Watershed management involves the integrated management of a multitude of resources such as crop land, pastures, forests and water to each of which a multitude of often conflicting interests relate. These interests arise from stakeholders inside as well as outside the watershed. The identificatio...
Ravnborg, Helle Munk
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Ashby, J.A.
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[Organizing for local-level watershed management : lessons from Rio Cabuyal watershed, Colombia]
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Organizing for local-level watershed management : lessons from Rio Cabuyal watershed, Colombia
Ashby, J.A.
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[Institutional innovation as an entry point for system-level technological change]
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Institutional innovation as an entry point for system-level technological change
The thesis of this paper is that the "rational fool" syndrome can be applied to mainstream public sector agricultural research that is conducted in a way that is rational in the short term, but acts against its own long-term viability. Historically, a main concern of such research has been to max...
Ashby, J.A.
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[Integrating research on food and the environment: An exit strategy from the rational fool syndrome in agricultural science]
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Integrating research on food and the environment: An exit strategy from the rational fool syndrome in agricultural science
The second section of the paper sketches out the broad outlines of some methodological approaches to NRM impact assessment. Ex ante approaches are considered, and some aspects of poverty measurement, extrapolation, and cross scale analysis are noted. The third and final section of the paper will ...
Pachico, Douglas H.
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Ashby, J.A.
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Farrow, Andrew
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Fujisaka, Sam
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Johnson, Nancy L.
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Winograd, Manuel
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[Case study and empirical evidence for assessing natural resource management research : The experience of CIAT]
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Case study and empirical evidence for assessing natural resource management research : The experience of CIAT
Leclerc, G
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Ravnborg, Helle Munk
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Nelson, A.
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Barbier, Bruno
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Couillaud, P
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Oyana, TJ
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Knapp, R.
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Ashby, J.A.
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[Human welfare in Honduras and natural resource management... the search for the missing link!]
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Human welfare in Honduras and natural resource management... the search for the missing link!
Zapata, V
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Ashby, J.A.
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[Dissemination and application of decision support tools (DST) for natural resource management]
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Dissemination and application of decision support tools (DST) for natural resource management
Ashby, J.A.
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[Introduction: uniting science and participation in the process of innovation: research for development]
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Introduction: uniting science and participation in the process of innovation: research for development