Group-based approaches have received a lot of attention in the recent past due to their possible role in securing household welfare in the presence of adverse events.
The current project has sought to assess
By 2050, climate change is likely to reduce maize production globally by 3–10 percent and wheat production in developing countries by 29–34 percent.
This paper reviews the central role of institutions for climate-smart agriculture (CSA), focusing on the role of institutions in promoting inclusivity, providing information, enabling local level innovation, encouraging investment, and offering in
The food security crisis, international “land grabs,” and new markets for environmental services have drawn renewed attention to the role of natural resource competition in the livelihoods of the rural poor.
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.
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of community–based adaptation (CBA) efforts. To start, it develops and describes a framework on adaptation to climate change used as the basis for this research.
The rapid expansion of commodity agriculture in tropical forest landscapes is a key driver of deforestation.
Progressive legislative actions in Uganda and Tanzania have improved women’s legal rights to land, however significant gender disparities persist in access, control, inheritance, and ownership of land at the grassroots level.
Sustaining the environmental, social, and economic development in Manupali watershed in southern Philippines is highly dependent on equitable allocation of water use rights and judicious utilization of water as a scarce resource.
Seasonal changes and ambiguity in property rights over land and natural resources create conflicts in rural communities in eastern Zambia.
Forest conflict in Asia is on the rise as various stakeholders have different views about and interests in the management of increasingly scarce resources.
Water governance reforms are underway in many parts of the developing world.
This paper reports on outcomes and lessons learned from a 15-month initiative aimed at strengthening collective action to address natural resource conflict in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake.
Being able to access, control, and own productive assets such as land, labor, finance, and social capital enables people to create stable and productive lives.