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  Open data for agriculture and nutrition: A literature review and proposed conceptual framework

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2021

  This paper begins by locating the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition project (GODAN) in the context of wider debates in the open data movement by first reviewing the literature on open data (OD) and open data for agriculture and nutrition (ODAN). 
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  Drivers of market-oriented land use decisions among farm households in Nigeria

  Future Agricultures Consortium, 2020

   
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  Food systems and climate change

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2020

  Food systems worldwide are not delivering healthy, sustainably produced food for the majority of people. Climate change is both a negative outcome of environmentally damaging food systems, and a threat to the future of food production and the livelihoods that depend on it.
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  Adapting agricultural water use to climate change in a post-Soviet context: Challenges and opportunities in Southeast Kazakhstan

  Springerlink, 2017

  The convergence of climate change and post-Soviet socio-economic and institutional transformations has been underexplored so far, as have the consequences of such convergence on crop agriculture in Central Asia.
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  Peri-urban agriculture as quiet sustainability: Challenging the urban development discourse in Sogamoso, Colombia

  Elsevier, 2020

  This article advances academic and policy debates on peri-urban agriculture (PUA) by examining the phenomenon in the city of Sogamoso, Colombia.
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  Fictitious commodification and agrarian change: Indigenous peoples and land markets in Highland Ecuador

  Wiley Online Library, 2020

  Creating private property rights and establishing land markets were fundamental to the historical development of capitalism in the Global North and remain at the centre of capitalist development in the Global South. This article contributes to debates about these processes by analysing the relationship between land markets and indigenous peoples in Highland Ecuador.
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  Climate change, food and nutrition policies in Uganda: Are they gender- and nutrition-sensitive?

  CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, 2020

  This brief draws attention to some gaps in the mainstreaming of gender and nutrition in climate change, and food and nutrition-related policy documents, which may affect the effective implementation of nutrition-focused actions and the realization of improved nutrition outcomes.
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  RUDI multi-trading company: locally-owned agricultural trade network 

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2020

  The Rural Urban Distribution Initiative (RUDI) was set up in India in 2004 by the Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA). It is a branded local network for the procurement, marketing, and distribution of agricultural products by rural women and is owned by the small-scale farmers and rural women involved.
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  Political ecology and differential vulnerabilities to droughts among livestock farmers in South Africa: A case study of Mpakeni community

  STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2020

  Most of South Africa’s black rural population reside in the former homelands or Bantustans, commonly referred to as communal areas by the post-apartheid government (Clark and Luwaya 2017). Amongst a variety of livelihood activities that black rural households engage in, livestock production offers multiple-use value, although its contribution to local livelihood is sometimes underestimated (C.
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  Informal food markets in Zambia: perspectives from vendors, consumers and policymakers in Lusaka and Kitwe

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2019

  Informal markets play a critical role in providing affordable, accessible and diverse food for the urban poor, while at the same time supporting the livelihoods of millions of small-scale farmers, traders and vendors. In Zambia, the informal sector is a major source of employment and livelihoods and almost 80% of informal workers are employed in agricultural-related activities.

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