This paper presents a comparative study of forest management across four countries in East
Africa and Latin America: Kenya, Uganda, Bolivia, and Mexico. It focuses on one question …

A major challenge for many researchers and practitioners relates to how to recognize and
address cross-scale dynamics in space and over time in order to design and implement …

Women's empowerment has been one of the declared goals of Bangladesh's national
development program, and microfinance is playing a leading role in bringing about the …

The introduction of participatory forestry management (PFM) in Kenya has led to the
formation of community forest associations (CFAs). Data collected from 12 forests over a …

Agricultural productivity in East African smallholder systems is notoriously low and food
production faces multiple challenges, including soil degradation, decreasing land …

This article provides a review of literature on the relationship between poverty and the
institutions of collective action and property rights, as outlined in the conceptual framework …

The African continent has been severely affected by the HIV and AIDS pandemic and as a
consequence, development is being obstructed. Agriculture and food production systems …

Property rights theory has contributed a great deal to global understanding of the factors
shaping the management, governance and sustainability of discrete property regimes …

Abstract Growing pressure on Sub-Saharan Africa's forest resources and their associated
unwise use is attracting both scientific and policy concerns. Coffee forests are important …

In the four decades of its existence, agroforestry as a concept has been understood and
defined in multiple ways, often referring to a specific system scale of interest. This has …