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Does investment in palm oil trade alleviate smallholders from poverty in Africa? Investigating profitability from a biodiversity hotspot, Cameroon by Ayompe, L.M., Nkongho, R.N., Masso, C., Egoh, B.N.

“…In addition to land cost, smallholders suffer from borrowing at high interest rates, high field management costs, while recording low on-farm FFB/processing yields. …”
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Why the Great Food Transformation may not happen – A deep-dive into our food systems’ political economy, controversies and politics of evidence by Béné, Christophe

“…Those include the concentration of economic and market power in the hands of the Big Food transnational corporations but also other actors’ ideology, policy incoherence, national interests or culturally-embedded aspirations, which together create irreconcilable trade-offs and tensions between divergent individual and societal objectives and prevent the system from aligning toward a more sustainable trajectory. …”
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Association mapping of plant sex and cross-compatibility related traits in white Guinea yam (Dioscorea rotundata Poir.) clones by Asfaw, A., Mondo, J., Agre, A.P., Asiedu, R., Akoroda, M.O.

“…In addition, five genes considered to be directly linked to sexual reproduction or regulating the balance of sex hormones were annotated from chromosomal regions controlling the assessed traits. …”
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A genome-wide scan divulges key Loci involved in resistance to aphids (Aphis craccivora) in cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) by Ongom, P.O., Togola, A., Fatokun, C., Boukar, O.

“…A genome-wide scan identified three major regions on chromosomes Vu10, Vu08 and Vu02, and two minor ones on chromosomes Vu01 and Vu06, that were significantly associated with aphid resistance. These regions harbored several genes, out of which, five viz Vigun01g233100.1, Vigun02g088900.1, Vigun06g224900.1, Vigun08g030200.1 and Vigun10g031100.1 were the most proximal to the peak single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) positions. …”
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Ghana’s agrifood system structure and drivers of transformation by Diao, Xinshen, Ellis, Mia, Pauw, Karl, Randriamamonjy, Josee, Thurlow, James

“…Economic growth rebounded to 5.4 percent in 2021, but this growth was fueled by excessive government borrowing to finance an ambitious public infrastructure campaign and ushered in a severe financial crisis in Ghana. …”
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Population improvement via recurrent selection drives genetic gain in upland rice breeding by Pereira de Castro, Adriano, Breseghello, Flávio, Volpi Furtini, Isabela, Utumi, Marley Marico, Pereira, José Almeida, Cao, Tuong-Vi, Bartholomé, Jérôme

“…At Embrapa (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation), the upland rice breeding program is conducted in two phases: population improvement followed by product development. …”
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Profiling women’s reality of risk and vulnerabilities in the Nigerian cassava agri-food system by Adeyemo, Temitayo A., Nwanze-Olaosebikan, Olamide, Omitoyin, Siyanbola A.

“…Women managed vulnerability by riskmitigation (contractual agreements, informal saving groups), risk-coping (borrowing, multiple jobs) and riskreducing (improved farm management techniques) strategies. …”
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Economic well-being induced empowerment through women’s savings groups: Evidence in the coastal fishing communities of Bangladesh by Rahman, M. Wakilur

“…The results affirm CSG members were economically more solvent and less dependent on borrowed money compared to the members of non-CSG. …”
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Phenotyping, genetics and ‘-omics’ approaches to unravel and introgress enhanced resistance against apple scab (Venturia inaequalis) in apple cultivars (Malus x domestica) by Švara, Anže, De Storme, Nico, Carpentier, Sebastien, Keulemans, Wannes, De Coninck, Barbara

“…Cultivation of scab-resistant cultivars harboring diverse qualitative Rvi resistance loci and quantitative trait loci associated with scab resistance could reduce the chemical footprint. …”
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Creating an enabling environment for developing and deploying market-ready science-based innovations for sustainable food systems by Adeniyi, Daniel, Rampa, Francesco, Menza, Gianpiero

“…Extended development timelines, gaps in capacity-to-adopt and infrastructure, corporate concentration, and regulatory intricacies all contribute to slower and more limited scalability compared to other sectors. …”
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Myanmar's microfinance sector, agriculture, and COVID-19: Emerging insights and new challenges by Myanmar Agriculture Support Activity

“…These disruptions, along with disruptions to external financing, led to greater informal borrowing, likely greater indebtedness, and lower food security. …”
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Microcredit in Viet Nam: Does it matter? by Haughton, Jonathon, Khandker, Shahidur R.

“…With 7 million borrowers and US$5.4 billion in outstanding loans in 2012, the Viet Nam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) is the largest single microcredit lender in the world. …”
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Economic well-being induced Women’s empowerment: Evidence from coastal fishing communities of Bangladesh by Palash, Md Salauddin, Haque, A.B.M., Rahman, M. Wakilur, Nahiduzzaman, Md, Hossain, Akbar

“…The results affirm CSG group members were economically more solvent and less dependent on borrowed money than non-CSG group members. Improved economic indicators (savings, income and expenditure) of CSG households make the foundation of attaining women’s empowerment for the intervened group. …”
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Banking on the poor: unleashing the benefits of microfinance by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Are regulations in place that govern mutually supportive transactions between the clients (borrowers) and institutions (lenders), such as deposit insurance and contract enforcement? …”
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Water rights issues in agriculture by Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…Policymakers and advisors that recognize a need for secure water rights often think that it is a matter of passing the “right” law—often borrowed from another country. This approach suffers from two major problems. …”
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Microfinance by Sharma, Manohar

“…In Malawi 95 percent of loans provided by the Malawi Muzdi Fund go to women borrowers (Diagne and Zeller 2001). The microfinance networks led and catalyzed by Women’s World Banking provide direct credit services to more than 12 million poor people around the world. …”
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Metatranscriptomic Sequencing of Sheath Blight-Associated Isolates of Rhizoctonia solani Revealed Multi-Infection by Diverse Groups of RNA Viruses by Urzo, Michael Louie R., Guinto, Timothy D., Eusebio-Cope, Ana, Budot, Bernard O., Yanoria, Mary Jeanie T., Jonson, Gilda B., Arakawa, Masao, Kondō, Hideki, Suzuki, Nobuhiro

“…Using next-generation sequencing, the viral sequences of the three representative R. solani strains (Ilo-Rs-6, Tar-Rs-3, and Tar-Rs-5) from different rice-growing areas revealed the presence of at least 36 viruses or virus-like agents, with the Tar-Rs-3 strain harboring the largest number of viruses (at least 20 in total). …”
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Genome-wide association study for milled grain appearance traits using multi-parent advanced generation intercross population in rice by Xiaoxiang, Li, Jindong, Liu, Liang, Guo, Xiucai, Wei, Yamei, Wang, Xiaowu, Pan, Zheng, Dong, Wenqiang, Liu, Licheng, Liu, Jun, Min, Sanxiong, Liu, Ye, Guoyou, Yongchao, Li

“…Further, we identified four candidate genes possibly involved in signal transduction pathways of plant hormones and starch synthesis for milled rice using qRT-PCR validation. …”
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Genome-Wide Association Study for Seed Dormancy Using Re-Sequenced Germplasm under Multiple Conditions in Rice by Chen, Dandan, Zou, Wenli, Zhang, Mingpei, Liu, Jindong, Chen, Liang, Peng, Ting, Ye, Guoyou

“…These genes were highly expressed during seed development and were significantly regulated by various hormone treatments. This study provides new insights into the genetic and molecular basis of rice seed dormancy/germination. …”
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Rapid identification of qtl for mesocotyl length in rice through combining QTL-seq and genome-wide association analysis by Wang, Yamei, Liu, Jindong, Meng, Yun, Liu, Hongyan, Liu, Chang, Ye, Guoyou

“…Among these QTL, seven were in the regions harboring known genes or QTLs, whereas the other 10 were potentially novel. …”
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