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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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Rethinking environmental leadership: The social construction of leaders and leadership in discourses of ecological crisis, development, and conservation
(2015)Type: Journal ArticleLeadership is heralded as being critical to addressing the "crisis of governance" facing the Earths natural systems. While political, economic, and corporate discourses of leadership have been widely and critically ... -
Cost-benefit studies of natural resource management in Southeast Asia
(2015)Type: Book ChapterThis book applies cost-benefit analysis techniques in the management of environment and natural resources in developing countries of the Southeast Asian region and presents a compendium of studies conducted by researchers ... -
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 ... -
A longitudinal evaluation of the Communication, Education and Public Awareness (CEPA) campaign for the Philippine crocodile Crocodylus mindorensis in northern Luzon, Philippines
(2016)Type: Book ChapterThe Philippine crocodile Crocodylus mindorensis is Critically Endangered and its range is restricted to a few localities in human-dominated landscapes. Therefore, the survival of this species in the wild depends strongly ... -
Informal artisanal fish trade in West Africa: Improving cross-border trade
(2016)Type: BriefIn West Africa, fishing and trading in fish and fishery products has been practiced for centuries and makes a significant contribution to per capita gross domestic product (GDP). Trade is associated with faster economic ... -
Successes and failures of crocodile conservation strategies in the Asia Pacific
(2016)Type: Book ChapterIn this chapter, the authors examine whether the leather trade or other economic uses of crocodiles really are key to conserving the threatened crocodilians in the Asia Pacific region. They review six species of crocodile ... -
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 ... -
A Bayesian method to support global out-scaling of water-efficient rice technologies from pilot project areas
(2016)Type: Journal ArticleThis article present a Bayesian probabilistic method to support out-scaling of technologies from pilot projects. The method is applied to aerobic rice, a water-saving technology with probable global potential. The method ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
