Cash crops are developing in the once forested areas of Indonesia in parallel with market and economic improvements. Perennial crops such as coffee, cocoa, and rubber were first planted in estates by private or public companies. Local people then integrated these crops into their farming systems,...
Feintrenie, L.
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Schwarze, S.
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Levang, P.
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[Are local people conservationists? Analysis of transition dynamics from agroforests to monoculture plantations in Indonesia]
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Are local people conservationists? Analysis of transition dynamics from agroforests to monoculture plantations in Indonesia
We used cultural consensus models to test whether hunters shared perceptions of wildlife abundance and the relative importance of hunting and fishing in a Guarayo indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon. Results show that highly prized animals that were considered rare are either those with l...
Holt, T. van
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Townsend, W.R.
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Cronkleton, P.
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[Assessing local knowledge of game abundance and persistence of hunting livelihoods in the Bolivian Amazon using consensus analysis]
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Assessing local knowledge of game abundance and persistence of hunting livelihoods in the Bolivian Amazon using consensus analysis
Swidden (also called shifting cultivation) has long been the dominant farming system in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia (MMSEA). Today the ecological bounty of this region is threatened by the expansion of settled agriculture, including the proliferation of rubber plantations. In the current conc...
Fox, J.
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Castella, J.C.
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Ziegler, A.D.
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[Swidden, rubber and carbon: can REDD+ work for people and the environment in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia?]
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Swidden, rubber and carbon: can REDD+ work for people and the environment in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia?
Pedoman ini digunakan untuk memahami dampak proyek-proyek REDD+ angkatan pertama bagi mata pencarian. Proyek-proyek ini direncanakan dan didanai oleh sejumlah pihak yang bertujuan untuk melaksanakan serangkaian kegiatan untuk mengurangi deforestasi dan degradasi hutan, untuk memajukan konservasi ...
Jagger, P.
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Sills, E.
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Lawlor, K.
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Sunderlin, William D.
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[Pedoman untuk mempelajari berbagai dampak proyek REDD+ bagi mata pencarian]
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Pedoman untuk mempelajari berbagai dampak proyek REDD+ bagi mata pencarian
Gold and diamond mining constitute more than half of all mineral exploitation worldwide and an estimated 6 to 9 million artisanal miners are active in the gold and diamond sector. Africa hosts a third of the world’s natural mineral wealth, among which 65 percent of global diamond deposits. While ...
Schure, J.
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Ingram, V.
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[Impacts of Artisanal Gold and Diamond Mining on Livelihoods and the Environment in the Sangha Tri-National Park (TNS) Landscape]
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Impacts of Artisanal Gold and Diamond Mining on Livelihoods and the Environment in the Sangha Tri-National Park (TNS) Landscape
Farmers in Malawi remove woodlands to plant crops but they also derive a vast range of other basic needs from the surrounding forests. These miombo woodlands have until relatively recently always been vast in comparison to the human population and their needs. Over the years the woodlands and the...
This paper presents an approach for assessing the effectiveness of projects aimed at creating incentives for smallholder farmers to continue maintaining crop diversity under evolution on their farms in relevant centers of genetic diversity—a process known as on-farm conservation. It is applied to...
Bellon, M.R.
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Gotor, E.
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Caracciolo, F.
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[Assessing the effectiveness of projects supporting on-farm conservation of native crops: evidence from the high Andes of South America]
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Assessing the effectiveness of projects supporting on-farm conservation of native crops: evidence from the high Andes of South America
Bigler, Christine
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Amacker, Michèle
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Ingabire, Chantal
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Birachi, Eliud Abucheli
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[Rwanda's gendered agricultural transformation: A mixed-method study on the rural labour market, wage gap and care penalty]
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Rwanda's gendered agricultural transformation: A mixed-method study on the rural labour market, wage gap and care penalty
This paper reviews oil palm biofuel development and analyzes social and environmental impacts of oil palm plantations in Indonesia. Three plantation study sites were selected in West Papua (Manokwari), West Kalimantan (Kubu Raya) and Papua (Boven Digoel) and used as case studies to illustrate lik...
Schoneveld, G.C.
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German, L.
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Nutakor, E.
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[Towards sustainable biofuel development: Assessing the local impacts of large-scale foreign land acquisitions in Ghana]
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Towards sustainable biofuel development: Assessing the local impacts of large-scale foreign land acquisitions in Ghana
Access to external finance critically influences farm households’ ability to establish and manage commercial tree plantations in Vietnam, as it does elsewhere. The Vietnamese government has recognised the importance of household tree plantations and, in particular, the benefits of giving househol...
Sikor, T.
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[Financing household tree plantations in Vietnam: Current programmes and future options]
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Financing household tree plantations in Vietnam: Current programmes and future options