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Inclusive business models for access to quality fish seed and technical assistance: Insights from Ghana por Kruijssen, Froukje, Rappoldt, Anne, Ragasa, Catherine, Newton, Julie, Agyakwah, Seth K., Asmah, Ruby, Mensah, Emmanuel Tetteh-Doku, Justus Teye, Amewu, Sena

“…Over the past decade, Ghana’s tilapia farming has experienced tremendous growth in production; however, much of the growth has been driven by large-scale cage farmers around Lake Volta. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 on the Egyptian economy: Economic sectors, jobs, and households por Breisinger, Clemens, Raouf, Mariam, Wiebelt, Manfred, Kamaly, Ahmed, Karara, Mouchera

“…The process of re-opening the economy may also provide opportunities for fostering more private sector-driven and sustainable economic transformation.…”
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Credit constraints and agricultural technology adoption: Evidence from Nigeria por Balana, Bedru, Oyeyemi, Motunrayo

“…The agricultural sector in Nigeria is characterized by low productivity that is driven by low use of modern agricultural technologies, such as improved seed, chemical fertilizer, agrochemicals, and agricultural machinery. …”
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Medium and large-scale farmers and agricultural mechanization in Ghana: Survey results por Chapoto, Antony, Houssou, Nazaire, Mabiso, Athur, Cossar, Frances

“…The past decade has seen several African countries increase their agricultural growth, largely driven by increases in land area cultivated instead of productivity increases. …”
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A qualitative study: Understanding the role of intersectoral convergence in the delivery of essential maternal and child nutrition interventions in Odisha, India por Kim, Sunny S., Avula, Rasmi, Ved, Rajani, Kohli, Neha, Singh, Kavita, van den Bold, Mara, Kadiyala, Suneetha, Menon, Purnima

“…As convergence is a means to achieving effective coverage and delivery of services for improved maternal and child health and nutrition, focus should be on delivering all the essential services to the mother-child dyads through mechanisms that facilitate a continuum of care approach, rather than sectorally-driven, service-specific delivery processes.…”
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Formal versus informal: Efficiency, inclusiveness, and financing of dairy value chains in India por Chand, Ramesh, Joshi, Pramod Kumar, Saxena, Raka, Rajkhowa, Pallavi, Khan, Md. Tajuddin, Khan, Mohd. Arshad, Chaudhary, Khyali R., Birthal, Pratap Singh

“…The study finds that 62 percent of the sample farmers representing 69 percent of the total milk sales are connected with formal value chains driven by cooperatives, multinational companies and private domestic processors. …”
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The effect of land access on youth employment and migration decisions: Evidence from rural Ethiopia por Kosec, Katrina, Ghebru, Hosaena, Holtemeyer, Brian, Mueller, Valerie, Schmidt, Emily

“…These results appear to be most heavily driven by males and by the older half of our youth sample. …”
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Diet quality and associations with motivation and ability to consume a healthy diet among adolescents from urban low-income households in Bangladesh por Akter, Mahsina Syeda, Snoek, Harriette M., Rasheed, Sabrina, Maasen, Kim, Thilsted, Shakuntala H., Feskens, Edith J.M., Talsma, Elise F.

“…A higher motivation to consume ‘local or seasonal' and a lower motivation driven by ‘price', and a higher perceived self-efficacy were associated with better diet quality. …”
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Decades of building resilient food systems through demand led common bean breeding in Africa por Mukankusi, Clare, Butare, Louis, Nkhata, Wilson, Mamo, Teshale Assefa, Beebe, Stephen, Rubyogo, Jean Claude

“…These market segments were and are continually defined by CIAT/PABRA-NARES breeding programs together with bean value chain stakeholders/actors. Through a demand driven breeding approach, PABRA and its partners have developed and promoted over 650 marketable, resilient, nutritious and high-yielding bean varieties across the 27-member countries over a period of 25 years. …”
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Yield gaps and their determinates for wheat production in irrigated drylands for Egypt por Devkota Wasti, Mina, Omar, Mohie, Attaher, Samar, Govind, Ajit, Devkota, Krishna, Tesfaye, Kindie, Nangia, Vinay

“…Adopting science-led demand-driven and sustainable (economic, environmental, and social) farming practices, including improved crop varieties and efficient agronomic management practices, is the key for the sustainable intensification of wheat production in both new and old lands. …”
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Decentralization of public-sector agricultural extension in India: The case of the district-level Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) por Glendenning, Claire J., Babu, Suresh Chandra

“…In an effort to increase the impact of extension on agricultural and pro-poor growth in developing countries, public-sector agricultural extension systems around the globe are implementing reforms that include demand-driven and decentralized approaches. Such reforms attempt to increase the accountability of agricultural extension staff to their clients (the farmers) and increase the relevance of extension activities. …”
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Are the metrics that companies use effective for monitoring supply chain sustainability? A closer look at cocoa and rice por Jones, Sarah, Sanchez, Andrea, Wickramaratne, Chaturangi, Waakabu, Dirisa, Ivanova, Yovita, Thai, Minh, Mockshell, Jonathan, Sanchez Choy Sanchez, Jose, Steinke, Jonathan

“…And consumer interest in eating responsibly is growing, as stories of agriculture-driven deforestation, pollinator declines, and inhumane worker conditions hit the headlines. …”
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Exploring the relationship between climate change events and migration decisions: Evidence from a choice experiment in Bangladesh por Ong Quoc Cuong, Suza, Ma, Savelli, Adam, Nelson, Katherine M.

“…As such, policies are needed to support migrants in receiving areas through improved social protection systems, to support migrant-sending households' transformative adaptation in origin areas, and to bolster community-driven adaptation initiatives in Hatiya. The findings from this study can contribute to the existing literature on the relationship between environmental hazards and mobility and inform policymakers on how to design policies that support vulnerable populations.…”
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The state of the agri-, food-, and climate-tech innovation ecosystem in Egypt por Vitón, Roberto, Al-saffar, Reem, Menza, Gianpiero, Zaccari, Claudia, Dowling, Kevin

“…Over the last decade, Egypt’s agri-, food-, and climate-tech sector has grown, driven by digitalization and supported by various stakeholders. …”
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Scaling models for regreening Africa: Enhancing agroecological integration through smallholders’ assets and agency in Kenya por Fuchs, Lisa Elena, Orero, Levi, Kipkorir, Lang’at, Apondi, Victoria, Owili, Sulman Olieko

“…The so-called “Asset-Based Community-driven Development (ABCD) in Regreening” project aimed to demonstrate the positive contribution of deliberate community engagement and co-design. …”
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Food policy liberalization in Bangladesh: how the government and the markets delivered por Chowdhury, Nuimuddin, Farid, Nasir, Roy, Devesh

“…Average food grain consumption has fallen slightly during the 1990s but in face of rising incomes, this could partly be driven by diversifying tastes. Comparing the efficiency of the private and the public sector, the private marketing margin is slightly higher. …”
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Agricultural extension in Ethiopia through a gender and governance lens por Mogues, Tewodaj, Cohen, Marc J., Birner, Regina, Lemma, Mamusha, Randriamamonjy, Josee, Tadesse, Fanaye, Paulos, Zelekawork

“…Drawing on a household survey collected in eight woredas in seven Ethiopian regions in 2009, as well as on qualitative fieldwork in four of the eight woredas, this paper provides analysis of agricultural extension delivery in Ethiopia. …”
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Culture of impact in agricultural research organisations: What for and how? por Ferré, Marie, Blundo-Canto, Genowefa, Stachetti Rodrigues, Geraldo, Ramírez-Gómez, María-Margarita, Vedovoto, Graciela Luzia, Agudelo-Chocontá, Beatriz-Elena, Marques, Daniela Vieira, Flores, Roberto Manolio Valladão, Rodríguez-Borray, Gonzalo-Alfredo, de Souza, Mirian Oliveira, Goulet, Frédéric, Vásquez-Urriago, Ángela-Rocío, Sánchez-Lozano, Juliana-Ivonne, Pinto, Daniela Maciel, Zambrano-Moreno, Gregorio-Salomón, Londoño-Arias, María-Aidé, Zapata-Tamayo, Cristóbal-Alfonso, de Romémont, Aurelle

“…Establishing a “culture of impact” within an organisation is driven by multiple factors and translates into a variety of changes at different organisational levels. …”
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Drivers of adolescents’ food choices: exploring the influence of the school food environment por Karunanayaka, M.M.S., Thalwaththa, T., Rajapaksha, I.P., Madurangi, A.P.H., Indramali, O.S., Perera, T., Mohotti, J., Hunter, Danny, Silva, K.D.R.R.

“…The survey results revealed that adolescents' food choices were primarily driven by taste (92%), price (88%), and appearance (81%), leading them to buy unhealthy food from school canteens and nearby food outlets. …”
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Marker-assisted Introgression of a Broad-spectrum Resistance Gene, Pi40 Improved Blast Resistance of Two Elite Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Cultivars of Turkey por Beser, N., Del Valle, M.M., Kim, S.M., Vinarao, R.B., Sürek, H., Jena, K.K.

“…The two varieties were expressing high susceptibility to blast disease isolates in Turkey and Philippines. Eleven selected ABLs expressed strong resistance to blast races in natural field and spray inoculation conditions. …”
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