Community Forestry In Nepal A Policy Innovation For Local Livelihoods

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Hemant Ojha, Lauren Persha, Ashwini Chhatre
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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File : 44 Pages
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Community Forestry In Nepal

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Community forestry focuses on the link between forest resources and livelihoods and contributes to forest conservation and reforestation. It is widespread in Nepal, with a very high proportion of the rural population involved, and is widely recognized as one of the most successful examples of community forestry in Asia. Through a combination of literature reviews and original research, this volume explores key experiences and outcomes of community forestry in Nepal over the last four decades as a model for improving forest management and supporting local livelihoods. The book takes a critical approach, recognizing successes, especially in forest conservation and restoration, along with mixed outcomes in terms of poverty reduction and benefits to forest users. It recognizes the way that community forestry has continued to evolve to meet new challenges, including the global challenges of climate change, environmental degradation and conservation, as well as national demographic and social changes due to large-scale labour migration and the growing remittance economy. In addition to examining the changes and responses, the book explores ways that community forestry in Nepal might move forward. Lessons from Nepal have relevance to community forestry and community-based approaches to natural resource management around the world that are also experiencing global pressures and opportunities.

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Genre : Technology & Engineering
Author : Richard Thwaites
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2017-12-11
File : 207 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781315445144


Economic Growth And Distribution Of Income

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Harumi T. Nelson, Terry L. Roe, Xinshen Diao
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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File : 48 Pages
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Trade Liberalization Poverty And Food Security In India

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Manoj Panda, A. Ganesh-Kumar
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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File : 50 Pages
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Improving The Proof Evolution Of And Emerging Trends In Impact Assessment Methods And Approaches In Agricultural Development

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Assessing impacts of public investments has long captured the interest and attention of the development community. This paper presents the evolution of different methods and approaches used for ex ante appraisal, monitoring, project evaluation, and impact assessment over the last five decades. Among these tools, impact assessment (IA) conducted retrospectively comes closest to providing the proof of development effectiveness. It is defined as the systematic analysis of the significant or lasting changes in people's lives brought about by a given action or series of actions in relation to a counterfactual. There are three basic types of retrospective IAs: macro-level IAs that focus on the contribution of developmental efforts to an impact goal aggregated at a sector or a system level; micro-level impact evaluations (IEs) concerned with estimating the average effect of an intervention on outcomes at the beneficiary level; and micro-level ex post impact analysis concerned with total effects of a development effort after the outputs are scaled-up. Ex post IAs have evolved and expanded over the decades in both breadth and depth of analysis in response to evolving development themes and methodological advancements. The increased emphasis on learning from evaluations has also seen responses from both quantitative and qualitative camps of the evaluation community. The paper argues that generation of robust knowledge that feeds into making developmental policies and investment decisions requires a hierarchical and cumulative approach to "improving the proof" through rigorous and a variety of impact assessment methods applied incrementally at the project, program and system level. Subjecting as many development interventions as resources allow to rigorous impact assessment based on a common framework can help build a critical body of evidence on impacts of development interventions, which can then be subjected to meta-analyses to help assimilate results across different studies and build a knowledge base on what works and what does not.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Mywish K. Maredia
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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File : 48 Pages
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Pearl Millet And Sorghum Improvement In India

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The spread of modern varieties and hybrids of pearl millet and sorghum that began in the mid-1960s has had an important impact on small farmer welfare in India. The success and sustainability of these improved cultivars resulted from three types (or periods) of interventions by the Indian government: (1) increased investments in crop improvement by national and international agricultural systems during the 1970s; (2) development of efficient seed systems, with the gradual inclusion of the private sector in the 1980s; and (3) the liberalization of the Indian seed industry in the late 1990s. In addition to increased overall production levels of sorghum and millet, there have been substantial yield gains in semi-arid regions as well as improved cultivars adopted in some of the poorest areas of India. The innovations of new, hybrid technology have not been limited to the Green Revolution crops; they have also had significant impact on the productivity of small-farmer households growing dryland crops, such as millet and sorghum in India.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Carl E. Pray, Latha Nagarajan
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Release : 2009
File : 36 Pages
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Institutional Reform In The Burkinab Cotton Sector And Its Impacts On Incomes And Food Security 1996 2006

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Jonathan Kaminski, Derek Headey, Tanguy Bernard
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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File : 56 Pages
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The Asian Green Revolution

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Peter B.R. Hazell
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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File : 40 Pages
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 Crossing The River While Feeling The Rocks Incremental Land Reform And Its Impact On Rural Welfare In China

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Genre : Social Science
Author : John W. Bruce, Zongmin Li
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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File : 60 Pages
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Agroenvironmental Transformation In The Sahel Another Kind Of Green Revolution

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Chris Reij, Gray Tappan, Melinda Smale
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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File : 52 Pages
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