A5051966501- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Regional Development and Innovation
- Forest Management and Policy
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Banana Cultivation and Research
- French Urban and Social Studies
- Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
- Firm Innovation and Growth
- Cooperative Studies and Economics
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Environmental and Ecological Studies
- Business, Education, Mathematics Research
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
- Business, Innovation, and Economy
- Finance, Taxation, and Governance
- Agricultural and Food Production Studies
- Family Business Performance and Succession
- Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
Global Crop Diversity Trust
2021
Center for International Forestry Research
2021
United Nations University
2021
Agropolis International
2018-2019
Institut Agro Montpellier
2018
Centro Agronomico Tropical de Investigacion y Ensenanza Catie
2002-2012
Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange
2003
Morse, W. C., J. L. Schedlbauer, S. E. Sesnie, B. Finegan, C. A. Harvey, Hollenhorst, K. Kavanagh, D. Stoian, and Wulfhorst. 2009. Consequences of environmental service payments for forest retention recruitment in a Costa Rican biological corridor. Ecology Society 14(1): 23. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02688-140123
Over the past decade, value chain development approach has increasingly been adopted by governments, donors, and NGOs to reduce rural poverty. The design of related interventions often assumes that poor households: 1) have sufficient resources effectively participate in development; 2) do not face substantial trade-offs when using these resources; 3) are able assume higher risks reinvesting capital labour. However, insights from our own experiences literature show assumptions reflect...
Postharvest losses (PHL) result in direct food and income to farmers consumers globally. PHL reduction strategies offer unique opportunities contribute sustainable systems for increased security farm incomes more than 200 million insecure people sub-Saharan Africa. Lack of empirical information remains a major challenge operationalization many countries the region. This paper utilizes cross-sectional data determine extent factors that are influencing postharvest cooking-banana value chain...
SUMMARY Innovation platforms are fast becoming part of the mantra agricultural research for development projects and programmes. Their basic tenet is that stakeholders depend on one another to achieve outcomes, hence need a space where they can learn, negotiate coordinate overcome challenges capture opportunities through facilitated innovation process. Although much has been written how implement facilitate efficiently, few studies support ex-ante appraisal when what purpose provide an...
Purpose Smallholder value chains are dynamic, changing over time in sudden, unpredictable ways as they adapt to shocks. Understanding these dynamics and adaptation is essential for remain competitive turbulent markets. Many guides chain development, though focus welcome attention on snapshots of current structure performance, pay limited the dynamic forces affecting or adaptation. The paper aims discuss issues. Design/methodology/approach This develops an expanded conceptual framework...
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...
ABSTRACT The economy of the northern Bolivian Amazon has historically been based on rubber and other non-timber forest products (NTFPs). In late 19th century, upcoming boom lead to establishment estates. Following World War I, a first crisis forced some estate owners abandon their land, favouring emergence independent communities. A second after II, along with Agrarian Reform in 1953, accelerated disintegration estates foundation early 1990s, conclusive halt production fuelled rural-urban...
ABSTRACT Commercial exploitation of non-timber forest products has been playing a major role in the northern Bolivian Amazon for more than century. Initially relying on rubber, regional economy underwent first diversification as consequence post-World War I rubber crisis: tapping became supplemented with subsistence agriculture and Brazil nut extraction. This mode making one's living prevailed region several decades until trade came to standstill early 1990s. The recent crisis called again...
Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW) is an important emerging and non-curable infectious plant pathogen in sub-Saharan Africa that can cause up to 100% yield loss, negatively impacting sustainable access food income more than 100 million banana farmers. This study disentangles adopters into partial full investigate the factors are relevant sustain adoption process of BXW control practices quantifies impact adopting practices. Data from a randomly selected sample 1200 farmers Uganda where disease...
La foresterie communautaire est une voie jugée prometteuse pour améliorer la situation souvent précaire des familles en milieu rural tout contribuant à conservation forêts. Des organisations nationales et internationales encouragent cette pratique affichant un ensemble d'objectifs clairs visant l'utilisation légale forêts, récoltes faible impact, commercialisation sur marchés extérieurs le recours services de formation technique. Si l'on peut faire état certaines expériences réalisations...
This article draws on four contrasting cases of value chain development (VCD) in Nicaragua to assess approaches and tools used design implementation. We interviewed 28 representatives from the international NGOs leading interventions, local that participated implementation, principal buyers, cooperatives. Despite complexity market systems, results showed a relatively basic approach VCD, reflected in: 1) reliance single tool for implementation; 2) expected outcomes based technical assistance...
Chapter 2 (Stoian et al.) draws attention to the link between VCD and smallholder livelihood strategies that comprise a complex mix of subsistence market-oriented activities are diversified meet multiple goals mitigate risks; authors address related implications for design assessment value-chain interventions. They question some underlying assumptions NGOs, government agencies, private-sector agents seeking smallholders higher-value markets.