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Impacts of COVID-19 on global poverty and food security: What more do we know now? by Laborde Debucquet, David, Martin, Will, Vos, Rob

“…Yet we still know very little about the true economic costs and the full impacts on poverty, food security, educational attainment, and other social outcomes, and much less about the potentially lasting effects and setbacks to human development.…”
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Aligning public expenditure for agricultural development priorities under rapid transformation: The case of China by Yu, Bingxin, Chen, Kevin Z., Zhang, Haisen

“…China shifted away from taxing agriculture to supporting agriculture in the mid-2000s, but the sector faces mounting demographic, biophysical, and trade challenges. PAE in China is outpacing that of other developing economies in Asia, but its composition does not align perfectly with the development challenges and priorities the sector faces.…”
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Nutrient depletion in the agricultural soils of Africa by Henao, Julio, Baanante, Carlos A.

“…As the region's population continues to grow rapidly, outpacing the growth rate in other regions of the world, its agriculturalland is becoming increasingly degraded. …”
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Risk-mitigation for projects that rely on genetic resources from multiple sources: a project planner’s decision-making tool by López Noriega, Isabel, Halewood, Michael

“…The purpose of this decision-making tool, is to help research and development (R&D) project planners mitigate the risk of project setbacks or failures, as a result of not being able to access genetic resources and related research inputs, to use them as needed for project purposes, or to disseminate research products derived from their use. …”
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Three things scientists don't know about women farmers and climate change but really should by Puskur, Ranjitha, Deering, Karl

“…Farmers need to be supported to continue building resilient food systems that can nourish and sustain lives despite rising challenges, which have been compounded by setbacks such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. …”
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Integrated approaches to tackling health issues related to agri-food systems by Hung Nguyen-Viet, Grace, Delia, McDermott, J.

“…While overall and long-term trends are positive, progress is vulnerable to short term and regional setbacks. Paradoxically, over nutrition is becoming a more important global issue, as the rates of obesity and overweight populations increase; as for hunger, this tends to be associated with poverty. …”
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Economic assessment of water storage for adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa by Xenarios, Stefanos, McCartney, Matthew P., Adenew, B.

“…Against this background, this paper proposes an alternative approach based on an outranking methodology designed with threshold systems and weighting values. …”
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Economic assessment of water storage for adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa by Xenarios, Stefanos, McCartney, Matthew P., Polatidis, H., Eguavoen, I.

“…Against this background, this paper proposes an alternative approach based on an outranking methodology designed with thresholds and weighting values. …”
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Economic assessment of water storage for adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa [Abstract only]. by Xenarios, Stefanos, McCartney, Matthew P.

“…Against this background, this paper proposes an alternative approach based on an outranking methodology designed with threshold systems and weighting values. …”
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ClimBeR Work Package III Technical Working Group Members Physical Meeting Report by Sarku, Rebecca, Nkanyani, Shiluva Chauke, Laichena, Joshua, Mavuso, Terrence, Whitfield, Stephen

“…Smallholder farmers, and particularly women and youth, are vulnerable to setbacks in efforts to improve livelihoods, while poverty and social tensions grow. …”
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State of Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Efforts for Agriculture in Senegal by Samari, H.

“…As a result of imbalances in policy priorities, and due to financial scarcity, there is a category of projects and programs that can be described as success stories, while another category includes cases of setbacks and undermined outcomes. The third category involves longer-term initiatives whose results remain to be seen.…”
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Economic efficiency of water storage options: an application of the approach to Ghana by Xenarios, Stefanos, Asante, F., McCartney, Matthew P.

“…Against this background, the study reported in this paper developed an outranking-based methodology, designed with threshold systems and weighting values, in order to overcome some of the constraints of traditional cost-benefit analysis. …”
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Benchmarking Agricultural Research Indicators Across Asia–Pacific by Flaherty, Kathleen, Stads, Gert-Jan, Srinivasacharlyulu, Attaluri

“…In fact, growth in public agricultural R&D spending in the region’s low- and middle-income countries has outpaced growth in all other developing regions around the world since the 1980s. …”
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Malawi [in Strategies and priorities for African agriculture] by Benin, Samuel, Thurlow, James, Diao, Xinshen, McCool, Christen, Simtowe, Franklin

“…Population growth also outpaced economic growth, causing per capita incomes to fall. …”
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Assessing women’s empowerment initiatives collaboratively can create positive change by Elias, Marlène, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…Future research on women’s empowerment should seek to better understand the links between empowerment and agriculture, decision-making processes and situations where positive changes in some dimensions of women’s empowerment can cause setbacks in others.…”
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Agriculture for improved nutrition: Seizing the momentum by Fan, Shenggen, Yosef, Sivan, Pandya-Lorch, Rajul

“…By highlighting both achievements and setbacks, Agriculture for Improved Nutrition seeks to inspire those who want to scale up successes that can transform food systems and improve the nutrition of billions of people.…”
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Poverty reduction through the development of inclusive food value chains by Vos, Rob, Cattaneo, Andrea

“…The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) that spread to a pandemic in early 2020 provokes enormous setbacks to this expansion. This, however, should provide lessons regarding the importance of resilient and inclusive food systems. …”
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Private investments in modern foodgrain storage in Bangladesh: An economic feasibility analysis and potential role for the public sector by Chowdhury, Reajul Alam, Alam, Md. Monjurul, Ali, Md. Rostom, Awal, Md. Abdul, Hossain, Shahadat, Kalita, Prasanta Kumar, Saha, Chayan Kumer, Winter-Nelson, Alex

“…Unprecedented growth in rice production in Bangladesh over the last four decades has outpaced the capacity of post-harvest operations, resulting in substantial grain losses. …”
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Fuelwood revisited: what has changed in the last decade? by Center for International Forestry Research

“…This infobrief provides key points that the available evidence does not substantiate earlier concerns that woodfuel demand has been outpacing sustainable supply on a scale that makes it a major cause of deforestation. …”
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Food System Transformations: Brazil, Rwanda, and Vietnam by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…These transformations did not happen without setbacks, however; a common challenge was the issue of inclusive land rights, especially for small farmers. …”
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