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Incidence and farmers' knowledge of aflatoxin contamination and control in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo by Udomkun, Patchimaporn, Assfaw Wossen, Tesfamicheal, Nabahungu, N.L., Mutegi, C., Vanlauwe, Bernard, Bandyopadhyay, Ranajit

“…The result further suggests that an adoption of pre‐ and postharvest technologies together with awareness creation is still required to reduce aflatoxin contamination in the country.…”
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Perceptions of food waste reduction in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital, Colombo by Reitemeier, Maren, Aheeyar, Mohamed M. M., Drechsel, Pay

“…Although perceptions varied between entities generating smaller or larger quantities of food waste, there was general agreement that suboptimal capacities and mechanisms to quantify, monitor and cost food waste generation appeared to be obstacles for in-depth awareness creation and action. There was significant interest in communication platforms for cross-sectoral learning, win/win collaborations with reliable collection (reuse) services that are currently operational, such as those provided by piggeries, as well as surplus redistribution initiatives if food safety and related liabilities can be addressed effectively.…”
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Citizen science in hydrological monitoring and ecosystem services management: State of the art and future prospects by Njue, N., Stenfert Kroese, J., Gräf, J., Jacobs, S.R., Weeser, B., Breuer, Lutz, Rufino, Mariana C.

“…Citizen science also has the potential to enhance knowledge co-creation and science-based evidence that underpins the governance and management of water resources. …”
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‘We Are Not Bad People’- Bricolage and the Rise of Community Forest Institutions in Burkina Faso by Karambiri, Mawa, Brockhaus, Maria, Sehring, J., Degrande, A.

“…It builds on the comparison of three neighbouring villages in Burkina Faso that in 1989, expecting higher returns, agreed to release their common lands for the creation of a community forest called Chantier d’Aménagement Forestier (CAF) within an international forestry project. …”
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Agroforestry to Achieve Global Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Targets: Are South Asian Countries Sufficiently Prepared? by Dhyani, S., Murthy, I.K., Kadaverugu, R., Dasgupta, R., Kumar, M., Gadpayle, K.A.

“…Lack of uniform methodologies for creation of databases to monitor tree and soil carbon stocks was found to be a key limitation for the purpose. …”
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Land-use Decisions in Complex Commons: Engaging Multiple Stakeholders through Foresight and Scenario Building in Indonesia by Shantiko, B., Liswanti, N., Bourgeois, R., Laumonier, Y.

“…To address this issue, we used a co-elaborative scenario-building approach, referred to as participatory prospective analysis (PPA), to facilitate the creation of local multistakeholder platforms considering future-oriented perspectives. …”
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Report from Kenya’s Climate Smart Agriculture Multi-Stakeholder Platform (CSA MSP) Livestock Learning Platform meeting by Cramer, Laura K.

“…One of the PCSL activities has been the creation of national Learning Platforms to support information exchange and dissemination of research findings to the relevant stakeholders. …”
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Strengthening the climate services chain in Central America by Martínez Barón, Deissy, Navarro-Racines, Carlos Eduardo, Martínez, Jesús David, González Romero, Carmen, Muñoz, Angel G, Castellanos, Andrea, Giraldo Mendez, Diana Carolina, Prager, Steven D, Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando

“…We systematically describe the process of evidence generation, creation, partner engagement, scaling up, and monitoring of these approaches throughout Central America at a national level and at the local level especially in application sites known as the Climate-Smart Villages.…”
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Estimation of outcrossing rates in intraspecific (Oryza sativa) and interspecific (Oryza sativa × Oryza glaberrima) rice under field conditions using agro-morphological markers by Bah, S., Merwe, R. van der, Labuschagne, Maryke T.

“…Outcrossing with an undesirable donor would lead to the creation of segregants or off-types, which would adversely affect genetic purity and uniformity of the crop. …”
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Cultivating knowledge on seed systems and seed strategies: Case of the rice crop by Bèye, A. M., Wopereis, Marco C.S.

“…This will likely require a transition period of 5 to 10 years to build the fundamentals of sustainable seed systems through the structuring of the seed sector and the creation of appropriate conditions to ensure food security, enriched biodiversity and sustainable production. …”
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CCAFS Climate Smart Cocoa Baseline Survey Report-Ghana (Introduction of stepwise climate smart cocoa practices to farmers) by Dalaa, Mustapha Alasan, Saeed, Abdul-Razak, Deffor, Eric Worlanyo, Holzer, Manuel, Kofituo, Rich Kofi, Asare, Richard

“…In phase 1 of the CCAFS project on CSC, climate exposure maps for Ghana’s cocoa sector and site-specific recommendations for climate-smart agricultural practices were developed and adopted in 2019 the Ghana COCOBOD as a basis for the creation of a national climate-smart cocoa standard. …”
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Perspectives on reducing the national milk deficit and accelerating the transition to a sustainable dairy value chain in Zimbabwe by Chirinda, Ngonidzashe, Murungweni, Chrispen, Waniwa, Addmore, Nyamangara, Justice, Tang, Aziza, Peters, Michael, Notenbaert, An Maria Omer, Burkart, Stefan

“…Furthermore, the socio-economic effects (i.e., profitability, women empowerment and employment creation), milk quality, safety and traceability issues linked to a better organized and performing dairy value chain are highlighted.…”
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Community forest enterprises (CFEs) as Social Enterprises: Empirical evidence from Cameroon by Piabuo, S.M., Hoogstra-Klein, M., Ingram, V., Foundjem-Tita, D.

“…However, moving CFEs from “non-profits with income generation” to SEs requires (i) a change in mindset, (ii) evaluation and building of community capacity for CFE development, (iii) proper research on tensions and paradoxes with actionable solutions, and (iv) sectorial coordination for CFE development, support, and creation of CFE incubation centers.…”
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Performance analysis of existing catfish and tilapia value chains and market systems in Nigeria: A post-farmgate value chain scoping study by Diyzee, Kanar, Williams, Gemma, Anastasiou, Kim, Powell, Andrea, Shikuku, Kelvin Mashisia, Nhuong Tran, Byrd, Kendra, Chin Yee Chan, Bogard, Jessica R., Steensma, Joe, Nukpezah, Julius, Adegoke, Agbabiaka, Subasinghe, Rohana, Siriwardena, Sunil

“…These results are of interest to both private and public sector decision-makers and policymakers because they provide quantitative data on value creation (fish sales, employment, service provision), social performance (women and youth empowerment), and environmental, nutritional and food safety challenges along fish value chains.…”
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Climate–urban nexus: a study of vulnerable women in urban areas of KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa by Hlahla, S., Simatele, M. D., Hill, T., Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe

“…Thus, we advocate for the creation of an enabling environment to develop and adopt progendered, cost-effective, transformative, and sustainable climate change policies and adaptation strategies that are responsive to the needs of vulnerable groups (women) of people in society. …”
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Apical Rooted Cuttings Revolutionize Seed Potato Production by Smallholder Farmers in the Tropics by VanderZaag, P., Pham, T.X., Demonteverde, V.E., Kiswa, C., Parker, M., Nyawade, S., Wauters, P., Barekye, A.

“…The development of cultivars with late blight resistance for which no source of tuber seed was available stimulated the creation of using ARC. The demystification of tissue culture by the 1980s greatly aided this development. …”
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Gender differences in climate-smart adaptation practices amongst bean-producing farmers in Malawi: The case of Linthipe Extension Planning Area by Nchanji, Eileen Bogweh, Kabuli, Hilda, Onyango, Nyamolo, Cosmas, Lutomia K., Chisale, Virginia, Matumba, Anne

“…Climate Smart Agriculture ensures increased productivity thereby enabling food security, income security and wealth creation amongst the farming households. A study was carried out to understand the gender differences in access and use of climate-smart agriculture, challenges and solutions that men and women farmers use to adapt to climate change. …”
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FR2.3: Participatory Rangeland Management: Understanding Women's Engagement and Implications for Social Change by Bullock, Renee, Miriti, Philip, López, Diana E.

“…The process includes the creation of management committees that develop plans to manage resources that support resilience to climate change, such as restoration of grazing areas. …”
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A Community of Practice for Gender-Transformative Research Methodologies by Rietveld, Anne M., Gartaula, Hom Nath, Farnworth, Cathy Rozel, López, Diana E., Bailey, Arwen, Hellin, Jonathan, Fisher, Eleanor, Kramer, Berber, Teeken, Béla, Mujawamariya, Gaudiose, Choudhury, Afrina

“…Four initial topic groups have been identified to begin knowledge exchange and co-creation: gender-equitable masculinities, intersectionality, transformative research processes and data, and mobilizing GENNOVATE data and tools. …”
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Training Needs assessment Report on Challenges of Climate-Smart Agriculture in Ethiopia by Bekeko, Zelalem

“…In this line concerted efforts to continuously generate CSA technology would contribute to the desired positive outcome. A solid awareness-creation program of conservation agriculture technology should be provided to all stakeholders at federal and regional level. …”
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