http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/34939 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:34:22 GMT 2013-05-21T23:34:22Z http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/47831 Title: Integrated natural resource management in the Highlands of Eastern Africa : from concept to practice Editors: German, Laura; Mowo, Jeremias; Amede, Tilahun; Masuki, Kenneth Abstract: This book documents a decade of research, methodological innovation, and lessons learned in an eco-regional research-for-development program operating in the eastern African highlands, the African Highlands Initiative (AHI). It does this through reflections of the protagonists themselves—AHI site teams and partners applying action research to development innovation as a means to enhance the impact of their research. This book summarizes the experiences of farmers, research and development workers, policy and decision-makers who have interacted within an innovation system with the common goal of implementing an integrated approach to natural resource management (NRM) in the humid highlands. This book demonstrates the crucial importance of “approach” in shaping the outcomes of research and development, and distils lessons learned on what works, where and why. It is enriched with examples and case studies from fiv e benchmark sites in Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania, whose variability provides the reader with an in-depth knowledge of the complexities of integrated NRM in agro-ecosystems that play an important role in the rural economy of the region. It is shown that the struggle to achieve sustainable agricultural development in challenging environments is a complex one, and can only be effectively achieved through combined efforts and commitment of individuals and institutions with complementary roles. Description: Co-published with Earthscan and ICRAF Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/47831 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/47374 Title: Irrigation avec des eaux usées et la santé : évaluer et atténuer les risques dans les pays à faible revenu Editors: Drechsel, Pay; Scott, Christopher A.; Raschid-Sally, Liqa; Redwood, Mark; Bahri, Akiça Abstract: Dans la plupart des pays en développement, les systèmes de traitement des eaux usées sont très peu étendus ou sont peu efficaces, ce qui engendre une pollution de l’eau à vaste échelle et l’utilisation d’eau de mauvaise qualité pour l’irrigation des cultures, notamment à proximité des centres urbains. Cela pose de grands risques pour la santé publique, en particulier lorsque la production est consommée crue. Wastewater Irrigation and Health aborde ce sérieux problème d’un point de vue pratique et réaliste, en traitant des enjeux de l’évaluation des risques pour la santé et de leur atténuation dans le contexte des pays en développement. Le livre est donc un complément utile d’autres ouvrages consacrés au thème des eaux usées qui mettent l’accent sur les options de traitement haut de gamme et sur l’utilisation des eaux usées. Ce livre fait avancer le débat en couvrant également la réalité, répandue, de l’utilisation des eaux usées non traitées, des eaux grises et des excrétas. Il présente des méthodes d’avant-garde d’évaluation quantitative des risques de même que des solutions peu coûteuses pour la réduction des risques pour la santé, depuis le traitement jusqu’aux mesures adoptées sur la ferme et hors de la ferme, qui vont dans le sens de l’approche à barrières multiples préconisée dans les lignes directrices relatives à l’utilisation sans risque des eaux usées en agriculture publiées par l’Organisation mondiale de la santé en 2006. Les 38 auteurs et coauteurs sont des experts internationaux clés dans le domaine de l’irrigation au moyen d’eaux usées, à savoir des agronomes, ingénieurs, spécialistes des sciences sociales et chercheurs en santé publique d’Afrique, d’Asie, d’Europe, d’Amérique du Nord et d’Australie. Les chapitres présentent des expériences vécues un peu partout dans les pays en développement, notamment des études de cas portant sur l’Afrique subsaharienne, l’Asie, le Mexique et le Moyen-Orient. Le livre traite également d’options en matière de récupération des ressources et de gouvernance des eaux usées en établissant ainsi un lien clair entre agriculture, santé et assainissement qui est souvent le chaînon manquant des débats actuels sur la question de faire des eaux usées un atout. Description: Publié conjointement avec Les Presses de l'Université du Québec; Version anglaise dans la bibliothèque: Wastewater irrigation and health : assessing and mitigating risk in low-income countries Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/47374 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/45873 Title: Managing natural resources for development in Africa : a resource book Editors: Ochola, Washington O.; Sanginga, Pascal C.; Bekalo, Isaac Description: Co-published with University of Nairobi Press Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/45873 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/44925 Title: Natural resource management : the impact of gender and social issues Editors: Flintan, Fiona; Tedla, Shibru Abstract: This book reveals how innovation in natural resource management can contribute to rural poverty reduction. Drawing from research throughout eastern and southern Africa, the contributing authors present a synthesis of lesson from both policy and practice. They look at various multi-stakeholder approaches to natural resource management, showing which ones have worked and why. They describe how researchers and development practitioners navigate the dynamics of complex socio-ecological systems. They analyze the outcomes and impacts of development projects, and present comparative insights on methodological, technological, policy, and institutional innovations. Overall, this book explores new trends and drivers in natural resource management and rural poverty in an age of rapid environmental, economic, political, and social change in eastern and southern Africa. It will be of interest to researchers and academics in agriculture, natural resource management, social science, and related disciplines; development professionals and practitioners, including research managers, extension workers, and project managers; post-secondary educators and students, primarily in development studies, African studies, and agricultural and environmental sciences; government planners (primarily in Africa) and national and international policy advisors; and desk officers and department heads in donor organizations. Description: Co-published with Fountain Publishers and the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA); Revised edition / First published in 2007 by the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa under the title "Gender and social issues in natural resource management research for development" Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/44925 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/43683 Title: Land tenure, gender and globalisation [globalization] : research and analysis from Africa, Asia and Latin America Editors: Tsikata, Dzodzi; Golah, Pamela Abstract: Drawing from field research in Cameroon, Ghana, Viet Nam, and the Amazon forests of Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru, this book explores the relationship between gender and land, revealing the workings of global capital and of people’s responses to it. A central theme is the people’s resistance to global forces, frequently through an insistence on the uniqueness of their livelihoods. For instance, in the Amazon, the focus is on the social movements that have emerged in the context of struggles over land rights concerning the extraction of Brazil nuts and babaçu kernels in an increasingly globalized market. In Viet Nam, the process of “de-collectivizing” rights to land is examined with a view to understanding how gender and other social differences are reworked in a market economy. The book addresses a gap in the literature on land tenure and gender in developing countries. It raises new questions about the process of globalization, particularly about who the actors are (local people, the state, NGOs, multinational companies) and the shifting relations amongst them. The book also challenges the very concepts of gender, land, and globalization. Description: Co-published with Zubaan Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/43683 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z