Sustainable Agriculture & Natural Resource Management (SANREM)

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Payments for environmental services: A solution for biodiversity conservation?

Direct payments for environmental services (PES) are increasingly becoming subject of national development strategies and of actions promoted by large networks of non-governmental conservation organizations as […]

  • Date of Publication: 2006
  • Author(s): S. Wertz-Kanounnikoff
  • Type of Document: Research Report

Socio-economic Baseline studies: Agroforestry and Sustainable Vegetables Production in Southeast Asian Watershed

This report is a farm/household level assessment focusing on vegetables farm and household budget analyses, part of the SANREM CRSP program “Agroforestry and Sustainable Vegetable Production […]

  • Date of Publication: 2006
  • Author(s): K. Wijaya; S. Budidarsono; J. Roshetko
  • Type of Document: Research Report

Biodiversity conservation in Zambia: Food security looks like the answer

Community Markets for Conservation (COMACO) is a novel program that promotes biodiversity conservation by helping to alleviate poverty and food insecurity. The program, which recently completed […]

  • Date of Publication: 2006
  • Author(s): M. Winter
  • Type of Document: Newspaper Article

Between purity and reality: Taking stock of PES schemes in the Andes

This editorial by Sven Wunder, Senior Economist at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Belem, Brazil, describes findings from a survey of PES field […]

  • Date of Publication: 2006
  • Author(s): S. Wunder
  • Type of Document: Newspaper Article

Pagos por servicios ambientales: Principios basicos esenciales

RESUMEN: Los pagos por servicios ambientales (PSA) son parte de un paradigma de conservacion nuevo y mas directo, que explicitamente reconoce la necesidad de crear puentes […]

  • Date of Publication: 2006
  • Author(s): S. Wunder
  • Type of Document: Research Report

Payments for environmental services in Costa Rica: Increasing efficiency through spatial differentiation

Abstract: Payments for Environmental Services (PES) have become a widely acknowledged and increasingly popular market based instrument to conserve forests and their environmental services. Costa Rica […]

  • Date of Publication: 2006
  • Author(s): T. Wunscher; S. Engel; S. Wunder
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

Payments for Environmental Services: An equitable approach for reducing poverty and conserving nature

WWF’s approach of equitable PES, which it is developing and implementing with partners including CARE and IIED, aims to address the constraints to poverty alleviation by […]

  • Date of Publication: 2006
  • Author(s): WWF
  • Type of Document: Research Report

Multiple role performance of upland women farmers: Socioeconomic characteristics and perceived consequences

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  • Date of Publication: 2006
  • Author(s): X.F. Adiong-Verbal
  • Type of Document: Thesis or Dissertation

Four decades of land use change in the Cotacachi Andes: 1963-2000

This fourth chapter uses a combination of scientific tools and interview to track changes in land use patterns in Cotacachi over the latter half of the […]

  • Date of Publication: 2006
  • Author(s): X. Zapata Rios; R.E. Rhoades; M.C. Segovia; F. Zehetner
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

Toward sustainable crop production in Cotacachi: An assessment of the soils’ nutrient status

In Chapter 12, soil nutrients and soil quality in Cotacachi are thoroughly examined to evaluate historic, current, and future capacity for crop production. The Cotacachi soils […]

  • Date of Publication: 2006
  • Author(s): F. Zehetner; W.P. Miller
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article