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Cotton-Textile-Apparel sectors of Pakistan: Situations and challenges faced by Cororaton, Caesar B., Salam, Abdul, Altaf, Zafar, Orden, David, Dewina, Reno, Minot, Nicholas, Nazli, Hina

“…Export controls and taxes kept cotton prices below international levels until the mid-1990s but have subsequently tracked export parity international levels following reforms to trade and pricing policies and a greater role for the private sector. …”
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Stakeholder Meeting on Livestock Bill 2024, ILRI, Nairobi, 5 November 2024 by African Group of Negotiators Experts Support, Centre for Minority Rights Development, International Livestock Research Institute

“…Although this Bill had significant potential to reform the sector, it elicited varied responses from stakeholders, which contributed to delays in its enactment. …”
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Evaluating the effects of Climate Smart Agricultural (CSA) practices on productivity, adaptation, and mitigation indicators in Ethiopia: A meta-analysis approach by Adimassu, Zenebe, Tibebe, Degefie, Tamene, Lulseged, Abera, Wuletawu

“…This highlights the need for reforms in duty and tax exemptions to improve farmers' profitability from drip irrigation systems. …”
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Tackling irrigation development and water management crises in Africa by Zemadim, Birhanu, Haileslassie, Amare, Dirwai, Tinashe Lindel, Gebrezgabher, Solomie A., Akpoti, Komlavi, Osei-Amponsah, Charity, Cofie, Olufunke O., Hafeez, Mohsin, Smith, Mark

“…Addressing Africa’s irrigation development and water management crises requires an integrated approach that combines technological innovation, robust policy reforms, and farmer-led or community-driven water stewardship, with a focus on inclusion to build resilience against the impacts of climate variability.…”
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Are food policies empowering women? Framework, measurement, and empirical evidence from India and Nigeria by Kyle, Jordan, Ragasa, Catherine

“…By systematically tracking barriers and identifying entry points for reform, the WEAGov framework offers governments, researchers, and civil society organizations a practical tool to diagnose gaps in women’s empowerment in agrifood policy processes and to strengthen their inclusiveness and accountability.…”
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Crise economique et changements politiques en Indonesie: premiers effets sur le secteur forestier by Sunderlin, William D.

“…The author reviews the likely effects on the forest sector. (1) Decreased demand for Indonesian plywood from main importers (Japan, South Korea and Taiwan) is largely compensated by increased demand from other countries and Malaysia's decision to restrict its wood product exports. (2) Expansion of agriculture will occur partly at the expense of forest cover: spontaneous clearing by farmers, and large scale clearings for agro-industry plantations, mainly oil palm, then cocoa, coffee, rubber trees, pepper, as well as shrimp ponds in mangroves. (3) Transmigration will probably not slow down, foreign aid compensating for the decline of State aid. (4) Unemployed people in the urban sector migrate to rural areas, and young people in the rural areas remain there which may increase pressure on forests for three reasons: a) incentives to expand plantations for export; b) incentives to produce food crops locally (rice, maize, soya) to reduce imports; c) shortage of capital for inputs, that may encourage extensive agriculture. (5) Expansion of mining in forest areas (coal, iron, and nickel) may lead to degradation of important protection forests. (6) The likely slowdown of major road programmes will reduce their direct and indirect impacts on forests. (7) Policy changes as a prerequisite to IMF loans will have negative effects on forest conservation when they encourage plantations for export (oil palms). (8) President Habibie has launched a wave of policy reforms to remedy former abuses in granting timber concessions, and the resulting forest deterioration. …”
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The Hesitant boom: Indonesia's oil palm sub-sector in an era of economic crisis and political change by Casson, A.

“…Key reasons include: (1) the government's export tax policy; (2) reform policies targeting the oil palm sub-sector; (3) social unrest and consequent withholding of foreign investment; (4) changes to the CPO distribution system; (5) credit access difficulties; (6) changes to the state-owned plantation sector; (7) the 1997/98 drought and fires; (8) decline in the world price of crude palm oil; and (9) increased production costs. …”
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Management of secondary forests in colonist swidden agriculture in Peru, Brazil and Nicaragua by Smith, J., Finegan, B., Sabogal, C., Gonçalves-Ferreira, M.D.S., Siles Gonzales, G., Kop, P. van de, Díaz Barba, A.

“…Results show that an integrated resource management approach will be required, with management of secondary forests complemented by policy reforms and management of soils and residual forests. …”
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The effects of Indonesia's decentralisation on forests and estate crops: case study of Riau province, the original districts of Kampar and Indragiri Hulu by Potter, L., Badcock, S.

“…The study found that during 2000, the most serious impact on the forests was a result of political reformation and the economic crisis, with the Soeharto government’s rules being ignored and timber being cut for its quick return under conditions of high demand. …”
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Landscape rehabilitation of degraded tropical forest ecosystems: case study of the CIFOR/Japan project in Indonesia and Peru by Kobayashi, S.

“…Technical advances will reduce logging impacts, accelerate natural regeneration and improve species selection, enrichment, sustainable site management, catalytic planting and site evaluation and classification. Socio-economic reform should focus on local community participation and acceptance. …”
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Irrigation management in Pakistan and India: comparing notes on institutions and policies by Shah, Tushaar, Hussain, Intizar, Saeed ur Rehman

“…The authors suggest that the two countries can learn important lessons by comparing notes on several issues: [a] what would work best in ensuring equitable access to irrigation - physical rehabilitation being tried out in Pakistan Punjab with the help of the army under the military rule offers interesting possibilities in terms of scale and impact as does the Andhra Pradesh model of irrigation reform, [b] the experience in both countries so far defies the uncritically accepted premise that under farmer-management, irrigation systems will be more equitable, [c] why farmers in Pakistan Punjab have to use 16-20 horsepower (hp) diesel engines to pump groundwater from 25-40 feet while north Indian farmers have been doing the same with 5 hp engines?…”
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A compact to revitalise large-scale irrigation systems using a leadership-partnership-ownership 'Theory of Change' by Lankford, B.A., Makin, Ian W., Matthews, Nathaniel, McCornick, Peter G., Noble, A.D., Shah, Tushaar

“…However, efforts to enhance these benefits and reform the sector have been costly and outcomes have been underwhelming and short-lived. …”
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Comparative multicriteria assessment of climate policies and sustainable development strategies in Cameroon: towards a GIS decisionsupport tool for the design of an optimal REDD+ s... by Kehbila, A.G., Alemagi, D., Minang, Peter A.

“…To achieve this goal, the government has introduced a series of policy reforms and formulated a number of key strategic planning documents to advance the REDD+ readiness process in Cameroon. …”
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Legal timber: verification and governance in the forest sector by Brown, David, Schreckenberg, Kate, Bird, Neil, Cerutti, Paolo., Gatto, Fillipo del., Diaw, Chimere, Fomété, Tim, Luttrell, Cecilia, Navarro Monge, Guillermo, Oberndorf, Rob, Thiel, Hans, Wells, Adrian

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El Tratado Internacional sobre los Recursos Fitogenéticos para la Alimentación y la Agricultura en Costa Rica Proceso de aprobación y retos de implementación by Cabrera Medaglia, Jorge

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Thinking outside the CAP by Augdoppler, Miriam

“…Changing conditions for basic direct payments are therefore suggested for future policy reforms that could improve effective-ness of CAP supports and prevent further capitalization into land.…”
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Vägen till ett modernt Tomelilla : en studie av en landsbygdskommun och dess förändring över tiden by Brinte, Lina

Transformational change through REDD readiness in Nepal: realities amidst expectations by Bhandari, Nirmala Singh

“…The research argues that unless donors and policy makers work to reform the forestry sector governance in Nepal, transformational change through REDD+ will be an immensely challenging task.…”
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Seeds of change: cultivating feminist leadership in the co-operatives of the MENA region by Najjar, Dina, Oueslati, Dorsaf, Ben Ghanem, Hajer, El Amil, Rola, Ait Hssain, Jihad, Nidkazza, Zakaria, Benrais, Brahim, Kallida, Rajae, Oussoulous, Nada

“…The study calls for multi-level reforms to expand access to resources and training, challenge restrictive norms, and strengthen co-operation between co-operatives, authorities, and international actors. …”
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Integrated assessment of irrigation and agriculture management challenges in Nepal: an interdisciplinary perspective by Nepal, Santosh, Neupane, Nilhari, Koirala, Sanju, Lautze, Jonathan F., Shrestha, Ram Narayan, Bhatt, D., Shrestha, Nirman, Adhikari, Manju, Kaini, S., Karki, S., Yangkhurung, J. R., Gnawali, K., Pradhan, A. M. S., Timsina, K., Pradhananga, Saurav, Khadka, Manohara

“…Despite substantial investments and institutional reforms, irrigation projects have faced consistently low performance. …”
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