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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 ...
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: Essential aspects of governance for Aquatic Agricultural Systems in Malaita Hub
Type: Working Paper
In late 2012, a governance assessment was carried out as part of the diagnosis phase of rollout of the CGIAR Aquatic Agricultural Systems Program in Malaita Hub in Solomon Islands. The purpose of the assessment was to ...
Navigating the institutional landscape: introduction and overview
Type: Book
Southeast Asia is one of the world's most productive areas in terms of fisheries and other coastal resources. These resources are important to the local, regional and national economies. Coastal areas are also the focus ...
Coastal resources management in Indonesia: legal and institutional aspects
Type: Report
This research explores legal and institutional aspects of fisheries and coastal resources management. The analysis is based on the principles of integrated fisheries management which includes seven key management factors: ...
Community-based approaches to marine and coastal resources management in the Philippines: a policy perspective
Type: Book
This is a study undertaken to ascertain the elements and trends at the local and national levels, which define therights and rules that provide the management framework for the implementation of different types of locally ...
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 ...
Investing in multi-stakeholder dialogue to address natural resource competition and conflict
Type: Journal Article
How can multi-stakeholder dialogue help assess and address the roots of environmental resource competition and conflict? This article summarises the outcomes and lessons from action research in large lake systems in Uganda, ...
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, ...