Sustainable Agriculture & Natural Resource Management (SANREM)

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Property right regimes and sustainable forest management: Lessons from fourteen years of monitoring of forest resources in Uganda

In Sub-Saharan Africa, deforestation and forest degradation have been the major problems facing natural forest resource management. Lack of clearly defined and enforced property rights, leading […]

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): J. Namaalwa; A. Banana; W. Gombya-Ssembajwe
  • Type of Document: Research Report

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Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management: A Policy Perspective

Outline: Agriculture and Natural Resources: An Overview – Agricultural Expansion and Deforestation – Land Degradation and Soil Erosion – Water Use and Management – Externalities from […]

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): G. Shively; D. Birur
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Policy changes, input supply liberalization, and missing markets: Evidence from smallholder farms in Malawi

In this study, the effects of recent policy changes in Malawi are examined. A survey of 800 Malawian farms from 1997-1998 was used to determine the […]

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): G.E. Shively
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Food aid, food prices and producer disincentives in Ethiopia

Although the short-term aims of food aid are well conceived, strong concerns have been voiced regarding the long-term impacts of such aid on incentives for agricultural […]

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): G. Tadese; G. Shively
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Organic and conventional agriculture: A comparison of conventional, manure, and legume systems on soil carbon, soil nitrogen, yield, and economic returns from a long term system in the Mid-Atlantic

Abstract: This thesis explores the effects and interactions of three systems of agricultural production: 1) conventional grain, 2) organic grain where fertility is supported by manure […]

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): D. Woods
  • Type of Document: Thesis or Dissertation

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A new method for detecting outliers in Data Envelopment Analysis

We introduce a simple method for detecting outliers in Data Envelopment Analysis. The method is based on two scalar measures. The first is the relative frequency […]

  • Date of Publication: 2008
  • Author(s): N.A. Tran; G. Shively; P. Preckel
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Analisis de condicion de bosque de la comunidad indigena TIM Ivirgarzama

Report prepared for residents of Bolivia Site #3, TIM Ivirgarzama, outlining the findings related to the condition of the community’s forest.

  • Date of Publication: 2008
  • Author(s): J.S. Siles
  • Type of Document: Research Report

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Assessing the impacts of decentralization on livelihood, biodiversity and ecological sustainability in Uganda: A preliminary analysis of the pilot SANREM/IFRI site

In this paper we seek to assess the implication of decentralization on livelihood, biodiversity and ecological sustainability in Uganda. We aim to explain the change in […]

  • Date of Publication: 2008
  • Author(s): J. Bahati; A. Banana; W. Gombya-Ssembajjwe
  • Type of Document: Research Report

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Resource, recourse and decisions: Incentive structures in forest decentralization and governance in East Africa

This paper asks: what is it that gets decentralized in the forestry and natural resources sector? And is decentralization effective in meeting the Goals of equity, […]

  • Date of Publication: 2008
  • Author(s): A. Banana; P. Ongugo; J. Bahati; E. Mwangi; K. Andersson
  • Type of Document: Research Report

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Natural resource conflicts in the Western Amazon: Implications for community forest management

Forest management decisions are strongly influenced by security of forest property rights, and best long-term management practices often hinge on strengthening control over forest resources through […]

  • Date of Publication: 2008
  • Author(s): A. Duchelle; P. Cronkleton; K. Kainer; G. Guanacoma
  • Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document

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