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Kusumanto, Y.[Shaping opportunities for improving forest quality and community livelihoods in Central Sumatra and East Kalimantan, Indonesia]Shaping opportunities for improving forest quality and community livelihoods in Central Sumatra and East Kalimantan, Indonesia
Hartanto, H.[Facilitating change from the inside: adaptive collaborative management in the Philippines]Facilitating change from the inside: adaptive collaborative management in the Philippines

This paper analyzes the growing role of municipal governments in Bolivia and Nicaragua in forest-related issues on the basis of some thirty case studies. It first provides background information on forest issues and legislation concerning municipal involvement in forest issues in the two countrie...


Kaimowitz, D.Pacheco, P.Mendoza, R.Barahona, T.[Municipal governments and forest management in Bolivia and Nicaragua]Municipal governments and forest management in Bolivia and Nicaragua
Smakhtin, Vladimir U.Johnston, R.[Hydrological models bring clarity and consensus to challenging policy issues.]Hydrological models bring clarity and consensus to challenging policy issues.

Strategies for increasing the development and use of groundwater for agriculture over much of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are urgently needed. Expansion of small-scale groundwater irrigation offers an attractive option to smallholder farmers to overcome unreliable wet-season rainfall and enhance dry...


Pavelic, PaulSmakhtin, Vladimir U.Favreau, G.Villholth, Karen G.[Water-balance approach for assessing potential for smallholder groundwater irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa.]Water-balance approach for assessing potential for smallholder groundwater irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa.

BACKGROUND The GIZ Advisory Service for Agricultural Research and Development (BEAF) in cooperation with GIZ Western Kenya and the Centre for Tropical Agriculture in Nairobi (CIAT) commissioned the Centre for Rural Development (SLE) to carry out this study. Kenya is a focus country of the Germa...


Schaller, MichaelaBarth, Elena I.Blies, DarinkaRöhrig, FelicitasSchümmelfeder, Malte[Scaling out Climate Smart Agriculture: Strategies and Guidelines for Smallholder Farming in Western Kenya]Scaling out Climate Smart Agriculture: Strategies and Guidelines for Smallholder Farming in Western Kenya

Decision-making approaches, the factors affecting them, the role of the decision-making units and the actors involved in farming decisions were studied in 91 Costa Rican farmers using a classification procedure. Farmers were asked to classify 18 farming decisions (systematically selected from a p...


Solano, C.León, H.Pérez, E.Herrero, Mario T.[Who makes farming decisions? A study of Costa Rican farmers]Who makes farming decisions? A study of Costa Rican farmers

This paper presents a historical analysis of the different policy tools used to manage and regulate groundwater abstraction in the Western Mancha aquifer. Without much initial regulation and control, groundwater resources and aquifer levels decreased dramatically, threatening agriculture and also...


Closas, AlvarMolle, FrancoisHernández Mora, N.[Sticks and carrots: managing groundwater overabstraction in La Mancha, Spain]Sticks and carrots: managing groundwater overabstraction in La Mancha, Spain

Secretariats are an increasingly common feature in Africa’s transboundary river basin organizations (RBOs). Non-secretariat-based forms of transboundary RBOs nonetheless also exist, and such forms of cooperation have often functioned effectively. These realities drive questions about the rational...


Saruchera, DavisonLautze, Jonathan[Transboundary river basin organizations in Africa: assessing the secretariat]Transboundary river basin organizations in Africa: assessing the secretariat
Posada Torres, Rafael[Utilización de variedades mejoradas de arroz por el pequeño agricultor: factores que afectan la toma de decisiones]Utilización de variedades mejoradas de arroz por el pequeño agricultor: factores que afectan la toma de decisiones

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