Between 2005 and 2009, the EU-financed project ForLive set out to analyse promising local forest management initiatives in the Amazon Basin in four countries: Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru. Researchers aimed to identify locally viable practices that benefit livelihoods and ecological stabili...
Pokorny B.
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Godar, J.
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Hoch, L.
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Johnson, J.
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Koning, J. de
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Medina, G.
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Steinbrenner, R.
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Vos, V.
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Weigelt, J.
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[A produção familiar como alternativa de um desenvolvimento sustentável para a Amazônia: lições aprendidas de iniciativas de uso florestal por produtores familiares na Amazônia boliviana, brasileira, equatoriana e peruana]
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A produção familiar como alternativa de um desenvolvimento sustentável para a Amazônia: lições aprendidas de iniciativas de uso florestal por produtores familiares na Amazônia boliviana, brasileira, equatoriana e peruana
White, A.
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Hatcher, J.
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Khare, A.
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Liddle, M.
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Molnar, A.
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Sunderlin, William D.
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[Seeing people through the trees: mitigating and adapting to climate change without undermining rights and livelihoods]
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Seeing people through the trees: mitigating and adapting to climate change without undermining rights and livelihoods
The study was undertaken in Tanzania to assess the effect of some macro-economic policies on livelihood strategies for households within or in close proximity in miombo woodlands. The focus was on how their responses are impacting on the management and use of the woodlands. Data were collected at...
For co-management of conservation areas to be effective, detailed information on local people's use of natural resources is essential. One method to obtain some of that information, a household record keeping study, is given. It is simple to implement and analyse, and provides useful, quantitativ...
Colfer, C.J.P.
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Wadley, R.L.
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Salim, A.
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Dudley, R.G.
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[Understanding patterns of resource use and consumption: a prelude to co-management]
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Understanding patterns of resource use and consumption: a prelude to co-management
To understand the role of forest products in households people need to understand the nature of rural livelihoods and the characteristics of forest products. Rural households typically have a wide livelihood portfolio, encompassing a range of activities. They also generally face low availability ...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Luckert, M.K.
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[Towards understanding the role of forests in rural livelihoods]
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Towards understanding the role of forests in rural livelihoods
This chapter examines China’s experiment on devolution policies for local forest management. These policies included the transfer of forest management from collectives to households, the involvement of villagers in the management of state forests, and the shift of some decision-making authority i...
Liu Dachang
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Edmunds, D.
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[The promises and limitations of devolution and local forest management in China]
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The promises and limitations of devolution and local forest management in China
An economic crisis and political changes that have occurred in Indonesia since 1997 have presented grave dangers but also important opportunities for the country. On the one hand, the depreciation of the rupiah against the dollar is part of a drastic economic downturn, but on the other hand, it r...
Weighted goal programming (WGP) is employed to reconcile the goals of food security, improved incomes and woodland conservation in households from selected sites in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The three goals are attainable simultaneously, albeit with trade-offs useful in guiding development...
There is an increasing interest in understanding the role forest products and forest resource management in rural livelihoods and poverty reduction strategies. This study investigates the contribution of forest resources to the livelihoods of rural households under a participatory management arra...
Yemiru, T.
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Roos, A.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Bohlin, F.
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[Forest incomes and poverty alleviation under participatory forest management in the Bale Highlands, Southern Ethiopia]
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Forest incomes and poverty alleviation under participatory forest management in the Bale Highlands, Southern Ethiopia
Husselman, M.
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Moeliono, M.
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Paumgarten, F.
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[Bees in the miombo: buzzing toward the Millennium Development Goals]
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Bees in the miombo: buzzing toward the Millennium Development Goals