This is the first CTA Practical Guide in Swahili. This 8-page fold-out leaflet, practical for use in the field and easy to read, covers the subject of linking smallholder farmers to markets. It gives some background to the subject, outlines processes and provides tips, tables and explanatory line drawings.

This 8-page fold-out leaflet, practical for use in the field and easy to read, covers the subject of linking smallholder farmers to markets. It gives some background to the subject, outlines processes and provides tips, tables and xplanatory line drawings.

Ce dépliant de 8 pages, facile à lire et particulièrement adapté à la consultation sur le terrain, traite de l'accès des petits producteurs aux marchés. Il propose des informations générales sur le sujet traité, une description des procédés, divers conseils, des tableaux et des croquis explicatifs.

Este folheto desdobravel de 8 páginas, prático na sua utilização no terreno e de leitura fácil, trata como os pequenos agricultores podem aceder aos mercados. Fornece informação de base sobre o assunto e descreve, em linhas gerais, os processos, sugestões, quadros e desenhos explicativos.

Private standards are set by the food producing industry and retailers, mainly to assure food safety and good agricultural practice. However their proliferation is a major concern in developing countries where these standards are regarded as too expensive for smallholders to comply with. So what really are the benefits and costs of private standards for small-scale producers?

Plants, People and Nature is a book about benefit sharing between private enterprise and the community. It provides practical examples from around the globe of how private companies involved in the production, processing and marketing of natural products interact with national and regional governments, local industry and, above all, village communities.

This multimedia publication is aimed at policy makers, students, civil society groups, and development communication specialists. The book describes the way co-inquirers worked together in the drylands of Southern India to produce social and ecological knowledge for sustainability, autonomy and equity. Their collective and empowering experience is vividly captured by marginalised women farmers who are also village level film makers - The Community Media Trust of the Deccan Development Society (DDS). Twelve videos make up the four DVD set accompanying the publication.

This paper developed from an articulated process to address the rights to land of pastoral groups, within a holistic perspective and accounting for changes brought about by climate change. It brings together the inputs made by over 120 participants in a web-based forum organised in 2006 and managed by the International Land Coalition on pastoral land rights.

This paper looks at a legal arrangement for enabling forest communities in Ghana to better participate in the benefits generated by timber activities. In Ghana, legislation requires logging firms to commit a portion of their financial resources towards the provision of social amenities to local forest communities. Logging firms must perform this legal obligation by signing and implementing “Social Responsibility Agreement” (SRAs) with forest communities. This report assesses strengths and weaknesses in the design and implementation of SRAs, and the extent to which they have made a difference to forest commun

This study looks at two issues: ecological services valuation - assessing the economic value of the direct and indirect ecosystem services provided by two sanctuaries in Cambodia, and the potential costs/benefits of allowing continuing land conversion and illegal logging; and protected area financing - assessing the costs of maintaining management activities and recommendations for generating funds.