Collective action and property rights for poverty reduction
Global research project conducted in seven geographically diverse countries
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Protecting assets and enhancing welfare: The gender-differentiated potential of group-based approaches in Bangladesh
Group-based approaches have received a lot of attention in the recent past due to their possible role in securing household welfare in the presence of adverse events. Using detailed household survey data from Bangladesh, the present paper tests this…
Domestication of payments for ecosystem services: New evidence from the Andes
The current project has sought to assess i) the potential of agricultural biodiversity-focused PES to serve as a cost-effective and socially equitable domesticated diversity conservation incentive scheme, as well as ii) how economic incentive…
Property rights and sustainable irrigation
Collective action within the household: Insights from natural resource management
Households face many collective action situations, with members working together to produce livelihoods and allocate goods. But neither unitary nor bargaining models of the household provide frameworks to analyze the conditions under which households…
An innovation systems approach to enhanced farmer adoption of climate-ready germplasm and agronomic practices
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. Even without climate change, the real costs of wheat and maize will increase by 60 percent between…