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A user guide to the Innovation Lab for Small Scale Irrigation (ILSSI) baseline survey data: Ethiopia and Tanzania by Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework, Bryan, Elizabeth, Choufani, Jowel, Davies, Emma, Ringler, Claudia, Passarelli, Simone

“…The ILSSI project is led by the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture at Texas A&M University, which also models the potential for upscaling of small-scale irrigation and environmental impacts and builds capacity using the Integrated Decision Support System (IDSS). …”
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Countries’ commitments to soil organic carbon in Nationally Determined Contributions by Wiese-Rozanova, Liesl D., Wollenberg, Eva Karoline, Alcántara Shivapatham, Viridiana, Richards, Meryl B, Shelton, Sadie W, Hönle, Susanna E, Heidecke, Claudia, Madari, Beáta E, Chenu, Claire

“…Including SOC targets in NDCs can improve NDCs’ comprehensiveness and transparency to track and compare policy progress across NDCs; it can also leverage SOC-related climate finance, technical support, and capacity building. Key policy insights: 1) Many NDCs specify practices known to have the potential to achieve SOC sequestration or protection without explicitly mentioning SOC. …”
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Understanding female and male empowerment in Burkina Faso using the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI): A longitudinal study by Crookston, Benjamin T., West, Josh H., Davis, Siena F., Hall, P. Cougar, Seymour, Greg, Gray, Bobbi L.

“…The purpose of this study was to determine whether the Building the Resilience of Vulnerable Communities in Burkina Faso (BRB) project, an agricultural development program, improved women’s empowerment, as measured by the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI). …”
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HER+ Gender Equality Impact Story Book by CGIAR Initiative on Gender Equality, Cummings, Sarah

“…The fourth story, Adoption of sustainable land management interventions in Ethiopia, provides a summary of how HER+ WP3 PROTECT has collaborated with World Vision International and others to integrate co-designed sustainable land management interventions within Ethiopia’s social protection programming, reaching women in poor rural households. …”
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Vägsaltets effekter på växter i urban- och offentligmiljö : ett växande problem by Andersson, Maria

“…The green sector can minimize damage by thinking through the design of an environment that will be exposed to road salt, making use of plant material that is capable of road salt, building up protection of various types, think about the choice of soil, management and recommend how snow removal should be managed, to avoid getting snow and slush that contains salt in to sensitive plant beds. …”

Attenuation of a pathogenic Mycoplasma strain by modification of the obg gene by using synthetic biology approaches by Lartigue, C., Valverde Timana, Y., Labroussaa, F., Schieck, Elise G., Liljander, Anne M., Sacchini, Flavio, Posthaus, H., Batailler, B., Sirand-Pugnet, P., Vashee, S., Jores, Joerg, Blanchard, Alain

“…This study demonstrates the feasibility of building attenuated strains of mycoplasma that could contribute to the design of novel vaccines with improved safety. …”
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Fåglar och spridning av salmonellasmitta - råd till mjölk- och nötköttsproducenter by Rosberg, Ida

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Continuous observations of CO2 and CH4 exchange from East-African rangelands by Merbold, Lutz, Odongo, Vincent O., Dowling, T., Fava, F., Glücks, I., Vrieling, A., Wooster, M., Leitner, Sonja

“…Instead, pastoral livestock keeping is a valuable option to use these marginal lands and – under the right management – can be a sustainable form of food production and biodiversity protection given that most of these landscapes have co-evolved with megafauna over millennia. …”
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Improving elements of haricot bean value chain in Alaba Special District, Southern Ethiopia: Experiences from IPMS by Shiferaw, A., Berhe, Kahsay, Jaleta, Moti, Gebremedhin, Berhanu, Hoekstra, Dirk

“…Initial intervention focused at building farmers capacity to multiply seed and establish seed bank using visits, trainings, demonstration, workshops, promotion and discussion. …”
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Prosperity prospects in contested forest areas: evidence from community forestry development in Guatemala and Nicaragua by Stoian, D., Rodas, A., Arguello, J.

“…In Nicaragua, however, building of social capital has been insufficient for inducing a self-sustaining process of CFE development. …”
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Shinyssd v1.0: Species sensitivity distributions for ecotoxicological risk assessment by D'Andrea, María Florencia, Brodeur, Julie Céline

“…A minimum of species is necessary to build a SSD curve varies according to the literature (Belanger et al., 2016; Newman et al., 2000; Plant Protection Products & Residues, 2013; Wheeler, Grist, Leung, Morritt, & Crane, 2002). …”
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The Guardian Forest : sacred trees and ceremonial forestry in Japan by Nilzén, Oscar

“…Forests at shrines are often protected via designation as natural heritage or national treasures, and trees are often designated as historic monuments. …”

Annual report 2021: CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets by CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets

“…PIM tools enabled more equitable co-management of 76 protected areas in Peru and informed World Bank social protection projects. …”
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Livelihoods in Sudan amid armed conflict: Evidence from a national rural household survey by International Food Policy Research Institute, United Nations Development Programme, Kirui, Oliver K., Ahmed, Mosab O. M., Siddig, Khalid, Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum, Abushama, Hala, Dorosh, Paul A., Fakih, Ali, Terefe, Fekadu, Nohra, Nada, AlAzzawi, Shireen, Intini, Vito, Merouani, Walid

“…Enhancing public services, supporting livelihoods, building resilience through shock-responsive social protection systems, agricultural and economic interventions, and ensuring equitable access to resources and markets for all households, particularly those headed by women and vulnerable groups, are the principal policy recommendations that emerged from this analysis. …”
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Uttrar och faunapassager by Suup Hietala, Sara

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Bebygga eller bevara? by Yngwe, Kristina

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Comprehensive Analysis of Business Models of AgriTechs in Uzbekistan by Kumari, Jyothi, Govind, Ajit, Akramkhanov, Akmal

“…Additionally, encourages exploration of regional and global markets, strengthens capacity-building efforts to improve technology use, and facilitates cross-sector knowledge sharing to drive innovation. …”
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Climate Change and Agriculture: Adaptation Strategies and Mitigation Opportunities for Food Security in South Asia and Latin America by Jat, Mangi Lal, Dagar, Jagdish Chander, Sapkota, Tek Bahadur, Singh, Yadvinder P., Govaerts, Bram, López Ridaura, Santiago, Saharawat, Yashpal S., Sharma, Ramesh Kumar, Tetarwal, J.P., Jat, Raj K., Hobbs, Huntington, Stirling, Clare M.

“…These countries need to formulate both short-term and long-term policies for improvement, sustenance, and protection of natural resources. There is an urgent need for capacity building through international collaboration in order to develop databases and analysis systems for efficient weather forecasting as well as preparing contingency plans for vulnerable areas. …”
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Från trafikled till stadsstråk by Carlén, Vide

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Rishägn : ett möjligt alternativ som beteskydd vid plantering? by Lidwall, Karin

“…To find out if the branch-pile fence can be a practical- as well as economical good alternative to other types of browsing protections, interviews were conducted with people who had experience of different browsing-protections. …”