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NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

ESA's research and fieldwork on natural resource management provides analysis and policy insights on how natural resource management can result in enhanced food security, poverty alleviation, crisis mitigation and sustainable development.

FAO FLAGSHIP PUBLICATIONS
The State of Food and Agriculture
The State of Food Insecurity
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Natural resource management 2004 - 2006
ESA/06-17: The Role of Crop Genetic Diversity in Coping with Agricultural Production Shocks: Insights from Eastern Ethiopia
Romina Cavatassi, Jeffrey Hopkins and Leslie Lipper
ESA/06-16: Sowing the Seeds of Social Relations: The Role of Social Capital in Crop Diversity
Paul Winters, Romina Cavatassi and Leslie Lipper
ESA/06-15: Putting Payments for Environmental Services in the Context of Economic Development
David Zilberman, Leslie Lipper and Nancy McCarthy
ESA/06-13: Abatement and Transaction Costs of Carbon-Sink Projects Involving Smallholders
Oscar Cacho and Leslie Lipper
ESA/06-08: Less-Favoured Areas: Looking Beyond Agriculture Towards Ecosystem Services
ESA/06-04: When are Payments for Environmental Services Beneficial to the Poor?
David Zilberman, Leslie Lipper and Nancy McCarthy
ESA/05-06: Measuring Technical Efficiency of Wheat Farmers in Egypt
ESA/04-21: Estimating poverty over time and space: Construction of a time-variant poverty index for Costa Rica
ESA/04-20: Will buying tropical forest carbon benefit the poor? Evidence from Costa Rica
ESA/04-19: Effects of poverty on deforestation: Distinguishing behaviour from location
ESA/04-18: Understanding vulnerability to food insecurity: Lessons from vulnerable livelihood profiling
ESA/04-16: Identifying the factors that influence small-scale farmers' transaction costs in relation to seed acquisition
ESA/04-15: Poverty, livestock and household typologies in Nepal
ESA/04-09: Public Attitudes towards Agricultural Biotechnology
ESA/04-08: The Economic Impacts of Biotechnology-Based Technological Innovations
ESA/04-07: Private Research and Public Goods: Implications of Biotechnology for Biodiversity
ESA/04-03: Resource abundance, poverty and development
ESA/04-02: Conflicts, rural development and food security in West Africa
ESA/04-01: Valuation methods for environmental benefits in forestry and watershed investment projects