A5007812537- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Water resources management and optimization
- Forest Management and Policy
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Rural development and sustainability
- French Urban and Social Studies
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Cooperative Studies and Economics
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Natural Resources and Economic Development
- FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
International Rice Research Institute
2008-2023
World Agroforestry Centre
2010-2022
University of the Philippines Los Baños
2002-2022
WWF-Indonesia
2021
Center for International Forestry Research
2002-2021
Brunei Polytechnic
2021
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
2021
Decision Research
2017
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
2014
École Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort
2012
Despite the great potential of agricultural innovations, uptake by smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa seems to be slow. We reviewed existing theories and frameworks for innovations found that these tend emphasize role extrinsic factors such as characteristics adopter external environment decision-making process. In this paper, we argue intrinsic knowledge, perceptions attitudes towards innovation play a key role, but has been less studied. present an analytical framework combines both...
Previous research on the determinants of effectiveness in knowledge systems seeking to support sustainable development has highlighted importance “boundary work” through which communities organize their relations with new science, other sources knowledge, and worlds action policymaking. A growing body scholarship postulates specific attributes boundary work that promote used useful research. These propositions, however, are largely based experience a few industrialized countries. We report...
Smallholder farmers are vulnerable to environmental, climate and weather-related stress, including change. There is an increase in understanding of the benefits agroforestry systems both at farm landscape scales, that incorporating trees on farms through has emerged as having potential enhance resilience smallholders current future risks Drawing global examples with a focus African case studies, this paper demonstrates versatile roles reducing smallholder's exposure climate-related risks. It...
This study examined farmers' attitudes towards tree planting on farms in Malawi, using the theory of planned behaviour as a conceptual framework. Questionnaires containing scale that measures attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control relation to were administered 200 farmers Chiradzulu Mzimba districts Malawi. Farmers who reported trees last five years had more positive norms compared have not planted trees. A hierarchical logistic regression analysis showed membership...
Payments for environmental services (PES), the non-provisioning part of ecosystem services, target alignment microeconomic incentives land users with meso- and macroeconomic societal costs benefits their choices across stakeholders scales. They can interfere or complement social norms rights-based approaches at generic (land-use planning) individual (tenure, use rights) levels; they interact policies influencing drivers to which agents respond. In many developing country contexts, community...
Efforts towards Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation plus conservation, sustainable management of forests enhancement carbon stocks (REDD+) have grown in importance developing countries following negotiations within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This has favoured investments processes to prepare for REDD+ at national level (a process referred as Readiness). Yet, little attention been given how Readiness can be assessed potentially...
While decision-making processes of land managers drive land-use change and affect the provision ecosystems services, there is no concrete understanding whether gender specificity in influences multifunctionality landscapes. We distinguish eleven elements a typical management cycle. In reviewing literature, we found apparent gaps on gendered knowledge, preferences, risk taking access to innovation decision making. Male female responses adoption agroforestry practices other investment...
We are living in a time of crisis on planet Earth. Urgent calls for transformational change getting louder. Technical solutions have an important role to play addressing pressing global challenges, but alone they not enough. After all, who decides what kind transformation is needed, what, and whom? What principles guide those decisions, how decision-makers held accountable? This commentary article argues that these governance questions central any solution, order simultaneously address the...
SUMMARY In the peatlands of Central Kalimantan, expectations payments for reducing carbon emissions shape discourse over natural resource management as a means influencing policy and exercising power. Different types actors have their own choice argument interpretation facts, rules norms use or conservation. This article examines discursive strategies used by contestants in struggle property rights failed development project (‘ex-Mega Rice Area’) Kalimantan traces changes developments...
Atmospheric moisture ("rainbow water") is the source of all green, blue and grey water flows. Current water-related legislation policies have moved beyond (water allocation) (waste treatment) concerns to incorporate green concept additional use by fast-growing trees; it may require further change rainbow relations as evident in recent literature on short-cycle rainfall derived from evapotranspiration over land. Specific teleconnections relate dynamics at any specific site land sea conditions...
Climate variability is contributing to water-scarcity problems in Kenya and extreme flooding drought Vietnam. This paper compares diversity-based climate adaptation approaches current land use the Cam Xuyen district, Ha Tinh province, Central Vietnam Kapingazi river watershed Embu Eastern Kenya, order understand local responses examine potential for policy support of diversity management by people. Literature reviews trend analysis time series rainfall temperature were combined with...
Previous research on the determinants of effectiveness in knowledge systems seeking to support sustainable development has highlighted importance "boundary work" through which communities organize their relations with other fields science, sources knowledge, and worlds action policymaking. A growing body scholarship postulates specific attributes boundary work that promote used useful research. These propositions, however, are largely based experience a few industrialized countries. We...
With the decline in public budgets for agricultural extension support, ties between members of farmer groups are becoming more important to facilitate information transfer about agroforestry. This paper examines role social network predicting organizational leadership an agroforestry-based group. Using data derived from interviews with farming based Ayeyarwady Delta Myanmar, we established a positive relationship advice-seeking and leadership. In other words, farmers who were highly sought...
Multistakeholder platforms (MSPs) are the subject of increasing attention and investment in domain collaborative natural resource governance, yet evidence-based guidance is slim on policy priorities to leverage MSP approach. We provide a comparative analysis eight landscape-level MSPs spanning seven countries (Peru, Brazil, India, Tanzania, Ethiopia, cross-border case from Kenya Somalia), representing diversity systems covering forests, rangelands, multiuse agricultural landscapes. Applying...
Traditional local institutions were studied in the highlands of Ethiopia and Tanzania to understand their role natural resource management. Focus group discussions as well individual interviews conducted identify existing roles. Historical trend analyses done determine how importance has changed over years. Results show that several with diverse objectives varying levels exist study sites. The article suggests ways which can contribute effective management for sustainable social economic...
Shortage of domestic water is a key problem in Nairobi. The Sasumua Reservoir supplies 20% Nairobi's water. However, reservoir quantity has been impacted by human activities. Landholders within the catchment have no incentives to take into account this impact their decision. objective study was estimate willingness pay (WTP) Nairobi residents for reliable via conservation. Data were collected through face-to-face surveys. A censored regression model employed WTP. Results show that monthly...
This study examines household decision-making on various agricultural activities—including tree planting and management—among farming families in Malawi. A mixed-method approach consisting of a survey (containing 135 married respondents 16 focus group discussions) was used to analyze the gender dimensions role kinship structure. The found that most decisions relation activities are made either by husband or wife together. However, regarding management more often head alone, considered mainly...