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Bridging evidence and policy (BEP) seminar series: Crises and response – development and humanitarian in the MENA by Abdelfattah, Lina Alaaeldin, Jovanovic, Nina

“…With this objective in mind, the “Crises And Response: Development & Humanitarian Aid in Middle East & North Africa (MENA)” seminar was held on March 26, 2024, focusing on the developmental work and recent, novel practices in response to and recovery from crises. …”
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Economic liberalisation targeted programmes and household food security: a case study of India by Dev, S. Mahendra, Ravi, C., Viswanathan, Brinda

“…The purpose is to determine how these programs may be improved and propose appropriate policy options for reform, while also keeping in mind the new challenges that might lie ahead. Specifically, the study evaluates the Public Distribution System (PDS), Public Works Programs, and certain food-based direct intervention programs such as the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) and Tamil Nadu Integrated Nutrition Program (TINP), with a view to suggest how they can be made more cost effectiveness and better targeted. -- From Author's Executive Summary…”
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Pay it forward: Impacts of a rural livelihoods program with built-in spillovers by Janzen, Sarah A., Magnan, Nicholas, Sharma, Sudhindra, Thompson, William M.

“…With this encouragement in mind, the study is uniquely designed to evaluate the program’s ability to generate intentional spillover (PIF) effects. …”
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Lessons from forest decentralization: money, justice and the quest for good governance in Asia-Pacific. by Colfer, C.J.P., Dahal, G.R., Capistrano, D.

“…With these overarching themes in mind, the authors take on many controversial topics and address practical challenges related to financing and reinvestment in sustainable forest management under decentralized governance. …”
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Participation intention of activity-oriented program of local residents of rural and mountain villages: policy implication for the eco-mountain village project by Lee, Dukjae, Kim, Jong-Ho, Jeon, Jun-Heon

“…Participation intention also increased with the indirect effects of an investment by the Village Development Project, such as local cooperativeness, public mind, etc. It was suggested that to introduce the activity-oriented program in mountain villages, negative effects from the results had to be minimized, and positive effects from the indirect changes between local residents had to be maximized through better communication and policy endeavors.…”
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Adapting Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) to Local Contexts in REDD+: Lessons from Three Experiments in Vietnam by Pham Thu Thuy, Castella, J.C., Lestrelin, Guillaume, Mertz, O., Le, D.N., Moeliono, M., Nguyen Quang Tan, Vu, T.H., Nguyen, D.T.

“…Second, FPIC activities should be seen as a learning process and designed based on local needs and preferences, with accountability of facilitators, two-way and multiple communication strategies, flexibility, and collective action in mind.…”
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Human interaction in the Swedish biogas sector : an arena for change by Smith, Steven

“…This theoretical-empirical framework (created through the two forms of inquiry) was established through a somewhat interdependent process; that is, the underlying theoretical framework was used as a reference point from which to conduct the empirical inquiry, while the theory itself was derived with empirical results and observations in mind. As such, each form of inquiry served to support and complement the other. …”

Game, set, city - a search for small scale urbanity by Lidén, Ola

“…It should be noted that while parts of the work are developed with nordic conditions in mind, most of it should be applicable to other climate zones as well. …”

Metodutveckling för planering och genomförande av dikesrensning med moderna metoder by Hammar, John

“…In Sweden, we have a limited area available, and with the present development with increasing market oil prices, and enormous forces on the renewable energy sources, we need every hectare possible to protect the output of the forests. So with this in mind, many people are now considering how to increase the production of the forests that are already available. …”

The water efficient Landscape by Rayno, Valerie

“…Water-­‐efficient gardening is the practice of landscaping with water conservation in mind. It includes xeriscaping and the idea of grouping plant material based on their water requirements, using plants that are well suited to the site conditions and require no supplemental irrigation, and increasing a soil’s absorption rate and water retention. …”
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Sustainable Agricultural Productivity Growth and Bridging the Gap for Small-Family Farms: Interagency Report to the Mexican G20 Presidency by Bioversity International, CGIAR Consortium Office, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, International Fund for Agricultural Development, International Food Policy Research Institute, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Coordination team of UN High Level Task Force on the Food Security Crisis, World Food Programme, World Bank, World Trade Organization

“…They "agree(d) to further invest in agriculture, in particular in the poorest countries, and bearing in mind the importance of smallholders, through responsible public and private investment," they "decide(d) to invest in research and development of agricultural productivity. …”
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1980 CGIAR Integrative Report by CGIAR Secretariat

“…With the impending CGIAR System Review in mind, the first section of the report discusses the role of the CGIAR in the overall context of research directed at improving agriculture in the developing countries. …”
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Hunger and poverty: the role of biodiversity: Report of an International Consultation on the Role of Biodiversity in Achieving the UN Millennium Development Goal of Freedom from Hu... by Bala Ravi, S., Hoeschle-Zeledon, I., Swaminathan, M.S., Frison, Emile A.

“…Therefore, the dietary diversity approach is really the main way forward. We must bear in mind that the right to food is the right to 'good' or 'adequate' food. …”
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Molecular tools in plant genetic resources conservation: A guide to the technologies by Karp, A., Kresovich, Stephen, Bhat, K.V., Ayad, W.G., Hodgkin, T., International Plant Genetic Resources Institute

“…Rather, it is a broad survey of the main features of the different techniques and of the factors that conservation workers should bear in mind when initiating a molecular genetic based investigation.…”
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Developing gender-transformative innovation packages for sustainable intensification: The case of maize leaf stripping in northern Ghana by Fischer, Gundula, Jimah, Kipo, Mumuni, E., Abdul Rahman, Nurudeen, Glover, F., Weseh, A.

“…An important conclusion is that assessments of both social and technical components of interventions must be more consciously designed in transdisciplinary processes—with equitable arrangements in mind.…”
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The high social and environmental costs of food in Kenya detailed in new research by Kibui, Rachel

“…The mention of food costs brings to mind the prices consumers pay, along with expenses producers have for seeds, labor, transport, and others. …”
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Economic crisis, small-scale agriculture, and forest cover change in Southern Cameroon by Sunderlin, William D., Ndoye, O., Bikie, H., Laporte, N., Mertens, B., Pokam, J.

“…Such policies, even though they are often not formulated with natural resource consequences in mind, are often of greater relevance to the fate of forests than forest policy…”
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Using choice experiments to assess smallholder farmers' preferences for pig breeding traits in different production systems in North-West Vietnam. Analysis by Roessler, R., Drucker, Adam G., Scarpa, R., Markemann, A., Lemke, U., Thuy, T.Le, Zárate, Anne Valle

“…The development of adequate tools to characterise these functions, bearing in mind that these are expressed only rarely in properly functioning markets, is therefore important. …”
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Algunos elementos claves para el establecimiento de un proyecto integrado de yuca by Pérez Crespo, C.A.

“…Integrated cassava projects are analyzed by depicting topics that project administrators must bear in mind while planning and implementing integrated cassava projects, whose mission is to catalyze a series of institutional interventions with the objective of improving farmer income and generating the socioeconomic development of a region. …”
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Tropical reforestation and climate change: beyond carbon by Locatelli, Bruno, Catterall, C.P., Imbach, Pablo, Kumar, C., Lasco, R., Marín Spiotta, E., Mercer, B., Powers, J.S., Schwartz, N., Uriarte, M.A

“…Consequently, reforestation should be managed with both adaptation and mitigation objectives in mind, so as to maximize synergies among these diverse roles, and to avoid trade‐offs in which the achievement of one goal is detrimental to another. …”
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