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Educator incentives and educational triage in rural primary schools por Gilligan, Daniel O., Karachiwalla, Naureen, Kasirye, Ibrahim, Lucas, Adrienne M., Neal, Derek

“…These attendance gains were driven primarily by outcomes in treatment schools that provide textbooks for grade six math students, where two-year attendance rates rose from .57 to .64. …”
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Engaging nutrition stakeholders in Poyentanga: A case study on local-level multisector coordination por Billings, Lucy, Wullingdool, Emmanuel

“…Yet a strong focus on the treatment of acute malnutrition in Wa West District had left the administration of curative nu-trition services largely to the health sector, with little attention given to preventative ap-proaches or engagement from other sectors. …”
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Global increase and geographic convergence in antibiotic consumption between 2000 and 2015 por Klein, Eili Y., Van Boekel, Thomas P., Martinez, Elena M., Pant, Suraj, Gandra, Sumanth, Levin, Simon A., Goossens, Herman, Laxminarayan, Ramanan

“…Between 2000 and 2015, antibiotic consumption, expressed in defined daily doses (DDD), increased 65% (21.1–34.8 billion DDDs), and the antibiotic consumption rate increased 39% (11.3–15.7 DDDs per 1,000 inhabitants per day). The increase was driven by low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where rising consumption was correlated with gross domestic product per capita (GDPPC) growth (P = 0.004). …”
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Information and communication technologies (ICTs) to provide agricultural advice to smallholder farmers: Experimental evidence from Uganda por Van Campenhout, Bjorn, Spielman, David J., Lecoutere, Els

“…Second, we quantify the additional impact of augmenting video with interactive voice response (IVR) technology—a more demand-driven approach to information provision. Third, we estimate the additional effect of time-sensitive short message services (SMSs) that remind farmers about key agronomic practices and technologies. …”
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Farmers’ quality assessment of their crops and its impact on commercialization behavior: A field experiment in Ethiopia por Abate, Gashaw T., Bernard, Tanguy

“…Adoption of quality-enhancing technologies is often driven largely by farmers’ expected returns from these technologies. …”
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Microinsurance decisions: Gendered evidence from rural Bangladesh por Clarke, Daniel J., Kumar, Neha

“…Each participant was also given a short questionnaire, which collected information on the demographic characteristics, risk preferences, agricultural risks, knowledge of insurance products, and asset ownership. …”
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Projecting regional climate and cropland changes using a linked biogeophysical-socioeconomic modeling framework: 1. Model description and an equilibrium application over West Afric... por Wang, Guiling, Ahmed, Kazi Farzan, You, Liangzhi, Yu, Miao, Pal, Jeremy, Ji, Zhenming

“…Using this regional modeling framework driven with two global climate models, we assess the contributions of land use change (LUC) and greenhouse gas (GHGs) concentration changes to regional climate changes and assess the contribution of climate change and socioeconomic factors to agricultural land use changes. …”
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Strong democracy, weak state: The political economy of Ghana’s stalled structural transformation por Resnick, Danielle

“…Yet, despite these virtues, Ghana remains unable to achieve substantial structural transformation as identified as changes in economic productivity driven by value-added within sectors and shifts in the allocation of labor between sectors. …”
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Commercializing dairy and forage systems in Ethiopia: An innovation systems perspective por Lemma, T., Puskur, Ranjitha, Hoekstra, Dirk, Tegegne, Azage

“…The purpose of the research was to identify organizational, institutional and policy options to facilitate market-driven and knowledge-based smallholder dairy development in the country. …”
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Management of Emerging and Invasive Pests of Food Legumes and Cereals Germplasm in CWANA Region por Kumari, Safaa, Moukahel, Abdulrahman, El Miziani, Inaam, Darwish, Iman

“…Numerous reports of the invasion of transboundary pests into new areas have indicated that these pests are driven by agricultural intensification, international trade and climate change with adverse ecological, environmental and/or economic impacts. …”
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Bird species richness and diversity responses to land use change in the Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya por Mugatha, Simon M., Ogutu, Joseph O., Piepho, H.-P., Maitima, J.M.

“…The increasing demand for cultivated lands driven by human population growth, escalating consumption and activities, combined with the vast area of uncultivated land, highlight the pressing need to better understand the biodiversity conservation implications of land use change in Sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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Dissection of the genetic basis of genotype by environment interactions for morphological traits and protein content in winter wheat panel grown in Morocco and Spain por Adil El Baouchi, Mohammed Ibriz, Dreisigacker, Susanne, Lopes, Marta S., Sanchez-Garcia, Miguel

“…Prioritizing these factors will effectively help meet the rising demand for wheat, especially given the challenges posed by unpredictable weather patterns. …”
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Microinsurance decisions: Gendered evidence from rural Bangladesh por Clarke, Daniel J., Kumar, Neha

“…We find a small decrease in take-up for the low-probability event, driven by the women in the sample. When we examine the number of units bought, we find that men were likely to buy more units than women. …”
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Temporary and permanent migrant selection: Theory and evidence of ability-search cost dynamics por Chen, Joyce J., Kosec, Katrina, Mueller, Valerie

“…However, we also provide evidence of complex network-skill interactions, driven primarily by labor market frictions.…”
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The impact of Tubaramure, a food-assisted integrated health and nutrition program in Burundi, on household food consumption and maternal and child dietary diversity por Leroy, Jef L., Olney, Deanna K., Bliznashka, Lilia, Ruel, Marie T.

“…The program had a small positive impact of ~0.3 food groups on WDD, mainly driven by a large increase in the proportion of mothers consuming legumes (~16 pp) (from CSB). …”
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Feeding cattle under suboptimal conditions in Kenya: From emphasising technical (non-)adoption to stimulating adaptive performance por Vernooij, Vera, Koeijer, Jan de, Vellema, Sietze, Crane, Todd A., Maiyo, Nathan

“…Moreover, the urgency to respond to climate change stimulates a strong and sometimes exclusive focus on mitigation, driven by research-based agricultural practices. In the livestock sector, this materialises in strategies to lower emissions from livestock, which centralises the adoption question: what can we do to stimulate the use of best practices by smallholder farmers? …”
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Welfare and vulnerability: Findings from the second round of the Myanmar Household Welfare Survey (April – June 2022) por Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity

“…This change is in part driven by a decrease in animal-sourced food consumption, from 5.0 days a week in R1, to 3.9 days a week in round two (R2). …”
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A crop-specific and time-variant spatial framework to characterize production environments: a case study for rainfed wheat in Ethiopia por Gelagay, H.S., Leroux, L., Tamene, Lulseged D., Chernet, M., Blasch, G., Tibebe, D., Abera, W., Sida, T., Tesfaye, K., Corbeels, M., Silva, J.V.

“…CONTEXTAddressing the limitations of scaling agronomic recommendations, which are usually confined to small areas, requires a spatial framework for characterizing production environments in a timely and cost-effective manner.2.OBJECTIVEThis study aimed to introduce a data-driven framework to characterize rainfed wheat crop production environments in Ethiopia. …”
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Disposal and replacement practices in Kenya’s smallholder dairy herds por Bebe, B.O., Udo, H.M.J., Thorpe, W.R.

“…Based on farmer recall of events during the year preceding the surveys, almost a third of cow and heifer exits were driven by the households’ needs for cash, and another third resulted from losses caused by diseases. …”
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Assessing the impacts of nature-based solutions on ecosystem services: A Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems nexus approach in the Nima River Sub-Basin (Colombia) por Restrepo, Juan Diego, Bottaro, Giorgia, Barci, Linda, Beltran, Lucila Marcela, Londoño-Behaine, Martin, Masiero, Mauro

“…However, rapid land use changes driven by agricultural expansion, urbanization, and industrial activities have significantly altered forest ecosystems, degrading the services they provide. …”
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