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Fostering Inclusive Adoption of RCM Through MDII Insights by Singaraju, Niyati, Gakhar, Shalini

“…A study of rice farmers in India and Indonesia through the MDII framework revealed barriers and opportunities for the adoption and inclusiveness of agricultural digital tools like Rice Crop Manager, particularly for women and marginalized farmers. …”
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Social innovations for a circular built environment: a heuristic framework based on a review by Bullinger, K., Schiller, G.

“…Future research will empirically examine SI’s impact in real-world settings, aiming to uncover contextual drivers and barriers. By focusing on the social aspects of circularity, this study offers new insights into BE innovations, supporting a paradigm shift toward a sustainable and circular built environment.…”
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Ethiopia Scaling Week by Ewell, Hanna, Byandaga, Livingstone, Seyoum, Yodit Y, Makonnen, Brook T., Ambaw, Gebermedihin, Solomon, Dawit

“…Based on the concepts and principles shared, participants reflected on their visions, the barriers they face, and accelerators or enabling factors to overcome them, and established roadmaps for four climate solutions: a community-based breeding program for small ruminants, a digital platform for feed and forage, site-specific fertilizer recommendations, and climate-informed agro-advisories.…”
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Adoption of postharvest innovations to minimize tomato losses in Nigeria by Yami, M., Liverpool-Tasie, L.S.O., Olaoye, I., Assfaw Wossen, T., Feleke, S., Abdoulaye, T.

“…However, there are significant barriers to RPCs’ adoption, including high acquisition costs and limited availability in rural areas. …”
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RiceMoRe: Digitalizing Rice Monitoring for Climate Action and Scalable Impact by International Rice Research Institute

“…This posed significant barriers to demonstrating climate mitigation achievements and accessing climate finance. …”
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Partnerships: Evaluative Learning on Ways of Working in CGIAR by CGIAR Independent Advisory and Evaluation Service

“…Yet, partnerships remain under-leveraged, constrained by transactional approaches, weak engagement with National Agricultural Research and Extension Systems (NARES), funding silos, coordination gaps, and limited private sector involvement. To overcome these barriers, critical enablers include senior-level accountability, a dedicated System Office partnership unit, and sustained investment in relationship-building and co-creation. …”
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Future research directions for climate-sensitive social protection by Desai, Bina, Läderach, Peter, Meddings, George, Campbell, Raramai

“…Better understanding the barriers to scaling up and the avenues towards prudently adapting existing programs would be a first step in designing impactful national systems. …”
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Scaling climate-smart innovations using the Gender Action Learning System (GALS) Tool by Enokenwa Baa, Ojongetakah

“…While sustainable climate-smart farming practices, such as Conservation Agriculture (CA), are recognized for their potential to enhance productivity, their adoption is often hampered by socio-cultural barriers. Specifically, women and youth face limitations in resource access and ownership, agency, decision-making power, and participation in agricultural planning. …”
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Bridging global goals with local realities: university engagement with the SDGs in Pakistan by Cheema, Abdur Rehman, Ahmed, N., Hassan, H., Kemal, M. A.

“…Engagement varies by place: provincial and regional priorities mirror local socio—economic and environmental realities, from poverty and education to water, energy and climate resilience. Common barriers persist—limited funding, weak institutionalisation of SDGs and scarce incentives for interdisciplinary collaboration. …”
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Diet & nutrition profile: Tanzania by Amunga, Dorcas, Honeycutt, Sydney, Grant, Frederick K. E., Kinabo, Joyce, Bliznashka, Lilia, Olney, Deanna K.

“…Now under the CGIAR Science Program on Better Diets and Nutrition (BDN), implementation of the FRESH approach continues with the aim of addressing barriers to the desirability, affordability, accessibility, and availability of diverse, safe, and sustainable F&V in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). …”
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Ecosystem services and hydroelectricity in Central America: modelling service flows with fuzzy logic and expert knowledge by Locatelli, Bruno, Imbach, Pablo, Vignola, Raffaele, Metzger, M.J., Hidalgo, E. J. L.

“…These flows depend on the characteristics and spatial distribution of ecosystems and users, the spatial relationships between them, and the presence of filters or barriers between ecosystems and users. The objective of this paper is to map the ecosystem services provided to the Costa Rican and Nicaraguan hydroelectric sectors, which are crucial sectors for national sustainable development and depend directly on hydrological ecosystem services. …”
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Forest biodiversity and the delivery of ecosystem goods and services: translating science into policy by Thompson, I.D., Okabe, K., Tylianakis, Jason M., Kumar, P., Brockerhoff, E.G., Schellhorn, Nancy A., Parrotta, J.A., Nasi, Robert

“…Finally, we highlight barriers to the transfer of knowledge from scientists to decisionmakers and suggest that scientists can be much more effective at informing policy and improving resource management by asking policy-relevant questions and providing timely and consistent information to decisionmakers and the public on the linkages among biodiversity, ecosystem services, and their value to people.…”
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Social learning in practice: A review of lessons, impacts and tools for climate change by Harvey, Blane, Ensor, Jonathan, Garside, Ben, Woodend, John, Naess, Lars Otto, Carlile, Liz

“…Understanding social learning is important if we wish to respond effectively to increasingly complex and “wicked” problems such as climate change; to break down barriers between producers and users of research, and increase the capacity of organisations to learn. …”
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Fragmentation of arid and semi-Arid ecosystems: Implications for people and animals by Hobbs, N.T., Reid, Robin S., Galvin, K.A., Ellis, J.E.

“…Fragmentation of environments is not only caused by humans; dynamic natural processes like landslides, fires, and floods can create barriers that dissect natural systems. Understanding the consequences of humancaused and natural sources of fragmentation has been a fundamental challenge in ecology, a problem occupying theoretical and empirical workers for decades (see reviews of Usher 1987, Andren 1994, Collinge 1996, Turner 1996, Young et al. 1996, Harrison and Bruna 1999, Debinski and Holt 2000, Niemela 2001, Chalfoun et al. 2002, de Blois et al. 2002, Schmiegelow and Monkkonen 2002). …”
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The SmartAG Partner: CCAFS East Africa Quarterly Newsletter, January - March 2015 by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…From the field, we profile women farmers who are breaking gender barriers and taking the lead on climate-smart agriculture (CSA). …”
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Is Climate-Smart Agriculture effective? A review of selected cases by Dinesh, Dhanush, Frid-Nielsen, Snorre, Norman, James, Mutamba, M, Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María, Campbell, Bruce M.

“…This paper examines 19 CSA case studies, to assess their effectiveness in achieving the stated objectives of CSA, while also assessing other cobenefits, economic costs and benefits, barriers to adoption, success factors, and gender and social inclusion issues. …”
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Quality and safety of value added milk and dairy products by Kurwijila, Lusato R., Birungi, Rosemirta, Makokha, S., Musahara, H., Otika, L., Adissu, A., Omore, Amos O.

“…However, significant technical and institutional barriers continue to limit the exploitation of these benefits by small scale producers and small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) engaged in value addition activities. …”
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Institutional arrangements for implementing One Health and Eco-health by Grace, Delia, Kabayo, W., McDermott, John J.

“…From these we present a framework on assessing the efficiency, effectiveness and feasibility of different types of institutional arrangements and for better understanding the barriers and bridges to working across sectors in different countries. …”
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The diversity of gendered adaptation strategies to climate change of Indian farmers: a feminist intersectional approach by Ravera, F., Martín López, B., Pascual, U., Drucker, Adam G.

“…Intersecting identities, such as caste, wealth, age and gender, influence decisions and reveal power dynamics and negotiation within the household and the community, as well as barriers to adaptation among groups. Overall, the findings suggest that a feminist intersectional approach does appear to be useful and worth further exploration in the context of climate change adaptation. …”
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The role of gender norms in access to agricultural training in Chikwawa and Phalombe, Malawi by Mudege, Netsayi N., Mdege, Norita, Abidin, P.E., Bhatasara, Sandra

“…Data on gender and recruitment to and participation in training, barriers to training and access to information as well as farmer to farmer extension models were collected and analysed. …”
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