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

No 39, Food policy statements from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: International agricultural research is expanding beyond the development of annual crop technologies for individual farms to the development of longer-tern natural resource management techniques for entire landscapes. But technologies of practices with a long lag time between investment and returns are unlikely to be adopted by farmers unless they have secure rights to the underlying resources (property rights). Similarly, technologies that span multiple farms are unlikely to be adopted unless neighbors and groups work together (collective action). But little is know about the way property rights and collective action in developing countries mediate the adoption of technologies by farmers and groups. This statement offers suggestions for promoting sustainable natural resource management.

Keywords: natural resources management; developing countries; right to property; case studies; cooperative activities; innovation; collective action; environmental policies; sustainability; poverty alleviation; technological changes; social behaviour; ownership; management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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