Sustainable Agriculture & Natural Resource Management (SANREM)

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Poverty, consumption risk, and soil conservation

This paper applies a stochastic dynamic model to examine the influence of poverty and consumption risk on the incentives for low-income farms to invest in soil […]

  • Date of Publication: 2001
  • Author(s): G. Shively
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

Price thresholds, price volatility, and the private costs of investment in a developing country grain market

This paper discusses price thresholds and volatility in an African maize market, based on analysis of data from Ghana using linear and threshold-ARCH models. There was […]

  • Date of Publication: 2001
  • Author(s): G. Shively
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

The double task of institutional strengthening and executing project activities simultaneously with local partners

Critical elements of integrated conservation and development (ICD) projects include protecting the environmental integrity of a geographic area over the long term, improving the economic security […]

  • Date of Publication: 2001
  • Author(s): J. Stallings; M. Garcia
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

Common modeling environment (CME): A framework for integrated decision support systems

Abstract: Assessing impact of technologies and policies requires the use of a suite of decision support models that address the complexity of economic systems at the […]

  • Date of Publication: 2001
  • Author(s): J. Stuth; D. Schmitt; K. Zander; C. Heath; J Angerer; J. Vitale
  • Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document

Conservation and management of watershed and natural resources: Issues in the Philippines, the Bukidnon experience

There has been a continuing shift in the management of watershed and natural resources in the Philippines. Stakeholders such as local communities, LGUs, indigenous people, and […]

  • Date of Publication: 2001
  • Author(s): A. Sumbalan
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

The Bukidnon experience in natural resource management decentralization

Abstract: The Province of Bukidnon in north-central Mindanao is the largest of Region X and the eight largest in the country sits on the 829,378 hectares […]

  • Date of Publication: 2001
  • Author(s): A. Sumbalan
  • Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document

Closing the gap between natural resource management research and policy-making: Reflections from the Manupali watershed and beyond

Abstract: The search for practical solutions in arresting environmental degradation in the developing countries has been the impetus behind catalyzed the creation of development of mechanisms […]

  • Date of Publication: 2001
  • Author(s): A. Sumbalan; G. Buenavista
  • Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document

Economic crisis, small farmer well being, and forest cover change in Indonesia

Abstract: Field research was conducted on 1,050 Indonesian households to understand the effects of the Asian economic crisis on the well-being of small farmers outside of […]

  • Date of Publication: 2001
  • Author(s): W. Sunderlin; A. Angelsen; D. Resosudarmo; A. Dermawan; E. Rianto
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

Ethnopedology in central Mali

Abstract: Research was done on local classifications of soils and conceptions of soil fertility management in Madiama, the SANREM-Mali site. While the local typology reveals a […]

  • Date of Publication: 2001
  • Author(s): T. Crane
  • Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document

Environmental assessments as community-based adaptive management tools

This paper discusses the historic role of environmental assessments and impact statements in development and conservation projects and their limited current use. The Sustainable Uses for […]

  • Date of Publication: 2001
  • Author(s): J. Tolisano
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article