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The 2008–2009 timber sector crisis in Africa and some lessons for the forest taxation regime by Karsenty, A., Bayol, N., Cerutti, P.O., Ezzine-de-Blas, D., Forni, E.

“…This could prefigure a new picture with various types of small logging enterprises filling the vacuum left by formal industry and some FSC-certified concessionaires replaced by large but less environmentally responsible companies…”
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Coping with crisis: Livelihood vulnerabilities and food insecurity in Sudan’s current conflict by Kirui, Oliver K., Rakhy, Tarig Alhaj, Siddig, Khalid, Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum, Abushama, Hala

“…This conflict did not arise in a vacuum. Sudan has long faced structural vulnerabilities including weak institutions, a fragile economy, and climate-related stressors such as erratic rainfall and land degradation. …”
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From lab to life: Making storable orange-fleshed sweetpotato purée a commercial reality by Bocher, T., Muoki, Penina Ngusye, Magnaghi, A., Muzhingi, T., Low, Jan W.

“…Having a storable, packaged OFSP purée produced by a firm to supply bakers is an alternative model. Vacuum-packed OFSP purée with preservatives with a fourmonth shelf-life at 23°C was developed by the International Potato Center under laboratory conditions in 2015. …”
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A Rapid and Simple Manifold to Study Exchangeable Cations and Cation Exchange Capacity in 24 Soil Samples Simultaneously by Kloster, Nanci Soledad, Perez, Maria Micaela, Mazzaferro, Fernando

“…Four aliquots of 10 mL extracting solution and a few seconds of vacuum between additions is recommended to achieve the best recovery. …”
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Mörningsprocessen i nötkött och en kartläggning av mörningsmetoder i praktiken by Karlsson, Erica

Democratic Republic of the Congo [In Agricultural Extension] by Ragasa, Catherine, Ulimwengu, John M.

“…These have had a devastating effect on the country’s infrastructure, technology, and institutions, creating a vacuum that has led to a laborious process of restoration. …”
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Technologies for smallholder irrigation appropriate for whom: promoters or beneficiaries? by Malik, Ravinder Paul Singh, Fraiture, Charlotte de, Ray, D.

“…The results suggest that treadle pumps, when introduced during the mid-1990s, were successful because of a near technological vacuum at that time. Over the years, with the advent of small affordable diesel engines, motorized pumps have become widely available and a large rental market for water and pumping equipment has emerged. …”
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Metagenomic water quality monitoring with a portable laboratory by Acharya, K., Blackburn, A., Mohammed, Jemila, Haile, Alemseged Tamiru, Hiruy, A.M., Werner, D.

“…We describe the technical feasibility of metagenomic water quality analysis using only portable equipment, for example mini-vacuum pumps and filtration units, mini-centrifuges, mini-PCR machines and the memory-stick sized MinION of Oxford Nanopore Technologies, for the library preparation and sequencing of 16S rRNA gene amplicons. …”
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Catalog of technical options for fecal sludge management in Bangladesh by Ulrich, Andreas, Ekasanti, Prawisti, Jayathilake, Nilanthi, Taron, Avinandan

“…Emptying technologies range from manual tools such as the Gulper to mechanical systems including vacuum tugs and diaphragm pumps, often supported by fluidization and dual-pumping techniques to address dense urban conditions and variable sludge characteristics. …”
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Public lives, private water: female ready-made garment factory workers in peri-urban Bangladesh by Joshi, Deepa, Haque, S., Nahar, K., Tania, S., Singh, J., Wallace, T.

“…However, unlike Dhaka, the almost fully industrialized peri-urban areas bordering the city, like many other such areas globally, function in an institutional vacuum. There are no formal institutional arrangements for water supply or sanitation. …”
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Can Private Sector fill the gap in Agricultural Extension? by Babu, Suresh Chandra

“…Several new players tried to enter and fill the vacuum, including the private sector. Yet it is not clear how much and how well the private sector is able to fill the gap left by the dysfunctional public systems. …”
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Rural institutions and producer organizations in imperfect markets: experiences from producer marketing groups in semi-arid eastern Kenya by Shiferaw, Bekele A., Obare, G. A., Muricho, Geoffrey

“…New kinds of institutional arrangements are needed to reduce these costs and fill the vacuum left when governments withdrew from markets in the era of structural adjustments. …”
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Creating water user associations for improved agricultural productivity in Tajikistan: opportunities and challenges by Balasubramanya, Soumya, Buisson, Marie-Charlotte, Aslamy, Sohrob, MacDonald, Katherine, Saikia, Panchali, Mitra, A.

“…Large collective farms were broken up into smaller (dekhan) private farms. This created a vacuum, because there was no provision to manage competing needs of water among private farms. …”
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Terneza, grasa intramuscular y de cobertura en carne de novillos faenados en Corrientes (Argentina) by Ynsaurralde Rivolta, Amanda Eugenia, Rebak, Gladis I., Sanchez, S., Capellari, Adriana

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Mörningsprocessen i nötkött och en kartläggning av mörningsmetoder praktiken by Karlsson, Erica

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Konsistensförbättring av skivad salami och hushållsmedwurst på Siljans Chark AB by Rundqvist, Anna-Karin

Identification of potential vectors and alternative plant hosts for the phytoplasma associated with Napier grass stunt disease in Ethiopia by Arocha, Y., Zerfy, T., Abebe, G., Proud, J., Hanson, Jean, Wilson, M., Jones, Peter G., Lucas, J.

“…Leafhopper species were also surveyed by vacuum sampling in a search for natural phytoplasma vectors. …”
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Introducing co-composting to fecal sludge treatment plants in Benin and Burkina Faso: a logistical and financial assessment by Nikiema, Josiane, Tanoh-Nguessan, R., Abiola, F., Cofie, Olufunke O.

“…Overall, the FS volumes collected by vacuum trucks were not significantly affected by the calendar days, months or seasons. …”
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Food web dynamics of irrigated rice fields at five elevations in Luzon, Philippines by Schoenly, Kenneth, Cohen, Joel E., Heong, K.L., Litsinger, James A., Aquino, G.B., Barrion, Alberto T., Arida, Gertrude

“…Arthropod populations were vacuum-sampled at roughly weekly intervals from the date after seedlings were transplanted to flowering at each site. …”
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From conflict of use to multiple use: forest management innovations by small holders in Amazonian logging frontiers by Shanley, P., Serra Silva, M. da, Melo, T., Carmenta, R., Nasi, Robert

“…Lack of quantity, quality, uniformity and price as well as a lack understanding of NTFPs socioeconomic, cultural or spiritual value and function in societies relegates them to a marginal economic status eclipsed by timber. The data vacuum for most NTFPs is contrasted by the large amount of timber-specific data available for many logged species. …”
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