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Do informational videos impact awareness, knowledge, and adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices? Insights from rural Uganda by Kato, Edward, Rwamigisa, Patience B., Kamusiime, Herbert, Sufian, Farha D., Ringler, Claudia

“…We also find some improvement in women’s decision-making but a decline in their group membership. …”
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The political economy of agricultural and food policies by Swinnen, Johan

“…Food and agriculture have been subject to heavy-handed government interventions throughout much of history and across the globe, both in developing and developed countries.1 Political considerations are crucial to understand these policies since almost all agricultural and food policies have redistributive effects and are therefore subject to lobbying and pressure from interest groups and used by decision-makers to influence society for both economic and political reasons. …”
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Revisiting development strategy under climate uncertainty: Case study of Malawi by Mukashov, Askar, Thomas, Timothy S., Thurlow, James

“…Utilizing Malawi as a case study, we introduce the application of Stochastic Dominance (SD) analysis, a tool from decision analysis theory, and compare the two strategies in the context of weather/climate-associated economic uncertainty. …”
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Mechanized: Transforming Africa’s agriculture value chains by Malabo Montpellier Panel, Glatzel, Katrin, Tankari, Mahamadou Roufahi, Demmler, Kathrin

“…It analyzes which policy decisions were taken and which interventions were implemented to substantially increase the uptake of mechanization. …”
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Appendix 1A: Agricultural transformation in Ethiopia: What do we know? by Berhane, Guush, Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane, Minten, Bart

“…As such, the government envisioned overall development around an agriculture-first and then industrialize approach with a series of strategies put in place to execute this grand vision. …”
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Beyond access: Gender- transformative financial inclusion in agriculture and entrepreneurship by Njuki, Jemimah, Melesse, Martha, Ng'weno, Amolo, Rappoldt, Anne, Phelane, Comfort, d'Anjou, Jesse, Hassan, Michelle, Ketley, Richard, Vossenberg, Saskia

“…Acore tenet underpinning financial inclusion is the notion that everyone has access to and usage of affordable financial products and services that meet their needs—whether those are savings, credit, insurance, or transactions or any combination of such services. …”
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Health priorities in a changing climate by Thomson, Madeleine, Rabie, Tamer Samah, Shumake-Guillemot, Joy, McDermott, John, James, Wilmot, Wannous, Chadia

“…It focuses on the opportunities created for climate information and associated services to support public health decision-making in a changing climate. Globalization is at the heart of this process, which is both driving, and subject to, accelerating global environmental and climate change. …”
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Impacts of alternative investment scenarios by Kim, Soonho, Cenacchi, Nicola, Wiebe, Keith D., Sulser, Timothy B., Dunston, Shahnila, Vos, Rob, Dimaranan, Betina, Allen, Summer L., Rice, Brendan, Gustafson, Sara

“…The report was developed in collaboration with scientists from all 15 CGIAR Centers and was intended to inform decision-making by the CGIAR and its partners in relation to agricultural research and development.…”
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Linking the economics of water, energy, and food: A nexus modeling approach by Al-Riffai, Perrihan, Breisinger, Clemens, Mondal, Md. Hossain Alam, Ringler, Claudia, Wiebelt, Manfred, Zhu, Tingju

“…The advantages are that, despite resource shortages being a challenge, the modeling suite aids in devising policies and strategies that formulate these sectoral interdependencies and provide the evidence-based research results necessary for their design in a way that exploits synergies existing across sectors, countries, and regions (Al-Zubari n.d.). …”
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Making African agriculture and food systems work for nutrition: What has been done, and what needs to be done? by Gillespie, Stuart, Dufour, Charlotte

“…Political commitment is growing, but much remains to be done in terms of strengthening the information base to support strategic decision making, and developing capacities for implementation at scale. …”
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Synopsis: Institutions and public agricultural investments: A qualitative study of state and local government spending in Nigeria by Mogues, Tewodaj, Olofinbiyi, Tolulope

“…In addition to analysis of the size and quality of agricultural spending, an understanding of the political-institutional setting within which public spending decisions are made is important. However, there is little known about the policy and political processes through which public agricultural expenditure al-locations are decided upon. …”
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The welfare effects of ICTs in agricultural markets: A case of selected countries in East Africa by Kamande, Mercyline, Nafula, Nancy

“…However, all the changes are insignificant at the 95 percent level of confidence, which makes it difficult to make a conclusive decision regarding the effects of ICTs on producer welfare in this region…”
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Socio-economic assessment and genetically engineered crops in Africa: Building knowledge for development? by Dowd-Uribe, Brian, Blundo-Canto, Genowefa, Glover, Dominic, Louafi, Sélim, Shilomboleni, Helena, Rock, Joeva Sean, Kikulwe, Enoch, Fischer, Klara, Joly, Pierre-Benoît

“…We find that the evaluation sciences literature offers alternative assessment approaches that can enable evaluators to better assess impacts, and inform learning and decision-making. We recommend the use of methods that enable evaluations to look beyond the agronomic and productive effects of individual traits to understand wider socio-economic effects.…”
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Resilience and social capital by Bernier, Quinn, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…People have been facing shocks, both natural and anthropogenic, forever, devising and innovating a variety of institutional responses to cope with, recover from, and prevent future impacts. …”
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Summary of Cows, missing milk markets and nutrition in rural Ethiopia by Hoddinott, John F., Headey, Derek D., Dereje, Mekdim

“…In rural economies encumbered by significant market imperfections, farming decisions may partly be motivated by nutritional considerations, in addition to income and risk factors. …”
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AgIncentives policy indicators to support scenario analysis for assessing better outcomes for poverty, food security and climate change mitigation: IPSR Innovation Profile by Vos, Rob, Martin, Will, Thurlow, James, Mamun, Abdullah, Cantillo, Marco V. Sánchez, Gautam, Madhur, Gruère, Guillaume P., De Salvo, Carmine Paolo

“…Together with the agrifood market database and the AMPAM modeling framework, the policy indicator dataset will be a critical ingredient for the scenario analysis the Initiative will undertake to support decision-makers in assessing the full potential, scalability, market opportunities, priorities for, and trade-offs associated with incentive schemes, and investments and innovations.…”
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Development strategies and food and nutrition security in Africa: an assessment by Heidhues, Franz, Atsain, Achi, Nyangito, Hezron, Padilla, Martine, Ghersi, Gérard, Le Vallée, Jean-Charles

“…Momentum is building in and around Africa today for policy action to decisively confront hunger and malnutrition. If we are to succeed, it is vital that food and nutrition security strategies be both sound and able to be implemented. …”
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Local seed systems for millet crops in marginal environments of India: industry and policy perspectives by Nagarajan, Latha, Pardey, Philip G., Smale, Melinda

“…It is evident that in these marginal environments, crop and variety use decisions, and the crop biodiversity levels take place within the context of local seed markets and a national seed industry. …”
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Incorporating project uncertainty in novel environmental biotechnologies: illustrated using phytoremediation by Linacre, Nicholas A., Whiting, Steven N., Angle, J. Scott

“…In this paper we use a deterministic actuarial model to show that uncertainty in project success (the possibility that full clean up may not be realized) may significantly increase the perceived costs of remediation works for decision-makers.…”
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Mexico by Stads, Gert-Jan, López, Georgel Moctezuma, Espinosa García, José Antonio, Cuevas Reyes, Venancio, Jolalpa Barrera, José Luis

“…S&T indicators assist research managers and policymakers in policy formulation and decision-making on strategic planning, priority setting, monitoring, and evaluation. …”
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