Participatory approaches to natural resource management and development are widely accepted as effective instruments for achieving sustainable forest management (SFM) particularly in the developing countries. However, local people live within and adjacent to the forest resources and are dependent on the forest in terms of their livelihoods may prevent turning some decisions, intended as a compo...

1. Introduction If a green posture towards the nation-state can be discerned from the diverse writings of green political theorists and fellow environmental sympathizers it is that the nation state plays, at best, a contradictory role in environmental management in facilitating both environmental destruction and environmental protection and, at worst, it is fundamentally ecocidal. 1 From eco-Ma...

Developments in electronic communications have created many new uses for the letter “e”—“e-commerce,” “e-learning,” “e-governance,” and so forth. These terms point to some of the ways in which modern information and communications technologies (ICTs) are changing how millions of people work and live. Against that background, it makes sense for the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (...

SEPLS are areas with “dynamic mosaics of habitats and land and sea uses where the harmonious interaction between people and nature maintains biodiversity while providing humans with the goods and services needed for their livelihoods, survival and well-being in a sustainable manner” (IPSI Secretariat 2015). They can be found in many parts of the world where humans are directly linked with natur...

Pacific Economic Bulletin Volume 20 Number 3 2005 © Asia Pacific Press This article seeks to determine the short to mediumterm impact of EU Sugar Protocol reforms on Fiji’s sugar industry. The expected impact on the livelihoods of sugarcane producers, the area remaining under cane, sugar cane output and sugar production are derived under various price scenarios using industry census production ...

Please c are Cha Summary. — Market trends are becoming prominent forces shaping local landscapes. The increasing demand for high-quality and sustainable coffees is driving land-use decisions among Colombian farmers. A value chain analysis shows that farmers who sell to differentiated markets significantly captured a larger portion of the value added and faced lower volatility than mainstream pr...

Casual wage labour (known as ganyu in Malawi) is a widely adopted strategy to cope with insufficient income and food production rural households. Although previous studies have discussed the magnitude of contribution livelihoods, actual conditions individual households not been studied detail. The current research conducted detailed village-level case study analyse relationship between liveliho...