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Small-scale versus large-scale cocoa farming in Cameroon by Fule, Chi Bemieh

“…In order to curb this, policy makers have resorted to implementing policy instruments that encourage the extension of small rural farms into larger farms, thereby undermining the challenges that large-scale farmers might have to deal with. …”
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Implementing physical and virtual food reserves to protect the poor and prevent market failure by von Braun, Joachim, Torero, Máximo

“…Although a set of guiding principles for regulating agricultural and commodity futures markets should be developed and recent inappropriate trade policy instruments such as export bans should be reviewed, these actions are not sufficient to avoid extreme price spikes and to ensure that the world can respond to emergency needs for food. …”
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Opportunities for mainstreaming biodiversity for food and nutrition into institutional food procurement programs in Brazil by Moura de Oliveira Beltrame, Daniela, Hunter, D., Neves Soares Oliveira, Camila, Borelli, Teresa, Coradin, Lídio

“…Advocacy workshops, capacity building, as well as strategic alliances and partnerships with policy makers and other stakeholders are an important element of this, as are contributions to policy instruments that impact both programs. BFN also engages with Federal Universities, which are also collaborating centres for the implementation of PNAE, in research partnerships and activities to conduct analysis on the nutritional composition of 70 prioritised native fruit species and work with traditional communities to assess the knowledge and use of biodiversity foods.…”
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Flows under stress: Availability of plant genetic resources in times of climate and policy change by López Noriega, Isabel, Galluzzi, Gea, Halewood, Michael, Vernooy, Ronnie, Bertacchini, E., Gauchan D, Welch, Eric W.

“…In order to facilitate this adaptation, new forms of interdisciplinary research, new technologies, novel partnerships and effective policy instruments are considered essential. Given their mandate, history and expertise, the centres of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR Centres) are expected to play an important role in developing novel agricultural research strategies required to respond to climate change challenges. …”
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Políticas públicas para la adaptación a la variabilidad del clima y al cambio climático by Pomareda, C.

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Inventory of Policy, Strategic, and Legislative Instruments for the Transformation of the Livestock Sector in Ethiopia by Michael, Melaku, Kassie, Girma, Haile, Aynalem

“…The aspiration to transform the livestock production, as indicated in the policy instruments, requires a great deal of legislative intervention that creates conducive environment for increasing animal feed production, availability of animal health service providing institutions, genetic improvement of livestock, and marketing of livestock products. …”
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Needs and opportunities for measuring rural women’s empowerment in Guatemala: Possible applications of a Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) by Valiente, Regina, Heckert, Jessica, Paz, Florencia, Cabnal, Edwin

“…Moreover, the Government of Guatemala, through the Presi-dential Secretariat for Women (SEPREM), has supported these priorities through the National Policy for the Promotion and Comprehensive Development of Women and the Equality of Opportunities Plan 2008-2023, particularly under its Equitable Economic and Productive Development policy line, which gives the agenda a thematic focus on women’s economic empowerment. Both policy instruments are designed to guide public institutions in achieving the goals that have been set by the Council of Minis-ters of Women of Central America and the Dominican Republic (COMMCA). …”
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From Kyoto to Paris: Measuring renewable energy policy regimes in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the United States by Pischke, Erin, Solomon, Barry, Wellstead, Adam, Acevedo, Alberto, Eastmond, Amarella, De Oliveira, Fernando, Coelho, Suani, Lucon, Oswaldo

“…These findings show that countries may be spending resources on producing myriad renewable energy policies, but without coordination between different levels of government or a concerted effort to ensure that the policy instruments are effective, those resources may be wasted while GHGs continue to rise. …”
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Linking farmers' management decision, demographic characteristics and perceptions of ecosystem services in the Southern Pampa of Argentina by De Rito, Mara Victoria, Auer, Alejandra Denise, Arnaiz Schmitz, Cecilia, Maceira, Nestor Oscar, Herrera, Lorena Paola

“…The information derived from this work could contribute to the design of guidance criteria for sound environmental management strategies and policy instruments for the conservation of biodiversity and the provision of ES in a context with particular ecological, social, and economic characteristics.…”
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Comparisons of hunger across states: India State Hunger Index by Menon, Purnima, Deolalikar, Anil B., Bhaskar, Anjor

“…A closer examination of these states’ past and current investments in social protection, health, and nutrition programs can help inform the debate about policy instruments to protect populations against hunger even in the face of poverty. …”
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Feasibility and legitimacy of land use regulatory instruments in three agrarian reform settlements in northwest Mato Grosso, Brazil: the influence and role of integrated conservati... by Davenport, Robert

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Skogsvårdsstöd : växande eller igenväxande skogar? by Wictorin, Per

Styrmedel och marknadslösningar för minskat matavfall från hushåll by Högberg, Linnea

En utmaning för interkommunal och multifunktionell landskapsplanering by Nejsum, Andora

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Choice of tree species in the aftermath of two major storms : a qualitative study of private forest owners in southern Sweden by Lodin, Isak

“…In addition, since large areas had to be regenerated, forest owners ceased the opportunity to vent their curiosity with new species (especially exotic conifers/broadleaves) on smaller areas. The soft policy instruments that characterize Swedish forest policy also had a facilitating effect. …”

La gestión de los conflictos por el agua. La experiencia reciente del distrito Anzulón en los Llanos riojanos by Bosetti, Alejandro Marcelo

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Entre los mimbreros, con censo by Olemberg, Demián Jeremías

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Attitudes towards protection of biodiversity in forests : a case study of forest owners in Skåne, Sweden by Hedwall, Per-Ola

“…This study is a part of a joint Nordic project with the task "to study effects of various policy instruments and develop proposals concerning the development of policies within the field". …”

A hierarchical method for soil erosion assessment and spatial risk modelling: a case study of Kiambu district in Kenya. by Okoth, Peter F.

“…Researchable areas include in depth social studies that link biophysical spatial properties of the landscape to the socio-economic and policy instruments for each of the levels of the landscape hierarchy, i.e., field-plots, watershed units and the landscape units. …”
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Informing agricultural sectoral inputs for the update of the National Determined Contribution of Colombia through its Climate Change Plan for Agricultural Sector (PIGCCS)). by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…EC-LEDS research outputs produced by CCAFS and CIAT informed the Climate Change Plan for Agricultural Sector (PIGCCS-Ag) of Colombia, which was the policy instrument used to update Colombia's NDC.…”
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