Planning together for sustainable water resources management
Achieving participation in planning and collective action among various stakeholders, even those with different or conflicting interests, is not impossible.
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Securing dryland resources for multiple users
Close to one billion people worldwide depend directly on drylands for their livelihoods. Because of their variable and erratic climate and political and economic marginalization, drylands have some of the highest rates of poverty, including the world’s…
Using games to support collective action in the real world
The use of economic games in the field to explore how people’s decisions affect individual and collective well-being has increased over the last few years as a tool to study economic behavior (Table 1). There are a number of applications of these games…
Catalyzing collective action in natural resources management
Working with communities or groups within communities and helping them to reach their goals is a challenge. This paper provides guidelines in catalyzing collective action, especially in natural resources management, based on: the global literature on c…
Strengthening property rights for the poor
Although many of the poor in the developing world are landless, most of the rural poor have some access to land. The landed poor are a heterogeneous group who hold rights to their landed assets in diverse and complicated ways.
Empowering communities to co-manage watersheds: Forum for citizen action
Community participation is recognized as an essential part of equitable and sustainable watershed management. Stakeholders play a vital role in ensuring that land use in the upstream does not affect the quality and quantity of water that flows to downs…
Collective approaches for facilitating farmer innovation
Participatory application of planning methods such as logical framework analysis empowers local stakeholders to make decisions. Integrated pest management, which relies on coordinated action among neighboring farmers, has shown the value of integrating…
Facilitating collective action
Through collective action, forest users, fishers, irrigators, herders, and other rural producers improve and sustain resources vital for their lives. In cases where it has weakened or seems absent, citizens, non-government organizations (NGOs), and gov…
Innovations in land tenure reform and administration in Africa
Land and the institutions that govern its ownership and use greatly affect economic growth and poverty reduction. Lack of access to land and inefficient or corrupt systems of land administration have a negative impact on a country’s investment climate.…
Commons, customary law and formalization of land tenure
Common properties refers to those lands which by tradition rural communities own collectively. They usually embrace lands like forests, woodlands, pastures and rangelands, which are not logically owned on an individual or family basis. And yet it is be…