Description

The papers contained in this book were presented during a Special Session at the 16th Symposium of the International Farming Systems Association and the 4th Latin American Farming Systems Research and Extension Symposium, which was held at the Universidad Catolica, Santiago, Chile from November 27 to 29, 2000. The theme of the meeting was “Globalization and Local Development: Challenges to Small Scale Production.” The papers included in this book focus on community-based natural resource decision making that has resulted from SANREM activities in the Andes, Southeast Asia and West Africa. Each paper offers examples of community-based approaches that address natural resource

issues through enhanced participation of multiple stakeholders, often with multiple objectives. These approaches include: citizen volunteer water quality monitoring, the landcare approach, future visioning scenarios, holistic management, and the use of advocacy coalitions.

Table of Contents: Dedication to Robert D. Hart

Foreword

Abstract/Resumen

Formation, Potential and Challenges of a Citizen Volunteer Water

Quality Monitoring Group in Mindanao, Philippines / Deutsch and Orprecio

The Landcare Approach: Enhancing Community Participation in

Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management in the Uplands / Mercado and Garrity

Holistic Management in West Africa: A New Approach to Community-

Based Natural Resource Management Decision Making and Institutional Development at the Decentralized Commune Level / Bertelsen

Sustainable Futures: Contrasting Local Visions and Scientific

Scenarios for Sound Community-Based Decision Making / Rhoades

The Advocacy Coalition Framework: A Theoretical Frame for

SANREM to Address Policy Change and Learning / Flora, Flora, Campana and Fernandez-Baca

Social Capital and Advocacy Coalitions: Examples from Ecuador / Flora, Flora, Campana, Bravo and Fernandez-Baca