Ruth Meinzen-Dick (IFPRI), Flagship 5 co-leader, received the 2019 Elinor Ostrom Award on Collective Governance of the Commons. The names of the 2019 Awardees were announced at the XVII Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons in Lima, Peru.
PIM colleagues from Bioversity International, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), International Water Management Institute (IWMI), World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), and other partner organizations working under Flagship 5 presented in multiple sessions and participated in multi-stakeholder dialogues during the XVII Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons in Lima, Peru.
Flagship 5 colleagues participated in the Global Landscape Forum (GLF) in Bonn on June 22-23. GLF Bonn 2019 explored the essential contributions of Indigenous peoples, local communities, and rural and Indigenous women and youth in achieving the SDGs and the Paris Agreement.
Steven Lawry (CIFOR), Flaghip 5 co-leader, presented findings on the role of tenure security in the adoption of forest landscape restoration practices during a webinar hosted by the global forest team at GIZ, Germany’s development agency.
Hosaena Ghebru (IFPRI) presented findings from a recent set of studies on land tenure and perceived tenure security from Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, and Nigeria in the PIM Webinar "Land tenure and perceived tenure security in the era of social and economic transformation in Africa" on July 2, 2019.
A recent study in Guatemala provides an example that community stewardship of tropical forest can be a viable model for conserving forest and for achieving livelihood benefits. In this blog, Iliana Monterroso and Dietmar Stoian share what they learned while working on the study.
A new guide shows investors how to overcome obstacles and work with communities, drawing on experiences in Guatemala, Mexico, Nepal and Namibia, that have among the most successful collective ownership and management arrangements over their natural resources. The guide's co-author, Steven Lawry, comments in this blog.
Journal articles
Falk, Thomas; Kumar, Shalander; and Srigiri, Srinivasa. 2019. Experimental games for developing institutional capacity to manage common water infrastructure in India. Agricultural Water Management 221 (July 2019): 260-269. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2019.05.005
Libert Amico, Antoine; Ituarte-Lima, Claudia; and Elmqvist, Thomas. Learning from social–ecological crisis for legal resilience building: Multi-scale dynamics in the coffee rust epidemic. Sustainability Science. Article in press. First published online on May 17, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-019-00703-x
Suhardiman, Diana and Emma Karki. 2019. Spatial politics and local alliances shaping Nepal hydropower. World Development 122: 525-536. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.06.022
Other publications
Liswant, Nining; Mwangi, Esther; Banjade, Mani Ram; and Herawati, Tuti. 2019. What future direction for forest tenure reform implementation in Indonesia? Perspectives of national-level stakeholders. CIFOR Infobrief 256. Bogor, Indonesia: Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). https://doi.org/10.17528/cifor/007283
Msangi, Siwa. 2019. Managing urban and agricultural water demands in Northern China: The case of Luancheng county, Hebei province. In Applied methods for agriculture and natural resource management, eds. Siwa Msangi and Duncan MacEwan. Pp. 115-126. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13487-7_7
Sarmiento Barletti, J.P.; Larson, A.M. 2019. The role of multi-stakeholder forums in subnational jurisdictions: Methods training manual and tools for in-depth research. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia. https://www.cifor.org/library/7149/
Sarmiento Barletti, J.P.; Larson, A.M. 2019. The role of multi-stakeholder forums in subnational jurisdictions: Framing literature review for in-depth field research. CIFOR Occasional Paper no. 194. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia. https://www.cifor.org/library/7150
Monterroso, I.; Larson, A.M.; Gutiérrez, Y.; Quaedvlieg, J.; Jarama, L. 2019. Guía práctica para el proceso de titulación de comunidades nativas. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia. https://www.cifor.org/library/7162/
Cruz-Burga, Z.; Monterroso, I.; Larson, A.M.; Valencia, F.; Saldaña, J.S. 2019. The impact of formalizing rights to land and forest: Indigenous community perspectives in Madre de Dios and Loreto. CIFOR Infobrief no. 242. https://www.cifor.org/library/7156/
Larson, A.M.; Monterroso, I.; Vigil, N.H. 2019. Conflict in collective forest tenure: Lessons for Peru from a comparative study. CIFOR Infobrief no. 243. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia. https://www.cifor.org/library/7148/
Larson, A.M.; Monterroso, I.; Canturias, P. 2019. Gender and formalization of native communities in the Peruvian Amazon. CIFOR Infobrief no. 238. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia. https://www.cifor.org/library/7108/
Larson, A.M.; Monterroso, I.; Liswanti, N.; Herawati, T.; Banana, A.Y.; Canturias, P.; Rivera, K.; Mwangi, E. 2019. Models for formalizing customary and community forest lands: The need to integrate livelihoods into rights and forest conservation goals. CIFOR Infobrief no. 253. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia. https://www.cifor.org/library/7273/
