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A technical review of modern cassava technology adoption in Nigeria (1985-2013): Trends, challenges, and opportunities por Oparinde, Adewale, Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Manyong, Victor M., Birol, Ekin, Asare-Marfo, Dorene, Kulakow, Peter, Ilona, Paul

“…Also, the use of only descriptive statistics and dichotomous choice models is most common while issues of sequencing, simultaneity, endogenity, and social learning effects in adoption decisions are under-evaluated. The local germplasm at research institutions in the country is not exhaustive and thus efforts should focus on improving the database for an effective use of a DNA fingerprinting technique in the varietal identification process.…”
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A4NH 2016 annual report por CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health

“…High quality evidence—on topics such as emerging zoonoses, Rift Valley fever, aflatoxin control, and food safety in informal markets—helped inform policy and decision making to prevent and control agriculture-associated diseases in high-risk areas. …”
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Addressing knowledge gaps in rice growing in eastern uganda por Van Campenhout, Bjorn, Walukano, Wilberforce, Van Asten, Piet

“…In addition, rice growing involves complex inter-temporal decision making, where money and labor invested today needs to be compared to uncertain earnings in the fu-ture. …”
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Food security and nutrition in an urbanizing world: A synthesis of the 2017 Global Food Policy Report por Fan, Shenggen, Cho, Emily EunYoung, Rue, Christopher

“…The paper is a synthesis of the 2017 Global Food Policy Report, and the purpose of this paper is to put into perspective the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2016 and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2017.The paper presents an overview of recent changes in the global context for food security and nutrition, and synthesizes research findings on major issues that arise in an urbanizing world. …”
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Health insurance, a friend in need? Evidence from financial and health diaries in Kenya por Geng, Xin, Ide, Vera, Janssens, Wendy, Kramer, Berber, van der List, Marijn

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The role of learning in technology adoption: Evidence on hybrid rice adoption in Bihar, India por Gars, Jared, Ward, Patrick S.

“…Much empirical research has shown that individuals’ decisions to adopt a new technology are the result of learning–both through personal experimentation through observing the experimentation of others. …”
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Innovation, competition, and productivity growth: Evidence on the impact of growth in Asia's maize seed sector por Spielman, David J., Kennedy, Adam

“…One reason for slow progress may be that policymakers are insufficiently informed about the opportunities and trade-offs associated with designing laws and regulations that enable the effective governance of seed industry development. As a result, their decisions—and the analytical tools they rely on—tend to be informed by principles, rather than empirical considerations of seed industry development. …”
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Public stockholding programs and the WTO por Glauber, Joseph W.

“…At the Ministerial Conference in Bali in 2013 (MC 9), members agreed to an interim mechanism, which granted a “peace clause” to countries with existing PSH programs, effectively shielding them from challenges regarding compliance with domestic support obligations under the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism. Under the Bali Decision, members agreed to provide data on how the program operated and to ensure that such programs were not trade distorting or would not affect the food security of other WTO members. …”
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Observed trends in multiple breadbasket yield shocks por Chen, Xuan, Anderson, Weston, You, Liangzhi, Pope, Edward

“…Here non-climate factors refer to interannual variability unrelated to abiotic stress, such as biotic stress and management decisions. We find that although the risk posed by extreme heat to crop yields has been increasing, this risk has been offset by changes to precipitation, extremely cold days, and average growing season temperature in many breadbaskets. …”
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Onset risk and draft animal investment in Nigeria por Takeshima, Hiroyuki

“…A knowledge gap still exists empirically on how onset risk may affect the investment decisions of these farmers. In particular, farm productivity in Africa still depends on substantial labor inputs at the onset of the rainy season, sometimes involving seasonal migration to rural areas. …”
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Comprehension and risk elicitation in the field: Evidence from rural Senegal por Charness, Gary, Viceisza, Angelino

“…In the past decade, it has become increasingly common to use simple laboratory games and decision tasks as a device for measuring both the preferences and understanding of rural populations in the developing world. …”
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Policy benchmarking and tracking the agricultural policy environment in Nigeria por Sanyal, Prabuddha, Babu, Suresh Chandra

“…Thus, it is critical to assess Nigeria's current policymaking and agenda-setting process in order to devise strategies for improving agriculture and reducing poverty (Adebayo et al. 2009).…”
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Agricultural productivity in the COMESA, EAC and IGAD: status, trends and drivers por Karugia, Joseph T., Massawe, Stella, Guthiga, Paul, Ogada, Maurice, Wambua, Jonesmus

“…Generally, productivity is low but information on productivity performance in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) region and other sub-regional groupings in Eastern and Central Africa is not synthesized and compiled for decision making. This report is one of the annual monitoring and evaluation (M&E) reports for CAADP generated by the Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS) network. …”
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Woodlot devolution in Northern Ethiopia: opportunities for empowerment, smallholder income diversification and sustainable land management por Jagger, Pamela, Pender, John L., Gebremedhin, Berhanu

“…We find that more devolved woodlot management empowers resource users by providing greater autonomy regarding the management of woodlots, and in particular the ability to make decisions about the harvest of woodlot products. Our economic analysis indicates that grass is by far the most important product being harvested from woodlots. …”
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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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Livestock to 2020: the next food revolution [in Japanese] por Delgado, Christopher L., Rosegrant, Mark W., Steinfeld, Henning, Ehui, Simeon, Courbois, Claude

“…They emphasize, however, that policy decisions taken for the livestock sector of developing countries will determine whether the Livestock Revolution helps or harms the world s poor and malnourished. …”
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Poverty, household food security, and nutrition in rural Pakistan por Alderman, Harold, Garcia, Marito

“…How households increase their incomes, acquire food, improve health, or cope with insecurity are important concerns that need to be examined in order to devise policies to help eradicate poverty. Nearly all attempts to study these issues have used snapshot approaches--those that look at one point in time. …”
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Report on the scoping study for the project “nature positive solutions for shifting agrifood systems to more resilient and sustainable pathways" por Manibhai, Desai Nagar

“…NPS is designed through 5 major pillars which envision the creation of a sustainable food production system that can support food security and livelihood opportunities, namely Conserve, Manage, Restore, Recycle, and Engage. …”
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Bridging soil health gaps for resilient food systems in the Global South por Visscher, Anna Maria

“…Finally, we address critical bottlenecks that require further research to enhance the advancement and practical application of the proposed framework, these include: 1) Approaches to benchmark and interpretate soil health indicators. 2) Linking soil health indicators to productivity and environmental outcomes, along with understanding the associated trade-offs; 3) Pathways to accelerate impact in soil health decision-making necessitates the development of robust, practical, and affordable indicators that fit the needs of actors with different resources available for soil health assessment.…”
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In-season crop-type mapping in Kenya using Sentinel-2 imagery por Li, Hui, Guo, Zhe, Di, Liping, Guo, Liying, Zhang, Chen, Lin, Li

“…In-season crop type mapping is essential to agriculture management applications, including yield estimates, crop planting acreage statistics, food market predictions, and land use change analysis that support relevant decision-making, pushing economic development in certain agricultural export nations like Keny. …”
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