The historical emphasis on technological innovation as a pathway to rural development has obscured the institutional foundations of development – in this case, the role of local and external organizations in shaping patterns of benefits capture. Agrarian communities have a host of ways in which t...
German, L.
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Ayele, Seife
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Mazengia, W
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Tsegaye, M.
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Abere, K.
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Bedane, K.
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Geta, E.
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Tolera, T.
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Taye, H.
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[Institutional foundations of agricultural development in Ethiopia: drawing lessons from current practice for agricultural R&D]
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Institutional foundations of agricultural development in Ethiopia: drawing lessons from current practice for agricultural R&D
Discussions on climate change and potential mechanisms to support conservation efforts have fixed the attention on incentives to conserve and protect forests. However, incentives alone will not do the job for forest conservation; what might? We use the case of Kutai National Park to examine the p...
Limberg, G.
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Moeliono, M.
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Indriatmoko, Y.
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Iwan, R.
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Utomo, N.A.
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Purwanto, E.
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Mulyana, A.
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[Incentives to conserve or convert? Can conservation compete with coal in Kutai National Park, Indonesia?]
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Incentives to conserve or convert? Can conservation compete with coal in Kutai National Park, Indonesia?
In the Andes, demand for water is growing and upland land-use changes are increasing. Water quality, quantity and seasonal flow have thus also become environmental services with potential monetary value. Yet, currently the region’s pioneer PES schemes are not paying for measured environmental ser...
Quinton, M.
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Wunder, Sven
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Estrada, R.D.
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[For services rendered? modeling hydrology and livelihoods in Andean payments for environmental services schemes]
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For services rendered? modeling hydrology and livelihoods in Andean payments for environmental services schemes
The highlands of Eastern Africa are characterized by high population densities and tightly coupled interactions between adjacent landscape units and users. Effective formal or informal natural resource governance is necessary to mitigate the potential negative social and environmental effects of ...
German, L.
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Mazengia, W
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Taye, H.
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Tsegaye, M.
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Ayele, Seife
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Charamila, S.
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Wickama, J.
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[Minimizing the Livelihood Trade-Offs of Natural Resource Management in the Eastern African Highlands: Policy Implications of a Project in “Creative Governance”]
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Minimizing the Livelihood Trade-Offs of Natural Resource Management in the Eastern African Highlands: Policy Implications of a Project in “Creative Governance”
Two extremes of forest conflict exist: low- and high-intensity conflicts. Theoretical debate on how forest conflict escalates from one extreme to the other has begun to take place; however, empirical research is lacking. Our paper aims to explore the conflict escalation process using a case study...
Yasmi, Y.
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Schanz, H.
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[Managing conflict escalation in forestry: logging versus local community interests in Baru Pelepat village, Sumatra, Indonesia]
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Managing conflict escalation in forestry: logging versus local community interests in Baru Pelepat village, Sumatra, Indonesia
Sasaoka, M.
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[Indigenous natural resource management through the inter-relationship between human and supper natural agents: a case of a highland community on Seram Island, Eastern Indonesia]
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Indigenous natural resource management through the inter-relationship between human and supper natural agents: a case of a highland community on Seram Island, Eastern Indonesia
German, L.
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Ayele, Seife
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Admassu, Z.
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[Managing linkages between communal rangelands and private cropland in the highlands of Eastern Africa: contributions to participatory integrated watershed management]
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Managing linkages between communal rangelands and private cropland in the highlands of Eastern Africa: contributions to participatory integrated watershed management
Factors for promoting the resident participation in mountain villages are suggested to introduce the activity-oriented program of green tourism using a multinomial logit model(MNLM). Direct surveying, using a structured questionnaire was performed on local residents in the different types of rura...
Lee, Dukjae
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Kim, Jong-Ho
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Jeon, Jun-Heon
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[Participation intention of activity-oriented program of local residents of rural and mountain villages: policy implication for the eco-mountain village project]
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Participation intention of activity-oriented program of local residents of rural and mountain villages: policy implication for the eco-mountain village project
MIRACLE (“Making innovations work for smallholder farmersaffected by HIV and AIDS in southern Africa”) brings togetherkey stakeholders in operational and strategic level innovationplatforms. This paper outlines MIRACLE’s strategy forimproving livelihoods through improved production, processing,co...
Ellis-Jones, J.
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Gondwe, T.N.P.
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[Linking innovations systems with participatory research and extension: MIRACLE experiences from southern Africa]
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Linking innovations systems with participatory research and extension: MIRACLE experiences from southern Africa
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), are high on the agenda for most countries of the world. In its publication of the SDGs, the UN has provided the goals and target descriptions that, if implemented at a country level, would lead towards a sustai...
Dickens, Chris
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Smakhtin, V.
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McCartney, Matthew P.
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O'Brien, G.
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Dahir, L.
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[Defining and quantifying national-level targets, indicators and benchmarks for management of natural resources to achieve the sustainable development goals]
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Defining and quantifying national-level targets, indicators and benchmarks for management of natural resources to achieve the sustainable development goals