Building innovation systems for managing complex landscapes
This chapter provides tools for development practitioners to successfully facilitate social learning situations that can lead to innovation in landscape management. These innovation systems will help […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): L.E. Buck; S.J. Scherr
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Global
- Topic: Innovation
Challenges and opportunities for smallholder adoption of conservation agriculture
Conservation agriculture (CA) has been trumpeted as the solution for reducing soil degradation and increasing agricultural productivity throughout the world. Some farmland settings, such as in […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): K. Moore; S. Swenson
- Type of Document: Media
Community organizing for natural resource management: Strategies for mitigating farmer-pastoralist conflict through decentralized governance
This chapter describes how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and local institutions are addressing the issues of decentralization, natural resource management (NRM), and ethnic conflicts in the Inland […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): M. Bertelsen; S. Cisse; K.M. Moore; A. Toure
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Capacity Building, Natural Resource Management, Policy
Community-based wetland comanagement in Bangladesh
This chapter explains new solutions to problems resulting from top-down approaches to resource conservation and sustainability. The management of natural resources – in this case, wetlands […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): D.B. Sherwood
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Capacity Building, Natural Resource Management
Conservation agriculture and ecosystem services
Outline: Characteristics of conservation agriculture (CA) Impacts of CA What are ecosystem services? Potential ecosystem services impacts of CA
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): T. Dillaha
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Developing conservation agriculture production systems: An analysis of local networks
Abstract: Conservation agriculture (CA) has been trumpeted as the solution for reducing soil degradation and increasing agricultural productivity around the world. Some farmland settings, such as […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): S. Swenson; K.M. Moore
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Global
- Topic: Capacity Building, Innovation, Natural Resource Management
Ecosystems and ecosystem-based management
This chapter explains the importance and complexity of ecosystems in a landscape system. The ecosystem level of management integrates activities at the field, farm, and watershed […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): C.A. Haas; E.A. Frimpong; S.M. Karpanty
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Fighting poverty with paintings and potatoes
The celebrate the International year of the Potato, renowned Bolivian artist Roberto Mamani-Mamani created a series of paintings titled, “Potato: An Andean treasure.” The pictures are […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): D. Estrada
- Type of Document: Newspaper Article
- Region: Global
- Topic: Innovation
Governance of landscape systems: A dinner party approach
This chapter creates an extended metaphor comparing the governance of landscape systems to a dinner party. Common themes of both of these include collaboration, proper etiquette, […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): C.B. Flora; A. Thiboumery
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
Hot commodity: Researchers hope to teach farmers to use and conserve native plants
By reintroducing native foods in a region of the Philippines plagued by poverty and degraded natural resources, researchers hope to teach farmers how to use and […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): D. Estrada
- Type of Document: Newspaper Article
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Capacity Building
