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Deforestation-forestation por Angelsen, A.

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Farmers management of fluctuating market prices for wheat and oilseeds por Beck-Friis, Caroline, Linde, Vilhelm

“…The consequence of a greater variation in the price gave rise to the fact that the time of delivery of grain had a significant effect on the price. …”
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Bridging the Policy and Investment Gap for Payment for Ecosystem Services: Learning from Costa Rican Experience and Roads Ahead por Kim, Juhern, Madrigal, Roger, Alpízar, Francisco, Rojas Fernandez, Silvia, Global Green Growth Institute

“…As forests are lost so are all of the knock-on economic, environmental, and social benefits of ecosystem services provided by those forests (e.g. sequestrating carbon dioxide, regulating hydrological systems, maintaining soil quality, preventing erosion, and hosting biodiversity). …”
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Offentliga rum och utsuddade identitetsbegrepp por Jonsson, Pia

“…Trough a literature study based on both philosophic and objective fact this essay is taking off in the meaning of public space. …”
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Forum for the Transformation of Food Systems and the Reduction of Overweight and Obesity in Latin America and the Caribbean por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…FAO and IFPRI have identified a need for a space of exchange of knowledge and experience of experts from different sectors of public policy, academia, private sector and civil society, with expertise in the issues related to Food Systems and Obesity working in Latin America in order to help develop fact-based policy interventions to address the challenges of overweight and obesity in the region. …”
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Risk communication in forestry consulting : a survey among foresty professionals por Skov, Mads Chrisrian Roiy

“…Finally, the report observes an interesting and noticeable fact which most of the FPs have expressed: Lack of time seems to be crucial for their ways of handling risk communication in forest consultancy. …”

Migration, youth, and agricultural productivity in Ethiopia por de Brauw, Alan

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Determinants of female time allocation in selected districts of rural Pakistan por Malik, Sohail, Nazli, Hina, Sultana, Nargis

“…At an academic leveL the fact that the female labour force participation decision and the hours worked are jointly determined raises interesting problems of modelling and econometric estimation in taking account of the selectivity bias thus introduced into OLS estimation. …”
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New research and training materials on gender and climate change research in agriculture and food security for rural development por Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…On the other hand, because of their central role in agriculture, women are great agents of social change. In fact, the FAO State of Food and Agriculture 2010-11 estimates that more than 100 million people could be lifted out of poverty if women had the same access to and control of resources as men1.Therefore, responses to climate change in agriculture must be gender-speci!…”
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Factors determining household market participation in small ruminant production in the highlands of Ethiopia por Gebremedhin, Berhanu, Hoekstra, Dirk, Tegegne, Azage, Shiferaw, K., Bogale, A.

“…Despite their economic and social importance, socioeconomic and marketing research on small ruminants has so far been limited, a fact which also holds strongly true in Ethiopia. …”
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A crispy delicacy: Augosoma Beetle as alternative source of protein in East Cameroon por Muafor, F.J., Levang, P., Le Gall, P.

“…Despite the fact that the exoskeleton of the Augosoma centaurus (Dynastinae) is hard and difficult to chew, this insect is often gathered in Eastern Cameroon for food in periods of availability. …”
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Public expenditures, growth, and poverty: Lessons from developing countries por Fan, Shenggen

“…The approach used in the book differs from previous work in that it considers multiple types of government spending, including investments in agriculture, infrastructure, health, education, and social safety nets; recognizes that investments have a direct impact on poverty reduction through multiple channels; and links the effects of public investment to its overall social benefits and cost, using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) framework.…”
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‘Nutritional Footprint’ in the Food, Meals and HoReCa Sectors: A Review por Zarzo, Inmaculada, Soler, Carla, Fernández-Zamudio, María A., Pina, Tatiana, Barco, Héctor, Soriano, José M.

“…Results reflected that it is a suitable indicator that integrates nutritional, environmental, and social-economic dimensions to help the decision-making process in the procurement of more sustainable products and, although it is limited to Germany due to the use of the national standard nutritional intakes of Germany, its importance lies in the fact that is a promising instrument to promote environmental sustainability in the context of food, meals, and the hotel, restaurant and catering (HoReCa) sectors.…”
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Nordpuls - En pulserande ny stadsdel i norra Köpenhamn, med fokus på tre rekreativa mötesplatser i Inre Nordpuls por Magnusson, Thérèse

Avveckla eller utveckla mjölkproduktion por Dalberg, Jonatan

“…The decrease in the number of dairy farms in Sweden has been ongoing for a longer period of time. But the fact is that this has previously not had any big effects on total amount of milk produced in Sweden. …”
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Assessing "participation" in forest management: workable methods and unworkable assumptions por Colfer, C.J.P., Wadley, R.L.

“…Finally we conclude that, given the dynamism and complexity that characterise natural forests and their inhabitants, co-operation among all stakeholders in an ongoing dialogue is probably the only way that sustainable forest management can in fact occur.We urge researchers to continue the search for simple, inexpensive and reliable tools for assessing the issue we have called "participation in forest management."…”
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Future perspectives on urban afforestation in relation to planting design : learning from three paradigmatic cases por Jensen, Rasmus Bartholdy

“…Social and Recreational aspects are usually of higher importance than economic aspects in an urban area. …”

Procesos de intervención estatal en el marco del desarrollo rural. El caso del territorio de influencia de la Comisión de Fomento de Manzano Amargo, provincia de Neuquén = Processe... por Mikuc, Juan Pablo

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Healthy animals for healthy food por Wieland, Barbara

“…Important to consider are challenges related to access to input and output markets, and social and cultural norms in influencing risks and benefits. …”
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Wrapper for building classification models using Covering Arrays por Dorado, Hugo Andres, Cobos, Carlos, Torres Jimenez, Jose, Burra, Dharani Dhar, Mendoza, Martha, Jiménez, Daniel

“…This lack of accuracy, by which the new wrapper fails to match PSO, is offset by the fact that the user does not need to fine tune algorithm parameters, such as velocity ranges, timing, cognitive coefficient, and social coefficient, while it is also much easier to program in parallel.…”
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