Search Results - Local finance

Assessing the governance capacity to implement resource-oriented sanitation and waste management systems in urban areas of Latin America and the Caribbean by García Aguilar, Mónica Carlota

“…The study concluded that in Chía there was a gap between local initiatives of resource recovery from OWS that brought environmental, economic, and social benefits at small scale and its inclusion in the local and regional governance systems. …”
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Economic analysis of trypanocide use in villages under risk of drug resistance in West Africa. by Affognon, Hippolyte D.

“…In the methodology developed, livestock production is modelled as a process in which local resources and external inputs are used to generate multiple outputs such as milk, meat, draught power, and manure, and indirect outputs including the finance and insurance functions of maintaining cattle stocks. …”
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Gendering the REDD+ policy process in Ghana by Yeboah, Yaw

“…How is gender being conceptualized and configured into national-local discussions as part of REDD+ policy build-up in Ghana? …”

Small ruminants in the smallholder production system in southern Benin: prospects for conservation through community- based management by Dossa, G.L.H.

“…The main objective of this study was to develop a framework for community-based management (CBM) actions aiming to better utilize and to conserve the local small ruminants genetic resources in southern Benin. …”
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Modelo de cogestión adaptativa de cuencas hidrográficas. Propuesta conceptual basada en la revisión crítica de las experiencias en Honduras y Nicaragua by Kammerbauer, Hans, León, Josué, Castellón, Néstor, Gómez, Sonia, Faustino, Jorge, Prins, Cornelis

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Developing small-scale bamboo enterprises for livelihoods and environmental restoration in Benishangul-Gumuz Regional State, Ethiopia by Boissière, M., Atmadja, S., Benmakhlouf, S., Beyessa, M., Kassa, H., Hunde, T., Assefa, F.

“…There is little or scattered published information on local perceptions and practices surrounding natural bamboo forest management and options for realizing bamboo's potential from a subnational/local perspective in Africa, including in Ethiopia. …”
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Bundle 4 diversified integrated mixed chicken/goats – legume systems: Legume Value Chains; Changing Lives, Protecting Nature by Community Markets for Conservation

“…Community Markets for Conservation (COMACO) is a social enterprise that finances improved agricultural practices through the adoption of agroforestry and a legume-based farming system that increases food crop yields and market opportunities for over 230,000 small-scale farmers. …”
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Multi-disciplinary north-south collaboration in participatory action research on food value chains: A German-Tanzanian case study on perceptions, experiences and challenges by Graef, F., Mutabazi, K. D., Sieber, S., Asch, F., Makoko, B., Nkonya, Ephraim M.

“…Upgrading local food value chains is a promising approach to invigorating African food systems. …”
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Community-driven water investments. [Abstract only]. by van Koppen, Barbara, Munnik, V.

“…These approaches tend to ignore and undermine the ways in which communities integrate social, economic, and political aspects in their management of local resources. On the ground, communities and local government struggle to match their holistic, locally specific needs, constraints and opportunities with these top-down defined, technocratic public silos. …”
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Scaling climate- smart innovations in Kenya by Ewell, Hanna Louise Deborah, Carbonell Barlis, Angelica, Onyango, Polycarp, Crane, Todd, Zougmore, Robert Bellarmin

“…Kenya’s scaling strategy emphasizes responsible pathways: embedding solutions in local systems, managing environmental trade-offs, and sustaining adoption through partnerships and innovative financing. …”
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A participatory framework for prioritizing climate-smart agriculture innovations in rice-based systems: A case study of Mali by Dossou-Yovo, Eliott Ronald, Arouna, Aminou, Benfica, Rui, Mujawamariyac, Gaudiose, Yossad, Rodrigue

“…The framework used in this study can be used to identify and invest into locally relevant best-bet CSA innovation packages.…”
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Leveraging climate information services to drive climate-smart agriculture and resilience across Southern Africa by Kabuya, Dorcas, Magagula, Futhi, Recha, John W.M.

“…Discussions underscored the need for localized, user-oriented CIS, improved data infrastructure, and integration of CIS into national and regional agricultural policies. …”
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Future Scenarios by Harvey, Blane, Ensor, Jonathan, Carlile, Liz, Garside, Ben, Patterson, Zachary, Naess, Lars Otto

“…The current East African project has a linked communications programme with Panos East Africa that is designed to share learning with the media and with local radio to engage wider audiences. Each of the Scenarios projects has the tangible output of project documents and analyses from each of the workshops but it also has a strong network of team members sharing learning in their own sectors. …”
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An assessment of social and ecological factors influencing the management and productivity of smallholder aquacultural systems in Northern Province, Zambia by Johnson, J.W., Jacobson, M., Cole, S.M., Syapwaya, M., Kaminski, A.M., Karsten, H., Stauffer, J., Jensen, L., Lundeba, M.

“…Farmers emphasized that limited finances, high costs, and inconsistent local supplies of quality inputs were major challenges. …”
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Understanding discourses on technological interventions to tackle soil salinity by Gramaccioni, Berangere

“…This work concludes that issues faced by the local populations need to be fully understood, to realize what solutions may match their needs.…”
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Governance of wicked problems : the case of Swedish banks and the wicked problem of biodiversity loss by Bingmark, Evelina, Lodén, Karl

“…However, there is paucity in research on how individual organizations can manage these global wicked problems on a local level, with an increasing number of stakeholders and global governance models. …”

Implementation manual for launching and maintaining sentinel zones by Chelanga, Philemon, Gobu, Wako, Galgallo, Diba, Alulu, Vincent, Taye, Masresha, Jensen, Nathaniel D., Fava, Francesco P.

“…These products commonly rely on indices generated from satellite-collected data as proxies for local environmental conditions, thereby avoiding costly ground-data collection for developing risk profiles, assessing local conditions, and making payments. …”
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Pesticides : return to sender! by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Ethiopia is the second country in Africa, after Morocco, to be saddled with obsolete pesticides, totalling 1,500 tonnes stockpiled in more than 400 sites, which are often near local communities. A FAO project, financed by USAID, plans to move the...…”
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Understanding farmers' trust in stakeholders of carbon credit projects: A perception-based analysis by Mallappa, Vinaya Kumar Hebsale, Gadde, Sriharsha, Cariappa, A. G. Adeeth

“…Carbon credit projects (CCPs) are promoted to finance the adoption of carbon farming practices, yet their success depends on farmers' confidence in the organizations that recruit, train, and pay them. …”
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System approaches for scaling agroecology: Five dimensions of success by CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology

“…In 2022, the CGIAR Agroecology Initiative embarked on a major effort, relying on strong partnerships with local and national organizations, to demonstrate how a systems approach to agroecological transitions can work under highly diverse conditions in eight target countries. …”
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