Avenues for Innovation?

Rights-Based Approaches: Exploring Issues and Opportunities for Conservation

...examines the links between the realisation of human rights and the conservation of natural resources and biodiversity. Presents rights-based approaches to conservation as positive ways forward, while examining the range of new challenges and questions raised...

Listening to Farmers

...discusses the work of extension officers in the Pacific region who are working with farmers to produce DVDs, printed guides, and radio and TV programmes in order to strengthen rural economies. Focuses on a project which works directly with farmers to identify and test methods for increasing farm production and trains extension workers to use ICTs to record, document, and replicate successful practices used throughout Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia...

Tools, Principles or Policies?

...explores a growing trend in the field of agricultural development: thinking in terms of innovation systems rather than focusing only on research. To illustrate this change, the authors describe the Fodder Innovation Project, which is exploring the long-standing problem of fodder scarcity in India and Nigeria...