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
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
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets, Policy
Paying for watershed services in Latin America: A review of current initiatives
This article assesses the current status of payment for watershed environmental services (PWS) schemes in Latin America. While the region has a greater abundance and more […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): D. Southgate; S. Wunder
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Watershed-based natural research management: Lessons from projects in the Andean region
This Undergraduate Honors Thesis focuses on how different factors affect the success of a watershed management project and lessons learned from projects in the Andean Region.
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): A.R. Sowell
- Type of Document: Thesis or Dissertation
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Disease risk mapping with metamodels for coarse resolution predictors: Global potato late blight risk now and under future climate conditions
Abstract: Late blight of potato, caused by Phytophthora infestans, is a pernicious disease of potatoes worldwide. This disease causes yield losses as a result of foliar […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): A.H. Sparks
- Type of Document: Thesis or Dissertation
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Food security crisis: Causes and solutions
The global food security crisis threatens millions of people, particularly the world’s poorest who live in countries already experiencing chronic malnutrition. Beginning in September 2006 and […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): J. Staatz
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
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
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Policy
Developing a participatory socio-economic model for food security, improved rural livelihoods, watershed management and biodiversity conservation in southern Africa
This presentation summarizes the research of the SANREM project on an agricultural markets model for biodiversity conservation. The main research objectives were to determine the ability […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): A. Travis
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets, Natural Resource Management
SANREM livestock and poultry research
Powerpoint presentation.
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): A.J. Travis
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets, Natural Resource Management
SANREM-COMACO Workshop
This powerpoint presentation provides an Introduction for a COMACO/SANREM workshop held in Chipata, Zambia in June 2009. The presentation discusses the Goals and structure of the […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): A.J. Travis
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Food Security, Markets, Natural Resource Management
