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Searching with a thematic focus on Agriculture and food, Agricultural biodiversity and natural resource management, Water management and irrigation, Participation

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  Depopulating the Tibetan grasslands: national policies and perspectives for the future of Tibetan herders in Qinghai Province, China

  Plateau Perspectives, 2008

  Tibetan grasslands constitute one of the most important grazing ecosystems in the world and encompass the source areas of many major Asian rivers.
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  Land degradation assessment and prevention: selected case studies from the ESCWA region

  Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, 2007

  This report looks at possible ways for policy-makers and decision-takers to combat and/or prevent land degradation in the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) region, both generally and specifically in the following countries: Egypt, Jordan, Syria and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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  Poverty, pastoralism and policy in Ngorongoro: lessons learned from the Ereto I Ngorongoro pastoralist project with implications for pastoral development and the policy debate

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008

  Recent years have seen pastoralist communities in Tanzania becoming increasingly impoverished and vulnerable, due to  livestock diseases, drought, fluctuating market prices and unfavourable policies.
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  Joint forest planning and management in the eastern plains of Karnataka: a rapid assessment

  Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Development, Bangalore, 2005

  Joint Forest Management (JFM) has become the key concept through which forest generation activities are being implemented in most parts of India.
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  The local politics of land and water: case studies from the Mekong Delta

  Groupe de recherche et d'échanges technologiques, 2005

  This document takes a historical view of the relations between individual and collective actors in local water management in the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam.
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  Participatory irrigation management in Andhra Pradesh, India

  Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Development, Bangalore, 2001

  The state government of Andhra Pradesh, India adopted major reforms in the irrigation sector in the late 1990s, including the transfer of management of irrigation systems to water users associations (WUAs).
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  Bangladesh: Boosting food security for poor farmers: Netrakona integrated agricultural production and water management project

  Office of Evaluation and Studies, IFAD, 2004

  This document presents the key findings of the evaluation of an integrated agricultural production and water management project implemented by IFAD in Netrakona district, in northern Bangladesh.
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  Conceptual and methodological lessons for improving watershed management and research

  CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 2003

  This policy brief from CAPRI summarises the findings of a workshop on the collective management of watershed resources.
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  User participation in watershed management and research

  CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 2001

  This paper examines the role of resource users in watershed management and research. It summarises the arguments for participatory watershed management, and identifies important research issues that arise from user participation. It goes on to introduce some concepts in participatory research and discusses their usefulness in different aspects of watershed research.
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  Improving community based management of boreholes: a case study from Malawi

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002

  Examines ways in which the rate of hand-pump sustainability may be improved.The main conclusion is that sustainability is more likely through using good quality products, and by assuring reliable management services are provided by the users. The latter should be backed up by a reliable spares supply chain as well as by locally available mechanics trained in advanced repairs.

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