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Publications, Bibliography and Projects 1995-2006

Latest version of the CD-ROM contains:

background information on the program

61 CAPRI working papers

44 CAPRi briefs, 3 languages

3 books

an annotated bibliography with close to 5000 references

updated CGIAR project inventory (over 200 projects)

CAPRi workshops and conferences

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Books

Water Rights Reform: Lessons for Institutional Design
Bryan Randolph Bruns, Claudia Ringler, and Ruth Meinzen-Dick (eds). Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. 2005.
Innovation in Natural Resource Management:
The Role of Property Rights and Collective Action in Developing Countries
Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Anna Knox, Frank Place, and Brent Swallow (eds).
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2002
Collective Action, Property Rights and Devolution of Natural Resource Management:
Exchange of Knowledge and Implications for Policy
Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Anna Knox, and Monica Di Gregorio (eds.). Feldafing, Germany: Deutsche Stiftung für Internationale Entwicklung/ Zentralstelle für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (DSE/ZEL). 2001.
Property Rights, Risk, & Livestock Development in Africa
Nancy McCarthy, Brent Swallow, Michael Kirk, and Peter Hazell (eds). Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute and International Livestock Research Institute. 1999.
Negotiating Water Rights
Bryan Randolph Bruns, and Ruth S. Meinzen-Dick (eds). Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. 2000.

Working Papers

Sustaining Linkages to High Value Markets through Collective Action in Uganda: The Case of the Nyabyumba Potato Farmers
Elly Kaganzi, Shaun Ferris, James Barham, Annet Abenakyo, Pascal Sanginga, and Jemimah Njuki. CAPRi Working Paper 75. Washington, DC: IFPRI. 2008.
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Collective Action Initiatives to Improve Marketing Performance: Lessons from Farmer Groups in Tanzania
James Barham, and Clarence Chitemi. CAPRi Working Paper 74. Washington, DC: IFPRI. 2008.
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Linking Collective Action to Non-Timber Forest Product Market for Improved Local Livelihoods: Challenges and Opportunities
Heru Komarudin, Yuliana L. Siagian, and Ngakan Putu Oka. CAPRi Working Paper 73. Washington, DC: IFPRI. 2007.
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Farmer Groups Enterprises and the Marketing of Staple Food Commodities in Africa
Jonathan Coulter. CAPRi Working Paper 72. Washington, DC: IFPRI. 2007.
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Collective Action for Small-Scale Producers of Agricultural Biodiversity Products
Froukje Kruijssen, Menno Keizer, and Alessandra Giuliani. CAPRi Working Paper 71. Washington, DC: IFPRI. 2007.
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The Role of Public-Private Partnerships and Collective Action in Ensuring Smallholder Participation in High Value Fruit and Vegetable Supply Chains
Clare Narrod, Devesh Roy, Julius Okello, Belem Avendaño, Karl Rich. CAPRi Working Paper 70. Washington, DC: IFPRI. 2007.
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Collective Action and Marketing of Underutilized Plant Species: The Case of Minor Millets in Kolli Hills, Tamil Nadu, India
Guillaume P. Gruère, Latha Nagarajan, and E.D.I. Oliver King. CAPRi Working Paper 69. Washington, DC: IFPRI. 2007.
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Collective Action for Innovation and Small Farmer Market Access: The Papa Andina Experience
André Devaux, Claudio Velasco, Gastón López, Thomas Bernet, Miguel Ordinola, Hernán Pico, Graham Thiele, and Douglas Horton. CAPRi Working Paper 68. Washington, DC: IFPRI. 2007.
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Farmer Organization, Collective Action and Market Access in Meso-America
Jon Hellin, Mark Lundy, and Madelon Meijer. CAPRi Working Paper 67. Washington, DC: IFPRI. 2007.
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Beyond Group Ranch Subdivision: Collective Action for Livestock Mobility, Ecological Viability, and Livelihoods
Shauna BurnSilver and Esther Mwangi. CAPRi Working Paper 66. Washington, DC: IFPRI. 2007.
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Gender, Wealth, and Participation in Community Groups in Meru Central District, Kenya
Kristin E. Davis and Martha Negash. CAPRi Working Paper 65. Washington, DC: IFPRI. 2007.
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Gender and Collective Action: A Conceptual Framework for Analysis
Lauren Pandolfelli, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, and Stephan Dohrn. CAPRi Working Paper 64. Washington, DC: IFPRI. 2007.
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Empowerment through Technology: Gender Dimensions of Social Capital Build-Up in Maharashtra, India
Ravula Padmaja and Cynthia Bantilan. CAPRi Working Paper 63. Washington, DC: IFPRI. 2007.
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Could Payments for Environmental Services Improve Rangeland Management in Central Asia, West Asia and North Africa?
Celine Dutilly-Diane, Nancy McCarthy, Francis Turkelboom, Adriana Bruggeman, James Tiedemann, Kenneth Street, and Gianluca Serra. CAPRi Working Paper 62. Washington, DC: IFPRI. 2007.
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Women's Collective Action and Sustainable Water Management: Case of SEWA's Water Campaign in Gujarat, India
Smita Mishra Panda. CAPRi Working Paper 61. Washington, DC: IFPRI. 2006.
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Rural Institutions and Producer Organizations in Imperfect Markets: Experiences from Producer Marketing Groups in Semi-Arid Eastern Kenya
Bekele Shiferaw, Gideon Obare, and Geoffrey Muricho. CAPRi Working Paper 60. Washington, DC: IFPRI. 2006.
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Gender, Social Capital and Information Exchange in Rural Uganda
Enid Katungi, Svetlana Edmeades, and Melinda Smale. CAPRi Working Paper 59. Washington, DC: IFPRI. 2006.
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Gender Differences in Mobilization for Collective Action: Case Studies of Villages in Northern Nigeria
Saratu Abdulwahid. CAPRi Working Paper 58. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2006.
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Gender and Local Floodplain Management Institutions: A Case Study from Bangladesh
Parvin Sultana and Paul Thompson. CAPRi Working Paper 57. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2006.
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Collective Action in Plant Genetic Resources Management: Gendered Rules of Reputation, Trust and Reciprocity in Kerala, India
Martina Aruna Padmanabhan. CAPRi Working Paper 56. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2006.
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Groups, Networks, and Social Capital in the Philippine Communities
Marie Godquin and Agnes R. Quisumbing. CAPRi Working Paper 55. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2006.
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Improving the Effectiveness of Collective Action: Sharing Experiences from Community Forestry in Nepal
Krishna P. Acharya and Popular Gentle. CAPRi Working Paper 54. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2006.
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Decentralization and Environmental Conservation: Gender Effects from Participation in Joint Forest Management
Arun Agrawal, Gautam Yadama, Raul Andrade, and Ajoy Bhattacharya. CAPRi Working Paper 53. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2006.
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The Many Meanings of Collective Action: Lessons on Enhancing Gender Inclusion and Equity in Watershed Management
Laura German, Hailemichael Taye, Sarah Charamila, Tesema Tolera, and Joseph Tanui. CAPRi Working Paper 52. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2006.
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Water, Women, and Local Social Organization in the Western Kenya Highlands
Elizabeth Were, Brent Swallow, and Jessica Roy. CAPRi Working Paper 51. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2006.
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Facilitating Collective Action and Enhancing Local Knowledge: A Herbal Medicine Case Study in Talaandig Communities, Philippines
Herlina Hartanto and Cecil Valmores. CAPRi Working Paper 50. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2006.
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From the Conservation of Genetic Diversity to the Promotion of Quality Foodstuff: Can the French Model of ‘Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée’ be Exported?
Valérie Boisvert. CAPRi Working Paper 49. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2006.
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Property Rights and the Management of Animal Genetic Resources
Simon Anderson and Roberta Centonze. CAPRi Working Paper 48. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2006.
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Biting the Bullet: How to Secure Access to Drylands Resources for Multiple Users
Esther Mwangi and Stephan Dohrn. CAPRi Working Paper 47. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2006.
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Subdividing the Commons: The Politics of Property Rights Transformation in Kenya’s Maasailand
Esther Mwangi. CAPRi Working Paper 46. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2006.
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Protecting Farmers’ New Varieties: New Approaches to Rights on Collective Innovations in Plant Genetic Resources
Rene Salazar, Niels P. Louwaars, and Bert Visser. CAPRi Working Paper 45. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2006.
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Are There Customary Rights to Plants? An Inquiry Among the Baganda (Uganda), with Special Attention to Gender
Patricia L. Howard and Gorettie Nabanoga. CAPRi Working Paper 44. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2005.
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Initiatives for Rural Development through Collective Action: The Case of Household Participation in Group Activities in the Highlands of Central Kenya
Gatarwa Kariuki and Frank Place. CAPRi Working Paper 43. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2005.
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Localizing Demand and Supply of Environmental Services: Interaction With Property Rights, Collective Action, and the Welfare of the Poor
Brent Swallow, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, and Meine van Noordwijk. CAPRi Working Paper 42. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2005.
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Who Knows, Who Cares? Determinants of Enactment, Awareness and Compliance with Community Natural Resource Management
Ephraim Nkonya, John Pender, Edward Kato, Samuel Mugarura, and James Muwonge. CAPRi Working Paper 41. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2005.
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The Voracious Appetites of Public versus Private Property: A View of Intellectual Property and Biodiversity from Legal Pluralism
Melanie G. Wiber. CAPRi Working Paper 40. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2005.
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Institutional Innovations Towards Gender Equity in Agrobiodiversity Management: Collective Action in Kerala, India
Martina Aruna Padmanabhan. CAPRi Working Paper 39. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2005.
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Collective Action for the Conservation of On-Farm Genetic Diversity in a Center of Crop Diversity: An Assessment of the Role of Traditional Farmers’ Networks
Lone B. Badstue, Mauricio R. Bellon, Julien Berthaud, Alejandro Ramírez, Dagoberto Flores, Xóchitl Juárez, and Fabiola Ramírez. CAPRi Working Paper 38. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2005.
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Between Conservationism, Eco-Populism and Developmentalism -- Discourses in Biodiversity Policy in Thailand and Indonesia
Heidi Wittmer and Regina Birner. CAPRi Working Paper 37. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2005.
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Farmers' Rights and Protection of Traditional Agricultural Knowledge
Stephen B. Brush. CAPRi Working Paper 36. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2005.
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The Transformation of Property Rights in Kenya's Maasailand: Triggers and Motivations
Esther Mwangi. CAPRi Working Paper 35. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2005.
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The relationship between collective action and intensification of livestock production: The case of Northeastern Burkina Faso
Nancy McCarthy. CAPRi Working Paper 34. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2004.
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Methods for studying collective action in rural development
Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Monica Di Gregorio, and Nancy McCarthy. CAPRi Working Paper 33. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2004.
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What do people bring into the game: experiments in the field about cooperation in the commons
Juan-Camilo Cárdenas and Elinor Ostrom. CAPRi Working Paper 32. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2004.
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Formal and informal systems in support of farmer management of agro-biodiversity: some policy challenges to consolidate lessons learned
Marie Byström. CAPRi Working Paper 31. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2004.
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Methods of consensus building for community based fisheries management in Bangladesh and the Mekong delta
Parvin Sultana and Paul Thompson. CAPRi Working Paper 30. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2003.
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In pursuit of comparable concepts and data about collective action
Amy Poteete and Elinor Ostrom. CAPRi Working Paper 29. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2003.
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Understanding, measuring and utilizing social capital: Clarifying concepts and presenting a field application from India
Anirudh Krishna. CAPRi Working Paper 28. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2003.
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Cooperation, collective action and natural resources management in Burkina Faso: A Methodological Note
Nancy McCarthy, Céline Dutilly-Diané, and Boureima Drabo. CAPRi Working Paper 27. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2002.
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The Importance of Social Capital in Colombian Rural Agro-Enterprises
Nancy Johnson, Ruth Suarez and Mark Lundy. CAPRi Working Paper 26. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2002.
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Assessing the Factors Underlying Differences in Group Performance: Methodological Issues and Empirical Findings from the Highlands of Central Kenya
Frank Place, Gatarwa Kariuki, Justine Wangila, Patti Kristjanson, Adolf Makauki, And Jessica Ndubi. CAPRi Working Paper 25. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2002.
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Climatic Variability and Cooperation in Rangeland Management: A Case Study from Niger
Nancy McCarthy and Jean-Paul Vanderlinden. CAPRi Working Paper 24. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2002.
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International Conference on Policy and Institutional Options for the Management of Rangelands in Dry Areas: Workshop Summary Paper
Ngaido Tidiane, Nancy McCarthy and Monica Di Gregorio. CAPRi Working Paper 23. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2002.

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Legal Pluralism and Dynamic Property Rights
Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Rajendra Pradhan. CAPRi Working Paper 22. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2002.

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Land Redistribution, Tenure Insecurity, and Intensity of Production: a Study of Farm Households in Southern Ethiopia
Stein Holden and Hailu Yohannes. CAPRi Working Paper 21. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2001.

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Collective Action for Water Harvesting Irrigation in the Lerma-Chapala Basin, Mexico
Christopher A. Scott and Paula Silva-Ochoa. CAPRi Working Paper 20. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2001.

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User Participation in Watershed Management and Research
Nancy Johnson, Helle Munk Ravnborg, Olaf Westermann, and Kirsten Probst. CAPRi Working Paper 19. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2001.

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Rethinking Rehabilitation: Socio-ecology of Tanks and Water Harvesting in Rajasthan, North-west India
Tushaar Shah and K. V. Raju. CAPRi Working Paper 18. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2001.

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Evaluating Watershed Management Projects
John Kerr and Kimberly Chung. CAPRi Working Paper 17. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2001.

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The Effects of Scales, Flows and Filters on Property Rights and Collective Action in Watershed Management
Brent M. Swallow, Dennis P. Garrity, and Meine van Noordwijk. CAPRi Working Paper 16. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2001.

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Tribes, State, and Technology Adoption in Arid Land Management, Syria
Jonathan Rae, Georges Arab, Thomas Nordblom, K. Jani, and Gustave Gintzburger. CAPRi Working Paper 15. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2001.

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Land Inheritance and Schooling in Matrilineal Societies: Evidence from Sumatra
Agnes R. Quisumbing, and Keijiro Otsuka. CAPRi Working Paper 14. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2001.

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Between Market Failure, Policy Failure and “Community Failure”: Property Rights, Crop-Livestock Conflicts and the Adoption of Sustainable Land Use Practices in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka
Regina Birner and Hasantha Gunaweera. CAPRi Working Paper 13. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2001.

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Land Dispute Resolution in Mozambique: Institutions and Evidence of Agroforestry Technology Adoption
Jon D. Unruh. CAPRi Working Paper 12. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2001.

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Collective Action, Property Rights, and Devolution of Natural Resource Management: Exchange of Knowledge and Implications for Policy - A Workshop Summary Paper
Anna Knox and Ruth Meinzen-Dick. CAPRi Working Paper 11. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2000.

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Collective Action and the Intensification of Cattle-feeding Techniques: A Village Case Study in Kenya's Coast Province
Kimberly Swallow. CAPRi Working Paper 10. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2000.

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The Role of Tenure in the Management of Trees at the Community Level: Theoretical and Empirical Analysis from Uganda and Malawi
Frank Place and Keijiro Otsuka. CAPRi Working Paper 9. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2000.

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CAPRi Technical Workshop on Watershed Management Institutions: A Summary Paper
Anna Knox and Subodh Gupta. CAPRi Working Paper 8. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2000.

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Collective Action in Ant Control
Helle Munk Ravnborg, Ana Milena de la Cruz, Maria del Pilar Guerrero, and Olaf Westermann. CAPRi Working Paper 7. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2000.

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Land Tenure and the Adoption of Agricultural Technology in Haiti
Glenn R. Smucker, T. Anderson White, and Michael Bannister. CAPRi Working Paper 6. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2000.

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Collective Action in Space: Assessing how Collective Action Varies Across an African Landscape
Brent M. Swallow, Justine Wangila, Woudyalew Mulatu, Onyango Okello, and Nancy McCarthy. CAPRi Working Paper 5. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2000.

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Land Tenurial Systems and the Adoption of Mucuna Planted Fallow in the Derived Savannas of West Africa
Victor M. Manyong and Victorin A. Houndékon. CAPRi Working Paper 4. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2000.

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Impact of Land Tenure and Other Socioeconomic Factors on Mountain Terrace Maintenance in Yemen
Aden Aw-Hassan, Mohammed Alsanabani, and Abdul Rahman Bamatraf. CAPRi Working Paper 3. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2000.

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Assessing the Relationships Between Property Rights and Technology Adoption in Smallholder Agriculture: A Review of Issues and Empirical Methods
Frank Place and Brent Swallow. CAPRi Working Paper 2. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2000.

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Property Rights, Collective Action and Technologies for Natural Resource Management
Anna Knox, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, and Peter Hazell. CAPRi Working Paper 1. Washington DC: IFPRI. 1998.

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Policy and Research Briefs

Land rights for African development: From Knowledge to Action.
Esther Mwangi (ed.)
CAPRi Policy Brief. Washington DC: IFPRI. February 2006.

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Collective Action and Property Rights for Sustainable Rangeland Management.
Esther Mwangi (ed.)
CAPRi Research Brief. Washington DC: IFPRI. February 2005.

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Collective Action and Property Rights for Sustainable Development.
Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Monica Di Gregorio (eds.). 2020 Focus 11. Washington DC: IFPRI. February 2004.

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Property Rights for Poverty Reduction.
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Patricia Kameri-Mbote, and Helen Markelova.
2020 Focus Brief. Washington DC: IFPRI. October 2007.

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Gender and Collective Action: Policy Implications from Recent Research.
Lauren Pandolfelli, Stephan Dohrn, and Ruth Meinzen-Dick.
CAPRi Policy Brief 5. Washington DC: IFPRI. January 2007.

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Governing Land: Reflections from IFPRI Research
Stephan Dohrn.
IFPRI Research Brief. Washington DC: IFPRI. May 2006.

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Securing the Commons.
Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Esther Mwangi, and Stephan Dohrn.
CAPRi Policy Brief 4. Washington DC: IFPRI. May 2006.

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Conceptual and Methodological Lessons for Improving Watershed Management and Research.
Anna Knox, Brent Swallow and Nancy Johnson.
CAPRi Policy Brief 3. Washington DC: IFPRI. February 2001.

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Collective Action, Property Rights, and Devolution of Natural Resource Management
Brenda Katon, Anna Knox, and Ruth Meinzen-Dick.
CAPRi Policy Brief 2. Washington DC: IFPRI. January 2001.

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Property Rights, Collective Action and Technologies for Natural Resource Management
Anna Knox and Ruth Meinzen-Dick.
CAPRi Policy Brief 1. Washington DC: IFPRI. October 1999.

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Discussion Papers

Multiple Functions of Common Property Regimes
Brent M. Swallow, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Lee Ann Jackson, Timothy O. Williams, and T. Anderson White. IFPRI Environment and Production Technology Workshop Summary Paper 5. May 1997.

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Gender, Property Rights, and Natural Resources
Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Lynn R. Brown, Hilary Sims Feldstein, and Agnes R. Quisumbing. IFPRI Food Consumption and Nutrition Discussion Paper 29. May 1997.

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Local Organizations for Natural Resource Management Lessons from Theoretical and Empirical Literature
Lise Nordvig Rasmussen and Ruth Meinzen-Dick. IFPRI Environment and Production Technology Discussion Paper 11. August 1995.

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