Grassroots Indicators for Desertification - Eastern and Southern Africa (IDRC, 1995)

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Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Part 1: Context and Concepts

An Historical Perspective on Indicators in Development Studies and the Need for Critical Reassessment

Toward Improved Indicators to Measure Desertification and Monitor the Implementation of the Desertification Convention

Grassroots Indicators and Scientific Indicators: Their Role in Decentralized Planning in the Arid Lands of Uganda

Part 2: Methods and Approaches

The Importance of Cosmology

Language and Grassroots Environment Indicators

Research Methodologies for Identifying and Validating Grassroots Indicators

Identification of Land Degradation Levels at the Grassroots

Part 3: Implications and Impact

Changes in Environmental Conditions: Their Potential as Indicators for Monitoring Household Food Security

Akamba Land Management Systems: The Role of Grassroots Indicators in Drought-Prone Cultures

Grassroots Indicators among the Langi and Their Importance to District and National Planning

Pastoral Maasai Grassroots Indicators for Sustainable Resource Management

The Use of Trees, Birds and Animal Behaviour as Measures of Environmental Change by the Shona People of Zimbabwe

Appendix : Report of the Workshop on Grassroots Indicators for Sustainable and Equitable Development

Bibliography

The Editors and Contributors

Acronyms