Managing Natural Resources for Sustainable Livelihoods

by Pound, Barry; Snapp, Sieglinde; McDougall, Cynthia; Braun, Ann

• ISBN13: 9781844070251
• ISBN10: 1844070255
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

* Shows how management of local resources can be done best by the local community for the local community * Covers common property, protected areas, landscape, forests, watersheds, soil and water management * Presents successful new approaches to collective decision-making and the principles of good practice Drawing on extensive and important case studies, this book presents innovative approaches for participation and collective decision-making in natural resource management, good practice for research, and challenges for future developments. It employs the practical lessons to show how to organize participatory research, the forms of participation and quality of the science involved, and how to scale up participatory approaches and successful initiatives in resource management. Those professionally involved, whether in the field, programme managers or policy-makers will find its analysis and conclusions invaluable. It will also be a very suitable text for students of both the biophysical and social science aspects of natural resource management.

Table of Contents

List of Tables, Figures and Boxes	vii
List of Contributors	ix
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations	xiii
Foreword by Joachim Voss, Director General, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)	xvi
Preface	xviii
Acknowledgements	xx
1 Introduction: Uniting Science and Participation in the Process of Innovation - Research for Development	1	(19)
Jacqui Ashbyy
Introduction	1	(3)
The challenge for research	4	(4)
Definitions of participatory research	8	(6)
Adding value to resource management with participatory research	14	(1)
Common principles of participatory research	15	(5)
2 Navigating Complexity, Diversity and Dynamism: Reflections on Research for Natural Resource Management	20	(28)
Cynthia McDougall and Ann Braun
Introduction	20	(1)
The challenge: complexity, diversity and dynamism in human and natural landscapes	21	(2)
Traditional and participatory research: key dimensions of difference	23	(5)
Diversity analysis in NRM research	28	(5)
Putting it together: reflections on navigating the research spectrum	33	(11)
Conclusions	44	(4)
3 Whose Research, Whose Agenda?	48	(13)
Adrienne Martin and Alistair Sutherland
Introduction	48	(1)
Ownership at the macro level	49	(1)
Building ownership at the meso level: ownership and governance of communal resources	50	(2)
Ownership over the research process at the community level	52	(3)
Sustaining ownership throughout the research process	55	(1)
Ownership and sharing knowledge	56	(1)
Gender and stakeholder involvement	56	(2)
Motivation and ownership of technical innovation	58	(1)
Managing a complex process	58	(2)
Conclusions	60	(1)
4 Scaling Up and Out	61	(27)
Sieglinde Snapp and K L Heong
Introduction	67	(2)
Situating natural resource management	69	(2)
The challenge of synthesizing NRM knowledge	71	(2)
Steps to scaling up: enhancing relevance and accountability	73	(1)
Is participation possible on a large scale?	74	(1)
Steps to scaling up: building quality partnerships	75	(2)
Scaling up participatory NRM to the watershed level	77	(1)
Beyond the watershed: the continuum of scaling up and out	78	(3)
Ways forward	81	(2)
Summary	83	(5)
5 Transforming Institutions to Achieve Innovation in Research and Development	88	(25)
Ann Stroud
Introduction	88	(5)
Key elements and conditions to consider when fostering institutional change	93	(14)
Progress and future challenges	107	(6)
6 Principles for Good Practice in Participatory Research: Reflecting on Lessons from the Field	113	(29)
Ronnie Vernooy and Cynthia McDougall
Reflecting on practice	113	(1)
Understanding the research context	114	(3)
Towards good practice: shared learning from experience	117	(2)
Good practice in action: five case studies	119	(16)
Conclusions: a framework for reflection and change	135	(1)
Appendix 1: Principles and indicators of good practice in PR on NRM	136	(1)
Appendix 2: List of indicators of good practice generated at the Chatham meeting	137	(5)
7 Participatory Research, Natural Resource Management and Rural Transformation: More Lessons from the Field	142	(27)
Linden Vincent
Introduction: why learn lessons on participatory research?	142	(3)
Changing contexts of participatory research	145	(8)
PNRMR: why put agriculture into a resource perspective?	153	(5)
Building new interfaces for NRM	158	(6)
Conclusions	164	(5)
8 Participation in Context: What's Past, What's Present, and What's Next	169	(15)
Dianne E Rocheleau
Introduction	169	(1)
Ethics, standards and professional peers	170	(3)
From participatory technology transfer to collaborative science	173	(4)
Context: sedentary science in place or a science situated in time and space	177	(2)
Beyond scaling up: crossing scales and envisioning futures	179	(2)
Conclusion	181	(3)
Annexe 1: Summaries of Case Studies	184	(64)
1 Participatory agroecosystem management - an approach used by benchmark location research teams in the African Highlands Initiative Eco-regional Programme
Ann Stroud	186	(3)
2 Participatory action research on adaptive collaborative management of community forests: A multi-country model
Cynthia McDougall with Ravi Prabhu and Yanti Kusumanto	189	(3)
3 The farmer-driven Landcare Movement: An institutional innovation with implications for extension and research
Dennis Garrity	192	(2)
4 The Farmer Research Group (CIAL) as a community-based natural resource management organization
Ann Braun	194	(3)
5 Long-term natural resource management research in intensive production systems: ICARDA's experience in Egypt
Richard Tutwiler	197	(2)
6 Management of Plant Genetic Resources in agroecosystems: in situ conservation on-farm
Devra Jarvis and Heather Klemicle	199	(3)
7 Eastern Himalayan initiative on gender, ethnicity and agrobiodiversity management
Barun Gurung	202	(3)
8 Participatory selection and strategic use of multipurpose forages in hillsides of Central America
Michael Peters	205	(3)
9 Focus on integrating methods and approaches to increase gender/stakeholder involvement, collaborative management of natural resource management, and decision-making support
Peter Brinn	208	(2)
10 Farmer participatory experiments in pest management
K L Heong and M M Escalada	210	(2)
11 Farmers' ability to manage a devastating plant disease - potato late blight
Rebecca Nelson	212	(3)
12 Developing and implementing an innovative community approach to the control of bacterial wilt (Pseudomonas solanacearum) of potatoes (Solanum tuberosum)
Barry Pound	215	(2)
13 Participatory management of Kapuwai's wetland (Pallisa District, Uganda): A clear need and some steps towards fulfilling it
Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend	217	(4)
14 Participatory research at the landscape level: The Kumbhan water trough case
Czech Conroy and D V Rangnekar	221	(2)
15 Participatory research at landscape level: Flood-prone ecosystems in Bangladesh and Vietnam
Madara M Dey and Mark Frein	223	(3)
16 Water management, agricultural development and poverty eradication in the former Homelands of South Africa
Barbara van Koppen	226	(2)
17 Innovation in irrigation - working in a 'participation complex'
Linden Vincent and Puspa Khanal	228	(3)
18 Methods used to address resource issues in integrated watershed management in Nepalese watersheds
Hans Schreier, Sandra Brown and P B Shah	231	(3)
19 A comparison of farmer participatory research methods
Sieglinde Snapp	234	(3)
20 Soil and water conservation - historical and geographical perspectives on participation
Alistair Sutherland	237	(3)
21 Improving farmers' risk management strategies for resource-poor and drought-prone farming systems in southern Africa
Kit Vaughan and Zondai Shamudarira	240	(3)
22 Participatory mapping, analysis and monitoring of the natural resource base in small watersheds: Insights from Nicaragua
Ronnie Vernooy and Noemi Espinoza	243	(2)
23 Observations on the use of information tools in participatory contexts: Access to information and empowerment
Jim Williams	245	(3)
Index	248