The Workshop on Property Rights, Collective Action, and Technology Adaptation was hosted by ICARDA headquarters in Aleppo. It drew together both current theory and recent empirical work on the relationship between property rights and incentives to invest in new technologies, and the role of collective action in sustainable resource management practices. It highlighted recent work on this topic at CGIAR centers and national research institutes. Seven CGIAR centers and four regional or national institutes presented papers. Some of the papers presented are part of a book published by John Hopkins University Press in October 2002 (see above).
The following papers presented at the workshop were released as CAPRi Working Papers:
Frank Place and Brent Swallow. Assessing the Relationships Between Property Rights and Technology Adoption in
Smallholder Agriculture: A Review of Issues and Empirical Methods. CAPRi Working Paper 2. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2000.
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.
Victor M. Manyong and Victorin A. Houndékon. Land Tenurial Systems and the Adoption of Mucuna Planted Fallow in the Derived Savannas of West Africa. CAPRi Working Paper 4. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2000.
Glenn R. Smucker, T. Anderson White, and Michael Bannister. Land Tenure and the Adoption of Agricultural Technology in Haiti. CAPRi Working Paper 6. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2000.
Jonathan Rae, Georges Arab, Thomas Nordblom, K. Jani, and Gustave Gintzburger. Tribes, State, and Technology Adoption in Arid Land Management, Syria. CAPRi Working Paper 15. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2001.
Regina Birner and Hasantha Gunaweera. 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. CAPRi Working Paper 13. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2001.
Brent M. Swallow, Justine Wangila, Woudyalew Mulatu, Onyango Okello, and Nancy McCarthy.
Collective Action in Space: Assessing how Collective Action Varies Across an African Landscape. CAPRi Working Paper 5. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2000.
Helle Munk Ravnborg, Ana Milena de la Cruz, Maria del Pilar Guerrero, and Olaf Westermann. Collective Action in Ant Control. CAPRi Working Paper 7. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2000.