"This requires a combination of increasingly sophisticated data, self-evaluation and local knowledge, " she said.

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It would be far more cost-effective to support local farmers in their breeding and evaluation of selected varieties already in community seed banks.

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This could lead to misleading evaluation of national and local suicide prevention strategies and a masking of the effects of economic difficulties on suicide rates, they suggest.

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They can provide data and transparency, research and evaluation, and political cover that permits local leaders to act, and they can scour their books to strike rules that hamstring hard-charging principals and superintendents.

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