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How is REDD+ unfolding in southern Africa’s dry forests?: a snapshot from Mozambique by Wertz-Kanounnikoff, Shiela, Sitoe, A., Salomão, A.

“…The main REDD+ initiatives in Mozambique include a Norwegian-funded South–South cooperation programme with Brazil designed to support REDD+ strategy development, and a Japanese-funded readiness initiative on monitoring, reporting and verification and reference levels. Mozambique has a tradition of stakeholder consultation and relatively inclusive processes. …”
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Stylosanthes for pasture development. An overview of ILCA's experience in Nigeria by Mohamed-Saleem, M.A.

“…To improve livestock productivity in sub-Saharan Africa sustainable solutions to seasonal deficiencies in feed availability and quality are required. Traditionally, livestock rearing has been the specialised vocation of nomadic and transhumant pastoralists and therefore, for a long time, technological changes in livestock and feed production management strategies have been targeted at this group. …”
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The paradox of limited maize stover use in india's smallholder crop-livestock systems by Erenstein, Olaf, Samaddar, Arindam, Teufel, Nils, Blümmel, Michael

“…The paper then explores the apparent paradox through a scoping study of maize stover use (based on village surveys) in three contrasting maize-growing districts in India – including both traditional and non-traditional maize producers. The limited maize stover use appears to alleviate seasonal shortages, with tradition and technology helping explain the preferential use of other cereal residues. …”
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Gatukonstens betydelse för den offentliga miljön! by Magnusson, Anna

“…Graffiti is inspired by the tradition to write ones name in key locations. Other forms of street art, and the late emergence of the concept, arose as a means to challenge the structures of power. …”

Farming, resistance and coping in the occupied West Bank by Wendler, Mascha

“…Farming has a long cultural tradition in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) but today it is affected by the Israeli occupation. …”
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Forests in a bioeconomy by Hodge, Daniel

“…Sweden is a country that is well positioned to transition to a bioeconomy as it is both dominated by forests and has already embraced renewable energy as an increasing alternative to fossil-based energy. Sweden also has a tradition of forest policy that has historically emphasised production. …”
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Anthroscapes: a robust basis for mapping land quality and sustainable land use patterns by Kapur, Selim, Akça, Erhan, Zucca, Claudio, Berberoglu,Suha, Miavaghi, Somayyeh Razzaghi

“…Modeling and adapting the anthroscape tradition via renovated traditional technologies peculiar to each Anatolian environment will be a reliable guide for mitigating the current and future environmental issues particularly for problems resulting from climate change.…”
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Juventud ganadera y el poder transformativo de la educación rural: el caso de Herederos de Tradición, 2012-2020 by Triana Ángel, Natalia, Ariza Aya, Mauricio, Burkart, Stefan

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Learning from social–ecological crisis for legal resilience building: multi-scale dynamics in the coffee rust epidemic by Libert Amico, A., Ituarte-Lima, C., Elmqvist, T.

“…This paper analyzes the social--ecological crisis presented by the *Hemileia vastatrix* outbreak, with a focus on how global, regional and national dynamics interact with local processes in the Chiapas Sierra Madre of south-eastern Mexico, a biodiversity hotspot with a tradition of smallholder, shade-grown coffee production. …”
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Private vs. Community Management Responses to De-Collectivization: Illustrative Cases from China by Liu, J., Dong, J., Long, H., Xu, T., Putzel, L.

“…Key factors affecting outcomes were prior traditions, social cohesion, and market incentives to manage resources. …”
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Climate–urban nexus: a study of vulnerable women in urban areas of KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa by Hlahla, S., Simatele, M. D., Hill, T., Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe

“…Using data collected by research methods inspired by the tradition of participatory appraisals, we systematically discuss the impacts of climate change on marginalized women and the ways in which they are actively responding to climate challenges and building their adaptive capacity and resilience in the urban areas of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. …”
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Applying circular economy principles to intensification of livestock production in sub-Saharan Africa by Duncan, Alan J., Ayantunde, Augustine A., Blümmel, Michael, Amole, Tunde A., Varijakshapanicker, Padmakumar, Moran, Dominic

“…The notion of circularity, or the circular economy, is frequently conflated with agro ecological rhetoric, often overlooking a longer tradition of circular resource use efficiency in traditional mixed crop–livestock farming in low-income settings. …”
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Commons, customary law and formalization of land tenure by CGIAR Program on Collective Action and Property Rights

“…Common properties refers to those lands which by tradition rural communities own collectively. They usually embrace lands like forests, woodlands, pastures and rangelands, which are not logically owned on an individual or family basis. …”
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Supporting social justice through equity-based actions for a sustainable future in animal genetics (at the 39th International Society for Animal Genetics Conference) by Paez, S., Mapholi, N.O., Nesengani, L.T., Lamont, S.J., Aggrey, S.E., Hanotte, Olivier H., Bottema, C.D.K., Gill, C.A.

“…The second session used the important tradition of storytelling to transfer knowledge and wisdom from experienced scientists to upcoming researchers. …”
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Assessing the efficacy of using mobile kraal-based manure fertilisation to improve sorghum productivity in semi-arid Zimbabwe by Moyo, Martin, Dube, Farayi, Magaisa, Alec, Riar, Amritbir

“…This study evaluated mobile kraaling, where cattle are penned directly in crop fields compared to tradition manuring and Pfumvudza (a conservation agriculture technology involving use of mulch, manure, mineral fertiliser). …”
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Integrating diverse methods to understand climate-land interactions in East Africa by Olson, J.M., Alagarswamy, G., Andresen, J.A., Campbell, D.J., Davis, A.Y., Jianjun, Ge, Huebner, M., Lofgren, B.M., Lusch, D.P., Moore, N.J., Pijanowski, B.C., Jiaguo, Qi, Thornton, Philip K., Torbick, N.M., Wang, S.

“…These questions and the conceptual approach of the research design of the Climate–Land Interaction Project (CLIP) are rooted in the classical human–environment research tradition in Geography. This paper discusses a methodological framework to quantify the two-way interactions between land use and regional climate systems, using ongoing work by a team of multi-disciplinary scientists examining climate–land dynamics at multiple scales in East Africa. …”
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Challenges of assessing the sustainability of (agro)-pastoral systems by Ayantunde, Augustine A., Leeuw, Jan de, Turner, M.D., Said, Mohammed Yahya

“…In terms of sustainability of pastoral systems in East and West Africa, the key issues are mobility, livestock diversity, livelihood diversification options, and preservation of pastoral tradition and indigenous knowledge. The degree with which these issues are constraining pastoral production and economy will largely shape the trajectory of sustainability of different pastoral systems in both regions.…”
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Global-scale comparisons of human land use: developing shared terminology for land-use practices for global change by Morrison, K.D., Hammer, E., Popova, L., Madella, M., Whitehouse, N., Gaillard, M.-J., LandCover6k Land-Use Group Members

“…It is important to understand the aggregate effects of anthropic activities on the Earth system, but significant challenges are posed by: (1) the complexity, diversity and mosaic nature of human land use itself (Fig. 1); (2) the need to develop a uniform vocabulary and terminology for land-use practices around the globe and across the span of human history; (3) the sheer quantity of evidence to be analyzed; and (4) the lack of a tradition of global-scale comparisons. Nevertheless, there is a deep reservoir of expertise about land-use and land-cover transitions waiting to be tapped. …”
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Plan S in Latin America: a precautionary note by Debat, Humberto Julio, Babini, Dominique

“…Analysis: This opinion article suggests that the potential adhesion of Argentina orother Latin American nations to Plan S ignores the reality and tradition of Latin American open access publishing. …”
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Our Northern-Finnish wild berries by Visuri, Anne

“…The study concludes that the long tradition, inherited culture, and the natives’ position in the field enforce and strengthen the tendency to see wild berries and picking positively. …”
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