Resultados de búsqueda - "government"

Is multiple-use forest management widely implementable in the tropics? por García Fernandez, C., Ruíz Pérez, M., Wunder, Sven

“…At the local scale, the factors that set the scene for multiple-use approaches to be successfully adopted are favorable governance conditions relate to land-devolution policies, effective collective institutions, and multiagent forest-management models. …”
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Forests of learning: Experiences from research on an Adaptive Collaborative Approach to community forestry in Nepal por McDougall, C., Ojha, H., Banjade, M.R., Pandit, B.H., Bhattarai, T., Maharjan, M.R., Rana, S.

“…This synthesis explores an adaptive collaborative approach to governance and management as one avenue to meet these challenges. …”
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Community forest enterprise markets in Mexico and Brazil: new opportunities and challenges for legal access to the forest por Molnar,A., Gomes, D., Sousa, R., Vidal, N., Hojer, R.F., Arguelles, L.A., Kaatz, S., Martin, A., Donini, G., Scherr, Sara J., White, A., Kaimowitz, D.

“…The challenge for policy makers and governments is to reform outdated regulatory and incentive frameworks to support these enterprises. …”
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Climate change mitigation: should “avoided deforestation” be rewarded? por Pirard, R., Karsenty, A.

“…Instead, we encourage industrialized countries to better use already existing multi- and bilateral instruments, which focus on the correction of governance deficiencies in countries home to tropical forests. …”
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Direct conservation payments in the Brazilian Amazon: Scope and equity implications por Borner, J., Wunder, Sven, Wertz-Kanounnikoff, Shiela, Tito, M.R., Pereira, L.S., Nascimento, N.

“…Essentially, PES systems cannot substitute command-and-control measures: the former depend on the latter for basic governance systems to secure effective rights of exclusion, which land stewards essentially need in order to become reliable service providers.…”
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Evolving relations between agriculture and forest in Viengkham District, Luang Prabang Province por Castella, J.C., Thephavanh, M., Vongkhamsao, V., Mouaxeng-Cha, K., Phonphakdy, S., Fitriana, Y.R., Kongay, K., Phaipasith, S., Ferrand, J., Manivanh, V., Pfund, J.L.

“…The loss in the resilience of the socio-ecological system due to simplification of the natural landscape should be compensated by improved mechanisms for landscape governance.…”
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Coping strategies in livestock-dependent households in East and southern Africa: a synthesis of four case studies por Thornton, Philip K., Boone, Randall B., Galvin, K.A., BurnSilver, S.B., Waithaka, M.M., Kuyiah, J., Karanja, S., González Estrada, E., Herrero, Mario

“…Results from these case studies are synthesised to test the hypothesis that households’ capacity to adapt in the face of increasing external stresses is governed by flexibility in livelihood options. The results support this hypothesis. …”
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Analysis of milk-borne public health risks in milk markets in Kenya por Omore, Amos O., Arimi, S.M., Kang'ethe, Erastus K., McDermott, John J., Staal, Steven J.

“…However, in spite of these benefits, regulations governing informal marketing of milk continue to be unfavourable and do not reflect local realities of milk marketing, having been based on models derived from industrialised countries where virtually all milk destined for the market is pasteurised and packaged. …”
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Towards an integrated development research approach por Zinsstag, Jakob, Pfeifer, Catherine, Ahorlu, C., Hung Nguyen-Viet, Obrist, B.

“…Such approaches have the power to bridge epistemological gaps between natural sciences and the humanities, connecting outcomes of research on natural resource management, health, sanitation, livelihoods, and governance. It is evident that the complexity of social development cannot be tackled using one single method. …”
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Monitoring of livestock health and production in sub-Saharan Africa por Leeuw, P.N. de, McDermott, John J., Lebbie, S.H.B.

“…There have been many monitoring clients, ranging from national governments through aid agencies and the scientific community, to individual farmers. …”
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Challenges and opportunities for smallholder livestock production in post-conflict South Kivu, eastern DR Congo por Maass, Brigitte L., Katunga Musale, Dieudonné, Chiuri, Wanjiku L., Gassner, Anja, Peters, Michael

“…Correspondence analysis and multiple regression analysis were used to investigate the association of production constraints with particular livestock species and to understand the factors that govern the number of livestock that people owned (converted to tropical livestock units [TLU]), respectively. …”
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Factors affecting packed and unpacked fluid milk consumption in Wolaita Zone, Ethiopia por Kuma, B., Baker, Derek, Getnet, Kindie, Kassa, B.

“…This situation seems to warrant the governments to introduce new policy tools to improve the hygiene and quality of unpacked fluid milk. …”
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Enhancing the sustainability of commodity supply chains in tropical forest and agricultural landscapes por Agrawal, A., Wollenberg, Eva Karoline, Newton, Peter

“…Further, there is little consensus of the governance mechanisms and institutional arrangements that best support such interventions. …”
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Canal irrigation conundrum: applying contingency theory to irrigation system management in India. por Shah, Tushaar, Anwar, Arif A., Amarasinghe, Upali A., Hoanh, Chu Thai, Reddy, Junna Mohan, Molle, Francois, MMukherji, Aditi, Prathapar, Sanmugam A., Suhardiman, Diana, Qureshi, Asad Sarwar, Wegerich, Kai

“…s dissenting note which argues that, though difficult, benchmarking of managerial performance - as routinely done in businesses, educational institutions, governments, even research institutions - may be the way to go if IWMI aims to contribute to effective reform in canal irrigation management.…”
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Climate change risk and vulnerability mapping and profiling at local level using the Household Economy Approach (HEA) por Nhamo, L., Chilonda, Pius

“…In most cases adaptation occurs at local level in ways that are usually unnoticed and unaided by national governments or international organisations. This study down-scales the vulnerability of and adaptive capacity to climate change and variability to local level applying the Household Economy Approach. …”
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Boundary work for sustainable development: Natural resource management at the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) por Clark, W.C., Tomich, Thomas P., Noordwijk, Meine van, Guston, D., Catacutan, D., Dickson, N.M., McNie, E.

“…Especially important are arrangements regarding participation of stakeholders, accountability in governance, and the use of “boundary objects.” We conclude that improving the ability of research programs to produce useful knowledge for sustainable development will require both greater and differentiated support for multiple forms of boundary work.…”
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Rural poverty and inequality in Ethiopia: does access to small-scale irrigation make a difference? por Namara, Regassa E., Makombe, Godswill, Hagos, Fitsum, Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele

“…Cognizant of this reality the successive Ethiopian governments and farmers have made investments in small scale irrigation schemes. …”
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Factors affecting milk market outlet choices in Wolaita zone, Ethiopia por Kuma, B., Baker, Derek, Getnet, Kindie, Kassa, B.

“…It should be strengthened to enable farmers produce surplus milk for markets and should devise means to reduce local milking cow numbers by replacing them with crossbred cows. Moreover, governments should strengthen milk processing cooperatives and improve infrastructure facilities.…”
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Rice and irrigation in West Africa: achieving food security with agricultural water management strategies por Katic, Pamela G., Namara, Regassa E., Hope, Lesley, Owusu, E., Fujii, H.

“…Despite considerable rice-growing potential, lack of water control systems, access to improved seeds, agrochemicals and appropriate mechanization have resulted in modest production growth rates, unable to alter the region's dependency on imported rice. Governments aim to boost production with import duties and input subsidies. …”
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Impact of climate change on water resources and potential adaptations for Indian agriculture por Sharma, Bharat R.

“…The impact of climate change will be greater in India, where a majority of the rural population depends on agriculture for their livelihoods, and where agriculture is primarily dependent on the monsoons. Governments and communities have not been able to adequately address climate related challenges to people's livelihoods that follow from changes in water availability, loss of crops and income with the occurrence of extreme weather events like floods and droughts. …”
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