This chapter examines China’s experiment on devolution policies for local forest management. These policies included the transfer of forest management from collectives to households, the involvement of villagers in the management of state forests, and the shift of some decision-making authority i...
Liu Dachang
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Edmunds, D.
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[The promises and limitations of devolution and local forest management in China]
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The promises and limitations of devolution and local forest management in China
An economic crisis and political changes that have occurred in Indonesia since 1997 have presented grave dangers but also important opportunities for the country. On the one hand, the depreciation of the rupiah against the dollar is part of a drastic economic downturn, but on the other hand, it r...
Weighted goal programming (WGP) is employed to reconcile the goals of food security, improved incomes and woodland conservation in households from selected sites in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The three goals are attainable simultaneously, albeit with trade-offs useful in guiding development...
There is an increasing interest in understanding the role forest products and forest resource management in rural livelihoods and poverty reduction strategies. This study investigates the contribution of forest resources to the livelihoods of rural households under a participatory management arra...
Yemiru, T.
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Roos, A.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Bohlin, F.
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[Forest incomes and poverty alleviation under participatory forest management in the Bale Highlands, Southern Ethiopia]
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Forest incomes and poverty alleviation under participatory forest management in the Bale Highlands, Southern Ethiopia
Husselman, M.
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Moeliono, M.
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Paumgarten, F.
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[Bees in the miombo: buzzing toward the Millennium Development Goals]
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Bees in the miombo: buzzing toward the Millennium Development Goals
Relates livestock management systems to characteristic problems facing small ruminant producers in the physical and economic environment of four states of southeast Nigeria, viz, Bendel Anambra, Imo and Rivers states. Assesses the implications of increasing population density and intensified agri...
Decision-making is a key element of frameworks to measure women’s empowerment. This document presents the method used by a recent study of household decision-making about agricultural production. More specifically, the study explored spousal accord and discord in agricultural decision-making, wit...
García, María Alejandra
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Godek, Wendy
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Twyman, Jennifer
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[A Mixed-Methods Approach to Unpacking Joint Decisions about Agricultural Production in Nicaragua and Colombia]
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A Mixed-Methods Approach to Unpacking Joint Decisions about Agricultural Production in Nicaragua and Colombia
In recent years, rural households throughout Indonesia have faced a variety of crises, including severe drought, smoke from forest fires, and floods - all of which have affected subsistence farming. Simultaneous with these problems has been the wider Asian economic crisis that destabilized Indone...
Wadley, R.L.
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[Coping with crisis - smoke, drought, flood and currency: Iban women and their households in West Kalimantan]
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Coping with crisis - smoke, drought, flood and currency: Iban women and their households in West Kalimantan
This report provides an in-depth review and critical analysis of the fuelwood, wood balance and household energy studies done in India in the last decades, and the developments in the commercial energy sector. The study synthesised the trend in the consumption of domestic energy and also the reli...
This paper aims at analyzing fuel consumption in households of forest zones, and at showing the place of fuelwood as a source of energy in the region. The study was carried out in Cameroon and it was based on a survey done in 1996. A sample of 400 households from Yaounde, Mbalmayo and Ebolowa was...
Nkamleu, G.B.
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Endamana, D.
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Gockowski, J.
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Ndoye, O.
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Sunderlin, William D.
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[Analyse economique de la consommation du bois de feu en regions forestieres: lecons des zones urbaines camerounaises]
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Analyse economique de la consommation du bois de feu en regions forestieres: lecons des zones urbaines camerounaises