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Socio-cultural determinants of on-farm policies and Innovation adoption in Ghana by Ofosu-ampong, Kingsley, Yaovi Comlan, Rene, Jizorkuwie, Abdul-latif Baamonyor, Abera, Wuletawu, Yeboah, Patricia Amankwaa, Masoud, Jalaludeen

“…Using a cross-sectional design, we collected data from 568 farmers who cultivate cereals and legumes such as maize, millet, sorghum, soybeans and groundnuts. …”
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Socio-cultural determinants of on-farm policies and innovation adoption in Ghana by Ofosu-Ampong, Kingsley, Yaovi Comlan, Rene, Jizorkuwie, Abdul-latif Baamonyor, Yeboah, Patricia Amankwaa, Masoud, Jalaludeen, Abera, Wuletawu

“…Using a cross sectional design, we collected data from 568 farmers who cultivate cereals and legumes such as maize, millet, sorghum, soybeans and groundnuts. …”
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Can government-allocated land contribute to food security? Intrahousehold analysis of West Bengal’s Microplot allocation program by Santos, Florence, Fletschner, Diana, Savath, Vivien, Peterman, Amber

“…Our results indicate that the program’s implementation at the block level allowed for considerable variation in the processes used to select beneficiaries, to demarcate plots, to distribute titles and to provide infrastructure support. …”
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A spatial perspective to introducing biofortified staple food crops in Colombia by Funes, José, González, Carolina, Perez, S., Birol, Ekin, Moursi, Mourad, Zeller, Manfred

“…It is based on three sub-indexes, namely production, consumption, and micronutrient deficiency, all developed with subnational-level representative data. The Global BPI, however, is not granular enough to suggest within country investment opportunities for biofortification. …”
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Scaling Climate Smart Agriculture in East Africa: Experiences and Lessons by Kirina, Thomas, Groot, Annemarie, Shilomboleni, Helena, Ludwig, Fulco, Demissie, Teferi Dejene

“…Understanding scaling processes is essential to the design of a sustainable scaling strategy. …”
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Characterization of dairy goat production systems in coastal valleys of the Lima region by Paredes Chocce, Miguel Enrique, Ramírez Vergara, Raúl Omar, Trillo Zárate, Fritz Carlos, Cruz Luis, Juancarlos Alejandro

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Mapping Ecosystem Services to Human Well-being: a toolkit to support integrated landscape management for the SDGs by Johnson, J.A., Jones, S.K., Wood, S.L.R., Chaplin-Kramer, Rebecca, Hawthorne, P.L., Mulligan, M., Pennington, D., DeClerck, Fabrice A.J.

“…Development of the software and its functionality were informed by a broad stakeholder consultation with ministries, non‐governmental organizations and civil society groups in West Africa to identify common barriers to uptake and application of modeling tools in developing countries. In light of this process, key features included in MESH are (1) integration of multiple ecosystem service (ES) models into a common modeling framework supported by a curated base data set, (2) built‐in scenario generation capacity to support policy analysis, (3) visualization of outcomes and trade‐offs, and (4) mapping of ecosystem service change to SDG targets and goals. …”
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Innovation portfolio management for responsible food systems transformation in the public sector: Lessons, results and recommendations from CGIAR by Schut, Marc, Colomer, Julien, Proud, Emma, Bonaiuti, Enrico, Dror, Iddo, Kang'ethe, Edwin, Esquivias, Lorena, Leeuwis, Cees

“…METHODS An in-depth analysis of CGIAR's approach to innovation portfolio management is based on qualitative and quantitative data from sources such as interviews, observations, documents, and archival records. …”
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Impacts of Off Take Rate through Small Ruminant Marketing on Food and Nutrition Security, Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Adaptive Capacity in Extensive Systems in Ethiopia: A Narrati... by Dussie, Tsegaye, Chalchisa, Tamiru, Bekele, Yadeta, Mekuriaw, Shigdaf, Van Dijk, Suzanne, Makonnen, Brook

“…This review examines the interplay between small ruminant off-take rates and three critical dimensions: food and nutrition security, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and adaptive capacity in extensive production systems. The review process adopted the PRISMA model and entirely relied on secondary data. …”
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Mapping and monitoring agricultural land use in West Africa by Alabi, T., Xiao, X., Sonder, K., Biradar, Chandrashekhar M., Birte, J., Mbaye, Y.

“…In the Maputo declaration of 2004 the African governments committed to spending at least 10% of the national budget resources on a process of revitalizing the agricultural sector. For proper planning and investment strategies as well as policies to direct these for different crops, cropping systems and agricultural markets recent landuselandcover maps are necessary. …”
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Global perspectives on the biodegradation of LDPE in agricultural systems by Mendoza Merino, Jani Elisabet, Tineo Flores, Daniel, Chuquibala Checan, Beimer, Atalaya Marin, Nilton, Taboada Mitma, Victor Hugo, Tafur Culqui, Josué, Tarrillo Julca, Ever, Gómez Fernández, Darwin, Goñas Goñas, Malluri, Reyes Reyes, María Andrea

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Styrelserepresentativitet by Fermvik, Maria

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Ex-ante evaluation of interventions to upgrade pork value chains in southern Myanmar by Berends, J., Rich, Karl M., Kaitibie, S., Lyne, M.C.

“…Development interventions tend to be implemented in complex environments, often with scarce data to inform decision-making. This research shows how system dynamics tools and spatial group model building processes could help overcome these inherent challenges by creating virtual laboratories where plausible project interventions can be tested and modified, bringing increased confidence to implementation choices.…”
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Understanding trade-offs and synergies among soil functions to support decision-making for sustainable cultivated land use by Zhao, Rui, Gabriel, Jose Luis, Martin, Jose Antonio Rodriguez, Feng, Zhe, Wu, Kening

“…This study collected soil, topographic landform, climate, and management data from 151 fields in four counties and three climatic zones in China. …”
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Food Policy Research Capacity Indicators by Ahmed, Akhter

“…Earlier attempts to quantify and collect comparable data on other policy research outputs, such as policy briefs, interactions with government ministries, or conference contributions presented numerous challenges. …”
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Environmentally sound resource valuation for a more sustainable international trade : case of argentine maize by Rotolo, Gloria Claudia, Francis, Charles A., Ulgiati, Sergio

“…Assigning an appropriate value to traded resources involves a comprehensive assessment of all kinds of sources driving the process, in order to avoid their misappropriation and non-profitable use, while at the same time enhancing the environmental performance of the region for the long term. …”
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National level indicators for gender, poverty, food security, nutrition and health in Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) activities by Duffy, Colm, Murray, Una, Nowak, Andreea C., Girvetz, Evan Hartunian, Corner-Dolloff, Caitlin, Twyman, Jennifer, Huyer, Sophia, Jarvis, Andy, Spillane, Charles

“…The CPs are generated by the CGIAR CCAFS program with national partners, especially those involved in CSA related planning processes, to feed into analytical multi-stakeholder processes to prioritize CSA investment portfolios for scale-up and scale out. …”
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One CGIAR and the Integrated Agri-food Systems Initiative: From short-termism to transformation of the world’s food systems by Govaerts, Bram, Negra, Christine, Camacho Villa, Tania Carolina, Chavez Suarez, Xiomara, Espinosa, Anabell Diaz, Fonteyne, Simon, Gardeazábal Monsalve, Andrea, González, Gabriela, Gopal Singh, Ravi, Kommerell, Víctor, Kropff, Wietske, López Saavedra, Víctor, Mena Lopez, Georgina, Odjo, Sylvanus, Palacios Rojas, Natalia, Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando, Vega, Daniela, Loon, Jelle J. van, Verhulst, Nele, Woltering, Lennart, Jahn, Molly M., Kropff, Martin

“…To support national agri-food system policy processes, the Integrated Agri-food System Initiative (IASI) methodology was devel oped and validated through case studies in Mexico and Colombia. …”
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Strategiskt beslutsfattande by Oskarsson, Markus

“…The response rate of the questionnaire was 58 %. The collected data was analyzed with averages and t-tests. …”
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Greenhouse Gas Fluxes and Modelling from Rice Workshop: Report by Adviento-Borbe, M. Arlene, Ferrer, Anaida, Hasegawa, Toshihiro, Li, Tao, Mencos Contreras, Erik, Minamikawa, Kazunori, Radanielson, Ando, Rosenzweig, Cynthia, Sander, Bjoern Ole, Valdivia, Roberto

“…Modeling is central to bridging experimental research data with actionable mitigation and adaptation strategies at scale. …”
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