As part of its Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM) Programme, the local government of Sumbawa District in West Nusa Tenggara Province of Eastern Indonesia initiated a partnership programme between the Forestry District Agency and tree grower cooperatives in 2002. The partnership scheme aims ...
Tropical biologists are exploring ways to expand their role as researchers through knowledge exchange with local stakeholders. Graduate students are well positioned for this broader role, particularly when supported by graduate programs. We ask: (1) how can graduate students effectively engage in...
Duchelle, Amy E.
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Biedenweg, K.
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Lucas, C.
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Virapongse, A.
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Radachowsky, J.
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Wojcik, D.J.
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Londres, M.
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Bartels, W.L.
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Alvira, D.
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Kainer, K.A.
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[Graduate students and knowledge exchange with local stakeholders: possibilities and preparation]
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Graduate students and knowledge exchange with local stakeholders: possibilities and preparation
Achieving effective conservation in the tropics is a global concern but implicates local people. Despite considerable rhetoric about local participation the vast majority of conservation initiatives continue to be devised and controlled by a small group of powerful, external voices. What is widel...
Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Sheil, Douglas
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[The possibility of common ground: a reply to Mavhunga and Robinson]
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The possibility of common ground: a reply to Mavhunga and Robinson
Cooperation among stakeholders is widely accepted as an effective management strategy. This paper describes an experimentalstudy that explores this cooperation using role-playing games, which is formulated within a multiagent simulation framework. This framework enables participants to take activ...
Purnomo, H.
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Guizol, P.
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Mendoza, G.A.
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[Exploring partnerships between local communities and timber companies: an experiment using the role-playing games approach]
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Exploring partnerships between local communities and timber companies: an experiment using the role-playing games approach
At the Earth Summit in Johannesburg in 2002, partnerships were touted as one of the key routes to sustainable development. But can partnerships really deliver improvements to rural livelihoods? This paper reviews one set of claimed partnerships, those between forestry companies and local individ...
Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Nawir, A.A.
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Mayers, J.
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[Rural poverty reduction through business partnerships?: examples of experience from the forestry sector]
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Rural poverty reduction through business partnerships?: examples of experience from the forestry sector
Social conflicts with local people have caused some unsuccessful timber plantation developments in Indonesia. Company and community partnerships have provided opportunities for companies to accommodate local communities’ involvement and attempt to overcome these difficulties. Constraints in estab...
Nawir, A.A.
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Santoso, L.
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[Mutually beneficial company-community partnerships in plantation development: emerging lessons from Indonesia]
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Mutually beneficial company-community partnerships in plantation development: emerging lessons from Indonesia
The trade relationship between small-scale growers and processing companies often plays an important role in determining the nature and extent of benefi ts derived from commercial forestry, and the distribution of these benefi ts. Many strategies are used by individual small-scale growers, villag...
Race, D.
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Bisjoe, A.R.
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Hakim, M.R.
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Hayati, N.
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Julmansyah
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Kadir, A
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Kurniawan
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Kusumedi, P.
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Nawir, A.A.
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Nurhaedah
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Perbatasari, D.U.
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Purwanti, R.
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Rohadi, D.
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Stewart, H.
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Sumirat, B
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Suwarno, A.
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[Partnerships for involving small-scale growers in commercial forestry: lessons from Australia and Indonesia]
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Partnerships for involving small-scale growers in commercial forestry: lessons from Australia and Indonesia
The Integrated Agricultural Research for Development (IAR4D) concept was proposed to respond to the failures of Agriculture Research and Development (ARD) systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. The key element of implementation and success of IAR4D was action sites called agricultural Innovation Platform...
Ngaboyisonga, C.M.
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Oduol, J.
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Mugabo, J.
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Tenywa, M.M.
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Nyamwaro, Sospeter S.
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Buruchara, Robin A.
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Fatunbi, A.O.
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Adekunle, A.A.
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[Partnerships in highlands of Rwanda under integrated agricultural research for development (IAR4D) arrangements]
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Partnerships in highlands of Rwanda under integrated agricultural research for development (IAR4D) arrangements