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Sustaining adaptive collaborative management processes: Challenges and opportunities from Mafungautsi State Forest, Gokwe, Zimbabwe by Witness, K., Nyirenda, R., Mutimukuru-Maravanyika, T., Matose, F., Ngwenya, M., Sibanda, L.

“…Over the same period, Zimbabwe experienced unprecedented changes associated with its land reforms, profoundly impacting natural resource management. …”
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Myanmar’s agrifood system structure and drivers of transformation by Diao, Xinshen, Masias, Ian, Pauw, Karl, Thurlow, James, Boughton, Duncan, Ellis, Mia

“…Myanmar initiated economic and political reforms in 2011, ushering in a period of rapid economic transformation. …”
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Public participation approaches in shaping Colombian food policies by Conejero, Elena García, Nilgen, Marco

“…In the wake of constitutional reforms, and the ongoing decentralization journey that Colombia has embarked on in 1991, the landscape of public engagement in food-system-related policies has witnessed a significant evolution. …”
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Institutional arrangements between sugarcane growers and millers in Uganda and implications for grower productivity and profitability by Mbowa, Swaibu, Guloba, Madina M., Mather, David L., Nakazi, Florence, Bryan, Elizabeth, Nakkazi, Sheila

“…Success of this policy reform is vital for the cane industry to remain both financially sustainable and inclusive.…”
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Peru: Agricultural R&D indicators factsheet by Stads, Gert-Jan, de los Santos, Luis

“…Running from 2015 until 2021, PNIA strengthened the system through a combination of institutional reforms, staff training, and competitive research and innovation grants. …”
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The UN Food Systems Summit 2021: Lessons of the gender and finance levers by Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio, McNamara, Brian, Njuki, Jemimah, Swinnen, Johan, Vos, Rob

“…The Gender Lever of Change focused on strengthening the role of women in food systems transformation, while the Finance Lever of Change focused on reforming existing financial structures and broadening financial support for optimal food systems. …”
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How childhood stunting reduced in Tamil Nadu: An analysis of change between 1992 and 2016 by Avula, Rasmi, Menon, Purnima, Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Constantinides, Shilpa, Kohli, Neha

“…With a long history of nutrition and health reforms, it stands out as a leader in social development. …”
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Introduction: Accelerating policy progress in uncertain times by Resnick, Danielle, Diao, Xinshen, Tadesse, Getaw

“…Although more progress is still needed, long-standing structural reforms have contributed to a more conducive environment for private sector participation in African agriculture, particularly in input value chains (AGRA 2019). …”
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The rapid rise of agricultural mechanization in Myanmar by Belton, Ben, Win, Myat Thida, Zhang, Xiaobo, Filipski, Mateusz J.

“…Our analysis provides evidence that extremely rapid agricultural mechanization took place during the period of political and economic reforms from 2011 to 2020. In both zones surveyed, use of machinery for land preparation, harvesting, and threshing was close to scale-neutral due to a dynamic outsourcing services market. …”
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Development of balanced nutrient management innovations in South Asia: Perspectives from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka by Kishore, Avinash, Alvi, Muzna, Krupnik, Timothy J.

“…We review fertilizer policies and extension efforts to promote the balanced application of nutrients in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka and draw 4 important lessons. (1) Fertilizer sector reforms need to be fiscally sustainable and politically feasible. …”
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An agricultural policy review of Egypt: First steps towards a new strategy by Kassim, Yumna, Mahmoud, Mai, Kurdi, Sikandra, Breisinger, Clemens

“…With the recent series of economic reforms that saw the flotation of the Egyptian pound, the imposition of a value-added tax, and decreases in energy subsidies, Egypt has a unique opportunity to focus on sector-level policies, including those within agriculture. …”
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Industrial water pollution discharge taxes in China: A multi-sector dynamic analysis by Guo, Xiaolin, Ho, Mun Sing, You, Liangzhi, Cao, Jing, Fang, Yu, Tu, Taotao, Hong, Yang

“…We explore how water pollution policy reforms in China could reduce industrial wastewater pollution with minimum adverse impact on GDP growth. …”
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Does providing agricultural and nutrition information to both men and women improve household food security? Evidence from Malawi by Ragasa, Catherine, Aberman, Noora-Lisa, Mingote, Cristina Alvarez

“…The International Food Policy Research Institute is leading a three-year research program to assess the state of agricultural extension and advisory services provision in Malawi in order to inform the national extension policy review and reformation of government and donor processes and programming. …”
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Land administration service delivery and its challenges in Nigeria: A case study of eight states by Ghebru, Hosaena, Okumo, Austen

“…Coordination among govern-ance structures put in place by states for land administration also was found to be poor, especially in Bauchi and Enugu states, where very low levels of cooperation on issues related to land administration reforms were observed.…”
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Improved performance of agriculture in Africa South of the Sahara: Taking off or bouncing back? by Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, Johnson, Michael E., Yu, Bingxin

“…A key challenge for African countries in the years to come is to transform the current windfall gains from favorable high commodity prices and the one-time effects of policy reforms into sustainable growth based on technical change.…”
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Conclusion: From recovery to renewal of the agrifood system by Boughton, Duncan, Minten, Bart

“…Recovery from the multiple crises Myanmar has faced since 2020 will require a combination of effective humanitarian assistance and sustained policy reforms and investment to resolve infrastructure limitations and constraints to sustainable productivity growth. …”
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Compliance with food safety measures and their economic impact on smallholder dairy farmers: Evidence from the Indo-Gangetic plains of India by Katoch, Sonali, Kumar, Anjani, Kolady, Deepthi E., Sharma, Kriti

“…The study suggests incentivization through pricing reforms, improving infrastructure, strengthening formal marketing channels, and raising awareness through training.…”
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The state of the agri-, food-, and climate-tech innovation ecosystem in Morocco: Country report by Roberto, Viton, Garzaron, Lucia, Menza, Gianpiero, Mounir, Aya, Zaccari, Claudia, Dolinga, Moritz

“…The objective of this report is to guide Moroccan agricultural research and policy to capitalize on innovation-led growth, emerging from recent reforms for sustainable development in Morocco. It also aims to optimize the scope, guide the direction, and identify the priority areas of Morocco’s call for agri-, food-, and climate-tech innovations. …”
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Combined impacts of transformative adaptation and multiscale polycentric governance for enhancing climate resilience: a case study from Sri Lanka by Amarasinghe, Upali A., Amarnath, Giriraj, Ukwattage, Sachini, Seelanatha, Kaushika, Sivananthan, Priyanka, Imbulana, U., Alahacoon, Niranga, Chandrasekara, S.

“…The major policy strategies emerged are to ensure that the CMCs have comprehensive land use and water availability plans for the cascade, and individual tanks, which are critical for maximizing crop diversification benefits; and to enhance collaboration across institutions (at different sectors and scales); strengthen the role of private actors by enhancing value chains by creating opportunities for rural service providers, and increasing corporate sector participation; consider structural institutions—such as land tenure, traditional practices, and livestock composition—as vital for the success of transformative adaptation options for climate change; reform existing agricultural wage structures, land tenure systems, and food policies; and enhance water infrastructure in parallel to improving collaboration among water institutions to maximize the impacts of TAOs on impact transmission factors and policy goals.…”
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Crossing spatial analyses and livestock economics to understand deforestation processes in the Brazilian Amazon: the case of Sao Felix do Xingu in South Para by Mertens, B., Poccard-Chapuis, R., Piketty, M.G., Lacques, A.E., Venturieri, A.

“…Road construction, investments in electrical energy, financial credit for cattle, and the land reform policies have all fuelled this process. All these factors make this region one of the most dynamic agricultural frontiers in the Brazilian Amazon. …”
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