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Tackling the Challenge of Climate Change: A Near-Term Actionable Mitigation Agenda by Watson, R., Nakicenovic, Rosenthal, E., Goldenberg J, Srivastava L, Jiang K, Messner K, Anderson, K., Ürge-Vorsatz D, Verchot, Louis V., Grobmyer M, Calverley D, Murdiyarso, Daniel, Griggs D, Arent D, Suzman E, Sealy H, Seyni Nafo HA, Rehman IH, Inventor J, Koakutsu K, Tamura K, Amann, Markus, Walsh MP, Sano N, Williams R, Pachauri S, Kartha S, Sawyer, S., Mpanu-Mpanu T, Li Z

“…With every year of delay, human suffering, biodiversity loss, and the costs of mitigation and adaptation increase. …”
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Decentralized participatory plant breeding by Ceccarelli, Salvatore, Grando, Stefania

“…The model has the following advantages: (i) varieties reach the release phase earlier than in conventional breeding; (ii) the release and seed multiplication concentrate on varieties known to be acceptable by farmers; (iii) it increases biodiversity because different varieties are selected in different locations; (iv) varieties fit to the agronomic management that farmers are familiar with and can afford and therefore can be beneficial to poor farmers. …”
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Agriculture is integrated into the Paris agreement by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…Human rights, gender, ecosystems and biodiversity, all issues central to agriculture, are also featured within the Paris Agreement. …”
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Capturing neutral and adaptive genetic diversity for conservation in a highly structured tree species by Rodríguez Quilon, I., Santos del Blanco, L., Serra-Varela, M.J., Koskela, Jaarko, González Martínez, S.C.

“…Here, we use maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.), an outcrossing long‐lived tree with a highly fragmented distribution in the Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot, to prove the importance of accounting for genetic variation, of both neutral molecular markers and quantitative traits, to define useful conservation units. …”
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Large scale land acquisitions and REDD+: a synthesis of conflicts and opportunities by Carter, Sarah, Manceur, Ameur M., Seppelt, Ralf, Hermans-Neumann, Kathleen, Herold, Martin, Verchot, Louis V.

“…Land management must be considered with all its objectives—including food security, biodiversity conservation, and climate change mitigation—in a coherent strategy which engages relevant stakeholders. …”
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Understanding agroecological domains: The key to a successful participatory plant breeding program by Rana, Ram B., Sthapit, B.R., Subedi, A., Rijal, D.K., Chaudhary, P.

“…Only with a sound knowledge of agro ecological domains and the varietal distribution within domains can a program on diversity deployment and biodiversity conservation be effectively implemented. …”
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Increasing the relevance of breeding to small farmers: Farmer participation and local knowledge in breeding barley for specific adaptation to dry areas of Jordan by Ceccarelli, Salvatore, Kafawin, O., Saoub, H., Grando, Stefania, Halila, H., Ababneh, M., Shakatreh, Y., Bailey, Elizabeth

“…Specific adaptation benefits biodiversity through selection and spreading of a number different cultivars, instead of the few, often closely related, cultivars characteristic of conventional breeding for wide adaptation.…”
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Cost and benefit analysis for climate-smart soil practices in Western Kenya. by Karanja Ng'ang'a, Stanley, Notenbaert, An Maria Omer, Mwungu, Chris Miyinzi, Mwongera, Caroline, Girvetz, Evan Hartunian

“…The adoption of climate-smart soil practices can improve the soil-nitrogen cycle, enhance yield, soil fertility, crop productivity, improve soil biodiversity, and reduce soil erosion and water pollution. …”
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The challenge of financing the implementation of Natura 2000 – Empirical evidence from six European Union Member States by Geitzenauer, M., Blondet, M., Koning, J. de, Ferranti, F., Sotirov, M., Weiss, G., Winkel, G.

“…Natura 2000, which is the core pillar of the European Union's biodiversity conservation policy, is an ambitious and complex venture that requires funding to be successful. …”
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Aphids and their natural enemies in vegetable agroecosystems in Benin by Sæthre, May-Guri, Godonou, I., Hofsvang, T., Tepa-Yotto, Ghislain T., James, B.

“…his study was undertaken to provide new knowledge on biodiversity of aphids and their complex of natural enemies in vegetable agroecosystems in Benin. …”
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Payments for Ecosystem Services as a Policy Mix: Demonstrating the institutional analysis and development framework on conservation policy instruments by Barton, David N., Benavides, Karla, Chacón-Cascante, Adriana, Le Coq, Jean-François, Quirós, Miriam Miranda, Porras, Ina, Primmer, Eeva, Ring, Irene

“…Policy mix analysis has been applied in research on energy, climate, urban and transport policy, and more recently biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services. However, policy mix analysis has thus far been employed at a high conceptual level, focusing on describing interactions between instrument types. …”
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Land use and land cover dynamics in Dendi-Jeldu hilly-mountainous areas in the central Ethiopian highlands by Minta, M., Kibret, K., Thorne, Peter J., Nigussie, T., Nigatu, L.

“…Change from natural habitat (pastureland, forestland and woodland) to other land uses (cultivated, plantation and settlement lands) is likely to have a large impact on biodiversity, land degradation and beyond.…”
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Grasslands in ‘Old World’ and ‘New World’ Mediterranean climate zones: past trends, current status and future research priorities Grass and Forage Science by Porqueddu, Claudio, Ates, Serkan, Louhaichi, Mounir, Kyriazopoulos, Apostolos, Moreno, Gerardo, Pozo, Alejandro del, Ovalle, Carlos, Ewing, Mike, Nichols, Phillip G.

“…Some common issues between these regions are as follows: (i) adaptation to climate change; (ii) increasing persistence and drought survival of both annual and perennial species; (iii) the important role of forage legumes; (iv) maintaining grassland plant diversity; and (v) improved ecosystem services, such as carbon sequestration, control of soil erosion and wildfires, and preservation of both wild and domestic biodiversity. The favourable climate in these regions, which allows year-round grazing and the growth of legumes, should be exploited to improve the sustainability of grassland-based, extensive farming systems and the quality of their animal products, while at the same time improving ecosystem services. …”
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AgroPortal: a vocabulary and ontology repository for agronomy by Jonquet, C., Toulet, A., Arnaud, Elizabeth, Aubin, S., Dzale-Yeumo, E., Emonet, V., Graybeal, J., Laporte, Marie-Angélique, Musen, M.A., Pesce, V., Larmande, Pierre

“…The AgroPortal project re-uses the biomedical domain’s semantic tools and insights to serve agronomy, but also food, plant, and biodiversity sciences. We offer a portal that features ontology hosting, search, versioning, visualization, comment, and recommendation; enables semantic annotation; stores and exploits ontology alignments; and enables interoperation with the semantic web. …”
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A simple algorithm for largescale mapping of evergreen forests in tropical America, Africa and Asia by Xiao, X., Biradar, Chandrashekhar M., Czarnecki, C., Alabi, T., Keller, M.

“…The areal extent and spatial distribution of evergreen forests in the tropical zones are important for the study of climate, carbon cycle and biodiversity. However, frequent cloud cover in the tropical regions makes mapping evergreen forests a challenging task. …”
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The importance of species selection and seed sourcing in forest restoration for enhancing adaptive potential to climate change: Colombian tropical dry forest as a model by Thomas, E., Alcázar, C., Moscoso Higuita, L.G., Osorio, L.F., Salgado Negret, B., González, M., Parra, M., Bozzano, M., Loo, J., Jalonen, R., Ramírez, W.

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Ecosystem services and livelihoods in a changing climate: Understanding local adaptations in the Upper Koshi, Nepal by Bhatta, L.D., Oort, Pepijn A.J. van, Stork, N.E., Baral, H.

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Can we make participatory NTFP monitoring work?: lessons learnt from the development of a multi-stakeholder system in Northern Laos by Boissiere, M., Bastide, F, Basuki, I, Pfund, J.L, Boucard, A.

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Revisiting the 'cornerstone of Amazonian conservation': a socioecological assessment of Brazil nut exploitation by Guariguata, Manuel R., Cronkleton, P., Duchelle, Amy E., Zuidema, Pieter A.

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Natural regeneration as a tool for large-scale forest restoration in the tropics: prospects and challenges by Chazdon, R.L., Guariguata, Manuel R.

“…The self‐organizing processes that create naturally regenerating forests and natural regeneration in planted forests promote local genetic adaptation, foster native species with known traditional uses, create spatial and temporal heterogeneity, and sustain local biodiversity and biotic interactions. These features confer greater ecosystem resilience in the face of future shocks and disturbances. …”
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