Ecoagriculture: A review and assessment of its scientific foundations
As problems such as the loss of biodiversity, rural poverty and environmental degradation get worse, natural resource management practices need to change to counter this trend. […]
- Date of Publication: 2004
- Author(s): L.E. Buck; T.A Gavin; D.R. Lee; N.T. Uphoff
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Learnings: SANREM partners’ testimonies
Abstract: This book contains six brief case studies that detail the impact the SANREM project in the Philippines. The people in these case studies tell about […]
- Date of Publication: 2004
- Author(s): M.R.M. Baltazar; M.H. Viray
- Type of Document: Not Available
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Marginalities of the mind or the anthropology of quirkiness
Coming soon
- Date of Publication: 2004
- Author(s): V. Nazarea
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
The conservation business
The language of conservation is changing: protecting biodiversity is no longer just about ethics and aesthetics; the latest buzzwords are commodities and consumers. Traditionally, conservation initiatives […]
- Date of Publication: 2004
- Author(s): H. Nicholls
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
When seeds are scarce: Globalization and the responses of three cultures
The objectives of this presentation are to describe three cultures’ experiences with globalization and traditional plant loss; present and compare three projects interfacing repatriation and in […]
- Date of Publication: 2004
- Author(s): R. Rhoades
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
La Finca de futuros ancestrales: Uniendo el pasado con el presente a traves de la agricultura
Objetivos Generales: investigar la dimension cultural de la agro-biodiversidad en las distintas comunidades y zonas agro-ecologicas de Cotacachi; acercar a las distintas generaciones por medio del […]
- Date of Publication: 2004
- Author(s): R. Rhoades; S. Moates
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Forests and Water: Managing Interrelations
Abstract: Due to their biodiversity, forests generate a range of products and services that are of economic, social or cultural value to human beings. Natural resource […]
- Date of Publication: 2004
- Author(s): S. Bruschweiler; U. Höggel; A. Klay
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
For Services Rendered: The current status and future potential of markets for the ecosystem services provided by tropical forests
This study explains the types of ecosystem markets already in place and their characteristics, before identifying three important strategic issues to be considered in policy-making: the […]
- Date of Publication: 2004
- Author(s): S. Scherr; A. White; A. Khare
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Promoting sustainable upland farming: What does economics tell us?
In this presentation the author covers motivation, decisions and four study approaches, forest clearing regressions, upland deforestation regressions, soil conservation and policy insights.
- Date of Publication: 2004
- Author(s): G. Shively
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Poverty and forest degradation: Introduction to the special issue
This introductory article frames and summarizes a collection of articles regarding forest use and poverty.
- Date of Publication: 2004
- Author(s): G.E. Shively
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
