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
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Institutions for agricultural mitigation
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.
To mitigate a drinking water crisis in Kathmandu valley, the Government of Nepal initiated the Melamchi Water Supply Project in 1997, which will divert water from the Melamchi River to Kathmandu city's water supply network.
Decentralized approaches to development are gaining increasing prominence. Land tenure reform policy has been affected by many different types of decentralization.
This paper seeks to identify the factors which are responsible for successful management of natural resources when communities are given opportunities to manage those resources.
"Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have liberalized markets to improve efficiency and enhance market linkages for smallholder farmers.
Gender and local floodplain management institutions
Floodplain wetlands are the major common pool natural resource in Bangladesh. Mostly men fish, and both men and women collect aquatic plants and snails.
Improving the effectiveness of collective action
"The forest management strategy of Nepal is based on people’s participation, which is known as community forestry.
Policies to devolve responsibility for natural resource management to local bodies have become widespread in the past 20 years.
The System-wide Program for Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi) sponsored a workshop on Watershed Management Institutions, March 13-16, 1999 in Managua, Nicaragua.