Maximum Yield?

In recent years, sustainable agriculture has been promoted as an effective tool to reduce deforestation in tropical areas. This analysis (available in both English and Spanish) explores the conditions under which sustainable agriculture works to achieve conservation...

Improving the Practice of Conservation

This article outlines a framework and research agenda for conservation that uses the principles of adaptive management to help conservation practitioners to identify goals, measure progress, take effective action, and learn to do conservation better.

Using Conceptual Models as a Planning & Evaluation Tool in Conservation

This article describes conceptual models—a tool that helps articulate assumptions about a project’s context and what a project team hopes to achieve. It highlights real-world examples, discusses the relationship between conceptual models and other evaluation tools,...