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Análisis comparativo de los marcos normativos sobre cultivos nativos y semillas en Bolivia, Ecuador y Perú: avances y desafíos by Ruiz Muller, M.

“…It explains how numerous regulatory instruments developed in recent decades often overlap, creating complexity in understanding their goals and implementation. …”
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Empowering communities to manage natural resources: where does the power lie?: the case of Malawi by Kayambazinthu, D.

“…Effective community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) has been practiced for decades in Malawi where traditional leaders command much power over their subjects. …”
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Institutional Vacuum in Sardar-Sarovar Project: Framing ?Rules-of-the-Game? by Talati, J., Shah, Tushaar

“…Few large irrigation projects in India have been as elaborately planned as the Sardar- Sarovar Project (SSP), incorporating as it did the lessons of decades of irrigation project design and management. …”
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Is there an alternative for irrigation reform? by Suhardiman, Diana, Giordano, Mark

“…Poor performance of government-managed irrigation systems persists in developing countries despite numerous policy interventions over the last four decades. We argue that many of these interventions have failed, because they did not recognize irrigation bureaucracies as prime actors in policy change. …”
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Access and benefit sharing in participatory plant breeding in Southwest China by Song. Y., Zhang, Y., Song, X., Vernooy, Ronnie

“…Based on more than a decade of action-research, a number of institutional changes were accomplished as a result of the interactions between national and provincial breeding institutes, rural development researchers and local maize farmers. …”
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Transformation of smallholder beef-cattle production in Vietnam by Stür, Werner W., Truong Tan Khanh, Duncan, Alan J.

“…They highlight several factors that contributed to this transition, including a convincing technological innovation, a system-oriented approach with emphasis on capacity strengthening, development of a coalition of local actors supporting the transformation process, and having external and local support over a sufficiently long period of time (a decade in this case).…”
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Selected outcome-focused monitoring tools for communication and engagement by Schuetz, Tonya, Meadu, Vanessa, Atakos, Vivian, Schubert, Cecilia, Urrea Benítez, José Luis, Ampaire, Edidah L., Radeny, Maren A.O., Mungai, Catherine

“…Key messages  The development and research sectors have begun monitoring communication and engagement efforts over the last decade, with the result that there are now a number of tools available…”
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Fish to 2020: Supply and demand in changing global markets by Delgado, Christopher L., Wada, Nikolas, Rosegrant, Mark W., Meijer, Siet, Ahmed, Mahfuzuddin

“…Fish are an important component of the rapid growth of the consumption of animal products in developing countries over the past two decades and into the foreseeable future.…”
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Economic prospects of pomegranate growing in the Spanish Mediterranean region by De-Miguel, María D., Melián Navarro, Amparo, Fernández-Zamudio, María A.

“…Although farmers in the Spanish Mediterranean have preferred to choose citrus in recent decades, its drop in value is encouraging the choice of alternative tree crops, and there will be areas, like the one studied here, where the interest in species with more favorable prospects, such as the pomegranate, will increase. …”
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Wheat curl mite, Aceria tosichella, and transmitted viruses: an expanding pest complex affecting cereal crops by Navia, Denise, Mendonça, Renata Santos de, Skoracka, Anna, Szydło, Wiktoria, Knihinicki, Danuta, Hein, Gary L., Pereira, Paulo Roberto Valle da Silva, Truol, Graciela Ana Maria, Lau, Douglas

“…In Australia and South America, where this problem has only emerged in the last decade, it represents a new threat to winter cereal production. …”
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Bioenergy from the forest – a source of conflict between forestry and nature conservation? : an analysis of key actor’s positions in Sweden by Wallin, Ida

“…Bioenergy from the forest has been heavily debated in Sweden for several decades due to the interest of society to decrease dependence upon fossil fuels and limit the effects of climate change. …”

Effects of unsown patches in autumn-sown fields on Skylark territory densities : a study on skylark plots made in central Sweden by Jansson, Mattis

“…Intensified cultivation of farmland is widely recognized to act negatively on many organisms, including birds as the Skylark (Alauda arvensis). During the last decades, this species has been showing a population decline of about 50-75 percent in northwestern Europe, including Sweden. …”

Forage seed system in Tanzania - a review report by Ngunga, David, Mwendia, Solomon W.

“…Over year, and especially in sub-Saharan Africa forage breeding and improvement has been dormant, and rely on maintaining materials developed decades ago, and still with limited access by livestock producers. …”
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Agroforestry-Based Ecosystem Services by Noordwijk, M. van

“…Agroforestry, land use at the agriculture-forestry interface that implies the presence of trees on farms and/or farmers in forests, has a history that may be as old as agriculture, but as an overarching label and topic of formal scientific analysis, it is in its fifth decade. The trees as such, and the agroforestry system they are part of, provide direct benefits to the farmer (land manager), often through a combination of marketable goods, subsistence needs of the farm household, buffering climate variability, and protecting soil and water resources. …”
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Gap Assessment of CSA-CIS Stakeholder in Ghana by Damba, Osman Tahidu, Ayambila, Sylvester, Alhassan, Abdallah

“…Although attempts through programmes and projects have been made over the last decade, the need for a geographical based and sustainable climate smart agricultural practice promotion is required to ehance adaptation and productivity. …”
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Improved Maize Varieties and Poverty in Rural Ethiopia by CGIAR Standing Panel on Impact Assessment

“…In Ethiopia, the last four decades have seen more than 40 improved varieties of maize - including hybrids and OPVs – developed and released by the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR) in collaboration with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT). …”
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Chapter 11: Nutrition and equality: Brazil’s success in reducing stunting among the poorest [Nourishing Millions] by Keefe, Meagan

“…RAPID ADVANCES IN economic development and healthcare in Brazil have contributed to significant improvements in child health and nutrition in recent decades. Brazil met Millennium Development Goal 1—halving the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day and halving the proportion of people who suffer from hunger, and Goal 4—reducing by two-thirds the under-five mortality rate. …”
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Chapter 6: From the ground up: Cultivating agriculture for nutrition [Nourishing Millions] by Yosef, Sivan

“…Because many poor households around the world grow food that they both consume and sell for income, agricultural interventions can have a massive effect on the lives of people in developing countries. Through the decades, and most famously in Asia’s Green Revolution, development projects have sought to boost agricultural production of staple foods as a way of improving people’s nutrition. …”
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Chapter 9: Malnutrition's new frontier: The challenge of obesity [Nourishing Millions] by Hodge, Judith, Verstraeten, Roosmarijn, Ochoa-Avilés, Angélica

“…OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY prevalence has increased substantially over the past decades, affecting 2.1 billion people worldwide and causing 3.4 million deaths globally.1 Currently, 42 million children are overweight or obese—the result of a staggering 47.1 percent rise in prevalence between 1980 and 2013.2 No longer exclusive to affluent societies, obesity has reached alarmingly high levels in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).3 In fact, the number of individuals who are overweight or obese (1.9 billion) has now surpassed the 794 million people who do not get enough calories.4 Nearly half of all overweight children under 5 years of age now live in Asia, and a further 25 percent are found in Africa.…”
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The puzzle of solar lift irrigation in Nepal’s mid-hills by Shrestha, Shisher, Neupane, Nilhari, Joshi, Ritavrat, Khadka, Manohara

“…A recent census found that several mid-hill districts have experienced negative population growth over the past decade, largely due to water scarcity, poverty, economic migration, and food insecurity.…”
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