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2020 Focus 6: Empowering women to achieve food security
(Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), 2001)This overview summarizes the key strategies the authors use to empower women and to achieve food security. This is done through strengthening the asset base: 1- Natural and physical capital, women are often responsible for ... -
21st century watershed technology: Improving water quality and environment conference proceedings
(St. Joseph, MI: American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), 2008)These proceedings are from the conference, "21st century watershed technology: Improving water quality and environment" held in Concepción, Chile, 29 March - 3 April 2008. The conference focused on issues such as water ... -
2nd East Africa Regional Workshop Report: Conservation Agriculture in AFRICA - Analysing and Foreseeing its Impact - Comprehending its Adoption
(CA2Africa, 2011)This resource provides a summary of the 2nd East Africa Sub-regional workshop held in Nanyuki, Kenya, on 28-30 March 2011. Attendees included the African Conservation Tillage Network (ACT), Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility ... -
A "law of nature": The command-and-control approach
(Madison, WI: SANREM CRSP SEA, 2002)This paper gives perspectives on the command-and-control approach to environmental management drawing heavily from the book of Field (1994). It points to a number of factors that contribute to the success or failure of ... -
A biologists' perspective on amalgamating traditional environmental knowledge and resource management
(Kamloops, BC: FORREX-Forest Research Extension Partnership, 2004)Recent transitions in resource management and recognition of the role of First Nations in resource management have heightened the need for conciliation of these two different views of the world and the place of people in ... -
A Buffett turns to farming in Africa: Warren's son Howard has quietly become a player in the fight against global hunger
(New York, NY: The Wall Street Journal, 2009)Warren Buffet's fourth son, Howard Buffet is an unassuming Illinois soybean and corn farmer. However, he plays a behind the scenes role in the global war against hunger. With a small portion of his father's fortune he ... -
A case study of conflict resolution, the example of the Baban Raffi Project, South-Central Niger
(2007-01-04)The forest, which lies along the frontier with Nigeria, represents one of the few remaining wooded areas in the country but is experiencing increasing degradation due to a strong population pressure. The aim of the Baban ... -
A cheaper plan to stop poaching: Give them real jobs
(2007)This article describes Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) initiative in Zambia's Luangwa River Valley to promote conservation by addressing the reasons poachers hunt. COMACO - Community Markets for Conservation - is "a ... -
A classification of collaborative management methods
(Ottawa, Ont.: Resilience Alliance, 2000)Collaboration among multiple stakeholders can be crucial to the success of natural resource management. In recent years, a wide variety of methods have been developed to facilitate such collaboration. Because these methods ... -
A closer look on the Magna Carta of small farmers in the Philippines
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A collaborative model for value added and safe food production in Zambia
(2010)Zambia, a country of about 12 million people located in Sub-Saharan Africa, is currently affected by the “triple threat” of poor governance, high prevalence of HIV/AIDS, and chronic and acute food insecurity. Over 60 percent ... -
A Comparative Analysis of Production Goals and Strategies in Traditional Pastoral Systems
(1995)Traditional pastoral production systems around the world have shared characteristics related to livestock management (e.g. herded livestock), production strategies (e.g. mixed herds), and socio-economic factors (e.g. ... -
A comparative study of conservation agriculture production systems (CAPS) for tribal people of Odisha, India
(Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, 2012)Tribal farming in Kendujhar district of Odisha, India is primarily based on traditional shifting cultivation which is becoming unsustainable - resulting in natural resources degradation, reduced production efficiency, and ... -
A comparison of EU-U.S. payments for (agri-) environmental services
(2005)This presentation outlines some differences and similarities between (agri-)environmental service (AE) payment programs in the European Union (EU) and United States (US). Possible reasons for the alternative policy approaches ... -
A conceptual framework to develop long-term ecological research and management objectives in the wider Caribbean region
(Washington, D.C.: American Institute of Biological Sciences, 2004)The Caribbean Sea and its watersheds show signs of environmental degradation. These fragile coastal ecosystems are susceptible to environmental impacts, in part because of their oligotrophic conditions and their critical ... -
A conflict resolution workshop: Mopti region, Mali (November 1999)
(2000)This is a purposeful first person account of a training workshop conducted for the SANREM CRSP-West Africa. Leading members of the newly formed Natural Resource Management Advisory Committee of Madiama Commune, local ... -
A conservation agriculture production system program for the Central Plateau of Haiti
(Blacksburg, VA: SANREM CRSP, OIRED, Virginia Tech, 2010)This presentation presents the research proposal for improving food security for smallholders in the central plateau of Haiti (LTRA-6). Productivity is very low and hunger is a soaring problem in Haiti, especially in rural ... -
A critical assessment of the system of rice intensification (SRI)
(Elsevier Ltd., 2003)The system of rice intensification (SRI) has been proposed as an integrated and agroecologically sound approach to rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivation. It was mainly developed through participatory on-farm research conducted ... -
A critical look at gender and energy mainstreaming in Africa
(2002)This draft paper was distributed at the "gender perspectives in sustainable development" side event organized by UNDESA/DAW and WEDO at Prep Com III in April 2002. (United Nation Department of Economic and Social ...
