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Aquaculture, fisheries, poverty and food security
Type: Working Paper
Fisheries and aquaculture play important roles in providing food and income in many developing countries, either as a stand-alone activity or in association with crop agriculture and livestock rearing. The aim of this paper ...
A Governance analysis of the Barotse Floodplain System, Zambia: Identifying obstacles and opportunities
Type: Working Paper
The Barotse floodplain is an ecosystem characterized by a paradox of widespread poverty amidst high ecological and agricultural potential. The CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) seeks to address ...
Catalyzing collective action to address natural resource conflict: lessons from Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake
Type: Working Paper
This paper reports on outcomes and lessons learned from a 15-month initiative aimed at strengthening collective action to address natural resource conflict in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake. Employing the Appreciation-Influence-Control ...
Common-pool resources, livelihoods, and resilience: critical challenges for governance in Cambodia
Type: Working Paper
Common-pool resource management is a critical element in the interlocked challenges of food security, nutrition, poverty reduction, and environmental sustainability. This paper examines strategic policy choices and governance ...
Solomon Islands national situation analysis
Type: Working Paper
The CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (CRP AAS) was approved by the CGIAR Fund Council in July, 2011. Solomon Islands, one of five countries targeted by the program, began its rollout with a five month ...
Resource conflict, collective action and resilience: an analytical framework
Type: Working Paper
In developing countries where access to and use of renewable natural resources essential to rural livelihoods are highly contested, improving cooperation in their management is increasingly seen as an important element in ...
Addressing conflict through collective action in natural resource management: A Synthesis of experience
Type: Working Paper
The food security crisis, international “land grabs,” and new markets for environmental services have drawn renewed attention to the role of natural resource competition in the livelihoods of the rural poor. While significant ...
Strengthening governance across scales in aquatic agricultural systems
Type: Working Paper
Aquatic agricultural systems in developing countries face increasing competition from multiple stakeholders operating from local to national and regional scales over rights to access and use natural resources—land, water, ...
Natural resource governance and food security in Cambodia
Type: Working Paper
This short note has outlined the critical role of natural resource governance to Cambodia’s prospects for sustained economic growth, poverty reduction, and food security. It has also introduced a range of challenges to ...