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Fresh tracks in the forest: assessing incipient payments for environmental services initiatives in Bolivia by Robertson, N., Wunder, Sven

“…Main obstacles to PES implementation include ideological resistance against the PES concept, the difficulty of building trust between buyers and sellers, and limited willingness to pay on behalf of service users. During their relatively short lifetime, basically all initiatives had been successful in making service sellers (PES recipients) better off in economic terms, while the effectiveness in achieving environmental objectives and securing positive social impacts so far remained more variable. …”
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Participatory forest management, equity and local governance – keynote address by Colfer, C.J.P., Komarudin, Heru, German, L., Nyangas, S., Siagian, Y., Tanui, J.

“…This paper briefly reviews CIFOR’s experience using participatory action research working with communities, user groups within communities, and with governments at various levels, in Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, Ghana, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, Malawi, Nepal, Philippines, and Zimbabwe. …”
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Policies for reduced deforestation and their impact on agricultural production by Angelsen, A.

“…The second set aims to increase either extractive or protective forest rent and—more importantly— create institutions (community forest management) or markets (payment for environmental services) that enable land users to capture a larger share of the protective forest rent. …”
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Local social and environmental impacts of biofuels: Global comparative assessment and implications for governance by German, L., Schoneveld, George C., Pacheco, P.

“…We also explore the implications for governing the environmental impacts of biofuel feedstock production, protecting the rights of customary land users, and enabling smallholder-inclusive business models. …”
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Water resource models in the Mekong Basin: A review by Johnston, R., Kummu, M.

“…Economic models have been used to assess the costs and benefits of water resources development and to describe the trade-offs between different sectors and users. These analyses are likely to play an important role in the policy and planning debate, but are hampered by uncertainties in valuation of ecosystem services. …”
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LIMS: Database for livestock performance data. Version 1.2. Computer program with system documentation by Metz, T., Asfaw, M.D.

“…The objective is to provide user with a computerised tool that allows them to manage complex livestock performance data set, and to provide help in livestock management without relying on specialist computer and data management support. …”
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In-village studies of the use of work oxen in central Mali by Bartholomew, P.W., Khibe, T., Ly, R.

“…Amongst 186 farmers interviewed in 1986 in central Mali 95 percent declared having used oxen for at least some part of their crop production activities. Most of the users (98 percent) had exploited oxen for soil preparation, but only 66 percent had used animal-drawn equipment for weeding. …”
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Climate services for smallholder farmers: helping farmers cope with risk by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…Climate information should be accompanied by services that communicate, train and help users understand how to interpret and act on the information.…”
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Investing in agricultural water management to benefit smallholder farmers in Zambia. AgWater Solutions Project country synthesis report. by Evans, Alexandra E.V., Giordano, Meredith A., Clayton, Terry

“…Measures likely to improve the performance of small reservoirs include coordinating and integrating multiple users, facilitating multiple institutional arrangements and strengthening existing policies, procedures and links within organizations along with more transparency in planning, contract awards and construction. …”
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Beyond the climate science: CCAFS downscaled climate data applied by development agencies around the world by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…Almost 1700 institutions from 185 countries have used the portal for a range of purposes, including: studying climate change impacts at the country-level for informing decision makers, government planning, informing crop insurance policy development, and water policy development. The users included around 400 non-research institutions from 60 countries, indicative of the portal’s popularity outside of the research community.…”
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Developing self-perpetuating social learning: moving from constructive intervention to more autonomous group learning for drip irrigation in Morocco by Harvey, Blane, Ensor, Jonathan, Garside, Ben, Woodend, John, Naess, Lars Otto, Carlile, Liz

“…However, despite the state’s attempts to transfer responsibilities to associations of water users, it retains control of large-scale irrigation schemes. …”
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The energy-irrigation nexus by International Water Management Institute

“…But metering is the ideal solution only if the cost of metering and billing 14 million scattered, small users in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh is ignored. …”
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Water rights in informal economies in the Limpopo and Volta basins by van Koppen, Barbara

“…As the new laws have hardly been implemented as yet for various reasons that are further explored in this research, this research provides a timely analysis of the processes at stake and identifies alternative legal tools that recognizes informal water arrangements thereby protecting and encouraging small-scale water users to expand their water use. The generic findings from Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mozambique, and South Africa have generic validity throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.…”
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Companion modeling for resilient water management: Stakeholders’ perceptions of water dynamics and collective learning at the catchment scale by International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center

“…The project specific objectives were threefold: (i) Methodological development by offering tools and a methodology for their use to enhance the capacity of expression of stakeholders’ perceptions, to facilitate their collective assessment of water management problems, and to improve coordination among water users through the identification and assessment of scenarios of change leading to agreed-upon action plans, (ii) Capacity building by training a group of scientists and development officers engaged in the action research process on this methodology and its tools to test and adapt them to their needs at key sites, (iii) Participatory construction of concrete propositions to increase water productivity. …”
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Governing to grow enough food without enough water?second best solutions show the way by David, S., Lautze, Jonathan F., Shah, Tushaar, Bin, D., Giordano, Mark, Sanford, Luke

“…Agriculture, globally the largest user of water, is a major driver of water scarcity, and also the sector that has to bear the consequences of scarcity. …”
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Urban-agricultural water appropriation: the Hyderabad, India case by Celio, Mattia, Scott, Christopher A., Giordano, Mark

“…The result is that urban water capture, and the appropriation of associated physical and institutional infrastructure, now often implies conflict with other existing uses and users. While the urbanisation process has been studied in great depth, the processes and, critically, impacts of urban water capture and appropriation are not well researched or understood. …”
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Review of the CPWF small grants initiative by Woolley, Jonathan N.

“…For a total investment of under US$1 million – less than the equivalent of a typical 3-5 year CPWF research for development project in Phase 1, the small grant projects made significant contributions to identifying water and food technology for specific end users (thus showing the potential of CPWF research in general); to better understanding of adoption; to stimulating research by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and to better connecting CPWF researchers in general to the reality of the development process. …”
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A spatially predictive logistic regression model for occurrence of theileriosis outbreaks in Zimbabwe by Pfeiffer, Dirk U., Duchateau, L., Kruska, Russell L., Ushewokunze-Obatolu, U., Perry, Brian D.

“…With the advent of spatial databases and geographic information systems (GIS) the level of spatial aggregation can be easily controlled by the end user and is only limited by the spatial units at which the data has been collected. …”
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Biometrics and research methods teaching resource by International Livestock Research Institute

“…A 'Discovery' version of GenStat, free to users in sub-Saharan Africa, is distributed alongside this teaching resource.…”
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Selection of appropriate calculators for landscape-scale greenhouse gas assessment for agriculture and forestry by Columb V, Touchemoulin O, Bockel, Louis, Chotte, Jean-Luc, Martin S, Tinlot M, Bernoux, Martial

“…This letter is intended to help potential users select the most appropriate calculator for a landscape-scale greenhouse gas (GHG) assessment of activities for agriculture and forestry. …”
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