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Mali's white revolution: smallholder cotton from 1960 to 2003 por Tefft, James

“…Given obvious spillovers of agroclimatic zones across contiguous African countries, this model of regional collaboration in research and marketing illustrates key benefits that could be applied to many other agricultural commodities-bananas, cassava, maize, beans, and livestock, for example.…”
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How productive is infrastructure? new approach and evidence from rural India por Zhang, Xiaobo, Fan, Shenggen

“…Second, a new method of estimating the relationship between the capital stock and productivity in level form is proposed that controls for possible endogeneity problems arising from reverse causation. These methods are illustrated using a unique set of pooled time-series, cross-section data for India. …”
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The role of trees for sustainable management of less-favored lands: the case of eucalyptus in Ethiopia por Jagger, Pamela, Pender, John L.

“…Ex ante benefit-cost analysis based on community level survey data from Tigray illustrates that under most conditions planting eucalyptus trees yields high rates of return, well above 20% under most circumstances. …”
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Seedling Stage Drought Response in Rice por O'Toole, J.C., Aquino, R.S., Alluri, K.

“…A wide spectrum of seedling survival percentages was found among the 206 rice cultivars screened by this method. The technique illustrated its capability to identify well‐adapted, traditional cultivars from areas where seedling stage drought is a chronic problem. …”
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Valdating and scaling opportunistic grazing and the Sustainable Rangeland Management Toolkit in Tunisia por Louhaichi, Mounir, Hassan, Sawsan, Belgacem, Azaiez Ouled

“…By doing so, they have provided considerable support to ongoing technical and policy development, and implementation. This brief illustrates how initiative science was used to address rangeland degradation and support policy change in Tunisia by following two outcome pathways. …”
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Does An Innovation’s Reach Reveal Anything About Its Impact? Under The Right Conditions: Possibly por Brooks, Matt, Lybbert, Travis J., Walker, Madeleine

“…It is motivated by the mandate of the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA) of the CGIAR and draws on SPIA country studies, which explicitly focus on measuring the reach of CGIAR innovations, to illustrate the possibilities and pitfalls of using reach to infer impact. …”
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Introduction to species digests por Doran, J.C., Turnbull, J.W., Martensz, P.N., Thomson, L.A.J., Hall, N.

“…Each of 112 major species is illustrated with a colour photograph, a distribution map showing its natural occurrence and is supplemented by detailed information on botanical features, natural occurrence, ecological conditions, utilisation, silvicultural features, pests and diseases, limitations and related species. …”
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Social Network Analysis For The Evaluation Of Development Interventions: A Methods Note por Anand, Shweta, Carneiro, Bia

“…By examining case studies, the note illustrates how SNA helps assess stakeholder relationships, track information flows, and analyze network structures. …”
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Who counts most? assessing human well-being in sustainable forest management por Colfer, C.J.P., Prabhu, Ravi, Günter, M., McDougall, C., Porro, N.M.

“…Building on the work carried out by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) on criteria and indicators, they present three illustrative sets of stakeholders, from Indonesia, Côte d’Ivoire and the United States, and Who Counts Matrices from seven trials, in an appendix.…”
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Forest cover and agricultural technology por Angelsen, A., Kaimowitz, D.

“…Several empirical studies are used to illustrate the importance of these factors. While new technologies in frontier agriculture often stimulate forest clearing, conditions and technologies for "win-win" outcomes also exist or can be created by appropriate policies.…”
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Nature, wealth, and power: emerging best practice for revitalizing rural Africa por United States Agency for International Development

“…The three case studies presented: Namibia, Madagascar, and Mali illustrate the effectiveness of the integration of all three dimensions and the various principles and actions recommended under each dimension.…”
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The emergence, persistence and current challenges of coffee forest gardens: A case study from Candelaria Loxicha, Oaxaca, Mexico por Aguilar-Støen, M., Angelsen, A., Stølen, K., Moe, S.R.

“…The article further illustrates how the international coffee agreement and social-welfare programs supported the emergence of forest gardens. …”
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Of cecropias, snarks and boojums por Sheil, Douglas, Padmanaba, M.

“…We successfully characterised the local distribution of Cecropia and identified, addressed and illustrated various concerns. Based on these results we asked how such studies might be useful and how they could be improved. …”
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The multiple burdens of zoonotic disease and an ecohealth approach to their assessment por Grace, Delia, Gilbert, Jeffrey, Randolph, Thomas F., Kang'ethe, Erastus K.

“…We also discuss how ecohealth concepts of transdisciplinarity, participation and equity can help in assessing the importance of zoonoses in developing countries and illustrate these with an example of assessing milk-borne disease.…”
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Pastoral dairy marketing and household wealth interactions and their implications for calves and humans in Ethiopia por Holden, S.J., Coppock, D. Layne, Assefa, M.

“…Significant main effects are shown in Table I and illustrate that: 1. poorer families reported a high rate of milk offtake, 2. the higher-producing cows were reportedly milked intensively, and 3. milk offtake gradually increased over all wealth strata as distance to market decreased.…”
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Mixed models and multilevel data structures in agriculture por Allan, E., Rowlands, G.J.

“…The purpose of this guide book is to review the general concepts of mixed models. The document illustrates by example how to recognise the structure in the data and how to fit and interpret a mixed model analysis. …”
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The SmartAG partner: CCAFS East Africa quarterly newsletter, October–December 2013 por CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…Also, find out more about the characteristics of sites where we work, from maps that illustrate climate variability in CCAFS regions. From the field, we update you about the visit with the World Bank team to the CCAFS climate smart villages in Nyando, Kenya. …”
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Community based approach to on-farm conservation and sustainable use of agricultural biodiversity in Asia por Sthapit, B.R., Subedi, A., Jarvis, D., Lamers, H., Rao, V.R., Reddy, B.M.C.

“…The paper discusses challenges of implementation of the on-farm conservation, despite significant support from the global scientific as well as civil society agencies, as the preferred method of conservation. Illustrating the insights obtained from three research case studies on crops and fruits of donor funded on-farm initiatives in Nepal and India and South East Asia, the paper aims to highlight the role and importance of community involvement for on-farm conservation of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA). …”
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Improved planning of large dam operation: Using decision support systems to optimize livelihood benefits, safeguard health and protect the environment por McCartney, Matthew P.

“…The project highlighted the importance of considering environmental and social (including health) issues in dam planning and operation and illustrated how contemporary Decision Support Systems can be used to assist decision making processes. …”
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Conceptualising context in institutional reforms of land and natural resource management: the case of Vietnam por Clement, Floriane, Amezaga, Jaime M.

“…We defend a systematic analysis of context, distinguishing between contextual factors affecting the fitness to local socio-ecological conditions and contextual factors that mobilise power such as political-economic interests and prevailing discourses. We illustrate our argument with empirical research on land-tenure reforms that have been implemented since the 1980s in northern Vietnam. …”
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