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Cooperation, collective action and natural resources management in Burkina Faso: a methodological note

McCarthy, Nancy; Dutilly-Diane, Céline; Drabo, Boureima - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2002

then describes in detail the methods used to measure collective action and community-level cooperative capacity, and the … determinants of cooperative capacity. We also describe data collection methods as well as potential problems in eliciting unbiased … information. The impact of cooperative capacity on a variety of outcomes observed at both the community and household level is …

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La importancia del capital social en las agroempresas rurales de Colombia:

Johnson, Nancy; Suarez, Ruth; Lundy, Mark - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2002

capacity for collective action. To estimate social capital's contribution to firm structure and performance, quantitative …

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Understanding, measuring and utilizing social capital: clarifying concepts and presenting a field application from India

Krishna, Anirudh - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003

through enhancing agency capacity. …

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What do people bring into the game: experiments in the field about cooperation in the commons

Cárdenas, Juan-Camilo; Ostrom, Elinor - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004

The study of collective action requires an understanding of the individual incentives and of the institutional constraints that guide people in making choices about cooperating or defecting on the group facing the dilemma. The use of local ecosystems by groups of individuals is just one example...

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Methods of consensus building for community based fisheries management in Bangladesh and the Mekong Delta:

Sultana, Parvi; Thompson, Pau - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003

A method of consensus building for management of wetlands and fisheries using a systematic approach to participatory planning and initially developed in Bangladesh is now being applied in both Bangladesh and the Mekong delta. The method recognizes diversity in livelihoods and works through a...

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Property rights, collective action and technologies for natural resource management: a conceptual framework

Knox, Anna; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Hazell, P. B. R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1998

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In pursuit of comparable concepts and data about collective action:

Poteete, Amy; Ostrom, Elinor - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003

Research on collective action confronts two major obstacles. First, inconsistency in the conceptualization and operationalization of collective action, the key factors expected to affect collective action, and the outcomes of collective action hampers the accumulation of knowledge. Inconsistent...

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The relationship between collective action and intensification of livestock production: the case of Northeastern Burkina Faso

McCarthy, Nancy - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004

Burkina Faso in 2000 and 2002. Results indicate that better managed pastures, proxied by community-level cooperative capacity … livestock production, is not associated with cooperative capacity. …

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Methods for studying collective action in rural development:

Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Di Gregorio, Monica; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004

With renewed recognition of the importance of collective action in many aspects of agriculture, natural resource management, and rural development programs in developing countries, there is a need for research on the factors that affect its emergence, as well as its performance. Yet because of...

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International conference on policy and institutional options for the management of rangelands in dry areas: workshop summary paper

Ngaido, Tidiane; McCarthy, Nancy; Di Gregorio, Monica - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2002

capacity to reduce poverty and enhance food security. " Author's Abstract …

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