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Some thoughts on projects and knowledge
(2007)
This "thought paper" from a workshop on project governance and sustainability explores the relationship between projects and knowledge creation and distribution. The paper initially explores projects from the perspective ...
Introduction: Equity in Community-based Resource Management
(Bangkok, Thailand: Regional Community Forestry Training Center for Asia and the Pacific and Honolulu, HI, USA: East-West Center, 2006)
The Community base natural resource management (CBNRM) intends to increase power and participation while improving the lives of the rural poor, as well as to improve sustainable resources management. East-West Center and ...
Smallholder supply response and gender in Ethiopia: A profit function analysis
(2004)
This paper uses a profit function approach to farm-level data from Ethiopia to compare supply response and prices and non-price incentives between male and female farmers. In Ethiopia control of resources rests on the head ...
Assessing the impact of agricultural research on poverty using the sustainable livelihoods framework
(Washington, DC: IFPRI, 2002)
This paper examines the effects of agricultural research and technology on poverty reduction in five case studies from programs through the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). The authors ...
Capitals and capabilities: A framework for analyzing peasant viability, rural livelihoods and poverty
(London, UK: IIED, 1999)
This paper presents an analytical framework for analyzing the sustainability of rural livelihoods. It is argued that one reason projects fail is because of lack ability to understand the way people get by. The article ...
Land clearing and the biofuel carbon debt
(Sciencexpress, 2008)
Increasing energy use, climate change, and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels make switching to low-carbon fuels a high priority. Biofuels are a potential low-carbon energy source, but whether biofuels offer ...
Socio-economic and gender issues affecting the adoption of conservation tillage practices
(Africa: The Animal Traction Network for Eastern and Southern Africa (ATNESA), 1999)
This paper is about the importance of gender needs during the designing and implementing of policies and programs, and transferring agricultural technologies that affect the adoption of conservation of tillage practice. ...
Social Network Analysis: Second Edition
(SAGE Publications, 2008)
In this edition of Social Network Analysis, a modernized view of the field is presented. Along with the updated information, this book also offers the base workings of social network analysis, data compilation and the ...
Environmental quality and issues of adoption research
(Columbia, MO: The Rural Sociological Society, 1977)
The authors find that existing knowledge of adoption behavior is most applicable to commercial agricultural practices, and that adoption of environmental practices does not relate to adoption of commercial practices. ...
Network framing of pest management knowledge and practice
(Rural Sociological Society, 2008)
This article explains how networks between researchers, extension agents, and farmers can help transfer technology and interconnect people in such a way that promotes the universal implementation of best management practices ...