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Determinants of cereal diversity in communities and on household farms of the Northern Ethiopian Highlands:
Benin, Samuel; Gebremedhin, Berhanu; Smale, Melinda; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003
grown in communities and on individual farms in the northern Ethiopian highlands....If agrobiodiversity conservation is to … be seriously considered as a policy option in these communities, applied economics researchers will need to 1) establish … social elements that cause communities to behave differently in terms of conservation than the individual household farms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996738
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Groups, networks, and social capital in the Philippine communities:
Godquin, Marie; Quisumbing, Agnes R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"This paper explores the determinants of group membership and social networks of rural households using a unique longitudinal data set from the rural Philippines. We investigate two types of social capital: membership in groups (production, credit, burial, religious and civic groups), or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005105971
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Understanding policy volatility in Sudan:
Harizi, Khalid El; Zaki, El Sayed; Prato, Bettina; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007
,” as well as large development projects supporting the decentralization or devolution of NR management to local communities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038123
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Communities’ perceptions and knowledge of ecosystem services: Evidence from rural communities in Nigeria:
Zhang, Wei; Kato, Edward; Bhandary, Prapti; Nkonya, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
This research has been undertaken to improve our understanding of stakeholders’ knowledge and perception about ecosystem services (ES), which provides a valuable means of gaining insight into the opportunities and constraints that face ES management in a multiuser landscape. Land use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011200219
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Natural resource conflicts and community organizations in Bangladesh:
Sultana, Parvin; Thompson, Paul M. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
This analysis assesses community based organization (CBO) performance including conflict management over three years among about 150 floodplain CBOs and reviews experience in the five forest protected areas with co-management.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762169