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Are crop fields pharmacies for megaherbivores? From ecophysiological studies of elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) crop raiders in Gabon

Ecological Solutions and Evidence
Damage to crops is a major cause of human–elephant conflict (HEC) in elephant range states. Elephant crop raiding drives farmers' resentment against elephants and reduces local community support for wildlife conservation.
Steeve Ngama, Jerome Bindelle, Janine L. Brown, John R. Poulsen, Jean‐Luc Hornick, Annick Linden, Lisa Korte, Jean‐Louis Doucet, Stephen Paris, Monique Bouanga Banfoui epse Ngama, Mireille Bawe Johnson, Auguste Ndoutoume Ndong, Jacques François Mavoungou, Philippe Lejeune, Cédric Vermeulen   +14 more
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Patterns of crop rading by wild ungulates and elephants in Ramnagar Forest Division, Uttarakhand

Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017
Crop raiding is a major form of human–wildlife conflict that not only affects livelihoods of farmers living close to forest areas but also jeopardizes the objective of wildlife conservation.
Ankur Kumar, Harendra Singh Bargali, Ashish David, Advait Edgaonkar   +3 more
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Trade-offs between benefits and costs of forest proximity: farmers' practices and strategies regarding tree-crop integration and ecosystem disservices management

Ecology and Society, 2020
The impact of ecosystem disservices is among the issues that farmers have to consider in management of livelihoods and local landscapes. We investigated distinct practices developed within local communities in tree-crop integration and strategies to ...
Mulatu Osie, Sileshi Nemomissa, Simon Shibru, Gemedo Dalle   +3 more
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Bridging Worlds: Can Evidence, Regulation and Indigenous Leadership Shape the Future of Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine?

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background and need As the WHO Global Traditional Medicine Strategy 2025–2034 encourages countries to consider integrating traditional, complementary and integrative medicine (TCIM) into health systems, there is a need to clarify the principal scientific, regulatory, ethical, and governance challenges involved. Renewed global attention to TCIM,
Abdul‐Basit Abdul‐Samed, Dina Balabanova, Neil Spicer, Martin McKee   +3 more
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Constructing Synthesizable Evaluations of Technical Interventions to Reduce Wildlife‐Caused Agricultural Losses 构建易用于证据整合的野生动物致农业损失缓解措施成效评估

Integrative Conservation, EarlyView.
A framework with eight key components to assess the effectiveness of technical measures to reduce wildlife‐caused agriculture loss. ABSTRACT Technical interventions to reduce wildlife‐caused agricultural losses (e.g., crops, livestock, and fisheries) are essential for human‐wildlife coexistence.
Cheng Huang, Tien Ming Lee, Kaiwen Zhou, Xiong Zhang, Zhixin Wen, Zhijun Ma, Li Zhang, Limin Feng, Yang Liu   +8 more
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Annual and Seasonal Rainfall Variability in Mozambique During the Nineteenth Century

International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.
This paper presents the first annually and seasonally resolved reconstructions of nineteenth‐century rainfall variability for Mozambique derived from the analysis of extensive documentary evidence. It reveals spatially heterogeneous rainfall patterns with recurrent multi‐year droughts, episodic extreme wet events, and a strong coherence between ...
David J. Nash, Matthew J. Hannaford, Bárbara Direito   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human-elephant conflict in the African rainforest landscape: crop-raiding situations and damage mitigation strategies in rural Gabon

Frontiers in Conservation Science
While the conservation of forest elephants is a global concern, human-elephant conflict (HEC), especially crop-raiding by elephants, is a serious threat to both human livelihoods and conservation efforts.
Naoki Matsuura, Mayuko Nomoto, Saeko Terada, Christian Mikolo Yobo, Hervé Roland Memiaghe, Hervé Roland Memiaghe, Guy-Max Moussavou   +6 more
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Late Holocene environmental history of Dojran, Macedonia: Investigating the interplay of imperial dynamics and climatic change

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a high‐resolution, multi‐proxy reconstruction of environmental and land‐use change from Lake Dojran over historical times (last 2500 years), combining pollen, biomarkers, radiocarbon dating, Ottoman taxation records and other historical data.
Alessia Masi, Lucrezia Masci, Georgios C. Liakopoulos, Monica Bini, Alexander Francke, Ilaria Isola, Carlo Ricotta, Laura Sadori, Alexander Sarantis, Sławomir Sprawski, Jakub Sypiański, Irene Tunno, Cristiano Vignola, Bernd Wagner, Giovanni Zanchetta, Adam Izdebski   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Commentary: Wildlife Tourism as Crop Protection? Double-goal Provisioning and the Transvaluation of the Macaque in Postwar Japan

Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017
Human–wildlife interfaces are often sites of friction and conflict in the form of crop and livestock depredations that can lead to negative local attitudes towards the animals responsible.
John Knight
doaj   +1 more source

Property Rights Entrepreneurship: The Drive for Product, Asset, and Resource Excludability

Managerial and Decision Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Property rights are foundational to market economies, and entrepreneurial activity depends heavily on the excludability afforded by property rights. Yet, the role of entrepreneurs in shaping the evolution of property rights has been so thoroughly taken for granted that it often vanishes from analyses.
Thomas J. Dean, William R. Forster, Nicholas Dew   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source