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Creation of an enabling environment for improved land tenure reform in Uganda by CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry

“…Increased knowledge and understanding of the importance of tenure reform among NGOs, forest adjacent communities and technocrats. National stakeholders credited the project with being the main influence on how the gendered implications of forest tenure reform were understood nationally.…”
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Unpacking the political economy of fertilizer subsidy reforms by Chugh, Aditi, Resnick, Danielle

“…This reaffirms that while technocratic factors, including the availability of research and evidence are necessary for subsidy design improvements, they are not sufficient on their own. …”
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Promoting inclusive facilitation of participatory agricultural research for development by Dey de Pryck, Jennifer, Elias, Marlène

“…Yet, it is often applied technocratically by facilitators who are ill-prepared to engage with the unequal power relations that embed AR4D. …”
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Impressionistisk, teknokratisk och modernistisk naturalism by Moe, Essie

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Zambian women take the lead in adapting food systems to climate change by Caroli, Giulia, Maviza, Gracsious, Maphosa, Mandlenkosi, Fumpa-Makano, Rosemary

“…Agricultural transformation is often technocratic and top-down, with little to no attention to women’s issues and gender equality. …”
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Deadlock or Transformational Change? Exploring Public Discourse on REDD+ across Seven Countries by Gregorio, M. di, Brockhaus, Maria, Cronin, T., Muharrom, E., Mardiah, S., Santoso, L.

“…We argue that transformational discourses have at least one of these characteristics: they advocate specific policy reforms that address the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation; take into account the potential risks of a REDD+ mechanism; go beyond technocratic solutions to reduce emissions; and explicitly challenge existing power relations that support drivers of deforestation. …”
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Integrating local and scientific knowledge to understand fire dynamics in the Trifinio Region by Franco Sosa, Agostina Ferro

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Unravelling gendered practices in the public water sector in Nepal by Shrestha, Gitta, Clement, Floriane

“…Such attitudes and practices in turn favour a technocratic implementation of policy measures. We argue that gender equality policy initiatives in the water sector have overly focused on local level formal institutions and have not adequately considered the effects of masculine discourses, norms and culture to be effective in making progress towards gender equity. …”
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Politics and power in territorial planning: insights from two 'Ecological-Economic Zoning' multi-stakeholder processes in the Brazilian Amazon by Gonzales Tovar, J., Larson, A.M., Sarmiento Barletti, J.P., Barnes, G.

“…We show how territorial planning MSFs have better chances of meeting their goals when they are understood as political processes: in this case, when they emerge from and are nourished by powerful local social-environmental movements and alliances, rather than being technocratic initiatives opposed by powerful local production-business alliances.…”
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Targeting social transfers in pastoralist societies: Ethiopia’s productive safety net programme revisited by Lind, Jeremy, Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel, Hoddinott, John F., Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum

“…The PSNP experience calls into question the effectiveness of technocratic fixes as well as the appropriateness of targeting transfers in pastoralist societies.…”
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Ramsar Convention and the wise use of wetlands: rethinking inclusion by Joshi, Deepa, Gallant, Bryce, Hakhu, Arunima, de Silva, Sanjiv, McDougall, C., Dubois, Mark, Arulingam, Indika

“…Reviewing the Convention obligations, resolutions, and guidelines through a feminist political ecology lens, we find them to be overtly simplistic and technocratic. A deliberately generic framing of socio-ecological interrelations and of economic trade-offs between wetland uses and users obscures broader political and social contexts which shape complex nature-society interrelations in the use, management, and governance of wetlands. …”
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Designing fit-for-context climate change adaptation tracking: Towards a framework for analyzing the institutional structures of knowledge production and use by Njuguna, Lucy, Biesbroek, Robbert, Crane, Todd A., Tamás, Peter, Dewulf, Art

“…So far, discussions on adaptation tracking have focused on the technocratic reasons for limited progress on adaptation tracking, for example, financial, methodological, and technical capacity gaps. …”
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Gender dynamics, biodiversity, collective thinking: Key elements of the WEFE approach by McCartney, Matthew P., Ringler, Claudia

“…However, most emerging nexus approaches have been narrowly focused on resource efficiency and technocratic ‘fixes’ that do not adequately consider the impacts of resource use and development on women. …”
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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. …”
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Gender accommodative versus transformative approaches: a comparative assessment within a post-harvest fish loss reduction intervention by Cole, Steven M., Kaminski, A.M., McDougall, C., Kefi, A.S., Marinda, P.A., Maliko, M., Mtonga, J.

“…Extension and development programs often focus on the former, which reflects a technocratic orientation of the fisheries sector and uncertainty about effective ways for development programs to engage with gender and other social constraints. …”
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Community voices on climate, peace and security: A social learning approach to programming environmental peacebuilding by Medina, Leonardo, Ensor, Marisa, Schapendonk, Frans, Sieber, Stefan, Pacillo, Grazia, Läderach, Peter R.D., Hellin, Jon, Bonatti, Michelle

“…Critical voices argue that programme designs often rely on analyses that ignore structural and cultural realities on the ground, leading to technocratic understandings of risks, and prescriptions for action that do not relate to people’s experiences, perceptions and values. …”
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Advancing gender equality and social inclusion in sustainable water-energy-food-ecosystem management by Zaremba, Haley, Estrada Carmona, Natalia, Elias, Marlene

“…However, most emerging nexus approaches have been narrowly focused on resource efficiency and technocratic ‘fixes’ that don’t adequately consider the impacts of resource use and development on diverse groups of resource users and managers. …”
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Exclusion in community water governance in Bangladesh: An overlooked social issue by Sharma, Indu K., Garrett, James, Joshi, Deepa

“…Power dynamics significantly determined their representation and/or access to water. Technocratic policies, a lack of clear implementation strategy, a centralized water management system with a lack of local government involvement, fragmentation and lack of coordination across institutions, persistent socioeconomic barriers, and the capture of elite based on economic, political, and resource ownerships are key barriers resulting in exclusion in water management. …”
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Agri-Food System Governance in Bangladesh’s Coastal Regions: Why the Socio-Ecological Systems Approach Needs to Be Politicized by Joshi, Deepa, Schulze, Paul, Amin, Md Nurul, Gallant, Bryce, Aheeyar, Mohamed M. M., Rahman, Mokhlesur, Garrett, James, Sarker, Mou Rani

“…However, SES approaches tend to be technocratic and overlook the overtly economic framing of natural resources governance, diversity among local communities, and the politics of resource ap- propriation. …”
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Community-driven water investments. [Abstract only]. by van Koppen, Barbara, Munnik, V.

“…On the ground, communities and local government struggle to match their holistic, locally specific needs, constraints and opportunities with these top-down defined, technocratic public silos. Moreover, fragmented public institutions miss two 'best practices' in water development and management, which have been obvious for communities' own water governance since time immemorial. …”
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