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    Waghoba tales: Adventures in leopard land

    Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, 2014
    Between 2007 and 2011, the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research and the Centre for Ecological Sciences of the Indian Institute of Science received funding from the Royal Norwegian Embassy (New Delhi) for a large project on Human-Wildlife Conflicts.
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    A “Delphi Exercise” as a tool in Amazon Rainforest valuation

    World Bank, 2014
    The Amazon rainforest, the world’s largest and most biodiverse, represents a global public good of which 15 percent has already been lost. The worldwide value of preserving the remaining forest is today unknown.
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    Tools, fertilizer or cash? Exchange asymmetries in productive assets

    Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2014
    We used a field experiment to investigate exchange asymmetries in productive assets among poor rural respondents in Ethiopi a. Farmers were randomly allocated two types of productive assets or cash, with a choice to keep the productive asset (cash) or exchange it for cash (productive asset).
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    Can adoption of improved maize varieties help smallholder farmers adapt to drought? evidence from Malawi

    Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2015
    This study used a three-year panel data set for 350 Malawian farm households to examine the potential for widespread adoption of drought tolerant (DT) maize varieties, a technology that holds considerable promise for helping smallholder farmers in SSA adapt to drought risk.
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    Transnational land deals and gender equality: utilitarian and human rights approaches

    2014
    Transnational land deals pose vexing normative (ethical) questions, not least concerning gendered participation and outcomes. This article explores utilitarian and human rights approaches to gender equality in selected policy initiatives on the land deals.
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    Internationalization of Indian enterprises: patterns, strategies, ownership advantages and implications

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2008
    The recent spate of large cross-border acquisitions e.g. Tata SteelCorus, Hindalco-Novelis, and Tata Motors-Jaguar/Land Rover, among others and Greenfield investments by Indian companies have helped in focusing attention on the emergence of new corporate players on the global scene.
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    Climate-smart landscapes: multifunctionality in practice

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2015
    This book explores four central propositions on climate-smart and multifunctional landscape approaches: A) Current landscapes are a suboptimal member of a set of locally feasible landscape configurations; B) Actors and interactions can nudge landscapes towards better managed trade-offs within the set of feasible configurations, through engagement, investment and interventions; C) Climate is one
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    Mid-term evaluation of the Clean Energy in Africa Programme of Naturvernforbundet (Friends of the Earth Norway)

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2014
    The Clean Energy in Africa programme is a five-year programme (2012-2016) where Naturvernforbundet is cooperating with the Pan-African organization Jeunes Volontaires pour l’Environnement International (JVE) and Fórum de Energias e Desenvolvimento Sustentável de Moçambique (FEDESMO).
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    Evaluation of Norway’s support to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2015
    This evaluation looks at the Norwegian assistance to Haiti after the earthquake with a two-fold purpose. First, it looks at the effectiveness of Norwegian assistance to Haiti.
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    Mainstreaming anti-corruption initiatives: development of a water sector strategy in Mozambique

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2014
    Sector approaches to combating corruption have gained momentum in recent years, yet the strategic prioritization of sector anti-corruption initiatives is still the exception. The National Water Directorate in Mozambique is one of the few public sector departments in the world known to have allocated its own resources to developing a sector-specific anti-corruption strategy.

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