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Putting power and politics central in Nepal’s water governance by Suhardiman, Diana, Karki, Emma, Bastakoti, Ram C.

“…Policy implications: Following federalism, the political transfer of power and decision-making, to achieve political representation and social justice, rests with locally elected governing bodies. This coincides with the government’s push to manage water resources through river basin planning. …”
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Budgetary influence under information asymmetries: Evidence from Nigeria’s subnational agricultural investments by Mogues, Tewodaj, Olofinbiyi, Tolulope

“…Within the first type of information asymmetry, we find that, despite the higher agricultural technical expertise that sector bureaucrats have vis-à-vis the elected non-sector-specific chief executives, it is the latter who heavily influence agricultural resource allocation. …”
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Integrating knowledge from computational modeling with multi-stakeholder governance: Towards more secure livelihoods through improved tools for integrated river basin management by CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food

“…The findings of the project suggest that donor agencies—before investing in new small reservoirs—should urgently address these problems, for example by strengthening the accountability of contractors and the irrigation administration to local water user organizations and their elected representatives. …”
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Norms, gender, and payment method affect extraction behavior in a framed field experiment on community forestry in India by Zhang, Wei, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Valappanandi, Sanoop, Balakrishna, Raksha, Reddy, Hemalatha, Janssen, Marco A., Thomas, Liya, Priyadarshini, Pratiti, Kandikuppa, Sandeep, Chaturvedi, Rahul, Ghate, Rucha

“…The experiment was designed and piloted as both a research activity and an experiential learning intervention during 2017-2018 with 120 groups of resource users (split by gender) from 60 habitations in two Indian states, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan. We examine whether local beliefs and norms about community forest, gender of participants, within-experiment treatments (non-communication, communication, and optional election of institutional arrangements (rules)) and remuneration methods affect harvest behaviour and groups’ tendency to cooperate. …”
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Meeting each other halfway: institutionalizing community participation in integrated development plans and water services development plans in South Africa by van Koppen, Barbara, Nohayi, Ngowenani, Jacobs-Mata, Inga, Nortje, Karen

“…With their grounded experiences of local needs and opportunities in the short route to accountability they provide precious information and agency to governmental and non-governmental support agencies, including the service providers they mobilise. …”
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Investment in forests: What role for community forestry in Nepal? by Adhikary, Anukram

“…It wasn’t until the early 1990s that strong political will was shown by the elected leaders to support the tenure rights devolution agenda. …”
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Deployment of combined technologies to smallholder farmers in Kenya: Clearinghouse technical report series 002 by Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation

“…This approach appears to have generated significant interest among local farming communities as evidenced by the large turnout at “last mile” agro-dealer open houses. …”
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Bildandeprocessen för svenska biosfärområden by Andersson, Stina

Implementation of renewable energy in the Republic of Moldova : society and landscape in transition by Kjellberg, Annelie

“…The study has aimed to investigate the sociotechnical complexity of this subject and to discuss the potentials and way of dealing with the subject in the specific cultural context of Moldova. In my local interviews I have focused on the village Lozova. …”

Nya Svenska Lantmännen och dess MO-organisation by Ovelius, Sara, Thisner, Helena

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Les paso la posta. De la acción colectiva a la acción organizada y transformaciones en la organización y en los actores. El caso FECOAGRO Ltda. by Celi, Ariadna

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Arkitekturtävlingar och platsbesök by Lindbeck, Örjan, Ståhlbom, Erik

“…It is also located in the intersection of two state highways, generating a great deal of pass-through traffic. • Support economical growth and create a favourable commercial environment, supporting local businesses. Our understanding is that most architects today use the internet as a complement to visiting the site. …”
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La gestión de los conflictos por el agua. La experiencia reciente del distrito Anzulón en los Llanos riojanos by Bosetti, Alejandro Marcelo

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Ghana's transformation by Kufuor, John Agyekum

“…Cocoa production doubled as a result, and the government was also able to use locally grown food to provide school children with a healthy daily meal. …”
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The process of agroecological transition by Swiergiel, Weronika

“…One of the groups is made up of about 40% of the members of the village Vaca Morta. The village is localized in a strongly hilly area difficult to mechanize and the village is known for its internal strong organizational culture. …”
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