In Benin, rice plays a major role in the food security of the poorest rural and urban populations. However, the rice value chains have failed to achieve their potential because of some systemic constraints. In recent years, innovation platforms (IPs) have received increasing focus as mechanisms f...
Hinnou, L.C.
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Mongbo, R.L.
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Kamanda, J.
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Sanyang, S.
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[Innovation platform and governance of local rice value chains in Benin: Between game of power and internal democracy?]
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Innovation platform and governance of local rice value chains in Benin: Between game of power and internal democracy?
Based on urgent needs for food security compounded by a changing climate which impacts and is impacted by agricultural land-use and food distribution practices, we explore the processes of action in implementing agroecological food systems. We identified the following characteristics for an agroe...
Vaarst, Mette
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Escudero, Arthur Getz
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Chappell, M. Jahi
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Brinkley, Catherine
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Nijbroek, Ravic P.
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Arraes, Nilson A.M.
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Andreasen, Lise
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Gattinger, Andreas
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Fonseca De Almeida, Gustavo
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Bossio, Deborah A.
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Halbergh, Niels
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[Exploring the concept of agroecological food systems in a city-region context]
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Exploring the concept of agroecological food systems in a city-region context
Large scale land acquisitions (LSLA), and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) are both land based phenomena which when occurring in the same area, can compete with each other for land. A quantitative analysis of country characteristics revealed that land available...
Carter, Sarah
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Manceur, Ameur M.
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Seppelt, Ralf
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Hermans-Neumann, Kathleen
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Herold, Martin
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Verchot, Louis V.
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[Large scale land acquisitions and REDD+: a synthesis of conflicts and opportunities]
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Large scale land acquisitions and REDD+: a synthesis of conflicts and opportunities
Lie, Helene
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Rich, Karl M.
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Burkart, Stefan
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[Participatory system dynamics modelling for dairy value chain development in Nicaragua]
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Participatory system dynamics modelling for dairy value chain development in Nicaragua
This introduction to the special section on “Governing Agriculture-Forest Landscapes to Achieve Climate Change Mitigation” reviews external interventions to improve forest conditions and reduce deforestation, and by extension, influence carbon storage in agriculture-forest landscapes. The review ...
Agrawal, A.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Persha, L
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[Governing agriculture-forest landscapes to achieve climate change mitigation]
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Governing agriculture-forest landscapes to achieve climate change mitigation
The increased use of sustainability standards in the international trade in cocoa challenges companies to find effective modes of service delivery to large numbers of small-scale farmers. A case study of the Sustainable Tree Crops Program targeting the small-scale cocoa producers in Côte d’Ivoire...
Muilerman, Sander
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Vellema, Sietze
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[Scaling service delivery in a failed state: cocoa smallholders, Farmer Field Schools, persistent bureaucrats and institutional work in Côte d’Ivoire]
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Scaling service delivery in a failed state: cocoa smallholders, Farmer Field Schools, persistent bureaucrats and institutional work in Côte d’Ivoire
Land grabbing has transformed rural environments across the global South, generating resistance or political reactions “from below”. In authoritarian countries like Laos, where resource investments are coercively developed and insulated from political dissent, resistance appears absent at first g...
Miles, K.-L.
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Suhardiman, Diana
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Dwyer, M.B.
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[State spaces of resistance: industrial tree plantations and the struggle for land in Laos]
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State spaces of resistance: industrial tree plantations and the struggle for land in Laos
Barton, David N.
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Benavides, Karla
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Chacón-Cascante, Adriana
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Le Coq, Jean François
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Quirós, Miriam Miranda
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Porras, Ina
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Primmer, Eeva
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Ring, Irene
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[Payments for Ecosystem Services as a Policy Mix: Demonstrating the institutional analysis and development framework on conservation policy instruments]
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Payments for Ecosystem Services as a Policy Mix: Demonstrating the institutional analysis and development framework on conservation policy instruments