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Can agricultural research and extension be used to challenge the processes of exclusion and marginalisation?
Type: Journal Article
This paper examines if and how agricultural researchers and extension officers can see, understand and change processes that exclude some people and influence marginalisation. We used participatory action research (PAR) ...
Enhancing women's participation in decision-making in artisanal fisheries in the Anlo Beach fishing community, Ghana
Type: Journal Article
We describe a participatory action research journey with the Anlo Beach fishing community, Ghana, to promote womens participation in decision-making. It was clear from an early stage that women were absent from formal ...
Conservation for sustaining livelihoods: Adaptive co-management of fish no-take zones in the Mekong River
Type: Journal Article
A major challenge in natural resource management in developing countries is to pursue conservation objectives while avoiding negative impacts on local livelihoods. Inland capture fisheries provide opportunities to demonstrate ...
Understanding adaptation and transformation through indigenous practice: the case of the Guna of Panama
Type: Journal Article
Resilience is emerging as a promising vehicle for improving management of social-ecological systems that can potentially lead to more sustainable arrangements between environmental and social spheres. Central to an ...
Can community-based adaptation increase resilience
Type: Journal Article
A central claim of community-based adaptation (CBA) is that it increases resilience. Yet, the concept of resilience is treated inconsistently in CBA, obscuring discussion of the limitations and benefits of resilience ...
Identifying opportunities to improve governance of aquatic agricultural systems through participatory action research
Type: Journal Article
Challenges of governance often constitute critical obstacles to efforts to equitably improve livelihoods in social-ecological systems. Yet, just as often, these challenges go unspoken, or are viewed as fixed parts of the ...
Operationalizing the ecosystem approach to small-scale fisheries Management in the Philippines: The Iligan Bay Alliance of Misamis Occidental
Type: Journal Article
This paper describes the application of the participatory diagnosis and adaptive management (PDAM) framework to analyze the governance of small-scale fisheries and the potential for adopting the Ecosystem Approach to ...
Facilitating multi-stakeholder dialogue to manage natural resource competition: A synthesis of lessons from Uganda, Zambia, and Cambodia
Type: Journal Article
Rural development or natural resource management program planning and implementation frequently confront challenges of environmental resource competition and conflict, particularly where common pool resources are a major ...
Collaborating for resilience: conflict, collective action, and transformation on Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake
Type: Journal Article
Tha authors report on outcomes and lessons learned from a 15-month initiative in Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake. Employing the appreciation-influence-control (AIC) model of participatory stakeholder engagement, the initiative ...
A new professionalism for agricultural research for development
Type: Journal Article
There have been repeated calls for a 'new professionalism' for carrying out agricultural research for development since the 1990s. At the centre of these calls is a recognition that for agricultural research to support the ...