This paper1 describes Participatory Wealth Ranking’s (PWR) accuracy in predicting the poverty status of groups identified by socio-economic indicators. On the basis of a census in 8 villages located in three of the six divisions of Bangladesh, 1660 households were scored using the...

In the National Reserve Tariqia and its influence zone the Valle Central, traditional socio-economic activities of the rural population are centred on agriculture and transhumant cattleholding. Due to forage shortages every year farmers from the Vall Central take their cattle to the Rezerve to...

Solutions are sought throughout the world to counter land and forest conversion processes, as well as strategies for climate change mitigation. Payments for Environmental Service (PES) schemes, which are market-based incentives, are promoted as a possibility to enforce or support sustainable...

This paper offers a unified framework linking two important debates: First, the debate about the respective roles of geography and institutions on economic development; Second, the literature on the role of technological change and economic development on agricultural intensification and land...

In Sub-Sahara Africa, adoption rates of improved crop varieties remain relatively low, which is partly due to farmers' limited access to information. In smallholder settings, information often spreads through informal networks. Better understanding of such networks could potentially help to spur...