For low-income households with meager assets, financial services that could potentially augment their income are of extreme importance.

The foreign acquisition of agricultural land is a rend that is driven by the food and biofuel needs of wealthy nations that have the capital to invest but have sparse land and water resources to produce enough for their own needs.

Native potatoes grow better in the highest altitude of the Andes, where small, semi-commercial farmers predominate.

Poverty or well-being is determined not only by the assets and income of a household, but also by its degree of vulnerability to risks and shocks.

Supplying formal markets such as multinational supermarket chains and fast food restaurants offers both higher income and improved business relations for farmers.

Floodplain wetlands are the major common natural resource in Bangladesh. Their rivers, beels (lakes), baors (oxbow lakes), haors (large deeply flooded depressions), and floodplains support some 260 fish species.

Community forestry has remained Nepal’s forest management strategy since its introduction in 1978.

This paper presents a framework for investigating the intersection of collective action and gender to illustrate how gender-oriented analysis can foster more effective collective action in the context of agriculture and natural resource management

Collective action plays a vital role in many people’s lives, particularly for income generation, risk reduction, public service provision, and the management of natural resources.

Traditional communal landholding has long been prevalent in the Afar region of Ethiopia, accommodating the interests of different user groups for many generations.

The well-documented threats posed by climate change are serious and potentially devastating to the global community.

In arid and semi-arid lands in Africa, pastoralists manage uncertainty and risk and access a range of markets through livestock mobility. Mobility enables opportunistic use of resources and helps minimize the effects of droughts.

Interest in the potential of payments for environmental services (PES) schemes to improve incentives for sustainable land management is increasing in the face of global climate change and environmental degradation.

Mexico, one of the world’s 10 mega-diverse countries, has 56.5 million hectares of forest of high global value. Biodiversity occurs in a wide variety of forest ecosystems: humid and dry tropical forests and various types of temperate forests.

Fisheries are complex and interdependent ecological and social systems that require integrated management approaches. The actions of one person or group of users affect the availability of the resource for others.

Discussions about poverty reduction inevitably include the need to increase small landholders’ ability to participate successfully in market exchanges.

Watersheds are simultaneously managed at various social and spatial scales, from microcatchments to transnational river systems and lake basins.

Despite an increased awareness of the institutional foundations of development and natural resource management, development interventions continue to have a strong technological bias.