TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarize the differences and similarities between forest landscape restoration and previous interventions (ecological restoration, forest conservation, and so on) and provide an overview of case reports illustrating innovative governance structures that have contributed to successful landscape restoration.

TL;DR: The Rural Sustentavel project as discussed by the authors aims to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, reduce poverty, and promote sustainable rural development in the Brazilian Amazon and Atlantic Forest biomes: by restoring deforested and degraded land, and by facilitating and promoting the uptake of low carbon agricultural technologies.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study of a restoration-oriented CREMA in Ghana revealed internal governance issues including accountability and transparency which reduced the CREMA's ability to facilitate restoration on cocoa farms.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the challenges and opportunities of encouraging the cultivation of millets, a class of coarse grain cereals that are both water efficient and drought resistant, which are prominently grown in rainfed regions of the developing world.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of women's autonomy on intimate partner violence (IPV) in developing countries has been investigated using the Bangladesh Demography and Health Survey (2007), and the authors found that increased women autonomy leads to higher incidents of IPV for a South Asian patriarchal society such as Bangladesh.

TL;DR: In this paper, a case illustrates how existing forest and land policies and practices of implementation discourage landscape level forest conservation and how a current rush for ‘unused’ village land areas for conservation, agribusiness or forest plantations implies an incentive for villages to clear unreserved forests to secure their land rights.

TL;DR: In this paper, a case study was conducted in one of the oldest deforestation frontier of Amazon, showing that the pathway for this mechanism to succeed starts from the recognition of local agroforestry practices including fallow-based systems and the understanding of the shift in farmers' livelihoods this mechanism might require.

TL;DR: In 2003, a forest landscape restoration (FLR) work began in Madagascar and a national working group for FLR was created as mentioned in this paper, and over the course of the following years, the implementation of an FLR project in Madagascar's Fandriana-Marolambo landscape was shaped by, and in turn influenced, governance, specifically tenure rights and stakeholder engagement.

TL;DR: In this article, a structural equation model (SEM) was developed to confirm the causal effects of the Grain for Green project on smallholder agricultural systems (SASs) in Ansai County, China's Loess Plateau.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the repayment performance of borrowers of a nonprofit Indian micro-finance institution, the Indian Institute for Mother and Child (IIMC), using a novel data set, which collected raw data on more than 1600 borrowers, covering a period of more than three years.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the regional differences in entrepreneurial behaviors, motivations, and attitudes of women entrepreneurs in four cities in Vietnam: Hanoi in the north, Hue and Da Nang in the central area, and Ho Chi Minh City in the south.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the emergence of innovative institutions, horizontally and vertically networked from central to village government scales, articulating forestry with planning, finance, land, agriculture and water sectors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of physical and human capital accumulation on economic growth in China after the Deng Xiaoping's "southern tour" of 1992 and the tax reform of 1994.

TL;DR: In this paper, the combination of a platform for dialogue and a legal framework (PROBOSQUE Law) to support restoration work on the ground has proved to be very important for the implementation of the National Strategy.

TL;DR: A sustainable multi-stakeholder model is proposed and its process to establish a smoke-free jurisdiction is examined and impact of multi-Stakeholder engagement was assessed using a cross-sectional observational design.

TL;DR: The Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, Mexico has multiple examples of large-scale community conservation and passive forest recovery due to agricultural abandonment combined with successful forest-based community enterprises, based on both timber and non-timber forest products as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The authors examines two main approaches to vulnerability, namely, risk reduction and risk reduction solutions, to generate insight on how risk is conceptualized and framed in order to open up discussions on the politics of framing risk and the possibilities for more integrative and equitable risk reduction.

TL;DR: In this article, preference patterns and dynamics of informal sector operators for regulatory aspects/scenarios through Discrete Choice Experiment were assessed using systematically sampled informal street food vendors in Ghana's second largest urban space, which indicated that, informal sector is less likely to accept mandatory licensing with costly preconditions/higher monetary commitments.

TL;DR: In this article, a study in the Ecuadorian Andes showed that introducing communally owned and managed reserves created a space for people to learn about the practice and benefits of planting trees.

TL;DR: In this paper, a sustainability case on Ethiopia's National Adaptation Programme of Action was created through collaboration among professionals, scholars, students and media design professionals under the auspices of the Michigan Sustainability Case (MSC) initiative.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the development of Bangladesh can be explained by referring to four distinct drivers (the increase of agricultural yields, the rapid decline of fertility rate, the surge of migrants' remittances and development of the garments industry) which, emerging at different times, triggered growth and allowed the country to escape the poverty trap.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the measurement, evaluation, and data usage of the U.S.'s Millennium Challenge Corporation [MCC] to argue that too short-term a measurement horizon can mask the true outcome of a development intervention.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine a promising multi-stakeholder forest governance effort in Northern Honduras, where local communities have exhibited resilience and resolve despite persistent lack of government funding or attention.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors look into the nature of transformation of social capital and its implications for transition of the rural livelihoods and show that during abrupt economic stress, the agrarian economy capitalizes on the structural inequalities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the success and limitations of the forest governance structure within the Trifinio Fraternidad Biosphere Reserve in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.

TL;DR: This article explored the relation between Bt cotton adoption and farmer suicides in India through comparing the debt levels of Bt Cotton cultivators with those adopting alternative organic and Non-Pesticide Management (NPM) methods.

TL;DR: In this article, an innovative governance structure that brought together farmers, government agencies, civil society groups, and the private sector to plant over 2.4 million trees to stabilise riverbanks in the Harda district of Madhya Pradesh, India.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effect of economic incentives accruing to a community living near wildlife in Northern Tanzania, and found that economic incentives can improve the living conditions of the community.