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Resilient, healthy, and sustainable food systems for biodiversity conservation and use 2030 Action Targets: A global collection of good practice cases by Bioversity International, World Wildlife Fund International, Global Crop Diversity Trust, United Nations Environment Programme

“…The post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework sets out an ambitious plan to implement broad-based action to transform society’s relationship with biodiversity, ensuring that by 2050 the shared vision of ‘living in harmony with nature’ is fulfilled. To live in harmony with nature and deliver food and livelihood security to millions of vulnerable people around the world, we must conserve and sustainably use biodiversity in our food systems, and better integrate and align efforts to conserve both agricultural and wild biodiversity rather than pursuing them separately. …”
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Staying together: people-wildlife relationship in the Amboseli Ecosystem, southern Kenya by Pinho, J.R. de, Ellis, J.

“…The relationship of Maasai pastoralists to the wild animals with which they share land and resources has been described as “harmonious” and “tolerant.” This research brief describes a study of local attitudes towards wildlife within Maasai communities of the Amboseli ecosystem. …”
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Small Farmers Large Field (SFLF): a synchronized collective action model for improving the livelihood of small farmers in India by Baruah, S., Mohanty, Samarendu, Rola, A.C.

“…Other important benefts of the harmonization and synchronization of farming operations were social harmony and sustainability of the farming system.…”
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Access to Early Generation Seed: Obstacles for Delivery of Climate-Smart Varieties by Cramer, Laura K.

“…Delivering more suitable, climate-smart crop varieties requires well-functioning seed systems in which actors work in harmony across the supply chain. Although a great deal of previous development funding has been used to breed new varieties and to encourage farmers to adopt them, the availability of early-generation seed (EGS) continues to be limited by bottlenecks in the supply chain. …”
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A review of gender inequality and women’s empowerment in aquaculture using the reach-benefit-empower-transform framework approach: A case study of Nigeria by Adam, Rahma, Njogu, Lucy

“…This calls for the collection and use of sex-disaggregated data and for work at the grassroots level to ensure that the manner in which women, men, boys and girls are treated and allowed to live and function in the communities they reside engenders development, harmony, gender equality and prosperity. Finally, we recommend that the reach-benefit-empower-transform framework be expanded to facilitate the evaluation of program/project-based studies.…”
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Territorial Intelligence: A collective opportunity for sustainable pastoral development and good rangeland governance in South Tunisia by Sghaier, Mariem, Frija, Aymen, Dhehibi, Boubaker, Fetoui, Mondher, Sghaier, Mongi

“…To this end, results show that the lack of communication between the main economic actors involved in the management of collective pastoral areas, the ominance of the local authorities on pastoral development program design, and the weak autonomy of community based organizations (CBO’s) are the main challenge factors which could enhance harmony between rangeland governance and pastoral development.…”
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Payments for environmental services: some nuts and bolts by Wunder, Sven

“…People facing credible but medium-sized environmental degradation are more likely to become PES recipients than those living in relative harmony with Nature. The choice between PES cash and in-kind payments is highly context-dependent. …”
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Food security, farming, and climate change to 2050: Scenarios, results, policy options by Nelson, Gerald C., Rosegrant, Mark W., Palazzo, Amanda, Gray, Ian, Ingersoll, Christina, Robertson, Richard D., Tokgoz, Simla, Zhu, Tingju, Sulser, Timothy B., Ringler, Claudia, Msangi, Siwa, You, Liangzhi

“…The food price spike of 2008, with its consequent food riots and resulting political changes in several countries, awoke the world’s leaders to the re-emergence of this threat to human well-being and social harmony. The excessive heat and drought in Russia that led to the 2010 wildfires and grain embargo, as well as the unprecedented floods in Pakistan, signal more trouble ahead. …”
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Ecosystem health and sustainable agricultural development in Ihemi cluster by Sirima, A., Kadigi, R.M.J., Kashaigili, Japhet J., Kamau, F., Sikira, A., Mbungu, W., Placid, J.K.

“…It is claimed that agriculture in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) is developed in harmony with the natural…”
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Making rangelands more secure in Cameroon: Lessons learned and recommendations for policy makers, development actors and pastoralists by Azuhnwi, B., Gidado, M.J., Nsoh, M.F., Ndamba, M., Flintan, Fiona E.

“…In recent years this harmony is being threatened by changing land use patterns, poor land use planning and poor recognition of ownership rights. …”
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Climate-informed agronomic advisories for maize in Colombia: Progress report for the Excellence in Agronomy (EiA) initiative Latin America Use Case by Diaz, Maria Victoria, Estrada, Oscar, Llanos, Lizeth, Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando

“…Recognizing the need to generate information to help make site-specific decisions based on traditional agronomic research, this study uses Machine Learning (ML) models and a Global Harmony Search (GHS) methodology to find an optimal solution to the combination of practices that a farmer could implement according to his soil and climate conditions specific to his land. …”
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Uteförskola by Andersson, Birgitta

“…Does the child get the opportunities to develop to healthy, safe, creative, mobile,concentrated, invention, curious, harmony child? Preschool outdoors is about time. …”
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Production objectives and selection criterions of three endemic ruminant breeds in The Gambia and Senegal by Garcia L., Ignacio P.

“…Generally, most of the farmer’s production objectives were in harmony with the selection criteria. However, a number of differences were noted. …”

Biological control of the cassava mealybug in Africa: a review by Neuenschwander, Peter

“…Other interventions, such as cultural methods or the use of resistant varieties, need to be in harmony with biological control because the impact of natural enemies cannot usually be manipulated by the farmer. …”
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Moving forward with the international undertaking: Legal mechanisms to alleviate mistrust by Bragdon, S. H., International Plant Genetic Resources Institute

“…The acrimony and distrust that characterized those discussions, and indeed much of the history of germplasm development and exchange, continues to influence the negotiations to revise the IU to bring it in harmony with the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). …”
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Toolkit for the indicators of resilience in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes by Bergamini, N., Dunbar, W., Eyzaguirre, Pablo B., Ichikawa, Kaoru, Matsumoto, I., Mijatović, Dunja, Morimoto, Y., Remple, N., Salvemini, D., Suzuki, W., Vernooy, Ronnie, United Nations University, Bioversity International, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, United Nations Environment Programme

“…By using the tested methods presented in this toolkit, communities can increase their capacity to respond to social, economic, and environmental pressures and shocks, to improve their environmental and economic conditions, thus increasing the social and ecological resilience of their landscapes and seascapes, and ultimately make progress towards realizing a society in harmony with nature. The approach presented here is centred on holding participatory “assessment workshops”. …”
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Rangelands and pastoralism of the Middle-East and North Africa, from reality to dream by Naghizadeh, Nadia, Badripour, Hossein, Louhaichi, Mounir, Gamoun, Mouldi, Niamir-Fuller, Maryam

“…They designed various policies that were not in harmony with pastoralists’ customary rules and norms and severely weakened their mutual aid associations and governance systems for natural resources management. …”
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Participatory measurement of norm transformation towards building inclusive agri-food systems: Evidence from Northern Ghana by Loriba, Agnes, Mohanraj, Pranati, Eliasu, Abdulai

“…The outcome mapping approach was applied, and progress markers were developed by men and women to describe gradual progression of changes in behavior leading to the ideal outcome of women’s empowerment in five categories: gender division of labor and workload sharing; intrahousehold negotiation, communication and decision-making; control of income, productive assets and resources; self-confidence, autonomy and leadership; and intimacy, and harmony in relationships. Qualitative data was collected through 16 focus group discussions in four GTA and four GAA villages. …”
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EcoFarm: To encourage agroecological farming practices by Samaddar, Ayan, Subrata, Saha

“…A thorough understanding of natural mechanisms is essential for agroecology, a complicated method of conducting agriculture in harmony with nature. Our current work has attempted to comprehend this by employing the 13 principles of agroecology as the standard framework for evaluating the performance and providing necessary guidance for selected farming systems. …”
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The efficiency of payments for environmental services in tropical conservation by Wunder, Sven

“…Actors who represent credible threats to the environment will more likely receive PES than those already living in harmony with nature. A PES scheme can thus benefit both buyers and sellers while improving the resource base, but it is unlikely to fully replace other conservation instrument…”
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