Research examined how partnerships of state and civil society could function to manage commercially valuable non-wood forest products in Community Forests in Cameroon. Results indicate an effective governance arrangement should include the Ministry of Environment and Forests and the Community...

We develop a model of decision makers' demand for agricultural economic information services. This modeltreats choice of externaldecision-support services as a function of actors' assessment of how alternative investments in information complement their internal competencies. Data from a survey...

Knowledge generation and transfer mechanisms are being transformed in important and controversial ways. Investment in research and development has increased in response to recognition that scientific productivity is tightly connected to economic dynamism. Patent protection has been expanded in...