Case studies from Africa: The value of the ‘One Health’ entry point for facilitating conservation and development
This presentation offers a comprehensive explanation of how wildlife, landscape, and human health are all related and the advantages of using approaches to development that develop […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): S. Osofsky
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets, Natural Resource Management
Livestock’s long shadow: Environmental issues and options: A workshop
Livestock’s long shadow takes into account the livestock sector’s direct impacts, plus the environmental effects of related land use changes and production of the feed crops […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): S. Osofsky
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets, Natural Resource Management
The “One World, One Health” entry point to conservation and development success: Case studies from Africa
If local people whose very livelihoods are often closely linked to livestock-keeping, for example, see expanding contact with wildlife as a threat to the health of […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): S. Osofsky
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets, Natural Resource Management
The wildlife/livestock/human health interface and implications for conservation and development at the landscape scale
Dr. Osofsky also showed and led a discussion on an episode of PBS’s Journey to Planet Earth series “The State of the Planet’s Wildlife” that includes […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): S. Osofsky
- Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets, Natural Resource Management
PES design and policy issues: Part II
This presentation discusses seller and buyer issues, property rights issues, enabling policies and legal framework, and intermediaries. Abstract: Issues for suppliers of PES include whether they […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): P. Ferraro
- Type of Document: Media
Payments for hydrological services in Africa
Abstract: Compared to other regions of the world, Africa has much less watershed-based PES activity. This presentation summarizes existing and proposed initiatives on the continent, contrasts […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): P.J. Ferraro
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Regional review of payments for watershed services: Sub-Saharan Africa
Introduction: Although there has been global experimentation with Payments for Watershed Service (PWS) schemes for almost a decade, only a couple of schemes exist in Africa. […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): P.J. Ferraro
- Type of Document: Project Document
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Can carbon sequestration markets benefit low-income producers in semi-arid Africa? Potentials and challenges
This article describes the framework for carbon sequestration markets provided by the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). The CDM permits countries that are exceeding their […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): C. Perez; C. Roncoli; C. Neely; J.L. Steiner
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Watershed services: Who pays and for what?
There is increasing interest in using payments to promote sound watershed management. Schemes range from small pilot projects involving just five families to a massive Chinese […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): I. Porras; M. Grieg-Gran
- Type of Document: Research Report
Cornell gets U.S. grant to teach Zambians farming alternatives that reduce poverty and protect wildlife
Cornell University is partnering on a wildlife conservation project in Zambia that saves animals’ lives by addressing a powerful threat: Poverty and hunger that force families […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): K. Ramanujan
- Type of Document: Newspaper Article
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets, Natural Resource Management
