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Farmers' willingness to invest in mechanized maize shelling and potential financial benefits: evidence from Tanzania por Kotu, Bekele Hundie, Manda, J., Mutungi, C., Fischer, G., Gaspar, A.

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Smallholder farmers' willingness to pay for two-wheel tractor-based mechanisation services in Zambia and Zimbabwe por Ngoma, Hambulo, Marenya, Paswel Phiri, Tufa, Adane H., Alene, Arega D., Chipindu, Lovemore, Matin, Md Abdul, Thierfelder, Christian L., Chikoye, David

“…These findings imply a need to (i) raise awareness and create demand for 2WT-based services in an inclusive business manner that does not create perverse incentives and (ii) better target mechanisation to operations with comparative advantage, using approaches that bundle 2WT-based and other mechanisation services with asset-agnostic credit schemes or other interventions meant to overcome asset-mediated barriers.…”
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Strategies for better integrating nutrient supplementation and dietary diversity approaches for stunting reduction and improved nutrition outcomes: A Rwandan case study por Warner, James, Marivoet, Wim, Covic, Namukolo M., Umugwaneza, M.

“…While current policy discussions generally acknowledge the need for better integrating nutrition‐sensitive approaches into current nutrition‐specific health interventions, most do not weigh the costs and merits or potential synergies.The overall objective of this article is to gain insight into the types of interventions that policy‐makers can select and combine to sustainably improve nutrition outcomes in Rwanda.Making use of the Lives Saved Tool (LiST) combined with linear programming (LP) techniques applied to food consumption data, this article applies a cost–benefit analysis to Rwanda on two distinct intervention bundles targeted at children and pregnant women. The first entails a set of six nutrient supplementation interventions; the second involves dietary diversification.Whereas both intervention types yield comparable results with respect to short‐term cost effectiveness, the diet diversity approach clearly outperforms nutrient supplementation interventions when aspects of behavioural change, fiscal dependency, and broader economic spillovers are considered in the longer term. …”
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Closing the yield gap of soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merril) in southern Africa: a case of Malawi, Zambia, and Mozambique por Omondi, J.O., Mkuhlani, S., Mugo, J., Chibeba, A.M., Chiduwa, M.S., Chigeza, G., Boahen, S., Masikati, Patricia, Nyagumbo, I.

“…Hence, refining and bundling them in a digital advisory tool will enhance the availability of the correct information to smallholder farmers at the right time and improve soybean yields per unit area.…”
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Climate-smart agriculture and food security: Cross-country evidence from West Africa por Tabe-Ojong, Martin Paul Jr., Aihounton, Ghislain B. D., Lokossou, Jourdain C.

“…Although we show modest associations between the independent use of CSA practices such as adopting climate-smart groundnut varieties, cereal-groundnut intercropping, and the use of organic fertilizers, we find that bundling these practices may lead to greater yield and food security gains. …”
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Ecological shocks and children’s school attendance and farm work in Ghana por Martey, Edward, Etwire, Prince M., Mockshell, Jonathan, Armah, Ralph, Akorsikumah, Eli

“…Increasing access to improved agricultural technologies bundled with credit and policies are critical to reducing the threats from ecological shocks and improving farmers’ welfare. …”
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Shrimp value chains in Bangladesh: A scoping study of possible research interventions por Kabir, Razin, Narayanan, Sudha, Belton, Ben, Hernandez, Ricardo, Haque, Mohammad Mahfujul

“…The complex nature of shrimp supply chains in Bangladesh, comprised of hundreds of thousands of small polyculture farms and tens of thousands of small traders, make it difficult to implement tracea bility and certification initiatives – now a prerequisite for entry into most supermarket supply chains. …”
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Ecological and subject-level drivers of interepidemic Rift Valley fever virus exposure in humans and livestock in Northern Kenya por Muturi, Mathew, Mwatondo, Athman, Nijhof, A.M., Akoko, James M., Nyamota, Richard, Makori, A., Nyamai, M., Nthiwa, D., Wambua, Lillian, Roesel, Kristina, Thumbi, Samuel M., Bett, Bernard K.

“…We implemented a cross-sectional study in northern Kenya to determine the seroprevalence, risk factors, and ecological predictors of RVF in humans and livestock during an interepidemic period. Six hundred seventy-six human and 1,864 livestock samples were screened for anti-RVF Immunoglobulin G (IgG). …”
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Evaluation of Indian Durum Wheat Genotypes for Yield and Quality Traits Using Additive Main-Effects and Multiplicative Interaction (AMMI) Biplot Analysis under Terminal Heat Stress... por Gautam, Amit, Venkata Sai Prasad, Sukuru, Jajoo, Anjana, Bassi, Filippo

“…The abrupt increase of temperatures during and after the flowering period of wheat is defined as terminal heat stress, and it causes severe reductions in productivity. One hundred two durum wheat lines were evaluated against this stress for three consecutive cropping seasons (2014–2017) in Indore, Madya Pradesh (India). …”
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Exploring Gender Differences in the Role of Trait Preferences among Stakeholders in the Rice Value Chain in Ghana por Frimpong, B.N., Asante, M.D., Prah, S., Ayeh, S.J., Sakyiamah, B., Zenna, Negussie, Mujawamariya, Gaudiose, Tufan, Hale Ann

“…This paper examines the gendered trait preferences for rice and their role in the adoption of improved rice varieties among men and women rice farmers in Ghana. Four hundred rice farm households and 261 consumers were surveyed across 20 communities using a simple random sampling technique. …”
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Identifying and selecting socio-technical innovations for women’s empowerment and resilience: A framework for conducting situation analysis por Gartaula, Hom Nath, Nchanji, Eileen Bogweh, Mukhopadhyay, Prama, Molla, Dessalegn, Lutomia, Cosmas Kweyu, Chadha, Deepali, Puskur, Ranjitha, Mpedza, Everisto

“…The complexity of these contexts calls for an approach that involves multistakeholder collaboration and engagement of local communities in the process of codesigning sociotechnical innovation bundles (STIBs). As part of CGIAR’s initiative on gender equality, we are piloting STIBs in selected learning labs in Africa and Asia, and co-developing relevant methods and tools for identifying, prioritizing, and co-designing STIBs. …”
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Ethiopian Digital Agro-Climate Advisory Platform (EDACaP) Improvement: Progress and Lessons por Ahmed, Jemal Seid, Sotelo, Steven, Tesfaye, Kindie, Tamene, Lulseged D., Ramirez, Julian

“…To help solve this problem, the AICCRA-Ethiopia project works on improving the Ethiopian Digital Agro-climate Advisory Platform (EDACaP) that, for the first time, integrates sub-seasonal to seasonal climate predictions and agronomic management options bundled with value chain actor technologies to enhance agricultural production and productivity demand. …”
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Intra and interhousehold resource allocation and utilization: Insight from SI-FMS baseline surveys in Malawi and Ghana por Tufa, Adane H., Kanyamuka, Joseph, Manda, Julius, Kotu, Bekele Hundie, Ziblila, Rashida C., Webber, Hope

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A new framework for predicting and understanding flowering time for crop breeding por Deva, Chetan, Dixon, Laura, Urban, Milan Oldřich, Ramirez‐Villegas, Julian, Droutsas, Ioannis, Challinor, Andrew J.

“…Breeding new varieties for a changing climate requires enhanced capacity to predict the complex interactions between genotype and environment that determine flowering time. Hundreds of experiments with observations of flowering, the environment and plant genetics were used to build a model that can predict when a variety of common bean is going to flower. …”
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Towards a practical threat assessment methodology for crop landraces por Almeida, M.J., Barata, A.M., Haan, Stef de, Joshi, B.K., Brehm, J.M., Yazbek, M., Maxted, N.

“…However, as there are hundreds of thousands of LR and millions of LR populations for crops globally, active conservation is complex and resource-intensive. …”
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What works to protect, promote and support breastfeeding on a large scale: A review of reviews por Tomori, Cecília, Hernández-Cordero, Sonia, Busath, Natalie, Menon, Purnima, Pérez-Escamilla, Rafael

“…Searches were implemented using the Epistomenikos database. One hundred and fifteen reviews of interventions were identified and assessed for quality and risk of bias. …”
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Creating an enabling environment for developing and deploying market-ready science-based innovations for sustainable food systems por Adeniyi, Daniel, Rampa, Francesco, Menza, Gianpiero

“…These include: i) embedding innovation in local contexts and bundling innovations; ii) providing support for incubators and creative agrifood-tech start-ups; iii) deploying more comprehensive, robust, and institutionalised technological transfer mechanisms; iv) offering more and ‘patient’ capital for the ‘last-mile’, including for coordinating across relevant actors and institutions; v) facilitating improved multi-actor dialogues and collaborations; vi) ensuring greater state roles in innovation and enabling national regulations and policies; and vii) fostering enhanced international cooperation on food systems R&I.…”
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Development of End-User Preferred Sweetpotato varieties por Baafi, E., Manu-Aduening, J., Gracen, V.E., Ofori, K., Carey, E.E., Blay, E.T.

“…This study aimed at developing farmer/consumer preferred sweetpotato cultivars for increased utilization in Ghana and beyond. One hundred and fifteen sweetpotato accessions were collected and evaluated at two ecozones in the major and minor cropping seasons in 2011 to identify low sugar parents for hybridization. …”
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Potential impacts and demand for picture-based crop insurance: Qualitative research findings from Haryana state, India por Misra, Rewa S., Ceballos, Francisco, Kannan, Samyuktha, Kramer, Berber

“…Given households’ familiarity with credit and their distrust of insurance, credit and insurance bundles are a potential mechanism to encourage adoption of smartphone-based insurance solutions. …”
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Soil quality reflects microbial resource availability and drives rhizosphere microbiome variation in Ghanaian cocoa farms por Schmidt, J., Addo-Danso, S.D., Asare, R., Tettey, A., Isaac, M.E.

“…Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) is an important crop in Ghana and the source of livelihood for hundreds of thousands of smallholder farmers. Maintaining soil quality on these farms is critical to ensuring the long-term viability of cocoa farming and preventing deforestation to meet rising demand. …”
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