Public extension services play a key role in the implementation of strategies for rural development based on the sustainable management of natural resources. However, the sector suffers from restricted financial and human resources. Using experiences from participatory action research, a strategy...
Pokorny, B.
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Cayres, G.
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Nunes, W.
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[Participatory extension as basis for the work of rural extension services in the Amazon]
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Participatory extension as basis for the work of rural extension services in the Amazon
Decision makers require better understanding of local people’s needs in tropical forested landscapes to enable more locally relevant and sustainable conservation. The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) developed a series of survey methods that assess the perceptions and priorities...
Sassen, M.
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Jum, C.N.
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[Assessing local perspectives in a forested landscape of central Cameroon]
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Assessing local perspectives in a forested landscape of central Cameroon
This study examines the effect of forestry policy devolution and economic development in two Mosuo matrilineal communities where women play a large role in the utilization, management and conservation of forest resources. Two matrilineal villages in Ninglang, China are compared, the first in whic...
Boissiere, M.
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Sassen, M.
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[Mesurer l'importance de la biodiversite pour les societes forestieres des pays du Sud: une methode d'investigation pluridisciplinaire]
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Mesurer l'importance de la biodiversite pour les societes forestieres des pays du Sud: une methode d'investigation pluridisciplinaire
The complex web of relations between people and their environment has often been disturbed by development. For the Rungus, this has eliminated the importance of the institution of bobolizan (traditional priestess). Colonial intervention that changed the administrative system has reduced the influ...
Monitoring and research activities may hinder rather than improce conservation in tropical countries. This paper identifies some critical threats to biodiversity and the limited resources for defending against them. It suggests various contributory factors, and a few common sense options for impr...
Sheil, Douglas
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[Conservation and biodiversity monitoring in the tropics: realities, priorities and distraction]
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Conservation and biodiversity monitoring in the tropics: realities, priorities and distraction
Both decentralization and natural resource management literature suggest that natural resources could benefit from the redistribution of centralized management authority. Yet, neither has sufficiently examined the processes already underway in numerous developing countries to decentralize resourc...
Larson, A.M.
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[Natural resources and decentralization in Nicaragua: are local government up to the job?]
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Natural resources and decentralization in Nicaragua: are local government up to the job?
Extensive areas of the Congo Basin forest are allocated to timber concessionaires. These forests also harbour and support village populations, including indigenous Baka people, who depend on forest foods obtained directly from trees (fruits, oils and caterpillars). Most food-producing tree specie...
Tieguhong, J.C.
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Snook, L.K.
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Taedoumg, H.
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Maukonen, P.
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Tchatat, M.
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Loo, J.
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Tchingsabe, O.
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Noutcheu, R.
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Iponga, D.M.
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Kahindo, J.M.
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Muvatsi, P.
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Yobo, C.M.
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Tutu, S.
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Ngoye, A.
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[Beyond timber: balancing demands for tree resources between concessionaires and villagers]
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Beyond timber: balancing demands for tree resources between concessionaires and villagers
Wood density is an important variable for accurate quantification of woody biomass and carbon stocks. Conventional destructive methods for wood density estimation are resource intensive, prohibiting their use, limiting the application of approaches that would minimize uncertainties in tree biomas...
Olale, Kennedy
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Yenesew, Abiy
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Jamnadass, Ramni H.
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Sila, Andrew
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Shepherd, Keith
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[A simple field based method for rapid wood density estimation for selected tree species in Western Kenya]
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A simple field based method for rapid wood density estimation for selected tree species in Western Kenya