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An Alliance for Accelerated Change: Food system solutions at the nexus of agriculture, environment, and nutrition - Strategy 2020–2025 by Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

“…Food systems are both a victim of these crises – climate change, for example, is driving down productivity of agricultural systems around the world – and a culprit – with agriculture and related land uses accounting for 23 percent of human greenhouse gas emissions and a major driver of habitat and biodiversity loss. …”
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Stakeholder Mapping, Social Network and Multi-Stakeholder Strategies Analysis in Mali’s Small Ruminant Value Chain, Plus a Dive into Multi-Stakeholder Innovation Platforms as a Fo... by Idoudi, Zied, Ahmadou, Sow, Rudiger, Udo, Sacko, Idrissa, Dione, Michel, Rekik, Mourad

“…Additionally, they delved into the concept of Multi-Stakeholder Innovation Platform (MSIP) as a means to drive inclusive SAPLING innovation packages in Mali. …”
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WP5: Understanding and influencing agency and behaviour change in India: Activity 5.1 country brief by Singh, Sonali, Freed, Sarah

“…In India, AE-I ALLs operates across diverse regions, contributing to the transformation of agriculture practices. …”
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Domestic forests: a new paradigm for integrating local communities’ forestry into tropical forest science by Michon, G., Foresta, H. de, Levang, P., Verdeaux, F.

“…They also addressed evolutionary trends and driving forces, as well as potential and limits for forest conservation and development, mitigation of deforestation, biodiversity conservation, and poverty alleviation in a context of global environmental, political, and social change. …”
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Innovations in insuring the poor: Experience with weather index-based insurance in India and Malawi by Giné, Xavier

“…Index-based insurance is an innovative financial product that has been introduced in recent years in countries as diverse as India, Malawi, Mongolia, and Thailand. …”
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The apparent population crash in heath-hares Lepus timidus sylvaticus of southern Sweden by Winiger, Alexander

“…It has been suggested that climate warming, habitat degradation, pathogens, predation and interspecific competition are potential candidates to drive this supposed decline. How these ecological mechanisms could function in detail, however, has not been clarified. …”
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Supplementary material to Micro-environmental variation of soil microbial biodiversity differs across land use types – implications for field sampling designs by Alvarez, Valeria Esther, El Mujtar, Veronica Andrea, Salles, Joana Falcão, Xiu, Jia, Castan, Elisa, Cardozo, Andrea, Tittonell, Pablo Adrian

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

“…To enhance the effectiveness and impact of start-ups, several key recommendations are proposed: foster collaboration among start-ups in complementary fields to create integrated solutions, provide targeted support for scaling through funding and strategic partnerships, and develop tailored funding programs to address diverse needs. 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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Rehabilitation and renovation of cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) agroforestry systems. A review by Somarriba, E., Peguero, F., Cerda, R., Orozco Aguilar, L.A., López Sampson, A., Leandro-Muñoz, M.E., Jagoret, P., Sinclair, Fergus L.

“…In this review, we (1) explore the diversity of contexts, driving forces, stakeholders and recommended management practices involved in Rh/Re initiatives in key cocoa-producing countries; (2) summarise the often conflicting views of farmers and extension agents on Rh/Re programmes; (3) review the evidence of age-related changes in planting density and yield of cocoa, given the weight of these variables in Rh/Re decision processes; (4) describe the best known Rh/Re systems and their most common management practices; (5) propose an agroforestry Re approach that overcomes the limitation of current Rh/Re diagnosis protocols, which do not consider the regular flow of food crop and tree products, and the need to restore site soil quality to sustain another cycle of cultivation of cocoa at the same site; and (6) explore the effects of climate change considerations on Rh/Re decision-making and implementation processes.…”
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Scaling Gender-Smart Agriculture through Sustainable Finance in the Sahel by Costa, Ciniro, Derenoncourt, Marie Ena, Masika, Daniel, Mufti, Samaa, Newman, Richard, Grosjean, Godefroy

“…As the Accelerator-technical assistance is implemented, companies are likely to double climate change mitigation and adaptation impacts. Major interventions driving changes are: climate information services (CIS), water and soil management (Adaptation); agroforestry, efficient fertilizers use, and renewable energy (Mitigation); improved ag-practices and food loss reduction (Productivity). …”
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The welfare-enhancing role of irrigation in farm households in northern Ghana by Owusu, Eric S., Namara, Regassa E., Kuwornu, J.K.M.

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Clean up this mess? by Cartbo, Frida

“…Today we see a demand for diversity and specifics as well as a more process-orientated design within the field of architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning. …”
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Documentación by Ovalle Másmela, Juan Camilo, Uribe Gutiérrez, Liz Alejandra

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Towards a sustainable, participatory and inclusive wild meat sector by Coad, L.M., Fa, J.E., Abernethy, K., Vliet, N. van, Santamaria, C., Wilkie, D., El Bizri, H.R., Ingram, D.J., Cawthorn, D.M., Nasi, R.

“…In response to a call from the Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat (CBD), this report presents a comprehensive overview of what constitutes the wild meat trade and what drives overexploitation. …”
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Interactions between breeding system and ploidy affect niche breadth in Solanum by Fumia, Nathan, Rubinoff, Daniel, Zenil-Ferguson, Rosana, Khoury, Colin K., Pironon, Samuel, Gore, Michael A., Kantar, Michael B.

“…Understanding the factors driving ecological and evolutionary interactions of economically important plant species is important for agricultural sustainability. …”
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Nature-Positive Solutions initiative baseline evaluation survey report: Kenya by Boukaka, Sedi Anne, Azzarri, Carlo, Davis, Kristin E., De Falcis, Eleonora

“…On the one hand, industrial agriculture drives 80 percent of deforestation, threatens 86 percent of the 28,000 species currently at risk of extinction (through habitat conversion and pollution), is responsible for significant loss of crop and genetic diversity and up to 37 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE), accelerates land degradation and land-use change, and uses 70 percent of global water resources withdrawn. …”
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Prospects and potentials of allele mining in chickpea for qualitative and quantitative traits by Pandey, Sarita, Anand, Abhishek, Rathore, Abhishek, Taddi, Satya, Kole, Chittaranjan

“…These genetic variations, ensconced within the diverse chickpea gene reservoir, hold considerable potential for driving the advancement of improved cultivars. …”
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Rehabilitation and renovation of cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) agroforestry systems. A review by Somarriba, Eduardo, Peguero, Felipe, Orozco-Aguilar, Luis, López-Sampson, Arlene, Leandro-Muñoz, Mariela E, Jagoret, Patrick, Sinclair, Fergus L.

“…In this review, we (1) explore the diversity of contexts, driving forces, stakeholders and recommended management practices involved in Rh/Re initiatives in key cocoa-producing countries; (2) summarise the often conflicting views of farmers and extension agents on Rh/Re programmes; (3) review the evidence of age-related changes in planting density and yield of cocoa, given the weight of these variables in Rh/Re decision processes; (4) describe the best known Rh/Re systems and their most common management practices; (5) propose an agroforestry Re approach that overcomes the limitation of current Rh/Re diagnosis protocols, which do not consider the regular flow of food crop and tree products, and the need to restore site soil quality to sustain another cycle of cultivation of cocoa at the same site; and (6) explore the effects of climate change considerations on Rh/Re decision-making and implementation processes. …”
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Human dimensions of forest landscape restoration by Mansourian, Stephanie, Derkyi, Mercy, Djenontin, Ida, Elias, Marlène, Oldekop, Johan, Pacheco, Pablo, Burns, Janice, Diederichsen, Anita, Kleine, Michael, Vallauri, Daniel, Walder, Bethanie

“…And as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration is driving even greater investments in FLR and other ecosystem restoration approaches, there is an urgent need to improve the ways that human dimensions are considered in all ecosystem restoration efforts. …”
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Differences in forest plant functional trait distributions across land-use and productivity gradients by Mayfield, M.M., Dwyer, J.M., Chalmandrier, L., Wells, J.A., Bonser, S.P., Catterall, C.P., DeClerck, Fabrice A.J., Yi Ding, Fraterrigo, J.M., Metcalfe, D.J., Queiroz, C., Vesk, P.A., Morgan, J.W.

“…Landscape productivity did not significantly alter the difference in trait variance between natural forest and land‐use conversion categories for any trait except dispersal.• Conclusions: Our results suggest that even for traits well linked to plant environmental response strategies, broad classes of land‐use change and landscape productivity are not generally useful indicators of the mechanisms driving compositional changes in human‐modified forest systems.…”
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