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A new relevance and better prospects for wider uptake of social learning within CGIAR por Gonsalves, Julian Francis

“…Relying on experiential evidence from professionals within the CGIAR network, the working paper further explores if the reformed CGIAR and the new structural and programmatic setup offer improved prospects for the inclusion of social learning approaches in CCAFS. …”
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Increasing access to agricultural extension and advisory services: How effective are new approaches in reaching women farmers in rural areas? por Mbo'o-Tchouawou, Michelle, Colverson, Kathleen E.

“…A wide range of traditional and reformed EAS delivery systems have been tried in many developing countries, but very little has been achieved in systematically considering a gender perspective in the provision of agricultural advisory services. …”
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Water for food as food for thought: case study of applying the PODIUMSim model to Uzbekistan por Yakubov, Murat, Manthrithilake, Herath

“…Uzbekistan, being historically one of the most populated and agriculture-based republics in the former Soviet Union, still features quite high annual population growth rates and great dependence on agriculture as a backbone for the rest of the economic reforms.With water playing an extremely important role in producing a sufficient food base for the country's growing population and earning much needed foreign exchange for the government to ensure overall economic development, the pressures on this scarce resource will obviously and inevitably grow, putting it much at risk over a long-term perspective. …”
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CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Program Theme 3: Pro-Poor Climate Change Mitigation Currently Named: Theme 3: Low Emissions Agriculture. Evaluation of 2011-2013 por Smith, Gordon R., Ecofor LLC

“…Relevance: Is the Theme 3 program being managed in line with vision in the Program Plan and Theory of Change, and CGIAR reform process, including cross center research, working with partners and consulting with stakeholders in designing research? …”
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Los viveros comunales en El Salvador: un caso de éxito en la difusión de la tecnología forestal por Heckadon Moreno, Stanley

“…An achievement accomplished in the midt of a civil war, an agrarian reform and a prolongued history of frustrated forestry efforts. …”
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Fifth External Programme and Management Review of IITA, 2001 por CGIAR Technical Advisory Committee, CGIAR Secretariat

“…The panel suggested that IITA's Board undertake a number of reforms to clarify its division of responsibilities with IITA management and to keep board members abreast of developments between board meetings. …”
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Agroecologically-conducive policies: A review of recent advances and remaining challenges por Place, Frank, Niederle, P., Sinclair, F., Estrada-Carmona, Natalia, Guéneau, S., Gitz, V., Alpha, A., Sabourin, E., Hainzelin, E.

“…The assessment reveals that, until now, few countries have embarked on a broad set of reforms with sustained commitments. Many of these policies are new, weakly institutionalized and supported by limited budgets, making it difficult to analyze their actual effects. …”
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Evolution of agricultural mechanization in Viet Nam por Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Liu, Yanyan, Cuong, Nguyen Van, Masias, Ian

“…Since the economic and social reform in the late 1980s, the private sector has rapidly emerged as the major player in meeting the demand for greater farm power uses, including the domestic manufacturing of power tillers, the introduction of larger combine harvesters, and the emergence of individual machine owners as the primary suppliers of hiring services. …”
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Agricultural input markets in Ghana: A descriptive assessment of input dealers in eight districts por Asante, Seth, Andam, Kwaw S., Simons, Andrew M., Amprofi, Felicia Ansah, Osei-Assibey, Ernest, Iddrisu, Adisatu, Blohowiak, Samuel

“…Understanding the characteristics and operations of agricultural input dealers can help policymakers to formulate, implement, and reform seed and fertilizer policies. Our study shows low levels of specialization among agricultural input shops, high participation in the sector association, an increase in the entry of traders into the agricultural input market since the launch of PFJ, and a continuing concentration on fertilizer sales compared to seed sales. …”
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Urgent actions needed to prevent recurring food crises por Fan, Shenggen, Torero, Máximo, Headey, Derek D.

“…This comprehensive approach should comprise a number of initiatives and reforms; while some of these have been proposed before, their merits are even more relevant today and justify reprioritization and reallocation of national and international budgets. …”
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A multi-level analysis of public spending, growth and poverty reduction in Egypt por Fan, Shenggen, Al-Riffai, Perrihan, El-Said, Moataz, Yu, Bingxin, Kamaly, Ahmed

“…Egypt still lags behind many middle-income countries in key social indicators. Further reforms are necessary to reduce poverty, especially if Egypt is to achieve the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving the number of poor between 1990 and 2015. …”
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An Inclusive agri-food systems transformation pathway for India por Singh, Vartika, Das, Prantika, Stevanovic, Miodrag, Jha, Chandan, Bodirsky, Benjamin, Beier, Felicitas, Humpenöder, Florian, Leip, Debbora, Chen, David, Crawford, Michael, von Jeetze, Patrick, Bacca, Edna Molina, Soergel, Bjoern, Springmann, Marco, Dietrich, Jan, Popp, Alexander, Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar, Lotze-Campen, Hermann

“…The food system measures include healthy diets, biosphere protection, agriculture management, equitable livelihood, and external reforms. Results indicate that 13 out of 14 indicators including nutrition and environmental outcomes improve due to synergistic effects driven by coordinated interventions, reducing trade-offs among the four dimensions of the food system. …”
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Regional developments [in 2024 Global Food Policy Report] por Becquey, Elodie, Benin, Samuel, Marivoet, Wim, Gelli, Aulo, Abay, Kibrom A., Abdelfattah, Lina Alaaeldin, Kurdi, Sikandra, Sarhan, Mohsen, Akramov, Kamiljon T., Lambrecht, Isabel B., Pechtl, Sarah, Kishore, Avinash, Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Chen, Kevin Z., Harris, Jody, Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio, Piñeiro, Valeria

“…National policy responses need to consider the region’s double burden of malnutrition along with other vulnerabilities, including climate change, water scarcity, and conflict, as well as more effective targeting of social protection for the most vulnerable groups, and reform of food subsidies to improve diets. Central Asia: Food systems in Central Asia face serious challenges related to diet quality and nutrition. …”
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Informationsbehov vid ett unikt beslut por Andersson, Patrik

“…During year 2007 when the grain prices increased and the EU reform decreased the payment for sugarbeets, it was no longer obvious to grow sugar beets in the crop sequence. …”
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Hydro-energy cooperation in South Asia: prospects for transboundary energy and water security por Saklani, U., Shrestha, P. P., Mukherji, Aditi, Scott, Christopher A.

“…Based on documentary and media analysis along with interviews of key BBIN policy-makers, we identify and examine in this paper four factors for future progress: 1) technical cooperation can be extended to information-sharing for policies and institutions to regulate and manage water resources; 2) India must seize the opportunities and benefits of enhanced regional leadership in the region; 3) simultaneous informal discussion and diplomatic negotiation of water, energy and their nexus can provide BBIN countries the opportunity to highlight potential gains of cooperation and interstate interdependencies; and 4) regional cooperation can give a strong impetus to nations for advancing structural reforms, building institutions and capacity, developing a shared knowledge base, bridging infrastructural gaps, attracting private sector participation, and addressing poverty alleviation goals including job creation.…”
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Could the new dairy policy affect milk allocation to infants in Kenya? A best-worst scaling approach por Muunda, Emmanuel M., Mtimet, Nadhem, Schneider, F., Wanyoike, Francis N., Dominguez-Salas, Paula, Alonso, Silvia

“…Households will replace the lost infant milk intake by fruits or porridge that might not be of equivalent nutritional value to milk. Any reforms to policies and regulatory systems aimed at streamlining the dairy sector should account for impacts on milk prices, responsiveness of consumers to price variations and infant nutrition. …”
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Livestock policies in Son La Province, Vietnam - a review por Dung, Pham Van, Savelli, Adam, Mai Thanh Tu, Hung Nguyen-Viet, Le Thi Thanh Huyen, Douxchamps, Sabine

“…Since the market-oriented Doi Moi reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, Vietnam’s livestock sector has experienced rapid growth. …”
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Forest certification, state regulation and community empowerment: complementarity in seeking a viable solution to forest degradation in Indonesia? por Alam, S., Herawati, T., Hidayat, H., Wyatt, S.

“…Finally, the article considers complementarity in government, private and community initiatives in SFM and how regulatory reform in support of a more participatory approach could contribute to achieving these goals. …”
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Pathways for food and land use systems to contribute to global biodiversity targets por Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-Use, and Energy Consortium

“…Shifting diets, increasing crop and livestock productivity, and limiting agricultural land expansion, were the strongest drivers of positive change in global biodiversity. Implementing these reforms in multiple countries would help put us on track to achieve global biodiversity, food security and climate mitigation goals by 2050.…”
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Calibrated Models for Major Crops and Cropping System using Existing Datasets in Morocco and Uzbekistan por Devkota, Krishna, Devkota Wasti, Mina Kumari

“…Crop and Cropping System Models are a valuable ex-ante decision support tool which generates useful outputs for the precision agricultural management, provides decision for climate change mitigation and adaptation with ecosystem services, and also provides decision for institutional and policy reform (Fig. 1). Such models can be used to evaluate the effects of various agronomic practices, varieties, and climate change impacts on crop production and food security at the field, farm, and landscape levels. …”
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