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Local Governance, Social Networks and REDD+: Lessons from Swidden Communities...CIFOR-ICRAF
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After discussions on participatory democracy, online tools for young people and politicians, there are issues to address going forward, such as how to effectively use these tools to engage and empower people to participate. While there are global economic and political crises, the users now have an opportunity to take control of networks, as they did previously to return the internet to its original open and free form. Moving forward, work is needed to encourage sharing and connection through networks to build new models and construct participatory democracy based on networking and sharing.
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Challenges and outcomes of collective tenure reforms for security and livelih...CIFOR-ICRAF
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This presentation, delivered at the ASFN Sixth Conference, examines research into perceptions, understanding and discourses of two swidden farming communities. The implications for REDD+ are highlighted.
Challenges to supporting forest livelihoods development after tenure reformPeter Cronkleton
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Equity and REDD+: Perspectives from CIFOR’s global comparative studyCIFOR-ICRAF
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The popularity of functional foods among scientists and common people has been increasing day by day. Awareness and modernization make the consumer think better regarding food and nutrition. Now a day’s individual knows very well about the relation between food consumption and disease prevalence. Humans have a diversity of microbes in the gut that together form the gut microflora. Probiotics are the health-promoting live microbial cells improve host health through gut and brain connection and fighting against harmful bacteria. Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus are the two bacterial genera which are considered to be probiotic. These good bacteria are facing challenges of viability. There are so many factors such as sensitivity to heat, pH, acidity, osmotic effect, mechanical shear, chemical components, freezing and storage time as well which affects the viability of probiotics in the dairy food matrix as well as in the gut. Multiple efforts have been done in the past and ongoing in present for these beneficial microbial population stability until their destination in the gut. One of a useful technique known as microencapsulation makes the probiotic effective in the diversified conditions and maintain these microbe’s community to the optimum level for achieving targeted benefits. Dairy products are found to be an ideal vehicle for probiotic incorporation. It has been seen that the encapsulated microbial cells show higher viability than the free cells in different processing and storage conditions as well as against bile salts in the gut. They make the food functional when incorporated, without affecting the product sensory characteristics.
Microbial characterisation and identification, and potability of River Kuywa ...Open Access Research Paper
Water contamination is one of the major causes of water borne diseases worldwide. In Kenya, approximately 43% of people lack access to potable water due to human contamination. River Kuywa water is currently experiencing contamination due to human activities. Its water is widely used for domestic, agricultural, industrial and recreational purposes. This study aimed at characterizing bacteria and fungi in river Kuywa water. Water samples were randomly collected from four sites of the river: site A (Matisi), site B (Ngwelo), site C (Nzoia water pump) and site D (Chalicha), during the dry season (January-March 2018) and wet season (April-July 2018) and were transported to Maseno University Microbiology and plant pathology laboratory for analysis. The characterization and identification of bacteria and fungi were carried out using standard microbiological techniques. Nine bacterial genera and three fungi were identified from Kuywa river water. Clostridium spp., Staphylococcus spp., Enterobacter spp., Streptococcus spp., E. coli, Klebsiella spp., Shigella spp., Proteus spp. and Salmonella spp. Fungi were Fusarium oxysporum, Aspergillus flavus complex and Penicillium species. Wet season recorded highest bacterial and fungal counts (6.61-7.66 and 3.83-6.75cfu/ml) respectively. The results indicated that the river Kuywa water is polluted and therefore unsafe for human consumption before treatment. It is therefore recommended that the communities to ensure that they boil water especially for drinking.
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Kinetic studies on malachite green dye adsorption from aqueous solutions by A...Open Access Research Paper
Water polluted by dyestuffs compounds is a global threat to health and the environment; accordingly, we prepared a green novel sorbent chemical and Physical system from an algae, chitosan and chitosan nanoparticle and impregnated with algae with chitosan nanocomposite for the sorption of Malachite green dye from water. The algae with chitosan nanocomposite by a simple method and used as a recyclable and effective adsorbent for the removal of malachite green dye from aqueous solutions. Algae, chitosan, chitosan nanoparticle and algae with chitosan nanocomposite were characterized using different physicochemical methods. The functional groups and chemical compounds found in algae, chitosan, chitosan algae, chitosan nanoparticle, and chitosan nanoparticle with algae were identified using FTIR, SEM, and TGADTA/DTG techniques. The optimal adsorption conditions, different dosages, pH and Temperature the amount of algae with chitosan nanocomposite were determined. At optimized conditions and the batch equilibrium studies more than 99% of the dye was removed. The adsorption process data matched well kinetics showed that the reaction order for dye varied with pseudo-first order and pseudo-second order. Furthermore, the maximum adsorption capacity of the algae with chitosan nanocomposite toward malachite green dye reached as high as 15.5mg/g, respectively. Finally, multiple times reusing of algae with chitosan nanocomposite and removing dye from a real wastewater has made it a promising and attractive option for further practical applications.
Optimizing Post Remediation Groundwater Performance with Enhanced Microbiolog...Joshua Orris
Results of geophysics and pneumatic injection pilot tests during 2003 – 2007 yielded significant positive results for injection delivery design and contaminant mass treatment, resulting in permanent shut-down of an existing groundwater Pump & Treat system.
Accessible source areas were subsequently removed (2011) by soil excavation and treated with the placement of Emulsified Vegetable Oil EVO and zero-valent iron ZVI to accelerate treatment of impacted groundwater in overburden and weathered fractured bedrock. Post pilot test and post remediation groundwater monitoring has included analyses of CVOCs, organic fatty acids, dissolved gases and QuantArray® -Chlor to quantify key microorganisms (e.g., Dehalococcoides, Dehalobacter, etc.) and functional genes (e.g., vinyl chloride reductase, methane monooxygenase, etc.) to assess potential for reductive dechlorination and aerobic cometabolism of CVOCs.
In 2022, the first commercial application of MetaArray™ was performed at the site. MetaArray™ utilizes statistical analysis, such as principal component analysis and multivariate analysis to provide evidence that reductive dechlorination is active or even that it is slowing. This creates actionable data allowing users to save money by making important site management decisions earlier.
The results of the MetaArray™ analysis’ support vector machine (SVM) identified groundwater monitoring wells with a 80% confidence that were characterized as either Limited for Reductive Decholorination or had a High Reductive Reduction Dechlorination potential. The results of MetaArray™ will be used to further optimize the site’s post remediation monitoring program for monitored natural attenuation.
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The incorporation of a 3DCSM and completion of HRSC provided a tool for enhanced, data-driven, decisions to support a change in remediation closure strategies. Currently, an approved pilot study has been obtained to shut-down the remediation systems (ISCO, P&T) and conduct a hydraulic study under non-pumping conditions. A separate micro-biological bench scale treatability study was competed that yielded positive results for an emerging innovative technology. As a result, a field pilot study has commenced with results expected in nine-twelve months. With the results of the hydraulic study, field pilot studies and an updated risk assessment leading site monitoring optimization cost lifecycle savings upwards of $15MM towards an alternatively evolved best available technology remediation closure strategy.
The smallholder business case for communal land tenure: lessons from an IF project
1. The smallholder business case for communal
land tenure: lessons from an IF project
Michael Dwyer, Forest Trends and the University of Colorado-Boulder
On behalf of: Naomi Basik Treanor, Sophal Chan, Thany Hour, Sovy
Ngornchan, Quang Nguyen, Thoumthone Vongvisouk, Phuc Xuan To
& Kevin Woods
2. • “RAI” – land recognition vs. land allocation
• External issues: Dispossession, displacement (“land grabbing”)
• Internal relations: Agrarian differentiation
The problem
3. • “Multi-scalar evidence-based dialogue: A regional approach to
improving smallholder land tenure” (MRLG I.F. grant 2016–2018)
• Case study research to build dialogue, trust, engagement:
positive examples (n=4) & key challenges (n=4)
• Comparative region-wide approach
Our project
4.
5. Findings overview
• From “success stories” to “cases to think constructively with”
• Four areas for ongoing engagement
1. Regulation of business
2. Land, credit and debt
3. Conflict prevention & resolution
4. Land allocation by the state
• Limited leverage demands strategic engagement
6. Findings overview
• From “success stories” to “cases to think constructively with”
• Four areas for ongoing engagement
1. Regulation of business
2. Land, credit and debt
3. Conflict prevention & resolution
4. Land allocation by the state
• Limited leverage demands strategic engagement
7. Land allocation by the state
Case 1: ELCs >> CLTs
• Rubber in Busra,
Cambodia
• Wider context: CLT
option after 2001
Land Law
8. • ELCs 2007
• Ad hoc compensation: à
smallholder expansion
(“self-compensation”)
• State land allocation >>
community tenure recog-
nition
Land allocation by the state
Case 1: ELCs >> CLTs
10. • Improved household income
• Reduced demand for large-diameter natural forest timber
Land allocation by the state
Case 2: The “Ikea Linkage Model” in Vietnam
11. Land allocation by the state
Case 2: The “Ikea Linkage Model” in Vietnam
“Access to land is a precondition of the collaboration – expansion
of land access to smallholders can accelerate these advantages.”
12. Land allocation by the state
Case 2: The “Ikea Linkage Model” in Vietnam
“Access to land is a precondition of the collaboration – expansion
of land access to smallholders can accelerate these advantages.”
Individuals >> communities
13. Case 3: The FALUPAM model in Laos
• Land-use-planning based
approach to village-scale
tenure across multiple
agriculture and forest land
categories
• Bottom-up: community
engagement, district-level
recognition
14. Case 3: The FALUPAM model in Laos
• Land-use-planning based
approach to village-scale
tenure across multiple
agriculture and forest land
categories
• Bottom-up: community
engagement, district-level
recognition
• Intra-village land access
15. Conclusions
1. Avoid repeating same mistakes: combine information-
based approaches (learning from experience) with
incentive-based approaches (change the calculus of
investment)
2. Use leverage that exists in new development projects
requiring safeguards & due diligence (e.g. new land titling;
road & energy infrastructure)
3. Transnational governance of commodity chains (e.g.
rubber)