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 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.
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.
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.
In Ethiopian development policies, pastoralist areas have recently attracted more attention.
This paper characterizes and measures the contribution of social capital to the performance of 50 agroenterprises in Colombia.
The System-wide Program for Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi) sponsored an International Conference on Policy and Institutional Options for the Management of Rangelands in Dry Areas, May 7-11, 2001 in Hammamet, Tunisia.
This paper characterizes and measures the contribution of social capital to the performance of 50 agroenterprises in Colombia.