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Estimating pond storage capacity using remote sensing and GIS: A case study in Zhanghe irrigation scheme, southern China por Xueliang Cai, Yuanlai Cui, Dong, B.

“…There are numerous ponds in Southern China and it is very difficult to evaluate their contribution to local water users because of their small size and wide variance. …”
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Analysing decentralised natural resource governance: proposition for a "politicised? institutional analysis and development framework por Clement, Floriane

“…Analysing the factors for these discrepancies requires multi-level approaches that relate policy decisions formulated at the national and international level with the decisions of local resource users. A key asset of the Institutional Analysis and Development framework is precisely its ability to link multiple governance levels. …”
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CBD 2010 target: a case study of Kolleru Wetland (Ramsar Site), India using remote sensing and GIS por Pattanaik, C., Narendra Prasad, S., Nagabhatla, N., Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali

“…This study highlights the firsthand information to the user community after demolition, and offers suggestions for the future conservation of the lake. …”
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Scales and power in river basin management: the Chao Phraya River in Thailand por Molle, Francois

“…This is due to the interconnectedness of users through the hydrologic cycle entailed by their dependence upon the same resource. …”
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Integrating 'livelihoods' into integrated water resources management: taking the integration paradigm to its logical next step for developing countries por Merrey, Douglas J., Drechsel, Pay, Penning de Vries, Frits W.T., Sally, Hilmy

“…The paper concludes with an alternative definition of IWRM as involving the promotion of human welfare, especially the reduction of poverty, encouragement of better livelihoods and balanced economic growth through effective democratic development and management of water and other natural resources in an integrated multilevel framework that is as equitable, sustainable, and transparent as possible, and conserves vital ecosystems. Transparent user-friendly information and models for assisting decision making are essential features of livelihood-oriented IWRM.…”
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Relevance of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) for watershed management in northern Laos por Mousques, C., Sengsoulychanh, P., Sengtaheuanghoung, Oloth, Latchackack, K., Ribolzi, Olivier, Pierret, Alain

“…At the whole catchment scale, major impediments to the immediate implementation of a PES scheme were i) the lack an unequivocal relationship between environmental services, users and providers, ii) insufficient WTP to maintain water quality along the stream through waste management and iii) absence of a critical mass of buyers. …”
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ILRI Information Services in support of livestock research in Africa por Sinha, P.K.

“…A special mention is made of the project of the former ILCA initiated to collect and conserve gray literature on livestock produced in sub-Saharan Africa and disseminate information among the potential users. A new information model developed and implemented by ILRI to provide support to global research on livestock is also described.…”
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Evaluating the impact of the graduate fellowship programme of the International Livestock Research Institute. A tools and process report por Eley, R., Ibrahim, H., Hambly Odame, Helen, Demeke, M., Smalley, M.E.

“…Others may use these freely, but appropriate acknowledgement of the source will be appreciated. Future users may modify these instruments for their own impact studies; and indeed are encouraged to do so. …”
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Mapping the likelihood of introduction and spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 in Africa, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria using multicriteria decision modelli... por Stevens, Kim B., Costard, Solenne, Métras, Raphaëlle, Pfeiffer, Dirk U.

“…As with all modelling work, it is important for the user of these outputs to be aware of the assumptions made in relation to the models and any potential sources of selection and information bias when interpreting the results of such analyses. …”
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Enhancing adoption of food safety measures in urban vegetable production and marketing systems por Keraita, Bernard N., Amoah, Philip, Drechsel, Pay, Akple, Maxwell Selase Kwasi

“…These studies include participatory development of risk reduction measures where end-users are actively involved in the process, incorporating their perceptions, needs and constraints. …”
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Participatory rangeland management planning and its implementation in Ethiopia por Awgachew, S., Flintan, Fiona E., Bekure, S.

“…In response, a process of participatory rangeland management (PRM) has been developed, both to improve the management of rangeland resources and their security of access for local rangeland users. The USAID-funded PRIME project has played a key role in this development, up-scaling the approach across pastoral areas in Oromia, Afar and Somali regional states. …”
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World Bank Climate Knowledge Portal: Climate Analysis Tool. Powered by Climate Wizard por International Center for Tropical Agriculture, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…Climate Wizard enables technical and non-technical audiences alike to access leading climate change information and visualize the impacts anywhere on Earth. With Climate Wizard users can: view historic temperature and rainfall maps, view state-of-the-art future predictions of temperature and rainfall, and view and download climate change maps in a few easy steps. …”
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Climate Services for Agriculture in Rwanda Baseline Survey Report por Coulibaly, Jeanne Y., Birachi, Eliud Abucheli, Kagabo, Desire M., Mutua, Mercy M.

“…A qualitative component of the evaluation will provide deeper insights into users’ decision making, behavioral change and any socially differentiated effect.…”
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An assessment method of ecosystem services based on stakeholders perceptions: The Rapid Ecosystem Services Participatory Appraisal (RESPA) por Rey Valette, H., Mathé, S., Salles, J.M.

“…It assesses, on one hand, the level of familiarity with services among a diverse array of stakeholders, citizens and/or service users- and, on the other hand, appraises the relative importance of all the services pertaining to a defined geographical area using two indicators, citation frequency and hierarchical ranking of services selected. …”
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Una metodología multivariable para la regionalización ambiental. I. Bases metodológicas por Gallopín, Gilberto C.

“…The main disadvantages are the requirements for computer processing, the possible lack of relation between the EHA and field-visualizable units, the need for a careful selection of values and ranges of the characterization variables, and the dependency of the results upon the clustering techniques used, which requires good judgment by the user…”
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Introducing orange sweet potato: Tracing the evolution of evidence on its effectiveness por de Brauw, Alan, Gilligan, Daniel O., Low, Jan W.

“…We trace projects from a small trial in 10 villages in western Kenya through the Reaching End Users program in Mozambique and Uganda that reached thousands of households in both countries, while demonstrating that households receiving integrated programs teaching them to grow OSP and the nutritional benefits of vitamin A had notable impacts on the probability of vitamin A deficiency and on biological markers for vitamin A in women of child-bearing age and young children, relative to members of households not selected for participation. …”
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Lessons Learnt: Index Insurance for the Agricultural Sector in Central America: Honduras por CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…Through participatory processes, the IRI has been able to connect the science, the experts on-the ground and the producers’ experiences to design a drought index insurance product that is in line with the end-users’ needs, while providing insurance companies with new market opportunities.…”
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Genomics-Assisted Breeding in the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) por Friedmann, Michael, Asfaw, Asrat, Anglin, Noelle L., Becerra López Lavelle, Luis Augusto, Bhattacharjee, Ranjana, Brown, Allan, Carey, Edward, Ferguson, Morag E., Gemenet, Dorcus C., Lindqvist-Kreuze, H., Rabbi, Ismail Y., Rouard, Mathieu, Swennen, Rony L., Thiele, Graham

“…Breeding in the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) targets highly diverse biotic and abiotic constraints, whilst meeting complex end-user quality preferences to improve livelihoods of beneficiaries in developing countries. …”
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An analysis of land management stakeholders in Lushoto (Tanzania) and Ntcheu (Malawi). por Rosendahl, Judith

“…However, the contexts and conditions hindering land users’ uptake of SLM techniques are often poorly understood. …”
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Flood mitigation ecosystem service in landscapes of Argentina's Pampas: identifying winning and losing farmers por Barral, Maria Paula, Laterra, Pedro, Maceira, Nestor Oscar

“…Ecosystem services are only able to make a contribution to human well-being if they reach the users or beneficiaries. Therefore, it is important to differentiate the potential contributions of ecosystems (ecosystem service supply) from the fraction of the supply that is captured or used. …”
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