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Local social and environmental impacts of biofuels: Global comparative assessment and implications for governance by German, L., Schoneveld, George C., Pacheco, P.

“…Our analysis suggests that better governance of the sector’s impacts is not the exclusive preserve of unitary sets of actors, but instead requires concerted and coordinated efforts by governments of producer and consumer countries, investors, civil society, and the financial sector to better capture the sector’s potential while minimizing its social and environmental costs.…”
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Climate-Smart Villages: An AR4D approach to scale up climate-smart agriculture by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…These global drivers and trends represent a truly grand challenge that requires concerted action. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is proposed as a solution to transform and reorient agricultural systems to support food security under the new realities of climate change. …”
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Conservation Status and Threat Assessments for North American Crop Wild Relatives by Frances, Anne L., Smith, Adam B., Khoury, Colin K.

“…Further resources and concerted efforts are needed to update conservation assessments and then to use the results to inform efforts to fill the critical gaps in conservation.…”
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Sustaining the beneficial effects of maize production in Nigeria: does adoption of short season maize varieties matter? by Oyinbo, O., Mbavai, J.J., Shitu, M.B., Kamara, A., Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Ugbabe, O.O.

“…This will require well-concerted agricultural extension that can leverage IPs in view of its potentials.…”
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Force-of-infection of Taenia solium porcine cysticercosis: a modelling analysis to assess global incidence and prevalence trends by Dixon, Matthew A., Winskill, Peter, Harrison, Wendy E., Whittaker, Charles, Schmidt, Veronika, Sarti, E., Bawm, S., Dione, Michel M., Thomas, Lian F., Walker, M., Basáñez, M.-G.

“…There was evidence of antibody seroreversion across 5 studies, and of infection loss in 6 studies measured by antigen or necropsy, indicating transient serological responses and natural resolution of infection. Concerted efforts should be made to collect robust data using improved diagnostics to better understand geographical heterogeneities in T. solium transmission to support post-2020 WHO targets.…”
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Integrated landscape approaches in the tropics: A brief stock-take by Reed, J., Ickowitz, A., Chervier, C., Djoudi, H., Moombe, K., Ros-Tonen, M.A.F., Yanou, M., Yuliani, L., Sunderland, T.C.H.

“…Future application of landscape approaches requires concerted transdisciplinary actions that connect scales of governance to address the complex political economies in contested tropical landscapes. …”
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Medicinal plants research in Asia: Volume I: The framework and project workplans by Batugal, P.A., Kanniah, J., Sy, L., Oliver, J.T.

“…While there have been constraints in exchanges of materials and technology for pharmaceuticals derived from biological organisms, largely because of its very significant commercial value and questions on intellectual property rights, there is no doubt that a critical human need such as access to medicine which determines quality of life of human society will remain as a concern that will require a concerted effort among countries and peoples all over the world. …”
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Learning together: Experimental evidence on the impact of group-based nutrition interventions in rural Bihar by Raghunathan, Kalyani, Kumar, Neha, Gupta, Shivani, Chauhan, Tarana, Kathuria, Ashi Kohli, Menon, Purnima

“…India accounts for a large proportion of the global prevalence of maternal and child undernutrition, and recent trends have renewed the call for large-scale concerted efforts to improve outcomes. With their reach to millions of rural Indian women, self-help groups (SHGs) offer a possible solution. …”
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Capturing the productive use dividend: Valuing the synergies between rural electrification and smallholder agriculture in Ethiopia by Borgstein, Edward, Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework, Wade, Kester, Anchala, Chimdo, Elisha, Francis, Eshetu, Yiheyis, Ernst, Kendall, Santana, Scarlett, Teshome, Kebede

“…Realizing the economic and livelihood benefits of productive uses requires concerted national efforts linking agriculture and electrification. …”
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Burden of disease scenarios for 204 countries and territories, 2022–2050: A forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by GBD 2021 Forecasting Collaborators, Zerfu, Taddese Alemu

“…By constructing alternative future scenarios wherein certain risk exposures are eliminated by 2050, we have shown that opportunities exist to substantially improve health outcomes in the future through concerted efforts to prevent exposure to well established risk factors and to expand access to key health interventions.…”
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Performance of smallholder dairy farming in Nakuru county, Kenya by Kinambuga, D., Mutai, B., George, O., Kalio, A.M., Kinuthia, E.

“…The Kenya dairy sub-sector has been undergoing developments since the 1980s in the areas of adoption of intensive dairy farming especially zero grazing. There have been concerted efforts by the government and other development partners to commercialise the sub-sector so as to make it more profitable to farmers, especially smallholder farmers, but the profitability in the sector continues to be variable with some smallholder farmers making losses. …”
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Tourism for development: A SAM-multiplier study on sports tourism in Kenya by Breisinger, Clemens, Wiebelt, Manfred, Omune, Lensa, Breisinger, Milena, Bordignon, Jacopo

“…To fully realize these economic and social benefits, strategic policy interventions are crucial, including targeted investment in tourism infrastructure, marketing, and skill development; a concerted effort to improve the overall business climate to incentivize private sector engagement; and enhanced inter-ministerial coordination between tourism, planning, agriculture and other key stakeholders. …”
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Village Baseline Study: Site Analysis Report for Makueni – Wote, Kenya (KE0202) by Onyango, Leah, Mango, Joash, Loo, L., Odiwuor, H., Mwangangi, M., Mutua, Edna N., Mutuo, T.

“…There are many organisations operating in the village, but there is a lack of concerted efforts between them, particularly those working in food security and natural resource management. …”
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Trends in development of crop varieties for improved crop-livestock systems in West Africa by Singh, B.B., Larbi, Asamoah, Tabo, Ramadjita, Dixon, Alfred G.O.

“…With declining per capita availability of land and other farm resources in West Africa, farmers are unable to grow food and fodder separately and therefore crop residues must be the major source of feed if livestock are to be integrated into the farming system. Consequently, concerted efforts are being made by national and international agricultural research institutions to develop improved dual-purpose crop varieties with higher grain and fodder yields and enhanced nutritional attributes. …”
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COAXIM, an innovative protocol for mass clonal propagation of coconuts by Panis, Bart, Wilms, Hannes, Liao, Yu-chun, Moreira, Suzana

“…To deliver on this action plan and to provide sufficient coconut planting materials to meet global demand, we require a coordinated and concerted effort to identify and access funding and to form regional partnerships.…”
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Advancing national greenhouse gas inventories for agriculture in developing countries: Improving activity data, emission factors and software technology by Ogle, Stephen Michael, Buendia, L., Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus, Breidt, F.J., Hartman, M., Yagi, K., Nayamuth, R., Spencer, S., Wirth, T., Smith, Pete

“…While the challenges may seem insurmountable, there are ways forward such as: (a) efficiently using resources to compile activity data by combining censuses and surveys; (b) using a tiered approach to measure emissions at appropriately selected sites, coupled with modeling to derive country-specific emission factors; and (c) using advanced software systems to guide compilers through the inventory process. With a concerted effort by compilers and assistance through capacity-building efforts, developing country compilers could produce transparent, accurate, complete, consistent and comparable inventories, as recommended by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). …”
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Conservation and sustainable use of tropical fruit species diversity: Bioversity's efforts in Asia, the Pacific and Oceania by Bhag Mal, Rao, R., Sthapit, B.R., Sajise, P.

“…At the same time, their genetic diversity and even the species diversity is threatened due to various human interventions and concerted efforts are required to take corrective measures. …”
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Food production from livestock in small farm systems for urban populations in South East Asia by Devendra, C.

“…Increasing productivity from livestock necessitates more complete utilization of The totality of the animal genetic resources (ruminants and non-ruminants) and widespread use of the available technologies and more prerequisites for these include interdisciplinarity, strong systems orientation, concerted on-farm application, and evaluation of impact.…”
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Assessment of microbiological hazards along the milk value chain in Kilosa and Mvomero districts, Tanzania by Joseph, E.

“…It is recommended that concerted efforts should be made to safeguard health of consumers through adopting various interventions that would reduce risks at each node along the MVC in the study area.…”
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Knowledge, attitude and practices used in the control of Striga in maize by smallholder farmers of western Kenya by Nambafu, G.N., Onwonga, R.N., Karuku, G.N., Ariga, E.S., Vanlauwe, Bernard, Roing de Nowina, K.

“…Framers used various Striga control practices but traditional methods (25%) were among the most used (25%). Concerted effort involving researchers, extension agents and private sector are, therefore, required for wide scale dissemination and adoption of the existing modern control technologies.…”
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