Migracion circular, identidad comunitaria y sus relaciones a la tierra
Excerpt: Este estudio muestra la gran importancia de la migracion circular en el complejo de estrategias de sobreviviencia economica y cultural de los campesinos ind. en […]
- Date of Publication: 2004
- Author(s): G. Flora
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Realities of watershed management in the Philippines: The case of the Iloilo-Maasin Watershed management
Abstract: The paper analyzed the presence or absence of elements needed to have an effective system of watershed management in the Maasin Watershed, Iloilo Province. IT […]
- Date of Publication: 2004
- Author(s): H. Francisco; J. Salas
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Sense of place and indigenous people’s conservation: A brief political ecology of the seed and place. From modernization to globalization from above and from below. Towards the strengthening & re-indigenization of local epistemologies, ontologies, and cosmovisions
Abstract: For the “Indigenous Peoples” (IPs) of the Americas (North, Meso, and South), the constant and mostly violent process of erasure of their communal places is […]
- Date of Publication: 2004
- Author(s): T. Gonzales
- Type of Document: Media
Interactions between economic policies and institutions in water allocation and use: Theory and evidence from a Philippine watershed
This chapter begins by presenting such a highly simplified model (section 1) wherein what is distinguished are only the decisions of two agents, in upstream and […]
- Date of Publication: 2004
- Author(s): I. Coxhead
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Policies or projects? Land use incentives and soil conservation in a Philippine watershed
This presentation refutes the assumption that upland farmers are beyond the influence of market forces, suggesting that market interventions can be an effective tool for encouraging […]
- Date of Publication: 2004
- Author(s): I. Coxhead
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Economic incentives for land use change: evidence from Lantapan
Optimal land use and farm area choices depend on crop prices, input prices, family labor, household characteristics, and agro-ecological characteristics. Location in the watershed (e.g. altitude) […]
- Date of Publication: 2004
- Author(s): I. Coxhead; B. Demeke
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management, Policy
Panel data evidence on upland agricultural land use in the Philippines: Can economic policy reforms reduce environmental damage?
In this paper we investigate determinants of land use decisions made by farmers in an upland area of the Philippines. Our Goal is to quantify land […]
- Date of Publication: 2004
- Author(s): I. Coxhead; B. Demeke
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management, Policy
Development strategy, poverty, and deforestation in the Philippines
Most thinking on poverty and deforestation in developing countries does so in terms of the influence of one on the other, in either direction. However, the […]
- Date of Publication: 2004
- Author(s): I. Coxhead; S. Jayasuriya
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Bueno para comer, bueno para pensar: Alimentacion y cultura en Cotacachi
Objetivo: Estudio de la dieta y el sistema culinario indigena. Conocer las principales actividades asociadas con la produccion y consumo de alimentos. Conocer las percepciones y […]
- Date of Publication: 2004
- Author(s): J. Camacho
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Markets for biodiversity services: Potential roles and challenges
This article discusses the current crisis in financing for biodiversity conservation. The public sector has traditionally had responsibility for protecting environmental services. However, declining funding for […]
- Date of Publication: 2004
- Author(s): M. Jenkins; S.J. Scherr; M. Inbar
- Type of Document: Newspaper Article
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management