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Mixture and single-compound toxicity using Daphnia magna por Firpo, Sofia

“…A problem when assessing mixture toxicities is that the constituents and concentrations of pollutants in the environment vary greatly. Therefore experimental testing of all possible combinations of constituents in a mixture in the environment is not possible. …”
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The Countryside dream : amenity Migration and the new transit-oriented communities por Romé, Emelie

“…The phenomenon of amenity migration – the migration to a new, more appealing everyday environment considered to have more amenities, is very relevant today since many smaller communities are becoming more transit-oriented, allowing the inmigrants to work in some bigger, dense town while living in a small-scale, less dense semi-rural community. …”

Små ingrepp med stora steg mot förändring por From Björk, Madelaine, Lindqvist, Jenny

“…How can we plan and design the physical environment so that it supports a development that benefits disadvantaged people and the local community? …”
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The environmental effects of poverty programs and the poverty effects of environmental programs: The missing RCTs. por Alpízar, Francisco, Ferraro, Paul J.

“…When done well, RCTs permit credible causal inferences and can be designed to directly test competing assumptions about how the world works. Yet few RCTs of poverty programs examine their effects on the environment. …”
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En fristad? por Nord, Anna-Karin

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Building capacities: the next generation of women scientists por Triana Ángel, Natalia, Urrea Benítez, José Luis, Villegas, Daniel Mauricio

“… ● This experiences are a good example of how inclusive work environments, training opportunities, and promotion of scientific careers bear great fruit, and invite us to redouble our efforts and intentions so that these opportunities continue and improve.…”
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Gender mainstreaming in local potato seed system in Georgia por Girard, I.

“…However, women are heavily burdened with domestic work, and they are not major decision-makers with regard to potato variety selection, agricultural investments, and product sales, nor with the inclusion of participants in any training provided. …”
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Can Innovation Platforms (IPs) improve rural women participation in maize value chain? evidence from the eastern DR Congo por Njingulula, P., Matungulu, P.K., Masuki, K.F., Schut, Marc, Okafor, C., Wimba, B.M.

“…Despite these challenges, IPs offered small-scale maize producers many technical, organizational and material opportunities, including income generation, access to inputs and to lucrative markets, acquisition of diversified knowledge and skills, ability to work in a commercial environment, benefiting from the services of experts, accessing new sources of financing, they could not benefit otherwise. …”
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Determinants and impact of farmers’ participation in social media groups: Evidence from irrigated areas of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan por Tadjiev, Abdusame, Kurbanov, Zafar, Djanibekov, Nodir, Govind, Ajit, Akramkhanov, Akmal

“…In Uzbekistan participation decisions are made by those who see the relevance of mobile internet for their farm business, have their own agronomic knowledge, are open to new things, care less about the opinion of other farmers, have higher perception about freedom in crop choice, have of-farm work, as well as poor irrigation water access. These fndings suggest farmers' participation in agricultural information-sharing groups (AISG) is influenced less by the type of cultivated crops or farm size, but by their institutional environment. …”
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Evaluating greenhouse gas mitigation through alternate wetting and drying irrigation in Colombian rice production por Loaiza, Sandra, Verchot, Louis V., Valencia, Drochss, Guzmán, Patricia, Amézquita, Nelson, Garcés, Gabriel, Puentes, Oscar, Trujillo, Catalina, Chirinda, Ngonidzashe, Pittelkow, Cameron M.

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Stakeholder workshop brief: Social and behaviour change intervention for scaling equitable access to rice and common beans quality seed in Butaleja District Eastern Uganda por Bomuhangi, Allan, Amuda, Alex, Mikhala, Audrine, Lengewa, Catherine, Nchanji, Eileen, Asea, Godfrey, Yila, Jummai, L'parnoi, Peter, Kinyota, Phillip, Echesa, Prisca

“…To address these barriers, Work Package 6 under the Seed Equal initiatives of the CGIAR collaborated with the Center for Behaviour Change Communication (CBCC), to develop Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) interventions for scaling access to improved seeds by women and other marginalized social groups. …”
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Food Policy Research Capacity Indicators (FPRCI), 2011-2017: 2018 Global Food Policy Report Annex Table 4 por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…“Analysts/researchers” is a head count of professionals employed at local organizations whose work involves food policy research or analysis. To introduce some uniformity, IFPRI also presents a modified quantification of the head count: "full-time equivalent analysts/researchers with PhD equivalent." …”
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Food Policy Research Capacity Indicators (FPRCI), 2011-2018: 2019 Global Food Policy Report Annex Table 3 por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…“Analysts/researchers” is a head count of professionals employed at local organizations whose work involves food policy research or analysis. To introduce some uniformity, IFPRI also presents a modified quantification of the headcount: "full-time equivalent analysts/researchers with the Ph.D. equivalent." …”
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Navigating the trade landscape: A Latin American perspective building on the WTO 13th ministerial conference por Piñeiro, Valeria, Campos Azofeifa, Adriana, Piñeiro, Martin

“…The complex multilateral trade system and the urgent need to implement concrete actions in this area are prompting countries to work towards the adoption of new standards that aim to protect and preserve the environment but could also become barriers to trade that impose a significant economic and social cost on other countries. …”
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Prediction of soil nutrients through PLSR and SVMR models by VIs-NIR reflectance spectroscopy por Singha, Chiranjit, Swain, Kishore Chandra, Sahoo, Satiprasad, Govind, Ajit

“…Though soil nutrients play important roles in maintaining soil fertility and crop growth, their estimation requires direct soil sampling followed by laboratory analysis incurring huge cost and time. In this research work, soil nutrients were predicted using VIs-NIR reflectance spectroscopy (range 350–2500 nm) with Partial Least Squares Regression (PLSR) and Support Vector Machine Regression Model (SVMR) model through principal component analysis. …”
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Collective action for the conservation of on-farm genetic diversity in a center of crop diversity: an assessment of the role of traditional farmers’ networks por Badstue, Lone Bech, Bellon, Mauricio R., Berthaud, Julien, Ramírez, Alejandro, Flores, Dagoberto, Juárez, Xóchitl, Ramírez, Fabiola

“…Interventions to support the conservation of landraces on farm, based on specialized networks for seed that rely on collective action, may not work.…”
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Building the future One Health workforce in Eastern and Southern Africa: Gaps and opportunities por Yussuf, Buke, Richards, Shauna, Grace, Delia, Mutie, Ianetta, Caron, A., De Nys, H., Goregena, B., Kgosimore, M., Kimaro, E., Qekwana, N., Tadesse, Y., Knight-Jones, Theodore J.D., Mutua, Florence K.

“…Numerous cross-cutting and technical competencies were considered essential to work in OH; however, this level of expertise is rarely logistically possible to provide in any single degree program. …”
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Designing sustainable large-scale industrial plantation landscapes: use of natural forest remnants and corridors to maintain biodiversity, retain environmental functions/services,... por Poulsen, J.

“…Second, from a human/social standpoint, the priority must be to design plantation and manage landscapes in a way that minimizes the adverse impacts on the local people and communities living in and around these areas. This paper presents work conducted in Riau, Sumatra, Indonesia. Incentives for better landscape/spatial design and management of those areas that are set aside from production for corridors and conservation areas are identified. …”
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Participatory learning for action research (PLAR) por Shaw, Alison, Kristjanson, Patricia M.

“…For instance, for boiling rice women were using 25kg buckets but requested 200-300 kg containers to make their work easier. Women who watched the video enhanced their creativity and adapted technologies to change their own environment – viewed as a form of empowerment.…”
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Greenhouse gas mitigation potential of the world’s grazing lands: Modeling soil carbon and nitrogen fluxes of mitigation practices por Henderson, Benjamin B., Gerber, Pierre J., Hilinski, T.E., Falcucci, A., Ojima, D.S., Salvatore, M., Conant, Richard T.

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