Sustainable Agriculture & Natural Resource Management (SANREM)

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Gender workshop concentrates on community, conflict, stereotypes

Susan V. Poats, an anthropologist and gender expert, was facilitator for a gender and participative methodologies workshop in October for SANREM researchers from Ecuador, Peru, and […]

  • Date of Publication: 2008
  • Author(s): D. Estrada
  • Type of Document: Media

Help for the hippos of Zambia

Its name means “water horse,” apt for the hippopotamus, which spends most of its life in deep water holes. But in Zambia’s Luangwa River region, drought, […]

  • Date of Publication: 2008
  • Author(s): D. Estrada
  • Type of Document: Newspaper Article

SANREM wins funding for southern Sudan study

The SANREM CRSP has won an Associate Award from USAID to appraise higher education in agriculture and natural resource management in the southern Sudan, an area […]

  • Date of Publication: 2008
  • Author(s): D. Estrada
  • Type of Document: Newsletter

Feeding the world wisely: 2 programs at Virginia Tech apply eco-friendly strategies

This poster showcases two Virginia Tech projects, one focusing on an eggplant grafting program in Bangladesh, the other on a model agroforestry farm in the Philippines.

  • Date of Publication: 2008
  • Author(s): D. Estrada; M. Rich
  • Type of Document: Media

The policy environment of vegetable agroforestry in the Philippines: Are there incentives for small farmers?

Abstract: In the Philippines, using agriculture as a basis for rapid economic growth requires both productivity revolution in smallholder farming and innovative policies and political commitment. […]

  • Date of Publication: 2008
  • Author(s): D.C. Catacutan; C. Duque-Pinon
  • Type of Document: Research Report

The policy environment of vegetable agroforestry in the Philippines: Are there incentives for small farmers?

Abstract: In the Philippines, using agriculture as a basis for rapid economic growth requires both a productivity revolution in smallholder farming, and innovative policies and political […]

  • Date of Publication: 2008
  • Author(s): D.C. Catacutan; C. Duque-Pinon
  • Type of Document: Media

The policy environment of vegetable-agroforestry (VAF) system in the Philippines

Summary: Agriculture as a basis for rapid economic growth in the Philippines requires both productivity revolution in smallholder farming, innovative policies and political commitment. Vegetable-Agroforestry (VAF) […]

  • Date of Publication: 2008
  • Author(s): D.C. Catacutan; C. Duque-Pinon
  • Type of Document: Research Report

The policy context of vegetable-agroforestry (VAF) in the Philippines and Vietnam: Are there incentives for small farmers?

This presentation examines the policy incentives for smallholders in vegetable agroforestry production. The research reveals that while generic incentives for the adoption of vegetable agroforestry systems […]

  • Date of Publication: 2008
  • Author(s): D.C. Catacutan; D.T. Ha; C. Duque-Pinon; L. Thanh Loan
  • Type of Document: Media

Carbon market feasibility assessment: Potential for ESP to enter the carbon markets

The purpose of the Carbon Market Assessment was to determine the feasibility of developing a strategy for one or more Pilot Payment for Environmental Service schemes […]

  • Date of Publication: 2008
  • Author(s): Development Alternatives, Inc.
  • Type of Document: Research Report

Evaluation of soil loss from water erosion in three production systems of the Alumbre River watershed in Ecuador

La investigacion se desarrollo en la subcuenca del rio Chimbo, en la franja altitudinal entre los 2000 y 3600 m. El objetivo primordial del programa es […]

  • Date of Publication: 2008
  • Author(s): E. Chela; C. Monar; F. Valverde; E. Cruz
  • Type of Document: Research Report