This book documents a decade of research, methodological innovation, and lessons learned in an eco-regional research-for-development program operating in the eastern African highlands, the African Highlands Initiative (AHI). It does this through...
Globally, local and indigenous approaches to conserving biodiversity, crop improvement, and managing precious natural resources are under threat. Many communities have to deal with “biopiracy,” for example. As well, existing laws are usually...
This book explores the place of poor people within a rich variety of value chains, focusing upon lagging, rural regions in Africa and Asia, and how they can “upgrade” within such chains. Upgrading is a key concept for value chain analysis and refers...
The complex and dynamic links between natural resource management (NRM) and development have long been recognized by national and international research and development organizations and have generated voluminous literature. However, much of what is...
Providing clean water for everyone is a global concern. But nowhere is this more challenging than in developing countries where one in five people has no access to safe drinking water.Solutions to the problem have long focused on increasing water...
After 32 failed attempts to reach consensus on water legislation and a deadly social conflict over water rights, IDRC-supported researchers in Bolivia have helped their country develop a water law that everyone could agree on. “Our country cannot...
The agroecological approach has become widespread in Latin America over the last decades, increasingly attracting the attention of several sectors, from the most academic through public and private organizations, and even to social organizations and...
Fisheries contribute greatly to the world food supply, especially for the poor communities in developing countries that depend on fish and fish byproducts as their main source of animal protein. However, numerous fish stocks and fish species are...
Environmental governance argues that governments are not the only agents responsible for managing environmental problems and that the solution is to share the management of environmental issues with civil society. This understanding has given rise...
Achieving Water Rights Consensus in Bolivia This was the challenge: help broker broad-based consensus on water legislation in Bolivia in the wake of violent social conflict over water rights — and after 32 previous attempts at introducing water...
Case Studies on Africa and the Middle East
External Review and Impact Assessment of the African Highlands Initiative (AHI)
Innovations can change lives in rural Latin America
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