The paper “The challenges of community-based natural resource management in pastoral rangelands” (2021) by Lance Robinsonet al, published inSociety & Natural Resources34(9): 1213–1231, compares five case studies – two from Kenya, two from Ethiopia and one from Tunisia – to identify contextual...
2010-01-01 Foodies and environmentally minded folks often struggle to understand and articulate the fundamental differences between the farming and food systems they endorse and those promoted by Monsanto and friends. With visceral stories and humor from Salatin's half-century as a "lunatic" farmer, Salatin...
1996-01-01 This text has been written primarily for the specialist market of second and third year undergraduate and post-graduate students of economics. The clear explanations and basic principles that underpin the text, however, make it readily accessible to non-economists coming to environmental...
This report uses two case studies of community-based natural resource management (CAMPFIRE and forest co-management) to examine the impact of the political situation on resource management institutions and the resources on which they depend.
This publication presents the main findings of a study undertaken with the support of Helvetas Mali as part of the identification and formulation phases of the PREGESCO project. The aim of this project, which is co-funded by the Swedish International Development Agency was to help prevent and...
The "tragedy of the commons" is a central concept in human ecology and the study of the environment. It has had tremendous value for stimulating research, but it only describes the reality of human-environment interactions in special situations. Research over the past thirty years has helped...
This manual or primer is a methodological tool by which we can facilitate collective action to permit the adequate management of natural resources within a given area. The manual is directed at extension workers and researchers who work with farmers and other users of a region's natural...
This on-line resource offers a selection of hundreds of food security focused documents (most of which in English) classified under several main headings that include crop and livestock production systems, fisheries and aquaculture management as well as sustainable natural resources management.In...
Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN) is an International NGO that facilitates information and knowledge exchange to and between extension workers or infomediaries and arid lands communities in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The information exchange activities focus on small-scale sustainable...