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«Cuando yo ya no pueda hacerlo, nadie lo haráa»: La conservación de la agrobiodiversidad en tiempos de migración by Baldinelli, M.G.

“…Two trends are identified and analysed: agronomic simplification, as part of a process of deagrarianisation; and agrobiodiversity reinvention, taking shape in a period in which the indigenous roots of Bolivia, native crops and traditional dishes experience a revival in discourse and food practices. Temporary and return migrants are important characters in this process, as innovators and crucial allies for urban-based stakeholders promoting agrobiodiversity conservation.…”
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Influencing global dialogue about sustainable diets by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…Recent modeling exercises from the IMPACT model team at IFPRI have contributed to the depth, breadth, and urgency of the global discourse/dialogue on changing diets and their impacts on human health and the environment. …”
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Recent macroeconomic dynamics and agriculture in historical perspective by Orden, David

“…This is an argument that has not been too prominent in public discourse about causes of the financial crisis or the policies undertaken to restore stability to financial markets and avoid an even deeper downturn than occurred. …”
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The political ecology of tropical forests in Southeast Asia: historical perspectives by Tuk-Po, L., Jong, W. de, Ken-Ichi, Abe

“…Political ecology is a scientific inter-discipline that tries to identify the political dimension of forest resource appropriation, contestation over forest benefits, and the role of power and discourse in the processes of unsustainable use and resulting forest degradation. …”
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Case Study: United States Agency for International Development (USAID) investment in innovation for sustainable agricultural intensification by Dalberg Asia

“…Furthermore, the FTF innovation laboratories have played a key role in setting up definitions and furthering the global discourse on SAI. This case study explores the investments made by USAID in agriculture innovation overall as well as SAI innovation over the last decade.…”
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Climate security in the digital public square: A lookback at the conversations of 2022 and the road to COP 28 by Silveira Carneiro, Bia, Tucci, Giulia, Taiwo, Ibukun

“…Innovative research methodologies have demonstrated that social media platforms can serve as proxies for public discourse and engagement, yielding invaluable insights into our society’s collective consciousness. …”
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Seed systems and markets: Reflection on progress and political economy by Spielman, David J.

“…Over the past two decades, seed systems and markets in many sub-Saharan African countries have become a central topic in the public discourse around agricultural development. The issues are complex, and often shaped by the specific nature of the crop itself, the agroecology it is cultivated in, and the channels through which farmers obtain seed. …”
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Food policy in 2014-2015: Strong advances and stubborn setbacks by Fan, Shenggen

“…The year 2014 saw mixed results for food and nutrition security: some countries made headway on policies to cut hunger, while in other countries conflict and health crises took a heavy human toll. Much of the year’s discourse focused on potential priorities for the future global development agenda.…”
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Long term low emission and climate resilient development strategies, 17-18 July 2025 by Chevallier, R.

“…The Programme aims to build and strengthen African climate leaders by improving their knowledge and negotiation skills to enable them to engage effectively in international climate change policy discourse as well as contribute to the successful implementation of climate actions at regional and national levels. …”
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Tracking wildebeest, locating knowledge: Maasai and conservation biology understandings of wildebeest behavior in northern Tanzania by Goldman, M.

“…By locating Maasai and scientific knowledges regarding a particular subject (wildebeest) in relation to each other-in discourse and in practice-my intention is to create the space for their active engagement. …”
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The Nile Basin: tapping the unmet agricultural potential of Nile waters by Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele, Rebelo, Lisa-Maria, David, S.

“…Crops, livestock, fisheries and aquaculture have long been important in the Nile but do not feature in the water discourse.…”
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Livestock research and development in East and Southern Africa: An innovation systems perspective with special reference to the International Livestock Research Institute by Norman, C., James, S., Maija, H.

“…The concept of innovation system is used increasingly in current science policy discourse as a metaphor to indicate the need for a much wider perspective on relevant decision-making procedures than has been the case in the past. …”
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Shift in herders' territorialities from regional to local scale: the political ecology of pastoral herding in western Burkina Faso by Gonin, A., Gautier, D.

“…In Burkina Faso, livestock sedentarization programmes are still at the top of policy makers’ agendas and at the heart of their discourse, despite huge changes in land cover, land use and territorialities in rural areas. …”
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För sig själva tillsammans by Heed, Josefin

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Beyond “women and youth”: Applying intersectionality in agricultural research for development by Tavenner, Katie, Crane, Todd A.

“…“Women and youth” targets are commonly homogenized both in development discourse and in programmatic targeting. While this framing aims to recognize the customary inequities in agricultural development activities traditionally oriented toward elder men, the homogenization of these categories does not capture the intra-gender differences between these social groups. …”
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Outcomes and Impacts of Development Interventions: Toward Conceptual Clarity by Belcher, B., Palenberg, M.

“…The terms “outcome” and “impact” are ubiquitous in evaluation discourse. However, there are many competing definitions that lack clarity and consistency and sometimes represent fundamentally different meanings. …”
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With strong WLE/Bioversity support, the EAT Lancet Commission study is transforming international food system and dietary guidelines for health and sustainability by CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems

“…The report is having a profound influence on the international development discourse and has set the stage for the work of the WLE Commission on the Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture.…”
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WLE/Alliance-supported data sharing and big data applications being rolled out in Ethiopia to encourage the government's efforts to transform agriculture by CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems

“…This has led to better-targeted recommendations and a paradigm shift in the research and development discourse as well as further funding and scaling of the framework to other countries.…”
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State of the Debate on Agri-Food Systems Transformation by El Hage Scialabba, Nadia, Zitterbarth, Sarah, Shah, Tavseef Mairaj, Caron, Patrick, Hamm, Michael, Kimani-Murage, Elizabeth, Martínez-Cruz, Tania, Merrigan, Kathleen, Mooney, Pat, Fleckenstein, Martina, Mulet, Michael, Müller, Alexander, Riemer, Olivia, Zhang, Wei

“…The second report, State of the Debate on Agri-Food Systems Transformation, conducts a critical discourse analysis to examine alignment, as well as divergence in current understanding of agrifood systems and potential pathways for agri-food systems transformation. …”
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Synthesis of agricultural land system change in China over the past 40 years by Sun, Zhanli, You, Liangzhi, Müller, Daniel

“…These opposing pressures point to the need for greater evidence-based discourse on competing uses of land, spatial patterns of land use, and their impact on food availability and well-being. …”
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