SABIIA - Sistema Aberto e Integrado de Informação em Agricultura (Sabiia)

Aldy, Joseph E.; Barrett, Scott; Stavins, Robert N..

We critically review the Kyoto Protocol and thirteen alternative policy architectures for addressing the threat of global climate change. We employ six criteria to evaluate the policy proposals: environmental outcome, dynamic efficiency, cost effectiveness, equity, flexibility in the presence of new information, and incentives for participation and compliance. The Kyoto Protocol does not fare well on a number of criteria, but none of the alternative proposals fare well along all six dimensions. We identify several major themes among the alternative proposals: Kyoto is "too little, too fast"; developing countries should play a more substantial role and receive incentives to participate; implementation should focus on market-based approaches, especially...

Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper

Palavras-chave: Policy architecture; Kyoto Protocol; Efficiency; Cost effectiveness; Equity; Participation; Compliance; Environmental Economics and Policy.

Ano: 2003

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10541

A LOGIT ANALYSIS OF PARTICIPATION IN TENNESSEE'S FOREST STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM

Bell, Caroline D.; Roberts, Roland K.; English, Burton C.; Park, William M..

This study determines the likely effect of cost-share incentives on participation in the Tennessee Forest Stewardship Program and identifies other factors that may contribute to participation. A random utility model is used to determine the probability that a landowner will choose to participate in the program. A binary choice model is specified to represent the dichotomous decision and a logit procedure is used to fit the model. Data are obtained from mail surveys of 4,000 randomly selected landowners. Results indicate that attitudes and knowledge of forestry programs may be more influential in a landowner's decision to participate than monetary incentives.

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Cost-share incentive; Stewardship Incentive Program; Logit; Nonindustrial private forest; NIPF; Participation; Forestry; Trees; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.

Ano: 1994

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15185

A New Paradigm for Adaptive Management

Felton, Adam; Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; adam.felton@slu.se; Rosvall, Ola; Rosvall Forest Consulting AB; Ola.rosvall@gmail.com.

Uncertainty is a pervasive feature in natural resource management. Adaptive management, an approach that focuses on identifying critical uncertainties to be reduced via diagnostic management experiments, is one favored approach for tackling this reality. While adaptive management is identified as a key method in the environmental management toolbox, there remains a lack of clarity over when its use is appropriate or feasible. Its implementation is often viewed as suitable only in a limited set of circumstances. Here we restructure some of the ideas supporting this view, and show why much of the pessimism around AM may be unwarranted. We present a new framework for deciding when AM is appropriate, feasible, and subsequently successful. We thus present a new...

Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight

Palavras-chave: Experimental management; Experimentation; Management; Natural resource; Participation; Stakeholder; Uncertainty.

Ano: 2013

A Participatory Modeling Process to Capture Indigenous Ways of Adaptability to Uncertainty: Outputs From an Experiment in West African Drylands

d'Aquino, Patrick; CIRAD; daquino@cirad.fr; Bah, Alassane; UMISCO ESP UCAD Dakar; alassane.bah@gmail.com.

Over the centuries, local communities have shaped atypical rules to deal with the uncertainty of their environment. They have developed complex prototypes for flexible overlapping institutions and arrangements to adapt their rules and uses to their uncertain environment. Today, this indigenous way of flexibly institutionalizing access rules could provide blueprints for dealing with uncertainty issues resulting from global change as well as designing practical guidelines for implementing resilient management. However, transforming indigenous skills for developing institutional flexibility into operational management rules that are appropriate in the current environmental and socioeconomic context is a huge challenge. However, communities could easily...

Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports

Palavras-chave: Environment; Indigenous knowledge; Management; Modeling; Participation; Sahel; Senegal; Uncertainty.

Ano: 2013

A sense of change: media designers and artists communicating about complexity in social-ecological systems

A spatial analysis of participation in RDP measures: a case study in Emilia Romagna Region

To take on the current and future challenges of global environmental change, fostering a widespread societal understanding of and engagement with the complex dynamics that characterize interacting human and natural systems is essential. Current science communication methods struggle with a number of specific challenges associated with communicating about complex systems. In this study we report on two collaborative processes, a short workshop and longer course, that aimed to harness the insights of interactive media designers and artists to overcome these challenges. The two processes resulted in 86 new interactive media concepts which were selected by the participants and organizers using set criteria and then evaluated using the same criteria by a panel...

Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports

Palavras-chave: Communication; Complexity; Participation; Scale; Serious gaming; Social-ecological systems.

Ano: 2014

Bartolini, Fabio; Raggi, Meri; Viaggi, Davide.

A large body of literature has highlighted and analysed the issues which affect the quality and the reliability of evaluation results of the RDPs measure. In addition to weaknesses in the specification of objectives, measurement of the additionality, several authors have pointed-out a lack in evaluation of the cross-effects across space of the measure. The objective of this contribution is to develop a spatial analysis of the participation rate in the measure 121, highlighting, as a determinant, the effect of the set of priorities established by the local administration. The analysis is realised by two steps: the first is the realisation of an Exploratory Spatial Description Analysis (ESDA) of the participation rate in the Emilia Romagna Municipalities and...

Tipo: Presentation

Palavras-chave: Rural development measure; Farm modernisation; Spatial econometrics; Participation; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Q18 - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Q10 - General.

Ano: 2012

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/124103

Agricultural Input Trade Fairs and Vouchers in Mozambique:Experiences and lessons learned

Agricultural Research Networks As Development Tools

Longley, C..

Palavras-chave: Trade fairs; Farm inputs; Seed quality; Germinability; Retail marketing; Kidney beans; Seed testing; Grain; Seed production; Participation.

Ano: 2005

URL: http://agropedia.iitk.ac.in/openaccess/?q=node/3683

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT).

Palavras-chave: Participation; Assets; Entities; Grain legumes; Farming systems; Pigeonpeas; Farm inputs; Activities; Legumes.

Ano: 1991

URL: http://agropedia.iitk.ac.in/openaccess/?q=node/4092

ALLOCATING LAND TO NEW YORK'S CONSERVATION RESERVE ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM TO MAXIMIZE NET ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS

Jaroszewski, Laura; Poe, Gregory L.; Boisvert, Richard N..

A programming model is used to assess the welfare effects of regional and practice specifications contained in New York State's Draft Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) proposal. Net social benefits are nearly 75% lower than options that explicitly account for opportunity costs of production, environmental benefits, and participation response functions. Keywords: benefit cost analysis, conservation programs, participation, linear programming

Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation

Palavras-chave: Benefit cost analysis; Conservation programs; Participation; Linear programming; Environmental Economics and Policy; Land Economics/Use.

Ano: 2000

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21882

An Empirical Analysis of Stakeholders’ Influence on Policy Development: the Role of Uncertainty Handling

Bijlsma, Rianne M.; University of Twente, The Netherlands; Deltares, The Netherlands; r.m.bijlsma@alumnus.utwente.nl; Bots, Pieter W. G.; Cemagref (UMR G-EAU); University of Delft, The Netherlands; p.w.g.bots@tudelft.nl; Wolters, Henk A.; Deltares, The Netherlands; henk.wolters@deltares.nl; Hoekstra, Arjen Y.; University of Twente, The Netherlands; a.y.hoekstra@utwente.nl.

Stakeholder participation is advocated widely, but there is little structured, empirical research into its influence on policy development. We aim to further the insight into the characteristics of participatory policy development by comparing it to expert-based policy development for the same case. We describe the process of problem framing and analysis, as well as the knowledge base used. We apply an uncertainty perspective to reveal differences between the approaches and speculate about possible explanations. We view policy development as a continuous handling of substantive uncertainty and process uncertainty, and investigate how the methods of handling uncertainty of actors influence the policy development. Our findings suggest that the wider frame...

Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports

Palavras-chave: Environmental policy; Framing; Participation; Policy development; Policy process; Stakeholder involvement; Uncertainty.

Ano: 2011

Bridging the Gap between Farmers and Researchers through Collaborative Experimentation. Cost and Labour Reduction in Soybean Production in South-Nyanza, Kenya

Vandeplas, I.; Vanlauwe, Bernard; Merckx, Roel; Deckers, Jozef A..

The Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Institute of the International Centre of Tropical Agriculture (TSBF-CIAT) introduced dual purpose soybean varieties in south-west Kenya both to improve soil fertility by nitrogen fixation and to provide a source of better food and income. Since the start of the project in 2005, the Uriri Farmer Cooperative Society was successful in spreading the seeds over the district. Nevertheless, farmers still had problems with soybean agronomy. We therefore started a Collaborative Experiment (CE) Approach in March 2006 to make soybean production more accessible to farmers. The approach consisted of four stages: 1) information sessions; 2) participatory rural appraisal; 3) collaboration in the whole process of experimentation,...

Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation

Palavras-chave: Collaborative research; Soybean; Participation; Crop Production/Industries; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies.

Ano: 2008

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43935

Can scenario-planning support community-based natural resource management? Experiences from three countries in Latin America

Waylen, Kerry A; Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Group, The James Hutton Institute; kerry.waylen@hutton.ac.uk; Martin-Ortega, Julia; Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Group, The James Hutton Institute; Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and the Environment and water@leeds, University of Leeds; J.MartinOrtega@leeds.ac.uk; Blackstock, Kirsty L; Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Group, The James Hutton Institute; kirsty.blackstock@hutton.ac.uk; Brown, Iain; Information and Computational Sciences Group, The James Hutton Institute; iain.brown@hutton.ac.uk; Escalante Semerena, Roberto Ivan; Faculty of Economics, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM); semerena@unam.mx; Farah Quijano, Maria Adelaida; Pontificia Universidad Javeriana-Faculty of Environmental and Rural Studies; mafarahq@gmail.com; Ortiz-Guerrero, Cesar E.; Pontificia Universidad Javeriana; c.ortiz@javeriana.edu.co.

Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) is a concept critical to managing social-ecological systems but whose implementation needs strengthening. Scenario planning is one approach that may offer benefits relevant to CBNRM but whose potential is not yet well understood. Therefore, we designed, trialed, and evaluated a scenario-planning method intended to support CBNRM in three cases, located in Colombia, Mexico, and Argentina. Implementing scenario planning was judged as worthwhile in all three cases, although aspects of it were challenging to facilitate. The benefits generated were relevant to strengthening CBNRM: encouraging the participation of local people and using their knowledge, enhanced consideration of and adaptation to future change,...

Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports

Palavras-chave: Argentina; Climate change; Colombia; Community-based conservation; Futures thinking; Mexico; Participation; Scenario methods; Wicked problems.

Ano: 2015

Chickpea Scientists’ Meet organized at ICRISAT, Patancheru

Co-Modeling Process, Negotiations, and Power Relationships: Some Outputs From a MAB Project on the Island of Ouessant

Gaur, P.M..

Palavras-chave: Chickpeas; Germplasm; Breeds (animals); Participation; Selection; Group communication; Research methods; Products; Livestock.

Ano: 2007

URL: http://agropedia.iitk.ac.in/openaccess/?q=node/3323

ArchiMer

Levrel, Harold; Etienne, Monique; Kerbiriou, Christian; Le Page, Christophe; Rouan, Mathias.

For many conservation scientists, interdisciplinarity and participation can be efficient in the management of biodiversity. For both methods, new tools and new participative processes such as the so-called co-modeling process are required. The key questions addressed in this article are how group dynamics shape the model and why certain perspectives dominate in a process designed to be democratic. It is necessary, therefore, in order to appreciate the design and the legitimacy of the model that has been co-constructed, to address the questions of both the stakeholders' interests and their status in the process. Our case study is a co-modeling program based in a French biosphere reserve. It enabled us to highlight the key role of the mediator who had to...

Tipo: Text

Palavras-chave: Power relationships; Participation; Multi agent system; Co modeling; Co adaptive management.

Ano: 2009

URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2009/publication-6153.pdf

Comparative Study of Three Community Seed Supply Strategies in Tanzania

Comparison of Farmer-Participatory Research Methodologies

D.D..

Palavras-chave: Seed production; Millets; Sorghum; Seed quality; Participation; Quality controls; Seed treatment; Breeders seed; Grain; Markets.

Ano: 2002

URL: http://agropedia.iitk.ac.in/openaccess/?q=node/3715

Conocimiento e inclusión de la población en el plan de desarrollo municipal de Tlapa de Comonfort, Guerrero.

H.A..

Palavras-chave: Research methods; Participation; Farm inputs; On-farm research; Technology; Replication; Millets; Selection; Information dissemination; Land resources.

Ano: 2001

URL: http://agropedia.iitk.ac.in/openaccess/?q=node/3728

Colegio de Postgraduados

Cabrera Solís, Roberto.

La planeación inició en México en 1928, y surgió como un planteamiento vertical, con pleno control del gobierno federal. Hoy día, se plantea que sea participativa e incluyente, con la participación de los actores involucrados de un territorio determinado. Más recientemente, la planeación se extendió al nivel de gobierno local, municipal. Sin embargo, la planeación municipal en México es reciente y presenta muchas limitantes, sobre todo en considerar la participación ciudadana en el proceso de planeación. La presente investigación tuvo como objetivo identificar los factores sociales, políticos e institucionales que afectan la participación en la planeación y gestión del Plan de Desarrollo Municipal (PDM) del municipio de Tlapa de Comonfort, en el estado de...

Palavras-chave: Actores sociales; Municipio; Planeación; Participación; Desarrollo Sostenible de Zonas Indígenas; Maestría Tecnológica; Social actors; Municipality; Planning; Participation.

Ano: 2012

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10521/1823

Constructing a Social Development Network within a Rural Municipal Government in Portugal

Koehnen, Timothy; Cristovao, Artur.

In Portugal, an experimental Social Development Network (SDN) programme has been promoted at the national level by the Social Development Institute (SDI). The major operational objective of the SDN is to construct advisory councils and local commis- sions to increase local participation. The advisory council is represented by local de- velopment stakeholders from governmental and non-governmental institutions. These stakeholders define the actions to be taken for the social development agenda in the municipal government. The paper depicts the achievements and inadequacies of this network. In general, the case-study evaluation determines if the network strengthens the social action process in a rural area faced by social constraints,...

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Advisory councils; Participation; Empowerment; Decision-making; Governance; Community/Rural/Urban Development.

Ano: 2006

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44104

Coping with climate risk in agriculture needs farmer oriented research and extension policies

Scientia Agricola

Stigter,Kees.

The first necessary change for agrometeorology, in generally lower (external) input parts of agriculture in developing countries, is on research and extension. They have to refocus to preparedness for risks and uncertainties of local farming systems in need of support in four defined directions of prioritization, emphasis depending on the farming system concerned. These are (i) extreme events and their consequences caused by meteorological and climatological disasters on all time scales, including related aversion attempts; (ii) pests and diseases, including countervailing measures; (iii) trying to use beneficial climate and weather and (iv) applications of agrometeorological services. The second necessary change for such agrometeorology is participation...

Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article

Palavras-chave: Climate Field Schools; Agrometeorological services; Participation; Preparedness; Resilience.

Ano: 2008

URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162008000700016

Designing Participation Processes for Water Management and Beyond