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Ensuring health and food safety from rapidly expanding wastewater irrigation in South Asia: BMZ final report 2005-2008 by Amerasinghe, Priyanie H., Simmons, Robert W., Evans, Alexandra E.V., Blümmel, Michael, Drescher, A.

“…The project will enable the uptake of the recommendations in two countries with large wastewater-irrigated areas and different political - institutional environments.…”
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Gender, collective action, and climate change: Qualitative insights from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Mali by Aberman, Noora-Lisa, Ali, Snigdha, Behrman, Julia A., Bryan, Elizabeth, Davis, Peter, Donnelly, Aiveen, Gathaara, Violet, Koné, Daouda, Nganga, Teresiah, Ngugi, Jane, Okoba, Barrack, Roncoli, Carla

“…Climate change poses great challenges for poor rural people in developing countries, most of whom rely on natural resources for their livelihoods and have limited capacity to adapt to climate change. …”
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Rice trade liberalization and poverty by Gulati, Ashok, Narayanan, Sudha

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CPWF Annual Report 2007 by CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food

“…Some CPWF projects seek to develop innovative technologies, new institutional arrangements, or improved policies. …”
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Utveckling och test av en leverantörsportföljmodell för industriell virkesförsörjning by Andreasson, Elin

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Socialt entreprenörskap på landsbygden by George, Eriksson, Johan, Eriksson

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Governing the design of national REDD+: an analysis of the power of agency by Brockhaus, Maria, Gregorio, M. di, Mardiah, S.

“…This paper investigates how three aspects of governance systems, namely the policy context, the influence of key agents and their discursive practices, are affecting national-level processes of policy design aimed at REDD +, reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries; and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries. …”
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Ecosystem services may provide large economic values in Kenya and Vietnam: A value transfer application based on results from a systematic literature review by Hettiarachchi, Upeksha, Zhang, Wei, Pham, Thuy Thu, Davis, Kristin E., Fadda, Carlo

“…This study focuses on the valuation of ecosystem services in Kenya and Vietnam, two countries that have received much attention from the international development community for their biodiversity significance, opportunities for scaling, climate and poverty challenges, and political will. …”
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Papua New Guinea agri-food trade trends: Dietary change and obesity by Schmidt, Emily, Fang, Peixun

“…Finally, a greater portfolio of organized databases, analytical tools and resources are warranted to facilitate real-time analysis that can inform key development investments and initiatives.…”
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To reach the poor: Results from the ISNAR-IFPRI Next Harvest study on genetically modified crops, public research, and policy implications by Atanassov, Atanas, Bahieldin, Ahmed, Brink, Johan, Burachik, Moisés, Cohen, Joel I., Dhawan, Vibha, Ebora, Reynaldo V., Falck-Zepeda, José B., Herrera-Estrella, Luis, Komen, John, Chon Low, Fee, Omaliko, Emeka, Odhiambo, Benjamin, Quemada, Hector, Peng, Yufa, Sampaio, Idah Sithole-Niang, Maria Jose, Sittenfeld, Ana, Smale, Melinda, Sithole-Niang, Idah, Sutrisno, Valyasevi, Ruud, Zafar, Yusuf, Zambrano, Patricia

“…The relatively few GM crops approved from public research, coupled with growing regulatory, biosafety capacity, trade, and political concerns, argue to the contrary. To tackle this issue, we identified and analyzed public research pipelines for GM crops among 16 developing countries and transition economies. …”
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Financial viability for the production of gulupa (Passiflora edulis Sims) and for its exportation to the Spanish market by Cárdenas, Juan Carlos Sierra, Rodríguez, Carolina Gómez, Buendía, Edgar Emilio Sánchez, Rivera, Maribel Pinilla

“…Additionally, we analyzed the behavior of the market, the consumption habits in Spanish, imports and exports, and economic and political relations between the two countries. By this approach it was possible to find the potential of gulupa production, the costs involved in crop development and the financial benefits it obtain by the gulupa producer to export quality products that meet Spanish market demand. …”
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Las redes operativas y su papel en la política forestal Experiencias prometedoras en Honduras y Nicara by Galloway, Glenn

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Utvecklingen av skogsvård och skogsvårdslagen under Huggarepoken (1850–1950) by Halldén, Anna, Hemmingsson, Linnéa

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Heritage cereals : tasty and sustainable? : acceptance and important qualities of heritage cereals by Ekblad, Malin

CGIAR International Centers Week, Washington, DC, October 29-November 2, 1990: Summary of Proceedings and Decisions by CGIAR Secretariat

“…The principal decisions taken were:-endorsement of the concept of ecoregional activities within the CGIAR, and a request to TAC to elaborate their nature and mechanisms for carrying them out;-two entities, ICRAF and a new institute to be developed by a working group, would cover agroforestry and forestry respectively; including coconuts;-endorsement of support for vegetables research, with a final decision to await political developments involving China;-IBSRAM, IFDC and ICIPE were not approved for CGIAR support;-ICLARM would be considered for adoption by the CGIAR following external reviews;-support was offered to IIMI on an unconditional basis;-INIBAP would be supported as an independent entity, to collaborate with IITA; and-a decision on ITC was deferred pending completion of the Winrock International study of livestock in Africa.Five centers made program presentations, including a progress report on IFPRI external reviews. …”
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Challenges and opportunities for improving eco-efficiency of tropical forage-based systems to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions by Peters, Michael, Herrero, Mario, Fisher, M., Erb, Karlheinz, Rao, Idupulapati M., Subbaraoa, Guntur V., Castro, A., Arango, Jacobo, Chara, J., Murgueitio, E., Hoek, Rein van der, Läderach, Peter R.D., Hyman, Glenn G., Tapasco, Jeimar, Strassburg, B., Paul, Birthe K., Rincón, A., Schultze-Kraft, Rainer, Fonte, Steven J., Searchinger, Tim

“…Thus, it is essential to develop approaches for sustainable intensification of livestock systems to mitigate GHG emissions, addressing biophysical, socio-economic and policy challenges. …”
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Options for agriculture at Marrakech climate talks: messages for SBSTA 45 agriculture negotiators by Dinesh, Dhanush, Vermeulen, Sonja J., Bacudo I, Martínez Barón, Deissy, Castro Nuñez, Augusto, Hedger, Merylyn, Huyer, Sophia, Iversen, P., Laure A, Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María, Martius, Christopher, Neufeldt, Henry, Nyasimi, Mary, Richards, Meryl B., Wollenberg, Eva Karoline

“…This report presents ten such options that might contribute to a decision, taking into consideration political priorities, implementation arrangements, timelines and level of ambition. …”
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Co-Designing Sustainable Futures: Multi-Stakeholder Workshops for Transforming Animal and Aquatic Food Systems in Bangladesh by Barman, Benoy, Haque, A.B.M., Ali, Mohammad, Yeasin, Mohammed, Hossain, Peerzadi, Rheman, Shafiq, Rahman, Md. Morshedur, Islam, Faruk, Nahiduzzaman, Md

“…To address these challenges in a locally relevant and sustainable manner, SAAF organized a Co-design Workshop in Rangpur Division, a northern agroecological zone marked by diverse socio-political and climatic conditions. The workshop convened local stakeholders—including government officials, particularly from the Department of Fisheries (DoF), Department of Livestock Services (DLS), and Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute (BFRI), as well as academicians from universities, farmer groups, researchers, and private sector actors—to collaboratively identify priority needs, co-develop solutions, and design context-specific interventions. …”
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Games as boundary objects: Charting trade-offs in sustainable livestock transformation by Morris, J., Ensor, J.E., Pfeifer, Catherine, Marchant, R., Mulatu, D., Soka, G., Ouédraogo-Koné, S., Wakeyo, M.B., Topi, C.

“…Our findings suggest to policy and decision-makers that sustainable transition plans can be developed when stakeholders in local agri-food systems employ approaches that allow shared understandings of trade-offs inherent to sustainable agriculture to emerge.…”
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Collective action and property rights for poverty reduction: A review of methods and approaches by Mwangi, Esther, Markelova, Helen

“…This paper highlights ways to operationalize the conceptual framework developed by Di Gregorio and colleagues (2008), which provides an analytical tool to study poverty through the institutional lens with a special focus on collective action and property rights. …”
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