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A decision support system for sustainable and resilient water-energy-food management por Sikka, Alok, Sena, Dipaka Ranjan, Alam, Mohammad Faiz, Behera, Abhijit, Chaudhary, Shivam, Sharma, Ruchi, Chandu, Navya

“…The DSS includes a WEF Scenario Generator and a WEF Trade-off Index (WEFTI) calculator, which allow users to explore different interventions such as expanding irrigated area, crop diversification, and improvements in irrigation efficiency and other scenarios while evaluating their implications across water, energy, food, and ecosystem. …”
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Scaling site-specific fertilizer advisories in Ethiopia: Innovation use and practice por Mesfin, Tewodros, Ebrahim, Mohammed, Abera, Wuletawu

“…More than 1,430 geo-referenced on-farm piloting trials and substantial user engagement with digital advisory services highlight both adoption potential and delivery constraints. …”
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Guidelines for developing, testing and selecting criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management: a C & I developer's reference por Prabhu, Ravi, Colfer, C.J.P., Dudley, R.G.

“…The final chapter (9) provides possible baseline sets of C&I, available to users for evaluation and testing in their own contexts.…”
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How to know more about forests?: supply and use of information for forest policy por Janz, K., Persson, R.

“…A key proposal is to set up national ‘Analysis Units’ that will collate and interpret available infor-mation, help users to define their needs, and make the link with suppliers, so that information gathering can be more driven by demand. …”
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Reassessing the fuelwood situation in developing countries por Arnold, J.E.M., Persson, R.

“…New data and recent more accurate projections show that increasing urbanisation and rising incomes lead to fuelwood users shifting to charcoal and other fuels. The rate of increase in fuelwood use is slowing down and in some areas consumption is now in decline. …”
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Modelling carbon sequestration in afforestation and forest magement projects: the CO2FIX V 2.0 approach por Masera, O.R., Garza-Caligaris, J.F., Kanninen, M., Karjalainen, T., Liski, J., Nabuurs, G.J., Pussinen, A., Jong, B.H.J. de, Mohren, G.M.J.

“…The paper describes the Version 2 of the CO2FIX (CO2FIX V.2) model, a user-friendly tool for dynamically estimating the carbon sequestration potential of forest management, agroforesty and afforestation projects. …”
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Experiencias y retos del manejo forestal comunitario en América Tropical por Pokorny B., Sabogal, C., Jong, W. de, Stoian, D., Louman, Bastian, Pacheco, P., Porro, N.M.

“…Local peoples and communities in rural Latin America are the traditional users of extended areas of forests. Due to the advance of the agricultural frontier and forest degradation for inappropriate use, CFM is seen as a promising option to get a double goal: improve human welfare of local populations, and conserve forests. …”
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Minimizing the Livelihood Trade-Offs of Natural Resource Management in the Eastern African Highlands: Policy Implications of a Project in “Creative Governance” por German, L., Mazengia, W, Taye, H., Tsegaye, M., Ayele, Seife, Charamila, S., Wickama, J.

“…The highlands of Eastern Africa are characterized by high population densities and tightly coupled interactions between adjacent landscape units and users. Effective formal or informal natural resource governance is necessary to mitigate the potential negative social and environmental effects of individuals’ behavior. …”
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Conquering space and time: the challenge of emissions from land use change por Pena, N., Bird, N., Frieden, D., Zanchi, G.

“…The EU Renewable Energy Directive (EU-RED) abandons the Kyoto Protocol restriction of responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions to those occurring within national borders, it makes EU bioenergy users responsible for supply-chain emissions throughout the world. …”
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Homestead- and community-scale multiple-use water services: Unlocking new investment opportunities to achieve the millennium development goals por van Koppen, Barbara, Smits, S., Mikhail, M.

“…Providing double or triple the quantities of the design norms in the domestic subsector in poor rural and periurban areas allows water users to take up significant productive activities besides meeting domestic needs. …”
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Water implications of large-scale land acquisitions in Ghana por Williams, Timothy O., Gyampoh, B., Kizito, Fred, Namara, Regassa E.

“…Using secondary sources of data complemented by individual and group interviews, the paper reveals an almost universal lack of consideration of the implications of large-scale land deals for crop water requirements, the ecological functions of freshwater ecosystems and water rights of local smallholder farmers and other users. It documents the factors responsible for this apparent oversight including the multiplicity of land and water governance systems, sharp sectoral boundaries between land and water policies, property rights and institutions, outdated statutes, poorly resourced and ineffective regulatory agencies, and unequal power relations in land acquisition deals. …”
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Benefit sharing as a mechanism for improving transboundary water governance: the case of the eastern Nile Sub-basin. [Abstract only]. por Mapedza, Everisto D., Tafesse, T.

“…Viewed through a Boserupian lens, benefit sharing opens up the possibility of expanding the size of the 'cake' so that all users can gain from effective water utilization. …”
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Development of IWMI-AREO Collaborative Research Program to Improve Land and Water Management in Iran por Qureshi, Asad Sarwar

“…Since agriculture is the major user of water, therefore sustainability of agriculture depends on the timely and adequate availability of water. …”
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Assessing the economic impact of redistributing water within a catchment: a case study of the Musi Catchment in the Krishna Basin in India por Davidson, B., Hellegers, Petra J.G.J., Samad, Madar

“…This model was connected to a hydrological model and used to simulate various scenarios on the water situation facing users in the basin. This model is the forerunner of similar modeling attempts on similar problems in other regions of the Krishna Basin and in the Murray Darling Basin of Australia.…”
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The dynamics between water asymmetry, inequality and heterogeneity sustaining canal institutions in the Makanya Catchment, Tanzania por Komakech, H.C., Zaag, P. van der, van Koppen, Barbara

“…Unlike most research on collective action in which water asymmetry, inequality and heterogeneity are seen as risks to collective action, this study looked at how they dynamically interact and give rise to interdependencies between water users which facilitate coordination and collective action. …”
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Seeking calm water: exploring policy options for India's water future por Amarasinghe, Upali A., Shah, Tushaar, McCornick, Peter G.

“…Finally, while some of the increasing demands from domestic and industrial users will be met by the development of groundwater and reallocation of water from the agricultural sector, this will not be sufficient. …”
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Agriculture-urban water transfers: a case study of Hyderabad, South-India por Celio, Mattia, Giordano, Mark

“…An increase in groundwater use by farmers may have been one response to these changes, with possible implications for surface and groundwater users further downstream. While proposals have been put forth to compensate the agricultural sector in general and the farmers directly affected by reallocation, for example by improving access to wastewater for irrigation downstream from Hyderabad or by conveying wastewater for irrigation purposes downstream Singur reservoir, compensation has not been implemented to date. …”
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Forestry policy in colonial and postcolonial Zimbabwe: Continuity and change por Mapedza, Everisto D.

“…This paper examines how the fundamental policy perspective of forestry in Zimbabwe still perceives local peasant farmers to be unsustainable exploiters of forests. The local resource users have not remained passive recipients of the repressive forestry policies and practices based on science but have actively contested them since the 1950s.…”
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Empowering communities through participatory monitoring and evaluation in Tororo district por Pali, Pamela N., Nalukwago, G, Kaaria, Susan K., Sanginga, Pascal C., Kankwatsa, P

“…While this process is people centred, it draws on local people’s capacities, while giving the end users of a technology a voice. The experience of the Katamata farmers’ group in Tororo district using PM&E is given in this paper. …”
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Shaping global agendas on climate risk management and climate services: an IRI perspective por Hansen, James, Zebiak, Stephen E., Coffey, Kevin

“…The CSP is an informal, open network of interested climate information users, providers, donors and researchers, serves as a platform for knowledge sharing and collaboration to advance climate service capabilities worldwide. …”
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