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Poverty and forests: multi-country analysis of spatial association and proposed policy solutions by Sunderlin, William D., Dewi, S., Puntodewo, A.

“…There are three main conclusions linked to these frames of reference. (1) Although relatively few people live in areas of high forest cover, they tend to be characterised by high rates of poverty and they are among the ‘poorest of the poor’. (2) Four policy approaches are recommended for lifting people out of poverty: transfer of ownership of forest lands from governments to forest dwellers; facilitation of access to forest product markets; promotion of commercial-scale community forestry and company–community partnerships; and establishment of payments for forest environmental services that are pro-poor. …”
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Is multiple-use forest management widely implementable in the tropics? by García Fernandez, C., Ruíz Pérez, M., Wunder, Sven

“…At the local scale, the factors that set the scene for multiple-use approaches to be successfully adopted are favorable governance conditions relate to land-devolution policies, effective collective institutions, and multiagent forest-management models. …”
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Forests of learning: Experiences from research on an Adaptive Collaborative Approach to community forestry in Nepal by McDougall, C., Ojha, H., Banjade, M.R., Pandit, B.H., Bhattarai, T., Maharjan, M.R., Rana, S.

“…This synthesis explores an adaptive collaborative approach to governance and management as one avenue to meet these challenges. …”
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Community forest enterprise markets in Mexico and Brazil: new opportunities and challenges for legal access to the forest by Molnar,A., Gomes, D., Sousa, R., Vidal, N., Hojer, R.F., Arguelles, L.A., Kaatz, S., Martin, A., Donini, G., Scherr, Sara J., White, A., Kaimowitz, D.

“…The challenge for policy makers and governments is to reform outdated regulatory and incentive frameworks to support these enterprises. …”
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Climate change mitigation: should “avoided deforestation” be rewarded? by Pirard, R., Karsenty, A.

“…Instead, we encourage industrialized countries to better use already existing multi- and bilateral instruments, which focus on the correction of governance deficiencies in countries home to tropical forests. …”
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Direct conservation payments in the Brazilian Amazon: Scope and equity implications by Borner, J., Wunder, Sven, Wertz-Kanounnikoff, Shiela, Tito, M.R., Pereira, L.S., Nascimento, N.

“…Essentially, PES systems cannot substitute command-and-control measures: the former depend on the latter for basic governance systems to secure effective rights of exclusion, which land stewards essentially need in order to become reliable service providers.…”
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Evolving relations between agriculture and forest in Viengkham District, Luang Prabang Province by Castella, J.C., Thephavanh, M., Vongkhamsao, V., Mouaxeng-Cha, K., Phonphakdy, S., Fitriana, Y.R., Kongay, K., Phaipasith, S., Ferrand, J., Manivanh, V., Pfund, J.L.

“…The loss in the resilience of the socio-ecological system due to simplification of the natural landscape should be compensated by improved mechanisms for landscape governance.…”
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Coping strategies in livestock-dependent households in East and southern Africa: a synthesis of four case studies by Thornton, Philip K., Boone, Randall B., Galvin, K.A., BurnSilver, S.B., Waithaka, M.M., Kuyiah, J., Karanja, S., González Estrada, E., Herrero, Mario

“…Results from these case studies are synthesised to test the hypothesis that households’ capacity to adapt in the face of increasing external stresses is governed by flexibility in livelihood options. The results support this hypothesis. …”
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Analysis of milk-borne public health risks in milk markets in Kenya by Omore, Amos O., Arimi, S.M., Kang'ethe, Erastus K., McDermott, John J., Staal, Steven J.

“…However, in spite of these benefits, regulations governing informal marketing of milk continue to be unfavourable and do not reflect local realities of milk marketing, having been based on models derived from industrialised countries where virtually all milk destined for the market is pasteurised and packaged. …”
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Towards an integrated development research approach by Zinsstag, Jakob, Pfeifer, Catherine, Ahorlu, C., Hung Nguyen-Viet, Obrist, B.

“…Such approaches have the power to bridge epistemological gaps between natural sciences and the humanities, connecting outcomes of research on natural resource management, health, sanitation, livelihoods, and governance. It is evident that the complexity of social development cannot be tackled using one single method. …”
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Monitoring of livestock health and production in sub-Saharan Africa by Leeuw, P.N. de, McDermott, John J., Lebbie, S.H.B.

“…There have been many monitoring clients, ranging from national governments through aid agencies and the scientific community, to individual farmers. …”
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Challenges and opportunities for smallholder livestock production in post-conflict South Kivu, eastern DR Congo by Maass, Brigitte L., Katunga Musale, Dieudonné, Chiuri, Wanjiku L., Gassner, Anja, Peters, Michael

“…Correspondence analysis and multiple regression analysis were used to investigate the association of production constraints with particular livestock species and to understand the factors that govern the number of livestock that people owned (converted to tropical livestock units [TLU]), respectively. …”
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Factors affecting packed and unpacked fluid milk consumption in Wolaita Zone, Ethiopia by Kuma, B., Baker, Derek, Getnet, Kindie, Kassa, B.

“…This situation seems to warrant the governments to introduce new policy tools to improve the hygiene and quality of unpacked fluid milk. …”
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Enhancing the sustainability of commodity supply chains in tropical forest and agricultural landscapes by Agrawal, A., Wollenberg, Eva Karoline, Newton, Peter

“…Further, there is little consensus of the governance mechanisms and institutional arrangements that best support such interventions. …”
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Canal irrigation conundrum: applying contingency theory to irrigation system management in India. by Shah, Tushaar, Anwar, Arif A., Amarasinghe, Upali A., Hoanh, Chu Thai, Reddy, Junna Mohan, Molle, Francois, MMukherji, Aditi, Prathapar, Sanmugam A., Suhardiman, Diana, Qureshi, Asad Sarwar, Wegerich, Kai

“…s dissenting note which argues that, though difficult, benchmarking of managerial performance - as routinely done in businesses, educational institutions, governments, even research institutions - may be the way to go if IWMI aims to contribute to effective reform in canal irrigation management.…”
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Climate change risk and vulnerability mapping and profiling at local level using the Household Economy Approach (HEA) by Nhamo, L., Chilonda, Pius

“…In most cases adaptation occurs at local level in ways that are usually unnoticed and unaided by national governments or international organisations. This study down-scales the vulnerability of and adaptive capacity to climate change and variability to local level applying the Household Economy Approach. …”
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Boundary work for sustainable development: Natural resource management at the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) by Clark, W.C., Tomich, Thomas P., Noordwijk, Meine van, Guston, D., Catacutan, D., Dickson, N.M., McNie, E.

“…Especially important are arrangements regarding participation of stakeholders, accountability in governance, and the use of “boundary objects.” We conclude that improving the ability of research programs to produce useful knowledge for sustainable development will require both greater and differentiated support for multiple forms of boundary work.…”
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Rural poverty and inequality in Ethiopia: does access to small-scale irrigation make a difference? by Namara, Regassa E., Makombe, Godswill, Hagos, Fitsum, Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele

“…Cognizant of this reality the successive Ethiopian governments and farmers have made investments in small scale irrigation schemes. …”
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Factors affecting milk market outlet choices in Wolaita zone, Ethiopia by Kuma, B., Baker, Derek, Getnet, Kindie, Kassa, B.

“…It should be strengthened to enable farmers produce surplus milk for markets and should devise means to reduce local milking cow numbers by replacing them with crossbred cows. Moreover, governments should strengthen milk processing cooperatives and improve infrastructure facilities.…”
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Rice and irrigation in West Africa: achieving food security with agricultural water management strategies by Katic, Pamela G., Namara, Regassa E., Hope, Lesley, Owusu, E., Fujii, H.

“…Despite considerable rice-growing potential, lack of water control systems, access to improved seeds, agrochemicals and appropriate mechanization have resulted in modest production growth rates, unable to alter the region's dependency on imported rice. Governments aim to boost production with import duties and input subsidies. …”
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