International research on natural resource management : advances in impact assessment /

• Corporate Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, on behalf of the Science Council of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2007.
• Subjects: Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research.; Natural resources > Management > Research.; Research.; Agricultural Economics.; Natural Resource Economics, (New March 2000); Natural Resources (General); Techniques and Methodology.; Agricultural research.; Assessment.; Case studies.; CGIAR.; Economic impact.; Methodology.; Natural resources.; Resource management.; Electronic books.
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This book is addressed to scientists, researchers, development specialists and policy makers who deal with natural resources and agriculture in the developing countries. It aims to (1) provide evidence of the impact of natural resource management research (NRMR) in the CGIAR; (2) establish a methodo...

Table of Contents:

• Why natural resource management research? / D. Zilberman and H. Waibel
• The history of natural resource management research in the CGIAR / H. Gregersen and T. Kelley
• Productivity enhancement and natural resource management / D. Zilberman and H. Waibel
• Natural resource management case studies : overview and summary / H. Waibel and D. Zilberman
• CIMMYT : assessing the impact of natural resource management research : the case of zero tillage in India's rice-wheat systems / V. Laxmi, O. Erenstein, R.K. Gupta
• CIAT : impact of participatory natural resource management research in cassava-based cropping systems in Vietnam and Thailand / T. J. Dalton, N.K. Lilja, N. Johnson and R. Howeler
• WorldFish Centre : impact of the development and dissemination of integrated aquaculture-agriculture technologies in Malawi / M. Mohan Dey, P. Kambewa, M. Prein, D. Jamu, F.J. Paraguas, D.E. Pemsl and R.M. Briones
• World Agroforestry Centre : impacts of improved tree fallow technology in Zambia / O.C. Ajayi, F. Place, F. Kwesiga and P. Mafongoya
• ICARDA : ex post impact assessment of natural resource management technologies in crop-livestock systems in dry areas of Morocco and Tunisia / K. Shideed, V. Alary, A. Laamari, A. Nefzaoui and M. El Mourid
• IWMI : assessing the outcome of IWMI's research and interventions on irrigation management transfer / M.A. Giordano, M. Samad, and R.E. Namara
• CIFOR : the sustainability of forest management : assessing the impact of CIFOR criteria and indicators research / M.J. Spilsbury
• The major lessons from the case studies / H. Waibel, D. Zilberman, H. Gregersen and T. Kelley
• The way ahead : impact assessment of natural resource management research / D. Zilberman, H. Waibel, T. Kelley and H. Gregersen.