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Cattle ranching in Colombia: A monolithic industry? by Campuzano, Lorena, Triana Ángel, Natalia, Burkart, Stefan

“…Departing from new scholarship that has questioned the idea that cattle ranching has been only a land-grabbing strategy dominated by few elites, this article focuses on the adoption of improved pastures and the role of key institutions such as the CIAT on the transformation of practices and the shortcomings of technification. …”
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Rapid inclusivity assessment for digital agriculture services by Steinke, Jonathan, Schumann, Charlotte

“…The tool then supports them in generating ideas towards improving the inclusivity of their digital agriculture service. …”
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Pitching gender responsive agricultural solutions to science editors by Metcalfe, Jennifer

“…After the panel, participants will have an opportunity to pitch their story ideas (focused on gender-responsive agricultural research and impacts of that research) and gain feedback in small-group clinics. …”
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West Africa’s data story: The availability of actionable nutrition data by Diatta, Dieynab, Billings, Lucy, Verstraeten, Roosmarijn

“…The 2014 Global Nutrition Report promulgated the idea of a data revolution at a point when many countries did not have such data available. …”
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Ending the food box program was the right move by Glauber, Joseph W.

“…The food box program was created during the early phase of the pandemic when processing bottlenecks caused by lockdowns and COVID-19 outbreaks had upended the food distribution program in the U.S. and put millions out of work. The idea of the Food Box program was to purchase food from farmers who were having trouble marketing their produce, dairy products and other perishable items to needy families affected by the pandemic. …”
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Rural and urban dynamics and poverty: Evidence from China and India by Fan, Shenggen, Chan-Kang, Connie, Mukherjee, Anit

“…Other studies also support the idea presented here that correcting this imbalance will not only contribute to higher rural growth, but also secure future urban growth (Fan and Chan-Kang 2005). …”
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Social capital and the reproduction of economic inequality in polarized societies by Mogues, Tewodaj, Carter, Michael R.

“…This paper explores the idea of how wealth is distributed across social groups (ethnic or language groups, gender, etc.) and how such distribution fundamentally affects the evolution of economic inequality. …”
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An approach for improving the sampling efficiency in the Bayesian calibration of computationally expensive simulation models by Xie, Hua, Eheart, J. Wayland, Chen, Yuguo, Bailey, Barbara A.

“…A multiple‐try Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm is designed to implement this idea and is benchmarked with the Metropolis‐Hastings algorithm, a basic recipe for MCMC sampling. …”
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Applying innovation system concepts in agricultural research for development: a learning module by Anandajayasekeram, P., Puskur, Ranjitha, Zerfu, E.

“…Users can pick and choose the sessions/idea/tools/concepts that are most relevant and appropriate in specific contexts and for specific purposes. …”
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Does increasing the availability of a nutritious food produced by a small- and medium-sized enterprise increase its consumption? Evidence from a field experiment in Kenya by Maredia, Mywish K., Porter, Maria, Nakasone, Eduardo, Ortega, David L., Caputo, Vincenzina

“…Many development programs rely on the idea that increasing profitability of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) could increase availability of nutritious foods among low-income consumers. …”
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Conservation and development in Amazonian extractive reserves: the case of Alto Jurua by Ruíz Pérez, M., Almeida, M., Dewi, S., Costa, E.M.L., Pantoja, M.C., Puntodewo, A., Postigo, A.A., Andrade, A.G. de

“…Extractive reserves constitute an innovative approach to match conservation and development objectives, which were originally envisaged as part of a land struggle by forest dwellers in Brazil. In spite of the idea’s popularity and the attempts to apply the concept to different tropical regions, there has been little analysis of the combined conservation and development performance of extractive reserve programs. …”
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Core components of the international forest regime complex by Angelsen, A., Appelstrand, M., Assembe-Mvondo, Samuel, Auld, G., Hogl, K., Humphreys, D., Wildburger, C.

“…It is proposed that the coordination of and cooperation between the representatives of forest and non-forest users be strengthened at the national, regional and international levels, under the shared overarching idea of sustainable forest management, by means of ‘forests+’ policies. …”
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REDD+and community-controlled forests in low-income countries: Any hope for a linkage? by Bluffstone, R., Robinson, E., Guthiga, Paul M.

“…Deforestation and forest degradation are estimated to account for between 12% and 20% of annual greenhouse gas emissions and in the 1990s (largely in the developing world) released about 5.8 Gt per year, which was bigger than all forms of transport combined. The idea behind REDD + is that payments for sequestering carbon can tip the economic balance away from loss of forests and in the process yield climate benefits. …”
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Index insurance for managing climate-related agricultural risk: toward a strategic research agenda by Nicola, F. de, Hill, Ruth Vargas, Carter, M., Choularton, R., Hansen, James, Osgood, D.

“…The workshop took as its starting point the idea that there is large potential in using indices to insure smallholder farmers. …”
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Identifying areas for field conservation of forages in Latin American disturbed environments by Peters, Michael, Hyman, Glenn G., Jones, Peter G.

“…This paper uses the spatial analysis tools DIVA and FloraMap to identify potential areas for the in situ conservation of a set of 10 forage species. We introduce the idea of roadside verges as conservation areas and discuss the risks and opportunities of two potential scenarios for conservation. …”
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Spatial variation of crop yield response to climate change in East Africa by Thornton, Philip K., Jones, Peter G., Alagarswamy, G., Andresen, J.

“…The results argue strongly against the idea of large, spatially contiguous development domains for identifying and implementing adaptation options, particularly in regions with large variations in topography and current average temperatures. …”
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Irrigation development in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: towards polycentric water governance? by Hoanh, Chu Thai, Suhardiman, Diana, Anh, L.T.

“…This article looks at Vietnam’s irrigation policy formulation processes in the last three and half decades in relation to the idea of polycentric governance. It discusses the current shortcomings and potential role of polycentric governance networks to capture stakeholders’ interests at multiple governance levels essential for future policy development. …”
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Emergence, interpretations and translations of IWRM [Integrated Water Resources Management] in South Africa by Movik, S., Mehta, L., van Koppen, Barbara

“…South Africa is often regarded to be at the forefront of water reform, based on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) ideas. This paper explores how the idea of IWRM emerged in South Africa, its key debates and interpretations and how it has been translated. …”
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REDD+ as Result-based Aid: General Lessons and Bilateral Agreements of Norway by Angelsen, A.

“…At that time, REDD+ was an idea regarding payment to countries (and possibly also projects) for reducing emission from forests, with funding primarily from carbon markets. …”
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The politics of river basin planning and state transformation processes in Nepal by Suhardiman, Diana, Bastakoti, Ram C., Karki, Emma, Bharati, Luna

“…Since the late 1990s, river basin planning has become a central idea in water resources management and a mainstream approach supported by international donors through their water programs globally. …”
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