Women in the plant world: The significance of women and gender bias for biodiversity conservation
The author contends that there is a strong connection between plant management, plant knowledge and conservation. Because women are largely in charge of cooking, managing plants […]
- Date of Publication: 2001
- Author(s): P. Howard
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Global
- Topic: Gender, Natural Resource Management
A social contract for biodiversity: Institutional solutions to environmental conservation in the Philippines
This brief addresses the questions: How to reconcile the diverse needs and claims of indigenous people, farming households, government agencies, and environmentalist groups? How to capitalize […]
- Date of Publication: 2001
- Author(s): D. Garrity
- Type of Document: Research Brief
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Access and control of resources: Lessons from the SANREM CRSP
Developing sustainability in an agricultural ecosystem requires that attention be given to inequities within communities. The experiences of SANREM CRSP revealed that gender inequality was a […]
- Date of Publication: 2001
- Author(s): C. Flora
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
Agricultural change, rural labor markets, and forest clearing: An illustrative case from the Philippines
This paper investigates the relationship of agricultural employment and land use choices in upland tropical forest margins. The author combines models of lowland agricultural production and […]
- Date of Publication: 2001
- Author(s): G.E. Shively
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management, Policy
Agro-climatic assessment (description and analysis) of Madiama Commune in Mopti region, Mali (West Africa)
To understand and characterize the agro-climatic conditions in Madiama, first, the physiogeography of the area as well as the General climatic patterns of the Sahel region […]
- Date of Publication: 2001
- Author(s): O. Badini
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
An economic valuation of the terrestrial and marine resources of Samoa
This report looks at the economic value of biodiversity in both terrestrial and marine resources for the Samoan Government. The report contains three sections. The first […]
- Date of Publication: 2001
- Author(s): H.O. Mohd-Shahwahid; R. McNally (ed.)
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
An ICDP implementation paradigm of crossed lines: South-South and North-North
Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs) operate from the working hypothesis that rural poverty is one of the primary factors contributing to over-exploitation of the natural […]
- Date of Publication: 2001
- Author(s): J. Stallings
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
ANAFAE and Colabora: Lessons from experiences with collaborative networks for sustainable agriculture and natural resource management
Although rural communities in Honduras are poor, matters are not entirely hopeless. A handful of projects have made impressive contributions to rural development, and those efforts […]
- Date of Publication: 2001
- Author(s): S. Sherwood; J. Chenier
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Analyse des modes d’elevage et des ressources pastorales dans la commune rurale de Madiama
Abstract: La commune rural de Madiama est confrontee a des conflits lies a lexploitation des ressources naturelles limitees dont les strategies d’utilisation actuelles (agriculture, elevage et […]
- Date of Publication: 2001
- Author(s): A. Kodio; B. Adama; M. El Hadji; O. Abaye
- Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Analysis of land use change and soil erosion in an Andean watershed
Abstract: The analysis of past land use change and the projection of land use change scenarios into the future have been an integral core in the […]
- Date of Publication: 2001
- Author(s): H. Velasquez; F. Zehetner; W. Miller
- Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
