… Many people's lives involve the day-to-day management of natural resources. Such intimate interaction creates awareness of the technical, social and political obstacles to good management. Yet many cannot contribute to the definition of policies and institutions that govern their use of natural resources. The Power …

… can be traced to disputes over land ownership, rights, access, use and degradation. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that information asymmetries among various principals in land tenure and market systems have caused the marginalisation of some principals by … gaps and degradation of the resource base they depend on for their livelihood may provide a more rational answer to the conflicts than just …

… those dealing with food supply, increasing farmers’ incomes, and restoring degraded agricultural lands, and the policies’ impacts on payments for ecological services. China has … extremely poor, underdeveloped and dependent on agriculture for livelihoods – has posed many challenges in terms of governance, ensuring …

… Document begins: PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988­2001 1 Sharing our concerns and looking to the future Elkanah Absalom et al. Introduction centre of … We are an informal group of development Experience has led us, and many others to practitioners, researchers and trainers from South … and people, giving them more control over their practice; and, lives. · the policies and practices of donors. As part of a process of …

… with government development authorities Kamal Kar, Gareth Phillips and Sunil Liyanage Introduction smaller programmes covering a more … are rather dispersed is implemented through the Ministry of Policy, and not systematically reviewed. It appears that Planning and … departments often without objective is to improve the standard of living of substantial changes taking place. Even where the rural poor in …

… awareness in Kenya Roger Chamberlain, Mindy Chillery, Lenin Ogolla and Ochieng Wandera Introduction This approach poses questions and problems, rather than supplying answers and solutions. CARE Kenya's … drama which reflects their for youth education programmes for AIDS lives. prevention and control. I was approached by CRUSH to collaborate …

… Johnson Linking research to policy burdens change with environmental and socio- economic change. We wanted to move away To make research relevant and accessible to from policy debates rife with generalisations policy … I describe these different steps to improve the quality of children's lives processes in the context of an ACTIONAID (Figure 1). research …

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… Learning Workshop on Farmer Field Schools (FFS): Emerging Issues and Challenges, 21-25 October 2002, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Social Learning for Ecological Literacy and Democracy: Emerging Issues and Challenges1 Michel P. Pimbert, … commons. New forms of governance are needed to safeguard the rights, livelihoods and environments of farmers and other citizens confronted by …

… procedures in urban communities: the experience of the habitat and health project in Barrio San Jorge, Argentina Silvina Arrossi … Jorge is a poor squatter settlement of about promote improvements in living conditions 2,300 inhabitants in the District of San Fernando … the results conditions. The zone is liable to flooding, the achieved and the methods used, continued barrio is bordered by a highly …