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Historical reconfigurations of a social–ecological system adapting to economic, policy and climate changes in the French Alps by Bruley, E., Locatelli, Bruno, Vendel, F., Bergeret, A., Elleaume, N., Grosinger, J., Lavorel, S.

“…We show that drivers of change have been mainly exogenous and out of the control of local actors, like public policies, markets and consumption patterns. …”
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Developing small-scale bamboo enterprises for livelihoods and environmental restoration in Benishangul-Gumuz Regional State, Ethiopia by Boissière, M., Atmadja, S., Benmakhlouf, S., Beyessa, M., Kassa, H., Hunde, T., Assefa, F.

“…There is a recent push to realize bamboo's economic and environmental potential in Ethiopia, which puts SSEs as crucial actors. There is little or scattered published information on local perceptions and practices surrounding natural bamboo forest management and options for realizing bamboo's potential from a subnational/local perspective in Africa, including in Ethiopia. …”
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Examining the barriers to gender integration in agriculture, climate change, food security, and nutrition policies: Guatemalan and Honduran perspectives by Howland, Fanny C., Acosta, Mariola, Muriel, Juliana, Le Coq, Jean-François

“…Our results confirmed the literature findings and also introduce new elements such as the importance of considering the nature of the relationship (purely technical and/or political) between governments and international cooperation actors to evaluate the level of gender integration in policy. …”
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Report from Kenya’s Climate Smart Agriculture Multi-Stakeholder Platform (CSA MSP) Livestock Learning Platform meeting by Cramer, Laura K.

“…The Programme for Climate-Smart Livestock Systems (PCSL) is an initiative designed to enable key actors in the livestock sector to increasingly include climate change adaptation and mitigation in their farming practices, sector strategies and investment projects. …”
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Rice Observatory: Monitoring survey and open access data for the rice sector version 1.0 by Andrade, Robert Santiago, Urioste, Sergio, Lourido, Derlyn, Vergara, Jose Daniel, Marín, Diego, Loaiza, Katerine, Moná, Andrea, García, Carolina, Graterol Matute, Eduardo Jose, Labarta, Ricardo Antonio

“…El Observatorio del Arroz es una plataforma web, administrada por la Alianza Bioversity International y el CIAT y el FLAR, que presentará los datos provistos en la Encuesta de Monitoreo y Seguimiento al Sector Arrocero de Latinoamérica – EMSAL, de manera dinámica e interactiva para beneficio de los actores claves del sector arrocero.…”
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Dynamics and diversity of innovation support services: especially networking service activities on selected agro-food innovation cases in Madagascar and Burkina Faso by Ndah, H.T., Audouin, S., Crestin-Billet, S., Randrianarisona, N., Andriamaniraka, H., Toillier, A., Traoré, O., Fongang, G., Mathé, S., Knierim, A.

“…This implies, support actors and beneficiaries of services seem to attach more importance to technical service activities (e.g. training) and access to resources (e.g. technical, financial resources) as well as facilitating market access over soft skills related service activities such as networking facilitation and brokerage, institutional support for niche innovations, advisory and consultancy and demand articulation. …”
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Caracterisation du systeme sectoriel d'innovation du cacao au Cameroun by Mathé, S., Nzossie, E.J.F., Temple, L.

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Enhancing synergies between gender equality and biodiversity, climate, and land degradation neutrality goals: Lessons from gender-responsive nature-based approaches by Elias, Marlène, Ihalainen, Markus, Monterroso, Iliana, Gallant, Bryce, Paez Valencia, Ana Maria

“…Through a social equity framework, we demonstrate that greater gains can be accrued from gender-responsive nature-based approaches that address a wider set of priorities, harness a broader set of skills to address environmental ails, enhance capacities of marginalized groups by securing their rights and access to resources, and generate more equitable incentives to garner the buy-in of an array of actors. Our examples also illustrate potential tensions between social and environmental objectives, highlighting the need to carefully consider and reconcile trade-offs while incorporating strong social safeguards.…”
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Integrating the soybean‑maize‑chicken value chains to attain nutritious diets in Tanzania by Wilson, W.C., Slingerland, Maja, Baijukya, F., Zanten, H. van, Oosting, S.J., Giller, Kenneth E.

“…Enhancing local sourcing and adequate processing of soybean, coupled with strengthening the integration of smallholder farmers with other soybean, maize and chicken value chain actors offers an important opportunity to improve access to nutritious diets for local people. …”
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The effects of COVID-19 on beef consumer preferences and beliefs in Colombia: A logit model approach by Ramírez, Óscar, Charry, Andrés, Díaz, Manuel Francisco, Enciso, Karen, Mejía, Daniela, Burkart, Stefan

“…The results will help the food system actors in defining interventions for achieving food security and resilience.…”
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Recopilación de Boletines Técnicos Agroclimáticos en Guatemala, 2021 by Alianza Bioversity International y CIAT, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, Instituto Nacional de Sismología, Vulcanologia, Meteorologia e Hidrología, Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganaderia y Alimentacion, Guatemala

“…Permiten generar espacios de discusión entre actores para la gestión de información agroclimática local, con el fin de identificar las mejores prácticas de adaptación a los fenómenos de variabilidad climática. …”
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Climate change mitigation in forests: Conflict, peacebuilding, and lessons for climate security - Position Paper by Myers, Rodd, Luttrell, Cecilia, Harjanthi, Rahayu, Fisher, Micah R., Menton, Mary, Läderach, Peter R.D., Wollenberg, Eva Karoline

“…Forests have complex governance contexts and are prone to conflict due to histories of colonization and ongoing resource extraction that lead to disputes over who has authority to make decisions, how different actors are compensated, and whose priorities and claims dictate actions in forest areas. …”
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Governance analysis for urban-wholesale-to-household’s food waste prevention and reduction in Sri Lanka by Aheeyar, Mohamed M. M., Jayathilake, Nilanthi, Bucatariu, C., Reitemeier, M., Bandara, A., Thiel, Felix, Drechsel, Pay

“…Key gaps include limited legal enforcement, absence of food safety mandates like HACCP in small food businesses, and a lack of incentive-based mechanisms to drive prevention. Non-state actors such as hotels and charities have adopted voluntary food redistribution and waste reduction measures, but scaling remains limited without systemic support.…”
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Organic waste system assessment: Kaduwela Municipal Council by Jayathilake, Nilanthi, Drechsel, Pay, Dominish, E., Carrard, N.

“…However, this requires infrastructure investment, better composting practices, and coordination across public and private actors. Optimizing collection, improving compost quality, and exploring co-composting and biogas applications can enhance sustainability and cost recovery, while reducing environmental burdens from unmanaged urban waste.…”
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Country-Specific Determinants of Agricultural Climate Service Development Pathways in Africa by Hansen, James, Born, Lorna, Solomon, Dawit, Zougmoré, Robert B., Dinku, Tufa, Mwongera, Caroline, Grossi, Amanda

“…The climate services that are available to farmers and other agricultural value chain actors are quite heterogeneous across sub-Saharan African countries. …”
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Seasonal Forecast Information Synthesis and Dissemination in Association with CRAFT Tanzania and AICCRA - ESA by Keizer, Menno, Kabuka, Godfrey, Demissie, Teferi Dejene

“…The workshop drew several public and private professional (e.g., experts from TMS, NARES, MoA, insurance, finance, and private sector value chain actors) in climate, climate change, and weather forecasts from various national and international (e.g., SNV, Agriterra and Rabo Bank etc.) organizations. 37 participants took part – of which 17 were women and 7 were youths. …”
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Neglected and underutilised crops: a systematic review of their potential as food and herbal medicinal crops in South Africa by Mudau, F. N., Chimonyo, Vimbayi Grace Petrova, Modi, Albert Thembinkosi, Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe

“…A transdisciplinary approach involving a wide range of actors is needed to develop the identified neglected and underutilised crops’ potential as food and herbal medicinal crops and support the development of new and inclusive value chains.…”
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Agroecological transitions: A systematic review of research approaches and prospects for participatory action methods by Sachet, Erwan, Mertz, Ole, Le Coq, Jean-François, Cruz García, Gisella S., Francesconi, Wendy, Bonin, Muriel, Quintero, Marcela

“…Participatory action research and transformative epistemologies, where communities are research actors rather than objects, have been proposed as a way to enhance this transition. …”
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Promoting and valuing neglected and underutilized species for sustainable livelihoods and climate change adaptation: insights from Kenya, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe by Vernooy, Ronnie, Fusire, Marcelline, Graybill, Munkombwe, Kimani, Dominic, Mitei, Dalmus, Otieno, Gloria Atieno, Recha, Tobias

“…They will receive useful and timely information about seeds and climate services, will be better able to access seed in time of environmental and societal stress, will benefit from technical and financial support from formal sector agencies, and will be recognized and supported as actors in the seed system. Central to the initiative is the engagement with multiple stakeholders including the private seed sector, civil society organizations (local seed businesses, Farmer Field Schools, community seed banks) and local (county government) and national governmental and non-governmental organizations, that are well-positioned to take up and further develop strategies, methods and tools and integrate them in their daily work. …”
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Why the Great Food Transformation may not happen – A deep-dive into our food systems’ political economy, controversies and politics of evidence by Béné, Christophe

“…Those include the concentration of economic and market power in the hands of the Big Food transnational corporations but also other actors’ ideology, policy incoherence, national interests or culturally-embedded aspirations, which together create irreconcilable trade-offs and tensions between divergent individual and societal objectives and prevent the system from aligning toward a more sustainable trajectory. …”
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