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  Connecting agriculture to better nutrition in South Asia: Innovation as a process of socio-technical change

  Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2017

  In South Asia, undernutrition remains a widespread problem, in spite of strong economic growth in countries such as India, which continues to struggle with stubbornly high rates of maternal malnutrition and child stunting. This paper explores the potential for different kinds of innovation to strengthen the connections between agriculture and nutrition in South Asia.
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  Policies and practices for climate smart agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa: A comparative assessment of challenges and opportunities across 15 countries

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2014

  This report is a product of the collaboration between the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) and the Earth System Governance Project, on policies for climate-smart agriculture.
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  The future of mechanized schemes and agricultural investment in the South Kordofan State / Nuba Mountains

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2016

  This paper tackles the issue of the future of mechanized schemes and investment in the agricultural sector in the South Kordofan State/Nuba Mountains. The main objective of this study is to assess the viability of investment in mechanized scheme areas in South Kordofan, such as Habila, which witnessed the intervention of mechanized farming in the 1960s.
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  Pulse crops and sustainability: a framework to evaluate multiple benefits

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2016

  The potential of pulses - beans, peas, chickpeas, lentils, and other pulses - to help address future global food security, nutrition and environmental sustainability needs has been acknowledged through the UN declaration of the 2016 International Year of Pulses. However, the full set of benefits that pulse crops can offer has not been systematically characterised.
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  Developing beans that can beat the heat

  Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2015

  In Africa and Latin America, the production of beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris ) is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts, which include higher temperatures and more frequent drought.
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  Opportunities for strategic intervention in the South African agricultural sector: trade and employment

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2016

  There is scope for a number of strategic interventions by the South African government to support agro-industrial production. These could make a significant difference to the country’s foreign trade and its domestic employment record.
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  GODAN Success Stories - Issue 1 | GODAN

  Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition, 2016

  Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) advocates and supports the proactive sharing of open data to make information about agriculture and nutrition available, accessible and usable.
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  Challenging the stereotypes: Small-scale black farmers and private sector support programmes in South Africa: A national scan

  Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, 2016

  This report represents one of the outputs of a research and social dialogue project undertaken over 18 months.
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  ICT for development working paper series 2013

  Bangladesh Institute of ICT in Development, 2013

  This issue of the Working Paper Series on ICT for DevelopmentF seven articles that deal with ICT for Development in the fields of agriculture and commerce. Titles include:
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  Science, technology, innovation in India and sccess, inclusion and equity: discourses, measurement and emerging challenges

  Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2015

  The role of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in economic growth is well accepted. Tracing the debate on the role of science in Indian society in the pre-1947 India, the discourses and narratives on science, technology and society in India are mapped and their impact on policies is discussed.

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