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Policy-oriented research (POR) comprises an increasingly significant share of the research portfolio of Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), with the annual budget having risen from less than US$30 million in 1995 (9 percent of the total budget) to more...
Over the past 20 years, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) has become a major provider of natural resource management research (NRMR). In principle, NRMR, which covers a broad spectrum of topics relevant to the management of land, soils, water, and...
In most of the developing world, irrigation schemes are making, or have already made, the transition from State-dominated to more participatory management. The process that later became known as Irrigation Management Transfer (IMT) began in the late 1980s, when a number of governments...
The theme of the current issue of the Mountain Forum Bulletin
is the same as the theme of International Mountain Day 2006:
“Managing Mountain Biodiversity for Better Lives”.
This document has been produced for the 4th World Water Forum to provide ‘KEY MESSAGES’ which reflect valuable information, insight and opportunity for action within the framework of the water-food-environment nexus.The document is based on the knowledge and experience of IWMI and a...
FAPRI Staff Report 07-FSR 1
The FAPRI 2007 U.S. and World Agricultural Outlook presents projections of world agricultural production, consumption, and trade under average weather patterns, existing farm policy, and policy commitments under current trade agreements and custom...
Market-oriented approaches to environmental management are increasingly common in all sectors of the economy. Forestry is no exception. As forestry sectors around the world open their doors to growing private sector participation, governments have been increasingly attracted to market-...
Water resources in Indonesia face increasingly complex management problems, associated with deterioration in water availability, quantity and quality. Policy to date has emphasized utilization of water. At the same time landslides, soil erosion and floods have increased in numbers,...
Due to the progressive developments around catchment management and the ambitious goals
set out by the National Water Act (Act no. 36 of 1998) (DWA&F, 1997a), the Water Service
Act No. 108 of 1997 (Annon, 1997), and the Water Resource Strategy (2002), coupled with historical...
El libro que tenemos la satisfacción de presentar a la consideración del lector forma parte de un proyecto de colaboración académica entre instituciones de América Latina, África y Asia que tiene como objetivo recrear y rediscutir la producción de conocimiento en las ciencias sociales...
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