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[https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4e4d2a0ea5f6764c4f50fd245/images/e98f7160-6053...] Sustainable Intensification: How best to invest?<https://wle.cgiar.org/thrive/2015/09/02/sustainable-intensification-how-best-invest> If sustainable intensification is possible, one thing is clear: it requires investment. That investment may be in many forms all of which are attached to a cost. The question is, who will bear it? 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But we must approach it as a social and political challenge rather than a purely technical one.[Read More]<https://wle.cgiar.org/thrive/2015/09/15/sustainable-intensification-moving-beyond-technical-aspects> [http://www.scoop.it/resources/img/export/smallbtn_twitter.png]<http://twitter.com/share?text=Sustainable%20Intensification:%20moving%20beyond%20the%20technical%20aspects&url=https://wle.cgiar.org/thrive/2015/09/15/sustainable-intensification-moving-beyond-technical-aspects> [http://www.scoop.it/resources/img/export/smallbtn_facebook.png]<http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?s=100&p%5Burl%5D=https://wle.cgiar.org/thrive/2015/09/15/sustainable-intensification-moving-beyond-technical-aspects&p%5Bimages%5D%5B0%5D=&p%5Btitle%5D=Sustainable%20Intensification:%20moving%20beyond%20the%20technical%20aspects&p%5Bsummary%5D=> [http://www.scoop.it/resources/img/export/smallbtn_linkedin.png]<http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://wle.cgiar.org/thrive/2015/09/15/sustainable-intensification-moving-beyond-technical-aspects&title=Sustainable%20Intensification:%20moving%20beyond%20the%20technical%20aspects&summary=&source=> [cid:image010.png@01D0F0CF.3C49A420]<http://prebetadesign.com/abby/> Podcast: Working together for a better Kachin landscape<https://wle.cgiar.org/thrive/2015/09/08/working-together-better-kachin-landscape> Head to Northern Myanmar where filmmaker Douglas Varchol reports from the field. Varchol joins a research team from the project exploring the troubles associated with ecological change and rapid development [Read More]<https://wle.cgiar.org/thrive/2015/09/08/working-together-better-kachin-landscape> [http://www.scoop.it/resources/img/export/smallbtn_twitter.png]<http://twitter.com/share?text=Working%20together%20for%20a%20better%20Kachin%20landscape&url=https://wle.cgiar.org/thrive/2015/09/08/working-together-better-kachin-landscape> [http://www.scoop.it/resources/img/export/smallbtn_facebook.png]<http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?s=100&p%5Burl%5D=https://wle.cgiar.org/thrive/2015/09/08/working-together-better-kachin-landscape&p%5Bimages%5D%5B0%5D=&p%5Btitle%5D=Working%20together%20for%20a%20better%20Kachin%20landscape&p%5Bsummary%5D=> [http://www.scoop.it/resources/img/export/smallbtn_linkedin.png]<http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://wle.cgiar.org/thrive/2015/09/08/working-together-better-kachin-landscape&title=Working%20together%20for%20a%20better%20Kachin%20landscape&summary=&source=> [https://wle.cgiar.org/sites/default/files/images/blog%20images/Akosombo%20Dam.jpg]<http://prebetadesign.com/abby/> Large dams and malaria in sub-Sahara Africa<https://wle.cgiar.org/thrive/2015/09/11/large-dams-and-malaria-sub-sahara-africa> Recent research has quantified that large dams are linked to more than a million malaria cases each year. How can dam builders and operators be encouraged to work with relevant government agencies to mitigate the public health threats, not just malaria, that large dams pose? 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