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Climate change adaptation options to inform planning of agriculture and food systems in The Gambia: A systematic approach for stocktaking by Segnon, Alcade C, Zougmoré, Robert B., Green, Rosemary, Ali, Zakari, Carr, Tony W, Houessionon, Prosper, M'boob, Sulayman, Scheelbeek, Pauline

“…In this paper, we presented a systematic approach for adaptation stocktaking, combining a systematic mapping and an outcome-oriented and evidence-based assessment, illustrated using the case of The Gambia. This study systematically mapped 24 adaptation options that can potentially inform adaptation planning in The Gambia agriculture and food systems and assessed how the identified options contribute to the pillars of Climate-Smart Agriculture. …”
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The economic costs of a multisectoral nutrition programme implemented through a credit platform in Bangladesh by Thai, Giang, Margolies, Amy, Gelli, Aulo, Kumar, Neha, Sultana, Nasrin, Choo, Esther, Levin, Carol

“…Costs per household compare favourably with similar interventions. Our results illustrate the value of a standardised costing approach for comparison with other multisectoral nutrition interventions.…”
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How we used APSIM to simulate conservation agriculture practices in the rice-wheat system of the Eastern Gangetic Plains by Chaki, Apurbo K., Gaydon, Donald S., Dalal, Ram C., Bellotti, William D., Gathala, Mahesh Kumar, Hossain, Akbar, Menzies, Neal W.

“…In addition to well-watered and fertilised treatments, the model was able to capture an observed crop failure in rainfed unpuddled transplanted rice accurately, illustrating an ability to capture crop response under a wide range of water stress environments. …”
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Impact of climate-smart agriculture adoption on food security and multidimensional poverty of rural farm households in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia by Ali, H., Menza, M., Hagos, Fitsum, Haileslassie, Amare

“…Results: Widely adopted CSA practices are conservation agriculture, soil fertility management, crop diversifcation, and small-scale irrigation. The results illustrated that adopter households on average showed more food consumption score, dietary diversity score, and less food insecurity experience scale than non-adopters. …”
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Impacts of a decadal drainage disturbance on surface–atmosphere fluxes of carbon dioxide in a permafrost ecosystem by Kittler, Fanny, Burjack, Ina, Corradi, Chiara A.R., Heimann, Martin, Kolle, Olaf, Merbold, Lutz, Zimov, Nikita, Zimov, Sergey, Göckede, Mathias

“…Application of a MODIS-based classification scheme to separate the growing season into four sub-seasons improved the interpretation of interannual variability by illustrating the systematic shifts in CO2 uptake patterns that have occurred in this ecosystem over the past 10 years and highlighting the important role of the late growing season for net CO2 flux budgets.…”
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Trade-off analyses of food loss and waste reduction and greenhouse gas emissions in food supply chains by Broeze, Jan, Guo, Xuezhen, Axmann, Heike

“…The net effect of such interventions (expressed in GHG emissions per unit of food available for consumption) is not obvious, as is illustrated in a number of case studies. We recommend that in the decision to take on FLW-reducing interventions, the trade-offs on sustainability impacts (such as GHG emissions) are taken into consideration. …”
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Spatial Tools for Inclusive Landscape Governance: Negotiating Land Use, Land-Cover Change, and Future Landscape Scenarios in Two Multistakeholder Platforms in Zambia by Siangulube, F.S., Ros-Tonen, M.A.F., Reed, J., Bayala, E.R.C., Sunderland, T.C.H.

“…However, in one MSP, stakeholders ultimately reached a compromise on a draft land-use map that was widely regarded as an entry point for further negotiations in Local Area Plans, while the other lacked consensus due to deep-seated social-cultural issues, such as social-class-based disagreements. This paper illustrates, first, that instead of focusing on the end product (participatory maps), understanding negotiation processes helps uncover why spatial tools may fail to achieve the intended purpose of reconciling land uses. …”
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An African perspective on the water-energy-food nexus by Simpson, G. B., Jewitt, G.P.W., Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe, Taguta, C., Badenhorst, J.

“…The results from the analysis were used to illustrate the opportunities and constraints for future development. …”
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Integrating Agroecology and One Health: A Path to Sustainable Food Systems and Improved Health by Tebourbi, Ons, Frija, Aymen, Alary, Veronique, Idoudi, Zied, Mannai, Amal, Rekik, Mourad

“…Adopting best agricultural practices and technologies can help achieve this. Some illustrative examples that highlight possible linkages of One Health to the agroecological approaches include embracing recycling and biodiversity to safeguard environmental health, reduce the reliance on chemical inputs, improve productivity and therefore reduce GHG emissions intensity, help combat resistance to antibiotics, antiparasitic, antivirals and antifungals, and enhance food safety. …”
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Farming cattle in the tropics: Transnational science and industrializing pastures in Brazil by Nehring, Ryan

“…One of the key conclusions of this article is that perspectives from the margins can be illustrative of how seemingly unimportant research (forage grass breeding) can have massive consequences as part of a broader socio-environmental system.…”
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A case of transdisciplinarity and collaborative decision making: the co-construction of Gendered Food Product Profiles by Forsythe, L., Olaosebikan, O., Teeken, B., Newilah, G.N., Mayanja, S., Nanyonjo, A.R., Iragaba, P., Okoye, B., Marimo, P., Akankwasa, K., Adinsi, L., Kendine, C., Sounkoura, A., Tinyiro, S.E., Bouniol, A., Dufour, D.L., Akissoé, N.H., Madu, T.

“…This article reviews application of the methodology in 14 GFPPs, presents illustrative case studies and lessons learned. Key lessons are that the transdisciplinary structure and the key role of social scientists helped avoid reductionism, supported co‐learning, and the creation of GFPPs that represented the diverse interests of food system actors, particularly women, in situ. …”
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Interventions for inclusive and efficient value chains: Insights from CGIAR research by de Brauw, Alan, Bulte, Erwin

“…In this brief, we summarize studies on five types of value chain interventions that were supported by the CGIAR’s Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) through its Flagship 3 on Inclusive and Effective Value Chains. Figure 1 illustrates a “typical” agricultural value chain, including the five intervention types (in orange). …”
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Combining approaches for systemic behaviour change in groundwater governance by Sanil, Richu, Falk, Thomas, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Priyadarshini, Pratiti

“…By combining local and systemic approaches, the aim is to influence water governance on a larger scale and contribute to the sustainable management of water resources in India. Our reflections illustrate how conceptual thinking can inform multi-methods approaches which consider that sustainably improving groundwater management at large scale requires inter-linked behavioural changes of diverse actors. …”
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Food Policy Research Capacity Indicators (FPRCI), 2010-2019 by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…To obtain an indicator of per capita food policy research capacity, this research capacity is then divided by the country’s rural population (full-time equivalent researchers per million rural residents). This helps to illustrate the impact of local food policy research in a country. …”
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Climate change impacts on agriculture in 2050 under a range of plausible socioeconomic and emissions scenarios by Wiebe, Keith D., Lotze-Campen, Herman, Sands, Ronald D., Tabeau, Andrzej, van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique, Biewald, Anne, Bodirsky, Benjamin, Islam, Shahnila, Kavallari, Aikaterini, Mason-D’Croz, Daniel, Müller, Christoph, Popp, Alexander, Robertson, Richard D., Robinson, Sherman, van Meijl, Hans, Willenbockel, Dirk

“…Projected reductions in agricultural yields due to climate change by 2050 are larger for some crops than those estimated for the past half century, but smaller than projected increases to 2050 due to rising demand and intrinsic productivity growth. Results illustrate the sensitivity of climate change impacts to differences in socioeconomic and emissions pathways. …”
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Scoping review on gender-disaggregated data in climate-smart agriculture by Wright, Peter, Deering, Karl, Tasew, Abinet, Smith, Emma, Miruka, Maureen, Mohanraj, Pranati, Swira, Henry

“…However, there has been no commitment to specific actions and measurement systems that would track progress, illustrating the lack of expectation and ambition for advancing gender equality within CSA.…”
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Measuring food security using household expenditure surveys by Smith, Lisa C., Subandoro, Ali

“…The guide then leads the practitioner through the steps of collecting the data, processing and cleaning the data, and calculating the indicators. It concludes by illustrating how to conduct some basic food security analyses. …”
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A system readiness approach to support the packaging and scaling of innovation bundles for farming systems transformation by Frija, Aymen

“…It also focuses on the specific literature on innovation packaging for scaling and builds on the gaps of existing approaches as a rationale for introducing the concept of system readiness (mostly used in infrastructure engineering) and adapting it to agricultural science. We also use illustrative hypothetical examples from mixed crop-livestock systems in the drylands to show how two approaches – ‘packaging for scaling’ and ‘packaging for transformation’ – can lead to different innovation packages. …”
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Water, women, and local social organization in the Western Kenya highlands by Were, Elizabeth, Swallow, Brent M., Roy, Jessica

“…The experience of this community also illustrates some of the challenges that must be faced for a community to effectively self-organize the investment and maintenance of a communitybased water scheme. …”
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Mapping the likelihood of introduction and spread of HPAI Virus H5N1 in Indonesia using multicriteria decision modelling by de Glanville, Will, Stevens, Kim, Costard, Solenne, Métras, Raphaëlle, Pfeiffer, Dirk

“…This report details the methods used to produce risk maps illustrating the risk of spread of HPAIV in Indonesia. …”
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