Sustainable Agriculture & Natural Resource Management (SANREM)

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Protecting forests and biodiversity: Are investments in eco-friendly production activities the best way to protect endangered ecosystems and enhance rural livelihoods?

Abstract: A debate has been raging in recent years among conservation practitioners and advocates. What are the most effective mechanisms for preserving the imperiled forest habitats […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): P.J. Ferraro; R.D. Simpson
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Market-ish instruments and other strange beasts: A personal wrap-up view

This presentation provides a Summary discussion of “market-ish” instruments for environmental service provision. Choice of an instrument should be based on the objectives and context of […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): S. Pagiola
  • Type of Document: Media

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Using payments for environmental services (PES) to assist in Watershed Management

In this Chapter the authors briefly review the logic behind Payment of Environmental Services (PES) and examine the potential for using a PES programme to address […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): S. Pagiola; M.D. Angeles; G. Shively
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Environmental, energetic, and economic comparisons of organic and conventional farming systems

Since 1981, the Rodale Institute Farming Systems Trial (FST) has compared organic and conventional grain-based farming systems. The results presented here represent a 22-year study of […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): D. Pimentel; P. Hepperly; J. Hanson; D. Douds; R. Seidel
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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El Canton Cotacachi: Espacio y Sociedad

El proyecto Agricultura Sustentable y Manejo de Recursos Naturales SANREM -, ha tenido como meta global desarrollar principios y metodologias para el manejo sustentable de ecosistema […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): R. Rhoades; N. Gomez; J. Hidalgo; F. Lopez; A. Vicuna (eds.)
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Seeking half our brains: Constraints and incentives in the social context of interdiciplinary research and development

This chapter describes the relationship between the biological sciences and social sciences in development work. It is argued that despite conceptions of agriculture as a technical […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): R.E. Rhoades
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Cotacachi: A case study in governance and decentralization

Invited paper presented at International Conference on Mountain Governance and Decentralization: Banff Centre, Canada, 4-8 June 2005

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): R.E. Rhoades
  • Type of Document: Media

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Mapping and Modeling Land Use Change in the Andes: Integrating Global and Local Visions

Presented at Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 8, 2005.

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): Robert E. Rhoades
  • Type of Document: Media

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Economic development and environmental management in the uplands of Southeast Asia: Challenges for policy and institutional development

This paper presents a case study from the Philippines to describe the challenges of conflicting environmental concerns and economic forces in the uplands of Southeast Asia. […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): A.C. Rola; I. Coxhead
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Preliminary survey of agroforestry and sustainable vegetable production and marketing in Nanggung Sub District, West Java

The survey used the Participatory Approach involving farmers, farmer groups, community leaders and market actors. It covered three villages in Nanggung Sub-district area, namely Kp. Nyuncung-Malasari, […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): J. Roshetko; A. Susila
  • Type of Document: Research Report

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