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The gendered consequences of COVID-19 for internal migration por Mueller, Valerie, Páez-Bernal, Camila, Gray, Clark, Grépin, Karen A.

“…Scant evidence exists to identify the effects of the pandemic on migrant women and the unique barriers on employment they endure. We merge longitudinal data from mobile phone surveys with subnational data on COVID cases to examine whether women were left more immobile and vulnerable to health risks, relative to men, during the pandemic in Kenya and Nigeria. …”
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Measuring women's empowerment: Gender and time-use agency in Benin, Malawi and Nigeria por Eissler, Sarah, Heckert, Jessica, Myers, Emily, Seymour, Greg, Sinharoy, Sheela, Yount, Kathryn

“…Its findings highlight that women's capacity to exercise time-use agency is conditional on gendered power dynamics and other barriers within households, which together are reciprocally related to local gender norms that dictate how women should spend their time.…”
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Vector competence of Swedish Culex pipiens mosquitoes for Japanese encephalitis virus por Krambrich, J., Akaberi, D., Lindahl, Johanna F., Lundkvist, Å., Hesson, J.C.

“…Conclusions: Overall, this research shows that Swedish <i>Cx. pipiens</i> can become infected with JEV, and emphasizes the importance of further understanding of the thresholds and barriers for JEV dissemination in mosquitoes.…”
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Can conditional cash transfers improve maternal health care? Evidence from El Salvador's Comunidades Solidarias Rurales program por de Brauw, Alan, Peterman, Amber

“…With growing inequalities in maternal health outcomes globally, results contribute to an understanding of how financial incentives can address health systems and financial barriers that prevent poor women from seeking and receiving care at critical periods for both maternal and infant health.…”
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ICTs to address information inefficiencies in food supply chains por Van Campenhout, Bjorn

“…We further explore why ICT applications that address information inefficiencies seem to have less impact than innovations that address other barriers to efficient and inclusive food supply chains such as risk or credit constraints. …”
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Intersectionality and addressing equity in agriculture, nutrition, and health por Malapit, Hazel J., Quisumbing, Agnes R., Hodur, Janet

“…Addressing inequity involves being mindful of those processes and removing barriers that prevent people from participating fully in decisions that determine how goods, opportunities, or resources are distributed. …”
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South Asia Nutrition Knowledge Initiative: Abstract digest June 2024 por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…In this second edition of South Asia Nutrition Knowledge Initiative’s Abstract Digest, we present insights from new global evidence on the double burden of underweight and obesity, interventions to improve women's diets, policy challenges related to unhealthy food and beverage marketing to children, and facilitators and barriers to implementing community-based interventions for addressing acute malnutrition in in low and middle-income countries. …”
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The cost of transporting cereals in West Africa por Mercier, Stephanie

“…Despite the poor quality of roads and commercial trucks in much of West Africa and the official and unofficial barriers to movement of products across national borders, surface transportation of cereal shipments is determined to be the most economical mode of transportation for servicing the stockholding facilities of the regional reserve for goods originating within the continent. …”
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Back to basics for the IPCC: applying lessons from AR6 to the Seventh Assessment Cycle por Slade, R., Pathak, M., Connors, S., Tignor, M., Okem, Andrew Emmanuel, Leprince-Ringuet, N.

“…Our recommendations include addressing skill and training needs, tackling barriers to participation particularly for Global South authors, and ensuring all contributors receive appropriate recognition for their efforts. …”
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The multiple burdens of zoonoses in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): why zoonoses are worse for the poor por Grace, Delia

“…In addition to human health burdens, zoonoses reduce livestock productivity and are important barriers to trade in livestock products, as well as causing more difficult to quantify harms such as spillover to wildlife populations. …”
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Climate change and hunger: Africa's smallholder farmers struggle to adapt por Ringler, Claudia

“…But the political will and resources to support ‘charismatic carbon’– that is, lower entry barriers for pro‐poor adaptation and mitigation – have yet to be realised.…”
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The new Nicaraguan water law in context: Institutions and challenges for water management and governance por Novo, Paula, Garrido, Alberto

“…The results show that the law's potential for solving water conflicts has yet to be seen in practice. Major barriers are found in the transaction costs of inter-institutional coordination, information gathering, property rights protection and enforcement, and strategic costs. …”
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Social equity, inclusiveness, gender, and climate change adaptation: Helping people and communities build climate resilience (A compilation of article abstract) por Soriaga, Rowena, Cabriole, Marie Aislinn, Marie, Aislinn, Oro-Monville, Emilita, Hellin, Jon

“…However, gender disparities in decision-making and climate investment remain significant barriers. This sourcebook emphasizes the importance of integrating social equity and gender considerations into climate resilience planning. …”
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The Tyranny of Tools: The Politics of Knowledge Production in Gender Research por Cullen, B., Lefore, N., Debevec, L., Snyder, K.A.

“…We argue that while a focus on tools in many agricultural development projects can help to identify barriers faced by women, it often does little to address the structural inequality in which women are embedded. …”
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Gender and breeding in tropical forages: A literature review por Pazos Cardenas, Mateo, Triana Ángel, Natalia, Burkart, Stefan

“…The balance made of some of the reviewed studies led to conclude that, although there are some valuable efforts done in the last two decades, there are also different challenges faced in integrating gender analysis into plant breeding, such as limited resources, institutional barriers, and the need for capacity building among breeders and researchers. …”
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Understanding the links between agriculture and health: Agriculture and health in the policymaking process por Benson, Todd

“…This brief describes some of the important barriers to effective collaboration between the two sectors and suggests ways to overcome them. …”
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Market institutions: enhancing the value of rural-urban links por Chowdhury, Shyamal, Negassa, Asfaw, Torero, Máximo

“…This paper begins with a presentation of a conceptual framework of market integration and then identifies five major factors that increase the transfer costs that subsequently hinder market integration between rural and urban areas: information asymmetry, transaction costs, transport and communication costs, policy induced barriers, and social and noneconomic factors. Five specific cases in five developing countries are examined in this study to demonstrate the primary sources of transfer costs and the aspects of market institutions that are important to market integration and promotion of rural-urban linkages.…”
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Forage seed systems to close the ruminant feed deficit in Eastern Africa por Burkart, Stefan, Mwendia, Solomon

“…The study concludes with recommendations for fostering seed production, improving seed distribution, and addressing socio-economic barriers to ensure widespread adoption and enhance livestock productivity in the region.…”
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Financial services and financing mechanisms for ensuring the development of identified Sasso poultry and sorghum business models in Murewha and Mbire districts in Zimbabwe por Dawes, Michael, Mushongachiware, Rodney

“…Through stakeholder engagements, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews in Mbire and Murehwa districts, the report identifies inclusive financial solutions to address the main barriers faced by smallholder farmers, such as high interest rates and lack of collateral. …”
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Global dissemination of a single mutation conferring white pericarp in rice por Sweeney, Megan T., Thomson, Michael J., Cho, Yong Gu, Park, Yong Jin, Williamson, Scott H., Bustamante, Carlos D., McCouch, Susan R.

“…Haplotype analysis revealed that the predominant mutation originated in the japonica subspecies and crossed both geographic and sterility barriers to move into the indica subspecies. A little less than one Mb of japonica DNA hitchhiked with the rc allele into most indica varieties, suggesting that other linked domestication alleles may have been transferred from japonica to indica along with white pericarp color. …”
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