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  Participatory Biodiversity Conservation: Rethinking the Strategy in the Low Tourist Potential Areas of Tropical Africa

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  Converting international interest in biodiversity conservation into a positive development strategy represents a major challenge for governments and the donor community. While defensive strategies in line with the ‘fines and fences’ approach are now widely rejected, attempts to provide positive incentives through alternative income generating strategies have not proven very effective.
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  The community's toolbox: The idea, methods and tools for participatory assessment, monitoring and evaluation in community forestry

  Forests, Trees and People Programme and Network, FAO - SLU, 1990

  This field manual provides a practical set of guidelines for many of the different approaches used in community forestry. It reassesses many of the conventional monitoring and evaluation methods and tools by emphasizing participatory techniques.The manual is organized into three sections.
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  What's Special About Wildlife Management In Forests?: Concepts And Models Of Rights-Based Management, With Recent Evidence From West-Central Africa

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999

  Wildlife consumption is an integral part of the livelihood and trade patterns of many peoples in the developing world, and highly valued by them. Yet to date the dominant models of wildlife management in areas of high – and allegedly unsustainable – consumptive use have favoured the exclusion of the users from the resource and the denial of its local values.
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  Trees outside forests: an essential tool for desertification control in the Sahel

  Unasylva, FAO, 2000

  This article focuses on lessons about desertification and the potential of trees as part of the solution, drawn from a specific rural situation in the Sahel, that of Keita, Tahoua Department, the Niger.
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  Good practices in drylands management

  Dryland Program, World Bank, 1999

  The objectives of this study are to analyze and synthesize the experience of the World Bank and other agencies in dryland management, with special emphasis on Africa.Recommendations are provided on "good policies and practices" in drylands management, which can support actions to fulfil obligations arising from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD) for member countries a
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  Property rights, collective action and technologies for natural resource management: a conceptual framework

  CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 1998

  Explores how the institutions of property rights and collective action play a particularly important role in the application of technologies for agricultural and natural resource management.Technologies with long time frames tend to require tenure security to provide sufficient incentives for adoption, while those that operate on a large spatial scale will require collective action to coordinat
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  Who's managing the commons: inclusive mangement for a sustainable future

  Drylands Programme, IIED, 2000

  This article discusses what is the best means of managing the commons. The article stresses that these are critical questions in the current wave of decentralisation and tenure reform taking place in many Sahelian states.
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  Can CAMPFIRE go beyond elephant?

  Institute of Environmental Studies, Zimbabwe, 1999

  Policy brief looking at whether the CAMPFIRE initiatives that involve empowering local communities to manage and benefit from their natural resources can be applied to a broader spectrum of woodland resources.It identifies the following problems:a legal and policy framework which is not enabling to local managementweakened local institutional structuresa high degree of differen
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  The institutional dynamics of community-based natural resource management: an entitlements approach

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2000

  This article begins by criticising neo-malthusian approaches to community-based resource management (CBNRM), which frames problems in terms of imbalances between social needs and aggregate resource availability. The article urges the need to start from the politics of resource access and control among diverse social actors.
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  From users to custodians: changing relations between people and the state in forest management in Tanzania

  World Bank, 2001

  This paper begins by discussing Tanzania's increasing recognition of the need to bring individuals, local groups, and communities into the policy, planning, and management process if woodlands are to remain productive in the coming decades.The article finds that:central control of forests takes management responsibility away from the communities most dependent on them, inevitably resul

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