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A tale of two countries: Spatial and temporal patterns of rice productivity in China and Brazil by You, Liangzhi

“…In contrast, rice yields in Brazil have diverged over time, primarily due to variations in upland rice yields. …”
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A tale of two countries: Spatial and temporal patterns of rice productivity in China and Brazil by You, Liangzhi

“…In contrast, rice yields in Brazil have diverged over time, primarily due to variations in upland rice yields. …”
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Multifunctionality of urban community agriculture in Belo Horizonte, Brazil practice and politics : practice and politics by Olsson, Sofie

“…This thesis analyses how urban farmers themselves view the benefits of urban community gardens on individual, neighbourhood, and city scales, how these perceptions are represented in the political framing of UA, and how they can highlight potential to advance the UA agenda. The empirical data derives from a qualitative case study of urban community gardens in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, where observations and semi-structured interviews were carried out with urban farmers, municipal authorities, and researchers. …”

New insights into trends of rainfall extremes in the Amazon basin through trend‐empirical orthogonal function (1981–2021) by Cerón, Wilmar L., Kayano, Mary T., Andreoli, Rita V., Canchala, Teresita, Avila-Diaz, Alvaro, Ribeiro, Igor O, Rojas, Juan D, Escobar Carbonari, Daniel, Tapasco, Jeimar

“…These heterogeneous trends over the space might be take into account for robust adaptation policies over the countries that are parts of the AB, such as Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Perú, Surinam and Venezuela.…”
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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.

“…Our study characterizes the design and implementation of a research project on the influence of timber harvesting on Brazil nut production using transdisciplinary research (TDR) design principles, and empirically assesses project outputs and outcomes in relation to a project theory of change (ToC) based on document review and key informant interviews. …”
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Nut Production in Bertholletia excelsa across a Logged Forest Mosaic: Implications for Multiple Forest Use by Rockwell, Cara A., Guariguata, Manuel R., Menton, M., Arroyo Quispe, E., Quaedvlieg, J., Warren-Thomas, E., Fernández Silva, H., Jurado Rojas, E.E., Kohagura Arrunátegui, J.A.H., Meza Vega, L.A., Revilla Vera, O., Quenta Hancco, R., Valera Tito, J.F., Villarroel Panduro, B.T., Yucra Salas, J.J.

“…As many smallholders turn to the financial security provided by timber, Brazil nut fruits are increasingly being harvested in logged forests. …”
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Agro-silvo-pastoralism by Paparella, Antonio, Petsakos, Athanasios, Davis, Kristin E., Song, Chun

“…In recent years, the interest in agro-silvo-pastoralism has been renewed because of its potential to sustain rural farming in marginal areas and to adapt to the challenges posed by climate change [6]. In Brazil, for example, areas under agro-silvo-pastoralism amount to 17 million hectares, with a potential to reach three times that number.…”
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Balancing carrots and sticks in REDD+: implications for social safeguards by Duchelle, Amy E., Sassi, Claudio de, Jagger, P., Cromberg, M., Larson, A.M., Sunderlin, William D., Atmadja, S., Resosudarmo, I.A.P., Pratama, C.D.

“…We used household-level data collected in Brazil, Peru, Cameroon, Tanzania, Indonesia, and Vietnam from approximately 4000 households in 130 villages at two points in time (2010-2012 and 2013-2014). …”
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Criterios e indicadores para el monitoreo de operaciones forestales un caso en Brasil by Pokorny, B., Sabogal, C., Silva, J.N.M., Lima, J., Bernardo, P.

“…A test in two forest management units located in the Eastern Amazon region of Brazil confirmed the technical-financial viability of the systematic monitoring of sustainability by forest enterprises. …”
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REDD+ as Result-based Aid: General Lessons and Bilateral Agreements of Norway by Angelsen, A.

“…It then reviews the four partially performance‐based, bilateral REDD+ agreements that Norway has entered with Tanzania, Brazil, Guyana, and Indonesia. These agreements and the aid experience provide valuable lessons for the design and implementation of future REDD+ mechanisms.…”
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Mixing carrots and sticks to conserve forests in the Brazilian Amazon: a spatial probabilistic modeling approach by Börner, J., Marinho, E., Wunder, Sven

“…At the same time, Brazil is experimenting with alternative approaches to compensate farmers for conservation actions through economic incentives, such as payments for environmental services, at various administrative levels. …”
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Diversification for sustainable and resilient agricultural landscape systems by Reckling, M., Watson, C., Whitbread, Anthony M., Helming, K.

“…Contributions from all continents highlighted regional specificities related to diversification and include research from natural and social sciences, with inter- and transdisciplinary approaches including synthesis of knowledge (reviews), empirical studies with experiments as well as assessments with interviews in case studies: Model-based design of crop diversification, the role of digitalization for achieving sustainability in the European context, ecological engineering for rice pest suppression in China, the role of cereal species mixtures in Ethiopian smallholder farmers, diversified planting in arid irrigation areas in northwestern China, integration of legumes in European and Canadian cropping systems, screening of native forage legumes for northern Swedish grassland systems, cropping system diversification of smallholder farmers in south-central Bangladesh, identification of how farmers imagine diversified landscapes in southern Idaho in the US, farm diversification affecting impacts from COVID-19 across Europe, the role of diversified farming in Mato Grosso Brazil, diversification and soil management measures in Germany, value chain formation for the scaling of crop diversification, and the design process with farmers and scientists for the transition toward legume-supported farming in Europe. …”
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The effect of integrated conservation and development programs in protected areas on human wellbeing by Swartz, Elan

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Pixelating crop production: Consequences of methodological choices by Joglekar, Alison K. B., Wood-Sichra, Ulrike, Pardey, Philip G.

“…Our research casts a critical eye over the nature and empirical plausibility of these types of datasets. …”
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Generalized model for plantation production of Eucalyptus grandis and hybrids for genotype-site-management applications by Smethurst, P.J., Valadares, R.V., Huth, Neil I., Almeida, A.C., Elli, E.F., Neves, J.C.L.

“…Tree dimensions (stem diameter, height, volume) are calculated as empirical functions of above-ground biomass. Datasets used for model calibration or independent evaluation were from diverse conditions in Australia (5 sites) and Brazil (13 sites), and at several of these sites there were treatments for fertilizer, irrigation or genotype. …”
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A systematic literature review on the relationships between land tenure, cattle farming, and climate change by Díaz Baca, Manuel Francisco, Moreno Lerma, Leonardo, Triana Ángel, Natalia, Burkart, Stefan

“…Through a systematic literature review drawing on empirical evidence from six countries in the Global South, namely Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa, we shed light on the complex interplay of factors driving climate change in these regions. …”
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The role of multi-stakeholder forums in subnational jurisdictions: Methods training manual and tools for in-depth research by Sarmiento Barletti, Juan Pablo, Larson, Anne M.

“…The comparative project aims to contribute empirically to the study of MSFs and similar participatory processes. …”
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Estimates of soil carbon concentration in tropical and temperate forest and woodland from available GIS data on three continents by Ladd, Brenton, Laffan, S.W., Amelung, Wulf, Peri, Pablo Luis, Silva, L.C.R., Gervassi, P, Bonser, S.P., Sheil, D., Navall, M.

“…Our aim was to explore how well soil carbon concentration could be estimated on three continents from existing climate, topography and vegetation‐cover data.Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, China.Soil carbon concentration and leaf area index (LAI) as well as GIS‐derived climate and topography variables for 65 temperate and 43 tropical, forest and woodland ecosystems, were either directly measured or estimated from freely available global datasets. …”
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Analysing substitutional patterns on demand for poultry meat in South Africa by Jörnling, Angelica

“…In recent years, large quantities of poultry meat have been dumped in the South African mar-ket by suppliers in other countries, such as Brazil, USA and the EU, at prices way below the domestic cost of production, threatening local producers and jobs. …”
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Generating plausible crop distribution and performance maps for Sub-Saharan Africa using a spatially disaggregated data fusion and optimization approach by You, Liangzhi, Wood, Stanley, Wood-Sichra, Ulrike

“…The development, application and validation of a prior version of the model using data from Brazil strongly suggested that our spatial allocation approach shows considerable promise. …”
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