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- Determining the contribution of agricultural production to household nutritional status in KwaZulu-Natal South AfricaKirsten, J.; Townsend, R.; Gibson, C. (Taylor & Francis, 1998)Anthropometric indicators were used to assess the nutritional status of rural households in the former KwaZulu homeland of South Africa (a survey was conducted of 173 households in 1993). Using these measures, households with stunted children (a total of 142 children between the ages of 0-60 months from 79 of the original survey of 173 households) were identified and the characteristics of these households examined, focusing on income sources, agricultural production and household demographics. The paper applies multivariate regressions and a logit maximum likelihood model to explore the relationship between household nutritional status (or child nutrition) and agricultural production among the sample of rural households. The paper represents a first attempt to link agricultural survey data with an assessment of household nutritional status in South Africa. The results show that agricultural activities make a significantly positive contribution to household nutrition. Consequently, designing effective programmes for improving agricultural productivity in the less-developed areas of South Africa could have a potentially positive impact on household and child nutritional status. (CabDirect)
- The importance of rule enforcement to local level forest managementGibson, C.; Williams, J.; Ostrom, Elinor (2003)Current studies of community level resource management focus on the factors that impede or help individuals to overcome their collective action problems. Dozens of factors have been identified in this literature. While important, such work is limited by the lack of theory that connects these factors with outcomes, and the near total lack of hypothesis testing beyond the case level. We argue that despite the possible differences between individuals or the characteristics of the resource they use, the regular monitoring and sanctioning of rules is a necessary condition for successful resource management. We offer a preliminary test of this hypothesis by pairing rule monitoring and sanctioning against other factors considered important in the literature, and by using a sample size of 172 user groups from the International Forestry Resources and Institutions Research Program (IFRI). We find strong support for our hypothesis that rule enforcement -- i.e. regular monitoring and sanctioning -- tends to dominate the other factors with regard to the probability that a forest is in good condition.
- Municipal politics and forest governance: Comparative analysis of decentralization in Bolivia and GuatemalaAndersson, Krister P.; Gibson, C.; Lehoucq, F. (Elsevier, 2006)Studies forest decentralization in Bolivia and Guatemala in the context of the incentives facing local politicians.
- People and forests: Communities, institutions, and governanceGibson, C.; McKean, M.; Ostrom, Elinor (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000)This book explores interactions between communities and forests, focusing on the rules communities use to manage forest resources.
- Protecting the commons: A framework for resource management in the AmericasBurger, James A.; Ostrom, Elinor; Norgaard, R. B.; Policansky, D.; Goldstein, B. D. (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2001)This book offers an analytical framework for understanding commons issues and designing policies suited to their governance.