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The national extension policy of Malawi – lessons from implementation por Ragasa, Catherine, Mazunda, John, Kadzamira, Mariam

“…In early 2015, during extensive district-level consultations on the content of the draft National Agriculture Policy, extension services were highlighted by stakeholders as the most important priority area for increasing agri-cultural productivity in Malawi. However, tough decisions and bold actions, rather than complacency and minor fixes, will be required to transform the extension system to one that contributes significantly to improved agricultural development outcomes. …”
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What dimensions of women’s empowerment in agriculture matter for nutrition in Ghana? por Malapit, Hazel J., Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…Women's empowerment in credit decisions is positively and significantly correlated with women's dietary diversity, but not body mass index. …”
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Strengthening Community Seed Banks for Gender inclusive development in India por Rengalakshmi, Raj, Puskur, Ranjitha, Pratheepa, C. M., Gopinath, R., Tenneti, Suchaita, Bomuhangi, Allan

“…Women have also not been actively participating and making decisions on the use of improved varieties in food systems. …”
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Improving dietary status through strengthening gender nutrition-sensitive interventions por Ketema, Dessalegn, Abeshu, Yadesa, Nchanji, Eileen

“…Empowering women to make decisions can lead to a more diverse diet. By focusing on educating women and girls about nutrition and health, we can encourage healthier dietary choices, improve health outcomes and productivity. …”
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Do household definitions matter in survey design? Results from a randomized survey experiment in Mali por Beaman, Lori, Dillon, Andrew

“…Standard definitions of the household usually include some intersection of keywords relating to residency requirements, common food consumption, and intermingling of income or production decisions. Despite best practices intending to standardize the definition of the household, it is unclear which types of definitions or which intersections of keywords in a definition result in different household compositions. …”
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Monitoring and assessing the influence of social, economic and policy factors on sustainable land management in drylands por Nkonya, Ephraim M., Winslow, M., Reed, M. S., Mortimore, M., Mirzabaev, A.

“…Geographic information systems analysis and modeling can then link social, economic, and policy data with biophysical data to support decision‐making. The identification of typical socio‐economic and policy cause–effect patterns is a potential means for summarizing complex human–environmental interactions in more insightful ways. …”
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WEFE Nexus Leadership Program: IPSR Innovation Profile por Khadka, Manohara, Buchy, Marlene, Koirala, Sanju, Elias, Marlene

“…Develop the transformational leadership capacity of women and men across WEFE sectors to participate meaningfully in nexus discourses, policy processes, decision-making, planning, and implementation. 3. Develop strong and collaborative networks for co-developing and implementing WEFE nexus solutions. 4. …”
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Dietary diversity as a food security indicator por Hoddinott, John F., Yohannes, Yisehac

“…Although it may not encapsulate all dimensions of poverty, the inability of households to obtain access to enough food for an active, healthy life is surely an important component of their poverty. Accordingly, devising an appropriate measure of food security outcomes is useful in order to identify the food insecure, assess the severity of their food shortfall, characterize the nature of their insecurity (for example, seasonal versus chronic), predict who is most at risk of future hunger, monitor changes in circumstances, and assess the impact of interventions. …”
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Dietary diversity as a food security indicator por Hoddinott, John F., Yohannes, Yisehac

“…Although it may not encapsulate all dimensions of poverty, the inability of households to obtain access to enough food for an active, healthy life is surely an important component of their poverty. Accordingly, devising an appropriate measure of food security outcomes is useful in order to identify the food insecure, assess the severity of their food shortfall, characterize the nature of their insecurity (for example, seasonal versus chronic), predict who is most at risk of future hunger, monitor changes in circumstances, and assess the impact of interventions. …”
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Facing the development challenge in Mozambique: an economywide perspective por Tarp, Finn, Arndt, Channing, Jensen, Henning Tarp, Robinson, Sherman, Heltberg, Rasmus

“…The pace of stabilization and structural adjustment quickened after 1992, when, concurrent with the demise of apartheid, civil strife finally came to an end. …”
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Strategies for stimulating poverty-alleviating growth in the rural nonfarm economy in developing countries por Haggblade, Steven, Hazell, Peter B. R., Reardon, Thomas

“…Large modern corporations take investment, procurement and marketing decisions that powerfully shape opportunities in the rural nonfarm economy throughout much of the Third World...." …”
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Gender differentials in farm productivity: Implications for household efficiancy and agricultural policy por Alderman, Harold, Hoddinott, John F., Haddad, Lawrence J., Udry, Christopher R.

“…This chapter challenges one of the main tenets of agricultural economics—that households behave as though they are single individuals, with production factors allocated efficiently between men and women. …”
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Effects on diet in improving the iron status of women: what role for food-based interventions? por Bouis, Howarth E., Bhargava, Alok, Scrimshaw, Nevin

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Household structure and child well-being: evidence from KwaZulu-Natal por Maluccio, John A., Thomas, Duncan, Haddad, Lawrence J.

“…Before 1994 the policy of apartheid in South Africa had systematically denied the majority of the population access to resources through legal restrictions on mobility, property rights, and residential location (Thompson 1990). …”
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Resource management under climatic risk: a case study from Niger por McCarthy, Nancy, Vanderlinden, Jean-Paul

“…Also, because grazing land is a common-pool resource, we determine the impact of cooperation on these decision variables. To capture different abilities of communities to cooperate in managing these externalities, we construct indices comprised of factors considered to affect the costliness of achieving successful cooperation. …”
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Cartografía Social: Empoderando Comunidades en Contextos Agropecuarios por Castañeda, Leidy T., Urbani, Ilaria, Blundo Canto, Genowefa

“…Through case studies in Colombia, it highlights how social cartography empowers rural communities by visualizing socio-environmental dynamics and aiding in collective decision-making about land use. The method has been applied in projects involving the dairy, quinoa, and cacao sectors to enhance local capacities, trace supply chains, and foster sustainable practices. …”
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Dietary mycotoxins: an overview on toxicokinetics, toxicodynamics, toxicity, epidemiology, detection, and their mitigation with special emphasis on aflatoxicosis in humans and anim... por Kibugu, J., Munga, L., Mburu, D., Maloba, F., Auma, J.E., Grace, Delia, Lindahl, Johanna F.

“…Yet this information is necessary to devise appropriate surveillance and mitigation strategies against human and animal aflatoxicosis. …”
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Smallholders' commercialization through cooperatives: A diagnostic for Ethiopia por Bernard, Tanguy, Gabre-Madhin, Eleni Zaude, Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum

“…Within regions, cooperatives tend to be located in areas that already have better access to markets and lower exposure to price and environmental risks. …”
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Facilitating collective action and enhancing local knowledge: a herbal medicine case study in Talaandig communities, Philippines por Hartanto, Herlina, Valmores, Cecil

“…This paper describes the ACM concept and the social learning processes that the women went through in identifying their health-related problems in the village, devising strategies to deal with those problems, monitoring the outcomes of their action, and improving their subsequent strategies. …”
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Modeling water resources management at the basin level: methodology and application to the Maipo River Basin por Cai, Ximing, Ringler, Claudia, Rosegrant, Mark W.

“…Modeling at this scale can provide essential information for policymakers in their resource allocation decisions. A river basin system is made up of water source components, instream and off-stream demand components, and intermediate (treatment and recycling) components. …”
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