HCP is an information sharing and communication platform for linking farmers, agri-service businesses, the public-private sector, the scientific community and outside CSISA stakeholders. The vision of the HCP is to serve as a multi-directional, location based, information sharing system in suppor...
The GILB is a worldwide concerted response to potato late blight, the most devastating disease that threatens potato crops worldwide. GILB is a network of researchers, technology developers and agricultural knowledge agents that serves as a platform to exchange ideas and opinions, and facilitates...
Since 2009, CIFOR has initiated the Global Comparative Study of REDD+ in six countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, Indonesia, Tanzania and Vietnam. In analysing national REDD+ policy arenas and emerging strategies, CIFOR researchers have developed five areas of work for each country. These includ...
In the lower Tocantins region of Brazil, one Amazonian woman questioned why scientists publish principally for elite audiences. Her experience suggests that the impact may be enhanced by also sharing data with people who depend upon forest goods. Having defended her family homestead near the city...
Shanley, P.
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[Science for the poor: how one woman challenged researchers, ranchers, and loggers in Amazonia]
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Science for the poor: how one woman challenged researchers, ranchers, and loggers in Amazonia
Rao, K.P.C.
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[Interim Progress Report on CCAFS-ICRISAT-KARI study: testing the design and communication of downscaled, probabilistic seasonal forecasts and evaluating their impact on farmers’ management and livelihood outcomes at Wote, Eastern Kenya]
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Interim Progress Report on CCAFS-ICRISAT-KARI study: testing the design and communication of downscaled, probabilistic seasonal forecasts and evaluating their impact on farmers’ management and livelihood outcomes at Wote, Eastern Kenya
In this article an outline is given of the history of information and publishing in forestry, communications technology is described (including mobile computing, GIS and satellite observations), and the future exchange of information via the Internet and web-based services is discussed. Two examp...
Paivinen, R.
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Mills, R.
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Hailu, M.
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Saarikko, J.
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[The forest of information: beating paths through the jungle]
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The forest of information: beating paths through the jungle
McDougall, C.
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Ojha, H.
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Pandey, R.K.
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Banjade, M.R.
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Pandit, B.H.
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[Enhancing adaptiveness and collaboration in community forestry in Nepal: reflections from participatory action research]
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Enhancing adaptiveness and collaboration in community forestry in Nepal: reflections from participatory action research
Two distinct visions of tropical forests co-exist in the scientific literature. One is more neo-Malthusian. The other is more pro-poor. The evidence increasingly favours the latter, although many uncertainties remain. The pro-poor literature emphasises that poor families create and manage forests...
Tembani, M.
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Marimira, S.
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Jiri, A.
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Mathe, S.
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Audouin, S.
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Mukamuri, B.
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Nare, L.
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Triomphe, Bernard
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[Participatory diagnosis for establishing innovation and communication platforms in trans-frontier conservation areas in Zimbabwe]
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Participatory diagnosis for establishing innovation and communication platforms in trans-frontier conservation areas in Zimbabwe