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Social forestry in Southeast Asia: Evolving interests, discourses and the many notions of equity by Wong, Grace Y., Moeliono, M., Bong, I.W., Pham Thu Thuy, Sahide, M.A.K., Naito, D., Brockhaus, Maria

“…Meanwhile, the private sector actor that is seen as key to these solutions is conspicuously absent within the SF policy space. …”
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Coalitions for Landscape Resilience: Institutional Dynamics behind Community-Based Rangeland Management System in North-Western Tanzania by Eilola, S., Duguma, L.A., Käyhkö, N., Minang, Peter A.

“…The past few decades have seen a continuing shift of natural resource management paradigm towards multifunctional and multi-actor adaptive management in hope of achieving more resilient landscapes. …”
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FTA Highlight No.17 – Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Impact Assessment by Belcher, B.M., Coccia, Federica, Rouge, J-C., Gotor, Elisabetta

“…FTA’s Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Impact Assessment (MELIA) Program has actively adapted, developed, tested and refined a comprehensive set of concepts and methods, including using detailed, participatory theories of change; developing and refining actor-specific theory-based outcome evaluation methods; conducting a series of outcome evaluations of FTA research projects; systematically reviewing, defining and assessing the quality of research that crosses disciplinary boundaries (i.e. research for development); and developing, testing and refining a transdisciplinary research quality assessment framework. …”
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Market Intelligence and Incentive-Based Trait Ranking for Plant Breeding: A Sweetpotato Pilot in Uganda by Okello, J.J., Swanckaert, J., Martin Collado, Daniel, Santos, B., Yada, B., Mwanga, Robert O.M., Schurink, A., Quinn, Michael, Thiele, Graham, Heck, S., Byrne, T.J., Hareau, G., Campos, Hugo

“…More comprehensive quantitative approaches are needed to better inform breeding programs about the preferred traits among farmers and other actors. However, the ability of current breeding programs to meet the demands of their clients is limited by the lack of insights about value chain actor preference for individual or packages of traits. …”
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Efforts of researchers and other stakeholders to manage an unfolding epidemic: Lessons from potato purple top in Ecuador by Navarrete, I., Almekinders, Conny J.M., Andrade-Piedra, J.L., Struik, P.C.

“…We show that the complexity of the diagnosis of causal agent(s) of purple top caused uncertainty among stakeholders. Each actor experienced the purple top’s epidemic differently depending on her or his role. …”
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Navigating power in conservation by Shackleton, R.T., Walters, G., Bluwstein, J., Djoudi, H., Fritz, L., Lafaye de Micheaux, F., Loloum, T., Nguyen, V.T.H., Rann Andriamahefazafy, M., Sithole, S.S., Kull, C.A.

“…To address challenges associated with power in conservation, we introduce the four dominant approaches to analyzing power to conservation scientists and practitioners who are less familiar with social theories of power. These include actor-centered, institutional, structural, and, discursive/governmental power. …”
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Climate-smart cocoa in forest landscapes: Lessons from institutional innovations in Ghana by van der Haar, S., Gallagher, E., Schoneveld, G., Slingerland, M., Leeuwis, C.

“…The success of landscape approaches depends on the larger institutional systems of rules, regulations, and actor networks in which they are embedded. Yet, there remains a critical gap in our understanding of how such enabling conditions can be established. …”
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Ethiopian Digital Agro-Climate Advisory Platform (EDACaP) Improvement: Progress and Lessons by Ahmed, Jemal Seid, Sotelo, Steven, Tesfaye, Kindie, Tamene, Lulseged D., Ramirez, Julian

“…To help solve this problem, the AICCRA-Ethiopia project works on improving the Ethiopian Digital Agro-climate Advisory Platform (EDACaP) that, for the first time, integrates sub-seasonal to seasonal climate predictions and agronomic management options bundled with value chain actor technologies to enhance agricultural production and productivity demand. …”
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Multistakeholder platforms for integrated landscape governance: The case of Kalomo District, Zambia by Siangulube, Freddie, Ros-Tonen, Mirjam, Reed, James, Moombe, Kaala, Sunderland, Terence

“…Multistakeholder platforms (MSPs) that bring together a range of actors to collaboratively address land and natural resource governance issues are increasingly common in sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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Creating an enabling environment for developing and deploying market-ready science-based innovations for sustainable food systems by Adeniyi, Daniel, Rampa, Francesco, Menza, Gianpiero

“…These include: i) embedding innovation in local contexts and bundling innovations; ii) providing support for incubators and creative agrifood-tech start-ups; iii) deploying more comprehensive, robust, and institutionalised technological transfer mechanisms; iv) offering more and ‘patient’ capital for the ‘last-mile’, including for coordinating across relevant actors and institutions; v) facilitating improved multi-actor dialogues and collaborations; vi) ensuring greater state roles in innovation and enabling national regulations and policies; and vii) fostering enhanced international cooperation on food systems R&I.…”
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Multistakeholder analysis in cocoa and livestock food systems in Caquetá, Colombia by Guáqueta-Solórzano, Victoria, Ayazo-Berrocal, Roger

“…This document presents the structure of actors that drive the cocoa and livestock value chains in the municipalities of Belén de los Andaquíes and La Montañita, in the department of Caquetá, Colombia made in the frame of the WP3 of Mitigte +. …”
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Assuring food and nutrition security in Africa by 2020: Prepared for presentation at the High-Level Seminar on "Innovative Approaches to Meet the Hunger MDG in Africa," convened by... by von Braun, Joachim, Pandya-Lorch, Rajul

“…At a recent multi-actor all-Africa conference, a majority of the 500 participants-60 percent-believed that food security can be achieved in Africa by 2020 but only a minority-40 percent-believed that it will be achieved. …”
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Collective action for small-scale producers of agricultural biodiversity products by Kruijssen, Froukje, Keizer, Menno, Giuliani, Alessandra

“…The case studies illustrate the need for improved trust, a mutual understanding of each actor’s involvement and the need for an agreed process of collective action that involves a high level of community participation to achieve an improved market chain organization benefiting the poor. …”
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Uganda’s pork value chain research and development outcomes: a status update by Ouma, Emily A., Lukuyu, Ben A., Kugonza, Donald, R., Hasahya, Emmanuel, Mwema, Emmanuel, Achandi, Esther, Ahmed, Hardi, Namatovu, Jane, Marshall, Karen, Businge, Martha, Dione, Michel, Wairagala, Pamela, Oba, Peter, Ahumuza, Ronnie

“…Several constraints affecting the pig value chains were identified and addressed by testing new innovations and best practices coupled with capacity development and enhancing actor collaborations as documented in Lukuyu and Ouma (2022). …”
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Agroforestry policy issues and research directions in the US and less develop countries, insight and challenges from recent experience. ( special issue on agroforestry science, pol... by Buck, L.

“…It is argued that social scientists might influence agroforestry policy most favourably at this critical juncture, as perceptions of inter-dependence increase among different stakeholders in the policy system, by employing interventionist, actor-orientated perspectives and participatory methods to facilitate policy innovation and evaluation. …”
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From records to results: Report on the digital landscape of Kenya’s red meat value chain by Paliwal, Ambica, Ojango, Julie M.K., Rao, E.J.O.

“…Data flows remain fragmented across market, animal health, movement, security, and finance domains, with recurrent trust gaps, missing records, and communication breakdowns, especially during disease outbreaks and security incidents. Readiness varies by actor; policymakers and financial institutions generally report advanced access and higher digital literacy, while livestock keepers typically have basic access and lower literacy but show moderate willingness to adopt when tools are simple and affordable. …”
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Local knowledge and scientific perceptions: questions of validity in environmental knowledge by German, L.

“…While acknowledging subsequent attempts to question this dichotomy (Agrawal (Development and Change 26:413–439, 1995); Long (Development Sociology: Actor Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge, 2001); Pottier et al. …”
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Destocking as an emergency drought mitigation measure: lessons learned from the 2005 'Turkana emergency livestock off-take' intervention by Watson, D.J., Binsbergen, J. van

“…In addition the results are also considered in relation to the four stages of ANT, namely identification of problems and driving forces; identification of each agent's interests; enrolment of the actors and actants; and mobilization. The report ends with summaries of other issues and constraints, and recommendations for improvement of future destocking programs.…”
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A diagnostic procedure for applying the social-ecological systems framework in diverse cases by Hinkel, J., Cox, M.E., Schlüter, M., Binder, Claudia R., Falk, Thomas

“…The questions relate to the actors benefiting from the SES, the collective goods involved in the generation of those benefits, and the action situations in which the collective goods are provided and appropriated. …”
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Opportunities for improved promotion of ecosystem services in agriculture under the Water-Energy-Food Nexus by Bell, A.R., Matthews, Nathaniel, Zhang, Wei

“…The mediation of water quality by terrestrial systems is a key ecosystem service for a range of actors (municipalities, fishers, industries, and energy providers) and is reshaped radically by agricultural activity. …”
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