Farmer-led community institutions: key to reversing land degradation in the 21st century

Reversing global land degradation is about better and simpler technologies, better national policies and much more. But ultimately it is about rural people and their institutions. The greatest prospect for reversing land degradation in the next century is the evolution of real farmer-led community institutions that take charge and transform the way research and extension in land management are done. Broad-based evidence for this is emerging. This paper will examine this as part of a process of people taking back greater control of their furures through decentralization, democracy and local leadership. Examples of locally-led processes in natural resource conservation suggest two successful streams: (1) institutions that are developed independently by local communities and managed by them, whose subsequent activities may not be assisted by outside stakeholders, and (2) local conservation institutions that are initiated and guided by the public sector.

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