Navigating Amidst Complexity

Author : Campbell, B.M., Hagmann, J., Stroud, A., Thomas, R., Wollenberg, E.
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Forest management
ISBN : 9789792446647

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Navigating Amidst Complexity by Campbell, B.M., Hagmann, J., Stroud, A., Thomas, R., Wollenberg, E. Pdf

"This booklet is directed towards those who are implementing natural resource management (NRM) projects, undertaking research on NRM, or setting policies for NRM. It is focused on the best ways to improve the effectiveness of research and development (R&D) in NRM, so that livelihood and environmental outcomes are enhanced. What is described here can be thought of as a \201Cnew way of doing business\201D for R&D in natural resource management, but builds on approaches in the agricultural, conservation and governance fields. Section 1 explains why we need to increase the effectiveness of R&D. The section indicates how a more integrated approach has evolved and illustrates how it can be applied (Section 1.4). For the sceptics of holism and integration, we clarify that achieving holism is often impossible and can be counter-productive (Section 1.5). Section 2 briefly describes the foundations of the approach. Section 3 of the publication covers the operational cornerstones for effective R&D interventions. Section 4 discusses the management of research for development processes. Section 5 concludes. The foundations and cornerstones presented in this booklet were established during a series of four workshops involving over 200 scientists from the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and its partners"--Publisher's website.

Author : Dr. Bhumika Achhnani
Publisher : Inkbound Publishers
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788196822323

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Strategic Leadership: Navigating Organizational Success by Dr. Bhumika Achhnani Pdf

Learn how to navigate organizational success with strategic leadership principles. This book provides insights and practical advice for leaders aiming to drive performance and innovation within their teams and organizations.

Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 1907 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781668445044

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Research Anthology on Business Continuity and Navigating Times of Crisis by Management Association, Information Resources Pdf

When the COVID-19 pandemic caused a halt in global society, many business leaders found themselves unprepared for the unprecedented change that swept across industry. Whether the need to shift to remote work or the inability to safely conduct business during a global pandemic, many businesses struggled in the transition to the “new normal.” In the wake of the pandemic, these struggles have created opportunities to study how businesses navigate these times of crisis. The Research Anthology on Business Continuity and Navigating Times of Crisis discusses the strategies, cases, and research surrounding business continuity throughout crises such as pandemics. This book analyzes business operations and the state of the economy during times of crisis and the leadership involved in recovery. Covering topics such as crisis management, entrepreneurship, and business sustainability, this four-volume comprehensive major reference work is a valuable resource for managers, CEOs, business leaders, entrepreneurs, professors and students of higher education, researchers, and academicians.

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821374338

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Sustainable Land Management Sourcebook by World Bank Pdf

Policies promoting pro-poor agricultural growth are the key to helping countries achieve the Millennium Development Goals especially the goal of halving poverty and hunger by 2015. The public sector, private sector, and civil society organizations are working to enhance productivity and competitiveness of the agricultural sector to reduce rural poverty and sustain the natural resource base. The pathways involve participation by rural communities, science and technology, knowledge generation and further learning, capacity enhancement, and institution building. Sustainable land management (SLM) an essential component of such policies will help to ensure the productivity of agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and hydrology. SLM will also support a range of ecosystem services on which agriculture depends. The 'Sustainable Land Management Sourcebook' provides a knowledge repository of tested practices and innovative resource management approaches that are currently being tested. The diverse menu of options represents the current state of the art of good land management practices. Section one identifies the need and scope for SLM and food production in relation to cross-sector issues such as freshwater and forest resources, regional climate and air quality, and interactions with biodiversity conservation and increasingly valuable ecosystem services. Section two categorizes the diversity of land management systems globally and the strategies for improving household livelihoods in each system type. Section three presents a range of investment notes that summarize good practice, as well as innovative activity profiles that highlight design of successful or innovative investments. Section four identifies easy-to-access, Web-based resources relevant for land and natural resource managers. The 'Sourcebook' is a living document that will be periodically updated and expanded as new material and findings become available on good land management practices. This book will be of interest to project managers and practitioners working to enhance land and natural resource management in developing countries.

Author : Ingrid Oborn,Bernard Vanlauwe,Michael Phillips,Richard Thomas,Willemien Brooijmans,Kwesi Atta-Krah
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317212010

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Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture by Ingrid Oborn,Bernard Vanlauwe,Michael Phillips,Richard Thomas,Willemien Brooijmans,Kwesi Atta-Krah Pdf

Sustainable intensification has recently been developed and adopted as a key concept and driver for research and policy in sustainable agriculture. It includes ecological, economic and social dimensions, where food and nutrition security, gender and equity are crucial components. This book describes different aspects of systems research in agriculture in its broadest sense, where the focus is moved from farming systems to livelihoods systems and institutional innovation. Much of the work represents outputs of the three CGIAR Research Programs on Integrated Systems for the Humid Tropics, Aquatic Agricultural Systems and Dryland Systems. The chapters are based around four themes: the conceptual underpinnings of systems research; sustainable intensification in practice; integrating nutrition, gender and equity in research for improved livelihoods; and systems and institutional innovation. While most of the case studies are from countries and agro-ecological zones in Africa, there are also some from Latin America, Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

Author : Astrid Carrapatoso,Edith Kürzinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136735394

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Climate-Resilient Development by Astrid Carrapatoso,Edith Kürzinger Pdf

The concept of resilience currently infuses policy debates and public discourse, and is promoted as a normative concept in climate policy making by governments, non-governmental organizations, and think-tanks. This book critically discusses climate-resilient development in the context of current deficiencies of multilateral climate management strategies and processes. It analyses innovative climate policy options at national, (inter-)regional, and local levels from a mainly Southern perspective, thus contributing to the topical debate on alternative climate governance and resilient development models. Case studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America give a ground-level view of how ideas from resilience could be used to inform and guide more radical development and particularly how these ideas might help to rethink the notion of 'progress' in the light of environmental, social, economic, and cultural changes at multiple scales, from local to global. It integrates theory and practice with the aim of providing practical solutions to improve, complement, or, where necessary, reasonably bypass the UNFCCC process through a bottom-up approach which can effectively tap unused climate-resilient development potentials at the local, national, and regional levels. This innovative book gives students and researchers in environmental and development studies as well as policy makers and practitioners a valuable analysis of climate change mitigation and adaptation options in the absence of effective multilateral provisions.

Author : CIFOR
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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CIFOR’s medium term plan 2007-2009 by CIFOR Pdf

Author : Bruce Campbell,Philip Thornton,Ana Maria Loboguerrero,Dhanush Dinesh,Andreea Nowak
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781009227193

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Transforming Food Systems Under Climate Change through Innovation by Bruce Campbell,Philip Thornton,Ana Maria Loboguerrero,Dhanush Dinesh,Andreea Nowak Pdf

Our food systems have performed well in the past, but they are failing us in the face of climate change and other challenges. This book tells the story of why food system transformation is needed, how it can be achieved and how research can be a catalyst for change. Written by a global interdisciplinary team of researchers, it brings together perspectives from multiple areas including climate, environment, agriculture, and the social sciences to describe how different tools and approaches can be used to tackle food system transformation. It provides practical, actionable insights for policymakers and advisors, demonstrating how science together with strong partnerships can enable real transformation on the ground. It also contributes to the academic debate on the transformation of food systems, and so will be an invaluable reference for researchers and students alike. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Cathy Lee,Thomas Schaaf
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781402069703

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The Future of Drylands by Cathy Lee,Thomas Schaaf Pdf

Drylands have been cradles to some of the world’s greatest civilizations, and contemporary dryland communities feature rich and unique cultures. Dryland ecosystems support a surprising amount of biodiversity. Desertification, however, is a significant land degradation problem in the arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid regions of the world. Deterioration of soil and plant cover has adversely affected 70% of the world’s drylands as a result of extended droughts as well as mismanagement of range and cultivated lands. The situation is likely to worsen with high population growth rates and accompanying land-use conflicts. The contributions to The Future of Drylands – an international scientific conference held under the leadership of UNESCO – address these issues and offer practical solutions for combating desertification along with conserving and sustainably managing dryland ecosystems. Major themes include the conservation of dryland biological and cultural diversity and the human dryland interface. This volume documents how our improved understanding of drylands provides insight into the health and future prospects of these precious ecosystems that should help ensure that dryland communities enjoy a sustainable future.

Author : David A. Raitzer,George W. Norton
Publisher : CABI
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781845935665

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Prioritizing Agricultural Research for Development by David A. Raitzer,George W. Norton Pdf

Priority assessment for commodity improvement programmes has received methodological attention, yet innovation is needed for other, newer areas of research which have impact pathways that are harder to predict. Focusing on priority setting practices utilized in different international agricultural research institutes, this book discusses real world experiences and innovations with priority assessment methods. Chapters present approaches that have been used to articulate, explore and assess impact pathways and research priorities, while also considering their strengths and weaknesses and drawing together methodological lessons.

Author : Center for International Forestry Research
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Forest policy
ISBN : 9789792446890

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Sustainable Collaborative Forest Management by Center for International Forestry Research Pdf

Author : Louise Fortmann
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781444305326

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Participatory Research in Conservation and Rural Livelihoods by Louise Fortmann Pdf

Participatory Research in Conservation and RuralLivelihoods: Doing Science Together starts from theunderstanding that all people create knowledge and that thecreation of sustainable livelihoods and of conditions that protectand sustain rural ecosystems are interrelated. Here local experts and professional researchers writeindependently about the participatory research processes throughwhich they created new knowledge together. They demonstrate thatinterdependent science can produce more accurate and locallyappropriate data, while frankly addressing persisting issues suchas unequal power, whose knowledge and what ways of knowing count,whose voice can be heard or appear in print, and other dilemmas ofthis practice. Conservation scientists and practitioners will bothbenefit from reading this book. First book to examine community participatory researchtechniques that focuses on conservation aims Unique book in that it is written from the perspective ofparticipating community volunteers and researching scientists Part of the prestigious Conservation Science and Practiceseries published in association with the Zoological Society ofLondon "Participatory Research in Conservation and RuralLivelihoods is brilliant, passionate, and inspiring..." Richa Nagar, University of Minnesota, co-author ofPlaying with Fire

Author : Pascal Sanginga,Ann Waters-Bayer,Susan Kaaria,Jemimah Njuki,Chesha Wettasinha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136562952

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Innovation Africa by Pascal Sanginga,Ann Waters-Bayer,Susan Kaaria,Jemimah Njuki,Chesha Wettasinha Pdf

'Innovation by with and for farmers in Africa is one of the major contemporary challenges of development. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in these issues.' Professor Ian Scoones Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex UK 'This book takes the theme of innovation and its mainstreaming in research and extension a major step forward. I am impressed by the wide range of subjects and the diversity of authors.' Chris Reij Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam The Netherlands Agricultural research extension and education can contribute greatly to enhancing agricul.

Author : Laura Anne German,Jeremias Mowo,Tilahun Amede,Kenneth Masuki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136493706

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Integrated Natural Resource Management in the Highlands of Eastern Africa by Laura Anne German,Jeremias Mowo,Tilahun Amede,Kenneth Masuki Pdf

This book documents a decade of research, methodological innovation, and lessons learned in an eco-regional research-for-development program operating in the eastern African highlands, the African Highlands Initiative (AHI). It does this through reflections of the protagonists themselves—AHI site teams and partners applying action research to development innovation as a means to enhance the impact of their research. The book summarizes the experiences of farmers, research and development workers and policy and decision-makers who have interacted within an innovation system with the common goal of implementing an integrated approach to natural resource management (NRM) in the humid highlands. This book demonstrates the crucial importance of "approach" in shaping the outcomes of research and development, and distils lessons learned on what works, where and why. It is enriched with examples and case studies from five benchmark sites in Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, whose variability provides the reader with an in-depth knowledge of the complexities of integrated NRM in agro-ecosystems that play an important role in the rural economy of the region. It is shown that the struggle to achieve sustainable agricultural development in challenging environments is a complex one, and can only be effectively achieved through combined efforts and commitment of individuals and institutions with complementary roles.

Author : Barnir
Publisher : Assaf
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9798325263149

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Emotions Soup: Navigating the World of Feelings by Barnir Pdf

Welcome to the world of emotions, a place where joy, sadness, anger, fear, and a whole spectrum of other feelings reside. Just like a delicious soup, emotions can be a blend of different ingredients, each adding its own unique flavor to our experiences. In this book, we'll explore emotions I found intriguing. We’ll discuss their origins, recognize their signs, discover healthy ways to manage them and not even once ask “where does it meet you” and “tell me about your parents”