Search Results - "reforms"

Cerrando la Brech: comunidades, bosques y redes internacionales by Colchester, M., Apte, T., Laforge, M., Mandondo, A., Pathak, N.

“…Community forestry has transformed over the past 25 years from being an experimental means of providing wood-fuel for the rural poor to a community-led movement demanding reform of the forestry sector. International networks to promote community forestry, which emerged at very different moments in this history with different visions, goals, targets and participants, have played a key role in this transformation. …”
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Muddling towards cooperation: a CIFOR case study of shared learning in Malinau district, Indonesia by Wollenberg, Eva Karoline, Iwan, R., Limberg, G., Moeliono, M., Rhee, S., Sudana, M.

“…This paper describes the experience of CIFOR research team in facilitating local communities to manage their natural resources in Malinau District, East Kalimantan, Indonesia during the Otonomi Daerah reform period (1998-present). The case examines how the CIFOR team used informal, shared learning to support more socially just decision among groups that shared and often contested claims to forest resources and responsibility for their management. …”
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Conservation and sustainable use of wildlife -based resources through the framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD): The Bushmeat Crisis by Christophersen, T., Nasi, Robert

“…It also argues in favour of stronger involvement of civil society and the private sector in addressing governance issues and other aspects of current overexploitation of wildlife; enhancing local ownership rights; and establishing links between the bushmeat debate and tenurial and land-rights reform. At the international level, the authors suggest that trade relations between developed and developing countries, which (directly and indirectly) affect bushmeat consumption levels, must be seriously reconsidered, and that efforts should place a stronger emphasis on positive incentives for better managing wildlife resources.…”
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Trading legality with precaution: preliminary impacts of management plans and forest certification in the Cameroonian forests. by Cerutti, P.O., Tacconi, L., Nasi, Robert

“…The financial losses incurred by both the State and logging companies by fully adopting improved forest management in Cameroon should deserve more attention, if viable alternative options are to be found and resistance to reform diminished.…”
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Annual Report 2012-2013: transforming lives and landscapes with trees by World Agroforestry Centre

“…The year 2012 saw the final phases of the reform process launched by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). …”
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Agricultural policy in disarray: An overview by Smith, Vincent H., Glauber, Joseph W., Goodwin, Barry K., Sumner, Daniel A.

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Communal grazing and range management: The case of grazing associations in Lesotho by Lawry, S.W.

“…Whatever the complex of factors which have led to range degradation in Africa, policy-makers and project designers very often see at least part of the solution in land tenure reform. Recent range policy in Lesotho has emphasized a dual strategy. …”
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Electronic Conference on CGIAR Governance, Organization and Structure: Final Synthesis by Red Internacionale de Methodologia de Investigación de Systemes Producción, Berdegué, Julio A., Escobar, Germán

“…The conference was preceded by one held December 1999 to January 2000 that focused on vision and strategy for the CGIAR.The specific issues addressed were managing genetic resources and intellectual property; management of global, regional, and ecoregional programs; management and structure of the IARCs; and reforming the central bodies and functions of the CGIAR.The synthesis was considered by TAC at its 79th meeting, by the Oversight Committee and by the Synthesis Group at Sonning, UK. …”
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Independent Evaluation of the Partnership Committees of the CGIAR : Final Report by Bezanson, Keith, Narain, Sunita, Prante, Gerhard

“…This study was undertaken as part of the CGIAR reform program, part of which was aimed at streamlining System governance. …”
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Exploring actor roles, behaviors, and agency through participatory timelines in Zimbabwe by Voss, Rachel, Zingwena, Taurai, Chapeyama, Bolyne

“…The timelines highlighted the varied experiences of actor groups, including different types of farmers (smallholders, commercial farmers, landless workers, women). The land reform process affected these groups of farmers differently. …”
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The Role of state forest enterprises on benefit sharing through payments for environmental services in Vietnam: a paradigm shift. [Abstract only]. by Milan, Florence M., Huong, T.T.T., Hoanh, Chu Thai, Phuong, N. D.

“…The main challenges to implement the reform were availability of government funds and availability of loans for SFEs (EASRD, 2005). …”
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Water-centered growth challenges, innovations and interventions in Ethiopia by Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele

“…This paper should also be viewed with other components such as river basin growth pole/corridor concept, institutional reform and research capacity building. It focuses on analyzing key problems and associated interventions, and can be applicable in the contexts of the current situation and the future possible reform under growth zones that can be taken as plausible pathways for development.…”
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Bundling crop diversification, nutrition and market interventions in farmer-led participatory experiments in Bangladesh: Pre- and post-season survey protocol by Cheesman, Stephanie, Nandi, Ravi, Hossain, Md. Khaled, Shahrin, Sumona, Krupnik, Timothy J.

“…To achieve real-world impact, research aims at generating evidence-based and actionable recommendations that can be being put into practice through both public and private auriculate extension networks, along with support for policy design and reform. Of particular interest is the ways in which farmer participatory research conducted by Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia (TAFSSA) can address methods and systems to improve the effectiveness of nutrition awareness and the marketing of diversified and nutritious crop products by farmers. …”
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How an improved knowledge and information system can support productivity and livelihoods in the smallholder dairy sector. by Hooton, N., Nyangaga, J., Kinyanjui, H., Agili, Grace

“…The rationale was that by understanding and catalyzing reform of this system, SDP would not only enhance the impact of its own research outputs, but would lead to a long-lasting improvement in the impacts of research and other information relevant to the sub-sector. …”
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Assessing the Climate Security Sensitivity of WFP’s Foreign Policy Instrument Nexus Project in Tillaberi, Niger by Sarzana, Carolina, Ranaivo, Rondro, Cisse, Amadou, Mazunda, John, Läderach, Peter

“…Moreover, recommendations include specific strategies for conflict management in resource access, as well as further collaborating with local governance to reform natural resource policies as a way to enhance regulation and promote inclusivity, resilience, and stability among groups.…”
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Food safety regulatory systems in Europe and China: A study of how co-regulation can improve regulatory effectiveness by Chen, Kevin Z., Wang, Xin-xin, Song, Hai-ying

“…In China, the numerous food scandals and scares that have struck over the past decade have spurred significant food safety regulatory reform, which has been increasingly oriented towards the public-private partnership model adopted by the Europe Union's (EU) food safety regulatory system. …”
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Promoting agricultural growth in Myanmar: A review of policies and an assessment of knowledge gaps by Tun, Than, Kennedy, Adam, Nischan, Ulrike, International Food Policy Research Institute

“…We draw heavily on the Framework for Economic and Social Reform (FESR) (2012) which provides the policy intents of the government both overall and at a sectoral level. …”
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Impacts of trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in Argentina: Policy insights from a non-parametric CGE microsimulation analysis by Cicowiez, Martín, Díaz-Bonilla, Carolina, Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio

“…This paper studies the economic, poverty, and income inequality impacts of both world and domestic trade reform in Argentina, with a special focus on export taxes. …”
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Impact of trade liberalization on agriculture in the near East and North Africa by Minot, Nicholas, Chemingui, Mohamed Abdelbasset, Thomas, Marcelle, Dewina, Reno, Orden, David

“…In the past two decades, many countries in the Near East and North Africa region have reformed the agricultural sector by lowering agricultural tariffs, liberalizing domestic prices and reducing consumer food subsidies. …”
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Exchange rate alignment and producer support estimates (PSEs) for India by Cheng, Fuzhi, Orden, David

“…Our results show that the exchange rate was substantially misaligned before a financial crisis and macroeconomic reform in the early 1990s, with subsequent indirect effects on the PSEs. …”
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