Why institutional environments for agroforestry seed systems matter

Why Do Health Systems Matter?

1 CHAPTER ONE hy do ealth ystems atter? Health systems consist of all the people and actions whose primary purpose is to improve health. They may be integrated and centrally directed, but often they are not. After centuries as small-scale, largely private or charitable, mostly ineffectual entities, they have grown explosively in this century as knowledge has been gained and applied. They have c...

Agroforestry Systems and Local Institutional Development for Preventing Deforestation in Chiapas, Mexico

Knowledge Systems in Agroforestry

Pacific Islands agroforestry has evolved into sustainable, diverse and productive a land use systems in many areas. We marvel at these systems, and the scientific world is trying to catch up with the traditional knowledge. At the same time, Pacific Islands farmers are abandoning their agroforestry systems in great numbers. It is mainly intensified agriculture for cash crop production that follo...

Institutional Environments

The concept of environment is of paramount relevance for new strategies to model systems of multiple artificial agents. This paper introduces a set of definitions designed to guide the modelling of institutional environments. This is part of ongoing research on a new strategy to conceptualize multi-robot systems, which takes a network of institutions as the control system for a collective of ar...

Why national health research systems matter

Editorial How to organise health research systems so as to maximise the benefits is increasingly debated at the national and international level, with some highly innovative developments resulting. We intend to publish a series of articles in Health Research Policy and Systems (HARPS) that describe and analyse these developments in various ways; both so that lessons might be passed on and to st...