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Renewable natural resources management for mountain communities
Managing renewable natural resources in hillside and mountain areas is critical to sustaining these resources and the livelihood opportunities they present, especially to marginal farmers. This publication presents the findings of a Symposium and Research Workshop on Renewable Natural Resources Management for Mountain Communities held in Nepal in 2003. The papers describe the results of research...
The Global Change Research Network in African Mountains
The Global Change Research Network in African Mountains (GCRN_AM) was launched at the Kampala Workshop in July 2007. After the Perth Open Science Conference “Global Change in Mountain Regions” in 2005, the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) committed itself to launching regional research networks in different regions of the world. At the same time, MRI understood that other organisations had...
25 Years for Mountains and People - ICIMOD Celebrates its Silver Jubilee
This article describes the ICIMOD Eco Everest expedition that took place in April-May 2008. Andreas Schild, Director General of ICIMOD, Dawa Steven Sherpa, the expedition leader and manager of Asian Trekking and Samjwal Bajracharya who is a Geomorphologist/GIS Analyst working in MENRIS are interviewed about the expedition and climate change.
SRI takes root in Nepal

The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) is now spreading widely around the world, being further developed and modified as more experience is gained and new conditions are encountered. It is proving to be a very dynamic approach to rice cultivation, and should not be regarded as a finished or fixed technology. SRI was introduced into Nepal around 1999 by some researchers in the Nepal...

Reconciling community development needs and great apes conservation: The twin-track approach
Great apes throughout West and Central Africa - gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos - are being hunted for food and face the rapid loss of their habitat. Cameroon harbours two of the most threatened African great apes, both keystone species in the montane forest ecosystems of the border region of Nigeria and Cameroon. This article describes the main goal of the Western Cameroon Great Apes program...
Learning together: Integrating social and gender analysis into natural resource management research
The complexity of societies in Asia and the problems of natural resource management are considerable. Notions of gender, class, caste, ethnicity, and age are integral to understanding the social relations and decision-making processes concerning access to and management of natural resources. Understanding of social differences and social inequality are key to answer such questions as who...
Centre for Mountain Studies: Scotland
2007 was a year of major developments and growth for the Centre for Mountain Studies (CMS). The author describes a new project: ‘Sustainable Estates for the 21st Century’ which is funded by Henry Angest. It is the first major project to take an integrated look at estates in Scotland’s uplands.
Pastoral production in Mongolia from a gender perspective
The Policy Alternatives for Livestock Development (PALD) project was established to research and make policy recommendations on the liberalisation of the Mongolian pastoral economy and its impact within the household. The paper discusses the organisation of pastoral production at the household level from a gender perspective. Using participatory methods it was found that a clear division of...
Protecting community rights over traditional knowledge: Implications of customary laws and practices - indigenous Lepchas of the eastern Himalayas

This study entails participatory action-research with Lepcha communities in Sikkim State and Kalimpong area of Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council (DGHC), West Bengal - with a particular focus on farming systems and traditional rice varieties. Together with a local NGO (the Centre for Mountain Dynamics), village and Panchayat leaders, and women self-help groups, it aims to explore the potential of...

Historical matrices: A method for monitoring changes in seasonal consumption patterns in Mongolia
This note reports on the use of matrices for evaluating the impact of economic liberalisation on consumption patterns in Mongolia. They represent just one of many participatory research techniques that have been used since 1991 in a collaborative research and training project with pastoral communities in Mongolia. Changing household income and expenditure patterns following the wide-ranging...

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