For the last two decades, some countries in Asia have initiated progressive tenure reform in the forestry sector through transfer of management and use rights from the state to the local communities, indigenous groups, local government units, private sector and individual households. However, sti...
Dahal, G.R.
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Adhikari, K.P.
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[Trends and impact of forest tenure reforms in Asia: cases from India, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Nepal and the Philippines]
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Trends and impact of forest tenure reforms in Asia: cases from India, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Nepal and the Philippines
Landscape labelling is a new Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) concept that seeks to combine elements of PES with product certification at a landscape scales. Landscape labelling proposes that managed rural landscapes which deliver valuable ecosystem services be awarded a ‘landscape label’, by...
German, L.
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Taye, H.
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[A framework for evaluating effectiveness and inclusiveness of collective action in watershed management]
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A framework for evaluating effectiveness and inclusiveness of collective action in watershed management
This paper places forestry in the larger context of rural development and therefore in the current debates on poverty and inequality. While Africa has high levels of natural and human capital it is the poorest and most unequal region in the world. In order for natural assets to contribute to envi...
Anderson, J.
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Benjamin, C.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Tiveau, D.
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[Forests, poverty and equity in Africa: new perspectives on policy and practice]
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Forests, poverty and equity in Africa: new perspectives on policy and practice
There is a strong link between gender and energy in view of food preparation and the acquisition of fuel, especially in rural areas. This is demonstrated in a range of case studies from East and West Africa, where biochar, human waste and other waste resources have been used to produce briquettes...
Njenga, M.
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Mendum, R.
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[Recovering bioenergy in Sub-Saharan Africa: gender dimensions, lessons and challenges]
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Recovering bioenergy in Sub-Saharan Africa: gender dimensions, lessons and challenges
This paper examines a process - the spontaneous enclosure of the range by livestock owners - which may rise new problems but also permit new approaches to the development of the African livestock industry. Drawing on case material from Sudan and Somalia, the opening section of the paper discusses...
Behnke, R.H.
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[The implications of spontaneous range enclosure for African livestock development policy]
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The implications of spontaneous range enclosure for African livestock development policy
Here, more than 100 years of incumbency reports on officers of the irrigation bureaucracy of Punjab, Pakistan, are presented and analyzed. The data highlight how representation changed before and after partition within the irrigation bureaucracy. The data show that the irrigation bureaucracy incr...
Wegerich, Kai
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Hussain, Asghar
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[Creating accountability: representation and responsiveness of the irrigation bureaucracy in Punjab, Pakistan]
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Creating accountability: representation and responsiveness of the irrigation bureaucracy in Punjab, Pakistan
Large-scale agricultural land investments in Africa are often considered solely from the land perspective. Yet land, water and other natural resources are closely interlinked in agricultural production and in sustaining rural livelihoods. Such investments involving irrigation will potentially hav...
Sidibe, Y.
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Williams, Timothy O.
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[Agricultural land investments and water management in the office du Niger, Mali: options for improved water pricing]
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Agricultural land investments and water management in the office du Niger, Mali: options for improved water pricing
Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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Sugden, Fraser
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Clement, Floriane
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[Poverty, inequalities and vulnerability of the rural poor]
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Poverty, inequalities and vulnerability of the rural poor