Historically, agriculture has been crucial to Pakistan’s economic growth and development and remains so even today.

Ethiopia’s economy has experienced rapid growth in recent years.

Cereal is the single largest subsector of Ethiopia’s agriculture. It dominates in terms of its share in rural employment, agricultural land use, and calorie intake, as well as its contribution to national income.

The volume is organized in a way that aims to take the reader from an understanding of the central concepts examined in all the studies (poverty reduction, property rights, and collective action) to the application of these concepts in different c

The major theoretical enterprise of this book is to understand how the institutions of collective action and property rights influence rural poverty and livelihoods.

The first section of the chapter describes the physical, technical, and socioeconomic as well as policy governance conditions.

This chapter examines the role of groups and networks in helping the poor manage their exposure to risks and cope with shocks to their livelihoods in the rural Philippines.

In this concluding chapter we turn from a detailed analysis of the findings from the studies collected here to the contributions they make to the literature on their respective themes in terms of the way that collective action and property rights

In doing so, the chapter builds on research addressing how poor households respond to shocks; see Morduch (2005) and references therein, the review paper by Skoufias and Quisumbing (2005), and the recent collection edited by Dercon (2005).

This chapter presents a conceptual framework for examining how formal and informal institutions of property rights and collective action can contribute to poverty reduction, including through external interventions and action by poor people themse

This chapter explores these dynamics in the pastoralist commons of eastern Ethiopia. We study current practices of managing water and pasture resources of pastoralist and agropastoralist groups at three sites in Somali Region, Ethiopia.

The research reported in this chapter sought to address these shortcomings by integrating institutional analysis (for problem identification and targeting of interventions) with action research (for pilot testing of institutional innovations to ad

The objective of the case study reported in this chapter was to identify effective practices and policy interventions at a local level that enhance the way in which cooperation or collective action and property rights have been used and shaped to

In this chapter we discuss two cases of pastoralist involvement in agriculture and investigate the challenges and opportunities of this transition.

Using empirical data from 87 watershed communities in semiarid India, our study has shown that collective action in watershed management can be captured through a set of variables that indicate the capacity of communities to design and enforce cer

The analysis and evidence presented here have shown that farmers selling to PMGs receive higher prices than otherwise, opening new opportunities for smallholder farmers to benefit from markets.