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Land-tenure policy reforms: Decollectivization and the Doi Moi system in Vietnam by Kirk, Michael, Tuan, Nguyen Do Anh

“…These challenges include addressing increased urban–rural and regional income disparities, landlessness resulting from emergency land sales, misuse of local elites’ power in land allocation, and endangered “commons” through land privatization.…”
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Agri-Food System Governance in Bangladesh’s Coastal Regions: Why the Socio-Ecological Systems Approach Needs to Be Politicized by Joshi, Deepa, Schulze, Paul, Amin, Md Nurul, Gallant, Bryce, Aheeyar, Mohamed M. M., Rahman, Mokhlesur, Garrett, James, Sarker, Mou Rani

“…This has resulted in unequal confl icts and contestations around critical resources, which impact most marginalized groups, also because policy incoherence encourages collusion between local elites and local decision-makers for resource appropriation and control. …”
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Forests: maintaining the balance by Sayer, Jeffrey A.

“…In many places, however, these benefits are being captured in perverse ways by corrupt elites or squandered by unsustainable exploitation. …”
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Community forestry and the stewardship of tropical forests in Asia by Jong, W. de

“…Unfortunately, the result has often been more exploitation as newly responsible district authorities and village elites seek revenue through timber concessions and oil palm plantations. …”
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Politik ekonomi desentralisasi pengusahaan hutan: studi kasus IPPK di Kabupaten Berau, Kalimantan Timur by Sitorus, S.

“…The biggest parts were trusted by third parties such as free riders and rent seekers, including government officials and village elites. The IPPK policy proved detrimental to government revenue, even though it was meant to boost district income (Pendapatan Asli Daerah-PAD) and communities’ well being. …”
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Local conventions governing community participation in the decentralized management of natural resources: Case study of mixed crop-livestock systems in the Sudano-Sahelian zone of... by Umutoni, Clarisse

“…The results also showed that the participation of community members in the elaboration process and implementation of local conventions was very low in all study sites and tended to be dominated by a group of individuals, often leaders and traditional elites. Women were essentially marginalized in the elaboration process and implementation of local conventions compared to men. …”
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Correlaçoes fenotipicas entre caracteres nao destritíveis e palmito em pupunheiras by Alves Bovi, M.L, Saes, L.A, Godoy Junior, G

“…Os coeficientes de correlaçao linear simples e parciais foram estatísticamente significativos para o carácter ausencia de espinhos e número de folhas e, ambos caracteres, apresentaram boa associaçao com o peso do palmito, indicando ser possível utilizá-los como critério de selecao de plantas elites dentro da populaçao estudada.…”
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Native Forests and Agriculture in Salta (Argentina) : conflicting visions of development by Seghezzo, Lucas, Volante, Jose Norberto, Paruelo, José María, Somma, Daniel Jorge, Buliubasich, Emiliana Catalina, Rodriguez, Héctor E., Gagnon, Sandra, Hufty, Marc

“…We argue that “development” or “progress,” understood as a process of wealth and power accumulation linked to the possession of land and the production of agricultural commodities, was the leading ideology of political and economic elites in Salta during the LUPP. This ideology, and the established institutional power system behind it, was challenged when the National Supreme Court of Justice decided to suspend logging and deforestation activities on land claimed by marginalized ethnic and socioeconomic groups. …”
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Mejoramiento del maíz a diversas enfermedades. by Pandey, S., Ceballos, H.

“…Se menciona el uso de retrocruzamiento como método para incorporar resistencia en materiales élites que no lo poseen. Se hace énfasis en la importancia de someter las poblaciones de maíz a una continua presión por parte de aquellas enfermedades releantes y el peligro que significa el uso extensivo y uniforme de un mismo genotipo…”
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Sorghums of the Sudan: analysis of regional diversity and distribution by Grenier, Cécile, Bramel-Cox, P.J., Dahlberg, J., El Ahmadi, A., Mahmoud, M., Peterson, G., Rosenow, D., Ejeta, G.

“…Landraces from Blue Nile tended to have greater agronomic eliteness with higher proportion of landraces with white kernels, poorly covered and that were easy to thresh. …”
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Certification, good agricultural practice and smallholder heterogeneity: Differentiated pathways for resolving compliance gaps in the Indonesian oil palm sector by Schoneveld, George C., Haar, S. van der, Ekowati, D., Andrianto, A., Komarudin, Heru, Okarda, B., Jelsma, I., Pacheco, P.

“…With results however revealing how local entrepreneurs and elites complicit in regulatory evasion and illegal land encroachments play a significant role in the sub-sector, local political resistance to initiatives that aim to bring the sub-sector above board can be anticipated. …”
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Evaluation of Durum Wheat Genotypes for Resistance against Root Rot Disease Caused by Moroccan Fusarium culmorum Isolates by Bouarda, Jamila, Bassi, Filippo, Wallwork, Hugh, Benchacho, Mohammed, Labhilili, Mustapha., Maafa, Ilyass, El Aissam, Aicha, Bentata, Fatiha

“…Similarly, the Australian breeding line SSD1479-117 was reported resistant to two isolates and moderately resistant to four others. The ICARDA elites Icaverve, Berghisyr, Berghisyr2, Amina, and Icaverve2 were identified as moderately resistant. …”
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Owning the land, but at what cost? Changes in power relations and land accumulation in cattle ranching in wartime Colombia by Triana Ángel, Natalia, Mejía, Daniela, Junca Paredes, Jhon Jairo, Burkart, Stefan

“…Important contributions have been made, shedding light on the nature of war in Colombia and its negative societal effects, as well as a vast theoretical corpus has been established on the importance of livestock, not only for producing families, but also for rural elites and other active agents of armed confrontation. …”
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Estudio de la descendencia del cruce interclonal de cacao catongo x pound-12 bajo las condiciones de Turrialba, Costa Rica by Laínez Mejía, Jorge R.

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Transformative adaptation: From climate-smart to climate-resilient agriculture by Hellin, Jonathan, Fisher, Eleanor, Taylor, Marcus, Bhasme, Suhas, Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María

“…CSA can inadvertently lead to ‘maladaptation’ whereby interventions reinforce existing vulnerabilities either by benefitting powerful elites or by transferring risks and exposure between groups. …”
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Local participation in natural resource management initiatives by Koromah, Idriss Duramany

“…The findings reveal that decision-makers i.e., the project implementers and non-elected local elites used their positions of power within the social field to gain control of the forest management system. …”
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Desarrollo de variedades mejoradas de sorgo mediante la selección de familias segregantes por tolerancia a sequía y resistencia a pulgón amarillo y la roya by Solano L., Felicano V.

“…La presente investigación se condujo mediante de selección de familias segregantes F3 y F4 de 10 poblaciones derivadas de un dialelo parcial de cinco padres élites (Sureño, PCR 3-22, Blanco Tortillero, DICTA 29 y CENTA RCY). …”
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Desarrollo de germoplasma mejorado de arroz de riego de amplia base genética y características de interés by Torres, E.A., Martinez, C.P., Carabali, S.J., Amézquita, N., Agredo, M., Bravo, D., Gomez, A.M.

“…Algunos alelos positivos para estos caracteres se encuentran en materiales poco adaptados por lo cual son transferidos a genotipos elites adaptados al país usando diferentes estrategias de mejoramiento buscando la ampliación de la base genética y el desarrollo de nuevas líneas mejoradas de aplicabilidad inmediata. …”
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Potenciales nuevas variedades de papa biofortificada con altos contenidos de hierro y zinc, para contribuir a la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional en agricultura familiar alto an... by Salas, E., Bastos, C., Maccera, C., Cevallos, D., Boeck, B. de, Burgos, G., Campos, Hugo

“…En este estudio, 30 clones biofortificados tetraploides elites fueron identificados y evaluados junto con 4 variedades testigos en 9 localidades del Perú, con el objetivo de cuantificar e interpretar la interacción genotipo por ambiente (GxA) de las variables rendimiento total de tubérculo (t ha-1), contenido de hierro (mg kg-1) BS y zinc (mg kg-1) BS. …”
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Insect pests and diseases in Indonesian forest: an assessment of the major threats, research efforts and literature by Nair, K.S.S.

“…It appears that the benefits from the industry may not be substantial given the lack of interest in the market from outsiders, and the various elites who could monopolise the trade due to the lack of enforcement structures in place. …”
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