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Outcome evidencing: A Method for enabling and evaluating Program intervention in complex systems
(2016)Type: Journal ArticleThis article describes the development and use of a rapid evaluation approach to meet program accountability and learning requirements in a research for development program operating in five developing countries. The method ... -
Rapid expansion of oil palm is leading to human-elephant conflicts in North Kalimantan province of Indonesia
(2017)Type: Journal ArticleThis study identifies patterns and trends in human elephant conflict in the Tulin Onsoi subdistrict, specifically in relation to the rapid development of oil palm plantations. The study provides a description of current ... -
Guidelines for Innovation Platforms in Agricultural Research for Development. Decision support for research, development and funding agencies on how to design, budget and implement impactful Innovation Platforms
(2017)Type: ManualInnovation Platforms are an increasingly popular approach to enhancing multi-stakeholder collaboration in agricultural research for development (AR4D) programmes. Innovation Platforms facilitate interaction and collaboration ... -
Communities and change in the anthropocene: understanding social-ecological vulnerability and planning adaptations to multiple interacting exposures
(2016)Type: Journal ArticleThe majority of vulnerability and adaptation scholarship, policies and programs focus exclusively on climate change or global environmental change. Yet, individuals, communities and sectors experience a broad array of ... -
Building resilience in rural livelihood systems as an investment in conflict prevention
(2015)Type: Book ChapterThis book explores how natural resource management initiatives in more than twenty countries and territories have supported livelihoods and facilitated post-conflict peacebuilding. This chapter sketches three principles ... -
Learning from the lagoon: Research in development in Solomon Islands
(2016)Type: ReportA major challenge for international agricultural research is to find ways to improve the nutrition and incomes of people left behind by the Green Revolution. To better address the needs of the most marginal and vulnerable ... -
Market surveys: Barotse floodplain system
(2015)Type: Working PaperThe aim of the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) is to improve livelihoods and food security by enhancing the productivity and diversity of aquatic and agricultural systems. The AAS program in ... -
Getting beneath the surface in program planning, monitoring and evaluation: Learning from use of participatory action research and theory of change in the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems
(2016)Type: Journal ArticleMany rural poor and marginalized people strive to make a living in social-ecological systems that are characterized by multiple and often inequitable interactions across agents, scale and space. Uncertainty and inequality ... -
Conflicts over natural resource scarcity in the aquatic ecosystem of the Lake Chilwa
(2016)Type: Journal ArticleThis paper examines the linkage between resource scarcity and conflict during the 2012 Lake Chilwa water level recession. Ecosystem degradation and resource scarcity negatively affect many poor people dependent on aquatic ... -
Recognising land rights for conservation? tenure reforms in the Northern Sierra Madre, The Philippines
(2016)Type: Journal ArticleThe legalisation of the customary land rights of rural communities is currently actively promoted as a strategy for conserving biodiversity. There is, however, little empirical information on the conservation outcomes of ... -
Strengthening capacities for research in development in aquatic agricultural systems
(2015)Type: Working PaperThe research-in-development (RinD) approach to agricultural research focuses on working closely with communities through multistakeholder engagement to strengthen capacities to design, plan, implement and adapt research ... -
Capturing views of men, women and youth on agricultural biodiversity resources consumed in Barotseland, Zambia
(2015)Type: Working PaperThis paper presents data and findings from focus group discussions in study communities selected by the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) in the Western Province of Zambia. The discussions focused ... -
Research in development: Learning from the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems
(2015)Type: Working PaperThis working paper aims to synthesize and share learning from the experience of adapting and operationalizing the Research in Development (RinD) approach to agricultural research in the five hubs under the The CGIAR Research ... -
Futures of inland aquatic agricultural systems and implications for fish agri-food systems in southern Africa
(2016)Type: ReportThe CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) is collaborating with partners to develop and implement a foresight-based engagement with diverse stakeholders linked to aquatic agricultural systems. The ... -
Social capital, conflict, and adaptive collaborative governance: exploring the dialectic
(2015)Type: Journal ArticlePreviously lineal and centralized natural resource management and development paradigms have shifted toward the recognition of complexity and dynamism of social-ecological systems, and toward more adaptive, decentralized, ... -
Identification and effectiveness of self-help groups in Cambodia
(2015)Type: ReportThe CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) seeks to reduce poverty and improve food security for the millions of small-scale fishers and farmers who depend on the world's floodplains, deltas and coasts. ... -
Understanding adaptation and transformation through indigenous practice: the case of the Guna of Panama
(2015)Type: Journal ArticleResilience 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 ... -
Contagious exploitation of marine resources
(2015)Type: Journal ArticleRising global demand for seafood presents challenges for managing marine resources, many of which are declining or threatened. The authors describe a new and rapid pattern of contagious marine resource exploitation, which ... -
Exploring the impact of farmer-led research supported by civil society organisations
(2015)Type: Journal ArticleThis paper synthesises the main findings about the impacts of a wide range of farmer-led research initiatives in terms of food security, ecological sustainability, economic empowerment, gender relations, local capacity to ... -
How do hunter-gatherers learn? The transmission of indigenous knowledge among the Agta of the Philippines
(2017)Type: Journal ArticleThe Agta of the Philippines depend on extensive knowledge of their natural environment for their livelihoods. However, little is known about the transmission of this indigenous ecological knowledge. This paper examines the ...
