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Latin America: Where urbanization and poverty peak together with biodiversity? by Sanchez-Sarria, Camilo E., Bonilla-Moheno, Martha, Vázquez, Luis-Bernardo, MacGregor-Fors, Ian

“…Thus, our results do not only highlight the peculiarities of each country but the heterogeneous reality of these relationships across the region.…”
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Climate change, food security, and the role of technology in community resilience by Elhassan, Azza, Zeidan, Juliette, Ismail, Abdelbagi, Baru, Joshua, Ogolla, Michelle, Al-Saud, Princess Noura, Al-Shalan, Princess Mashael, Costa, Sergio, Melo, Carla

“…The climate crisis is no longer a distant threat but a present reality, manifesting as increased droughts, unprecedented floods, and the degradation of critical ecosystems. …”
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Tropical forest diversity, environmental change and species augmentation: after the intermediate disturbance hypothesis by Sheil, Douglas

“…Current emphases encourage ecologists to exclude consideration of environmental instability and non-pristine ecosystems. In reality, many environmental changes and ecological processses contribute to both the accumulation and erosion of diversity, at all spatial and temporal scales. …”
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Harnessing technologies for sustainable development in Africa. Fifth annual Peter Doherty Distinguished Lecture by Amoako, K.Y.

“…The author indicates that the most fundamental development challenge in Africa today is poverty reduction. The stark reality is that Africa is not even able to feed itself and must rely on 3.23 million tonnes of food aid annually to stave off starvation. …”
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Rice and global climate change by Wassmann, Reiner, Nelson, Gerald C., Peng SB, Sumfleth K, Jagadish, Krishna S.V., Hosen Y, Rosegrant, Mark W.

“…In this chapter, we discuss the issues for rice agriculture in a world where climate change is increasingly a reality. The purpose of this review is to provide a comprehensive overview on (1) the expected impacts on rice production at different scales, (2) possible mitigation and adaptation options available to rice farmers, and (3) the economic implications of climate change and climate change policy. …”
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Water implications of foreign direct investment in Ethiopia's agricultural sector by Bossio, Deborah A., Erkossa, Teklu, Dile, Y.T., McCartney, Matthew P., Killiches, F., Hoff, H.

“…We propose that the perception of unused and abundant water resources, as captured in dominant narratives, that drives and justifies both foreign and domestic investments, fails to reflect the more complex reality on the ground. Based on new collections of lease information and crop modelling, we estimate the potential additional water use associated with foreign investments at various scales. …”
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Producing more food with less water in a changing world: assessment of water productivity in 10 major river basins by Cai X, Molden, David J., Mainuddin, M., Sharma, B., Ahmad, M.D., Karimi, P.

“…While it is convenient to visualize an inevitable global water and food crisis in which increasing demands result in increasing poverty, food insecurity and conflict, the reality is far more nuanced and revolves around the politics of equitable and sustainable development of resources. …”
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Assessing and mitigating wastewater-related health risks in low-income countries: an introduction by Bos, R., Carr, R., Keraita, Bernard N.

“…As a result, wastewater irrigation is an increasingly common reality around most cities in the developing world. …”
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Rural poverty and inequality in Ethiopia: does access to small-scale irrigation make a difference? by Namara, Regassa E., Makombe, Godswill, Hagos, Fitsum, Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele

“…However, the persistent fluctuation in the amount and distribution of rainfall is considered as a major factor in rural poverty. Cognizant of this reality the successive Ethiopian governments and farmers have made investments in small scale irrigation schemes. …”
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Livestock and greenhouse gas emissions: The importance of getting the numbers right by Herrero, Mario, Gerber, Pierre J., Vellinga, Theun V., Garnett, Tara, Leip, A., Opio, C., Westhoek, H.J., Thornton, Philip K., Olesen, Jørgen E., Hutchings, N., Montgomery, H., Soussana, J.F., Steinfeld, H., McAllister, T.A.

“…This variability creates confusion among policy makers and the public as it suggests that there is a lack of consensus among scientists with regard to the contribution of livestock to global GHG emissions. In reality, estimates of international scientific organizations such as the International Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) are in close agreement, with variation mainly arising on how GHG emissions are allocated to land use and land use change. …”
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Cultivating equality: delivering just and sustainable food systems in a changing climate by CARE, Rawe T, Food Tank, Deering, Karl, Echols W, Nierenberg D, Nink E, Ahern, C., Small S

“…Hunger and poverty are not an accident – they are the result of social and economic injustice and inequality at all levels, from household to global. The reality of inequality is no truer for anyone than it is for women – half the world’s population, with far less than their fair share of the world’s resources. …”
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Equity, well-being and ecosystem health: participatory research for natural resource management by Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research

“…To make this vision a reality means creating equitable social and economic arrangements that protect and maintain the ecological services that earth provides--and learning to live within our ecological means. …”
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Interdependence in rainwater management technologies: an analysis of rainwater management adoption in the Blue Nile Basin by Gebregziabher, Gebrehaweria, Rebelo, Lisa-Maria, Langan, Simon J.

“…Our results suggest that rainwater management technologies are related with each other; hence, any effort to promote the adoption of rainwater management technologies has to consider such interdependence of technologies, or failure to do so may mask the reality that farmers face a set of choices in their adoption decisions.…”
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Total value of phosphorus recovery by Mayer, B.K., Baker, L.A., Boyer, T.H., Drechsel, Pay, Gifford, M., Hanjra, Munir A.

“…The needs to make P recovery a reality are also discussed, including business models, bottlenecks, and policy and education strategies.…”
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Theoretical potential of biotechniques in crop improvement by Hayward, M.D., Armstead, I.P., Morris, P.

“…For the past decade, biotechnology has been promising to deliver new methods and new types of variation to the plant breeder, but only in the last 2 or 3 years has this become a reality. A wide array of new molecular biology and genetic manipulation techniques is now available, which should enable plant breeders to produce improved plants more easily and to develop varieties and cultivars with higher and more sustainable yields, improved quality and composition, greater resistance to pests and diseases, and improved tolerance of climatic and edaphic stresses. …”
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Access and benefit-sharing policies for climate-resilient seed systems. by Halewood, Michael, Otieno, G., Nkhoma, C., Kasasa, P., Mulumba, John W., Gapusi, J., Jonge, B. de

“…The main hypothesis was that making these commitments more coherent with the practices and realities of farmers and creating an enabling environment for strengthening multiple seed systems will increase farmers’ access to quality seed. …”
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Capturing farm diversity with hypothesis-based typologies: An innovative methodological framework for farming system typology development by Álvarez, S., Timler, Carl J., Michalscheck, M., Paas, W., Descheemaeker, Katrien K., Tittonell, Pablo A., Andersson, Jens A., Groot, Jeroen C.J.

“…This is an iterative process whereby the results of the statistical analysis are compared with the reality of the target population as hypothesized by the local experts. …”
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Plan S in Latin America: a precautionary note by Debat, Humberto Julio, Babini, Dominique

“…Analysis: This opinion article suggests that the potential adhesion of Argentina orother Latin American nations to Plan S ignores the reality and tradition of Latin American open access publishing. …”
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Balance entre conservación y desarrollo: estrategias de vida en dos comunidades del Parque Nacional Noel Kempff Mercado, Bolivia by Becerra Vargas, Adriana G.

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Our Northern-Finnish wild berries by Visuri, Anne

“…The wild berry picking field has an impact on natives’ perception of the world and reality creating differences in the perception of social responsibility. …”
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