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| Ravnborg, Helle Munk; de la Cruz, Ana Milena; del Pilar Guerrero, Maria; Westermann, Olaf. |
| Leaf-cutting ants (Atta. cephalotes) represents a serious problem to farmers in many parts of Latin America and accounts of ants eating up a whole cassava plot or destroying one or more fruit trees overnight are not uncommon. Ants do not respect farm boundaries. Therefore, farmers who control anthills on their own fields might still face damage on their crops caused by ants coming from neighboring fields where no control measures are taken. In that sense, crop damage caused by leaf-cutting ants constitutes a transboundary natural resource management problem which, in addition to technical interventions, requires organizational interventions to ensure a coordinated effort among farmers to be solved. This paper reports on a research effort initiated by CIAT... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50043 |
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| Johnson, Nancy L.; Ravnborg, Helle Munk; Westermann, Olaf; Probst, Kirsten. |
| Many watershed development projects around the world have performed poorly because they failed to take into account the needs, constraints, and practices of local people. Participatory watershed management—in which users help to define problems, set priorities, select technologies and policies, and monitor and evaluate impacts—is expected to improve performance. User participation in watershed management raises new questions for watershed research, including how to design appropriate mechanisms for organizing stakeholders and facilitating collective action. Management of a complex system such as a watershed may also require user participation in the research process itself. An increasing number of watershed research projects are already participatory,... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Watershed; Participatory watershed management; Participation; Research; Collective action; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55439 |
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