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Finding the right institutional and legal framework for community-based natural forest management: the Tanzanian case by Wily, L.

“…This is particularly so where power and authority are being redistributed. This publication looks specifically at Tanzania, where forest-local communities are beginning to be designated as the management authority of particular woodlands and, in some cases, even their owners. …”
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Forest and regional autonomy: the challenge of sharing the profits and pains by Dermawan, A., Resosudarmo, I.A.P.

“…For more than thirty years beginning in the early 70’s, the forests of Indonesia were administered and managed centrally; mirroring the centralistic characteristics of the way the Indonesian government had functioned during the same period. …”
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Hutan dan otonomi daerah: tantangan berbagi suka dan duka by Resosudarmo, I.A.P., Dermawan, A.

“…For more than thirty years beginning in the early 70’s, the forests of Indonesia were administered and managed centrally; mirroring the centralistic characteristics of the way the Indonesian government had functioned during the same period. …”
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Why the Great Food Transformation may not happen – A deep-dive into our food systems’ political economy, controversies and politics of evidence by Béné, Christophe

“…Those include the concentration of economic and market power in the hands of the Big Food transnational corporations but also other actors’ ideology, policy incoherence, national interests or culturally-embedded aspirations, which together create irreconcilable trade-offs and tensions between divergent individual and societal objectives and prevent the system from aligning toward a more sustainable trajectory. …”
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Microcredit in Viet Nam: Does it matter? by Haughton, Jonathon, Khandker, Shahidur R.

“…With 7 million borrowers and US$5.4 billion in outstanding loans in 2012, the Viet Nam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) is the largest single microcredit lender in the world. …”
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Conflict, cooperation, and collective action: Land use, water rights, and water scarcity in Manupali watershed, Southern Philippines by Piñon, Caroline, Catacutan, Delia, Leimona, Beria, Abasolo, Emma, van-Noordwijk, Meine, Tiongco, Lydia

“…There are many stakeholders and water users: smallholder farmers, indigenous people, multi-national companies, the local government, the National Irrigation Administration, and the National Power Corporation (Pulangui IV). As demand for water outstrips supply, conflict arises between different user groups over who can use water and how much each one can use. …”
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Hybrid object detection and generative ai framework for automated river gauge plate reading and discharge estimation by Kayathri, Vigneswaran, Retief, Hugo, Clifford-Holmes, J., Garcia Andarcia, Mariangel, Tennakoon, Hansaka

“…These detections are then ingested by a Gemini-powered generative AI pipeline via task-specific prompting to translate image features into precise numeric readings. …”
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Análisis del impacto de la fertilización química en el contenido de cenizas de Pennisetum purpureum para fines energéticos by Oviedo V., María J.

“…El estudio se realizó en las fincas de la empresa Honduran Green Power Corporation S.A., aplicando tres dosificaciones de cloruro de potasio (46, 111 y 138 kg), bajo un diseño experimental completamente al azar con tres repeticiones. …”
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Community and household shocks and coping strategies: Findings from the eighth round of the Myanmar Household Welfare Survey (July – December 2024) by van Asselt, Joanna, Aung, Zin Wai

“…Among households connected to the national power grid, 78 percent experienced daily power cuts lasting at least one hour. …”
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Greening the Future: Why Landscape Restoration Matters Now More Than Ever by Anantha, K.H., Singh, Ramesh, Garg, Kaushal K, Venkataradha, A., Shukla, Ashok, Uttam, R.K.

“…Seasonal water scarcity increases women’s drudgery; youth migrate to cities; and shrinking livestock systems erode traditional safety nets. These patterns mirror global hotspots of climate-induced livelihood erosion. …”
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Effect of work applied at different stages of lactation on milk production, reproduction and live-weight change of F1 crossbred dairy cows used for draught by Zerbini, E., Gebre-Wold, A.

“…Farmers must weigh the relative importance and cost of delayed ploughing against those of delayed oestrus or against the cost of borrowing draught power.…”
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Mobilizing Science for Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security: Engaging the Southeast Asian Media by Navarro, Rex, Joven, B., Cruz, A.

“…One of the outcomes of the SEA media workshop series in the Philippines is the forging of partnership with a private company, Metro-Pacific Investments Corporation (MPIC), which provided volunteer funding a proposal of the Philippine Agriculture Journalists, Inc. and the Department of Agriculture (DA) to replicate the initiative in strategic regions in the Philippines. …”
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Investment in Enhanced Landfill Mining (ELFM): a real option approach by Sime, Abiy Getachew

“…Empirically, the model is supported by data from Addis Ababa city municipality, community development research and Ethiopian electric power corporation (EEPCo). Results of the model reveals that, the percentage (or share), α, of total revenue from emission reduction to be reimbursed to a private firm, is crucial in attracting investments to Koshe/Repi ELFM project. …”
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Pacbio sequencing of copper-tolerant Xanthomonas citri reveals presence of a chimeric plasmid structure and provides insights into reassortment and shuffling of transcription activ... by Gochez, Alberto Martin, Huguet-Tapia, Jose Carlos, Minsavage, Gerald V., Shantharaj, Deepak, Jalan, Neha, Strauß, Annett, Lahaye, Thomas, Wang, Nian, Canteros, Blanca Isabel, Jones, Jeffrey B., Potnis, Neha

“…Results: We utilized the power of long reads obtained by PacBio sequencing to enable assembly of a complete genome sequence of strain Xc-03-1638-1-1, including sequences of two plasmids, 249 kb (plasmid harboring copper resistance genes) and 99 kb (pathogenicity plasmid containing TALEs). …”
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Pathways to Women’s Empowerment in the Promotion of Climate Smart Agriculture in the Philippines, Myanmar, and Cambodia by Verzosa, Fatima, Cabriole, Marie Aislinn, Thant, Phyu Sin, Phen, Bunthoeun, Itliong, Kirstein, Myae, Chan, Thong, Chanphirum, Urdelas, Farah Gaud A., Naung, Ye Win, Moe, May Zin, Tola, Cheam, Barbon, Wilson John, Monville-Oro, Emilita, Gonsalves, Julian Francis

“…Increased income is a powerful measure of women’s economic empowerment. Across the six CSVs, there is a significant difference in the perceived increase in incomes. …”
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Var unik! by Karlberg, Elsa, Hartman Magnusson, Ylva

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Connect. Convene. Facilitate. Scale: Locating the role of the CGIAR Research Initiative on Diversification in East and Southern Africa (Ukama Ustawi) Scaling Hub within the East an... by Inoubli, Aziza, Adebola, Mariam, Saunders, David, With, Lisa

“…AESOs, in this context, refer to organisations providing support to smallholder farmers, agtechs, and agribusinesses in a variety of formats. Powerful scaling partners needed to reach agribusinesses and smallholder farmers, like agriculture corporations, government or even mobile network operators (MNOs), operate outside of this ecosystem. …”
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Shocks and coping: Findings from the sixth round of the Myanmar Household Welfare Survey (June – November 2023) by Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity

“…For residents that accessed electricity from the national power grid, 55 percent of households had a power cut of at least one hour from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm all seven days of the week prior to the interview. …”
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Skogsbränslekedjan och behov av avtalsmallar för skogsbränsleentreprenad by Nylund, Olle

Transforming land rights, improving rural livelihoods, andcarving just responses to the climate crisis by Najjar, Dina, Shadrack, Naomi, Ahmed, Sara

“…This systemic dispossession, driven by land grabs orchestrated by states and corporations, particularly targeting Indigenous communities, exacerbates their vulnerability by rendering them landless and destitute. …”
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