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Taking a multiple-use approach to meeting the water needs of poor communities brings multiple benefits by International Water Management Institute, International Water and Sanitation Centre, Global Water Partnership

“…Single-use approaches to water development and management do not reflect the realities of poor people?…”
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Countries’ commitments to soil organic carbon in Nationally Determined Contributions by Wiese-Rozanova, Liesl D., Wollenberg, Eva Karoline, Alcántara Shivapatham, Viridiana, Richards, Meryl B, Shelton, Sadie W, Hönle, Susanna E, Heidecke, Claudia, Madari, Beáta E, Chenu, Claire

“…Accurate SOC accounting and monitoring, however, is constrained by various technical challenges related to indicators, rates of SOC change, measuring the impact of management practices on SOC, and the long-term persistence of sequestered SOC. …”
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Social Forestry - why and for whom? A comparison of policies in Vietnam and Indonesia by Moeliono, M., Pham Thu Thuy, Bong, I.W., Wong, Grace Y., Brockhaus, Maria

“…Community forestry or social forestry (henceforth referred collectively as SF) programs have become new modes of forest management empowering local managers and hence, allowing integration of diverse local practices and support of local livelihoods. …”
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Design of a Soil-based Climate-Smartness Index (SCSI) using the trend and variability of yields and soil organic carbon by Arenas Calle, Laura N., Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando, Whitfield, Stephen, Challinor, Andrew J.

“…The SCSI was calculated for a set of published experiments that compared Conservation Agriculture (CA) practices with conventional management. The CA treatments scored higher SCSI during the first 5 years of evaluation as compared to conventional management. …”
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Business Model for Community Based Sheep Breeding in Ethiopia by Bereket, Yemariam, Solomon, Rahel, Asnake, Woinshet, Getachew, Tesfaye, Haile, Aynalem, Rischkowsky, Barbara, Kassie, Girma

“…Small ruminant community-based breeding refers to a breeding program managed and implemented by business-oriented livestock keepers, aiming to improve the genetic potential of their small ruminant populations. …”
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Shifting perceptions, preferences and practices in the African fruit trade: the case of African plum (Dacryodes edulis) in different cultural and urbanization contexts in Cameroon by Rimlinger, Aurore, Duminil, Jérôme, Lemoine, Taïna, Avana, Marie-Louise, Chakocha, Armel, Gakwavu, Alexis, Mboujda, Franca, Tsogo, Mélanie, Elias, Marlène, Carrière, Stéphanie M.

“…Background: Understanding the perceptions, preferences and management practices associated with intraspecifc variability of emblematic African tree crops is critical for their sustainable management. …”
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Agroecological approach to farming for sustainable development: The Indian scenario by Bisht, Ishwari Singh, Rana, Jai Chand, Jones, Sarah K., Estrada-Carmona, Natalia, Yadav, Rashmi

“…Agroecological farming, an unfamiliar concept to those who treat agriculture and ecology as separate subjects, refers to farming for producing food, employment and economic benefits in addition to cultural, social and environmental services and ben- efits. …”
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Seed degeneration in potato: the need for an integrated seed health strategy to mitigate the problem in developing countries by Thomas-Sharma, Sara, Abdurahman, A., Ali S, Andrade-Piedra, J.L., Bao, S., Charkowski A, Crook D, Kadian, M.S., Kromann, P., Struik, Paul C., Torquebiau, Emmanuel F., Garrett, K.A., Forbes, G.

“…This review emphasizes the need to refocus management efforts in developing countries on improving the health status of seed tubers in the informal system by integrating disease resistance and on-farm management tools with strategic seed replacement. …”
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Digital health interventions in strengthening primary healthcare systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from Ethiopia, Ghana, and Zimbabwe by Simbini, Tungamirirai, Adimado, Emma, Adjorlolo, Samuel, Guerrero-Torres, Lorena, Srinivas, Prashanth, Zizhou, Simukai, Zerfu, Taddese

“…Digital Health Interventions (DHIs) refer to discrete technological functionalities designed to achieve specific objectives in addressing health system challenges. …”
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Environmental health risk communication: Concept, principles and challenges by Tran Thi Tuyet Hanh, Hung Nguyen-Viet

“…If environmental health risks are not adequately assessed, communicated, and managed, public trust and supports can dramatically decrease. …”
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Pakistan’s Water Apportionment Accord of 1991: 25 years and beyond by Anwar, Arif A., Bhatti, Muhammad Tousif

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Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Grasslands Using Landsat Data in Livestock Micro-Watersheds in Amazonas (NW Peru) by Atalaya Marin, Nilton, Barboza Castillo, Elgar, Salas López, Rolando, Vásquez Pérez, Héctor Vladimir, Gómez Fernández, Darwin, Terrones Murga, Renzo E., Rojas Briceño, Nilton B., Oliva Cruz, Manuel, Gamarra Torres, Oscar Ándres, Silva López, Jhonsy Omar, Turpo Cayo, Efrain

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Mapping Uganda's coffee quality by Asten, Piet J.A. van, Mukasa, D., Jassogne, Laurence T.P., Nakendo, S., Kananura, E.

“…In Arabica, the quality grading is commonly referred to as Q-grading system. A similar grading system was only developed recently for Robust, known as the R-grading system. …”
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Portraying rhizobacterial mechanisms in drought tolerance: a way forward toward sustainable agriculture by Kaushal, M.

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Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Kenya by Aynekulu, Ermias, Vågen, Tor-Gunnar, Winowiecki, Leigh Ann

“…This activity builds on recent assessments including a paper that extensively reviewed the first-round of 184 NDCs concluding that only 28 countries referred to SOC, peatlands or wetlands (1). This review and the subsequent interviews with experts (n=8) indicated the importance of understanding the impact of land management on SOC storage and dynamics (1). …”
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Cross-country typologies and development strategies to end hunger in Africa by Zhang, Xiaobo, Johnson, Michael E., Resnick, Danielle, Robinson, Sherman

“…The key motivation behind this study is to explore the many patterns of interactions between economic and non-economic factors in sub-Saharan Africa (hereafter referred to as Africa) in order to map out a typology of different types of country situations and thus, corresponding future options to develop strategies to end hunger and poverty in the region. …”
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Ecosystem services research in Latin America: the state of the art by Balvanera, Patricia, Uriarte, M.A, Almeida-Lenero, L., Altesor, A., DeClerck, Fabrice A.J.

“…, and (4) how has ecosystem service research been connected to policy design or management for sustainability? A large literature review (>1000 references) showed that in Latin America ES supply and links to policy have been the most frequently assessed. …”
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Identifying the informal by Nielsen, Ola

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Ethnobotanical study of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) in Senegal by Sarr, A., Bodian, A., Gueye, M., Gueye, B., Kanfany, G., Diatta, C., Bougma, L.A., Diop, E.A.M., Cisse, N., Diouf, D., Leclerc, C.

“…In 75% of cases, the name refers to the seed’s morphology or color. Cowpea production is more diverse in Diourbel and Louga and less diverse in the south. …”
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A typology analysis of agricultural empowerment profiles in rural Egypt with a particular focus on women by Najjar, Dina, Frija, Aymen, El Garhi, Aman

“…Empowerment in this study is multidimensional and is referring to access and management of capital, time and assets, with a particular focus on land. …”
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