Development of management plans collaboratively with local people (e.g. co-management) is now an important means of protected area conservation. Yet formal protected area managers often need more specific information about the local people with whom they want to co-manage resources. We propose wi...
Colfer, C.J.P.
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Wadley, R.L.
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Venkateswarlu, P.
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[Understanding local people's use of time: a pre-condition for good co-management]
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Understanding local people's use of time: a pre-condition for good co-management
This study describes the concept of a management information system (MIS) developed for the Center for International Forestry Research. A definition of MIS and the institutional background are given, followed by a description of the organisational structure, definition of MIS requirements and the...
Ibach, M.O.
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[CIFOR's management information system: from concept to implementation]
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CIFOR's management information system: from concept to implementation
Evidence is presented to show that there is a growing disparity between public perception and scientific evidence relating to the causes of floods, their impacts, and the benefits of mitigation measures. It is suggested that this disparity has arisen through the extensive promotion of certain lan...
Calder, I. R. C.
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Aylward, B.
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[Forest and floods: Moving to an evidence-based approach to watershed and integrated flood management]
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Forest and floods: Moving to an evidence-based approach to watershed and integrated flood management
The search for effective strategies to protect forests and improve livelihoods of the people dependent on them has led to several participatory approaches to governance over the past few decades globally. However, an important factor that hinders effective governance in most situations is the pre...
Ojha, H.R.
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Cameron, J.
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Kumar, C.
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[Deliberation or symbolic violence?: the governance of community forestry in Nepal]
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Deliberation or symbolic violence?: the governance of community forestry in Nepal
Ways of promoting integration of herbaceous forage legumes into a napier grass fodder system were evaluated with the aim of increasing forage quantity and quality on smallholder dairy farms in central Kenya. The herbaceous legumes Desmodium intortum cGreenleaf (ILRI 104), Macrotyloma axillare cAx...
Mwangi, D.M.
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Cadisch, Georg
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Thorpe, W.R.
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Giller, Ken E.
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[Harvesting management options for legumes intercropped in napier grass in the central highlands of Kenya]
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Harvesting management options for legumes intercropped in napier grass in the central highlands of Kenya
The study was conducted at Botswana College of Agriculture, Notwane-farm, Sebele, Gaborone for 150 days from June to October 2006. A flock of 60 Tswana sheep were used consisting of 30 males and 30 females. Fifteen of the males were castrates, 7 weaners and 8 lambs while the female group consiste...
Aganga, A.A.
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Fabi, L.
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[Performance of Tswana Sheep under Semi-Intensive Management in Gaborone, Botswana]
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Performance of Tswana Sheep under Semi-Intensive Management in Gaborone, Botswana
Assessing the performance of management is central to natural resource management, in terms of improving the efficiency of interventions in an adaptive-learning cycle. This is not simple, given that such systems generally have multiple scales of interaction and response; high frequency of non-lin...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Sayer, Jeffrey A.
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Frost, P.
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Ruiz Perez, M.
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Cunningham, A.B.
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Prabhu, R.
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[Assessing the performance of natural resource systems]
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Assessing the performance of natural resource systems
Plans have been underway since 1994 to increase the participation of local communities in the management of Cameroon's forest resources through a community forestry programme. This paper critically examines the legal and institutional foundations of the programme and finds it to be greatly defici...
Nforti, N.C.
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[The community forestry program in Cameroon: a participatory management option?]
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The community forestry program in Cameroon: a participatory management option?
Over the last ten years there has been an increasing emphasis on development of plantation estates for both wood fiber and agricultural crops such as oil palm. The principles for sustainable development and establishment of industrial plantations also account for the social, environmental and bio...
Poulsen, J.
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Applegate, G.
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Raymond, D.
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[Linking C&I to a code of practice for industrial tropical tree plantations]
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Linking C&I to a code of practice for industrial tropical tree plantations
FLORES (the Forest Land Oriented Resource Envisioning System) was initially constructred by 50 people during a multidisciplinary workshop in Bukittinggi, Sumatra, in 1999. It proved that a model of a complex system could be constructed in a participatory way by a diverse team; that it could be do...
Vanclay, J.K.
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Haggith, M.
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Colfer, C.J.P.
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[Participation and model-building: lessons learned from the Bukittinggi workshop]
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Participation and model-building: lessons learned from the Bukittinggi workshop