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Experimental games for developing institutional capacity to manage common water infrastructure in India by Falk, Thomas, Kumar, S., Srigiri, S.

“…External support in this regard focuses largely on the promotion of blueprint solutions such as community water funds or organizational capacity development of Water User Associations. Little attention is paid to supporting the communities in developing rules related to the actual water and water infrastructure management. …”
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Irrigation and energy: issues and challenges by Belaud, G., Mateos, L., Aliod, R., Buisson, Marie-Charlotte, Faci, E., Gendre, S., Ghinassi, G., Gonzales Perea, R., Lejars, C., Maruejols, F., Zapata, N.

“…Technical, economic and environmental issues are linked in many ways, involving farmers, water users’ associations, energy suppliers, engineers and other stakeholders. …”
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Plant biodiversity and genetic resources matter! by Ebert, Andreas W., Engels, Johannes M.M.

“…The integration of genomics and phenomics into germplasm and genebank management enhances the value of crop germplasm conserved ex situ, and is likely to increase its utilization in plant breeding, but presents major challenges for data management and the sharing of this information with potential users. Furthermore, also a better integration of in situ and ex situ conservation efforts will contribute to a more effective conservation and certainly to a more sustainable and efficient utilization. …”
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Identification, Prioritization and Mapping of Ecosystem Services in the Panchase Mountain Ecological Region of Western Nepal by Adhikari, S., Baral, H., Nitschke, C.R.

“…Interestingly, the prioritization of ES among stakeholders differed on the basis of their background, particular features of their landscape, professional engagement, and individual interests. For instance, forest users prioritized provisioning services for their daily needs whereas forest managers prioritized regulating and cultural services for overall ecosystem management and aesthetic values. …”
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The cultural economy of human waste reuse: Perspectives from peri-urban Karnataka, India by Burt, Z., Prasad, C. S. S., Drechsel, Pay, Ray, I.

“…The safe recovery and reuse of fecal sludge-derived fertilizer (FSF) has become an important policy discussion in low-income economies as a way to manage urban sanitation to benefit peri-urban agriculture. But what drives the user acceptance of composted fecal sludge? We develop a preference-ranking model to understand the attributes of FSF that contribute to its acceptance in Karnataka, India. …”
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Farmers and scientists in AR4D: Looking at a watershed management project through an STS lens by Habermann, Birgit, Vogl, C.R., Mekonnen, Kindu, Bekele, K., Felt, U.

“…We recommend STS to be applied more widely in AR4D to explore the nature of these networks to highlight what makes technology work for users in the long term.…”
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National Framework for Climate Services - Ethiopia: Coordination Guideline by National Meteorological Agency

“…Whereas the NFCS strategic plan has ambitious aims of delivering reliable climate services customized to different groups of users and building the capacity of climate institutions thereby contributing to effectiveness of the climate resilient green economy (CRGE) strategy and other overarching development plans of the nation. …”
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Galbase: A comprehensive repository for integrating chicken multi-omics data by Weiwei Fu, Rui Wang, Naiyi Xu, Jinxin Wang, Ran Li, Nanaei, H.A., Qinghua Nie, Xin Zhao, Han Jianlin, Ning Yang, Yu Jiang

“…A total of 21.67 million SNPs, 2.71 million InDels, and 488,583 cis-regulatory elements were included. Galbase allows users to retrieve genomic variations in geographical maps, gene expression profiling in heatmaps, and epigenomic signals in peak patterns. …”
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Climate change, differential impacts on women and gender mainstreaming: a case study of East Rapti Watershed, Nepal by Ray, A., Pandey, Vishnu Prasad, Dongol, R.

“…Despite 80% of female involvement in water user committees, there is a gap in participation by all groups of women. …”
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Capacity development for scaling conservation agriculture in smallholder farming systems in Latin America, South Asia, and Southern Africa: Exposing the hidden levels by Woltering, Lennart, Boa Alvarado, M., Stahl, J., Loon, Jelle J. van, Ortíz Hernández, E., Brown, B., Gathala, Mahesh Kumar, Thierfelder, Christian L.

“…However, both successful scaling and capacity development are held back by a persistent simplistic focus on 'reaching more end-users' and training at the individual level, respectively. …”
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REMATTOOL-R: a smart tool for identifying superior maize genotypes from multi-environment yield trials by Machida, Lewis, Huerta Rodriguez, Francisco, Makumbi, Dan, Tarusenga, Murisi

“…REMATTOOL-R is a robust, simple, user-friendly, and easily comprehensible tool, convenient for identifying superior genotypes during all the trial stages of a maize breeding program. …”
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FR2.2: Gender assessement of Potato Traits: A G+ Product Profiling application by Mwende, J., Mayanja, S., Nyaga, J., Sinelle, S., Renou, C., Onyango, C., Hareau, G., Polar, Vivian, Ashby, Jacqueline A., Okello, J.J.

“…In Sub-Saharan Africa, low adoption of improved varieties has been linked to breeding programs failing to consider end-user trait preferences and the interplay with gender. …”
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Problemscapes and hybrid water security systems in Central Ethiopia by Polaine, X. K., Nicol, Alan, Amezaga, J., Berihun, Mulatu L., Dessalegn, Mengistu, Haile, Alemseged Tamiru

“…The interactions in this part of Central Ethiopia are notoriously complex, with sets of critical water management issues at national and international scale, hybrid water security challenges across user communities, and contested management at different scales amidst multiple, and sometimes competing, ideologies. …”
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Gender, Deliberation, and Natural Resource Governance: Experimental Evidence from Malawi by Dulani, B., Clayton, A., Kosec, Katrina, Robinson, A.

“…Women also face many informal barriers to accessing information and fully participating in decision making due to gender and family norms, despite the fact that – as the primary gatherers and users of natural resources – their participation is crucial for change in resource utilization. …”
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Ecosystems Services from Community Forestry: Prospects and Challenges for Improving Local Livelihoods in Nepal by Ojha, H., Paudel, N.S., Timsina, J., Chaudhary, S., Baral, H.

“…Yet, there is still a lack of evidence on the degree to which community forest user groups are expanding their forest management practices by including additional range of ES. …”
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The contributions of scale-appropriate farm mechanization to hunger and poverty reduction: Evidence from smallholder systems in Nepal by Paudel, Gokul Prasad, Gartaula, Hom Nath, Rahut, Dil Bahadur, Justice, Scott, Krupnik, Timothy J., McDonald, Andrew J.

“…These methods control the biases that arise from observed heterogeneities between mini-tillers users and nonusers. Findings: he study findings show that farm size, labor shortages, draft animal scarcity, market proximity, household assets and household heads' educational level influence the adoption of mechanization in Nepal. …”
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Women who do not migrate: intersectionality, social relations, and participation in western Nepal by Shrestha, Gitta, Pakhtigian, E. L., Jeuland, M.

“…Women’s opportunities to participate in economic systems such as natural resource user committees and non-governmental organisation trainings are moderated by intersecting identities including gender, caste/ethnicity, kinship, age, and economic status. …”
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Establishing the linkage between Eba's instrumental and sensory descriptive profiles and their correlation with consumer preferences: implications for cassava breeding by Alamu, Emmanuel Oladeji, Teeken, Béla, Ayetigbo, Oluwatoyin, Adesokan, Michael, Kayondo, Ismail, Chijioke, Alamu Ugo, Madu, Tessy, Okoye, Benjamin, Abolore, Bello, Njoku, Damian, Rabbi, Ismail, Egesi, Chiedozie N., Ndjouenkeu, Robert, Bouniol, Alexandre, Sousa, Kauê de, Dufour, Dominique, Maziya-Dixon, Busie

“…The color, sensory, and instrumental textural properties of these products were determined using standard analytical methods, and standard operating protocols (SOPs) developed by the RTBfoods project (Breeding Roots, Tubers, and Banana Products for End‐user Preferences, https://rtbfoods.cirad.fr). There were significant (P < 0.05) correlations between instrumental hardness and sensory hardness and between adhesiveness and sensory moldability. …”
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Smallholder farmers' willingness to pay for two-wheel tractor-based mechanisation services in Zambia and Zimbabwe by Ngoma, Hambulo, Marenya, Paswel Phiri, Tufa, Adane H., Alene, Arega D., Chipindu, Lovemore, Matin, Md Abdul, Thierfelder, Christian L., Chikoye, David

“…Yet previous and ongoing efforts ubiquitously suffer from lack of scientific information on end-user effective demand for different types of mechanical innovations to inform public investment or business development programmes. …”
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The Role of Multistakeholder Platforms in Environmental Governance: Analyzing Stakeholder Perceptions in Kalomo District, Zambia, Using Q-Method by Siangulube, F.S.

“…This study uses Q-methodology to analyze the perceptions of purposefully selected stakeholders from state institutions, civil society organizations, land users, and others familiar with existing MSPs at the district and village levels. …”
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