This study focuses on the valuation of ecosystem services in Kenya and Vietnam, two countries that have received much attention from the international development community for their biodiversity significance, opportunities for scaling, climate an
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In this research highlight, we present analysis of agricultural land use, distribution, access, tenure, land markets, and historical patterns of ownership and disposal.
Heterogeneity in riverine ecosystem service perceptions: Insights for water-decision processes in transboundary rivers
The objective of this study is to analyze heterogeneous perceptions of the relative importance of riverine ecosystem services to inform policy decisions.
While Asia has the world’s fastest-growing economy, 29 of 48 countries assessed by the Asian Water Development Outlook 2016 are water-insecure, posing a threat to the region’s continued growth.
Payments discourage coordination in ecosystem services provision: Evidence from behavioral experiments in Southeast Asia
Multi-factor, multi-state, multi-model scenarios
Promoting agricultural growth in Myanmar: A review of policies and an assessment of knowledge gaps
This paper reviews the agricultural policy environment in Myanmar up until 2014 with an eye towards identifying policies that can help to accelerate productivity and profitability in the agricultural sector.
IFPRI IMPACT Webtool
The International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT) web tool is a fully interactive online tool designed to highlight and make public the results of simulations performed with the IMPACT model and carried out
The 2012 GHI report focuses particularly on the issue of how to ensure sustainable food security under conditions of water, land, and energy stress.
2012 Global hunger index by severity
Il rapporto GHI 2012 si incentra in particolare sul seguente tema: come conseguire la sicurezza alimentare in modo sostenibile in un contesto di stress idrico, agricolo ed energetico.
Farming Smarter
Dry season water management in the lower yellow river in China
Common-pool resources, livelihoods, and resilience
Common-pool resource management is a critical element in the interlocked challenges of food security, nutrition, poverty reduction, and environmental sustainability.
We use field experiments to study underlying strategic actions Cambodian and Vietnamese natural resource users take in regard to voluntary contribution to a public good and appropriation of common-pool resources.
This study presents an approach to analyzing decentralized forestry and natural resource management and land property rights issues, and catalyzing collective action among villages and district governments.
While much attention has been given to examining various aspects of poverty, a number of studies have shown that institutional environment in which the poor exist conditions welfare outcomes, thus highlighting the inherently crucial importance of
Fluctuating fortunes of a collective entreprise
The Agroforestry Tree Seeds Association of Lantapan (ATSAL) in Bukidnon province, southern Philippines was organized in 1998, facilitated by the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF).