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Conservation and availability of plant genetic diversity: innovative strategies and technologies por Dulloo, Mohammad Ehsan

“…This will require an effective information mechanism that will connect data about the status and trends of plant diversity to decision makers for conservation and development outcomes.…”
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Gender, livestock and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Costa Rica por Farnworth, Cathy Rozel

“…This exercise identified women’s roles as (1) co-decision-makers with men in the household, (2) users of milk for making cheese (most households) and (3) farmers directly involved in livestock production activities under some circumstances. …”
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Assessing adaptation options for climate change: A guide for coastal communities in the Coral Triangle of the Pacific 2. Climate analysis por WorldFish

“…The assessment contains four distinct, but related, steps (Fig 1) focused on supporting community-level decision-making for adaptation through a series of participatory action research activities. …”
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Assessing adaptation options for climate change: A guide for coastal communities in the Coral Triangle of the Pacific 3. Impact and adaptation assessment workshop por WorldFish

“…The assessment contains four distinct, but related, steps (Fig 1) focused on supporting community-level decision-making for adaptation through a series of participatory action research activities. …”
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Assessing the impact of integrated natural resources management: CIAT challenges and experiences por Gottret, María Verónica, White, D.

“…This model could also be useful to conduct ex-ante impact analysis of different research and development interventions from organizational models to decision-support tools to technology and information as a criteria for INRM research priority-setting.…”
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An Ex-Ante analysis of the distribution of benefits from technical change among classes of consumers and producers: the case of beans in Brazil por Pachico, Douglas H., Jones, Peter G., Lynam, John K.

“…Policymakers are faced with difficult equity vs. efficiency decisions. (CIAT)…”
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Sugar, fat, or protein: are all food insecure households eating the same? The case of small rice producers in Peru por Useche, Pilar, Twyman, Jennifer

“…They indicate that policy and program recommendations should focus on nutrition information (such as labeling requirements) and education so that consumers can make informed decisions. They also suggest that policy makers should focus on how to make healthy foods available during crises to prevent health issues after economic and climatic shocks.…”
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Social learning and climate change adaptation: evidence for international development practice por Ensor, Jonathan, Harvey, Blane

“…These are: the importance of developing a shared view among those initiating learning processes of how change might happen and of how social learning fits within it, linking this locus of desired change to the tools employed; the centrality of skilled facilitation and in particular how practitioners may shift toward being participants in the collective learning process; and the need to attend to social difference, recognizing the complexity of social relations and the potential for less powerful actors to be co-opted in shared decision making.…”
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Assessing the performance of innovation platforms in crop-livestock agro-ecosystems in the Volta basin por Ayantunde, Augustine A., Swaans, Cornelis P.M., Some, Hubert W., Pali, Pamela N.

“…For all the indicators used to assess the IP, the mean scores tended to increase with the lifespan of the IPs. This reaffirms that the IP is perceived as valuable by its members as a way to enhance agricultural development. …”
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Cross comparison of five popular groundwater pollution vulnerability index approaches por Brindha, Karthikeyan, Elango, L.

“…It is also necessary to consider the maximum and minimum values of input parameters measured during a normal year in the models used for decision making.…”
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Adoption of mechanized postharvest cassava processing technologies, and the determinants of high quality cassava flour (HQCF) processing in Tanzania por Amaza, P., Abass, A., Bachwenkizi, B., Towo, E.

“…In addition, the adoption decisions made by the households were significantly influenced by a number of factors, such as the gender of the processors, the distance of the processing sites to the nearest tarmac road, and the cost of capital required to invest in HQCF processing technology. …”
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Klima 101: A Climate Change Guidebook for Philippine Journalists por Visaya-Abaño, Imelda, Navarro, Rex L., Pérez, Rosa T.

“…Climate change is a complex issue for journalists to report on and for decision makers and the general public to grasp, despite the increasing scientific evidence of this phenomenon and the growing concern over environmental issues. …”
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Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) Intermediary Training, Dodoma, Tanzania por Mwanga, Sixbert, Kisanga, Juvenal, Dinh, Dannie

“…About 42 intermediaries from the Prime Minsters’ Regional Administrative Office, local government, and Tanzania Red Cross Society were trained on a number of areas from PICSA field manual and other topics, such as integrating participatory decision-making tools under different weather conditions and seasonal and short-term climate forecast. …”
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Making rangelands more secure in Cameroon: Lessons learned and recommendations for policy makers, development actors and pastoralists por Azuhnwi, B., Gidado, M.J., Nsoh, M.F., Ndamba, M., Flintan, Fiona E.

“…A case study approach was used to document initiatives using primary and secondary sources and with choice predicated on the prominence, variety and indicated successes of the initiatives. Ten initiatives were showcased under five thematic areas ranging from: governance/decision making processes; resolving conflicts; land use planning; empowering communities; protecting pastoral resources. …”
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Organisational Baseline Study: Overview Report for Rohal Suong, Cambodia (KHM01) por Eam, Dyna, Sovannara, Khean, Vuthy, Chin, Narun, Khlout, Kimnay, Siea

“…The objectives of the organisational baseline study are to:  Provide indicators to monitor changes in behaviours and practices of locally relevant organisations that have climate change related activities in Battambang over time  Understand the provision of information/services at the local level that informs farmers’ decision making about their livelihood strategies in response to climate change…”
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Transcending landscapes: Working across scales and levels in pastoralist rangeland governance por Robinson, Lance W., Ontiri, E., Alemu, T., Moiko, Stephen S.

“…In all three cases, although external actors seemed to work appropriately and effectively at community and landscape levels, landscape governance mechanisms have been facing great challenges arising from relationships beyond the landscape, both vertically to higher levels of decision-making and horizontally to communities normally residing in other landscapes. …”
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Collective market participation for improved income among smallholder farming households: a case of Balaka Innovation Platform in Malawi por Mango, Nelson, Makate, Clifton, Lundy, Mark M., Siziba, Shephard, Nyikahadzoi, Kefasi, Fatunbi, A.O.

“…The objective of this study was to evaluate decisions to participate in collective marketing and its effect on household income among smallholder farmers in an Innovation Platform (IP). …”
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Unpacking 'gender' in India's Joint Forest Management Program: lessons from two Indian states por Elias, Marlène, Grosse, A.

“…The agreement is operationalized through JFM Committees (JFMCs) – referred to as Village Forest Committees (VFCs) in some states – where elected community representatives and a FD official make forest-related decisions in a supposedly collaborative manner. In an effort to promote gender equity and social inclusion, seats are reserved on these committees for women and marginalized groups, such as Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Schedule Tribes (STs). …”
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Training on IRI Climate Data Tools and developing a method for integrating climate data in Kigali, Rwanda por Faniriantsoa, Rija

“…The ENACTS initiative brings climate knowledge into national decision- making by improving availability, access and use of climate information. …”
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On developing the RTB toolbox. RTB workshop cluster CC2.1 phase 2. por Kilwinger, Fleur B.M., Pircher, T., Almekinders, Conny J.M., Andrade-Piedra, J.L., McEwan, M.

“…Existing and novel methods and tools will be applied in different crop and country contexts during RTB 2.0 to adapt and fine tune the tools. It is envisioned that, applications of the methods and tools in two or more seed systems will enable an improved characterisation and understanding of the interactions among socio-economic and natural-technical phenomena of seed system performance, comparison between seed systems, and more effective RTB crop seed system interventions. …”
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