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Deciphering Corporate Governance and Environmental Commitments among Southeast Asian Transnationals: Uptake of Sustainability Certification by Roda, J.M., Kamaruddin, N., Tobias, R.P.

“…Our hypothesis is that financial factors, such as ownership structure, may also have a fundamental role. We analyzed the audited accounts of four major Asian agribusiness transnationals. …”
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Compatibilidade de conjuntos de criterios e indicadores para avaliar a sustentabilidade do manejo florestal na Amazonia Brasileira by Pokorny, B., Adams, M.

“…Since the Rio summit in 1992, numerous initiatives developed a various C&I sets as multifunctional tools to be applied for monitoring, auditing, science and decisions makers. The existing diversity of C&I sets is a cause for uncertainty and confusion, and thereby diminishes the acceptance and efficiency of the tool. …”
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The adoption problem is a matter of fit: tracing the travel of pruning practices from research to farm in Ghana’s cocoa sector by Adomaa, Faustina Obeng, Vellema, Sietze R., Slingerland, M., Asare, R.

“…The conventions guiding and legitimizing actions at this site, reinforced by sustainability standards, certification schemes and associated inspections and audits, favour standardized recommendations and consequently narrow room for context-specific diagnostics and adaptions. …”
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Linkages between EU Deforestation-Free Regulation and traceability tools: An exploration from the Honduran coffee sector by Melo-Velasco, Jenny, Padilla-Quiñonez, Claudina, Colindres, Mirian, Ceballos-Sierra, Federico, Wiegel, Jennifer

“…A transversal aspect involves how all the new information requested by this regulation is going to be collected, cleaned, integrated, stored, analyzed, reported, audited and updated. This paper aims to illuminate these processes by focusing on the existing and potential linkages among three traceability tools currently under development in the Honduran coffee sector.…”
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Digital sustainability tracing in smallholder context: Ex-ante insights from the Peruvian cocoa supply chain by Steinke, Jonathan, Ivanova, Yovita, Jones, Sarah, Minh, Thai Thi, Sanchez, Andrea, Sanchez-Choy, Jose, Mockshell, Jonathan

“…Digital technologies for tracing agri-food products from farm to fork could help: novel traceability systems, based on blockchain technology, can make data about on-farm practices transparently available to downstream stakeholders, enabling them to verify sustainability claims without external audits. There is limited understanding, however, of how such digital tracing systems fit local needs and capacities in smallholder contexts. …”
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Evaluating rational and healthy use options for small pelagic fish species in sub-Saharan Africa by Bunting, Stuart, Thiao, Djiga, Ahern, Molly, Ansah, Yaw B, Ward, Ansen, Wesana, Joshua, Yossa, Rodrigue, Westlund, Lena

“…Priority recommendations (Round 2 mean rating >8) included: environmental audits of fishmeal plants, promote health and safety at work, assess health risks, eliminate pollution, locate factories away from residential areas, promote alternative feed ingredients, farmer training and research programmes, enhanced governance, demand assessment, price controls on fish for feed, regular assessment of key fish stocks, assess and monitor fish affordability, consumption and importance in food and nutrition security, promote better handling to avoid food waste, regulate capacity of fishmeal sector. …”
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Mapping the flow of commercial broiler day-old chicks in Kenya by Ibayi, Eugine L., Nyambura, Jane N., Guyo, Boru A., Moodley, Arshnee, Muloi, Dishon M.

“…Veterinary authorities routinely audited PS and CS hatcheries for compliance with biosecurity and animal welfare standards. …”
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Metodologías para evaluar la aplicación de criterios e indicadores en el manejo forestal de bosques tropicales en América Latina by Pokorny, Benno, Sabogal, César, Camino, Ronnie de

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Assessing climate resilience in rice production: Measuring the impact of the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s IWRM scheme in the Senegal River Valley using remote sensing and mac... by Fionnagáin, D.Ó., Geever, M., O’Farrell, J., Codyre, P., Trearty, R., Tessema, Y.M., Reymondin, Louis, Loboguerrero, Ana Maria, Spillane, Charlie, Golden, A

“…Both the remote sensing data and ground audits identify issues regarding post-project deterioration of irrigation infrastructure, emphasising the need for long-term maintenance of irrigation infrastructure to support climate adaptation benefits arising from irrigation. …”
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Understanding farmers' trust in stakeholders of carbon credit projects: A perception-based analysis by Mallappa, Vinaya Kumar Hebsale, Gadde, Sriharsha, Cariappa, A. G. Adeeth

“…Aligning CCP implementation with high-trust actors locally and publishing auditable payment schedules could accelerate the adoption of carbon farming practices, reduce disadoption, and enhance the effectiveness of India's forthcoming voluntary carbon market.…”
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An agenda for assessing and improving conservation impacts of sustainability standards in tropical agriculture by Milder, Jeffrey C., Arbuthnot M, Blackman, A., Brooks, S., Giovannucci, Daniele, Gross LH, Kennedy ET, Komives K, Lambin, E.F., Lee, A., Meyer D, Newton, Peter, Phalan, B., Schroth, Götz, Semroc, Bambi, Rokxoort, H. van, Zrust, M.

“…These questions are addressed through data from multiple sources, including basic common information from certification audits; field monitoring of environmental outcomes at a sample of certified sites; and rigorous impact assessment research based on experimental or quasi-experimental methods. …”
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Comparative analysis of sustainability policies regarding forestry in selected multinational home improvement and wood furniture companies by Nguyen Nghia, Lan

“…While study could indicate that three EU-based companies (Carrefour, B&Q, IKEA) have implemented key policies in their supply chains (e.g. start-up requirements to wood suppliers, compulsory documents for clarifying wood sources and procedure of auditing) as efforts to prevent illegal timber, it could not conclude that two US-based companies have the same motivation due to the lack of information and communication from them. …”

Läsplatta och videoanalys som pedagogiskt verktyg vid ridundervisning by Ignerus, Maria

“…Studies have shown that when educating riders, the instruction are most often given by auditive methods. When asking students, the result showed that students experienced that they easiest understood the instructions when they were given through visually methods. …”

National Workshop to Integrate Climate Knowledge Products in ATVET Curriculum: Farm Mechanization, Cooperative Organization, Marketing, And Rural Land Administration Programs by Belay, Berhanu, Ambaw, Gebermedihin, Makonnen, Brook T., Bulo, Million, Solomon, Dawit

“…This course will serve six programs: Agricultural Mechanization – Farm Machinery Operation, Agricultural Mechanization – Farm Machinery Mechanics, Rural Land Administration, Agricultural Cooperative Accounting and Auditing, Agricultural Cooperative Business Management, and Agricultural Cooperative Marketing. …”
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Small-scale irrigation: is this the future? by Facon, T., Mukherji, Aditi

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Análisis del comportamiento de la certificación forestal y evaluación de verificadores para el manejo sostenible en Bolivia by Sandoval Hurtado, Eduardo .A.

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Criterios e indicadores para el monitoreo de operaciones forestales: un caso en Brasil by Pokorny, B., Sabogal M., César, Silva, J.N.M., Lima, J., Bernardo, P.

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AgWise: Modular decision support tools integrating data, models, and AI for site-specific agronomy and soil health management recommendations by Abera, Wuletawu, Mkuhlani, Siyabusa, Tibebe, Degefie, Assefa, Feben, Leroux, Louise, Seid, Jemal, Srivastava, Amit, Aguilar Ariza, Andres, Devkota Wasti, Mina, Ibrahim, Ali, Kouadio, Louis, Liben, Feyera, Llanos Herrera, Lizeth, Cherenet, Meklit, Corbeels, Marc, Kihara, Job, Vanlauwe, Bernard

“…This modularity allows AgWise to operate across diverse crops, agroecologies, and data environments, while remaining transparent, adaptable, and scientifically auditable. AgWise is not a chatbot, a black-box AI recommender, a single agronomic model, or a mobile application. …”
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Digital services in the agriculture business : costumer perspective on digital accounting services by Engdahl, Tomas

“…The association of accounting and auditing (FAR) predicts that accounting services will be digitized and automated by the year 2025 and therefore there is a need to focus on developing functional digital systems for this and work more with other tasks like counselling. …”

Jämförelse av två olika uppföljningsmetoder av miljöhänsyn hos Norra Skogsägarna by Bergström, Julia, Renman, Lisa

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