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New Horizons: The Economic, Social and Environmental Impacts of Participatory Watershed Development
The Hidden Harvest: The Value of Wild Resources in Agricultural Systems. A Summary
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in East and Southern Africa: An Empirical Analysis of Current Initiatives and Review of the Literature
Participatory valuation of wild resources : an overview of the Hidden Harvest methodology.
Wild resources are often of vital importance to rural people's livelihoods but are often overlooked in conventional valuations. This paper provides an over view of the methodological approach used by IIED's Hidden Harvest research programme which undertook inventories and valuation studies with the resource users themselves withnthe aim of revealing more comprehensive and relevant, rather than assumed, economic values of local resources and incentives for their management.
New Horizons: the economic, social and environmental impacts of participatory watershed management
This paper summarises the findings of a two-year research project, which provided detailed case studies of the processes and impacts of 22 participatory watershed development projects, and discusses implications for the future of watershed development and policy. It argues that for soil and water conservation to be successful and sustained, project must see farmers as the solution rather than the problem and so put local knowledge and skills at the core of porgrammes.