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Tendiendo Puentes Entre Los Paisajes Humanos Y Naturales: La investigación participativa y el desarrollo ecológico en una frontera agrícola andina
(Quito, Ecuador: Sistema DocuTech, 2001)
This book synthesizes the results of the SANREM program in the Nanegal parish, Pinchincha Province, Ecuador. The region, located between the Guayllabamba and Alambi rivers in northwestern Ecuador, has been the site of ...
The economic and food security implications of climate change in Mali
(Dordrecht-Holland ; Boston: Reidel Publishing Company, 2003)
This study uses climate change projections from two global circulation models to address the impact of climate change on Mali's agriculture sector and the consequences for the sector economy and food security. The authors ...
Economic linkages among occupational groups in the commune of Madiama
(Wallingford, Oxon; Cambridge, Mass.: CABI Publishing, 2005)
In chapter 13, Brewster et al. model the economic linkages between different groups of natural resource users and analyze the effect of the potential growth strategies. Using data from the PLLA (chapter 6) and an extensive ...
The Ellis paradigm - humans, herbivores and rangeland systems
(Grahamstown, South Africa: NISC Pty Ltd, 2004)
The scientific and conceptual contributions Jim Ellis made throughout the course of his career reveal a logical progression towards increased understanding of pastoral ecosystems worldwide. Research in wildlife, large ...
Economic interdependence among socio-economic groups in Madiama Commune of the Niger Delta of Mali
(2001)
One aim of the SANREM West Africa Project is to identify the linkages among socio-economic groups in the Madiama commune of northern Mali. The results from compiling a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) were reported earlier. ...
Communication for Rural Innovation: Rethinking Agricultural Extension
(Oxford, United Kingdom: Blackwell Science Ltd, 2003)
The aim of this book is to adapt the view of what agriculture extension is and why it is important. This opening chapter outlines the problems that agriculture extensions are facing, breaking them down into two sections: ...
Maasai Mara - an ecosystem under siege: An African case study on the societal dimension of rangeland conservation
(Grahamstown, South Africa: NISC Pty Ltd, 2004)
'Let me assure you all that our commitment to the preservation of wildlife and the habitat in the Maasai Mara reserve is total. We do not deny that the reserve is of vital economic importance to us, but we also firmly ...
Measuring the opportunity cost of carbon sequestration in tropical agriculture
(Madison, Wisc.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003)
The authors calculate rates of carbon sequestration from forestry and agroforestry systems in the tropics to derive measurements of the opportunity cost and suggest incentive-based payment schedules for carbon sequestration ...
The economics of tropical deforestation
(Blackwell Publishers Ltd. Oxford, UK and Malden, MA, USA., 2001)
This paper provides a survey of 'first wave' economic studies of tropical deforestation and land use. These studies of tropical forest land conversion are generally at the cross-country level. We also conduct a synthesis ...
Carbon sequestration in a tropical landscape: An economic model to measure its incremental cost
(Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004)
This article reports on the incremental cost of carbon sequestration in forestry and agroforestry systems, calculating the potential and cost of carbon storage with the tropical tree species Paraserianthes falcataria. The ...