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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2002
    Peru, Central America, South America

    Assessing the impact of integrated natural resource management (INRM) research poses a challenge to scientists. The complexity of INRM interventions requires a more holistic approach to impact assessment, beyond the plot and farm levels and beyond traditional analysis of economic returns. Impact assessment for INRM combines the traditional "what" and "where" factors of economic and environmental priorities with newer "who" and "how" aspects of social actors and institutions.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2016
    India

    The absence of either state regulations or markets to coordinate the operation of individual wells has focussed attention on community level institutions as the primary loci for sustainable groundwater management in Rajasthan and Gujarat, India. The reported research relied on theoretical propositions that livelihood strategies, groundwater management and the propensity to cooperate are associated with the attitudinal orientations of well owners in the Meghraj and Dharta watersheds, located in Gujarat and Rajasthan respectively.

  3. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    April, 2017
    Brazil, Central America, South America

    Key Messages

    • A governance approach, combining public policy and private initiatives was effective in slowing down deforestation, but

    was unable to support a transition to more sustainable production systems.

    • New technical intensification models must be identified for low-productivity systems in degraded lands, adapted to the

    biophysical and sociotechnical conditions of the Amazonian landscapes.

    • Multiple constraints inhibit progress toward sustainable intensification of cattle ranching, and reversing them requires that

  4. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2016

    Recent studies show that carbon

    sequestered by trees on agricultural

    land is not well accounted for. If it was,

    researchers argue in a new study: “Global

    Tree Cover and Biomass Carbon on

    Agricultural Land: The contribution

    of agroforestry to global and national

    carbon budgets,” total carbon estimates

    from agricultural land could be more

    than four times higher.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    July, 2016
    Uganda, Africa, Eastern Africa

    Background: Smallholders have begun to take advantage of a growing pool of investment in climate change mitigation. Meanwhile, early movers in this area are working to develop innovative models that will allow projects to be nancially sustainable and scalable while bene ting local actors. This study focuses on two of these projects in East Africa, managed by Vi Agroforestry in Kenya and ECOTRUST in Uganda. They engaged in a participatory action research process to identify ways that local actors could take on expanded roles within the projects.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2013
    Burkina Faso, Africa, Western Africa

    Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa covering about 274,000 square kilometers. It is bordered by the Republic of Mali on the north and west; by Cote d’Ivoire on the Southwest; by Ghana, Togo, and Benin on the South; and by Niger on the east. The country has a dry tropi¬cal climate with two contrasting seasons. The rainy season generally lasts from May to October, but its duration decreases progressively from the southwest, amounting to only three months in the northern part of the country.

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