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Codes of forest practice and related research needs. by Turnbull, J.W., Vanclay, J.K.

“…Regional codes of practice for the South Pacific and Asia-Pacific have and are being developed. The paper concludes that sustainability continues to be the single most important principle to guide forest management and management will need to continuously challenge and evaluate its own codes of forest practices.…”
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Decoding plant resistance mechanism in pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan) against major insect pests: Decade of efforts and emerging directions by Dhanyakumar, Onkarappa, Ranjitha, Marigoudar, Yogendra, Kalenahalli, Revanayya, Gothe, Sharma, Hari C., Taggar, Gaurav Kumar, Murugan, Marimuthu, Jagdish, Jaba

“…Millsp.) is an important food and nutritional security crop, widely cultivated in the semi-arid regions of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. However, its productivity is hindered by various abiotic and biotic stress factors, including numerous insect pests that infest and damage the crop at all stages of development, both in the field and during post-maturity stage/ storage conditions. …”
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From field to table: How promoting new crop varieties via seed trial packs and consumer focused activities influences smallholder farmers’ planting decisions by Moore, Maya, Tchuente, Hubert Noel Takam, Trachtman, Carly, Kramer, Berber, Qualitative Behavioral Intelligence Research Team

“…This brief examines how production and consumption traits, seed access, and gender dynamics are associated with smallholder farmers’ adoption and disadoption of newly bred crop varieties across five countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Using qualitative data from focus group discussions and interviews conducted under the CGIAR Breeding for Tomorrow Science Program, we compare participants’ experiences with two complementary interventions: seed trial packs (STPs), which allow farmers to plant new varieties, and consumption-focused activities, such as cooking demonstrations and food product evaluation. …”
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Large-scale fire: creator and destroyer of secondary forests in Western Indonesia by Dennis, R.A., Hoffmann, A., Applegate, G., Gemmingen, G. von, Kartawinata, K.

“…Little is known about the exact extent and economic value or potential of post fire secondary forests in Asia. It is clear, however, based on the experience of the past two decades, that there has been a significant increase in secondary forest affected by fire, particularly in Indonesia. …”
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Getting forestry research into policy and practice by Spilsbury, M.J.

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Could payments for forest carbon contribute to improved tropical forest management? by Smith, J., Applegate, G.

“…Results from studies primarily in Asia and Latin America are analyzed in the context of the modalities of the Kyoto Protocol. …”
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Life after logging: reconciling wildlife conservation and production forestry in Indonesian Borneo by Meijaard, E., Sheil, Douglas, Nasi, Robert, Augeri, D., Rosenbaum, B., Iskandar, D., Setyawati, T., Lammertink, A., Rachmatika, I., Wong, A., Soehartono, T., Stanley, S., O'Brien, T.

“…It addresses three audiences: 1) those involved in assessing and regulating timber harvesting activities in Southeast Asia, 2) those involved in trying to achieve conservation goals in the region, and 3) those undertaking research to improve multipurpose forest management. …”
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Hutan pasca pemanenan: melindungi satwa liar dalam kegiatan hutan produksi di Kalimantan by Meijaard, E., Sheil, Douglas, Nasi, Robert, Augeri, D., Rosenbaum, B., Iskandar, D., Setyawati, T., Lammertink, A., Rachmatika, I., Wong, A., Soehartono, T., Stanley, S., O'Brien, T.

“…It addresses three audiences: 1) those involved in assessing and regulating timber harvesting activities in Southeast Asia, 2) those involved in trying to achieve conservation goals in the region, and 3) those undertaking research to improve multipurpose forest management. …”
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Analysis of learning cycles in participatory environment and development projects: lessons from Nepal by Hiyama, C., Keen, M.

“…The case study involved two sub-projects of a community development and forest/watershed conservation project conducted in the mid-hills of Nepal by the Nepalese Government and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). …”
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The efficiency of payments for environmental services in tropical conservation by Wunder, Sven

“…I reviewed the PES literature for developing countries and combined these findings with observations from my own field studies in Latin America and Asia. A PES scheme, simply stated, is a voluntary, conditional agreement between at least one “seller” and one “buyer” over a well-defined environmental service—or a land use presumed to produce that service. …”
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Participatory forest management, equity and local governance – keynote address by Colfer, C.J.P., Komarudin, Heru, German, L., Nyangas, S., Siagian, Y., Tanui, J.

“…Emphasis is placed on the most recent findings, in second stage work, from CAPRi (Collective Action and Property Rights) research in Asia and Africa. This paper examines some of the successes and difficulties faced working with governmental stakeholders. …”
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Understanding and integrating local perceptions of trees and forests into incentives for sustainable landscape management by Pfund, J.L., Watts, J.D., Boissiere, M., Boucard, A., Bullock, Renee, Ekadinata, A., Dewi, S., Feintrenie, L., Levang, P., Rantala, S., Sheil, Douglas, Sunderland, Terry C.H.

“…We examine five forested landscapes in Africa (Cameroon, Madagascar, and Tanzania) and Asia (Indonesia and Laos) at different stages of landscape change. …”
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Remote sensing and census based assessment and scope for improvement of rice and wheat water productivity in the Indo-Gangetic Basin by Cai, X.L., Sharma, Bharat R.

“…Crop evapotranspiration is mapped using simplified surface energy balance (SSEB) model with MODIS land surface temperature products and meteorological data collected from 56 weather stations. …”
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Workshop report: Farm-household modelling with a focus on food security, climate change adaptation, risk management and mitigation: a way forward by Wijk, Mark T. van, Rufino, Mariana C., Thornton, Philip K.

“…A set of activities will be developed to move the work forward in three CCAFS target regions (West Africa, East Africa and South Asia). The expectation is that the workshop will serve as a springboard for a multi-year initiative that will eventually involve a wide range of participants both within and outside the CGIAR. …”
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Review of undernutrition in smallholder ruminant production systems in the tropics by Kebreab, Ermias, Smith, T., Tanner, J.C., Osuji, P.O.

“…Developing countries continue to face the challenge of increasing poverty and depleting asset base of their predominantly rural populations. In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) alone, over 70% of the population now live below the poverty line, and in South Asia the number of poor people exceeds 500 million. …”
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H7N9 is a virus worth worrying about by Horby, P., Tatem, A.J., Huang, Z., Gilbert, M., Robinson, Timothy P., Wint, G.R.W., Hayden, F.G., Van Vinh Chau, N., Shindo, N., Carson, G., Gao, Z., Hongjie, Y., Hay, S.I., Farrar, J.

“…It has proved to be a tenacious adversary, remaining endemic in poultry across large parts of Asia, but thankfully it has not adapted to humans and person-to-person transmission remains rare. …”
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EcoHealth manual by Unahalekhaka, A., Pichpol, D., Meeyam, T., Chotinun, S., Robert, G.L., Robert, C.S.

“…The IDRC supported program EcoZEID (Ecosystem Approaches to Better Management of Zoonotic Emerging Infectious Diseases) is being implemented by International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) since 2009, in five countries in South East Asia. The project worked with a large number of regional stakeholders to capacitate them in understanding and incorporating/ practicing EcoHealth. …”
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Reconstructing the origin and dispersal patterns of village chickens across East Africa: Insights from autosomal markers by Mwacharo, Joram M., Nomura, K., Hanada, H., Amano, T., Han Jianlin, Hanotte, Olivier H.

“…Our results provide new insights on the history of chicken husbandry which has been shaped by terrestrial and maritime contacts between ancient and modern civilizations in Asia and East Africa.…”
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Investing in agricultural water management to benefit smallholder farmers in Zambia. AgWater Solutions Project country synthesis report. by Evans, Alexandra E.V., Giordano, Meredith A., Clayton, Terry

“…Research suggests that small improvements in the motor pump supply chain could catalyze significant increases in farm productivity similar to what has been achieved in parts of Asia. Measures likely to improve the performance of small reservoirs include coordinating and integrating multiple users, facilitating multiple institutional arrangements and strengthening existing policies, procedures and links within organizations along with more transparency in planning, contract awards and construction. …”
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Canal irrigation conundrum: applying contingency theory to irrigation system management in India. by Shah, Tushaar, Anwar, Arif A., Amarasinghe, Upali A., Hoanh, Chu Thai, Reddy, Junna Mohan, Molle, Francois, MMukherji, Aditi, Prathapar, Sanmugam A., Suhardiman, Diana, Qureshi, Asad Sarwar, Wegerich, Kai

“…Poor service delivery, persistence of head-tail inequity, growing gap between irrigation potential created and utilized, shrinking of command area despite growing investments in construction and rehabilitation, sustained build up of deferred maintenance of infrastructure, patchy performance of Farmer Participatory Irrigation Management, poor service fee recovery - these are part of the litany of problems that concern irrigation managers and policy makers in India and elsewhere in Asia. This paper argues that state, society, technology and agrarian institutions - all had a better ?…”
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