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Diet related chronic diseases and the processing, labelling and marketing of food por Shrimpton, Roger, Hawkes, Corinna

“…While it is recognized that the overnutrition epidemic requires that a concerted multisectoral approach be developed, involving the use of policy, education and trade mechanisms (Chopra et al. 2002), a high priority must also be given to encouraging people to reduce their risks factors, and adopt healthier life styles. The purpose of this paper is to understand the problems and risks associated with the industrialization of the food chain, focusing on the labelling and marketing dimensions of processed foods in relation to the prevention of diet related chronic diseases in the ECOWAS context.…”
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Harvesting Hope: Empowering Farmers to thrive in Kenya Semi-Arid Lands por Mfalme Afrika Production Ltd

“…The CGIAR Gender Equality Initiative (HER+) collaborated with the CGIAR Diversification in East and Southern Africa to enhance climate resilience and women's empowerment in Kenya through the STIBs approach. Adopting farmer-preferred STIBs, such as decision-making, gender and nutrition, certified seeds, climate-smart practices like intercropping, extension services, and financial access, led to higher productivity, resilience, and empowerment. …”
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Development of Isiolo County rangeland management bill regulation por International Livestock Research Institute

“…The specific object of the bill is to facilitate and promote the sustainable and holistic management of rangelands and rangelands resources through: (a) strengthening customary mechanisms for grazing control; (b) facilitating community peace building ; (c) promoting inter-community access to rangelands resources; (d) regulation of fencing in rangelands areas; (e) Protection of seasonal rangelands reserves; (f) optimize the economic potential of the rangelands; (g) facilitate land related County Planning and Development under the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution of Kenya; and (h) adopt any other approaches and initiatives in furtherance of the objectives stated above.…”
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Agricultural commercialization and sustainable land management practices in Ghana por Martey, E., Etwire, P.M., Abdoulaye, T.

“…We observed a positive effect of maize commercialisation on the area under tree cultivation and the intensity of SLM practices adopted. A transmission channel analysis indicates that income is a potential channel through which maize commercialisation influences SLM and the area under tree cultivation. …”
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Gender Transformative Methodologies CoP. Intersectionality: A study on gender equality and social inclusion as part of the Climate Adaptive, Inclusive, Nature-based Aquaculture (CA... por Rajaratnam, Surendran, Yap, Tina, Bailey, Arwen

“…Finally the discussions turned to methods that could be adopted in this research project. The group discussed the positive deviance approach, and Dimitra Clubs.…”
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Does An Innovation’s Reach Reveal Anything About Its Impact? Under The Right Conditions: Possibly por Brooks, Matt, Lybbert, Travis J., Walker, Madeleine

“…By contrast, measuring the reach of an innovation, i.e., the number of adopters, is more straightforward. As a result, measures of reach are more prevalent than causal impact estimates. …”
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Sustainable poultry development: Maintaining the role of indigenous chicken ecotypes while promoting high-yielding commercial chicken breeds por Birhanu, Mulugeta Y., Dessie, Tadelle

“…This case study presents a brief overview of the sub-sector’s potential contribution to achieving multiple SDGs and possible approaches that can be adopted by developing countries to achieve sustained development in the sub-sector. …”
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Capacity for Forestry Research in the Southern African Development Community por Kowero, G.S., Spilsbury, M.J.

“…This document presents a review of the methods available for the assessment of research capacity and summarizes previous efforts to assess research capacity in the region. The methodology adopted makes use of common indicators thereby allowing comparisons across institutions. …”
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CIFOR’s experience with research partnership: responding to the new research challenges por Turnbull, J.W., Byron, R.N.

“…The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has adopted an interdisciplinary, complex-systems approach to address both scientific and capacity-building challenges in forestry. …”
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Empowering BUSECO: linking sweetpotato seed producers across Eastern Uganda for growth and sustainability por Namazzi, S., Rajendran, S., Omongo, C., Namanda, S., Yada, B.

“…The cooperative also adopted digital management tools such as the Business Investment Decision (BID) and Seed Requirement Estimation (SRE) tools to improve decision-making. …”
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STELARR Volume IV—Latin America: Opportunities for rangelands restoration through livestock value chains por Bravo, Aura, Burkart, Stefan

“…The private sector is beginning to adopt regenerative practices through product certifications (e.g., Responsible Alpaca Standard) aimed at supporting biodiversity and sustainable soil management. …”
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Secondary forests in swidden agriculture inthe highlands of Thailand por Schmidt-Vogt, D.

“…Highland swidden agriculturists are adopting more intensive forms of swidden or are shifting to permanent farming. …”
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Forestry sector reform and distributional change of natural resource rent in Indonesia por Kato, G.

“…To tackle this problem, an IMF/World Bank-led forestry sector reform program adopted a market-friendly approach involving the resumption of round wood exports and raising of the resource rent fee, with the aim to stop rent accumulation by plywood companies, which had enjoyed a supply of round wood at privileged prices. …”
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Enhancing sustainable forest management in Cameroon through a model forest based approach por Jum, C.N., Diaw, C., Nguiebouri, J., Zoa, M.

“…A range of countries have sought more equitable governance of their natural resources, by devolving decision-making and resource control to local populations. In 1994, Cameroon adopted a new law granting local communities the possibility of greater control over forests, principally in response to donor conditionality on Structural Adjustment Loans (SALs). …”
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The utilization and management of African rattans: constraints to sustainable supply through cultivation por Sunderland, Terry C.H., Balinga, M., Asaha, S., Malleson, R.

“…Our findings show that although the cultivation of these resources has proven economic and ecological potential, particularly in multi-strata agroforestry systems, farmer adoptability has, up until now, proven to be low due to the influence of a wide range of socio-economic factors, notably land and resource tenure issues and the reluctance of farmers to try new, untested, crops. …”
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The customary law nature of sustainable forest management states practice in Central America and European Union por Assembe-Mvondo, Samuel

“…To tackle continuous deforestation and degradation, the international community through the UNFF and its predecessors has attempted to adopt an international legally-binding agreement on sustainable management based on the Forest Principles. …”
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Influence of a threatened-species focus on conservation planning por Drummond, S.P., Wilson, K.A., Meijaard, E., Watts, M., Dennis, R, Christy, L., Possingham, H.P.

“…Conservation efforts at local, regional, and global scales often focus on threatened species despite recent calls to adopt more equitable and potentially more economically rational approaches. …”
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Sustainable forest management and carbon in tropical Latin America: the case for REDD+ por Nasi, Robert, Putz, F.E., Pacheco, P., Wunder, Sven, Anta, S.

“…We argue that many management practices that lead towards sustainability are only likely to be adopted where there is good governance backed by financial incentives for effective enforcement of management regulations. …”
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REDD+ politics in the media: a case study from Brazil por May, P.H., Calixto, B., Gebara, M.F.

“…The core idea of REDD—reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation—is to reward individuals, communities, projects and countries that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from forests. Adopted under the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change), the mechanism aims to compensate tropical countries for the carbon benefits that their standing forests (‘avoided emissions’ + ‘carbon stocks’) contribute to mitigating climate change. …”
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Falling back on forests: how forest-dwelling people cope with catastrophe in a changing landscape por Liswanti, N., Sheil, Douglas, Basuki, I., Padmanaba, M., Mulcahy, G.

“…All 42 households suffered some major loss of property – crops, lands, houses, and/or livestock. Each household adopted one or more coping strategies: increasing their reliance on forest resources; seeking paid employment; relocating their houses; and finding temporary land to establish their crops in upland areas. …”
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