This paper analyzes the growing role of municipal governments in Bolivia and Nicaragua in forest-related issues on the basis of so...

Authors: Kaimowitz, D.;Pacheco, P.;Mendoza, R.;Barahona, T.

A widespread belief among development and forest researchers and practitioners holds that technological progress in tropical agric...

Authors: Angelsen, A.;Kaimowitz, D.

Recent studies have shown that although swidden agriculture contributes to tropical deforestation in Latin America, swidden farmer...

Authors: Smith, J.;Finegan, B.;Sabogal, C.;Goncalves Ferreira, M.D.S.;Siles Gonzales, G.;van de Kop, P.;Diaz Barba, A.

Many countries in eastern and southern Africa have lost significant natural forest resources. Initially the pace was gradual, but ...

Authors: Kowero, G.;Kaoneka, A.S.;Nhantumbo, I.;Gondo, P.;Jumbe, C.B.L.

This chapter describes Colfer’s experience doing fieldwork in the village of Pulai, in West Sumatra. She describes the early stag...

Authors: Colfer, C.J.P.

Authors: Kaimowitz, D.

This paper explores changes in rural livelihoods in some communal areas of Zimbabwe from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, and attem...

Authors: Campbell, B.M.;Mukamuri, B.B.;Kowero, G.S.

Extensive areas of forest in the tropics have been legally classified as protected areas: however, in many cases it has been diffi...

Authors: Sayer, J.A.

Moves to empowering communities are now widespread in Zimbabwe. In this paper what happens to the locus of power during empowermen...

Authors: Campbell, B.M.;Sithole, B.;Nemarundwe, N.

NTFPs can be of particular importance to people in forested mountain locations, because of their relative lack of access to altern...

Authors: Arnold, J.E.M.;Ruiz Perez, M.