Agricultural research for development has made important contributions to poverty reduction and food security
over the last 40 years. Nevertheless, it is likely that both the speed of global change and its impacts on natural and
socio-economic systems are being under-estimated. Coupled with the m...
Thornton, Philip K.
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Schuetz, Tonya
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Förch, Wiebke
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Cramer, Laura
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Abreu, David
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[Responding to global change: A theory of change approach to making agricultural research for development outcome-based]
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Responding to global change: A theory of change approach to making agricultural research for development outcome-based
Thornton, Philip K.
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Kinyangi, James
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Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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[Climate change, agriculture and food security: linking research and action in East and West Africa]
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Climate change, agriculture and food security: linking research and action in East and West Africa
Climate change will have far-reaching impacts on crop, livestock and fisheries production, and will change the prevalence of crop pests. Many of these impacts are already measurable. Climate impact studies are dominated by those on crop yields despite the limitations of climate-crop modelling, wi...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Aggarwal, Pramod K.
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Corner-Dolloff, Caitlin
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Girvetz, Evan H.
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Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María
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Ramírez Villegas, Julián
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Rosenstock, Todd S.
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Sebastian, Leocadio S.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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[Reducing risks to food security from climate change]
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Reducing risks to food security from climate change
Fire in the forested tropics has profound environmental, economic, and social impacts at multiple geographical scales. Causes of tropical fires are widely documented, although research contributions are from many disciplines, and each tends to focus on specific facets of a research problem, which...
Carmenta, R.
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Parry, L.
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Blackburn, A.
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Barlow, J.
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[Understanding human-fire interactions in tropical forest regions: a case for interdisciplinary research across the natural and social sciences]
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Understanding human-fire interactions in tropical forest regions: a case for interdisciplinary research across the natural and social sciences
Achieving effective conservation in the tropics is a global concern but implicates local people. Despite considerable rhetoric about local participation the vast majority of conservation initiatives continue to be devised and controlled by a small group of powerful, external voices. What is widel...
Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Sheil, Douglas
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[The possibility of common ground: a reply to Mavhunga and Robinson]
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The possibility of common ground: a reply to Mavhunga and Robinson
Assessing the performance of management is central to natural resource management, in terms of improving the efficiency of interventions in an adaptive-learning cycle. This is not simple, given that such systems generally have multiple scales of interaction and response; high frequency of non-lin...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Sayer, Jeffrey A.
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Frost, P.
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Ruiz Perez, M.
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Cunningham, A.B.
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Prabhu, R.
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[Assessing the performance of natural resource systems]
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Assessing the performance of natural resource systems
At the Earth Summit in Johannesburg in 2002, partnerships were touted as one of the key routes to sustainable development. But can partnerships really deliver improvements to rural livelihoods? This paper reviews one set of claimed partnerships, those between forestry companies and local individ...
Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Nawir, A.A.
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Mayers, J.
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[Rural poverty reduction through business partnerships?: examples of experience from the forestry sector]
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Rural poverty reduction through business partnerships?: examples of experience from the forestry sector
The Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) submitted under the Paris Agreement propose a country’s contribution to global mitigation efforts and domestic adaptation initiatives. This paper provides a systematic analysis of NDCs submitted by South Asian nations, in order to assess how far thei...
Amjath-Babu, T.S.
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Aggarwal, Pramod K.
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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[Climate action for food security in South Asia? Analyzing the role of agriculture in nationally determined contributions to the Paris agreement]
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Climate action for food security in South Asia? Analyzing the role of agriculture in nationally determined contributions to the Paris agreement
Two questionnaire surveys of fuel use by low-income households in Zimbabwe were conducted in four small towns in 1994, and in these towns plus four larger towns in 1999. An energy transition from wood through kerosene to electricity occured (a) with rising household income, (b) with increasing el...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Mangono, J.J.
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Mabugu, R.
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[The energy transition in action: domestic fuel choices in a changing Zimbabwe]
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The energy transition in action: domestic fuel choices in a changing Zimbabwe