Sustainable Agriculture & Natural Resource Management (SANREM)

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Cattle and Manure Management Strategies to Increase Soil Phosphorus Level in Western Niger

Soil fertility depletion on smallholder farms is considered to be one of the fundamental causes for the declining food production in Africa. Results from a Participatory […]

Capability Building for Natural Resource Management at the Local Level

In an effort to arrest environmental degradation in the Manupali watershed and promote sustainable practices, the human resources capability building and enhancement program was developed. The […]

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  • Project Code: SEA 99-42
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Creation and Support of a Commune-Level NRM Advisory Committee

Supra-village natural resource management (NRM) issues and conflicts identified during the PLLA (February 1999) and the decentralization of NRM decision-making responsibilities to the Commune-level require that […]

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  • Project Code: WAF 99-06
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Testing and Demonstrating Natural Resource and Conflict Management Technologies and Practices to Increase Food Security and Income Generation in Madiama Commune, Mali

Food shortages and conflict over the use of natural resources due to loss of soil fertility, increases in soil erosion and the poor management of wetlands […]

Modeling Community Socioeconomic Linkages and Growth: Towards Sustainable NRM Agropastoral Systems Under Environmental Stress and Conflict

Natural resource management (NRM) strategies that produce desirable biophysi- cal results and promise region-wide economic growth and development are most likely to be sustainable in the […]

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  • Project Code: WAF 99-04
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Adapting and Transferring Lessons Learned from Manupali to Other Critical Watersheds in Southeast Asia

With the goal of identifying and testing decision support tools and ap- proaches from a portfolio developed from SANREM-Philippines in other critical watersheds in Southeast Asia […]

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  • Project Code: SEA 99-32
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Bio-Economic Modeling of Changes to Traditional Vegetable Production Practices in the Manupali Watershed with Extensions to Other Southeast Asian Watersheds

Land degradation across the high- lands of Southeast Asia is accelerating largely due to the expansion of high value annual cropping. Much of the expansion is […]

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  • Project Code: SEA 99-26
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Integrated Watershed Modeling for Decision Support and Policy Planning

Watershed protection is an important economic and environmental policy concern throughout Southeast Asia (APO, 1995; Doolette and Magrath, 1990). This research work plan is predicated on […]

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  • Project Code: SEA 99-24
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Water Resources Management and Education

Citizens were trained in water quality monitoring methods at a workshop in July 1994. This was followed by scores of workshops, meetings, and the establishment of […]

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  • Project Code: SEA 99-25
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Development of Sustainable Production Systems for Different Landscape Positions in the Manupali Watershed

The need for optimal land use strategies has never been greater than at present, considering land degradation statistics and increased population pressure on limited resources. The […]