Download or read book Resource Management in the Ecuadorian Andes An Evaluation of CARE s PROMUSTA Program written by and published by International Potato Center. This book was released on 2019 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, development organizations have spent substantial resources on programs to reduce the problems associated with soil erosion. Many programs have focused on the use of incentives to induce conservation and have maintained a top-down approach to conservation. Quite often this is ineffective and farmers abandon conservation measures once incentives are withdrawn. In Ecuador, CARE International has offered an alternative approach that embeds conservation in the agricultural system. By offering agricultural diversification and intensification with a complementary program that enhances short-term benefits of conservation, CARE induces farmers to maintain sustainable practices. Using data from a sample of participant and non-participant Ecuadorian households, we show the success of the CARE approach. Participants in the CARE program are found to have high rates of adoption of conservation practices and to simultaneously change their agricultural system. Results indicate that with a strong extension service and a menu of adaptable technologies, conservation is enhanced when presented with complementary changes in agriculture.

Download or read book Resource management in the Ecuadorian Andes written by Paul Winters and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Development with Identity written by Robert E. Rhoades and published by CABI. This book was released on 2006 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout Latin America, indigenous peoples are demanding that development must address localpriorities, including ethnic identity. Simultaneously, sustainability scientists need to conduct place-basedresearch on the interaction between environment and society that will have global relevance.This book reports on a 6 year interdisciplinary research project on natural resource management inCotacachi, Ecuador, where scientists and indigenous groups learnt to seek common ground. The bookdiscusses how local people and the environment have engaged each other over time to createcontemporary Andean landscapes. It also explores human-environment interaction in relation tobiodiversity, soils and water, and equitable development. This book will be of significant interest tosociologists, anthropologists, economists and sustainability scientists researching environment andagriculture in rural communities.

Download or read book Building Social Capital Through Advocacy Coalitions in Natural Resource Management in the Rural Andes written by Edith C. Fernández-Baca and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural communities that depend on their local natural resources for much of their livelihood often have little to say about who uses those resources and how they use them. Different actors at local, national, and international levels have diverse interests formed around these resources, which might influence how they are being allocated. This thesis looks at the mechanisms by which actors at different levels and sectors come together to build coalitions around two resource management issues--management of the Cotacahi-Cayapas Ecological Reserve and the entrance of mining into Intag--in the Cotacachi Canton in the Ecuadorian Andes. I use a modified version of Sabateir and Jenkins-Smith's Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) to identify the different groups that form around relevant issues, and examine the interaction that occurs between them when they try to influence decisions. Findings show that there are not many differences within coalitions and between opposing coalitions with regards to desired future conditions. Key terms, such as "sustainable," "ecological," "economic benefit," "less migration," and "more jobs" were present in the discourse of all coalitions in both issues. Differences between coalitions in both issues reside in their core belief systems/mental causal models. Opposing coalitions have different mental causal models. They perceive different means to reach a similar end (desired future condition). Likewise, opposing coalitions see different obstacles and facilitators in reaching their desired conditions. Many times, one coalition sees the other as a major impediment. One thing coalitions around both issues agree on is the recognition that something has to change. In the case of the reserve, decentralization has triggered the passing of natural resources to the local government for their management. This was a needed step in response to what is happening in the country and at a global level.

Download or read book Piecing Together Complexity written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of the CAS and SES frameworks in the research provided a profound insight into how farm and land management and agroecosystem patterns in the Ecuadorian Andes co-evolve from multiple socio-ecological interactions and feedbacks. Moreover, the SES and CAS frameworks facilitated the co-development of more contextualised options for improved natural resource management as well as identifying the main constraints within the broader socio-ecological context to adopting these more sustainable pathways.

Download or read book Migrations and land management in the Ecuadorian Andes written by Judith Bouniol and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Resource Management by the Runa Indians of the Ecuadorian Amazon written by Dominique Irvine and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Politics Development and Indians written by Theodore Macdonald and published by . This book was released on 1988* with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book NunaSacha written by Chuck Munson and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 800x600 This new supply chain management case study examines how a potential facility redesign might resolve problems with product contamination and backorders at NunaSacha Export, a nonprofit that turns natural Andean raw materials into finished goods. Addressing challenges central to the growing Fair Trade market, it touches on process issues related to production, warehousing, drying, and storage. Focusing on realistic issues throughout, this case study offers exceptional value to both students and practitioners. Authors: Veronica Leon B., Daniel Merchan D., Ximena Cordova V., Carla Tejada L., Giuseppe Marzano; all from Universidad San Francisco de Quito.

Download or read book Perspectives In Resource Management In Developing Countries volume Iv Land Appraisal And Development written by Baleshwar Thakur and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Water Power and Identity written by Rutgerd Boelens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses two major issues in natural resource management and political ecology: the complex conflicting relationship between communities managing water on the ground and national/global policy-making institutions and elites; and how grassroots defend against encroachment, question the self-evidence of State-/market-based water governance, and confront coercive and participatory boundary policing (‘normal’ vs. ‘abnormal’). The book examines grassroots building of multi-layered water-rights territories, and State, market and expert networks’ vigorous efforts to reshape these water societies in their own image – seizing resources and/or aligning users, identities and rights systems within dominant frameworks. Distributive and cultural politics entwine. It is shown that attempts to modernize and normalize users through universalized water culture, ‘rational water use’ and de-politicized interventions deepen water security problems rather than alleviating them. However, social struggles negotiate and enforce water rights. User collectives challenge imposed water rights and identities, constructing new ones to strategically acquire water control autonomy and re-moralize their waterscapes. The author shows that battles for material control include the right to culturally define and politically organize water rights and territories. Andean illustrations from Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile, from peasant-indigenous life stories to international policy-making, highlight open and subsurface hydro-social networks. They reveal how water justice struggles are political projects against indifference, and that engaging in re-distributive policies and defying ‘truth politics,’ extends context-particular water rights definitions and governance forms.

Download or read book Self Sufficient Agriculture written by Robert Tripp and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Low external-input technology (or LEIT) is an increasingly prominent subject in discussions of sustainable agriculture. There are growing calls for self-sufficient agriculture in an era experiencing diminishing returns from reliance upon expensive synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. There are many reasons to support strategies for low external input farming, including a concern for environmental sustainability, increased attention to resource-poor farmers and marginal environments, and the conviction that a better use of local resources in small-scale agriculture can improve farm productivity and innovation. But despite the increased attention to self-sufficient agriculture, there is little evidence available on the performance and impact of LEIT.This book examines the contributions and limitations of low external input technology for addressing the needs of resource-poor farmers. For the first time a balanced analysis of LEIT is provided, offering in-depth case studies, an analysis of the debates, an extensive review of the literature and practical suggestions about the management and integration of low external input agriculture in rural development programmes.

Download or read book Cross Border Resource Management written by Rongxing Guo and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approx.538 pages Approx.538 pages

Download or read book Bridging Human and Ecological Landscapes written by Robert E. Rhoades and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented is the synthesis of the research results of the Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management project in the Nanegal Parish of the Pichincha Province, Ecuador, from 1994 through 1997.

Download or read book Grassroots Global Governance written by Craig M. Kauffman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To address global problems like climate change, transnational networks promote "best practices" locally around the world. Grassroots Global Governance explains the variations in their success levels and why implementing these "global ideas" locally causes them to evolve at the international level. Ultimately, the book demonstrates how global governance is partially constructed at the grassroots.

Download or read book Andean Hydrology written by Diego A. Rivera and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the ecosystem of the Andean watersheds, covering the Californian valley, tropical Andes, and southern Andes. Case studies of the new methods and techniques used for hydrological research in the Andes are provided, and sustainability issues pertaining to Andean water resources are discussed in the context of climate change, social and economic issues, and public policy. Furthermore, the impact of economic development on the Andean ecosystem, specifically the effect on the water cycle and the water-energy-food nexus, are examined.

Download or read book Water Resources Planning and Management written by R. Quentin Grafton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water is an increasingly critical issue at the forefront of global policy change, management and planning. There are growing concerns about water as a renewable resource, its availability for a wide range of users, aquatic ecosystem health, and global issues relating to climate change, water security, water trading and water ethics. This handbook provides the most comprehensive reference ever published on water resource issues. It brings together multiple disciplines to understand and help resolve problems of water quality and scarcity from a global perspective. Its case studies and 'foundation' chapters will be greatly valued by students, researchers and professionals involved in water resources, hydrology, governance and public policy, law, economics, geography and environmental studies.