Theoretical framework for participatory rural development: The role of the public university
This chapter describes a theoretical framework that intends to be used to evaluate the role of the public university for participatory rural development.
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): C.B. Flora
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Sistematizacion de Trabajos de Investigacion sobre Agro diversidad en el Altiplano Bolivia
We have synthesized available information about agrobiodiversity in the Bolivian altiplano.
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): D. Aguilar; K. Garrett; J. Cusicanqui; M. Penaranda
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Manejo integrado de cuencas hidrograficas
Summary: An Overview of the process of watershed management, including a description of the TMDL process in the U.S.
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): D. Bosch
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
The state of food and agriculture 2007: Paying farmers for environmental services
The State of Food and Agriculture 2007 highlights the potential of agriculture for enhanced provision of ecosystem services that are not usually compensated for by the […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): Food and Agriculture Oragnization of the United Nations
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Globalizacion, modos de vida, y comunidad rural en America Latina
A presentation about how globalization affects livelihoods and rural communities in Latin America.
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): J. Flora; C.B. Flora; M.A. Gotrett
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Potato late blight in developing countries
Potato is the fastest growing major crop in the developing world with important economic impact on many resource-poor farming families. Many factors limit production and profitability, […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): G.A. Forbes; N.J. Grunwald; E.S.G. Mizubuti; J.L. Andrade-Piedra; K.A. Garrett
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Climate change, biodiversity, and ecosystem services: The view from Plant Pathology
An explanatory presentation to explain how climate change, biodiversity, and ecosystem services interact with plant diseases. Various diseases are explained as a consequence of biodiversity interactions. […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): K.A. Garrett
- Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Conservation farming steps for hand-hoe farmers
Summary: Conservation Farming (CF) refers to a number of practices that in combination conserve soil, moisture, fertilizer (organic & synthetic), seeds, energy, time and money. The […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): L. Gatere
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Global
- Topic: Markets, Natural Resource Management
Small-scale hand-hoe conservation farming a tool for biodiversity conservation in Zambia
A business model for rural development that links markets, agriculture and natural resource management in a way that addresses core needs of poor, food insecure families.
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): L. Gatere
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets, Natural Resource Management
Perceptions, networks, knowledge and climate
An Overview of perceptions and the scientific enterprise, the relationship between networks, perceptions, action and forecasts, the gap between scientific and local knowledge, and a research […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): J.L. Gilles
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
