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Across the globe, and particularly in tropical regions rich in biodiversity, in villages, on farms, in homesteads, forests, common pastures, fields and borders, it is women who manage the majority of all plant resources that are used by humans. This means that they also hold the majority of all local plant knowledge and are those who are mainly responsible for the in situ conservation and...
The Wolrd Bank initiated a research programme on the international migration of women at the end of 2005 to enhance the understanding of migration by introducing a gender perspective. This presentation provides some of the preliminary findings and hypotheses.
Ethical issues which are linked to scientific research and development often surface but soon become submerged in the flurry of activities which are undertaken to maintain the fast pace of research and innovation. In many parts of the developing world, the tremendous scientific achievements, unprecedented in human history, have hardly touched the lives of a large portion of society that still...
Relative poverty assessment of Nirdhan Utthan Bank Ltd. (NUBL) of Nepal was conducted to examine whether NUBL has reached to the poorest as envisioned in their mission statement. NUBL is the first non-government development bank licensed to provide micro financial services. During its initiation as an NGO in 1993, NUBL extended its first financial services to 521 clients from a single branch...
Has development thinking become too narrow and specialised? Does it fail to draw sufficiently on what has been learned outside the realm of development studies about how social change happens? These are the questions at the centre of this paper. The analysis is divided into three parts.
- Part 1 is a general survey of approaches to explaining change from...
The Third International Workshop on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 18-24 February 2009. The event was organised jointly by the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS), the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the RING Alliance of Policy Research Organisations.
The event consisted of three days of...
Biomass productivity, botanical composition, and soil physical properties were studied under conditions with and without application of manure. The study was conducted at the Debre Zeit station of the International Livestock Research Institute, located 5 km from Addis Ababa in the Ethiopian highlands. The aim of the study was to assess the effect of manure on botanical composition, plant...
This article examines the judgments of staff from protected area agencies responsible for managing tourism and its environmental impacts in the largest area of snow country in Australia. In surveys, staff identified as having major responsibility for tourism management in the Australian Alps protected areas consider that tourism has important negative environmental impacts; the impacts of ski...
Forest certification is a market-based, voluntary instrument that employs third-party auditing and a set of minimum standards to identify products that have been sourced from well-managed forests. Although its early proponents were primarily concerned with the high rates of deforestation in tropical countries, forest certification has evolved to address social issues such as the rights of...
This paper examines the performance of an adaptive collaborative management approach (ACM) to increasing poor people's access to, rights and benefits from a community-based nonwood forest product (NWFP) network enterprise in the Eastern Hills of Nepal. This network has rights over some 2,000 hectares of community forests and more than 1,346 member households. It had existed for two-and-a-half...
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