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Insect pollinators can unlock an annual monetary value of more than US $100 million from crop production in Rwanda
Insect pollinators provide a natural ecosystem service to more than 80% of known flowering plants, many of which are part of our diet. However, their...
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Project Analysis and Environmental Effects
This chapter addresses how the environmental effects of projects can be incorporated in project analysis. It begins by briefly discussing the basis...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goals: A Case Study of Dalmia Bharat Sugar & Industries Limited
Sugarcane-based agro-industry in India is spread over 5.2 million hectare and employs around 12 million people. It has immense potential to create...
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Evaluating the impacts of a large-scale voluntary REDD+ project in Sierra Leone
Carbon offsets from the REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation) framework to protect forests are expected to see a 100-fold...
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An assessment of using eco-friendly crop production practices by the project beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries in Bangladesh
The purposes of this study were to determine the present state of use of eco-friendly crop production practices by the beneficiaries of “safe crop...
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Assessing the impact of incentive coordination effect on the equilibrium of agricultural water usage by China’s South-to-North Water Diversion Middle Route Project
In recent years, the sustainable development of agricultural water resources has received much attention. The mismatch between agricultural water...
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Incentive Mechanisms, Monitoring and Evaluation, and Communication of the CORIGAP Project
In this chapter, we propose a framework of market-based incentive mechanisms for the adoption and scaling of sustainable production standards...
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Seventy-Five Years of Research and Development in Seed Spices
The present chapter presents a bird’s eye view of the seed spices research in India during the past seven decades since independence. The research on...
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Transition to a Science Mega-Project, 2006–2012
Following the “Grass-roots” astronomer-led phase of global collaboration in the SKA project described in the previous Chapter, the transition of SKA...
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Can results-based prizes to private sector incentivize technology adoption by farmers? Evidence from the AgResults Nigeria project that uses prizes to incentivize adoption of AflasafeTM
BackgroundThe AgResults initiative tests the efficacy of results-based prizes to scale-up smallholder technology adoption. In Nigeria the project...
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The “Five-Year Plan” of Spatial Development and Regional Policy of Russia: Running in Place or Readiness for a Sprint?
AbstractThis article considers trends in the field of spatial development and regional policy of the Russian Federation in the last five years...
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Stump height: a potential escalator of wood volume and carbon removals in miombo woodlands of mainland Tanzania
Mitigation and adaptation to climate change in develo** countries require sustainable forest management through either retaining the forest...
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Thirty-five-year timber harvesting disturbance effects on composition and biomass of tupelo-cypress (Nyssa-Taxodium) forested wetlands, southwest Alabama, USA
Thirty-five years post-harvest, effects of harvest disturbances upon tree composition and aboveground biomass were evaluated in a water-tupelo (Nyssa...
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Irrigation Scheme Size and Its Relationship to Investment Return: The Case of Senegal River Valley
Despite the boost in rice production over the last decade in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), increased production is required to satisfy the demand from...
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Environmental life cycle assessment of production of the high intensity sweetener steviol glycosides from Stevia rebaudiana leaf grown in Europe: The SWEET project
PurposeThere is an increasing interest in the use of non-nutritive sweeteners to replace added sugar in food and beverage products for reasons of...
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The Ocean as a Solution to Climate Change: Five Opportunities for Action
The ocean is a dominant feature of our planet, covering 70% of its surface and driving its climate and biosphere. The ocean sustains life on earth...
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Learning from Success Stories and Best Practices in Water Management
Water resources development and management are taking many turning points in terms of their size and scale of investment, approach and methodologies...
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Regulatory ecosystem services through large-scale commercial farming of Kappaphycus alvarezii: Pan-India potential estimates
For more than a billion years, seaweeds have been a segment of marine primary productivity this fact must be contemplated while considering emerging...
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Adopting yield-improving practices to meet maize demand in Sub-Saharan Africa without cropland expansion
Maize demand in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to increase 2.3 times during the next 30 years driven by demographic and dietary changes. Over the...
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Co-benefits of climate change mitigation from innovative agricultural water management: a case study of corn agroecosystem in eastern Canada
Beneficial water management practices (BWMPs) have been identified to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in eastern Canada by retrofitting...
