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Financial Services
Financial Incentives Often Fail To Reconcile Agricultural Productivity And Pro-conservation Behavior
All CountriesANDREW R. BELL, O. SAROBIDY RAKOTONARIVO, APURVA B...
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Paying resource users to preserve features of their environment could, in theory, better align production and conservation goals. Across this range of dilemmas, while payments can encourage pro-conservation behavior, they often fail to capitalize on...

On-Farm Production (crops, livestock)
Intensification Of Rice Farming: The Role Of Mechanization And Irrigation
All CountriesHIROYUKI TAKESHIMA AND YUKICHI MANO
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This identifies huge potential of a rice Green Revolution in sub-Saharan Africa based on a decade of field research. Demonstrates the utmost importance of rice cultivation training for sustainably improving productivity.

Agri-Food News and Media
Linking Ecosystem Services Provisioning With Demand For Animal-Sourced Food
TanzaniaDOLAPO ENAHORO, MARTA KOZICKA, CATHERINE PFEIFER,...
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This paper presents a novel integrated assessment framework that links a model of the global agricultural and food system, a landscape-level environmental impact assessment model, and an ecosystem services simulation model.

Food Safety
Assessing Food Security Among Young Farmers In Africa
All CountriesDOLAPO ADEYANJU, JOHN MBURU, WAINAINA GITURO, CHEP...
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Food insecurity remains a serious challenge for many households in Africa and the situation is even more prevalent among young people. However, there is a dearth of empirical evidence on youth food security status in Africa. We assessed the level and...

Agri-Food News and Media
Intensification Of Rice Farming - The Role Of Mechanization And Irrigation
All CountriesHIROYUKI TAKESHIMA AND YUKICHI MANO
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This identifies huge potential of a rice Green Revolution in sub-Saharan Africa based on a decade of field research. Demonstrates the utmost importance of rice cultivation training for sustainably improving productivity. Provides evidence about the r...

Nutrition
Challenges To Joint Planning, Monitoring, And Evaluation For Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture In Ethiopia
EthiopiaAFEWORK MULUGETA BEZABIH, ZNABU HADUSH KAHSAY, AMA...
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Nutrition-sensitive agriculture is an effective multi-sectoral approach to address the underlying causes of malnutrition. However, successful implementation requires the involvement of different sectors to jointly plan, monitor, and evaluate key acti...

Nutrition
Dietary Inadequacy In Tanzania
TanzaniaLIZ IGNOWSKI, BEN BELTON, NHUONG TRAN AND HANNAH A...
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This study contributes to the growing literature on dietary quality and accessibility in the Global South. We analyze the nutrition implications of changing dietary patterns between 2008 and 2019 in one of Africa's largest and fastest growing economi...

The Economywide Effects Of Reducing Food Loss And Waste In Developing Countries
All CountriesEMERTA ARAGIE, KARL PAUW AND JAMES THURLOW
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One of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is reducing food loss and waste (FLW) across all stages of food value chains, including the on-farm production, the off-farm postharvest, processing, and distribution, and the household consumption stag...

Agri-Food News and Media
Measuring Empowerment Across The Value Chain: The Evolution Of The Project-Level Women’s Empowerment Index For Market Inclusion
All CountriesHAZEL J. MALAPIT, JESSICA HECKERT, PATRICE YGUÉ AD...
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Many development agencies design and implement interventions that aim to reach, benefit, and empower rural women across the value chain in activities ranging from production, to processing, to marketing.

An Agriculture And Rural Employment Analysis Of The Fifth Malawi Integrated Household Survey
MalawiTODD BENSON AND JOACHIM DE WEERDT
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Smallholder agriculture dominates employment in rural Malawi. However, with continuing population growth, the average landholding size for smallholder farming households is declining, resulting in many being unable to produce sufficient food to meet...

Conflict-induced Shocks And Household Food Security In Nigeria
NigeriaOPEYEMI OLANREWAJU AND BEDRU BALANA
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The livelihoods and food security of households in Nigeria are seriously impacted by conflicts like the Boko Haram insurgency, herder-farmer disputes, and armed banditry attacks.

Research and Development
Kenya's Agrifood System: Structure And Drivers Of Transformation
KenyaXinshen Diao, Karl Pauw, Jenny Smart and James Thu...
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This analysis is composed of two parts. The evolving structure of Kenya’s agrifood system (AFS) and its contribution to national development is assessed using a series of Social Accounting Matrixes (SAMs) for Kenya for the period 2009–2019. Economic...