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The world economy experienced significant growth and transformation, with increases in productivity, product quality, and export base diversification in the 1990s. These advances were mainly driven by the growth of traditional agricultural and industrial sectors, including the natural resource-ba...


Dodds, J.H.Ortiz, R.Crouch, J.H.Mahalasksmi, V.Sharma, K.K.[Biotechnology, the gene revolution, and proprietary technology in agriculture: a strategic note for the World Bank]Biotechnology, the gene revolution, and proprietary technology in agriculture: a strategic note for the World Bank

The Landscape Mosaics Project is a global research project coordinated by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and funded by the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC). The project examines biodiversity in tropical, forested, mul...


Watts, J.D.Kanyasone, V.Vongkhamsao, V.[Pathways to participatory landscape governance in Northern Laos: the role of Information and Communication Technologies]Pathways to participatory landscape governance in Northern Laos: the role of Information and Communication Technologies

Only recently, ethnobotany has cought the interest of actors involved in the sustainable management of natural resources based on local ecological knowledge. In the perspective of conceiving a website for the African Ethnobotany Network (AEN), a preliminary study was undertaken in order to assess...


Petit, C.Dounias, E.[L'ethnobotanique sur internet: quelles perspectives pour le Réseau Africain d'Ethnobotanique?]L'ethnobotanique sur internet: quelles perspectives pour le Réseau Africain d'Ethnobotanique?

Researchers now use information & communications technology (ICT) to gather information more effectively from the field. Sander Muilerman, Juanita Schläpfer and Eugenio Tisselli discuss how ICTs can also give them the possibility to help share knowledge in local communities.


Muilerman, SanderSchläpfer, J.Tisselli, E.[Sharing local knowledge]Sharing local knowledge

We describe an electronic injury surveillance system that provides data for improving patient care and monitoring injury incidence and distribution patterns. Patients with injuries visiting a rural Kenyan primary care center were enrolled consecutively over 14 months. Injury information was added...


Odero, W.Rotich, J.Yiannoutsos, C.T.Ouna, T.Tierney, W.M.[Innovative approaches to application of information technology in disease surveillance and prevention in western Kenya]Innovative approaches to application of information technology in disease surveillance and prevention in western Kenya

This paper examines the needs for forest science for the 21st century and ways of organising research to meet them. The world of the 21st century will be one of knowledge-based societies and globalised economies. The need for global stewardship of the environmental and social values of forests is...


Byron, R.N.Sayer, Jeffrey A.[Organising forestry research to meet the challenges of the information age]Organising forestry research to meet the challenges of the information age

In this article an outline is given of the history of information and publishing in forestry, communications technology is described (including mobile computing, GIS and satellite observations), and the future exchange of information via the Internet and web-based services is discussed. Two examp...


Paivinen, R.Mills, R.Hailu, M.Saarikko, J.[The forest of information: beating paths through the jungle]The forest of information: beating paths through the jungle
Autor: Dykstra, D.P.

Information has always been an important "stock in trade" of forest managers. Knowledge of tree species, stand age, growth characteristics, site quality, soil and terrain classes, logging costs and products markets have all been essential for profitable forest management for many decades. What ha...


Dykstra, D.P.[Information systems in forestry]Information systems in forestry

This study used a field experiment and the means-end chain approach to examine the effect of providing information on the biofortification process on consumers' acceptance of orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP). Negative, positive, and neutral information about the biofortification were verbally pr...


Okello, J.J.Lagerkvist, C.J.Muoki, P.Heck, S.Prain, G.[Does information on food production technology affect consumers' acceptance of biofortified foods? Evidence from a field experiment in Kenya.]Does information on food production technology affect consumers' acceptance of biofortified foods? Evidence from a field experiment in Kenya.

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