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Reductionist and integrative research approaches to complex water security policy challenges by Zeitoun, M., Lankford, B.A., Krueger, T., Forsyth, T., Carter, R., Hoekstra, A.Y., Taylor, R., Varis, O., Cleaver, F., Boelens, R., Swatuk, L., Tickner, D., Scott, Christopher A., Mirumachi, N., Matthews, Nathaniel

“…This article reviews and contrasts two approaches that water security researchers employ to advance understanding of the complexity of water-society policy challenges. A prevailing reductionist approach seeks to represent uncertainty through calculable risk, links national GDP tightly to hydro-climatological causes, and underplays diversity and politics in society. …”
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Enhancing integrated approaches in agricultural learning systems using experiences from agroforestry by Temu, A.B., Rudebjer, P.G., Chakeredza, Sebastian

“…This contrasts sharply with universities’ typical organization of knowledge, where reductionist approaches prevail. Such fragmentation leads to graduates with insufficient competence in the analysis of farming systems. …”
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Knowledge management for innovation in agri-food systems: a conceptual framework by Gardeazabal, Andrea, Lunt, Tobias, Jahn, Molly M., Verhulst, Nele, Hellin, Jon, Govaerts, Bram

“…Previous agricultural KM frameworks do not integrate innovation pragmatically, use linear, reductionist, top-down pathways to innovation, and do not explicitly incorporate issues of power, politics, ownership, and trust when combining scientific and local knowledge across multiple stakeholders. …”
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Spatial typology for targeted food and nutrition security interventions by Marivoet, Wim, Ulimwengu, John M., Sedano, Fernando

“…For the nine territories (out of 145) with the highest child stunting levels, we identify four broad intervention zones and analyze their efficiency profile in more detail. Despite its reductionist nature, our typology is conceptually sound, operationally flexible, and less data intensive, important features to promote evidence-based policymaking in contexts characterized by imperfect and scarce data.…”
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Crossing the science-policy interface: Lessons from a research project on Brazil nut management in Peru by Ramírez, L.F., Belcher, B.

“…As part of this trend, there has been an evolution of research approaches that move beyond isolated, reductionist, disciplinary science toward approaches that integrate disciplines (interdisciplinary) and that engage a wider range of research stakeholders (transdisciplinary) as a way to be more effective. …”
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Livestock in the livelihoods of the underprivileged communities in India: A review by Rangnekar, D.V.

“…The recommended approach will require a change in paradigm from the conventional reductionist, animal-level research to peoplecentred, participatory and holistic methods in iterative research-for-development programmes that are inter-disciplinary, multi-institutional and, ideally, multi-locational to facilitate cross-site lesson learning. …”
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Modern economic theory and the challenge of embedded tenure institutions: African attempts to reform local forest policies by Diaw, C.

“…These have helped the system adapt to changing economic, demographic and social conditions since at least the 19th century. Reductionist economic analyses of non-market systems, includingn property rights, kinship, common property and non-wage systems contributed to relegating the most innovative aspects of these systems in the limbo of imperfect markets. …”
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Animal board invited review: Animal source foods in healthy, sustainable, and ethical diets - An argument against drastic limitation of livestock in the food system by Leroy, F., Abraini, F., Beal, T., Dominguez-Salas, Paula, Gregorini, P., Manzano, P., Rowntree, J., Vliet, S. van

“…Moreover, the impacts on land use, water wastage, and greenhouse gas emissions are highly contextual, and their estimation is often erroneous due to a reductionist use of metrics. Similarly, whether animal husbandry is ethical or not depends on practical specificities, not on the fact that animals are involved. …”
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Can computer models stimulate learning about sustainable land use? Experience with LUPAS in the humid (sub-)tropics of Asia by Paassen, A. van, Roetter, R.P., Keulen, H. van, Hoanh, Chu Thai

“…Learning is contextual and gradual: historically, agricultural scientists have moved from a reductionist to a holistic hard system perspective, while now slowly embracing the interpretive system perspective. …”
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Inducción de supresividad a fitopatógenos del suelo. Una estrategia para la transición agroecológica en horticultura by De Luca, Laura Cecilia, Perez, Maximiliano

“…Abstract: Suppressiveness of soil-borne disease, as been tried unsuccessfully from a reductionist approach, which seeks to control soil biologically - based diseases with specific strains of antagonistic microorganisms. …”
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Reply to: Data do not support large-scale oligotrophication of terrestrial ecosystems. by Craine,  Joseph M., Elmore, Andrew J., Wang, Lixin  , Boeckx, Pascal, Delzon, Sylvain, Fang, Yunting  , Gray, Alan  , Guerrieri , Rossella, Gundale, Michael J., Hietz , Peter, Nelson, David M.  , Peri, Pablo Luis, Templer, Pamela H., Werner, Christiane

“…Hiltbrunner et al. apply a reductionist approach to argue that the evidence for widespread terrestrial oligotrophication2 should be replaced with a two-factor explanation (growth dilution and depositional signatures) that does not invoke reductions in N availability, that is, the supply of N relative to plant demand. …”
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Imaginaries, transformations, and resistances in Patagonian territories from a socio-ecological perspective. by Laterra, Pedro, Nahuelhual, Laura, Gluch, Mariana, Peri, Pablo Luis, Martinez Pastur, Guillermo José

“…According to our analyses, Patagonian SES are being affected by typical transforming forces of the modern imaginary (e.g., short term, productivity, reductionist-mechanistic vision, individualism) as well as forces of resistance that characterize postmodern (e.g., intergenerational concern, ecocentrism, holism) and indigenous (e.g., territorial ancestral rights, living well in harmony with nature) imaginaries. …”
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The management of extensive livestock systems and its relationship with greenhouse gas emissions by Nieto, Maria Isabel, Frigerio, Karina Laura, Reine Viñales, Ramón, Barrantes Díaz, Olivia, Privitello, M.J. Liliana

“…The estimated emission values were also variable depending on the form of expression, the management strategy adopted, and the production system applied. From a reductionist perspective of the aspects that characterize the extensive livestock systems evaluated, greenhouse gases emission values (GHG) are relative to the interaction of some predictive variables with the key factors of the production system and management techniques applied. …”
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