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Company--community partnership outgrower schemes in forestry plantations in Indonesia: an alternative to conventional rehabilitation programmes by Nawir, A.A., Gumartini, T.

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Transiting cassava into an urban food and industrial commodity through agroprocessing and marketing driven approaches: lessons from Africa by Abass, A., Bokanga, M., Dixon, A., Bramel-Cox, P.J.

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Análisis participativo de las condiciones actuales para la implementación del plan de ordenamiento territorial de la microcuenca del Río Sesesmiles, Honduras by Torres Guerra, Kelvin

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Partnerships blending institutional logics for inclusive global and regional food value chains in Ghana; with what smallholder effect? by Paassen, Annemarie van, Osei-Amponsah, Charity, Klerkx, Laurens, Mierlo, B. van, Essegbey, G. O.

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La biblioteca digital: un desafío ineludible para la cultura organizacional y el sistema de información del INTA by Tripaldi, Nicolás María

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Determinants and impact of adopting climate-smart brachiaria grass among dairy farmers in Kenya by Maina, K., Ritho, C., Lukuyu, Ben A., Rao, E.J.O.

“…The study concludes that policies and efforts aimed at increasing widespread adoption should address factors that influence adoption. …”
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Challenges and prospects of tracking informal cross border trade in COMESA region by Wanjiku, J., Gelan, Ayele, Gbegbelegbe, Sika, Karugia, Joseph T., Massawe, Stella C.

“…The missing informal trade data leads to unreliable external trade statistics which might, in turn, affect effective formulation, implementation and monitoring of domestic and regional trade policies. If trade relationships among African countries have to be strengthened then it is essential to estimate real magnitude of informal cross border. …”
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Concept and rationale of evolutionary plant breeding and its status in Nepal by Joshi, Bal Krishna, Ayer, D. K., Gauchan, Devendra, Jarvis, Devra I.

“…With the exception of Europe, and only for some crops, existing seed policies do not favor such populations. Therefore, there is a need to revise seed regulations in order to allow the cultivation of a higher degree of genetic diversity.…”
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La extensión rural para la actividad ganadera en Colombia: legislación, desarrollos, brechas y oportunidades by Hurtado, Angie, Díaz, Manuel Francisco, Enciso, Karen, Burkart, Stefan

“…These changes in governance and policies have led to an approach that seeks to improve service through greater participation of regions and departments, as well as private institutions and organizations. …”
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Identifying future hotspots of fire danger in the tropics: climate fire predictions for 2050, 2075 and 2100 by Román Cuesta, Rosa María, Lizano, Gil

“…Either climate or human induced, scenarios of future increases in burned area (fire danger) are needed to i) navigate fire danger reduction policies (e.g fire management that controls prevention, suppression and restoration), ii) to understand how to improve fire-resilient landscapes, iii) to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions from fire, particularly in regions with carbon-dense fires, and iv) to support capacity building for effective fire management development and implementation. …”
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Is investment in Climate-Smart-agricultural practices the option for the future? Cost and benefit analysis evidence from Ghana by Karanja Ng'ang'a, Stanley, Miller, Vail, Girvetz, Evan Hartunian

“…Such a finding is critical to the promotion and scaling up the adoption of CSA practices by smallholder farmers and serve as a basis of formulating appropriate guidelines and policies for supporting CSA practices.…”
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Digital agriculture to enable adaptation: A supplement to the UNFCCC NAP Technical Guidelines by Stephenson, Jim, Chellew, Tom, Köckritz, Luja von, Rose, Alison, Dinesh, Dhanush

“…NAPs offer an opportunity to boost the climate resilience of the agricultural sector through promoting policies, incentives and the public-private partnerships needed for digital agriculture to thrive. …”
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Gender Outcomes Harvesting in Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security: A meta-analysis by Verzosa, Fatima, Gonsalves, Julian Francis, Barbon, Wilson John, Monville-Oro, Emilita

“…Outcome is defined in this study as a change in the behaviour, relationships, actions, activities, policies, or practices of an individual, group, community, organization, or institution. …”
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Capacitating One Health in Eastern and Southern Africa by Mhone, Amos L., Akoko, James M., Grace, Delia, Caron, Alexandre, Karembu, Margaret, Mor, Siobhan M., Iraki, Bibiana, Nys, Hélène M. de, Fèvre, Eric M., Richards, Shauna, Ekaya, Wellington, Knight-Jones, Theodore J.D.

“…This initiative will ensure government entities capacitated in the development of evidence based One Health strategies and policies, education institutes strengthened in building OH capacity of the present and future workforce, and research institutes capacitated in identification, development, adoption and delivery of One Health solutions.…”
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Potential impacts of Ukraine-Russia armed conflict on global wheat food security: A quantitative exploration by Mottaleb, Khondoker Abdul, Kruseman, Gideon K., Snapp, Sieglinde S.

“…Since wheat export has reduced from both Russia and Ukraine, to avoid a food crisis in developing countries, policies are suggested, including near term improvement of domestic wheat production by promoting improved agronomic practices to close yield gaps to meet a substantial portion of wheat self-sufficiency goals. …”
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An analysis of the perceived societal benefits of and threats from trees for the delivery of livelihoods and community development by Tsvuura, S., Mudhara, M., Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe

“…These findings are important for informing scaling to yield better climate change considerations and policies.…”
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Translating virome analyses to support biosecurity, on-farm management, and crop breeding by Briseño, R.I.A., Batuman, O., Brawner, J., Cuéllar, Wilmer Jose, Delaquis, Erik, Etherton, B.A., French-Monar, R.D., Kreuze, Jan F., Navarrete, I., Ogero, K., Sulá, A.P., Yilmaz, S., Garrett, K.A.

“…For example, virome analysis can be employed in the development of biosecurity strategies and policies, including the implementation of virome risk assessments to support regulation and reduce the movement of infected plant material. …”
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Agricultural emissions reduction potential by improving technical efficiency in crop production by Khatri-Chhetri, Arun, Sapkota, Tek Bahadur, Maharjan, Sofina, Cheerakkollil Konath, Noufa, Shirsath, Paresh B.

“…CONTEXT: Global and national agricultural development policies normally tend to focus more on enhancing farm productivity through technological changes than on better use of existing technologies. …”
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Bundling socio-technical innovations to empower women as partners and drivers of climate change solutions by Nchanji, Eileen, Puskur, Ranjitha, Lutomia, Cosmas Kweyu, Ketema, Dessalegn Molla, Gartaula, Hom Nath, Mukhopadhyay, Prama, Mapedza, Everisto D., Johnstone, Kevin, Barrett, Sam

“…The initiative addresses four areas of gender inequality in the AFS: access to resources, women’s agency, social norms and policies, and governance. The work in these four areas is divided into four work packages. …”
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Information exchange patterns and technology adoption behavior of cattle farmers in the Colombian Amazon by Lienert, Anja, Lippert, Christian, Burkart, Stefan

“…The findings will be useful for designing more context-specific policies to improve information flows and promote the sustainable transformation of the cattle sector.…”
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