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  1. Sustainable Palm Oil: Dissecting a Global Debate by Noordwijk, M. van

    Published 2020
    “…Sustainability has to be understood in the wider context of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), rather than as primarily a plot-level ecological concern about persistence of production, to make sense of the debate that has become a very polarized and find ways forward. …”
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  2. Stakeholders debate Livestock Fish Mega Program proposal by Randolph, Thomas F.

    Published 2010
    “…Tom Randolph from ILRI reflects on the Livestock Fish Mega Program stakeholder consultation in Addis Ababa and the processes by which participants could test and debate the assumptions underlying the proposal. He was speaking in the margins of the CGIAR Livestock Fish Mega Program stakeholder consultation meeting in Addis Ababa, 24 and 25 August 2010.…”
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  3. Rocking the boat to change the debate: Identifying and testing conventional wisdom by Reardon, Thomas

    Published 2025
    “…This paper presents a method for and experiences with pioneering new research directions that challenge “conventional wisdom” and change policy and research debates. The method consists of four steps: (1) identify the conventional wisdom (CW); (2) ignore the CW and go to the field without pre-conceived notions, and look long and hard at reality—with interviews and surveys broad enough to allow oneself to make discoveries that contradict the CW; (3) then identify the contradictions between the CW and the field discoveries and pinpoint the implications for policy and research debates; (4) develop and mainstream a new research theme along a research “product cycle.” …”
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