This paper presents a case study of decentralized forest management in lowland Bolivia. Bolivia has undertaken important policy reforms since the mid-1990s aimed at institutionalizing popular participation and promoting democratic decentralization. In the forestry sector, municipal governments ha...
Pacheco, P.
,
[What lies behind decentralisation?: forest, powers and actors in lowland Bolivia]
,
What lies behind decentralisation?: forest, powers and actors in lowland Bolivia
Participatory approaches to development in general and natural resource management in particular are now a widely accepted management strategy. Multi-agent system (MAS), a computer-based tool, offers a promising approach for multi-stakeholder management systems such as the case involving communit...
Purnomo, H.
,
Mendoza, G.A.
,
Prabhu, R.
,
Yasmi, Y.
,
[Developing multi-stakeholder forest management scenarios: a multi-agent system simulation approach applied in Indonesia]
,
Developing multi-stakeholder forest management scenarios: a multi-agent system simulation approach applied in Indonesia
Sudirman
,
Wiliam, D.
,
McGrath, S.
,
[Public participation in local forestry policy-making after decentralization: uncertainties, challenges and expectations in Tanjung Jabung Barat District, Jambi Province]
,
Public participation in local forestry policy-making after decentralization: uncertainties, challenges and expectations in Tanjung Jabung Barat District, Jambi Province
Sudirman
,
Wiliam, D.
,
McGrath, S.
,
[Partisipasi masyarakat dalam pembuatan kebijakan daerah di kabupaten Tanjung Jabung Barat, Jambi: ketidakpastian, tantangan, dan harapan]
,
Partisipasi masyarakat dalam pembuatan kebijakan daerah di kabupaten Tanjung Jabung Barat, Jambi: ketidakpastian, tantangan, dan harapan
In this book, CIFOR analyses trends, opportunities, problems and challenges of forestry decentralization in Nicaragua, identifying its consequences particularly for poor forest-dependent groups, and proposing a research and action agenda for the democratic governance of forest resources in consul...
Larson, A.M.
,
[Los grupos marginados, la descentralizacion y el sector forestal en Nicaragua]
,
Los grupos marginados, la descentralizacion y el sector forestal en Nicaragua
The forest resources in Ethiopia have suffered decades of mismanagement due mainly to loosely defined property relations over these resources. As one of the solutions, Participatory Forest Management (PFM) scheme was introduced during the early 1990s by some NGOs. Nearly two decades of experience...
Gobeze, T.
,
Bekele, M.
,
Lemenih, H.
,
Kassa, H.
,
[Participatory forest management and its impacts on livelihoods and forest status: the case of Bonga forest in Ethiopia]
,
Participatory forest management and its impacts on livelihoods and forest status: the case of Bonga forest in Ethiopia
Strong gradients of decreasing soil fertility are found with increasing distance from the homestead within smallholder African farms, due to differential resource allocation. As nutrient use efficiency varies strongly along these gradients, such heterogeneity must be considered when designing soi...
Tittonell, Pablo A.
,
Vanlauwe, Bernard
,
Leffelaar, P.A.
,
Shepherd, Keith D.
,
Giller, Ken E.
,
[Exploring diversity in soil fertility management of smallholder farms in western Kenya. II. Within-farm variability in resource allocation, nutrient flows and soil fertility status]
,
Exploring diversity in soil fertility management of smallholder farms in western Kenya. II. Within-farm variability in resource allocation, nutrient flows and soil fertility status
Thro, Ann Marie
,
Spillane, Charles
,
Ginés, CMJ
,
Sperling, L.
,
[Issues in biotechnology-assisted participatory plant breeding]
,
Issues in biotechnology-assisted participatory plant breeding
This study is conducted with a general objective of evaluating contingent valuation as a method for assessing the willingness of people at a site in the Ghibe Valley of Ethiopia to contribute labour, time and money to tsetse control. The more specific objectives of the case study were to evalua...
Swallow, B.M.
,
[Using contingent valuation to assess the prospects for local participation in public good provision: The case of trypanosomiasis control in Ethiopia]
,
Using contingent valuation to assess the prospects for local participation in public good provision: The case of trypanosomiasis control in Ethiopia
FLORES, the Forest Land Oriented Resurce Envisioning System, is a framework to facilitate quantitative modelling of ecological, economic and social issues at the landscape scale. This special issue of journal describes the evolution of FLORES from a concept to a series of models calibrated for di...
Vanclay, J.K.
,
Prabhu, R.
,
Sinclair, Fergus L.
,
[Participatory modelling of community forest landscape]
,
Participatory modelling of community forest landscape