The manual reflects the results of a 3-year participatory learning process that comprised many meetings, workshops, village case studies, a baseline survey of 20 poor villages, two monitoring trials in another 20 villages, and a full monitoring survey of all 223 villages in Kutai Barat. The principal purpose of this manual is to provide technical guidelines and background information to poverty assessors at district, subdistrict and village level in Kutai Barat. Therefore, the manual is structured in modules according to the tasks of the assessors.

Investment in policy oriented research is rising despite uncertainties about the degree to which it has actually contributed to benefits for the poor and the environment thus far. To address these uncertainties, this Impact Assessment Paper explores a case example of the contribution of policy oriented research to improved environmental benefits. The subject of the assessment is political economy research that revealed how perverse incentives led to the clearance of large areas of natural forests for feeding massive Indonesian pulp mills.

Adama Ouedraogo dit Grand Passage a 70 ans. Avec tant de réalisations à son actif, on pourrait croire que l’heure de la retraite a sonné. Mais il n’en est rien et son système agro-écologique, centré autour de l’arbre, est un modèle que bien des visiteurs

Il y a au moins d’après les experts une quarantaine de techniques employées en agroforesterie mais certaines sont plus populaires que d’autres. Un spécialiste togolais les passe en revue.

CIFOR facilitated 27 communities in the Upper Malinau watershed to develop agreements about their village boundaries and map them through participatory methods. Decentralization reforms created new values of forest resources and uncertainties that increased conflict over local resources. The authors report on the nature of these conflicts, the stability of agreements and the factors affecting how agreements were reached.