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The role of information and behavioral biases in consumer choice for climate friendly proteins by Alieva, Madina

“…Nevertheless, when asked to state the price beliefs of the novel product, the children mostly indicated higher price for the climate friendly product as compared to its conventional alternative, which in turn indicates higher value assigned to the product. …”
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Economic analysis of Imazapyrresistant maize technology for small farm households in western Kenya by Mignouna, Djana B., Manyong, Victor M., Mutabazi, K.D., Senkondo, E., Madulu, R.B., Labintan, C.A., Akinola, Adebayo A.

“…The overall objective was to carry out an economic analysis of IRM, novel technology for Striga control to improve maize production in western Kenya. …”
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Dietary quality and nutrition in Myanmar: Past progress, current and future challenges by Mahrt, Kristi, Headey, Derek D., Ecker, Olivier, Comstock, Andrew R., Tauseef, Salauddin

“…Then, in a nationally representative phone survey conducted quarterly in 2022 over a period of rapid food inflation, we find further deterioration in diet quality among adults, but no deterioration among children 6-23 months of age, suggesting parents may be trying to insulate their children from the worst effects of the crisis. …”
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Investigating market-based opportunities for the provision of nutritious and safe diets to prevent childhood stunting: a UKRI-GCRF action against stunting hub protocol paper by Cooper, G.S., Davies-Kershaw, H., Dominguez-Salas, Paula, Fahmida, U., Faye, B., Ferguson, E., Grace, Delia, Häsler, B.N., Kadiyala, S., Konapur, A., Kulkarni, B., Prakashbabu, B.C., Pramesthi, I.L., Rowland, D., Selvaraj, K., Sudibya, A.R.P., Tine, R.C., Yadav, D.M.D., Zahra, N.L., Shankar, B., Heffernan, C.

“…This research aims to develop and assess market-based interventions for key nutrient-dense foods to help improve the diets of women and children in the first 1000 days of life. <b>Methods</b> Data collection uses four parallel approaches in each of the three study countries (India, Indonesia and Senegal). (1) A novel food environment tool will be developed to characterise the accessibility and affordability of nutrient-dense foods in the study countries. …”
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Measuring community urbanicity and its influence on household food security across Nepal’s agroecological zones by Graham, Elizabeth, Thorne-Lyman, Andrew L., McGready, John, Mui, Yeeli, Manohar, Swetha, Neupane, Sumanta, Fanzo, Jessica, West, Keith P., Jr.

“…Methods Data came from a nationally and agroecologically representative, multistaged 2013 agri-food system survey of 4285 households with children <5 y in 63 communities (wards) in Nepal. A novel community-level urbanicity scale was constructed using factor analysis that included 8 domains. …”
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Malnutrition and violent conflict in a heating world: A mediation analysis on the climate–conflict nexus in Nigeria by Belli, Anna, Villa, Victor, Mastrorillo, Marina, Scognamillo, Antonio, Song, Chun, Ignaciuk, Adriana, Pacillo, Grazia

“…In doing so, it pioneers the use of children’s nutritional indicators as mediating factors to capture the multidimensional nature of the climate–conflict relationship. …”
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Starch digestibility and β-carotene bioaccessibility in the orange- fleshed sweet potato puree-wheat bread by Mbogo, D., Muzhingi, T., Janaswamy, S.

“…Its deficiency leads to anemia, xerophthalmia, and growth reduction in children. Foods enriched with naturally occurring carotenes have the potential, in this regard, and orange‐fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) stands out tall as it is rich in β‐carotene (βC), a provitamin A carotenoid. …”
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Nutritional properties of ogi powder and sensory perception of ogi porridge made from synthetic provitamin: a maize genotype by Akinsola, O., Alamu, Emmanuel Oladeji, Otegbayo, B., Menkir, A., Maziya-Dixon, Busie

“…Maize 2 genotype had the highest vitamin A contribution; it can meet 18.3% of the vitamin A requirements in children while in adult males and females (>19 years), 6.2 and 7.7%, respectively. …”
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The contribution of IFPRI research and the impact of the Food for Education Program in Bangladesh on schooling outcomes and earnings by Ryan, James G., Meng, Xin

“…It reviews the outputs from the IFPRI program and summarizes the perceptions of various stakeholders about the value and influence of these on the FFE program. A novel experimental evaluation methodology is used on household sample survey data to analyze the effects of FFE on schooling outcomes. …”
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AFM1 secretion and efficacy of Novasil™ clay in Kenyan dairy cows by Kuboka, Maureen, Njue, L., Mutua, Florence K., Grace, Delia, Lindahl, Johanna F.

“…Exposure to aflatoxin increases the risk of hepatic cancers and can also have other negative health impacts in children such as growth impairment and immunosuppression. …”
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Improving zinc and iron biofortification in wheat through genomics approaches by Wani, Shabir Hussain, Gaikwad, Kiran, Razzaq, Ali, Samantara, Kajal, Kumar, Manjeet, Velu, Govindan

“…More than 2 billion people are at risk for zinc deficiency and even more, people are at risk of iron deficiency, nearly a quarter of all children underage group of 5 are physically and cognitively stunted, and lack of dietary zinc is a major contributing factor. …”
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Assessing nutritional diversity of cropping systems in African villages by Remans, R., Flynn, D.F.B., Clerck, F. de, Diru, W., Fanzo, J.C.

“…In Sub-Saharan Africa, 40% of children under five years in age are chronically undernourished. …”
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Multi-repeat sequences identification using genome mining techniques for developing highly sensitive molecular diagnostic assay for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis [version... by Shiluli, C., Kamath, S., Kanoi, B.N., Kimani, R., Maina, M., Waweru, H., Kamita, M., Ndirangu, I., Abkallo, Hussein M., Oduor, Bernard, Pamme, N., Dupaty, J., Klapperich, C.M., Lolabattu, S.R., Gitaka, J.

“…It is likely that missed <i>C. trachomatis</i> infections contribute to preventable adverse health outcomes in women and children. Consequently, there is an urgent need of developing efficient diagnostic methods. …”
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Risk management and communication in informal dairy sector in Côte d’Ivoire: Options for sustainable livelihoods by Traoré, S., Gboko, T., Sanhoua, A., Kirioua, J., Dao, D., Jans, C., Hattendorf, J., Meile, L., Lacroix, C., Bonfoh, Bassirou

“…Recently, it was showed that FDP was predominated by a novel Streptococcus infantarius subsp. infantarius (Sii) variant. …”
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Clade 8 and clade 6 strains of Escherichia coli O157:H7 from cattle in Argentina have Hypervirulent-Like phenotypes by Amigo, Natalia, Mercado, Elsa Cristina, Bentancor, Adriana Beatriz, Singh, Pallavi, Vilte, Daniel Alejandro, Gerhardt, Elizabeth, Zotta, Elsa, Ibarra, Cristina Adriana, Manning, Shannon D., Larzabal, Mariano, Cataldi, Angel Adrian

“…The hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) whose main causative agent is enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 is a disease that mainly affects children under 5 years of age. Argentina is the country with the highest incidence of HUS in the world. …”
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