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Diagnosing scaling bottlenecks in 10 community conservation initiatives in southern and eastern Africa

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Scaling area‐based conservation, including initiatives led or comanaged by Indigenous Peoples and local communities, is a flagship goal of the Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Conservationists often aspire to scale initiatives, but this is rarely achieved in practice. Identifying and addressing factors that limit initiative adoption (i.e.
Thomas Pienkowski, Matt Clark, Arundhati Jagadish, Aklei Albert, Mohanjeet Brar, Tarn Breedveld, Linda Chinangwa, Deepali Gohil, Deziderius Irumba, Ramzy Kanaan, Rose Peter Kicheleri, Phillip Kihumuro, Wilhelm Andrew Kiwango, Mathew Bukhi Mabele, Paul Matiku, Gimbage Mbeyale, Musingo Tito E. Mbuvi, Arthur Mugisha, Stanley Mwango, Iddi Mwanyoka, Robson Nyirenda, Geoffrey Oula, Jón Geir Pétursson, Taddeo Rusoke, Nelson Turyahabwe, Moses Kazungu, Lessah Mandoloma, Charles Meshack, Kaala B. Moombe, Francis Moyo, Victor K. Muposhi, Amos Ochieng, Edwin Sabuhoro, Anna Spenceley, Emmanuel Sulle, David Mwesigye Tumusiime, Paulo Wilfred, Peadar Brehony, Elias Damtew Assef, Morena Mills   +39 more
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Adoption Dynamics of Organic Pesticides Among Cocoa Producers In Two Ecological Zones Of Ghana. [PDF]

Glob Chall
Asigbaase M, Abugre S, Banowiiri M, Akutteh J.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Economic benefits of biodiversity corridors: A cross‐sectional study of households in the Central Annamite Landscape, Vietnam

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Biodiversity corridors aim to reconnect fragmented habitats and protected areas, yet their impact on landowners varies and requires assessment. In the Central Annamite Landscape, Vietnam, initiatives like Payment for Forest Environment Services (PFES) for watershed protection, forest restoration, and non‐timber forest product development ...
Van Tri Tin Nguyen, Cooper Schouten, Leslie Christidis, David Newell, Cody Aylward   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural adaptation, perceived incentives, and job satisfaction of expatriate faculty: an empirical study of China and Kazakhstan. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Wang C, Duisenbayev AK, Zhou Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

Toward a more inclusive conservation actions classification: Lessons from restoration practice and conservation social science

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
The Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation and the associated Conservation Actions Classification 2.0 serve as important and widely used tools to plan, implement, and monitor projects. Drawing a research effort that used the CAC 2.0 as a classification tool to synthesize the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative's thousands of projects, this ...
Matthew Jurjonas
wiley   +1 more source

EO-based long term cropland and paddy monitoring with the farm action toolkit (FAcT): strengthening policy support in Bhutan. [PDF]

Discov Agric
Phalke AR, Cox SE, Limaye AS, Dorji R, Phuntsho L, Wangchen T, Rai M, Tshering C, Anderson ER, Nakalembe CL, Mayer TJ, Griffin R.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Foreign Aid, Civil Society and Post‐colonial Statebuilding in the Thai‒Myanmar Borderworld

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Foreign aid is often used to promote good governance and to strengthen civil society, yet it can reproduce the uneven geographies of post‐colonial statebuilding. This article provides a relational and interpretivist analysis of foreign aid in southeast Myanmar between 2012 and 2021, when Western donors backed the country's democratic ...
Shona Loong
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptualising hardship areas in Sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review. [PDF]

Int J Equity Health
Auma CMN, Karing'u P, Harriss E, English M, Oliwa J, Okiro EA.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Experiences of Legal Pluralism in Sierra Leone: Land Governance, Neoliberal Dispossession and Gender (In)justice

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sierra Leone's land governance reform policies are often based on the neoliberal assumption that market growth, gender equality and women's empowerment are mutually compatible objectives. Contrary to this assumption, this article argues that while market‐oriented reforms can help to destabilize legal and cultural norms that are discriminatory ...
Mohamed Sesay, Simeon Koroma
wiley   +1 more source