FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Community Forestry Case Study 10
Tree and Land Tenure: Using Rapid Appraisal to Study Natural Resource Management
A case study from Anivorano, Madagascar
by Karen Schoonmaker Freudenberger
Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- LIST OF MAP, DIAGRAMS AND FIGURES
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- CHAPTER 1: Introduction
- About the case study
- The context
- Methodology
- CHAPTER 2: Preliminaries to the Field Study
- Selecting the team
- Setting the objectives of the study
- Choosing the site
- Other preparations
- CHAPTER 3: Research Activities in the Field
- Preparation and review of tools used in the field
- Day-by-day review of activities
- Analysing the information
- CHAPTER 4: The Community and its Resources
- Anivorano: the community
- The livelihood system
- Anivorano: the natural resource base
- Tenure systems and management of natural resources
- CHAPTER 5: The Implications for Sustainable Resource Management
- Tavy rice production and resource degradation
- Production, tenure and resource management
- Destruction of the Anivorano forest
- Policy perspectives
- The potential impact of land titling
- CHAPTER 6: The Strengths and Limitations of RRA
- Does RRA answer questionsÉ or raise them?
- GLOSSARY AND ACRONYMS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
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