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The domestic market for small-scale chainsaw milling in Cameroon: present situation, opportunities and challenges by Cerutti, P.O., Lescuyer, G.

“…Its informal structure, however, contributes to maintaining a huge, inescapable payment system run by State agents to launder the timber sold on local markets, informal transactions that are worth about 6 billion F CFA each year. …”
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First foods: Diet quality among infants aged 6–23 months in 42 countries by Choudhury, Samira, Headey, Derek D., Masters, William A.

“…Results show strong support for an infant-feeding version of Bennett's Law, as wealthier households introduce more diverse foods at earlier ages, with additional positive effects of parental education, local infrastructure and more temperate agro-climatic conditions. …”
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Learning from social–ecological crisis for legal resilience building: multi-scale dynamics in the coffee rust epidemic by Libert Amico, A., Ituarte-Lima, C., Elmqvist, T.

“…We find that matching scales of law with agroforestry systems can be done through a variety of legal and policy instruments to contribute to resilience building. …”
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Farmer groups enterprises and the marketing of staple food commodities in Africa by Coulter, Jonathan

“…Dual purpose food marketing involving village storage in anticipation of both external market opportunities and local lean season shortages usually falls into the former category. …”
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Land-tenure policy reforms: Decollectivization and the Doi Moi system in Vietnam by Kirk, Michael, Tuan, Nguyen Do Anh

“…These challenges include addressing increased urban–rural and regional income disparities, landlessness resulting from emergency land sales, misuse of local elites’ power in land allocation, and endangered “commons” through land privatization.…”
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Report on the gender communication campaign in Vietnam by Truong Thuy Hang, Galiè, Alessandra, Nguyen Thi Minh Phuong, Nguyen Thi Kieu Trang, Duong Kim Anh, Cárdenas, Mateo Pazos

“…Work package 3 (WP3) of SAPLING in Vietnam aims to increase economic and decision-making power for ethnic minority women by addressing local norms that discourage women from engaging in some roles and benefits in livestock. …”
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Options for Strengthening the International Legal Regime for Forests. A Report to the European Union under the study contract B7-8110/96/000221/D4 by EFI, IUCN/IELC and CIFOR. Joen... by Glück, P., Tarasoffsky, R.G., Byron, R.N., Tikkanen, I.

“…This report argues that many of the expressed concerns about forests have local or national origins and consequences. National and sectoral policies have encouraged conversion of forests to alternative uses, and some forestry policies have encouraged overharvesting. …”
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Beyond timber: making multiple use forest management a reality in Central Africa forests by Nasi, Robert

“…We contend however that true multiple-use could be realized through new innovative land-use units, integrated production and conservation territories, allowing a spatial cohabitation of the interests of local people, conservation proponents and extractive industries in the same land-use unit.…”
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The SmartAG partner: CCAFS East Africa Quarterly Newsletter, April – June 2016 by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…From Uganda, a platform to prioritize local climate-smart agriculture options has been launched in Mbale district. …”
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Tillgänglighetslösningar i utemiljö : en fallstudie på Uppsala Resecentrum by Arvidson, Sofia

“…The study also includes a research about the current Swedish law to get knowledge about the use of and demand on access solutions. …”

Ekologisk dagvattenhantering (ED) i Stockholms Stad : en studie om kommunens arbete mot en miljövänligare dagvattenhantering by Karlsson, Emma

The role of ecosystem transpiration in creating alternate moisture regimes by influencing atmospheric moisture convergence by Makarieva, A.M., Nefiodov, A.V., Nobre, A.D., Baudena, M., Bardi, U., Sheil, D., Saleska, S.R., Molina, R.D., Rammig, A.

“…Here, constraining these findings by the law of mass conservation, we show that in a sufficiently wet atmosphere, forest transpiration can control atmospheric moisture convergence such that increased transpiration enhances atmospheric moisture import and resulting water yield. …”
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Performance and livestock producers’ integration into cattle and pig farmer groups in NWH Vietnam by Bravo, Aura, Thinh Nguyen, Phuong Nguyen, Triana Ángel, Natalia, Tran The Cuong, Pham-Van Hung, Nga Nguyen, Huyen Nguyen, Marshall, Karen, Burkart, Stefan

“…Farmer groups in Vietnam have undergone considerable transformations following the enforcement of the 2012 Law on Cooperatives. Under the new regulations, the old cooperative model became obsolete, which led to the disintegration or stop operation of numerous organisations. …”
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Microbial risk assessment in Vietnam: Translating research and training into policy by Hung Nguyen-Viet, Tuyet-Hanh Tran Thi, Phuc Pham Duc, Ngoc Bich, N., Mai Huong, B.T., Hong Nhung, N., Koottatep, T.

“…To fill this gap we developed a training course in MRA by compiling existing MRA trainings, contextualising them, and adapting them to the local context. The resulting course teaches participants the concept of risk analysis, the steps of an MRA and how to implement these steps, as well as risk communication and management. …”
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The last will be first: water transfers from agriculture to cities in the Pangani River Basin, Tanzania by Komakech, H.C., Zaag, P. van der, van Koppen, Barbara

“…Rural communities try to defend their prior use claims through involving local leaders, prominent politicians and district and regional commissioners. …”
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Does the Establishment of Sustainable Use Reserves Affect Fire Management in the Humid Tropics? by Carmenta, R., Blackburn, G.A., Davies, G., Sassi, Claudio de, Lima, A., Parry, L., Tych, W., Barlow, J.

“…In addition, the timing of fires in relation to rainfall, indicative of local fire management and adherence to environmental law, did not improve following SUR creation. …”
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Maskinsamverkan mellan två halländska gårdar by Olsson, Henrik

“…When I did my literature survey I found that the Swedish environmental code, set by the Swedish law regulate how drain or sewer should be built. …”
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Plantas Amazonicas de uso medicinal: diagnostico de un sector economico con un potencial de realizacion by Nalvarte A.W., Jong, W. de, Domínguez, G.

“…However, since 1994 the trade of these plants has boomed. Local collectors gather the fresh material which they trade in markets in the principal cities throughout Peru. …”
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Influence of limiting and regulating factors on populations of Asian citrus psyllid and the risk of insect and disease outbreaks by Udell, B. J., Monzó, César, Paris, T. M., Allan, S. A., Stansly, Philip A.

“…Observations of ACP density and dispersion in space and time, along with the estimated parameters from the Beverton–Holt model, suggested that intraspecific competition for resources may initiate both local, then widespread dispersal process, thus affecting grove‐wide and area‐wide HLB transmission. …”
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Native Forests and Agriculture in Salta (Argentina) : conflicting visions of development by Seghezzo, Lucas, Volante, Jose Norberto, Paruelo, José María, Somma, Daniel Jorge, Buliubasich, Emiliana Catalina, Rodriguez, Héctor E., Gagnon, Sandra, Hufty, Marc

“…In November 2007, Argentina’s National Congress passed a law to regulate the management and conservation of native forests. …”
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