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US farm support under a Biden administration: Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose? by Glauber, Joseph W., Smith, Vincent H.

“…The incoming Biden administration will likely bring a new focus to repurpose farm subsidies to provide environmental benefits, such as reduced greenhouse gas emissions, but to achieve those reforms they will need to convince a US Congress that has historically been prone to maintaining the status quo.…”
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From farm to table: How are governments keeping food systems functioning during COVID-19? by Kennedy, Adam, Resnick, Danielle

“…Drawing on the data collected for 28 countries for IFPRI’s COVID-19 Policy Response (CPR) Portal (IFPRI 2020), this brief summarizes the distribution of government policy choices, highlighting where innovations emerged as well as where there has been a reversion to the status quo.…”
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The future of US farm policy by Smith, Vincent H., Glauber, Joseph W.

“…As was the case with that bill, maintaining the status quo will represent a missed opportunity to cut farm subsidies and make agricultural programmes more market oriented, and be unlikely to improve trade relations for the United States in the context of its commitments under current World Trade Organization agreements. …”
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The transformation of property rights in Kenya's Maasiland: triggers and motivations by Mwangi, Esther

“…Findings suggest that individuals and groups will seek to alter property rights in their anticipation of net gains from a new assignment, even as they seek to eliminate disadvantages that were present in the status quo property rights structure. Heightened perceptions of impending land scarcity, failures of collective decision making, the promise of new income opportunities and the possibility of accessing capital markets motivated individuals to support group ranch subdivision. …”
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Trade liberalization and complementary domestic policies: a rural-urban general equilibrium analysis of Morocco. by Lofgren, Hans, El-Said, Moataz, Robinson, Sherman

“…The results indicate that, if combined with at least one of these complementary domestic policies, trade liberalization can lead to a win-win outcome: the welfare of all household groups increases significantly more rapidly than if status-quo policies are followed.…”
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Why is the Doha development agenda failing? And what can be done?: A computable general equilibrium-game theoretical approach by Bouët, Antoine, Laborde Debucquet, David

“…When real income is the objective and services are excluded, or when optimizing terms of trade is the objective, the Nash solution is the status quo. Trade liberalization is feasible only when the negotiators focus on national exports or Gross Domestic Product (GDP). …”
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A guide to investing in collectively held resources by Gnych, Sophia, Lawry, Steven, Monterroso, Iliana, Adhikary, Anukram, McLain, Rebecca

“…Impact investors typically finance businesses that seek to challenge the status quo, valuing environmental and social outcomes to deliver more sustainable returns on investment. …”
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Governing the ungovernable: practices and circumstances of governance in the irrigation sector by Venot, Jean-Philippe, Suhardiman, Diana

“…This paper identifies decisive factors that preserve the status quo in irrigation development. We draw our analysis on empirical data from countries with a recent (Ghana, West Africa) and long (Indonesia) irrigation history. …”
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Quantifying farmers’ preferences for cropping systems intensification: A choice experiment approach applied in coastal Bangladesh’s risk prone farming systems by Aravindakshan, Sreejith, Krupnik, Timothy J., Amjath-Babu, T.S., Speelman, Stijn, Tur-Cardona, Juan, Tittonell, Pablo Adrian, Groot, Jeroen C.J.

“…METHODS: Taking 300 farmers in two diverse coastal environments, a choice experiment (CE) was employed to explore the heterogeneity in farmers’ preferences for different dry “rabi” season intensification options (‘boro’ rice, maize, wheat and mungbean) against the status quo (dry season land fallowing after harvest of the monsoon season rice crop). …”
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When Is Choice Empowering? Examining Gender Differences in Varietal Adoption through Case Studies from Sub-Saharan Africa by Polar, Vivian, Ashby, Jacqueline A., Thiele, Graham, Tufan, Hale Ann

“…Agents who exercise power over rules and resources can either reproduce the status quo or innovate; thus, a balanced approach to empowerment requires careful analysis of the elements of choice.…”
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Fruit and vegetable value chains in Africa by Aboushady, Nora, Kornher, Lukas, Zaki, Chahir

“…Postcolonial governments focused on cash crops as the main source of foreign exchange earnings, reinforcing the status quo. However, the mid-1980s witnessed a major shift in global demand away from traditional cash crops and toward high-value products, including fruits and vegetables. …”
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A gap analysis of confined field trial application forms for genetically modified crops in East Africa: evaluating the potential for harmonization by Linacre, Nicholas A., Cohen, Joel I.

“…The basic principle behind gap analysis is a comparison of the status quo to an ideal with the identification of the differences or gaps and the difficulty involved in removing the gaps. …”
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Incentives for carbon sequestration and energy production in low productivity collective forests in Southwest China by Kahrl F, Su Y, Tennigkeit, Timm, Wilkes, Andreas, Xu, Jianchu, Yan M

“…This paper develops three scenarios for the management of an existing, low productivity, collective forest plot in Southwest China: continuation of the status quo, transition to sustainable forest management (SFM), and conversion to a short rotation species for producing biomass for electricity generation. …”
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What drives capacity to innovate? Insights from women and men small-scale farmers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America by Badstue, Lone B., López, Diana E., Umantseva, Anja, Williams, George, Elias, Marlène, Farnworth, Cathy Rozel, Rietveld, Anne M., Njuguna-Mungai, Esther, Luis, Joyce S., Najjar, Dina, Kandiwa, Vongai

“…Men’s support is important when women challenge the status quo.…”
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The role of mycotoxin contamination in nutrition: The aflatoxin story by Ayalew, Amare, Hoffmann, Vivian, Lindahl, Johanna, Ezekiel, Chibundu N.

“…However, not as fully recognized is that unsafe, contaminated foods thwart these efforts and maintain an unacceptable status quo in food insecurity, poverty, and a range of health-related problems. …”
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Impacts of global change on the Nile basin: Options for hydropolitical reform in Egypt and Ethiopia by Martens, Anja Kristina

“…Egypt is nearly totally dependent on water from upstream countries but considers any change of the status quo a threat to its national (water) security. …”
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Postharvest packaging and marketing innovation adoption in Nigeria: The case of plastic crate by Yami, Mesay, Saweda, Liverpool-Tasie, Wossen, Tesfamicheal, Oyinbo, Oyakhilomen, Yamauchi, Futoshi, Chamberlin, Jordan, Feleke, Shiferaw, Abdoulaye, Tahirou

“…This report provides the status quo of postharvest innovation adoption in Nigeria by taking the case of horticultural growers’ adoption of postharvest packaging and transportation innovation such as returnable plastic crates. …”
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A system dynamics model for evaluating collaborative forest management: a case study in Indonesia by Purnomo, H., Mendoza, G.A.

“…Specifically, the property arrangements examined in each scenario are: Policy 1 – status quo (i.e.continue present property rights arrangements); Policy 2 – local communities manage the forest exclusively; and Policy 3 – collaborative management involving both local communities and a private company. …”
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Preventing knowable risk at the cost of long-term thinking by Elvarsdóttir, Silja

“…The results show that Icelandic policymakers are leaning towards technocratic adaptation pathways that privilege experts, prioritize responses to biophysical risk, safeguard neoliberal values, and suggest that adaptive capacity can be achieved through modifications to the status quo. This is highly problematic given that such approaches ignore the societal dimensions of climate change, give rise to short-term thinking, and downplay the need for more transformative change. …”
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Technical Advisory Committee Nineteenth Meeting, 6-13 June 1978: Report by CGIAR Technical Advisory Committee

“…Also meeting with center directors, TAC concluded that the status quo with regard to associate status was satisfactory and flexible. …”
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