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Fire in the forested tropics has profound environmental, economic, and social impacts at multiple geographical scales. Causes of tropical fires are widely documented, although research contributions are from many disciplines, and each tends to focus on specific facets of a research problem, which...


Carmenta, R.Parry, L.Blackburn, A.Vermeulen, Sonja J.Barlow, J.[Understanding human-fire interactions in tropical forest regions: a case for interdisciplinary research across the natural and social sciences]Understanding human-fire interactions in tropical forest regions: a case for interdisciplinary research across the natural and social sciences

An important means of expanding plantation production and benefiting small-scale producers is through corporate smallholder partnerships that establish agreements for industries to purchase wood produced by other parties, including but not limited to smallholders. The workshop, and subsequent syn...


Nawir, A.A.Anyonge, C.H.Race, D.Vermeulen, Sonja J.[Towards equitable partnerships between corporate and smallholder partners: relating partnerships to social, economic and environmental indicators: workshop synthesis]Towards equitable partnerships between corporate and smallholder partners: relating partnerships to social, economic and environmental indicators: workshop synthesis

Globally, agriculture is the mainstay of most well planned economies because it contributes significantly to the national GDP, creates employment, provides food for human sustenance, raw materials for industry and earns foreign exchange. Nigeria is blessed with tremendous agricultural resources s...


Vermeulen, Sonja J.Abubakar YConway, G.Dziba LHoevel MIbe CIbrahim AOlokor JIfeijka Speranza, Chinwe[National Agricultural Resilience Framework]National Agricultural Resilience Framework
Sizer, N.Bass, S.Mayers, J.Arnold, J.E.M.Auckland, L.Belcher, B.Bird, N.Campbell, Bruce M.Carle, J.Cleary, D.Counsell, S.Enters, T.Fernando, K.Gullison, T.Hudson, J.Kellison, B.Klingberg, T.Owen, C.N.Sampson, N.Vermeulen, Sonja J.Wollenberg, Eva K.Shackleton, S.Edmunds, D.[Wood, fuelwood, and non-wood forest products]Wood, fuelwood, and non-wood forest products

Achieving effective conservation in the tropics is a global concern but implicates local people. Despite considerable rhetoric about local participation the vast majority of conservation initiatives continue to be devised and controlled by a small group of powerful, external voices. What is widel...


Vermeulen, Sonja J.Sheil, Douglas[Partnerships for tropical conservation]Partnerships for tropical conservation
Vermeulen, Sonja J.Sheil, Douglas[The possibility of common ground: a reply to Mavhunga and Robinson]The possibility of common ground: a reply to Mavhunga and Robinson

Assessing the performance of management is central to natural resource management, in terms of improving the efficiency of interventions in an adaptive-learning cycle. This is not simple, given that such systems generally have multiple scales of interaction and response; high frequency of non-lin...


Campbell, Bruce M.Sayer, Jeffrey A.Frost, P.Vermeulen, Sonja J.Ruiz Perez, M.Cunningham, A.B.Prabhu, R.[Assessing the performance of natural resource systems]Assessing the performance of natural resource systems

At the Earth Summit in Johannesburg in 2002, partnerships were touted as one of the key routes to sustainable development. But can partnerships really deliver improvements to rural livelihoods? This paper reviews one set of claimed partnerships, those between forestry companies and local individ...


Vermeulen, Sonja J.Nawir, A.A.Mayers, J.[Rural poverty reduction through business partnerships?: examples of experience from the forestry sector]Rural poverty reduction through business partnerships?: examples of experience from the forestry sector

Climate change demands new approaches to agriculture: farmers’ practices will need to change to adapt to and mitigate the effects of changing conditions. Addressing gender inequality is key to ensuring this outcome. Agriculture is a fundamental part of women’s livelihoods globally, most markedly ...


Huyer, SophiaTwyman, JenniferKoningstein, ManonVermeulen, Sonja J.Hill, Catherine[Climate change, policy change: Five policy lessons to support women farmers in a changing climate]Climate change, policy change: Five policy lessons to support women farmers in a changing climate

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