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Woodfuel in a global change context por Gazull, L., Gautier, D.

“…WIREs Energy Environ 2015, 4:156–170. doi: 10.1002/wene.115This article is categorized under: Energy and Development > Economics and Policy Energy and Development > Climate and EnvironmentEnergy and Development > Economics and PolicyEnergy and Development > Climate and Environment…”
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Science of scaling research agenda for the CGIAR Regional Integrated Initiative for Diversification in East and Southern Africa (Ukama Ustawi) por Schut, Marc, Mugambi, Samuel

“…It is a complex and political process where bottlenecks for scaling innovation are often context or country specific. …”
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Supporting agrifood systems transformation in Indonesia with governance innovation por Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

“…This policy brief summarizes the background, evidence and insights from the innovative governance modelling and analysis work developed in Indonesia under the "Governance Innovation for Sustainable Development of Food Systems” subprogramme. …”
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Landscape Transformation in Tropical Latin America: Assessing Trends and Policy Implications for REDD+ por Pacheco, P., Aguilar-Støen, M., Boner, J., Etter, A., Putzel, L., Vera-Diaz, M.D.C.

“…National and global trends affect a disparate number of social, political and economic interactions taking place at the local level, which ultimately shapes land-use and socio-economic change. …”
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Silvopastoral systems in Latin America: mitigation opportunities for men and women livestock producers por Gumucio, Tatiana, Mora Benard, María Alejandra, Clavijo, Mónica, Hernández, María Camila, Tafur, Mariana, Twyman, Jennifer

“…As a result, interventions and strategies have characteristically not addressed the different resource constraints faced by Latin-American women, inhibiting the capacity of political strategies to achieve real integrated and equitable territorial development. …”
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The Efficacy of a Program Promoting Rice Self-Sufficiency in Ghana during a Period of Neoliberalism por Glenna, L., Ader, D., Bauchspies, Wenda, Traoré, A., Agboh-Noameshie, A.R.

“…Despite these negative developments, however, a 2010 United Nations report argues that food security could be improved if development efforts are supported by government programs that target smallholder farmers. …”
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Ag-Incentives Consortium improves global data on agricultural policies por CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets

“…Ag-Incentives brings together data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the World Bank. …”
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Perspectives from historical analyses of agri-food system transformations: A case study of Odisha, India por Sarkar, Anindita, Mukherji, Aditi

“…Post-independence scholarship has ascribed the continuation of rural poverty and distress to high exposure to natural hazards and high societal vulnerability due to development deficits. By analysing the historical evolution of policies since the 1850s, the study finds that even though the political and economic contexts have changed, low investment in agriculture remains the primary challenge even today. …”
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Current issues in non-timber forest products research. Proceedings of the workshop research on NTFP. Hot Spring, Zimbabwe, 28 August - 2 September 1995 por Ruíz Pérez, M., Arnold, J.E.M.

“…These include the possibility of matching the conservation and development agendas through promoting NTFPs as proposed by a number of initiatives, the unidirectional path of development from extraction to intensive agricultural production, the roles of NTFPs in people’s livelihood strategies, the internal differentiation amongst communities, the different forms of actions adopted to secure tenure and their diverging effects, as well as the meaning and convenience of using NTFPs as an analytical category. …”
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Barriers to Participating in a Payment for Ecosystem Services Project in Githambara Micro Catchment, Upper-Tana, Kenya por Wangui, Elizabeth Edna, Nijbroek, Ravic P.

“…International Non-Governmental Organizations have popularized payment for ecosystem services (PES) because of their potential to simultaneously achieve rural development and ecological conservation goals (GEF Secretariat 2014). …”
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“Not god’s work” por Echeverry Angel, Mateo

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Towards a common vision of climate security in Kenya: Workshop report por Medina, Leonardo, Belli, Anna, Caroli, Giulia, Dutta Gupta, Tanaya

“…Climate change can potentially exacerbate the social, economic and political processes that lead to instability and conflict. …”
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Neopatrimonialism and agricultural protection: The case of maize in Malawi por Phiri, Horace, Edriss, Abdi Khalil

“…This suggests that the manifestation of a patronage system creates policy-induced disincentives to agricultural production due to worsening corruption, concentration of political power, and a crowding out of development expenditure by the costs of maintaining a bloated civil service. …”
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Threats to urban health por Stephens, Carolyn

“…In addition, globalization—the rapid global movement of capital, ideas, skills, and employment connected to the concentration of power in the private sector—is changing the urban physical and social environment... Developing countries have three significant urban health agendas, each linked to the issue of inequity between and within cities: the resolution of health problems stemming from (1) urban poverty, such as infectious diseases and poor nutrition, (2) the current "dirty" industrialization process, and (3) the social and political environment within cities... …”
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Sub-Saharan African agricultural research: Recent investment trends por Beintema, Nienke M., Stads, Gert-Jan

“…During 1991–2000, about half the countries in the authors’ 27-country sample experienced negative annual growth in total agricultural research and development (R&D) spending. Declines often resulted from political unrest or the completion of large donor-funded projects. …”
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Empowering smallholder olive growers in northwest Tunisia through an agroecological business model por Majri, Rihab, Dhraief, Mohamed Zied, Souissi, Asma, Ouerghemmi, Hassen, Dhehibi, Boubaker, Oueslati, Meriem, Frija, Aymen, M. Oumer, Ali, Fendri, Mahdi, Larbi, Ajmi

“…This agroecosystem is facing tremendous challenges, including climate change, loss of biodiversity, environmental pollution and resource degradation, as well as increasing price volatility with harmful implications for farmers’ incomes, livelihoods, and rural development. Agroecology is considered actually as the mainstream model for transforming agriculture toward more sustainable and resilient agri-food systems within the given economic and political context…”
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Women's participation yields benefits for water management: Insights from village dams in India por Falk, Thomas, Steimanis, Ivo, Bartels, Lara, Duche, Vishwambhar, Vollan, Björn, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…When women hold political office, for example, governments tend to allocate more resources to public goods and services such as childcare, education, public health, and foreign aid.…”
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From new order to regional autonomy: shifting dynamics of "illegal" logging in Kalimantan, Indonesia por Casson, A., Obidzinski, K.

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Land degradation: A challenge to Ethiopia por Taddese, G.

“…For environmentally and socially sustainable development, there is an urgent need to promote awareness and understanding of the interdependence of natural, socioeconomic, and political systems at local and national levels. …”
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Rejuvenating irrigation tanks through local institutions por Sakthivadivel, Ramaswamy, Gomathinayagam, P., Shah, Tushaar

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