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Fishing in the Forum: Research, Development and Policy Implications for the CPWF by CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food

“…Its key role was to contribute to the discussion, and in particular to draw out the practical consequences of the research being discussed. …”
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Public-Private partnerships in watershed management: evidence from the Himalayan foothills by Kurian, Mathew

“…Further, there is limited conceptualization of what is meant by partnerships between the public and private sectors. This paper draws on a study of watershed management in Haryana to analyze the evolution of public-private partnerships in natural resource management. …”
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Factors determining household market participation in small ruminant production in the highlands of Ethiopia by Gebremedhin, Berhanu, Hoekstra, Dirk, Tegegne, Azage, Shiferaw, K., Bogale, A.

“…This study, based on survey data of 5004 Ethiopian smallholder households, uses analysis of descriptive information and econometric analysis to draw implications to promote market orientation. …”
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Water policy in Canada by Horbulyk, Theodore M.

“…Water allocation refers to the systems that are used to decide which users are allowed to draw water from which sources, for which purposes, and when. …”
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From men's houses to leader courts : processes of transformation in the governance of land use in the Papua New Guinea highlands by Syndicus, Ivo Sören

“…The governance of land use in the area of Dirima is embedded in a social structure of hierarchically segmented groups, while the functions and significance of different group segments for the governance of land use have changed over the last decades. …”

Searching for site-specific design by Sigmarsdóttir, Gudrún Birna

“…People connect with their environment on individual and group basis and create a variety of structures, based on different meanings and experiences. …”
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Do as they did: Peer effects explain adoption of conservation agriculture in Malawi by Bell, Andrew R., Zavaleta Cheek, Jennifer, Mataya, Frazer, Ward, Patrick S.

“…This study is structured to inform the question: “How do farmers decide to adopt the specific activities of CA in Malawi?” …”
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Inventering av processvattenbalans : fastställande av fjärrvärmedistributionens läckage inom Vattenfall Värme Uppsala AB by Larsson , Anders

“…Information is gathered through discussions, drawings of the plant and guided tours of the plant. …”

Measuring women's empowerment: Gender and time-use agency in Benin, Malawi and Nigeria by Eissler, Sarah, Heckert, Jessica, Myers, Emily, Seymour, Greg, Sinharoy, Sheela, Yount, Kathryn

“…To extend this area of study, this article proposes and explores the concept of time-use agency, which shifts the focus from the amount of time individuals spend on activities to the strategic choices they make about how to allocate their time. It draws on 92 semi-structured interviews from three qualitative studies in Benin, Malawi and Nigeria to explore and compare the salience of time-use agency as a component of empowerment. …”
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Subnational variation in policy implementation: the case of Nigerian land governance reform by Resnick, Danielle, Okumo, Austen

“…To explain this puzzle, we use a structured comparative analysis that draws on interviews with more than 90 federal and state-level stakeholders in Cross River, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, and Ondo states. …”
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Institutionalization of REDD+ MRV in Indonesia, Peru, and Tanzania: progress and implications by Ochieng, R.M., Arts, B., Brockhaus, Maria, Visseren-Hamakers, I.J.

“…We analyze and compare the extent to which the concept of measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) for REDD+ has become institutionalized in terms of new policy discourses, actors, resources, and rules in Indonesia, Peru, and Tanzania. To do so, we draw on discursive institutionalism and the policy arrangement approach. …”
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Barriers to using market intelligence in plant breeding: Evidence from a survey of breeding professionals by Rice, Brendan, Kramer, Berber, Trachtman, Carly

“…Specifically, we find that breeding team attitudes on who should be involved in breeding programs may be limiting the move to more transdisciplinary approaches and that current institutional incentive structures may not incentivize the use of market intelligence in breeding decisions. …”
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Multi-stakeholder platforms for cross-border biodiversity conservation and landscape governance in East Africa: Perspectives and outlook by Lin, Tian, Catacutan, Delia, Malesu, Maimbo

“…This working paper considers the role of multi-stakeholder platforms (MSP) for cross-border biodiversity conservation and landscape governance in East Africa. This paper draws on the MSP literature to assess the challenges and opportunities of using MSPs for managing terrestrial biodiversity resources in transboundary landscapes. …”
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Nära möten mellan byggnader och natur för människors välbefinnande : ett designförslag för att främja invånarnas hälsa och trygghet i Husby, Stockholm by Kamali, Betsy

Are landscape approaches possible under authoritarianism? multi-stakeholder governance and social transformation in Myanmar by Forsyth,T., Springate-Baginski, O.

“…This paper argues that building Landscape Approaches under authoritarian conditions cannot be based on a governance deficit model of awaiting idealized political conditions, but instead needs to pay attention to how local social and political structures influence what is deliberated, and by whom. …”
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A bottom-up approach to estimating emissions from food systems: Using Biennial Transparency Reports for fine- grained, country-level estimations by Pingault, N., Martius, C.

“…Food systems span all economic sectors along which national GHG inventories are usually structured: energy, industry, agriculture, land use and waste. …”
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Livelihood and transition to certified cacao production in the Peruvian Amazonas : gendered responsibilities in Irazola by Emenius, Carin

“…By the use of semi-structured interviews and participating practical methods, ten families in the district of Irazola in the Peruvian Amazon were selected. …”

Constructive communication in contexts of complexity : a case study of the wolf conflict in Sweden by Cederlöf, Lina

“…A phenomenological approach is applied and the empirical material was collected through 11 in-depth semi-structured interviews with respondents from five different NGOs active within the domain of the issue. …”

Globalization and the smallholders: a review of issues, approaches, and implications by Narayanan, Sudha, Gulati, Ashok

“…It is equally important to draw lessons from the several success stories to be able to replicate these successes on a larger scale in a meaningful way. …”
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Practising evolution: Theory for understanding and evaluating participatory research by Loevinsohn, Michael E.

“…Scientists working in a conventional mode can draw on a large body of theory validated by experience when they design their research. …”
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