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Climate change, food security, and central banks in developing economies by Arndt, Channing, Hartley, Faaiqa, Loewald, Christopher, Makrelov, Konstantin

“…Second, central banks are already critical providers of information to public and private decision-makers. Creation and dissemination of knowledge that facilitates improved decision-making by public and private actors (notably investors) may be central banks’ most important contribution to more favourable social, economic, and environmental outcomes in a context of climate change. …”
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Asset maintenance as hidden investment among the poor and rich: Application to housing by Hernandez, Manuel A., Trupkin, Danilo R.

“…Substituting maintenance of existing fixed assets for investment in new assets, and thus affecting their depreciation, can play a major role in the economic decisions of low-income agents. We develop a theoretical framework that shows that poorer households, which generally face relatively higher adjustment (moving) costs and more credit constraints, will adjust their home maintenance decisions to a higher degree than richer households after an income change. …”
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Modular ABM development in NRM for improved dissemination and training by Bell, Andrew R., Robinson, Derek, Malik, Ammar, Dewal, Snigdha

“…Where household-level decisions, made in interaction with other households and the natural environment, shape outcomes at the landscape scale, ABM can provide insights that coarser equation-based models (EBM) or statistical models may not (Bankes, 2002; Paranuk et al. 1998). …”
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Economics of export taxation in a context of food crisis: A theoretical and CGE approach contribution by Bouët, Antoine, Laborde Debucquet, David

“…Small countries are harmed by both decisions. Second, we illustrate the costs of a lack of cooperation in and regulation of (binding process) such policies in a time of crisis using a global computable general equilibrium (CGE) model illustration, mimicking the mechanisms that have appeared during the recent food price surge. …”
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Animal genetic resources and economic development: issues in relation to economic valuation by Rege, J.E.O., Gibson, John P.

“…There is urgent need for the development and application of economic and policy analysis tools to aid rational decision-making in the management of the global domestic AnGR.…”
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A framework for sustainability analysis in water resources management and application to the Syr Darya Basin by Cai, Ximing, McKinney, Daene C., Lasdon, L. S.

“…“Current” and “future” water supply and demand are combined into a coherent system which takes account of the cumulative effects of short‐term water use decisions and deals with the tradeoffs between the benefits of current and future generations. …”
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From mobile crowdsourcing to crowd-trusted food price in Nigeria: statistical pre-processing and post-sampling by Arbia, G., Solano-Hermosilla, G., Nardelli, V., Micale, F., Genovese, G., Amerise, I.L., Adewopo, J.

“…Timely and reliable monitoring of food market prices at high spatial and temporal resolution is essential to understanding market and food security developments and supporting timely policy and decision-making. Mostly, decisions rely on price expectations, which are updated with new information releases. …”
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Managing agricultural enterprises and developing agricultural value chains: Cases on agribusinesses by Kolavalli, Shashidhara, Naik, Gopal, Tsamenyi, Mathew, Babu, Suresh Chandra

“…The cases are situations in enterprises or sectors that require a decision to be made, written from the perspective of a protagonist, usually a high-level decision maker. …”
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Do buyers have bargaining power? Evidence from informal groundwater contracts by Yashodha

“…I define bargaining power as the relative ability of the agent to influence the joint decision for their individually preferred contract type. …”
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Determinants of female time allocation in selected districts of rural Pakistan by 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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Representation increases women's influence in climate deliberations: Evidence from community-managed forests in Malawi by Clayton, Amanda, Dulani, Boniface, Kosec, Katrina, Robinson, Amanda Lea

“…Despite these changes, women and men do not prefer different deforestation policies, and women's presence does not meaningfully affect group decisions. Our work demonstrates how women's presence shapes climate deliberations but also calls into question claims that women's inclusion will necessarily affect climate decisions.…”
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Launching, maintaining, expanding and disseminating crowd-sourced information in drylands: KAZNET manual by Lepariyo, Watson, Shikuku, Kelvin Mashisia, Baraza, Meshack, Galgallo, Diba, Gobu, Wako, Godana, Nura, Banerjee, Rupsha R.

“…KAZNET (kazi kwa net), translated from Kiswahili to mean “working within a network”, is an information crowdsourcing initiative and a decision support tool designed with the goal to address climate and non-climate shocks by informing resilience programming, targeted intervention, early warning, and early action. …”
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A field screening technique for resistance of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) to the pod-borer Maruca testulalis (Geyer) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) by Jackai, L.E.N.

“…Some of these parameters were assessed in more than one way. A decision was made at the end of the study as to which parameters were most appropriate for a field screening methodology. …”
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Scaling climate-smart innovations using the Gender Action Learning System (GALS) Tool by Enokenwa Baa, Ojongetakah

“…Specifically, women and youth face limitations in resource access and ownership, agency, decision-making power, and participation in agricultural planning. …”
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(manuscript) Forest operations and multiple resource management by Dykstra, D.P.

“…In addition, non-timber resources provide substantial environment benefits that are difficult or impossible to measure in an economic sense but are nevertheless highly valued by society. …”
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Report: A toolkit for PICSA facilitators by Bonilla, Melissa, Giraldo, Diana, Rios, David, Paez, Ana Maria, Diaz, Dilia

“…The toolkit aims to enable genuine farmer participation, improve climate information comprehension, strengthen decision-making, and enhance agricultural resilience across Latin America and beyond. …”
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Developing multi-stakeholder forest management scenarios: a multi-agent system simulation approach applied in Indonesia by Purnomo, H., Mendoza, G.A., Prabhu, Ravi, Yasmi, Yurdi

“…MAS provides a framework where stakeholders’ (or agents) individual actions, behaviors and rational decisions can be analyzed in the context of the other stakeholders’ actions and decisions. …”
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How can animal disease risks be better managed? by Carpenter, T.E., Rich, Karl M.

“…Recent advances in our modeling frameworks have helped streamline the complex decision space faced by policymakers and improved our understanding of the risks and consequences of mitigation strategies. …”
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Encounters and places: Project negotiations in Galessa, Ethiopia by Habermann, Birgit, Felt, U., Vogl, C.R., Bekele, K., Mekonnen, Kindu

“…Powerful choices on modes of representation and communication technologies as well as unilateral decisions on places have important implications for the way decisions are eventually made and by whom. …”
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Interventions for achieving sustainability in tropical forest and agricultural landscapes by Newton, Peter, Agrawal, Arun, Wollenberg, Eva Karoline

“…The paper demonstrates how the framework can be used by generating hypotheses about decisions and choices of different actors and likely effects on commodity agriculture expansion.…”
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