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Future agrifood: What would agriculture look like in the future? Some reflections

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December, 2022
Global

Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse presented these slides at the World Agrifood Innovation Conference 2023 (WAFI 2023) on November 3, 2023 in Pinggu, Beijing, on behalf of International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in collaboration with the CGIAR Research Initiative on National Policies and Strategies (NPS).

Technological advances in prospecting sites for pumped hydro energy storage

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December, 2022
Global

This chapter provides a survey of pumped hydroelectric energy storage (PHES) in terms of the factors considered in the site selection process: geographic, social, economic, and environmental. Due to the number and complexity of factors considered for this purpose, a multicriteria decision-making model is often used during the selection process.

Challenges for private sector job matching in rural Egypt: Results from a survey of forsa employers

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December, 2022
United States of America

Increasing formal employment for youth and women is a key goal of the Forsa pilot graduation intervention and Egyptian government policy in general. As detailed in Forsa evaluation reports, matching Takaful beneficiaries with jobs in the private sector is a major challenge from the perspective of households.

The underlying causes of deforestation during “peacetime”: Evidence from the implementation of the peace agreement in Colombia

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December, 2022
Colombia

The acceleration of deforestation is one of the unexpected consequences of the signing of the Peace Agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP guerrilla in 2016.

Myanmar Household Welfare Survey Round Three: Note on Sample Characteristics and Weighting

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December, 2022
Myanmar

The third round of the MHWS was carried out between July 8, 2022 and August 10, 2022. In the third round of MHWS, 12,128 households responded to the survey:
• 5,978 households that were interviewed in Round 1, Round 2, and Round 3;
• 3,063 households that were interviewed in Round 2 and Round 3;

Identifying with interested AMS the main gaps in the current data available and building on this a strategy for generating an enhanced database, targeting soil health across priority land use/cropping systems

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December, 2022
Global

Agriculture is one of the important sectors of the Southeast Asian (SEA) region, contributing 11.4% to the regional GDP. Diverse conditions in climate, vegetation, physiography, geology, and lithology have resulted in 19 complex soil geographical areas, creating 11 farming systems, of which four are considered significant.

Report on Southern Regional Research-Extension-Linkage Committee’s (RELC’s) Planning Sessions, Ghana

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December, 2022
Ghana

The regional Research-Extension-Linkage Committees (RELCSp) lanning sessions are platforms where various stakeholders in agriculture sector assemble to deliberate on constraints that facing Ghana’s agricultural system. It also assesses the performance of the year’s agricultural activities under the RELCs within the regions.

Exploring the impact of women’s empowerment on health and nutritional status of children and women in India

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December, 2022
India

The focus on gender equality and women’s empowerment are crucial in nurturing health and human development. Using unit-level data from NFHS5 (Demographic and Health Survey data), we developed a women’s empowerment index for India and assessed its impact on children’s (0–59 months) and women’s (15–49 years) health and nutritional outcomes.

How can gender research trigger changes to influence breeding priorities

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December, 2022
India

Significant progress in agricultural technology development have remained persistently blind to social and gender inequalities. Creating agricultural research ecosystems and institutions that address gender inequality require structural and systemic analysis. One of the major areas of investment in agricultural innovation is plant breeding.