Models for cassava project monitoring and evaluation are discussed, focussing on the system that has been created and honed over time to follow up on the DRI/CIAT cooperative project on the Colombian Atlantic Coast. This system is based on a data bank, in- depth surveys, and intensive follow-up o...
Se discuten modelos para monitoria y evaluacion de proyectos de yuca, con enfasis en el sistema que ha sido creado y pulido con el tiempo para hacer el seguimiento al proyecto cooperativo DRI/CIAT en la Costa Atlantica de Colombia. Este sistema se basa en un banco de datos, en encuestas exhaustiv...
The actual socioeconomic impact of the cassava natural drying project on the Atlantic Coast of Colombia is discussed with regard to increasing income of farmers and their families who live in the project's area of influence. Limitations in each phase of development of the project (pilot phase, 1s...
Se discute el impacto socioeconomico actual del proyecto de secamiento natural de la yuca en la Costa Atlantica de Colombia en relacion con el incremento de los ingresos de los agricultores y sus familias que viven en el area de influencia del proyecto. Se indican las limitaciones en cada fase de...
Estimating the incomes of people whose livelihoods depend on the forests is a key to understanding their well being and the use of the forest. Yet there has been little agreement about the methods to undertake such assessment. This paper reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the methods availab...
Community-based fire management in parts of Indonesia can have both positive and negative impacts on the forest environment, and can lead to short-and long-term changes in income. This paper examines two examples from Lampung province in Southern Sumatra, Indonesia and in Sekincau, located in a n...
Suyanto, S.
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Applegate, G.
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Tacconi, L.
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[Community-based fire management, land tenure and conflict: insights from Sumatra, Indonesia]
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Community-based fire management, land tenure and conflict: insights from Sumatra, Indonesia
Tourism on Ilha Grande is to an overwhelming extent nature-based and the attractiveness of the island as a tourist destination is neatly linked to its extensive forest coverage. At about 150 km from Rio de Janeiro and 400 km from São Paulo, Ilha Grande is close to two of the most populous cities ...
Wunder, Sven
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[Native tourism, natural forests and local incomes on Ilha Grande, Brazil]
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Native tourism, natural forests and local incomes on Ilha Grande, Brazil
Many rural dwellers in tropical regions depend on non-timber forest products (NTFPs) for their livelihood and their income needs. Local markets play an important role in enabling forest-dependent households to realize a significant part of their cash income through sale of NTFP's. Increase urbani...
Ndoye, O.
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Ruiz Perez, M.
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Eyebe, A.
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[The markets for non-timber forest products in the humid forest zone of Cameroon]
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The markets for non-timber forest products in the humid forest zone of Cameroon
For more than a century, northern Bolivia has had a tradition of commercial forest exploitation. For several decades into the twentieth century, the extraction of rubber and Brazil nuts was combined with subsistence agriculture, resulting in an agro-extractive cycle that fostered a sedentary life...
Dijkman, W.
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Stoian, D.
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Henkesmans, A.B.
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Assies, W.
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Boot, R.G.A.
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[Temporal and spatial dynamics in the extraction of non-timber forest products in the Northern Bolivia Amazon]
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Temporal and spatial dynamics in the extraction of non-timber forest products in the Northern Bolivia Amazon
We have presented a tree-planting technology that may allow reclaiming Imperata cylindrica grassland and at the same time increase incomes for local swidden agriculturist in West Kalimantan. It is expected that this technology allows us to draw some general conclusions about what should be consid...
Utama, R.
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Rantan, D.
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Jong, W. de
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Budhi, G.S.
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[Income generation through rehabilitation of imperata grasslands: production of vitex pubescens as a source of charcoal]
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Income generation through rehabilitation of imperata grasslands: production of vitex pubescens as a source of charcoal
The commercial use of natural resources to manufacture products for sale to tourists has become a significant supplementary source of income to rural people in all areas of Zimbabwe. The use of natural resources to produce woodcarving has been controversial because of the volume of woods used and...
Standa-Gunda, W.
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Braedt, O.
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[Trading forest products in South-Eastern Zimbabwe: ecology, economics and politics of woodcarving]
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Trading forest products in South-Eastern Zimbabwe: ecology, economics and politics of woodcarving