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When an anthropologist meets hydrologists: A reflection on epistemology and sociology of knowledge on Mekong waters by Sangkhamanee, J.

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Anthropologists and participatory research in research for development projects: case studies from Ethiopia, Ghana and Burkina Faso [Abstract only] by Debevec, Liza, Salzer, A.K.

“…As anthropologists working in research for development (R4D) we are under pressure to use participatory methods in our research. …”
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News releases by International Center for Tropical Agriculture

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Mapping Nepal’s agrarian transition by Sugden, Fraser, Dhakal, Suresh, Rai, Janak

“…Suresh Dhakal (Cultural Anthropologist, Central Department of Anthropology, Tribhuvan University), and Dr. …”
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Traditional wisdom meets artificial intelligence by Haggith, M., Colfer, C.J.P.

“…This short article describes an unlikely, but fruitful, collaboration between an anthropologist and an Artificial Intelligence researcher, the purpose of which was to build a model of how indigenous Dayak people in Kalimantan decide on their activities in the forest. …”
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Introduction by Colfer, C.J.P., Yuliani, L.

“…Reed Lee Wadley, an anthropologist who conducted research for two decades in the Danau Sentarum area before dying prematurely in June 2008. …”
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Soil carbon: A silver bullet for climate change mitigation? Finding a middle way by Wollenberg, Eva Karoline

“…Lini Wollenberg, a Gund Fellow, is an anthropologist and natural resource management specialist concerned with rural livelihoods and the environment. …”
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Lini Wollenberg: Soil Carbon and Climate Change - Finding a Middle Way by Wollenberg, Eva Karoline

“…Lini Wollenberg, a Gund Fellow, is an anthropologist and natural resource management specialist concerned with rural livelihoods and the environment. …”
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Adaptive collaborative management: Experiential and theoretical forebearers by Colfer, C.J.P., Prabhu, R., Larson, A.M.

“…It then provides the professional trajectories of the three editors, an anthropologist, a forester and a natural resource governance specialist, showing how they came to consider this approach of value. …”
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Second External Programme Review of ICARDA, 1988 by CGIAR Technical Advisory Committee

“…The panel endorsed the focus on lentils because of their importance as livestock feed and in human diets.Members recommended stopping faba bean improvement research and reducing work on food legumes, increased staffing of socioeconomic research (including a full time social anthropologist), and increased livestock research. Linkages with basic research institutions and establishment of a biotechnology laboratory were encouraged with the caveat that such upstream work be needs-driven and problem-oriented. …”
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Community participation in developing and applying criteria and indicators of sustainable and equitable forest management by Burford de Oliveira, N.

“…Each test was carried out by an interdisciplinary team composed of a social scientist or anthropologist, an ecologist and a forest management specialist, in consultation with the local community. …”
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Kalejdoskopiska mötesplatser by Sandberg Vilén, Felicia

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Origen, evolución y distribución del boniato (Ipomoea batatas (l.) Lam.). Una revisión by Morales Rodríguez, Alfredo, Morales Tejón, Alfredo, Rodríguez del Sol, Dania, Pastrana Vargas, Iván Javier, Aracelis Méndez, Claudia

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Patience in foraging-horticultural society: a test of competing hypotheses by Godoy, Ricardo, Byron, Elizabeth, Reyes-Garcia, Victoria, Leonard, William. R., Patel, K., Apaza, Lilian, Perez, Eddy, Vadez, Vincent, Wilkie, David

“…We discuss areas for future research to encourage anthropologists to contribute to the cross-cultural understanding of patience.…”
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Of teamwork, faith, and trust in West Sumatra by Colfer, C.J.P.

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Intrahousehold resource allocation in developing countries: models, methods, and policies by Haddad, Lawrence James, Hoddinott, John F., Alderman, Harold

“…In this book economists, demographers, sociologists, and anthropologists collaborate in the study of how resources are allocated within households in developing countries and why it matters from a policy perspective. …”
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Fragmentation of arid and semi-Arid ecosystems: Implications for people and animals by Hobbs, N.T., Reid, Robin S., Galvin, K.A., Ellis, J.E.

“…Understanding the consequences of humancaused and natural sources of fragmentation has been a fundamental challenge in ecology, a problem occupying theoretical and empirical workers for decades (see reviews of Usher 1987, Andren 1994, Collinge 1996, Turner 1996, Young et al. 1996, Harrison and Bruna 1999, Debinski and Holt 2000, Niemela 2001, Chalfoun et al. 2002, de Blois et al. 2002, Schmiegelow and Monkkonen 2002). Moreover, anthropologists and other social scientists have worked to understand the human forces that drive fragmentation of landscapes (Khazanov 1984, Little and Leslie 1999, Kerven 2003). …”
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AIDS, poverty, and hunger: Challenges and responses by Gillespie, Stuart

“…Economists, nutritionists, anthropologists, health specialists, and other development professionals have approached the issue from different angles, often using innovative methods, to generate important new findings.…”
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The origins of agriculture and crop domestication: Proceedings by Damania, Ardeshir B., Valkoun, J., Willcox, G., Qualset, C.O., International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas

“…It has become increasingly clear that studies on crop-plant domestication can no longer rely solely on archaeological data but will have to combine the findings of archaeobotanists, archaeozoologists, anthropologists and ecologists to put together all the pieces of the puzzle of how agriculture actually began. …”
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Expanding our conceptual and methodological understanding of the role of trees and forests in rural livelihoods by Luckert, M.K., Campbell, Bruce M.

“…Economics experts, specialising in valuation methods and property rights, have been working with sociologists, anthropologists and ecologists to attempt to address the complexities inherent in introducing human dimensions into research to inform development projects and policies.…”
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