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Strategic public spending: Scenarios and lessons for Ghana por Aragie, Emerta A., Artavia, Marco, Pauw, Karl

“…These results demonstrate why short-term political goals might result in policy choices that are suboptimal from a longer-term development perspective.…”
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Gender mainstreaming for food security and poverty reduction programs in Asia and Africa por Hanjra, Munir A., Zafar, M. I., Batool, Z., Nawaz, N., Maann, A.A., Ayalew, Z., Alemu, B.A.

“…Gender equality ranks high on the global development agenda and evidence-based gender targeting is emerging as a key criteria in international development assistance programs such as those for enhancing food security and reducing poverty and the broader development goals such as those set by the MDGs to 2015 and beyond. …”
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Better public sector governance through partnership with the private sector and civil society: the case of Guatemala’s forest administration por Birner, Regina, Wittmer, Heidi

“…The article develops an analytical framework, based on transaction cost economics and politics. …”
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Trends, constraints and opportunities of the Asian cassava sector: An assessment por Henry, Guy, Hershey, Clair H.

“…Macro-policy changes, expanded market demand, technology advances and relative price changes are some of the major factors explaining these recent developments. The third section of the paper assesses regional, market (and country) cassava sector constraints which are stratified into four areas: (a) biological/technical aspects, (b) socio-economic aspects, (c) institutional aspects, and (d) political aspects. …”
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Domestic forests: a new paradigm for integrating local communities’ forestry into tropical forest science por Michon, G., Foresta, H. de, Levang, P., Verdeaux, F.

“…These researches looked at local practices and underlying science, including their social, political, and symbolic dimensions. They also addressed evolutionary trends and driving forces, as well as potential and limits for forest conservation and development, mitigation of deforestation, biodiversity conservation, and poverty alleviation in a context of global environmental, political, and social change. …”
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International waters: Identifying basins at risk por Wolf, Aaron T., Yoffe, Shira B., Giordano, Mark

“…By taking our parameters of rapid change as indicators-internationalized basins and major planned projects in hostile and/or institution-less basins-we are able to identify the basins with settings which suggest the potential for political stresses in the coming five to ten years. …”
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Manejo de cuencas y gestión del riesgo a desastres naturales, en el área de la mancomunidad de los municipios del Centro de Atlántida, Honduras por Díaz González, Aidet O.

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Though all things differ: pluralism as a basis for cooperation in forests por Wollenberg, Eva Karoline, Anderson, J., López, C.

“…The guide concludes that understanding the political assumptions and principles of pluralism can enrich our understanding of current practices to develop fundamentally new approaches to forest decision-making.…”
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Agricultural trade: What matters in the doha round? por Laborde Debucquet, David, Martin, Will

“…The diverse interests of participants resulted in very complex proposals and a tendency for countries to focus on the political costs of an agreement, rather than on the potential economic benefits. …”
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Border carbon adjustments: Should production or consumption be taxed? por Martin, Will

“…By contrast, import-only BCAs distort prices of importables relative to exportables; create divisive trade conflicts and deterioration in the terms of trade for developing countries; and likely require development of complex sets of import preferences.…”
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Community seedbanks in protracted crisis situations: potential and challenges por Vernooy, Ronnie, Gupta, Arnab, Subedi, Abishkar, Ali Awed, Deeka, Hassan Abdi, Aidid, Saleban Jam, Mohamed, Eldie, Yahia, Jubarah, Salah, Kamilo, Solomon Swaka

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AICCRA Continental Level Stakeholder Consultation Report por Cramer, Laura K.

“…The main challenges noted were an overall need for longer term funding from African development partners, the lack of political stability in West Africa and issues related to cascading transboundary climate risks. …”
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Towards a common vision of climate, peace and security in Zambia: Workshop memory por Medina, Leonardo, Sax, Niklas, Caroli, Giulia, Maviza, Gracsious, Tarusarira, Joram, Pacillo, Grazia

“…However, this status is being undermined by several socio-political factors, including deeply entrenched patterns of social inequality and gender discrimination, high levels of poverty and youth unemployment, as well as recurring episodes of electoral violence. …”
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Local governance in anticipatory action and crisis response: A new study in Mali por Bleck, Jamie, Gottlieb, Jessica, Kosec, Katrina, Kyle, Jordan, Soumano, Moumouni

“…How best to deliver aid programs in fragile contexts and whether donors can support resilience in these contexts are long-standing questions among development practitioners and scholars. While there is widespread agreement that “local context” matters and should be taken into account when designing and delivering aid programs, it is difficult to know what aspects of local context matter and when, who to involve in locally driven decision-making (when there are myriad social and political forces), and how potential tradeoffs between competing preferences, needs, and priorities of local actors differ across space. …”
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Building community resilience for food security in a shock-prone country por Ulimwengu, John M., Collins, Julia, Tefera, Wondwosen, Kurtz, Julie

“…In a world rocked by environmental, political, and economic shocks, achieving resilience has emerged as a goal because it captures the essence of well-being over time despite the inevitable ups and downs captured in snapshots of present circumstances. …”
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Introduction to public policy and food security por Hendriks, Sheryl L., Babu, Suresh Chandra

“…Progress towards the SDGs is threatened by ongoing and developing crises and challenges affecting global food availability and distribution as well as a mix of complex economic, political and social access to food.…”
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Implementation in nutrition: A tools map por CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health

“…To test the usefulness of the resources identified, we then piloted an approach to make them more accessible through the development of an online tools map. This pilot tools map could then provide the basis for interested parties to build upon if further funding could be made available.…”
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Multisectoral approaches to nutrition por Garrett, James, Bassett, Lucy, Levinson, F. James

“…Multisectoral thinking has long been attractive in the field of development, especially in the social sector, because social problems and their determinants are so complex and multifaceted. …”
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Migration trends and implications por Filipski, Mateusz J., Belton, Ben, van Asselt, Joanna, Hein, Aung, Zu, A Myint, Htoo, Kyan, Win, Myat Thida, Thu, Eaindra Theint Theint, Htun, Khun Moe, Ei, Hnin

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The roads towards complex water governance: The Colombian case study por Distefano, T., Isaza, A. S., Morlin, G. S., Carmona, V. P., Palacio, C. I. V., Arango-Aramburo, S.

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