Reem Hajjar

TL;DR: It is argued that CWR contributions to the development of new cultivars remain less than might have been expected given improved procedures for intercrossing species from different gene pools, advances in molecular methods for managing backcrossing programes, increased numbers of wild species accessions in gene banks, and the substantial literature on beneficial traits associated with wild relatives.

TL;DR: It is argued that the contribution of biological diversity to ecosystem functioning in agricultural production systems is variable, but can be substantial, and occurs at the genetic, as well as species, level in arable systems.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the degree to which decentralization of forest management decision making is actually happening in Brazil and Mexico and found that in both countries the government maintains significant control over forest resources through heavy regulation of extraction, but that communities have increasing control over day-to-day forest management decisions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a comprehensive global analysis of environmental, income and natural resource rights outcomes of community forest management (CFM) using data from 643 cases in 51 countries and find that while the majority of cases reported positive environmental and income-related outcomes, forest access and resource rights were often negatively affected by policies to formalize CFM.

TL;DR: In examining 697 cases of community forest management (CFM), extracted from 267 peer‐reviewed publications, a heavy bias toward studies on South Asian forests is found, indicating that the literature on community forestry may not be representative of decentralization policies and CFM globally.