- The ways of maize: food, poverty, policy and the politics of meaning among the Chewa of Malawi
- J. J. Mzamu 2011
- This study of Chewa people’s foodways traces the involvement of the Chewa people in global development politics and policy processes. With the aim of understanding how development interventionist policies affect or are affected ...
- The Government of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative
- Ministry of the Environment, Norway, 2012
- Through its international Climate and Forest Initiative, the Norwegian government aims at supporting efforts to slow, halt and eventually reduce greenhouse gas emissions resulting from deforestation and forest degradation in developin...
- Proceedings of the first Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation Programme Scientific Conference, 2012
- Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2012
- The 5-year CCIAM Programme is funded by the Norwegian Government and is carried out in cooperation between Tanzanian and Norwegian research institutions. It focuses on promoting natural forest conservation, afforestation, reforestatio...
- Pesticide use in agriculture: The philosophy, complexities and opportunities
- K. Atreya 2012
- Exaggerated and incompetent use of chemical pesticides in crop production can have adverse effects on human health, natural ecosystems and social capital. The potential impacts are interconnected and complicated, so the current scient...
- Factors Influencing Adoption and Area under Conservation Agriculture: A Mixed Methods Approach
- P. H. Nyanga 2012
- Adoption of conservation agriculture (CA) is low in most parts of Africa. Zambia has been quite successful in increasing adoption of CA among smallholder farmers. Few studies have been conducted to determine factors influencing adopti...
- Real-Time Evaluation of Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative: Lessons Learned from Support to Civil Society Organisations
- Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2012
- This Evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) Civil Society Support Scheme was conducted in two phases. The first deskbased phase reviewed project documentation from the 2009 and 2010 calls for p...
- REDD+: An incentive structure for long-term performance
- N. H. Ranum / Rainforest Foundation Norway, 2012
- Discussion paper from a group of NGOs and institutions that have followed the REDD+ discussions closely for many years (Greenpeace, CARE, FERN, ClientEarth, Ateneo school of government, FoE Norway and Rainforest Foundation Norway). Ma...
- Reversing Agro-Based Land Degradation through Conservation Agriculture: Emerging Experiences from Zambia’s Smallholder Farming Sector
- B. B. Umar 2012
- This study reports on the land degradation minimizing effects of Conservation Agriculture (CA) as promoted among smallholder Zambian farmers. It found no evidence of CA associated improvements in soil fertility after five years of CA ...
- Assessment of Fertilizer Policy, Farmers’ Perceptions and Implications for Future Agricultural Development in Nepal
- N. Raut 2012
- This paper assesses the origins of and changes to fertilizer policy in Nepal over a period of time. It assesses farmers’ awareness of the recent changes to the subsidy policy and examines their perceptions of the extension servic...
- BUSH ENCROACHMENT CONTROL DEMONSTRATIONS AND MANAGEMENT IMPLICATIONS ON HERBACEOUS SPECIES IN SAVANNAS OF SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA
- A. Angassa 2012
- Proper management of bush control methods need to be effectively demonstrated to resource users. In this paper, authors evaluated effects of disturbance control, tree cutting, fire and grazing, the old traditional method of applying f...
- The ways of maize: food, poverty, policy and the politics of meaning among the Chewa of Malawi
- J. J. Mzamu 2011
- This study of Chewa people’s foodways traces the involvement of the Chewa people in global development politics and policy processes. With the aim of understanding how development interventionist policies affect or are affected ...
- The Government of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative
- Ministry of the Environment, Norway, 2012
- Through its international Climate and Forest Initiative, the Norwegian government aims at supporting efforts to slow, halt and eventually reduce greenhouse gas emissions resulting from deforestation and forest degradation in developin...
- Proceedings of the first Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation Programme Scientific Conference, 2012
- Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2012
- The 5-year CCIAM Programme is funded by the Norwegian Government and is carried out in cooperation between Tanzanian and Norwegian research institutions. It focuses on promoting natural forest conservation, afforestation, reforestatio...
- Pesticide use in agriculture: The philosophy, complexities and opportunities
- K. Atreya 2012
- Exaggerated and incompetent use of chemical pesticides in crop production can have adverse effects on human health, natural ecosystems and social capital. The potential impacts are interconnected and complicated, so the current scient...
- Factors Influencing Adoption and Area under Conservation Agriculture: A Mixed Methods Approach
- P. H. Nyanga 2012
- Adoption of conservation agriculture (CA) is low in most parts of Africa. Zambia has been quite successful in increasing adoption of CA among smallholder farmers. Few studies have been conducted to determine factors influencing adopti...
- Real-Time Evaluation of Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative: Lessons Learned from Support to Civil Society Organisations
- Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2012
- This Evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) Civil Society Support Scheme was conducted in two phases. The first deskbased phase reviewed project documentation from the 2009 and 2010 calls for p...
- REDD+: An incentive structure for long-term performance
- N. H. Ranum / Rainforest Foundation Norway, 2012
- Discussion paper from a group of NGOs and institutions that have followed the REDD+ discussions closely for many years (Greenpeace, CARE, FERN, ClientEarth, Ateneo school of government, FoE Norway and Rainforest Foundation Norway). Ma...
- Reversing Agro-Based Land Degradation through Conservation Agriculture: Emerging Experiences from Zambia’s Smallholder Farming Sector
- B. B. Umar 2012
- This study reports on the land degradation minimizing effects of Conservation Agriculture (CA) as promoted among smallholder Zambian farmers. It found no evidence of CA associated improvements in soil fertility after five years of CA ...
- Assessment of Fertilizer Policy, Farmers’ Perceptions and Implications for Future Agricultural Development in Nepal
- N. Raut 2012
- This paper assesses the origins of and changes to fertilizer policy in Nepal over a period of time. It assesses farmers’ awareness of the recent changes to the subsidy policy and examines their perceptions of the extension servic...
- BUSH ENCROACHMENT CONTROL DEMONSTRATIONS AND MANAGEMENT IMPLICATIONS ON HERBACEOUS SPECIES IN SAVANNAS OF SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA
- A. Angassa 2012
- Proper management of bush control methods need to be effectively demonstrated to resource users. In this paper, authors evaluated effects of disturbance control, tree cutting, fire and grazing, the old traditional method of applying f...
- Bibsys
- Combined catalogue of major Norwegian libraries
- Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway (CMI)
- Norewgian development research centre
- Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
- The Agricultural University of Norway's (NLH) international gateway
- Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD)
- Database of Norwegian research
- Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP)
- CROP was established by the International Social Science Council in 1992. It is a world-wide network of researchers and experts on poverty. The aim of the Programme is to establish a common arena for interdisciplinary and comparative research on poverty in developed and developing countries. CROP organises regional workshops, symposia and international conferences, promotes joint research project...
- Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD (NORAD)
- Norwegian government's development cooperation agency
