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Income aspirations, migration, and investments on and off the farm: Evidence from rural Tajikistan por Bloem, Jeffrey R., Lambrecht, Isabel B.

“…Investigating a possible mechanism, we find that the relationship between the income aspirations gap and migration seems to be driven by remittances, which outweigh migration costs and increase household income.…”
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Working women in an urban setting: traders, vendors, and food security in Accra por Levin, Carol E., Maxwell, Daniel G., Armar-Klemesu, Margaret, Ruel, Marie T., Morris, Saul Sutkover, Ahiadeke, Clement

“…Data collected from a 1997 household survey carried out in Accra, Ghana, are used to look at the crucial role that women play as income earners and in securing access to food in urban areas. …”
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Diverse genetic mechanisms underlie worldwide convergent rice feralization por Qiu, Jie, Jia, Lei, Wu, Dongya, Weng, Xifang, Chen, Lijuan, Sun, Jian, Chen, Meihong, Mao, Lingfeng, Jiang, Bowen, Ye, Chuyu, Turra, Guilherme Menegol, Guo, Longbiao, Ye, Guoyou, Zhu, Qian-Hao, Imaizumi, Toshiyuki, Song, Beng-Kah, Scarabel, Laura, Merotto, Aldo, Olsen, Kenneth M., Fan, Longjiang

“…Latin American weedy rice stands out in having originated through extensive hybridization. …”
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Economic crises, small farmers and forest cover in Cameroon and Indonesia por Sunderlin, William D., Resosudarmo, I.A.P., Ndoye, O.

“…In both countries, economic crises led to changes in farming systems and to a significant increase in the rate of forest clearing, yet the circumstances leading to this outcome are strikingly different. In Cameroon, a collapse of the prices of leading agroexport commodities (cocoa and coffee), withdrawal of government subsidies for these commodities, and restrictions on food imports made farmer’s clear land to produce food crops for domestic consumption. …”
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Participatory diagnosis to revitalize the performance of irrigation schemes in the Sahel: experiences from Burkina Faso and Niger por Sally, Hilmy, Levite, Herve

“…Professionals from ICID committees carried out the diagnoses together with representatives of farmers. …”
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Interactions between two neotropical phytoseiid predators and consequences for biological control of a shared prey por Onzo, A., Hanna, R., Janssen, A., Sabelis, M.

“…At high prey density, T. manihoti increased to large numbers and outcompeted T. aripo. Relevance of these findings to larger spatial scale and under natural conditions is discussed.…”
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The role of livestock in poverty alleviation: An analysis of Colombia por Holmann, Federico J., Rivas Ríos, Libardo, Urbina, N., Giraldo, L., Guzmán, S., Martínez, M., Rivera, B., Medina, A., Ramírez, G.

“…Data came from direct survey interviews in 2002 with 143 farmers who did not own cattle in the five most important regions of animal production in Colombia to elicit their perception about the role of livestock as a pathway out of poverty. Selected regions were: Piedmont, Caribbean, the Coffee-growing region, the highlands of Antioquia, and the Cundiboyacense altiplanicie. …”
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Waves of disease, waves of poverty: New evidence on the economic impacts of COVID-19 and political instability in Myanmar por Headey, Derek D., Cho, Ame, Mahrt, Kristi, Diao, Xinshen, Lambrecht, Isabel B.

“…However, by September 2020, the country had faced a second, far worse phase of the crisis, with another wave of infections emerging in Rakhine in August 2020 and quickly spreading out of control to Yangon and other regions. Myanmar went from a few hundred confirmed cases in early August to more than 80,000 by late November (though this was surely a large underestimate, given low testing rates), despite widespread lockdown measures starting in mid-September. …”
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The bang for the birr: Public expenditures and rural welfare in Ethiopia por Mogues, Tewodaj, Ayele, Gezahegn, Paulos, Zelekawork

“…Most previous studies examining the link between public expenditure and development outcomes either explore how the size of overall public expenditure or public investment affects growth or poverty, or they correlate spending in one economic sector with outcomes in that sector or with broader measures of welfare. …”
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The bang for the birr: Public expenditures and rural welfare in Ethiopia por Mogues, Tewodaj, Ayele, Gezahegn, Paulos, Zelekawork

“…Most previous studies examining the link between public expenditure and development outcomes either explore how the size of overall public expenditure or public investment affects growth or poverty, or they correlate spending in one economic sector with outcomes in that sector or with broader measures of welfare. …”
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Livestock in mixed farming systems in South Asia por Parthasarathy Rao, P., Birthal, P.S.

“…Unlike in the past, productivity increases should contribute a larger share to output growth owing to increasing pressure on land and competing resources. …”
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Involvement of toll-like receptors 3 and 7/8 in the neuropathogenesis of bovine herpesvirus types 1 and 5 por Rensetti, Daniel Ernesto, Marin, Maia Solange, Quintana, Silvina, Morán, Pedro Edgardo, Verna, Andrea Elizabeth, Odeon, Anselmo Carlos, Perez, Sandra

“…Important differences in TLR expression upon infection of the central nervous system by BoHV-1 or BoHV-5 were not detected. The striking differences in TLR mRNA levels during acute infection and reactivation provide evidence that the innate immune response may be involved in the clinical outcomes observed at each stage. …”
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Assessing the application of gender perspectives in land restoration studies in Ethiopia using text mining por Abera, Wuletawu, Tamene, Lulseged D., Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework, Estrada-Carmona, Natalia, Elias, Marlène, Joshi, Deepa, Aynekulu, Ermias

“…Yet one issue that is rarely considered is how the outcomes of restoration initiatives affect different social groups, specifically women, men, and the marginalized. …”
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How do women’s empowerment metrics measure up? A comparative analysis por Bageant, Elizabeth, Lentz, Erin, Narayanan, Sudha, Jensen, Nathaniel D., Lepariyo, Watson

“…Research has identified women’s empowerment as a critical factor for nutritional outcomes and a priority area for understanding women’s mental health status. …”
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Värdet av tystnad por Asséhn, Josefin

“…By using the method of hedonisk pricing the essay tries to find out if there exists a willingness to pay to reduce the noise in the area. …”
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Has continued exposure to banana Xanthomonas Wilt worsened farmers’ welfare over time? Evidence from banana-producing households in Uganda por Mbabazi, Esther Gloria, Kikulwe, Enoch Mutebi, Kyanjo, Joseph Lule, Mulumba, Nasser, Kato, Edward, Gotor, Elisabetta

“…The findings suggest that banana is an important crop to smallholder farmers and expansion into other cash crops requires bigger resource outlays, and that despite continued exposure to BXW, farmers’ income increased over time. …”
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De novo assembly of red clover transcriptome based on RNASeq data provides insight into drought response, gene discovery and marker identification por Yates, S., Swain, M., Hegarty, M., Chernukin, I., Lowe, M., Allison, G., Ruttink, T., Abberton, Michael T., Jenkins, G., Skot, L.

“…Key metabolites were measured and RNA-Seq analysis was carried out on four bulked samples: the two pools sampled before and after drought. …”
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Betesdjur i förvaltning av rekreationsområden : en studie av Skåneleden por Schön, Anna

“…A literature study was carried out to answer what different pros and cons there are with this method of management in relation to the three sustainability dimensions: ecological, economic and social. …”

Non-marine Animal Bioactive Peptides. Properties, Sources, and Applications por Chamorro, Verónica Celeste, Pazos, Adriana Alejandra, Báez, Jessica, Fernández-Fernández, Adriana Maite, Medrano, Alejandra

“…Finally, a discussion about the food applications and perspective studies for promoting animal bioactive peptides use is carried out. In sum, the full set of reported bioactivities plus future research on the efficacy and safety through clinical studies, coupled with the efficient use of byproducts for a sustainable production of these peptides, will reveal the full scope of potential applications of these natural molecules.…”
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Cassava investment in Africa: taking inventory of initiatives in Africa in view of positioning cassava as a strategic commodity por Wambo, A., Mahungu, N.M., Kendenga, T., O'Brien, E.

“…The findings of this study are threefold: first, the stakeholders and their interests are identified; second, networks are identified as well; and third, a SWOT analysis identifies the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges in the cassava sub-sector has been carried out. This paper presents a synthesis of these findings before drawing important conclusions and recommendations. …”
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