Challenges to managing ecosystems sustainably for poverty alleviation: Securing well-being in the Andes/Amazon
This report focuses on the Amazon basin and the eastern Andean slopes (herein referred to as the Andes/Amazon ecosystem or region). The Amazon is the largest […]
- Date of Publication: 2008
- Author(s): ESPA-AA (Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation Program)
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Communautes Rurales, Agricultures et Developpement Durable
A presentation in France about Hispanic immigrant population contribution to rural development in Iowa, USA.
- Date of Publication: 2008
- Author(s): C.B. Flora; J. L. Flora
- Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document
- Region: US and Canada
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Indicadores de desempeno y capacidades de gestion forestal: Un analisis de eficiencia y sus determinantes en municipios de Bolivia
In this study the municipal efficiency in the forest sector for year 2006 was analyzed, for a sample of 100 municipalities of Bolivia, by means of […]
- Date of Publication: 2008
- Author(s): J.L. Flores Barroso
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Policy
The CAMPFIRE programme in Zimbabwe: Payments for wildlife services
This paper discusses the development of Zimbabwe’s Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE). Implemented in 1989, it is one of the earliest examples of […]
- Date of Publication: 2008
- Author(s): P.G.H. Frost; I. Bond
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Climate and the risk of pests and disease
This presentation discusses major pest and disease problems in the Andean Altiplano and their shifting incidence in connection with climate change. The specific focus is on […]
- Date of Publication: 2008
- Author(s): K. Garrett
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Climate change and plant disease risk in South America
Coming soon
- Date of Publication: 2008
- Author(s): K.A. Garrett
- Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Climate change and plant disease risk
Report for the US National Academy of Science on the risk for plant disease due to climate change.
- Date of Publication: 2008
- Author(s): K.A. Garrett
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Conservation farming steps for hand-hoe farmers
Conservation Farming (CF) refers to a number of practices that in combination conserve soil, moisture, fertilizer (organic & synthetic), seeds, energy, time and money. The technique: […]
- Date of Publication: 2008
- Author(s): L. Gatere; N. Tembo
- Type of Document: Not Available
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets, Natural Resource Management
Environmental variables affecting the success of conservation farming in Zambia
This presentation discusses conservation farming methods in Zambia. The research highlights how conservation farming methods may help to negate environmental variables that hinder crop production, such […]
- Date of Publication: 2008
- Author(s): L. Gatere; R. Delve; P. Hobbs; S. DeGloria; J. Lehmann
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets, Natural Resource Management
Local indicators, connecting to regional forecasts
Adaptation is a continual locally based process that depends upon the pool of knowledge available and the costs and incentives to change. Extra community knowledge needed […]
- Date of Publication: 2008
- Author(s): J. Gilles
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
