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Forests and floods: drowning in fiction or thriving on facts? [Vietnamese]

“…Such conventional wisdom has often led decision-makers to implement misguided policies that adversely affect the livelihoods of millions of people living in upland areas. …”
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Assessing local perspectives in a forested landscape of central Cameroon por Sassen, M., Jum, C.N.

“…Decision makers require better understanding of local people’s needs in tropical forested landscapes to enable more locally relevant and sustainable conservation. …”
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Climate Scenarios: What we need to know and how to generate them por Santoso, H., Idinoba, M., Imbach, Pablo

“…Climate change profoundly affects the natural and social environment. Decision-makers and resource managers require information regarding future changes in climate average and variability to better anticipate potential impacts of climate change. …”
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Participatory methods for planning the future in forest communities por Evans, K., Jong, W. de, Cronkleton, P., Nghi, Tran Huu

“…Forest communities need to develop skills that allow them to establish goals and make decisions transparently and democratically and to negotiate effectively with other local actors if they are to become more proactive participants in local governance processes. …”
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Causes and consequences of shifting cultivation and its alternative in the hill tracts of eastern Bangladesh por Rahman, S.A., Rahman, M.F., Sunderland, Terry C.H.

“…Population pressure, inadequate land for cultivation, low education levels, policy planning and implementation without local participation are all factors that influence farmers’ decision to continue shifting cultivation. Intensive land management through agroforestry is a promising alternative that can sustainably manage the remaining forest resources. …”
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Assessing the regional variability of GCM simulations por Xueliang Cai, Wang, D., Zhu, T., Ringler, Claudia

“…For researchers working with GCM results and policymakers who need to make decisions based on GCM projections, the skill score maps may provide useful guidance; while for GCM developers, the skill score maps may open areas for further study to improve their models.…”
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Crop residue trade-offs project: Process lessons and gaps por International Livestock Research Institute

“…Perhaps we could have had a better picture of our analysis steps before we devised our data collection instruments? The meeting was organized by the CGIAR Systemwide Livestock Programme (SLP).…”
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Comparing apples and oranges - model-based assessment of different tsetse-transmitted trypanosomosis control strategies por McDermott, John J., Coleman, P.G.

“…Finally, the role of transmission model outputs as inputs for economic models to guide investment decisions for trypanosomosis control is emphasised.…”
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Taskforce of risk assessment for food safety in Vietnam: Linking science to policy to increase food safety and livelihood generation of the poor farmers por Hung Nguyen-Viet

“…These guidelines will be used for trainings for a wide range of decision makers, including high level policy makers. …”
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Mekong hydropower: drivers of change and governance challenges por Grumbine, R. Edward, Dore, John, Jianchu Xu

“…We link these social, ecological, economic, and political forces to ongoing regional governance issues and discuss how to improve the quality of Mekong hydropower decision making in a complex, transboundary setting.…”
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Conceptualizing food systems for global environmental change research por Ericksen, Polly J.

“…In food systems these tradeoffs are often between different scales or levels of decision-making or management, so solutions to manage them must be context-specific. …”
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Regional scenarios to guide policies, investments and institutional change por CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…CCAFS’s forward-looking and evidence based scenarios are used by decision-makers to guide policy and investment choices along impact pathways at regional, national and sub-national levels.…”
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Informe del taller para la construcción de escenarios socioeconómicos para los países andinos por CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…En consecuencia, los escenarios regionales socioeconómicos liderados por CCAFS son útiles como herramienta para la participación de los tomadores de decisión, así como para enmarcar las preguntas de investigación y poner a prueba la viabilidad de las actividades realizadas por CCAFS y sus socios regionales y nacionales.…”
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Generating credible weather data for future climates por CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…Knowledge about future weather conditions, such as when the rains will fall and for how long, is crucial for farmers’ decision-making. In sub-Saharan Africa, 95% of farmland is rainfed agriculture. …”
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Designing and promotion of benefit-sharing mechanisms (BSMs) por Gonsalves, Julian Francis

“…The project seeks to identify the variables that need to be taken into account when BSMs are designed as means to fight against rural poverty and environmental degradation. In this sense, the Citizen Action Discussion Group (Conversatorio de Acción Ciudadana) serves as a community tool for effective participation and influence on decision-making, linking rights and duties of citizens with conflicts that affect this group.…”
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Constraints and determinants of compliance with EurepGap standards: A case of smallholder french bean exporters in Kirinyaga district, Kenya por Muriithi, B.W., Mburu, J., Ngigi, M.

“…A probit model was used to determine the factors influencing the EurepGap compliance decision while descriptive statistics were used to identify the major constraints to compliance. …”
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Policy options promoting market participation of smallholder livestock producers: A case study from the Philippines por Lapar, Ma. Lucila, Holloway, G.J., Ehui, Simeon K.

“…We investigate the factors precipitating market entry where smallholders make decisions about participation (a discrete choice about whether to sell quantities of products) and supply (a continuous-valued choice about how much quantity to sell) in a cross-section of smallholders in Northern Luzon, Philippines, in a model that combines basic probit and Tobit ideas, is implemented using Bayesian methods, and generates precise estimates of the inputs required in order to effect entry among the non-participants. …”
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Determinants of labor market participation choice of farm households in rural Ethiopia: multinomial logit analysis por Bedemo, A., Getnet, Kindie, Kassa, B.

“…This paper examines the determinants of labor market participation decision of farm households in rural Ethiopia using sample household survey data collected from the study area. …”
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Rising energy prices and the economics of water in agriculture por Zilberman, D., Sproul, T., Rajagopal, D., Sexton, S., Hellegers, Petra J.G.J.

“…The models considered here can be used to determine the effects of rising energy prices on inputs, outputs, allocation decisions and impact on distribution.…”
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Understanding how participatory approaches foster innovation por Douthwaite, Boru, Beaulieu, Nathalie, Lundy, Mark M., Peters, D.

“…This paper develops a model, called the Learning-to-Innovate (LTI) model, of four basic processes linked to decision making and learning which regulate rate and quality of innovation. …”
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