since the 1970s available from a cross-section of countries are employed in this investigation. …”
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Reducing child undernutrition: how far does income growth take us? by Haddad, Lawrence J., Alderman, Harold, Appleton, Simon, Song, Lina, Yohannes, Yisehac

“…In addition, data on the undernutrition rates since the 1970s available from a cross-section of countries are employed in this investigation. …”
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Governance and inclusive food systems: Highlights from SHiFT Work Package 3 by CGIAR

“…Learn more about Work Package 3: https://www.cgiar.org/initiative/sustainable-healthy-diets/?section=research&child=Governance+and+inclusive+food+systems Read a recap from SHiFT’s research partner meeting: https://www.cgiar.org/news-events/news/shifts-research-partner-meeting-highlights-from-wp3-on-governance-and-inclusive-food-systems/…”
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Consumers and their food environments: Highlights from SHiFT Work Package 1 by CGIAR

“…Learn more about Work Package 1: https://www.cgiar.org/initiative/sustainable-healthy-diets/?section=research&child=Consumers+and+their+food+environments Read a recap from SHiFT’s research partner meeting: https://www.cgiar.org/news-events/news/481733-autosave-v1/…”
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Exchange, contracts, and property-rights enforcement by Gabre-Madhin, Eleni Zaude

“…In this section of the book the action domain is the market for goods and services in the context of agriculture and rural markets in developing countries. …”
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Policy framework for Myanmar rice production and in-depth study on greenhouse gas emissions by Sander, BO, Lai, Lai

“…This study assesses the interactive nature of rice and climate change in the context of Myanmar, one of the largest rice-producing countries. In the first section, special emphasis is given to the current situation of Myanmar’s rice production as affected by climate change alongside with possible adaptation strategies. …”
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Bulungan ethnobiology handbook by Puri, R.K.

“…The first two sections present profiles of 164 plants and 111 animal types of data. …”
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Towards a shared vision and action frame for community forestry in Liberia: Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Community Forestry in Liberia, Monrovia, 12-15 Decemb...

“…The ‘Monrovia Declaration’ adopted by the wide cross-section of stakeholders in Liberian forestry who attended the workshop, sets out a framework for future action on community forestry based on a common understanding of how the concept can be made practical in the Liberian context. …”
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Human capital vs. social capital: Influences on egg productivity in southern Ethiopia by Innes, G.

“…This study explores the relationships extension services, formal education and social networks have with egg production in Southern Ethiopia. A cross section survey of 112 farming households was collected and, using a semi-log linear production model, a detailed analysis was undertaken to evaluate these relationships. …”
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Policy options promoting market participation of smallholder livestock producers: A case study from the Philippines by Lapar, Ma. Lucila, Holloway, G.J., Ehui, Simeon K.

“…We investigate the factors precipitating market entry where smallholders make decisions about participation (a discrete choice about whether to sell quantities of products) and supply (a continuous-valued choice about how much quantity to sell) in a cross-section of smallholders in Northern Luzon, Philippines, in a model that combines basic probit and Tobit ideas, is implemented using Bayesian methods, and generates precise estimates of the inputs required in order to effect entry among the non-participants. …”
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City waste for agriculture: emerging priorities which influence agenda setting. [Selected from the World Water Week, Stockholm, Sweden, 26-31 August 2012] by Raschid-Sally, Liqa

“…In this paper we attempt to address these gaps by presenting a cross section of concepts, approaches and tools that are relevant to policy and can be utilized for agenda setting and good governance.…”
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Fluorescent-labeled microsatellite panels useful for detecting allelic diversity in cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.) by Blair, Matthew W., Hedetale, V, McCouch, Susan R.

“…Because of the wide cross-section of germplasm represented, we expect that the allele size-ranges reported here are close to the maximum for cultivated rice. …”
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How big is your neighborhood? Spatial implications of market participation by smallholder livestock producers by Lapar, Ma. Lucila, Hallowell, G., Ehui, Simeon K.

“…The empirical model is based on a cross-section of (110) farms situated in northern Philippines, visited (twice) in the 2000-2001 production year (a panel of 220 observations). …”
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Partnerships: The effective harnessing of research for the advancement of animal agriculture in developing countries by Walsh, J.

“…The experience gained by ILCA in allying itself with national agricultural research systems and international partners in two areas of research - trypanosomiasis control and vertisols managment - is outlined to demonstrate the mode of operation of some networks. In the final section of the paper, the institutional support services required to service the operation of research partnerships are described.…”
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