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CAPRi Blog: Indicators of Gendered Control over Agricultural Resources

January 2, 2017

Many agricultural programs aim at reducing gender inequalities in the use and control of resources. To measure the impact of the programs and to identify the gender gaps, researchers and practitioners are currently using a myriad of different measurements and indicators. Policy and guidance on the choice of simple and robust indicators is highly needed, […]

Filed Under: CAPRi Blog Tagged With: agricultural research, data, gender gap, indicators, Smriti Rao

CAPRi Blog: Rooted in Equality, Gender and REDD+ Roadmaps Pave the Way for Enhancing Women’s Participation in the Forestry Sector

October 31, 2016

  REDD+ has the potential to enhance conservation and advance women's participation to forest governance. In this blog, Maggie Roth discusses how IUCN initiated "Gender and REDD+ Roadmaps" have helped to include more women into REDD+ decision making in Cameroon, Ghana and Uganda. Many of us have seen the statistics—around the world, women are the […]

Filed Under: CAPRi Blog Tagged With: gender, Gender and REDD+ Roadmaps, Gender task force, IUCN, Maggie Roth, REDD+

CAPRi Blog: Grazing Game: A Learning Tool For Adaptive Management In Response To Climate Variability In Semi-Arid Areas Of Ghana

October 17, 2016

Grace Villamor, Senior Researcher from University of Bonn, discusses 'grazing game',  a game that was played with local farmers in order to understand their behavior in response to climate variability, as well as to facilitate social learning.  In West Africa the most extreme effects of climate change are projected and expected to occur in desert […]

Filed Under: CAPRi Blog Tagged With: Climate variability, Grace Villamor, grazing game, ZEF

CAPRi Blog: Governing Conservation Landscapes: Learning From Past Mistakes And Innovating For Future

September 16, 2016

Sustainable landscape conservation poses many challenges, including revisiting ideas about protected areas. In this blog, Prakash Kashwan discusses his recent research on the topic.     Forests play an equally important role on multiple fronts: they sustain rural livelihoods, help provide vital ecological services, act as the stock house of locally and globally valuable biodiversity, […]

Filed Under: CAPRi Blog Tagged With: Conservation, Cross-scale linkages, Governance, Landscape, Prakash Kashwan

CAPRi Blog: Lessons From Multilevel Governance:The Critical Role of Political Contestation

August 24, 2016

Is the answer to reduced deforestation and forest degradation in improving coordination or enabling contestation?Political contestation determines land use outcomes far more than coordination, shows  CIFOR research project on multilevel governance. Environmental social scientist Ashwin Ravikumar discusses his views based on this research.   Over the past few years, my research colleagues and I have […]

Filed Under: CAPRi Blog Tagged With: Ashwin Ravikumar, contestation, coordination, deforestation, Indonesia, Peru

CAPRi Blog: Impact of Biofuel Induced Land Corruption on Women; The Case of Chisumbanje Ethanol Project

July 28, 2016

In this blog, Farai Mutondoro, Mary Jane Ncube, Manase Chiweshe and Derick Hamunakwadi discuss the impact of land corruption, particularly on women. The blog is informed by a case study of the Chisumbanje Ethanol Project in Zimbabwe. The discussion on women, land and corruption is a missing narrative in the large scale land acquisitions and […]

Filed Under: CAPRi Blog Tagged With: biofuels, Chisumbanje, land corruption, Shone Farai, Transparency International, women, Zimbabwe

CAPRi Blog: Collaborating for Resilience

January 25, 2016

In this blog post, Blake Ratner from WorldFish discusses Collaborating for Resilience, a partnership that addresses natural resource conflict and competition through multistakeholder dialogue and institutional innovations to strengthen environmental governance. The initiative is inviting new partners; please see below for more information. International investments in agroindustry present a growing source of competition for local […]

Filed Under: CAPRi Blog Tagged With: Blake Ratner, Collaborating for Resilience, multistakeholder dialogue, WorldFish

CAPRi Blog: Tragedy of the “Common But Differentiated Responsibilities” Resolved, But Is the Principle Applied Consistently?

January 4, 2016

In this blog, Meine van Noordwijk from World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), discusses the concept of 'Common but Differentiated Responsibilities' (CBDR) in recent international negotiations. “The real tragedy of the commons is that people believe collective action cannot effectively defend common interests”, with words similar to that Ruth Meinzen-Dick opened a session on commons and property […]

Filed Under: CAPRi Blog Tagged With: CBDR, Common but Differentiated Responsibilities, ICRAF, Meine van Noordwijk, Sustainable Development Goals

Blog: Stronger Rights for the Commons: A New Generation of Challenges

December 22, 2015

Steven Lawry, Director of Forests and Governance Research at CIFOR and speaker at the CAPRi discussion session at Global Landscapes Forum, discusses strengthened community rights and the next steps needed to reach sustainable growth. A version of this blog first appeared in CIFOR Forest News The historic international climate agreement reached at the COP21 United Nations […]

Filed Under: CAPRi Blog Tagged With: commons, community rights, Global Landscapes Forum, local businesses, Steven Lawry

Blog: Reexamining a Classic: An Update to Schlager and Ostrom’s Bundle of Rights

November 18, 2015

Edella Schlager and Elinor Ostrom’s 1992 article describing 5 “bundles of rights” has been very widely used, including by CAPRi.  In this blog, Pamela Jagger and Christopher Galik discuss their recent paper that reexamines that classification of bundles of rights.  This is followed by a response by Edella Schlager, discussing the origins of the Schlager […]

Filed Under: CAPRi Blog Tagged With: bundle of rights, Christopher Galik, Edella Schlager, Pamela Jagger

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