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Do market shocks generate gender-differentiated impacts? Policy implications from a quasi-natural experiment in Bangladesh
(Elsevier, 2019)
Using information collected from two rounds of household income and expenditure surveys (HIES 2005 and 2010) in Bangladesh, this study examines the gender-differentiated impacts of the commodity price hikes in 2008 on food ...
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Tracking the adoption of bread wheat varieties in Afghanistan using DNA fingerprinting
(BioMed Central, 2019)
Wheat is the most important staple crop in Afghanistan and accounts for the main part of cereal production. However, wheat production has been unstable during the last decades and the country depends on seed imports. Wheat ...
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Wildlife trade and consumer preference for species rarity: an examination of caged-bird markets in Sumatra
(Cambridge University Press, 2019)
This study examines conservation effects of wildlife trade using demand and supply data from caged-bird markets in Sumatra, Indonesia. When consumers have a strong preference for species rarity, trade could result in ...
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Doing research and ‘doing gender’ in Ethiopia's agricultural research system
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)
This article presents data from an experimental gender audit that was completed of the national agricultural research system in Ethiopia. The results show how agriculture researchers understand and practice gender in ...
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Rethinking technological change in smallholder agriculture
(SAGE Publishing, 2019)
The concept of technology adoption (along with its companions, diffusion and scaling) is commonly used to design development interventions, to frame impact evaluations and to inform decision-making about new investments ...
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Climate action for food security in South Asia? Analyzing the role of agriculture in nationally determined contributions to the Paris agreement
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)
The Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) submitted under the Paris Agreement propose a country’s contribution to global mitigation efforts and domestic adaptation initiatives. This paper provides a systematic analysis ...
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Understanding the relations between farmers’ seed demand and research methods: the challenge to do better
(SAGE Publishing, 2019)
Although the development of improved seeds has witnessed significant advances over the last decades, the adoption of improved seeds and varieties by smallholder farmers is variable. This suggests that research methods for ...
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Small businesses, potentially large impacts: the role of fertilizer traders as agricultural extension agents in Bangladesh
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019)
Constraints associated with public agricultural extension services imply that farmers increasingly rely on input providers for agricultural innovations and knowledge. Yet such providers are typically commercial profit-making ...
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Healthy foods as proxy for functional foods: consumers' awareness, perception, and demand for natural functional foods in Pakistan
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2019)
Using comprehensive primary dataset collected from 400 respondents from all four major provinces of Pakistan, this study assesses consumers’ knowledge, awareness, and perception regarding the use of functional foods. Te ...
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Genetic divergence and diversity in Himalayan Puccinia striiformis populations from Bhutan, Nepal, and Pakistan
(American Phytopathological Society (APS), 2019)
The western Himalayan region in Pakistan has been shown to be the center of diversity of Puccinia striiformis; however, little is known about its genetic relations with the eastern part of the Himalayas. We studied the ...