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Toward a Food Policy "First Step" in Oakland, California: A Food Policy Council's Efforts To Promote Urban Agriculture Zoning

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016
Urban agriculture (UA) is cropping up in backyards, vacant lots, rooftops, and city parks across North America. Despite popular interest, zoning often serves as an obstacle to UA's expansion.
Nathan McClintock, Heather Wooten, Alethea Harper Brown   +2 more
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Regulatory compliance index of traditional medicine and health supplement companies in Indonesia [PDF]

BIO Web of Conferences
The traditional medicine and health supplement sectors are growing in Indonesia, driven by public interest in natural and preventive health solutions. Regulatory compliance is essential to ensure the safety, quality, and efficacy of these products.
Astuti Sri, Wikara Tina, Nurhayati Sri, R.Sari Evi, Carolina Rotua U., Rahmita Galuh Z.   +5 more
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Economic shocks predict increases in child wasting prevalence

Nature Communications, 2022
Economic shocks may lead to food insecurity and therefore acute child malnutrition (wasting). Here, the authors use data from Demographic Health Surveys to estimate impacts of past economic shocks on wasting and project possible effects of shocks related
Derek D. Headey, Marie T. Ruel
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Soil health and gender: why and how to identify the linkages

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2021
Healthy soils play a critical role in supporting agricultural productivity, climate change mitigation and resilience, and a range of ecosystem services.
Wei Zhang, Marlène Elias, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Kimberly Swallow, Carlos Calvo-Hernandez, Ephraim Nkonya   +5 more
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Estimating local agricultural gross domestic product (AgGDP) across the world [PDF]

Earth System Science Data, 2023
Economic statistics are frequently produced at an administrative level such as the subnational division. However, these measures may lack sufficient local variation for effective analysis of local economic development patterns and exposure to natural ...
Y. Ru, B. Blankespoor, U. Wood-Sichra, T. S. Thomas, L. You, E. Kalvelagen   +5 more
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Are U.S. food and beverage companies now advertising healthy products to children on television? An evaluation of improvements in industry self-regulation, 2017–2021

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2023
Background Through the Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative (CFBAI), U.S. food companies pledge to only advertise healthier products in children’s television (TV) programming, but previous research shows that highly advertised products do ...
Melissa L. Jensen, Frances Fleming-Milici, Jennifer L. Harris   +2 more
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Report of IFPRI’s Participation in the International Conference on Nutrition [PDF]

, 1993
Report by IFPRI's Director General on IFPRI's participation on behalf of the CGIAR in the International Conference on Nutrition held in Rome in December 1992.
International Food Policy Research Institute
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Pre‐analytical optimization of cell‐free DNA and extracellular vesicle‐derived DNA for mutation detection in liquid biopsies

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Pre‐analytical handling critically determines liquid biopsy performance. This study defines practical best‐practice conditions for cell‐free DNA (cfDNA) and extracellular vesicle–derived DNA (evDNA), showing how processing time, storage conditions, tube type, and plasma input volume affect DNA integrity and mutation detection.
Jonas Dohmen, Lucrezia De Santis, Bret M. Stephens, Vincent Bernard, Jörg C. Kalff, Lara Braun, Phillipp Leyendecker, Johannes Röttgen, Daniel Weissinger, Anirban Maitra, Paola A. Guerrero, Alexander Semaan   +11 more
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Oyo and Kaduna States Maize Farmers’ Perception of Selected Agricultural Policies in Nigeria

Journal of Agricultural Extension, 2023
This study examined the awareness and perception of agricultural policies by maize farmers in Oyo and Kaduna States of Nigeria. A multistage sampling procedure was used to select 424 respondents: 210 farmers from Oyo and 214 farmers from Kaduna, from ...
Olusegun Oyelami, Adegbenga Adekoya, Iredele Ogunbayo, Uyiosa Osadebamwen, Effa Enya, Peace Aburime, Oreoluwa Akano   +6 more
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Migration and Gender Dynamics of Irrigation Governance in Nepal

International Journal of the Commons, 2022
Nepal has a long history of irrigation, including government and farmer-managed irrigation systems that are labor- and skill-intensive. Widespread male migration has important effects on Nepalese society.
Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Prachanda Pradhan, Wei Zhang   +2 more
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