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“Inclusive business” in agriculture: Evidence from the evolution of agricultural value chains by German, Laura A., Bonanno, Anya M., Foster, Laura Catherine, Cotula, Lorenzo

“…•We critically examine the concept and practice of inclusive business by analysing evidence across agricultural value chains.•Structural factors constrain…”
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Decentering emergent truths on tenure security: Archaeology of a global knowledge regime by German, Laura A., Braga, Carla

“…Land governance has taken center stage in global development discourse and practice. 'Respect for land rights', 'women's land rights' and 'tenure security'…”
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Green appropriations through shifting contours of authority and property on a pastoralist commons by German, Laura A., Unks, Ryan, King, Elizabeth

“…The dynamics of customary land rights and displacement among east African pastoralists have been the subject of extensive scholarly inquiry. Displacement to…”
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Land-based Investments for Rural Development? A Grounded Analysis of the Local Impacts of Biofuel Feedstock Plantations in Ghana by Schoneveld, George C., German, Laura A., Nutakor, Eric

“…The rapidly growing biofuel sector in Africa has, in recent years, been received with divided interest. As part of a contemporary wave of agricultural…”
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The social construction of “shared growth”: Zambia Sugar and the uneven terrain of social benefit by German, Laura A., Parker, Lowery

“…Recent years have witnessed a growing trend in agricultural investment and large‐scale farmland acquisition in the Global South and a rapid expansion of…”
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Environmental science and policy: A meta-synthesis of case studies on boundary organizations and spanning processes by Jensen-Ryan, Danielle K, German, Laura A

“…Abstract We conducted a meta-synthesis of published qualitative articles to better understand how features and strategies of boundary organizations and…”
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Constraints, multiple stressors, and stratified adaptation: Pastoralist livelihood vulnerability in a semi-arid wildlife conservation context in Central Kenya by Unks, Ryan R., King, Elizabeth G., Nelson, Donald R., Wachira, Naiputari P., German, Laura A.

“…•Institutional change has reinforced stratified, individualized livestock husbandry.•High livestock wealth families have key means of reducing exposure to…”
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Unevenness in scale mismatches: Institutional change, pastoralist livelihoods, and herding ecology in Laikipia, Kenya by Unks, Ryan R., King, Elizabeth G., German, Laura A., Wachira, Naiputari Paul, Nelson, Donald R.

“…•Mobility has been limited by territorialization, conflict, and governance reform.•Historical institutional changes have constrained adaptation to drought and…”
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Connecting across difference in environmental governance: Beyond rights, recognition, and participation by Arney, Rachel N, Henderson, Maya B, DeLoach, Haley R, Lichtenstein, Gabrielle, German, Laura A

“…This paper explores the significance of current paradigms for connecting across difference in environmental governance, with a focus on dominant practices and…”
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Ecological Praxis and Blackwater Ecosystems: A Case Study from the Brazilian Amazon by German, Laura A.

“…This article explores how anthropogenic modifications of soil condition human adaptive processes on the Amazonian uplands. The occurrence of black earth (a…”
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The Geochemistry of Englacial Brine From Taylor Glacier, Antarctica by Lyons, W. Berry, Mikucki, Jill A., German, Laura A., Welch, Kathleen A., Welch, Susan A., Gardner, Christopher B., Tulaczyk, Slawek M., Pettit, Erin C., Kowalski, Julia, Dachwald, Bernd

“…Blood Falls is a hypersaline, iron‐rich discharge at the terminus of the Taylor Glacier in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. In November 2014, brine in a…”
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Biofuel Investments in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of the Early Legal and Institutional Framework in Zambia by German, Laura A., Schoneveld, George

“…Concerns about domestic energy security and global climate change mitigation have led the European Union, the United States, and others to introduce policies…”
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Community-Based Forest Management: What Scope for Conservation and Livelihood Co-Benefits? Experience from the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania by Rantala, Salla, Bullock, Renee, Mbegu, Mwilla A, German, Laura A

“…The Tanzanian Community-Based Forest Management policy is based on the assumption that formalized forest tenure by village communities results in increased…”
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Soil fertility evaluation and management by smallholder farmer communities in northern Tanzania by Mowo, Jeremias G., Janssen, Bert H., Oenema, Oene, German, Laura A., Mrema, Jerome P., Shemdoe, Riziki S.

“…The objective of this paper is to compare soil fertility evaluation based on experience and knowledge of smallholder farmer communities with the evaluation by…”
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Social and environmental trade-offs in tree species selection: a methodology for identifying niche incompatibilities in agroforestry by German, Laura A, Kidane, Berhane, Shemdoe, Riziki

“…Natural resource degradation in highland regions is of increasing concern to the global community due to its role in aggravating poverty and the loss of…”
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The environmental effects of sugarcane expansion: A case study of changes in land and water use in southern Africa by German, Laura A., Hepinstall-Cymerman, Jeffrey, Biggs, Trent, Parker, Lowery, Salinas, Maegan

“…Sugarcane is often portrayed as one of the most environmentally sustainable food and energy crops, yet evidence of the crop's social and environmental impacts…”
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Historical contingencies in the coevolution of environment and livelihood: contributions to the debate on Amazonian Black Earth by German, Laura A.

“…This article applies findings from agronomic and ethnographic research among small-scale Amazonian farmers to the ongoing debate over the origins of Black…”
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Historical contingencies in the coevolution of environment and livelihood: contributions to the debate on Amazonian Black Earth: Ethnopedology by GERMAN, Laura A

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Land-based Investments for Rural Development? A Grounded Analysis of the Local Impacts of Biofuel Feedstock Plantations in Ghana by Schoneveld, George C, German, Laura A, Nutakor, Eric

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Bridging the gap between natural resources and their human management for the future, using ethnosciences by Rist, Stephan, Dahdouh-Guebas, Farid, Byg, Anja, Vormisto, Jaana, Balslev, Henrik, Price, Lisa Leimar, Gurung, Astrid Björnsen, Cocks, M L, Bangay, L, Wiersum, K F, Dold, A P, German, Laura A, Kidane, Berhane, Shemdoe, Riziki, Wezel, A, Lykke, A M, Edwards, S E, Heinrich, M, Jayatissa, L P, Hettiarachi, S, Dahdouh-Guebas, F, Kufer, J, Grube, N, Pfeiffer, Jeanine M, Dun, Sisilia, Mulawarman, Bonafantura, Rice, Kevin J, Vermonden, Daniel

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