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interest to the US Government’s Feed the Future initiative. These poverty, health, and nutrition outcomes include both …
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, nutrition, and gender outcomes in the region. The focus of this paper is on the health, nutrition, and gender linkage. … environmental sustainability (such as deciding remaining forest cover in the region) and poverty reduction, but also for health …
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security, improved nutrition, and health. We conclude that the evidence remains insufficient to draw broad conclusions due to … that should be taken into account in irrigation development to address nutrition and gender gaps with a focus on Africa … and consumption as well as minimization of health risks; (3) multiple uses of irrigation water should be recognized in …
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Philippines are generally treated equally, provid ing a contrast with other Asian settings where discrimination by gender is …
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Weather shocks and natural disasters, it has been argued, represent a major threat to national and international … weather shocks and conflict by focusing on a pixel-level analysis for North and South Sudan at different geographical and time …
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Weather-related production risks remain one of the most serious constraints to agricultural production in much of the … manage drought risk: weather index insurance and a recently released drought-tolerant rice variety. We illustrate how these …
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The assumption underlying this hypothesis is that farmers lack the knowledge, resources, or both to adequately prevent, anticipate, prepare for, cope with, and recover from shocks. Extension and advisory services may be able to rectify this information asymmetry, or knowledge inequality, by...
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