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Food system consequences of a fungal disease epidemic in a major crop por Godfray, H. Charles J., Mason-D'Croz, Daniel, Robinson, Sherman

“…We finish by arguing for the importance of ‘stress-testing’ the resilience of the global food system to crop disease and other shocks. This article is part of the themed issue ‘Tackling emerging fungal threats to animal health, food security and ecosystem resilience’.…”
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Land restoration in food security programmes: synergies with climate change mitigation por Woolf, Dominic, Solomon, Dawit, Lehmann, Johannes

“…Food-insecure households in many countries depend on international aid to alleviate acute shocks and chronic shortages. Some food security programmes (including Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program–PSNP – which provides a case study for this article) have integrated aid in exchange for labour on public works to reduce long-term dependence by investing in the productive capacity and resilience of communities. …”
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Natural regeneration as a tool for large-scale forest restoration in the tropics: prospects and challenges por Chazdon, R.L., Guariguata, Manuel R.

“…These features confer greater ecosystem resilience in the face of future shocks and disturbances. We discuss economic, social, and legal issues that challenge natural regeneration in tropical landscapes. …”
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Resilience of farmers at water shortage situations in minor irrigation systems: a case study in Kurunegala District, Sri Lanka por Wijekoon, W.M.S.M., Gunawardena, E.R.N., Aheeyar, Mohamed M. M.

“…Since there is no well-established method for assessing the resilience of the farmers in MIS, this study was aimed to develop a framework and prospective methodology to assess resilience and factors determining the resilience to shocks and stresses of MIS. A structured questionnaire survey was carried out among 188 households belong to eight farmer organizations under 16 MIS located in three Agrarian Service Divisions in the IL3 agro-ecological region in Kurunegala District. …”
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Household Welfare Effects of Stress-Tolerant Varieties in Northern Uganda por Mwungu, Chris Miyinzi, Mwongera, Caroline, Shikuku, Kelvin Mashisia, Acosta, Mariola, Ampaire, Edidah L., Winowiecki, Leigh Ann, Läderach, Peter R.D.

“…The stress-tolerant varieties were considered to be climate-smart because they stabilise and increase crop income in the presence of climatic shocks. However, the uptake of the stress-tolerant varieties was still low in northern Uganda, due to bad past experience in terms of the performance of other improved varieties. …”
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Shea butter: A pro-poor, pro-female route to increased income por Hammond, James, Wijk, Mark T. van, Pagella, Tim, Carpena, Pietro, Skirrow, Tom, Dauncey, Victoria

“…The shea trees themselves serve as a buffer against desertification and protect soil and water resources, and shea butter production boosts incomes, making households more resilient in the face of climate shocks and other negative events.…”
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Whole farm technical efficiency : the case of Ethiopian smallholders: time-variant stochastic frontier model por Melaku, Astewale Bimr

“…Rural women empowerment and activities that minimize smallholders’ vulnerability to natural shocks play a key role to boost crop and/or livestock productivity. …”

Household livelihoods and food security in jeopardy : farmers’ perspectives on impacts of land scarcity on household livelihoods and food security in rural Rwanda por Rwabukambiza, Venuste

“…Moreover, migration and selling assets are also used as a mechanism to overcome shocks. But, all of these diversification strategies first require capabilities to do so. …”

The diffusion of small-scale irrigation technologies in Ethiopia: stakeholder analysis using Net-Map por Bryan, Elizabeth, Hagos, Fitsum, Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework, Gemeda, Demie Abera, Yimam, Seid

“…Small-scale irrigation (SSI) provides great benefits to farmers in terms of increased yields and profits, better food and nutrition security and greater resilience to climate shocks. Ethiopia has high potential for expanding SSI and has invested considerably in this area in recent years. …”
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Advancing research, policy, and capacity for food system transformation synthesis of achievements from the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy por Resnick, Danielle, Haggblade, Steven, Benson, Todd, Crawford, Eric

“…First, research drawing on survey data and primary fieldwork in diverse locations has contributed empirical content on frontier issues related to agri-food system and nutrition transformation, especially in an era of rapid urbanization, climatic shocks, and technological innovations. Novel findings emerged in areas such as diet change, post-farm processing and distribution, and land and labor markets. …”
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Gender and age gaps in voice & agency in community governance: The value of female local political representation in India and Africa South of the Sahara under intensifying conflic... por Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Kyle, Jordan, Kosec, Katrina, Raghunathan, Kalyani

“…These gaps can be further aggravated by adverse external shocks, such as climate uncertainty and conflicts, which can impact resources, capital, and economic opportunities and which are often disproportionately harmful to women.…”
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Contour bunding technology-evidence and experience in the semiarid region of southern Mali por Zemadim, Birhanu, Traoré, Kalifa B., Sanogo, Karamoko, Tabo, Ramadjita, Fischer, Gundula, Whitbread, Anthony M.

“…Under conditions of recurring droughts, these practices are expected to increase farmers’ ability to cope with shocks. One of the most common practices applied in the central and southern parts of Mali is contour bunding (CB). …”
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End-line study - Capacitating Stakeholders in Using Climate Information for Enhanced Resilience in the Agricultural Sector in West Africa (CaSCIERA-TA) por Diakité, Adama, Bayala, Jules, Dembélé, Catherine

“…In the context of increasing climate variability and uncertainty, access to and use of reliable climate information to inform decisions in the agricultural sector are becoming instrumental to strengthen farmers’ resilience to climate shocks. World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and partners, Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), AGRHYMET, California Academy of Sciences (CAS), « Institut National des Recherches Agricoles du Bénin » (INRAB), « Institut de Recherche Agronomique de Guinée » (IRAG), « Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique du Niger » (INRAN), « Institut Togolais de Recherche Agronomique » (ITRA), and national coordination unites component West African Agricultural Productivity Program (WAAPP) of the four countries involved (Bénin, Guinée, Niger and Togo), have implemented a project called “Capacitating Stakeholders in Using Climate Information for Enhanced Resilience in the Agricultural Sector in West Africa” (CaSCIERAWA). …”
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Making the post-2020 global biodiversity framework a successful tool for building biodiverse, inclusive, resilient and safe food systems for all por Gassner, A., Dobie, P., Harrison, R.D., Vidal, Alain, Somarriba, E., Pythoud, F., Kumar, C., Laumonier, Y., Chhatre, A.

“…COVID-19 has exposed the vulnerability of our economies to shocks, and it has laid bare deep inequalities in our society that threaten to derail the Sustainable Development Goals. …”
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Investing wisely to end hunger and strengthen agriculture, with no region left behind: Latin America por Andrade, Robert Santiago, Lopera, Diana Carolina, Rivera Vasco, Tatiana Carolina, Urioste, Sergio, Tohme, Joseph M., González, Carolina

“…Agriculture is one of the most relevant sectors for its potential to continue contributing to food security, poverty reduction, and resilience to counteract external shocks such as climate uncertainty or the current health crisis.…”
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FTA Highlight No.5 – Food Security and Nutrition por Ickowitz, A., McMullin, S., Dawson, Ian K., Sunderland, T.C.H., Powell, B., Nurhasan, M., Vinceti, B., Jamnadass, Ramni, Meybeck, A., Gitz, V.

“…Forests, agroforestry and trees provide resilience and stability in the face of climate and other food system shocks. Despite these important contributions, food trees remain an underutilized resource, ecosystem-level functions of forests and trees to sustain agriculture are often not fully taken into account in land management, and land-use change has a profound impact on diets. …”
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Banana seed exchange networks in Burundi - linking formal and informal systems por Nduwimana, Innocent, Sylla, Seigne, Xing, Yanru, Simbare, Alice, Niyongere, Celestin, Garett, Karen, Omondi, Bonaventure Aman Oduor

“…Seed system network analysis can reveal exchange connections between stakeholders and test scenarios such as those of seed systems shocks. We investigated the seed exchange network structure, disease surveillance risk, and gender contribution in Burundi, under two banana disease risk scenarios. …”
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The Agribusiness Ecosystem in East and Southern Africa: Exploring the Role and Synergies of Key Stakeholders in the Space por With, Lisa, Inoubli, Aziza, Onkware Sarangé, Clara, Adebola, Mariam

“…Farmers and market systems continue to be inhibited by fragmentation, poor efficiency of value chains, and limited resilience against climate shocks. The ones that suffer the most from these inefficiencies and threats are smallholder farmers. …”
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Gender, Assets, and Agricultural Development Programs: A Conceptual Framework por Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Johnson, Nancy L., Quisumbing, Agnes R., Njuki, Jemimah, Behrman, Julia A., Rubin, Deborah, Peterman, Amber, Waithanji, Elizabeth M.

“…The framework generates gender-specific hypotheses that can be tested empirically: i) Different types of assets enable different livelihoods, with a greater stock and diversity of assets being associated with more diverse livelihoods and better well-being outcomes; ii) Men and women use different types of assets to cope with different types of shocks; iii) Interventions that increase men's and women's stock of a particular asset improve the bargaining power of the individual(s) who control that asset; and iv) Interventions and policies that reduce the gender gap in assets are better able to achieve development outcomes related to food security, health, and nutrition and other aspects of well-being related to agency and empowerment. …”
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Applying agroclimatic seasonal forecasts to improve rainfed maize agronomic management in Colombia por Ordoñez, Leonardo, Vallejo, Eliana, Amariles, Daniel, Mesa, Jeison, Esquivel, Alejandra, Llanos Herrera, Lizeth, Prager, Steven D., Segura, Cristian, Valencia, Jhon Jairo, Duarte, Carmen Julio, Rojas, Diana Carolina, Obando, Diego, Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando

“…The development and use hybrid crops with greater productivity and tolerance to climate shocks is one of the approaches to climate adaptation and agricultural intensification. …”
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