The campaign for community forestry in upland areas of northern Thailand reflects an ‘arborealised’ perspective on upland agriculture. Arborealisation – which I define as the process whereby upland livelihoods are recast as forest livelihoods – is evident in the main elements of NGO and academic advocacy for the resource rights of upland peoples. As a result of this arborealised perspective, se...

A central challenge in securing property rights is the subversion of justice. We present a model polluter whose discharges harm multiple owners, and we compare rules, liability regulation on efficiency grounds. provide conditions under which rules are preferred to thus verifying Calabresi-Melamed conjecture. Regulation that enforces partial abatement may be either extreme rules. An empirical an...

a number of 1810 members of the water user associations (wuas) of jarghouyeh district consisted the statistical population of the study, out of which 150 farmers were selected as sample using proportionate stratified random sampling technique. a questionnaire was developed for gathering the data and information. content validity and cronbach alpha proved both the validity and reliability of the...

Farmers’ right is considered important to farmers for conservation of agro biodiversity and fostering innovations in agriculture. This paper aims to present findings of the stakeholder survey on the perceptions of farmers' rights and conservation of agro biodiversity in Nepal. The study was carried out in 2006-2007 employing combination of personal interviews, focussed group discussions and con...

Executive Summary Civil and political rights are sometimes referred to as negative rights, requiring a hands-off approach from the state. The present brief challenges this assumption and explains how these rights entail positive measures. The brief also attempts to unravel the relationship of civil and political rights with democracy, development and local cultures. Selected policy issues are d...

OBJECTIVES This study was designed to explore the interactions between food securing activities, health and gender equity from the perspective of rural east African women. The specific objectives were to document the critical interaction among these three issues-food security, gender inequity, women's health within the context of sub-Saharan Africa; to describe the nature of this triad from the...