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Food security in rural Burkina Faso: The importance of consumption of own-farm sourced food versus purchased food by Fraval, Simon, Yameogo, Viviane, Ayantunde, Augustine A., Hammond, James, Boer, Imke J.M. de, Oosting, Simon J., Wijk, Mark T. van

“…Decades of policy designed to reverse the trends of food insecurity have illustrated that the causal pathways of intervention to end-point outcomes, such as nutrition, are not necessarily straightforward. …”
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Climate-smart agriculture is good for business: A framework for establishing the business case for climate-smart agriculture investments by Nowak, Andreea C., Steward, Peter R., Namoi, Nictor, Mayzelle, Megan, Kamau, Hannah N., Lamanna, Christine, Rosenstock, Todd S.

“…The framework focuses on the costs, benefits, and risks of adoption of CSA by smallholder farmers. We illustrate the application of the framework with two case studies in Kenya and Malawi to highlight opportunities, challenges, and lessons learned from building business cases for CSA. …”
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Participatory epidemiology: Principles, practice, utility, and lessons learnt by Alders, Robyn G., Ali, S.N., Ameri, A.A., Bagnol, B., Cooper, Tarni L., Gozali, A., Hidayat, M.M., Rukambile, E., Wong, J.T., Catley, A.

“…The article also provides illustrative examples highlighting the diversity of approaches and applications of PE, hallmarks of successful PE initiatives and the lessons we can learn when these are missing. …”
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Beyond fixes that fail: identifying sustainable improvements to tree seed supply and farmer participation in forest and landscape restoration by Valette, Michel, Vinceti, Barbara, Gregorio, Nestor, Bailey, Arwen, Thomas, Evert, Jalonen, Riina

“…Causal loop diagrams were constructed for each country, based on a framework of indicators of effective tree seed supply systems, literature review, semistructured interviews, and expert validation. The diagrams illustrate the complex interactions between planned interventions and their expected and unexpected effects that frequently lead to adverse outcomes. …”
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Benchmarking crop nitrogen requirements, nitrogen-use efficiencies and associated greenhouse gas mitigation potential: Methodology exploration for cereal production in sub-Saharan... by Hijbeek, Renske, Loon, Marloes P. van, Ittersum, Martin van, Berge, Hein F.M. ten

“…The proposed methodology is illustrated for cereal production (maize, wheat, rice, millet and sorghum) in ten countries in sub-Saharan Africa, under current and optimal nutrient management, for today and towards 2050. …”
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A framework for identifying country-specific MRV improvement needs in the livestock sector: Lessons from Kenya, Ethiopia and Nigeria by Wilkes, Andreas, Wassie, Shimels Eshete, Dijkman, Joroen

“…This working paper explains the steps and guiding questions in each phase of the assessment and provides illustrative examples based on supporting MRV improvement processes in Kenya and Ethiopia as part of the CCAFS’ Enhancing capacities for MRV of sustainable livestock actions in East Africa’ project. …”
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The effect of climate-smart agriculture on soil fertility, crop yield, and soil carbon in Southern Ethiopia by Tadesse, Meron, Simane, Belay, Abera, Wuletawu, Tamene, Lulseged D., Ambaw, Gebermedihin, Recha, John W.M., Mekonnen, Kindu, Demeke, Getamesay, Nigussie, Abebe, Solomon, Dawit

“…The time series Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) revealed higher soilmoisture content under CSA. The findings illustrated the substantial opportunity of integrating CSApractices to build climate change resilience of resource-poor farmers through improving crop yield,reducing nutrient depletion, and mitigating GHG emissions through soil carbon sequestratiom.…”
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Analysis of smallholders’ livelihood vulnerability to drought across agroecology and farm typology in the Upper Awash Sub-Basin, Ethiopia by Maru, H., Haileslassie, Amare, Zeleke, T., Esayas, B.

“…Results: The result illustrated a diverse magnitude of vulnerability index (VI) ranging from -1.956 to -4.253 for AEZ. …”
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PICT: A low-cost, modular, open-source camera trap system to study plant–insect interactions by Droissart, V., Azandi, L., Onguene, E.R., Savignac, M., Smith, T.B., Deblauwe, V.

“…Its ultra-portable (<1 kg) waterproof design and modular architecture is practical in diverse field settings. We provide an illustrated technical guide detailing the steps involved in building and operating a PICT and for video post-processing. …”
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Seasonal monitoring of Glossina species occurrence, infection rates, and Trypanosoma species infections in pigs in West Nile Region, Uganda by Maxamhud, S., Lindahl, Johanna F., Mugenyi, A., Echodu, R., Waiswa, C., Roesel, Kristina

“…Conclusion: This study illustrated the impact of a government control program with low vector abundance in a historical HAT hotspot in Uganda. …”
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Changing food systems and infectious disease risks in low-income and middle-income countries by Waage, Jeff, Grace, Delia, Fèvre, Eric M., McDermott, John J., Lines, J., Wieland, Barbara, Naylor, N.R., Hassell, James M., Chan, K.

“…The first is that greater investment in irrigation to improve national food security raises risks of vector-borne disease, which we illustrate with the case of malaria and rice in Africa. …”
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Hazard identification and characterization for quality control of biltong through application of appropriate microbiology and biotechnology methods by Zyl, E.L. van, McCrindle, C.M.E., Makita, K., Grace, Delia

“…Informal interviews and observations were used to construct a flow diagram illustrating the value chain for biltong. This has not previously been published. …”
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FR1.2: Is Women's Empowerment Bearing Fruit? Mapping Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) results to the Gender and Food Systems Framework by Myers, Emily, Heckert, Jessica, Faas, Simone, Malapit, Hazel J., Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Raghunathan, Kalyani, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…Most papers identified illustrate associative relationships; future research may investigate these relationships more deeply to determine causal relationships that drive desired food system outcomes. …”
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Mainstreaming biodiversity in forestry by Harrison, R.D., Shono, K., Gitz, V., Meybeck, A., Hofer, T., Wertz-Kanounnikoff, Shiela

“…This study is a collaboration between FAO and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), lead centre of the CGIAR research programme on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA). Illustrated by eight country case-studies, the report reviews progress and outlines the technical and policy tools available for countries and stakeholders, as well as the steps needed, to effectively mainstream biodiversity in forestry.…”
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Enhancing climate services design and implementation through gender-responsive evaluation by Gumucio, Tatiana, Hansen, James, Carr, Edward R., Huyer, Sophia, Chiputwa, Brian, Simelton, Elisabeth, Partey, Samuel T., Schwager, Saroja

“…We draw on case studies of rural climate services in Mali, Rwanda and Southeast Asia to illustrate how gender-responsive evaluations have framed and attempted to answer questions about climate information needs, access to information and support through group processes, and contribution of climate services to empowerment. …”
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Using Q-methodology to bridge different understandings on community forest management: lessons from the Peruvian Amazon by Sarmiento Barletti, J.P., Cronkleton, P., Heise Vigil, N.

“…Despite different viewpoints, the perspectives also revealed shared understanding of CFM as a mechanism that could emphasize both supporting community rights and conservation goals. This example illustrates how Q-methodology can generate information on the range of perceptions underlying broad strategies such as the promotion of CFM that can facilitate dialogue around shared pathways and agendas.…”
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The impact of climate change in cocoa production in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru by Castro, Fabio, Bunn, Christian

“…These data contain spatial information on agroclimatic zones for cocoa farming in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, as well as impact gradient layers that illustrate the effect that climate change might have on cocoa crops in the same three countries. …”
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Food biodiversity: Quantifying the unquantifiable in human diets by Hanley-Cook, Giles T., Daly, Aisling J., Remans, Roseline, Jones, Andrew D., Murray, Kris A., Huybrechts, Inge, Baets, Bernard de, Lachat, Carl

“…Ecological diversity indices are often used without justification through the lens of nutrition. To illustrate: (i) dietary species richness fails to account for the distribution of foods across the diet or their functional traits; (ii) evenness indices, such as the Gini-Simpson index, require widely accepted relative abundance units (e.g., kcal, g, cups) and evidence-based moderation weighting factors; and (iii) functional dissimilarity indices are constructed based on an arbitrary selection of distance measures, cutoff criteria, and number of phylogenetic, nutritional, and morphological traits. …”
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Integrating climate mitigation and environmental peacebuilding objectives through sustainable land use systems: Theory of change and indicators by Morales Muñoz, Héctor, Martens, Leigh, Löhr, Katharina, Bonatti, Michelle, Chará, Julián, Pérez Marulanda, Lisset, Sieber, Stefan, Castro-Nuñez, Augusto Carlos

“…Lastly, through a household survey (n = 929), we illustrated the impacts of SLUS in peacebuilding at the farm level. …”
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The role of ecosystem transpiration in creating alternate moisture regimes by influencing atmospheric moisture convergence by Makarieva, A.M., Nefiodov, A.V., Nobre, A.D., Baudena, M., Bardi, U., Sheil, D., Saleska, S.R., Molina, R.D., Rammig, A.

“…This previously unrecognized dichotomy can explain the otherwise mixed observations of how water yield responds to re-greening, as we illustrate with examples from China's Loess Plateau. …”
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