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Agricultural productivity and public expenditures in Sub-Saharan Africa por Allen, Summer L., Qaim, Matin

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Pull-Push: Market and consumer interventions to improve food safety in Ethiopia and Burkina Faso por Knight-Jones, Theodore J.D., Amenu, Kebede, Tacken, G., Ilboudo, Guy S., Madjdian, D., Girma, S., Ibrahim, A.M., Grace, Delia, Vet, E. de, Dione, Michel M.

“…Objective: Working in informal food markets in Africa we test if consumer demand for safe food can be generated and utilised to drive improved standards of hygiene and safety up the value chain. …”
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Reducing farming household vulnerability in connection to khat cultivation por Karlsson, Sofia

“…Sources of farmers' vulnerability in connection to khat are; the relation with traders where farmers have an inferior position, the big problem with thieves on khat in the area with breakdown of social ties and a high work-load with watching the khat as outcomes, the more or less haphazard use of pesticides on khat as well as the negative effects of chewing. …”
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Sommarbiografen : ett tillfälligt gestaltningsförslag för ett livfullare Gottsunda centrum por Bergström, Astrid, Ersson, Lisa

Scaling Homestead Gardening for Food Security and Dietary Diversity in Two Climate Hotspot Regions of Bangladesh por Alam, Monirul, Sarker, Mou Rani, Haque, Abdul, Bhandari, Humnath

“…Notable, in homestead gardens women spent more time because of their easy access and can work aside from their domestic chores. But still, social norms restricted women from going into the public sphere which is evident by selling the dominancy of men. …”
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Deconstructing leisure time and workload: case of women bean producers in Kenya por Nchanji, Eileen Bogweh, Mutua, Mercy M., Odhiambo, Collins, Nchanji, Yvonne Kiki, Karanja, David

“…Women’s challenges in terms of their leisure arise out of or are shaped by social norms and diferent life contexts. Method: The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) was conducted to understand women’s empowerment and disempowerment status in agricultural activities in five counties in Kenya in 2017. …”
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Crowdsourcing priorities: a new participatory ex-ante framework for crop improvement por Occelli, Martina, Rubin, Deborah, Tufan, Hale Ann

“…PEEP ranks crop improvement impacts based on a heterogenous set of environmental, social, and economic benefits and it employs a recursive and tailored multi-stakeholder approach to relate crop improvement impacts and product concepts. …”
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¿Contribuyen las reservas comunitarias de semillas a la resiliencia socio-ecológica? – un caso de estudio en la Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, Guatemala por Procuna Ferrer, A., Asociación de Organizaciones de los Cuchumatanes, Bioversity International

“…Financial support was provided by the Seeds, Soil and Culture Fund of RSF Social Finance, a programme managed by the New Field Foundation. …”
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The development of tools for network analysis in the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) por Lecocq, Antoine

“…Induced defecation in worker bees was generally unsuccessful and more work needs to be carried out to identify whether a reliable method can be discovered. …”
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Hästen – en medgörlig kompanjon eller en överexploaterad resurs? por Schiefer, Maria

“…Since then humans have used the horse for different purposes, such as work force and in sports. Horses are social, group living animals that spend around 16-17 hours a day on grazing. …”
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Integrering av urbana ekosystemtjänster i stadsplanering por Carlsson, Lottie

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Exploring the relationship between plural values of nature, human well‐being, and conservation and development intervention: Why it matters and how to do it? por Carmenta, Rachel, Zaehringer, J. G., Balvanera, P., Betley, E., Dawson, N.M., Estrada-Carmona, Natalia, Forster, J., Hoelle, J., Lliso, B., Llopis, J. C., Menon, A., Moeliono, M., Mustin, K., Pascual, U., Rai, N. D., Schleicher, J., Shelton, C., Sigouin, A., Sterling, E. J., Steward, A. M., Tauro, A., White, C., Woodhouse, E., Yuliani, E.L.

“…Six core themes were identified and are subsumed within broad categories of: (i) the problem of reconciling scale and complexity, (ii) key challenges to be overcome for more plural understanding of social dimensions of landscape change and (iii) ways forward: the potential of an environmental justice framework, and a practical overview of methods available to do so. …”
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Impact of innovation platforms on marketing relationships:the case of Volta basin integrated crop-livestock value chains in northern Ghana por Adane-Mariami, Z.

“…This suggests the need for further work to refine and test the framework extensively through impact evaluation of completed projects or projects with relatively longer life; and also assess the overall impact of the IPs including environmental, social, and project sustainability. …”
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A Knowledge Brokering Framework for Integrated Landscape Management por McGonigle, D., Nodari, G., Phillips, R., Aynekulu, E., Estrada-Carmona, Natalia, Jones, S., Koziell, Izabella, Luedeling, Eike, Remans, R., Shepherd, Keith D., Wiberg, David A., Whitney, Cory W., Zhang, Wei

“…It also sets demands for researchers, who are under ever increasing pressure from funders to demonstrate uptake and impact of their work. Relatively few research methods exist that can address such questions in a holistic way. …”
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Strategic plan of the IFPRI program on fragile and conflict-affected food systems (FCAS): 2026-2029 por Kosec, Katrina, Ambler, Kate, Abay, Kibrom, Carrillo, Lucia, Gilligan, Dan

“…IFPRI’s institutional strategy and its four-pronged approach to research and impact guide the Program; its work in FCAS aims to: (1) position major development challenges on policy agendas, (2) build scalable high-impact solutions, (3) strengthen governance and financing mechanisms, and (4) deploy tools, methods, and capabilities for research and policy impact. …”
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Equity in ecosystem restoration por Wells, H. B. M., Kirobi, E. H., Chen, C. L., Winowiecki, Leigh Ann, Vågen, Tor-Gunnar, Ahmad, M.N., Stringer, L. C., Dougill, A. J.

“…To address these gaps, we use a mixed methods approach, integrating spatially explicit ecological and social data to evaluate, through an equity lens, a restoration project in a semi-arid rangeland socioecological system in Kenya. …”
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Designing gender-transformative interventions in the commercialized cassava seed system in Tanzania por Liani, Millicent L., Cole, Steven M., Hillenbrand, Emily, Mtunda, Kiddo, Egesi, Chiedozie, Tufan, Hale Ann

“…Key constraints identified included—women’s and youth’s lack of access to land, financial capital, and agricultural extension services; women’s lack of decision-making powers and disproportionate involvement in unpaid care work, and gender-based violence—all of which are shaped by discriminatory formal and informal social institutions. …”
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Women's empowerment and child nutritional status in South Asia: A synthesis of the literature por Cunningham, Kenda, Ruel, Marie T., Ferguson, Elaine, Uauy, Ricardo

“…Data were extracted and synthesised within three domains of empowerment: control of resources and autonomy, workload and time, and social support. The results showed women's empowerment to be generally associated with child anthropometry, but the findings are mixed. …”
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The impact of agricultural extension programs on women’s empowerment in agriculture and food systems in the global south: A systematic review por Acosta, S.L.

“…This systematic review examines the best agricultural extension methods in the context of women’s empowerment, centering improvements in agency, achievements, and resources. …”
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Participatory forest management, equity and local governance – keynote address por Colfer, C.J.P., Komarudin, Heru, German, L., Nyangas, S., Siagian, Y., Tanui, J.

“…The paper concludes by proposing some important areas for future concentration of effort, including better attention to the various groups that exist within communities, more attention to the links between communities and other stakeholders, and training or awareness raising for government officials on methods for working more effectively and equitably with communities.…”
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