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Designing for engagement: A Realist Synthesis Review of how context affects the outcomes of multi-stakeholder forums on land use and/or land-use change by Sarmiento Barletti, J.P., Larson, A.M., Hewlett, C., Delgado, D.

“…In this review, we focus on subnational MSFs that include at least one grassroots and one government actor. MSFs have been presented, especially by practitioners, as a panacea to address land-use change and support climate mitigation, such as through "landscape" or jurisdictional approaches. …”
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The role of variety attributes in the uptake of new hybrid bananas among smallholder rural farmers in central Uganda by Sanya, L.N., Sseguya, H., Kyazze, Florence Birungi, Diiro, G.M., Nakazi, F.

“…Facilitating the establishment of multi-actor platforms that bring together the different actors to share information and learn might be useful in increasing the intensity of HBVs adoption.…”
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Tensions and coalitions: A new trade agreement affects the policy space for nutrition in Vietnam by Harris, Jody, Hrynick, Tabitha, Thien, Mai Thi My, Huynh, Tuyen, Huynh, Phuong, Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Thow, Anne Marie

“…Different groups of policy actors hold different beliefs and interests on these issues, and therefore promote different framings and policy approaches. …”
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Are farmer organizations effective intermediaries and facilitators of agricultural innovations processes? Evidence from Tunisia by Ouerghemmi, Hassen, Frija, Aymen, Souissi, Asma, Carpentier, Irene, Shiri, Zahra, Dhehibi, Boubaker, Rejeb, Hichem

“…AIS involves collaboration among various stakeholders to improve the technological, managerial, and institutional aspects of agriculture. Intermediary actors play a pivotal role in facilitating innovation exchange and learning processes. …”
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Mapping stakeholders along the climate information service value chain in Nigeria by Segnon, Alcade Christel, Zougmore, Robert Bellarmin

“…NiMET is a key central actor along the CIS value chain in Nigeria, followed by NIHSA, and collaborate directly with all other actors in the ecosystems. …”
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Top-down vs bottom-up processes: A systematic review clarifying roles and patterns of interactions in food system transformation by Conti, Costanza, Hall, Andy, Moallemi, Enayat A., Laila, Amar, Bene, Christophe, Fanzo, Jessica, Gibson, Matthew Ford, Gordon, Line, Hicks, Christina, Kok, Kristiaan, Rao, Nitya, Laxminarayan, Ramanan, Mason-D'Croz, Daniel

“…The broad range of actors raises the question of whether it is top-down or bottom-up processes and actors that are better placed to deliver the fundamental and system level changes that characterise transformation. …”
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Agency and behavior change in agricultural research for development: New directions for guiding agri-food system transformations by Freed, Sarah, Voss, Rachel C., Falk, Thomas, Rietveld, Anne M., Alary, Véronique, Chimonyo, Vimbayi G.P., Frija, Aymen, Guettou-Djurfeldt, Nadia, Lestrelin, Guillaume, Singh, Sonali, Ndiwa, Aurillia Manjella, Zingwena, Taurai

“…Using ACT, we identified patterns in terms of initiatives' targeted actors, behaviors, and the factors shaping actors' agency and behavior. …”
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Recent advances on research into interventions to improve food safety in Africa by Grace, Delia

“…They varied in their ability to improve actor knowledge, attitude and practice, in reducing foodborne disease risk, and in the effectiveness of incentives deployed. …”
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Locally led adaptation and climate-smart agriculture: A review of two conceptual framings of responses to climate change in LMICs by Habermann, Birgit

“…Moving forward, bridging the divide between global frameworks and local agency requires critical reflection on language, power, and the role of external actors in shaping adaptation pathways.…”
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Value chain analysis of furniture: action research to improve power balance and enhance livelihoods of small-scale producers by Purnomo, H., Achdiawan, R., Parlinah, N., Irawati, R.H., Melati

“…Each actor is connected by intermediaries. Indonesian furniture, dominated by teak, contributed 2% of the global wood furniture trade (valued US$ 85 billion in 2007). …”
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Economic analysis of alternate Rift Valley fever control options from a multisectoral perspective by Kimani, T.M., Schelling, E., Ngigi, M., Randolph, Thomas F.

“…Centrality statistics measures of Degree, Betweeness and Closeness identified the two health sectors, and the community as being the actors who linked clusters within the network. A non health ministry emerged as the actor demonstrating the highest closeness. …”
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NAMA Café Perú: Primera estimación de línea de base de emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero del sector by Suber, Marta, Robiglio, Valentina

“…La ambición del proceso necesita poder contar con un consenso entre los diferentes actores, con la apropiación por parte de ellos del contenido técnico e institucional de las estrategias de mitigación y con un compromiso intrínseco de las partes para implementar estas medidas. …”
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How does institutional embeddedness shape innovation platforms? A diagnostic study of three districts in the Upper West Region of Ghana by Totin, Edmond, Roncoli, Carla, Sibiry Traoré, Pierre C., Somda, Jacques, Zougmoré, Robert B.

“…Iinstitutional embeddedness is thereby shown to be a critical aspect of agency in multi-actor processes, contributing to framing local understandings of the climate change and to channelling collective efforts towards select response strategies. …”
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Digital platforms for smallholder credit access: the mediation of trust for cooperation in maize value chain financing by Agyekumhene, Christopher, Vries, J.R. de, Paassen, A. van, Macnaghten, P., Schut, Marc, Bregt, A.

“…Using a value chain approach, this diagnostic study explains how a complex configuration of actor interaction within an institutionally and agro-ecologically challenged value chain leads to the enduring absence of maize farming credit support. …”
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Trayectorias y estrategias de reproducción social en productores vitícolas familiares. Caso del oasis Este de la provincia de Mendoza by Porro, Marianela Inés

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XIII Asamblea general de miembros activos :informe anual 2013

“…Cumplimos 20 años desde que nuestros fundadores del sector público y privado acordaron un modelo institucional para la ciencia, la tecnología y la transferencia de conocimientos al sector agropecuario. 20 años difíciles en los que a todos nos tomó más tiempo de la cuenta asimilar el nuevo modelo, generar confianza y apostarle decididamente a una Corpoica fuerte que pueda fungir como Motor, Actor y Soporte de un sistema nacional de ciencia y tecnología para el sector agropecuario, en un país con serias falencias de conocimiento acorde a las necesidades de dicho sector. …”
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Arreglos institucionales para la gestión de bienes comunes en el Sendero Lloa – Mindo, Reserva de Biósfera del Chocó Andino, Ecuador, desde un enfoque de gobernanza policéntrica by Duque Padilla, Joahanna del Rocío

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Manejo participativo de los recursos naturales basado en la identificación de servicios ecosistémicos en la cuenca del río Otún - Pereira, Colombia by Benites Sánchez, Abel Y.

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Technical specifications for solid biofuels by Belbo, Helmer

“…Some nonconformity between information required by the biofuel actors and information provided of the standards was discovered. …”
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Testing the (legal) waters: interpreting the political representation of a river with rights in New Zealand : “let’s talk to the river, instead of talking about the river” by Blankestijn, Wouter, Martin, Anna

“…Its interests are represented by two appointed ‘human faces’ and other actors including a strategy group. Potentially fraught with problems of misrepresentation, as well as a host of philosophical issues on speaking on behalf of an arguably “voiceless” and vulnerable actor, communicative problems arise how to actually politically represent a natural-cultural entity in practice. …”