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Crop sampling protocols for micronutrient analysis by Stangoulis, James, Sison, Cristina

“…It is well known that plant breeding is a numbers game, and that screening genotypes requires a substantial effort in both the field and the laboratory. …”
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Character Cards: A gender-responsive, people-centered training tool by Kadry, Salma, Campbell, Raramai

“…Character Cards merge art, storytelling, and research to build awareness and understanding on how climate risks, vulnerabilities, and resilience intersect and differ across gender, identity, and geography. The game features 12 characters—each portraying a unique lived experience shaped by climate, peace, security, and displacement contexts…”
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Assessing the Minimum Sampling Effort Required to Reliably Monitor Wild Meat Trade in Urban Markets by Mayor, P., El Bizri, H.R., Morcatty, T.Q., Moya, K., Solis, S., Bodmer, R.E.

“…The trade of wild meat has become a controversial topic because despite the economic returns it generates for local communities, it can cause a dramatic increase in harvest rates of game species. Monitoring wild meat trade in urban markets could be an accessible and low-cost method to assess the impacts on game populations. …”
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Performance of four newly released cassava varieties in a fallowed land over two cropping seasons by Ossai, C.O., Ojobor, S.A., Ogwuche, T.O., Akpeji, S.C., Sunday, A.I., Diebiru-Ojo, E.M.

“…The fresh yield of the improved varieties Baba70, Game change, Hope and Obasanjo2 was 74%, 80.8%, 81%, and 113% higher than the local best, respectively. …”
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Differences between Pygmy and Non-Pygmy Hunting in Congo Basin Forests by Fa, J.E., Olivero, J., Farfán, M.A., Lewis, J., Yasuoka, H., Noss, A., Hattori, S., Hirai, M., Kamgaing, T.O.W., Carpaneto, G., Germi, F., Márquez, A.L., Duarte, J., Duda, R., Gallois, S., Riddell, M., Nasi, Robert

“…We use data on game harvest from 60 Pygmy and non-Pygmy settlements in the Congo Basin forests to examine whether hunting patterns and prey profiles differ between the two hunter groups. …”
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Annual Report 2020: Building forward better by Center for International Forestry Research

“…When people responded to the pandemic with calls to ban wild meat, CIFOR-ICRAF experts stepped forward with recent, highly relevant evidence in hand, highlighting the needs of communities who rely on wild game for nutrition. Other scientists forged ahead to deliver compelling research findings on improved tree seed and restoration work in Ethiopia, agroforestry in Southeast Asia, and a new model for sustainable use of woodfuel in refugee camps – among many other topics.…”
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Power walk activity: a tool adapted for the water sector by Khalid, Sidra, Waqar, Kanwal

“…The activity simulates a society where individuals have an equal starting point but depending on their social identities end up in different positions. The game is meant to convey gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) concepts in the water sector.…”
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The value of delegated quality control by Saak, Alexander E.

“…This paper studies the case in which a firm delegates quality control to an independent monitor. In a repeated game, consumers’ trust provides incentives to acquire information about whether the good is defective, and withhold defective goods from sale. …”
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Why India's food and agricultural systems hold the key to climate action by Saha, Ankit, Singh, Vartika, Kumar Ghosh, Ranjan

“…The FABLE India team invited policymakers, researchers, and students to step into India’s food and climate future through a FABLE “Serious Game” and expert panels. Participants explored the complex trade-offs in agriculture, discovering how coordinated action, crop diversity, and farmer empowerment can turn challenges into low-emission solutions that also strengthen food security.…”
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Hepatit E hos svenskt vilt by Stenman, Anders

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Understanding mangrove governance: Research methods and guidelines by Pham Thu Thuy, Mwangi, E., Vu, T.P., Hoang, T.L.

“…Effective mangrove management also requires institutional setup, rules of the game, and a clear tenure regime and distribution of rights and responsibilities between stakeholders. …”
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The Benefits from Climate Information as a Source of Empowerment: Findings from an Experiment in Zambia by Kramer, Berber, Trachtman, Carly, Zuze, Linda

“…Additionally, we invite couples to play the game both as individuals and jointly to test whether CIS information can help align individuals’ preferred investment choices with jointly made investment decisions.…”
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Opinion: From 'Look East' and 'Act East', India must 'think big' and 'act big' by Ajmani, Manmeet Singh, Roy, Devesh

“…Yet, the full realisation of the potential would only happen when India ups the game on industrial products and technology.”…”
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Impact measurement and tracking in a climate context. Curriculum for a self-paced learning program by Nowak, Andreea C.

“…This report presents a curriculum for an e-learning programme that is set to be a game-changer, offering agribusinesses a structured collection of expert-led insights, practical tools, and real-world applications to help them effectively measure, track, and communicate their impact. …”
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How misinformation and mismatched expectations reduce adoption of improved seeds by Miehe, Caroline, Nabwire, Leocardia, Sparrow, Robert, Spielman, David J., Van Campenhout, Bjorn

“…Often presented as game-changing solutions, agricultural technologies like improved seeds or fertilisers can lead farmers to adopt one at the expense of others, only to disadopt when the expected gains, based on overly optimistic assumptions about reduced need for complementary inputs, fail to materialise.…”
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Kick-starting the Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan by Shah, Tushaar

“…The Union Budget 2018 announced the Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan, a scheme to replace diesel pumps and grid-connected electric tube wells for irrigation with solar irrigation pumps, including a buy-back arrangement for farmers’ surplus solar energy at a remunerative price. KUSUM can be a game changer as it can check groundwater over-exploitation, offer farmers uninterrupted daytime power supply, reduce the carbon footprint of agriculture, curtail the farm power subsidy burden, and provide a new source of risk-free income for farmers.…”
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CLEANED-R (Comprehensive Livestock Environmental Assessment for Improved Nutrition, a Secured Environment and Sustainable Development along Livestock and Fish Value Chains) tool by CGIAR Research Program on Livestock

“…These tools have been used in a learning space along with a game aiming at stakeholders exploring possible livestock futures and negotiating the best alternatives for their area.…”
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Group lending with peer selection and moral hazard by Hernandez, Manuel A., Liu, Yanyan, Gan, Li

“…We find that joint liability leads to positive assortative matching in both a non-cooperative and cooperative game setting. Groups of safe borrowers additionally exhibit higher effort levels, which reinforces their likelihood of repayment as opposed to risky groups.…”
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Will they stay or will they go?: The political influence of GM-averse importing companies on biosafety decision makers in Africa by Gruère, Guillaume P., Takeshima, Hiroyuki

“…We model a threat from an importer to a local policy maker announcing an upcoming confined field trial of a GM crop as a dynamic game of incomplete information and illustrate our analysis with a stochastic simulation. …”
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Breaking the norm: An empirical investigation into the unraveling of good behavior by Hill, Ruth Vargas, Maruyama, Eduardo, Viceisza, Angelino

“…Specifically, we consider the behavior of second movers in a trust game, assessing how their decision to reciprocate is influenced by the observed behavior of others and the extent to which their actions can be observed. …”
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