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Orange-fleshed sweetpotato: Strategies and lessons learned for achieving food security and health at scale in Sub-Saharan Africa by Girard, Amy W., Brouwer, A., Faerber, E., Grant, F., Low, Jan W.

“…Because the dominant white-fleshed varieties have no beta-carotene, research initiated in the mid-1990s set out to adapt, develop, and promote VA-rich OFSP as a more nutritious alternative to non-OFSP types. …”
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Ukama Ustawi CGIAR Food Systems Accelerator Technical Report (Concept Note) by Ng'anga, Salome, Karimi, Peter, Zulu-Hume, Mercy F., Dahl, Hauke, Nkosi, Mahlatse

“…The mission of Ukama Ustawi is to support developments that transform the ESA agrifood system through sustainable intensification to maize-mixed systems and crop diversification to de-risk other systems. …”
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Kenyan diets: Quality, affordability, and preferences by Ecker, Olivier, Comstock, Andrew R., Pauw, Karl

“…Dysfunctions in food systems in developing countries prevent many people from consuming a healthy diet (FAO et al. 2021), and Kenya is no exception. …”
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Industrial water pollution discharge taxes in China: A multi-sector dynamic analysis by Guo, Xiaolin, Ho, Mun Sing, You, Liangzhi, Cao, Jing, Fang, Yu, Tu, Taotao, Hong, Yang

“…In the baseline low rate of COD tax, COD discharge is projected to rise from 36 million tons in 2018 to 48 million in 2030, while GDP grows at 6.9% per year. …”
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The pair-wise province-to-county aid model for disaster relief by Wang, Zhenyao

“…China first adopted a pair-wise aid policy, in which one donor province or city is assigned to a recipient area, in the 1950s as part of its efforts to develop the minority-inhabited border areas, and this practice was first formalized by the central government in 1979 (Qian et al. 2012). …”
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Policies to promote environmentally sustainable fertilizer use and supply to 2020 by Bumb, Balu L., Baanante, Carlos A.

“…In the mid-1960s, when projections of global starvation were common, no one questioned the role of mineral fertilizer (plant nutrients, mainly nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium from inorganic sources) in promoting food production in the food-deficit countries. …”
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India [in How to reduce agrifood systems' future hidden costs? A multi-country case study] by Singh, Vartika, Stevanović, Miodrag, Kumar Ghosh, Ranjan, Bodirsky, Benjamin Leon, Popp, Alexander, Lotze-Campen, Hermann

“…We review the hidden costs of food systems in India as developed in the FAO SOFA 2023 report and evaluate the results in the context of India. …”
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EasyIDP: A python package for intermediate data processing in UAV-based plant phenotyping by Wang, Haozhou, Duan, Yulin, Shi, Yun, Kato, Yoichiro, Ninomiya, Seishi, Guo, Wei

“…Hence, an open source software package called easy intermediate data processor (EasyIDP; MIT license) was developed to decrease the workload in intermediate data processing mentioned above. …”
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Conflict-sensitive adaptation governance: Assessing Kenya’s County Climate Change Fund by Medina, Leonardo, Schapendonk, Frans, Jaskolski, Martina, Osumba, Joab, Jebiwott, Alice, Singh, Radhika, Takaindisa, Joyce, Pacillo, Grazia

“…It is intended to assist county governments across Kenya in establishing a dedicated fund that can be readily accessed by community-led adaptation committees to finance locally prioritized and designed adaptation projects. This research developed a practical framework for evaluating climate adaptation policies through a conflict sensitivity lens. …”
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A Partial Equilibrium Model for Future Outlooks on Major Cereals in India by Parappurathu, Shinoj, Kumar, Anjani, Kumar, Shiv, Jain, Rajni

“…Based on this, projections as well as policy simulations on main demand and supply side variables of rice, wheat and maize were carried out for the period spanning 2011–2025. …”
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Evaluating logistic regression and geographically weighted logistic regression models for predicting orange-fleshed sweet potato adoption intention in Benin by Ahoudou, I., Fassinou Hotegni, N.V., Adje, C.O., Akponikpe, T.L., Sogbohossou, D.E., Fanou Fogny, N., Assogba-Komlan , F., Moumouni-Moussa, I., Achigan-Dako, E.G.

“…Accurate forecasting models for OFSP adoption intention are essential for breeding and introduction projects. This study aims to (i) identify key predictors of OFSP adoption intention among farmers in Benin, integrating various factors, and (ii) investigate regional variations in these predictors through different modeling approaches. …”
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Integrating and sharing accession-level and omics-size genotype, phenotype and environmental data: Experiences at the International Potato Center (CIP). by Simon, R., Córdova, R., Hualla, V., Salas, E., Tejada, S.T., Flores, M.R., Polreich, S., Haan, Stef de, Bonierbale, Merideth W.

“…In addition, data on the administrative (A) context should be kept including staff involved, objectives and, if applicable, projects and donors; as well as on data documentation standards (S) like ontologies. …”
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The technical mitigation potential of demand-side measures in the agri-food sector: a preliminary assessment of available measures by Kiff, Laura, Wilkes, Andreas, Tennigkeit, Timm

“…We review here the effectiveness of these measures for dietary change and reductions in food loss and waste, with a focus on developing countries, where agrifood emissions are projected to grow most rapidly and where the gaps in knowledge are largest. …”
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Economic analysis of seed yam production systems in Nigeria by Mignouna, Djana B., Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Alene, A., Aighewi, B.A., Pelemo, O., Manyong, Victor M., Asiedu, Robert, Akoroda, M.O.

“…New seed yam systems from minisetts, minitubers and vine cuttings have been developed for yam production to supplant the traditional systems, which have proven inefficient and costly. …”
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Mutation Breeding for Sustainable Food Production in Latin America and the Caribbean Under Climate Change by González Cepero, María Caridad, Gómez Pando, Luz, De Andrade, Alexander, Arguello Delgado, Juan Felix, Nakayama Nakashima, Héctor, Landau, Alejandra Mabel, Prina, Alberto Raul, Rodríguez García, Mayra, Suchini Farfan, Aura, de la Cruz Torres, Eulogio

“…From these projects, several mutants have been obtained which are used directly in the production areas because of their good productive potential or as parental in breeding programs. …”
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How to halt deforestation in the Amazon? A Bayesian process-tracing approach by Brandão, F., Befani, B., Soares-Filho, J., Rajão, R., Garcia, E.

“…We assessed 31 individual pieces of evidence, developed using data collected through a variety of quantitative and qualitative methods. …”
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Technical Advisory Committee Tenth Meeting, 22-26 July 1975: Draft Report by CGIAR Technical Advisory Committee

“…On the recommendation of its Subcommittee on Plant Nutrition, TAC endorsed CGIAR support to IFDC with the qualifications that field testing of new products be carried out through existing centers in the developing world, and that research on marketing and distribution of fertilizers be planned in consultation with the FAO and World Bank. …”
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Is proactive adaptation to climate change necessary in grazed rangelands? by Ash, Andrew J., Thornton, Philip K., Stokes, C., Togtohyn, C.

“…Past climate is likely to become an increasingly poor predictor of the future, so there is a risk in relying on adaptation approaches developed solely in response to existing variability. …”
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A new relevance and better prospects for wider uptake of social learning within CGIAR by Gonsalves, Julian Francis

“…Finally, an illustrative listing of current CGIAR projects provided to support the stocktaking objectives of this effort.…”
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Biological control in Africa and its possible effects on biodiversity by Neuenschwander, Peter, Markham, R.

“…Work-shops convened under the auspices of the Inter-African Phytosanitary Council and the FAO brought together local slake holders and inter-national agencies to develop the various projects on classical biological control. …”
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