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Community forestry in Cameroon: opportunity or constraint for REDD+? by Bele, M.Y., Sonwa, D.J., Tiani, A.M.

“…As such, REDD+ will likely to be more successful if it builds on lessons learned from community forestry. This paper demonstrates how REDD+ is more likely to succeed if it builds on the lessons learned from community forestry over the past 20-plus years in Cameroon. …”
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Rural water supply systems in Nepal: factors affecting equitable access to water by Raut, M., Rajouria, Alok

“…The paper argues that achieving gender and social inclusion in community water management requires going beyond the implementation of prescribed quotas for women and under represented minority groups. Our learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic highlight the importance of equitable access to safe water and emphasise how low-income households are at higher risk of contracting the virus through shared water infrastructures. …”
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Synthesis Report of Workshop on Assessing the Impact of Policy-oriented Social Science Research in Scheveningen, The Netherlands November 12-13, 2001 by Ryan, James G.

“…Because much remains to be learned about evaluating the impact of policy-oriented social science research, the workshop participants concluded that IFPRI should take the lead in developing a consortium to help improve interdisciplinary methods of assessing impact. …”
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How are we doing? A tool to reflect on the process, progress and priorities of your multi-stakeholder forum by Sarmiento Barletti, Juan Pablo, Larson, Anne M., Cisneros, Natalia, Heise, Nicole, Liswanti, Nining, Mariño, Harlem, Tamara, Ade

“…The purpose of this reflection is to learn from the past, consider progress and obstacles to further progress, and collectively plan how to achieve the MSF’s goals in the future…”
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Is research for development a good investment? Reflections on lessons from the NBDC by Merrey, Douglas J.

“…It is time for a critical review of the lessons learned from the investments in R4D, particularly as it is being adopted as the underlying theory of the new CGIAR Research Programs. …”
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From Market Demand to Breeding Decisions: A Framework by Ragot, Michel, Bonierbale, Merideth W., Weltzien, Eva

“…We summarize lessons learned and suggest effective approaches and tools for implementation. …”
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Avances y experiencias aprendidas en la implementación del modelo de cogestión de cuencas hidrográficas en la microcuenca del río La Soledad, Valle de Ángeles, Honduras by Speer Laínez, W.R.

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En terapiträdgård bortom Atlanten by Dickson, Linnéa

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Creative motivation by Krikström, Johan, Lundenius, Christer

“…RESULT Motivation and inspiration origins from a field of infinite sources and it is important as a landscape architect to actively engage in the creative process and that it is beneficial to learn about one’s personal inspiration and motivation. …”
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Joining forces to strengthen community seedbanks worldwide by Vernooy, Ronnie, Clancy, Evelyn, Diulgheroff, S., Furman, B, González Santos, R., Kajtna, B., Marino, M., Mushita, A., Shrestha, P., Song, Y., Egon Sosinski, E., Subedi, A., Villacorta, J.

“…This brief presents achievements, challenges, lessons learned and new opportunities in their countries and reflects on prospects of community seedbanks and their networks.…”
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Integrating gender into index-based agricultural insurance: a focus on South Africa by Born, Lorna, Spillane, Charles, Murray, Una

“…While uptake and scale-out of index insurance may be slow among smallholders, we can learn from experiences that demonstrate where crop insurance can protect smallholders’ livelihoods from climate risk. …”
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Conserving agricultural biodiversity in situ : a scientific basis for sustainable agriculture by Jarvis, D., Sthapit, B., Sears, L., International Cocoa Organization, Common Fund for Commodities, International Plant Genetic Resources Institute

“…The purpose of the third annual planning meeting was for the national project partners of the project ”Strengthening the Scientific Basis of in situ Conservation of Agricultural Biodiversity” who have started data collection, together with technical advisers, IPGRI staff and relevant donors to: · compare and critique data collected by participating countries; · discuss methodologies for data integration within and among thematic areas; · synthesize methods used to enhance benefits from local crop diversity to all stakeholders;· discuss progress in increasing access, participation and decision-making for different gender, age and cultural groups; · discuss documentation options for in situ conservation on-farm; · share lessons learned to date from project implementation.…”
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Phenotype Ontologies Traversing All the Organisms (POTATO) workshop: 2nd edition. by Matentzoglu, N, Balhoff, J.P., Bello, S.M., Bradford, Y.M., Carmody, L.C., Cooper, Laurel D., Laporte, Marie-Angélique

“…The central purpose of this workshop was to bring together users and developers of phenotype ontologies and to provide them with a forum to share, learn and debate. The second edition of the workshop further aimed to address two of the fundamental bottlenecks identified in the course of these community efforts: (1) The Phenotype And Trait Ontology (PATO), an essential driver of inference in phenotype ontologies, has limitations that can make it hard to understand and use in defining phenotypes. …”
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ILRI and One Health - How we will prevent future pandemics by International Livestock Research Institute

“…Read about this session: https://www.ilri.org/news/covid-19-de... Learn more about ILRI's work in One Health at http://ilri.org/zoonoses…”
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Development of a cassava seed certification system in Tanzania: Evaluation of CGIAR contributions to a policy outcome trajectory by Douthwaite, Boru

“…The purpose of this case study is to generate evidence and lessons learned on the contributions of CGIAR to stimulate policy changes to create an enabling environment for agri-food systems innovation by pursuing four objectives: 1. …”
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Assessing the Impact of 10 years of FTA Research: a synthesis of the 5 integrated impact studies by Coccia, Federica, Rouge, J-C., Claus, R., Davel, R., Hughes, K., Pinto, D., Gotor, Elisabetta, Jones, S., Thuerer, T., Rachman, R., Wakesho, G., Nijbroek, R., Saigenji, Y., Mausch, K., Woldeyohanes, T., Kimaiyo, J., Kozicka, M., Wiederkehr Guerra, Gabriela Patricia, Belcher, B., Meybeck, A., Gitz, V.

“…These studies had the following purposes: (i) to design a workable approach and operational method to assess impacts at scale at the level of the FTA program, since 2011; (ii) to deploy the method effectively on a set of five identified development challenges addressed by FTA; (iii) to learn lessons from the exercise for FTA post 2021. …”
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The role of demand in the agroecological transition: an analysis of recent literature by Blare, T., Roman, S., Pozo Loayza, C. del, Borja, R.M., Oyarzún, P., Alem Zabalaga, M.

“…We explore what lessons have been learned in understanding consumer interest in products with AE attributes and how demand for AE products has helped spur or hinder the AE transition. …”
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Six big ideas to advance food systems resilience in Nigeria: Bringing CGIAR Initiatives together to foster collaboration and policy coherence by Kosec, Katrina, Kyle, Jordan, Anisimova, Evgeniya, Carrillo, Lucia, Onilogbo, Omobolanle

“…Together, workshop participants learned about results from cutting-edge research and identified evidence gaps and possibilities for new collaborations to fill those gaps.…”
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Development of the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) by Malapit, Hazel J., Quisumbing, Agnes R., Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Seymour, Greg, Martinez, Elena M., Heckert, Jessica, Rubin, Deborah, Vaz, Ana, Yount, Kathryn M., Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2) Study Team, Myers, Emily, Pereira, Audrey, Hannan, Anika, James-Hawkins, Laurie, Kim, Sunny S., Roy, Shalini, Elias, Marlène, Mulema, Annet, Cheong, Yuk Fai, Doss, Cheryl, Maxwell, Lauren, Ahmed, Akhter, Masuma Younus, de Brauw, Alan, Dey, Amita, Kramer, Berber, Crookston, Benjamin, Gash, Megan, Gray, Bobbi, Schreinemachers, Pepijn, Sobgui, Caroline, Janzen, Sarah, Joshi, Neena, Magnan, Nicholas, Pradhan, Rajendra, Sharma, Sudhindra, Theis, Sophie, Bellemare, Marc, Casier, Bart, James, Susan, Krause, Brooke, Lardinois, Mathias, McCarthy, Aine, Gabrysch, Sabine, Sinharoy, Sheela, Waid, Jillian, Wendt, Amanda, Gelli, Aulo, Hidrobo, Melissa, Zougouri, Sita, Alonso, Silvia, Galiè, Alessandra, Kakota, Tasokwa, Leroy, Jef L., Palloni, Giordano, Bryan, Elizabeth, Kiger, Brian, Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework, Miah, Mamun, Siraj, Saiqa, Alemu, Mihret, Boonabaana, Brenda, Kaaria, Susan, Vanya Slavchevska, Erdgin Mane, Choudhury, Avijit, Kumar, Neha, Raghunathan, Kalyani

“…With growing commitment to women’s empowerment by agricultural development agencies, sound methods and indicators to measure women’s empowerment are needed to learn which types of projects or project-implementation strategies do and do not work to empower women. …”
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Senegal country brief by Kampman, Haile, Park, Seollee, Rawat, Rahul, Becquey, Elodie, Zongrone, Amanda

“…The hope is that by identifying the factors which contributed to this positive change, the nutrition community can learn from the successes and challenges of Senegal’s story of change in nutrition. …”
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