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Assessing gender and social inclusion in seed access: A framework and Indicators by Bomuhangi, Allan, Puskur, Ranjitha, Yila, Jummai, Nchanji, Eileen, Tennet, Suchaita, Tihanyi, Krisztina, Mugoya, Mainza

“…The paper explores how these indicators can inform policies and interventions that effectively benefit the most vulnerable seed users.…”
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Understanding decision-makers and their needs: framing Global Burden of Animal Diseases offerings to enhance relevance and increase impact by Smith, D., Cooper, T.L., Utomo, B.N., Wiyono, A., Kusumaningtyas, E., Endrawati, D., Adji, R.S., Tenzin, G., Nuradji, H., Dharmayanti, N.L.P.I., Grace, Delia

“…The authors propose an ‘evidence ecosystem’ approach, one that understands data users and their interactions, for analysing the needs of decision-makers, and framing GBADs offerings according to these needs. …”
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Woodlot devolution in Northern Ethiopia: opportunities for empowerment, smallholder income diversification and sustainable land management by Jagger, Pamela, Pender, John L., Gebremedhin, Berhanu

“…We find that more devolved woodlot management empowers resource users by providing greater autonomy regarding the management of woodlots, and in particular the ability to make decisions about the harvest of woodlot products. …”
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Land rights for African development: from knowledge to action by Mwangi, Esther

“…These innovations include: • adjusting received law to customary norms and rules of land holding and access, as opposed to outright replacing customary tenure • altering lending rules by banks and financial institutions to promote land-related investments (even on land regulated by customary and/or religious law) • de-emphasizing the notion of ownership and refocusing on use rights in order to secure women’s rights and access • restructuring conventional land administration systems to support group-based rights structures • encouraging decentralized land management systems that reflect local cultural norms and practices • in situations of multiple, overlapping resource use, strengthening processes of negotiation and conflict resolution as opposed to a generic concern with substantive rights in order to secure the access of permanent and transitory resource users.…”
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Agricultural greenhouse gas emission factors [SAMPLES Database] by Richards, Meryl, Costa Junior, Ciniro

“…This document contains agriculture emission factors collected between 2000 and 2020 from published datasets that was housed on the Standard Assessment of Agricultural Mitigation Potential and Livelihoods (SAMPLES) website managed by the former CGIAR Research Program Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). Users were able to download site-specific emission factors and associated agroecological data for use in greenhouse gas accounting or inventories and find links and contact information to access full datasets for use in biogeochemical modeling. …”
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A shock to the (food) system: Using new IFPRI tools to evaluate household food security outcomes by Comstock, Andrew, Ecker, Olivier, Jones, Eleanor

“…The tool, currently available for Kenya, Nigeria, and Ethiopia, allows users to enter positive and negative price or income changes, along with food preference changes (in the Ethiopia version) in percentage terms and provides simulated changes for a diverse set of food-consumption- and diet-quality-related indicators. …”
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Extreme trait GWAS (Et-GWAS): Unraveling rare variants in the 3,000 rice genome by Gnanapragasam, Niranjani, Prasanth, Vinukonda Vishnu, Sundaram, Krishna Tesman, Kumar, Ajay, Pahi, Bandana, Gurjar, Anoop, Venkateshwarlu, Challa, Kalia, Sanjay, Kumar, Arvind, Dixit, Shalabh, Kohli, Ajay, Singh, Uma Maheshwer, Singh, Vikas Kumar, Sinha, Pallavi

“…Validation with resistant starch showed similar results. To enhance user-friendliness, we developed a GUI for Et-GWAS; https://et-gwas.shinyapps.io/Et-GWAS/.…”
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Greywater use for food security in refugee camps: a guidance note for risk management by Drechsel, Pay

“…The report emphasizes tailoring reuse strategies to local housing types, resource availability, and user capacity. Stakeholder engagement, especially among women, is essential for crop choices, risk mitigation, and long-term maintenance. …”
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REC SWAG Meeting on Mainstreaming Climate Risk Management Curriculum in Kenya’s Agricultural Extension and Advisory Service by Dinh, Dannie, Hansen, James, Grossi, Amanda, Dinku, Tufa

“…Strengthening the capacity of next users, particularly agricultural extension and advisory service (EAS) providers who work to support farmers in Senegal and five other target countries, is crucial for achieving this goal. …”
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Linkage analysis and integrated software GAPL for pure-line populations derived from four-way and eight-way crosses by Zhang, Luyan, Meng, Lei, Wang, Jiankang

“…However, efficient genetic analysis methods and user-friendly software are still lacking. In this study, we developed linkage analysis methods and integrated analysis software for pure-line populations derived from four-way and eight-way crosses. …”
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Getting it right, a guide to improve inclusion in multistakeholder forums by Evans, Kristen, Monterroso, Iliana, Ombogoh, Douglas B., Liswanti, Nining, Tamara, Ade

“…In particular, we analyzed how these actors participate and/or are represented in spaces such as forest user group committees, co-management groups or forest commodity roundtable meetings. …”
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Digital Ecosystem for Rice Activity Monitoring and Reporting (RiceMoRe) by Yen, Bui Tan

“…Key functions of RiceMoRe include standardizing rice activity data from the communal to the national level, supporting geo-referenced data collection, recording near-real-time production activities, enabling data querying, synchronization, and extraction, and managing hierarchical user accounts. Looking ahead, RiceMoRe holds significant potential for expanding Vietnam’s digital agricultural ecosystem. …”
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Co-development enables holistic digital traceability of sustainability. The case of Peruvian cocoa by Hidalgo, Francisco, Jones, Sarah K., Sanchez, Andrea, Ivanova, Yovita, Sánchez Choy, José G., Mockshell, Jonathan, Steinke, Jonathan

“…The use of a compact, yet holistic, set of agroecological metrics, and implementation of iterative programming and testing cycles with end-users, were key attributes to achieving systems’ contextualization and applicability. …”
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Research on non-timber forest products in selected countries in Southern and East Africa: themes, research issues, priorities and constraints by Ruíz Pérez, M., Broekhoven, A.J., Aluma, J.W.R., Iddi, S., Lowore, J.D., Mutemwa, S.M., Odera, J.A.

“…It is concluded that since the main relevance of non-timber forest products in Southern and East Africa is at the local and subsistence level, an elaboration of the results of the meeting into workable research questions and methods should be defined at that level in an iterative process of action research, involving researchers and local users and managers of the forest. The meeting can be considered as a first, though authoritative, approximation of the needs in research on non-timber forest products in the region. …”
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Irrigation scheduling: reference manual by Raes, D., Shrestha, Nirman

“…The handbook includes hands-on examples, decision-making tips, and guidance on interpreting field data, making it suitable for a wide range of users - from extension workers and planners to farmers themselves. …”
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Report of the Participatory Scenario Planning (PSP) Workshop for Machakos County, Kenya for March to May (MAM) 2025 Rainfall season by Wachana, Calistus, Musilu, Bahati, Jelagat, Joyce, Machio, Paula, Kipkogei, Oliver, Seid, Hussen

“…As part of project efforts to address the current limited linkages between ICPAC/KMD and beneficiary communities at local levels, a climate demonstration pilot was proposed by the project to support structured interaction between users, researchers and climate service providers in Kenya. …”
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Bayesian divergence-based approach for genomic multitrait ordinal selection by Villar-Hernández, Bartolo de Jesús, Singh, Pawan Kumar, Lozano, Nerida, Vitale, Paolo, Gerard, Guillermo Sebastián, Breseghello, Flavio, Dreisigacker, Susanne, Crossa, Jose

“…The MPS-R package implements this methodology through user-friendly functions tailored for ordinal trait selection in breeding applications. …”
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Training guide: advancing paddy mapping using open-source earth observation data and geospatial technologies by Jayamini, Kalpani, Alahacoon, Niranga, Amarnath, Giriraj

“…Hands-on examples and a downloadable notebook help users run analyses, visualize outputs, and save work to Google Drive. …”
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Criterios e indicadores para avaliacao da sustentabilidade de empresa florestal em Tailandia, Para, na Amazonia Brasileira by Pokorny, B., Bauch, R.

“…It was clear that for potential users of C&I monitoring and auditing tools, practicability and simplicity were very important, as well as the relation of costs and benefits. …”
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Formation and recovery of secondary forests in India: a particular reference to western Ghats in South India by Bhat, D.M., Murali, K.S., Ravindranath, N.H.

“…In the pre colonial period, hunter gatherers, shifting cultivators and settled cultivators were the dominant users of forest land, with some limited timber felling by local chieftains and kings. …”
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