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Politics and power in territorial planning: insights from two 'Ecological-Economic Zoning' multi-stakeholder processes in the Brazilian Amazon by Gonzales Tovar, J., Larson, A.M., Sarmiento Barletti, J.P., Barnes, G.

“…These MSFs aim to bring diverse actors together to collaboratively and equitably develop a plan that assigns optimal land uses to a territory. …”
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Linking up: The role of institutions and farmers in forage seed exchange networks of Southeast Asia by Leyte, James Elwyn D., Delaquis, Erik, Van Dung, Pham, Douxchamps, Sabine

“…In both cases, formal actors dominated where botanical seed was exchanged, while farmers frequently exchanged vegetatively propagated materials among themselves. …”
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Food system diagnostics and policy implications: The Malawi case by Matchaya, Greenwell C., Guthiga, Paul

“…The concept of a food system has various definitions, but for the purposes of this chapter, a food system is considered as a network of actors or players and their activities along the entire food value chain from inputs to production, distribution, and consumption. …”
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Informal agricultural market channels for food security and poverty reduction: Exploring policy options in Nicaragua by Reyes, Byron A., Larosa, Francesca, Gómez, Lorena, Buriticá, Alex, Jäger, Matthias, Lundy, Mark M., Wiegel, Jennifer Rebecca

“…The main objective of the data collection was to obtain primary data from three types of actors (intermediaries, wholesalers and retailers) along three value chains (red beans, plum tomatoes, dry/semi-dry cheese) to better understand the opportunities traditional market channels present for food security and poverty reduction for smallholder farmers and poor consumers, and to make policy recommendations oriented to increase the benefits to them. …”
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A4NH flagship 1: Food systems for healthier diets by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…It includes sociocultural, economic, environmental, and political aspects, with many actors (food producers, food-chain actors, and consumers) managing multiple, linked agri-food value chains within dynamic food environments.…”
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Impact of gender-norms on women’s economic resilience to climate change by Mudege, Netsayi Noris, Cole, Steven, Adeyeye, Olajumoke, Bullock, Renee, Achandi, Esther, Galiè, Alessandra, Muzungaire, Lizzy, Kakwasha, Keagan

“…The adapted qualitative tools are used to identify and map the key stakeholders in agricultural value chains and ii) understand which norms constrain women and other groups from participating in and benefiting from work in the different nodes of the value chain iii) how women and other value chain players at the different nodes of agricultural value chains are coping with climate change impacts and also make use of Vignettes and attitudes and behaviour assessment plots to analyze whether or not gender norms that may affect value chain actors are weakening or shifting. This analysis will also allow us to see under what conditions actors can deviate from the norm and how that impacts their economic resilience to climate change impacts.…”
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Outcomes of the Low Emission Food Systems Initiative in Colombia: Outcome trajectory evaluation by Camilo, Karen, Reyes, Byron

“…The Mitigate+ Initiative was designed to generate changes through three mechanisms: aligning incentives and investments, new ideas and information, and new actors and coalitions. The initiative works in five work packages. …”
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Promotion, Scaling, and Market Positoning of Specialty Rice in Odisha by Nayak, Swati, Hossain, Sk Mosharaf

“…The initiative also emphasized capacity building of farmers, extension personnel, and value-chain actors to improve post-harvest handling, quality assurance, and traceability. …”
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One step forward, two steps back?: paradoxes of natural resources management decentralisation in Cameroon by Oyono, P.R.

“…Through the transfer of powers to peripheral actors for the management of forestry fees, Council Forests and Community [or Village] Forests, this policy innovation could be empowering and productive. …”
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Championing urban farmers in Kampala. Influences on local policy change in Uganda. Process and partnership for pro-poor policy change by Hooton, N., Lee-Smith, D., Nasinyama, G., Romney, Dannie L., Atukunda, G., Azuba, M., Kaweesa, M., Lubowa, A., Muwanga, J., Njenga, M., Young, J.

“…This working paper presents an analysis of actors, events and influences affecting a policy change on urban agriculture in Kampala. …”
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Interventions for achieving sustainability in tropical forest and agricultural landscapes by Newton, Peter, Agrawal, Arun, Wollenberg, Eva Karoline

“…Interventions by community, market, and state actors can enhance the sustainability of supply chains by affecting where and how agricultural production occurs. …”
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Do earthworms and roots cooperate to build soil macroaggregates? A microcosm experiment by Zangerle, A., Pando, A, Lavelle, Patrick M.

“…Soil ecosystem engineers are major actors of soil macroaggregation, a process that drives the production of ecosystem services by soils. …”
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Implementing smallholder carbon projects: building local institutional capacity through participatory action research by Shames, Seth, Heiner, Krista, Kapukha, Martha, Kiguli, Lillian, Masiga, Moses, Nantongo Kalunda, Pauline, Sempala A, Recha, John W.M., Wekesa, Amos

“…Two smallholder agricultural carbon projects in East Africa engaged in a participatory action research process to identify ways local actors could take on larger management roles within the projects. …”
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Negotiating across difference: gendered exclusions and cooperation in the shea value chain by Elias, Marlène, Arora-Jonsson, S.

“…In Burkina Faso, public and private actors as well as civil society are converging upon the product to boost the incomes of rural female producers. …”
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Embedding research for innovation to meet societal needs in national research systems: experiences from Ghana by Osei-Amponsah, Charity, Sakyi-Dawson, O., Adjei-Nsiah, Samuel, Adu-Acheampong, R., Owuso Essegbey, George, Quarmine, W.

“…It shows that innovation processes may involve actors along entire value chains, industry leaders at national level, or local level actors seeking to widen the space for change beyond their immediate circle of direct influence. …”
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Taking to scale adaptable climate smart technologies by Ellis-Jones, J., Phiri, A., Chibwe, T., Gondwe, T.N.P., Nhamo, N.

“…The strength of an innovation systems approach for Integrated Agriculture Research for Development (IAR4D) is based on a wide involvement of stakeholders, capacity building, planned progression of involvement of different actors, and the voluntary nature of participation. …”
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Integration through interaction? Synergy between adaptation and mitigation (REDD+) in Cameroon by Somorin, O.A., Visseren-Hamakers, I.J., Arts, Bas, Tiani, A.M., Sonwa, D.J.

“…The article investigates the strategies of policy actors in building synergies between the priority for adaptation and the opportunity of REDD+, and vice-versa. …”
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Access to Early Generation Seed: Obstacles for Delivery of Climate-Smart Varieties by Cramer, Laura K.

“…Improved coordination among system actors is necessary to reduce the barriers surrounding EGS provision and production, and thereby strengthen climate-adaptive and adaptable seed systems.…”
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Developing a spatial epidemiological model to estimate Xylella fastidiosa dispersal and spread by Chapman, Daniel, Occhibove, Flavia, Beck, Pieter, Bullock, James, Mastin, Alex, Navas-Cortés, Juan A., Parnell, Stephen, Vicent, Antonio, White, Steven

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Plan de ordenamiento territorial participativo para la microcuenca del Río Sesesmiles, Honduras by Vega Isuhuaylas, Diana A.

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