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Sweet or not: Nudging toward healthier food choices for children using information by Nguyen, Trang, de Brauw, Alan, Van den Berg, Marrit

“…More than 1200 primary school children were randomly assigned into three groups: control, health information, and health information plus hypocrisy inducement – a way to raise cognitive dissonance by illustrating the gap between what people know they should do (socially desired behaviors) and what they actually did (transgressions). …”
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Unmaking the commons: collective action, property rights, and resource appropriation among (agro-)pastoralists in eastern Ethiopia by Beyene, Fekadu, Korf, Benedikt

“…With regard to the conceptual framework presented in Chapter 2, this study illustrates how relationships between elements of the initial context and the action arena can lead to the emergence of patterns of interaction that have negative implications for the well-being of people, especially poorer, less powerful individuals in society.…”
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Integrated spatial modeling of fertilizer investment returns to guide strategic investments: Application of a spatial ex ante analytical framework to smallholder maize production i... by Chamberlin, Jordan, Bisrat Gebrekidan, Bonilla Cedrez, Camila M., Hijmans, Robert J., Silva, Joao Vasco, Oyakhilomen Oyinbo

“…A novel feature of our framework is the formal incorporation of stochastic production outcomes, which allows us to model the riskiness of returns. We illustrate the application of this framework with data on maize farming in Nigeria. …”
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Precision land leveling for sustainable rice production: case studies in Cambodia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, and India by Nguyen-Van-Hung, Balingbing, Carlito, Sandro, Joseph, Khandai, Suryakanta, Chea, Hong, Songmethakrit, Thanach, Meas, Pyseth, Hitzler, Gerald, Zwick, Walter, Viriyangkura, Ladda, Bautista, Elmer, Gummert, Martin

“…This research resulted in sustainable performance indicators to illustrate that LLL is a sustainable technology for rice production. …”
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Engagement des institutions et des parties prenantes dans la coproduction de services de conseil climatique à travers une communauté de pratiques pour l'élevage au Sénégal by Diallo, Abdoulaye Moussa, Houessionon, Prosper, Worou, Nadine, Chan, Derek

“…La CoP vise à renforcer la résilience des systèmes d'élevage face aux impacts du changement climatique en combinant expertises scientifiques, savoirs locaux et besoins des communautés rurales. Cette initiative illustre le rôle des partenariats multi-acteurs et des approches participatives dans le développement durable et la gestion des risques climatiques.…”
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Pentingnya sumberdaya alam bagi masyarakat lokal di daerah aliran sungai Mamberamo, Papua, dan implikasinya bagi konservasi by Boissiere, M., Heist, M. van, Sheil, Douglas, Basuki, I., Frazier, S., Ginting, U., Wan, M., Hariadi, B., Hariyadi, H., Kristianto, H.D., Bemei, J., Haruway, R., Marien, E.R.C., Koibur, D.P.H., Watopa, Y., Rachman, I., Liswanti, N.

“…What are the implications for conservation? This account illustrates some of the considerable information on the landscape and its resources, the main threats facing biodiversity, and local livelihoods gathered during our study. …”
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Payments of ecosystem services in Vietnam: market-based incentives or state control of resources. [Abstract only]. by Suhardiman, Diana, Wichelns, Dennis, Lestrelin, Guillaume

“…Taking Vietnam as our case study, we illustrate how PES programs are implemented within the context of a monopsonistic, non-competitive market. …”
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Eliminacion de virus y propagacion de clones en la yuca (Manihot esculenta Crantz) by Roca, W., Nolt, Barry L., Mafla, G., Roa E, Julio César, Reyes, R.

“…Several examples are given that illustrate that rehabilitation of regional cassava cv. is a strategy to produce cassava in the poorer regions of the tropics in the short term. …”
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Requerimiento de los elementos nutricionales en fríjol by Thung, M.

“…Graphics and tables illustrating the concepts discussed are included. (CIAT)…”
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Additional bacterial diseases by Mohan, S.K., Hagedorn, D.J.

“…The symptoms and damage caused by the disease are illustrated in color. A list of other bacteria pathogenic to beans is also included. …”
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When is a forest a forest? Forest concepts and definitions in the era of forest and landscape restoration by Chazdon, R.L., Brancalion, Pedro H.S., Laestadius, L., Bennett-Curry, A., Buckingham, K., Kumar, C., Moll-Rocek, J., Guimarães Vieira, I.C., Wilson, S.J.

“…We provide a framework to illustrate how different management objectives drive the relative importance of different aspects of forest state, dynamics, and landscape context.…”
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Identification of second instar larvae of thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) vectors of Orthotospovirus (Tospoviridae) in South America by Lima, Élison F.B., Silva, Larinne de M.R., Fontes, Lúcia da S., De Borbon, Carlos Manuel

“…Here, we present an identification tool for second instar larvae of the seven thrips species known to be Orthotospovirus vectors in South America – Frankliniella gemina, F. occidentalis, F. schultzei, F. zucchini, Scirtothrips dorsalis, Thrips palmi and T. tabaci. An illustrated key along with descriptions and comments on each of these species in the continent is provided.…”
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Potential Uses of Wild Germplasms of Grain Legumes for Crop Improvement by Muñoz, Nacira Belen, Ailin, Liu, Leo, Kan, Man-Wah, Li, Hon-Ming, Lam

“…Nevertheless, limited by severe genetic bottlenecks during domestication and human selection, grain legumes, like other crops, have suffered from a loss of genetic diversity which is essential for providing genetic materials for crop improvement programs. Illustrated by whole-genome-sequencing, wild relatives of crops adapted to various environments were shown to maintain high genetic diversity. …”
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Ett objekt by Sjölund, Leo

“…The thesis consists of analytically reflecting texts, selfmade photographic pictures, computer-based illustrations and one model.…”
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Möjligheter till uppfödning och utsättning av fasaner och gräsänder på Björnslunds gård by Gyllin, Markus

“…In the study there are calculations that illustrate the amount of birds that has to be slaughtered during a year to give economic winning of this project. …”
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Ex Situ conservation of plant genetic resources: Training module by Jaramillo, S., Baena, M.

“…It also includes bibliographic references and examples that illustrate how to move from theory to practice. By developing and making this material available to users, Bioversity International hopes to significantly contribute to the training of technicians in plant genetic resources, thereby making them more efficient in ex situ conservation and germplasm use.…”
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Quantitative trait loci mapping for resistance to maize streak virus in F2: 3 population of tropical maize by Garcia-Oliveira, A.L., Menkir, A., Kumar, P. Lava, Azuh, V., Jacob, O.O., Gedil, Melaku A

“…Moreover, the consistent appearance of QTL on chromosome 7 for MSVD resistance is illustrating the need for fine-mapping of this locus. …”
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Introduction to crop wild relatives by Volk, Gayle M., Khoury, Colin K., Greene, Stephanie L., Byrne, Patrick

“…Here, we provide information and illustrations about where food crops originated and we highlight the important work of the Russian Geneticist Dr. …”
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Development of Sustainable Business Models for Innovation in the Swedish Agri-sector: Resource-Effective Producer or Stewardship-Based Entrepreneur? by Ulvenblad, P.O.

“…To fill in this gap, the aim of this chapter is to illustrate and analyse how Swedish agri-companies develop sustainable business models. …”
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Sustainable surface water storage development pathways and acceptable limits for river basins by Eriyagama, Nishadi, Smakhtin, V., Udamulla, L.

“…Average pathways and conservative and maximum storage limits are illustrated for two example basins. Conservative and maximum withdrawal limits from storage are in the range of 45–50% and 60–65% of the mean annual runoff. …”
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