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Opinion: Can governance reforms like Brazil’s get us to net-zero? by Verchot, Louis V., Castro-Nuñez, Augusto Carlos

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From Drought to Abundance: Stories of Transformational adaptation: How a solar-Powered borehole transformed an Indigenous Tonga community in Zambia by Monze, Hanzila, Amarnath, Giriraj, van Koppen, Barbara, Mweemba, Carol

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Generalidades de la relación entre agricultura y cambio climático by Villagrán Munar, Edwin Andrés, Gómez Arias, Linda Yhiset, Gómez Latorre, Douglas Andrés, Rodríguez Giraldo, Yeni

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Viability and resilience of small-scale fisheries through cooperative arrangements by Hardy, Pierre-Yves, Béné, Christophe, Doyen, Luc, Pereau, J.C., Mills, D.

“…In particular, intensifying cash-oriented livelihood strategies can exacerbate existing vulnerabilities and threaten food security and resource conservation. In this paper the authors develop a bio-economic model and a quantitative measure of resilience in order to explore the interaction between socio-economic and ecological dynamics, and to analyze the potential role that cooperation and collective arrangements can play in this interaction to maintain the viability of the system. …”
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Insectos: recursos del pasado que podrían ser una solución nutricional para el futuro by Pulido Blanco, Víctor Camilo, Gonzalez Chavarro, Carlos Felipe, Tapia Polanco, Yisneiry Mercedes, Celis Ruiz, Xiomara Melissa

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Quality seeds in Nigeria: IPSR Innovation Profile by Morris, S., van den Berg, Marco

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From Risk to Resilience: How strategic Government Partnerships can Enhance Access to Insurance-Linked Credit for Smallholders in Zambia by Mascarenhas, Martina, Timu, Anne G., You, Liangzhi

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Designing local policies and economic instruments to enhance waste management in Bayawan city, Philippines by Paul, Johannes G., Boorsma, J.D., Sarana, G., Bollos, I.

“…In order to sustain such systems, the implementation of suited legal framework conditions and economical instruments are considered as key success factors. …”
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Sixty years of irrigated wheat yield increase in the Yaqui Valley of Mexico: Past drivers, prospects and sustainability by Fischer, Tony, Ammar, Karim, Ortíz Monasterio, Jose Iván, Monjardino, Marta, Singh, Ravi P., Verhulst, Nele

“…Biophysical sustainability of the Yaqui Valley wheat system is moderately good but N management and diversity can be improved.…”
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Access to plant genetics resources for food and agriculture and benefit sharing in China: legal framework, current practices and future developments by Xiaoyong Zhang

“…It recommends China's accession to the Treaty following necessary amendments to the existing legal system.…”
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Vaccination as a way forward? A case study on how a poultry vaccination intervention influences poultry keeping in Kenya by Lindahl, Johanna F., Wyatt, Amanda, Young, J., Young, M., Alders, Robyn G., Bagnol, B., Msyoki, D., Alonso, Silvia, Grace, Delia

“…Poultry is important for many poor smallholders, but infectious diseases, such as Newcastle disease, can drastically reduce the poultry population in a village and affects the food security and the livelihood of many farmers. Newcastle disease vaccination can reduce the spread of disease, but may be hard to access for smallholders if there is not a supportive system in place. …”
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Mid-level actors and their operating environments for implementing nutrition-sensitive programming in Ethiopia by Warren, Andrea M., Frongillo, Edward A.

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Beyond the state order?: second crop production in the Ferghana Valley, Uzbekistan by Platonov, Alexander, Wegerich, Kai, Kazbekov, Jusipbek S., Kabilov, Firdavs

“…After independence in 1991, Uzbekistan introduced a policy on food security and consequently reduced the irrigated area allocated to cotton and increased the area of winter wheat. …”
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Women farmers and Andean seeds by Tapia, M.E., Torre, A. de la

“…The knowledge acquired as managers of these resources for livelihood, health and food security constitutes a knowledge system that both ensures subsistence and community needs, and contributes to the conservation and use of local varieties…”
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CGIAR Research Program on Fish - Plan of Work and Budget 2020 by CGIAR Research Program on Fish

“…A key focus was on explicitly defining FISH pathways to achieve in delivering System Level Outcome 2 (Improve Food and Nutrition Security for Health) and on crosscutting outcomes, including those related to gender. …”
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Digital data and tools for managing agriculture: focusing on earth observation data and climate change by Ghosh, Surajit, Mallick, A., Dawn, A., De Sarkar, K., Chowdhury, A., Kour, S., Ghosh, A., Holmatov, Bunyod

“…Another initiative by CGIAR on Resilient Cities generates evidence, technologies, and capacities that help improve urban food systems and secure equitable job and business opportunities, healthy diets for all, human and environmental health, and a reduced carbon footprint. …”
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Smart-Valleys toolkit: An e-learning tool for the sustainable use of inland valleys for agricultural development and biodiversity and ecosystem services preservation by Dossou-Yovo, Elliott Ronald, Futakuchi, Kiochi

“…It also ensures an appropriate supply of carbon, animal protein, minerals, and vitamins, contributing to food and nutrition security. However, due to socioeconomic, environmental, technological, and institutional constraints, the integrated rice-fish system remains marginal in Mali, as in most African countries. …”
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Book Launch of Political Economy and Policy Analysis (PEPA) Sourcebook Video by CGIAR

“…Stakeholders working in food system policy research and development often ask, “What works where, why, and how?” …”
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La seguridad en la cadena agroalimentaria de la carne: problemáticas, estrategias y posibles soluciones pre–faena by Frizzo, Laureano Sebastian, Astesana, Diego Martín, Soto, Lorena Paola, Blajman, Jesica E., Zbrun, María Virginia, Signorini, Marcelo, Martí, L.E., Sequeira, Gabriel Jorge, Rosmini, Marcelo Raúl

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Enhancement of capacity in applied biometry in East and southern Africa by Rowlands, G.J.

“…Biometric skills in developing countries are inadequate to support the changing priorities of agricultural research with the consequence that the quality of research aimed at increasing food security and alleviating poverty is often deficient because it lacks good statistical design" (CTA, 1997). …”
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