Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables, Figures and Boxes -- List of Contributors -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Foreword by Joachim Voss, Director General, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Uniting Science and Participation in the Process of Innovation - Research for Development -- Introduction -- The challenge for research -- Definitions of participatory research -- Adding value to resource management with participatory research -- Common principles of participatory research -- Chapter 2 Navigating Complexity, Diversity and Dynamism: Reflections on Research for Natural Resource Management -- Introduction -- The challenge: complexity, diversity and dynamism in human and natural landscapes -- Traditional and participatory research: key dimensions of difference -- Diversity analysis in NRM research -- Putting it together: reflections on navigating the research spectrum -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3 Whose Research, Whose Agenda? -- Introduction -- Ownership at the macro level -- Building ownership at the meso level: ownership and governance of communal resources -- Ownership over the research process at the community level -- Sustaining ownership throughout the research process -- Ownership and sharing knowledge -- Gender and stakeholder involvement -- Motivation and ownership of technical innovation -- Managing a complex process -- Conclusions -- Chapter 4 Scaling Up and Out -- Introduction -- Situating natural resource management -- The challenge of synthesizing NRM knowledge -- Steps to scaling up: enhancing relevance and accountability -- Is participation possible on a large scale? -- Steps to scaling up: building quality partnerships -- Scaling up participatory NRM to the watershed level.

Beyond the watershed: the continuum of scaling up and out -- Ways forward -- Summary -- Chapter 5 Transforming Institutions to Achieve Innovation in Research and Development -- Introduction -- Key elements and conditions to consider when fostering institutional change -- Progress and future challenges -- Chapter 6 Principles for Good Practice in Participatory Research: Reflecting on Lessons from the Field -- Reflecting on practice -- Understanding the research context -- Towards good practice: shared learning from experience -- Good practice in action: five case studies -- Conclusions: a framework for reflection and change -- Appendix 1: Principles and indicators of good practice in PR on NRM -- Appendix 2: List of indicators of good practice generated at the Chatham meeting -- Chapter 7 Participatory Research, Natural Resource Management and Rural Transformation: More Lessons from the Field -- Introduction: why learn lessons on participatory research? -- Changing contexts of participatory research -- PNRMR: why put agriculture into a resource perspective? -- Building new interfaces for NRM -- Conclusions -- Chapter 8 Participation in Context: What's Past, What's Present, and What's Next -- Introduction -- Ethics, standards and professional peers -- From participatory technology transfer to collaborative science -- Context: sedentary science in place or a science situated in time and space -- Beyond scaling up: crossing scales and envisioning futures -- Conclusion -- Annexe 1: Summaries of Case Studies -- 1 Participatory agroecosystem management - an approach used by benchmark location research teams in the African Highlands Initiative Eco-regional Programme -- 2 Participatory action research on adaptive collaborative management of community forests: A multi-country model.

3 The farmer-driven Landcare Movement: An institutional innovation with implications for extension and research -- 4 The Farmer Research Group (CIAL) as a community-based natural resource management organization -- 5 Long-term natural resource management research in intensive production systems: ICARDA's experience in Egypt -- 6 Management of Plant Genetic Resources in agroecosystems: in situ conservation on-farm -- 7 Eastern Himalayan initiative on gender, ethnicity and agrobiodiversity management -- 8 Participatory selection and strategic use of multipurpose forages in hillsides of Central America -- 9 Focus on integrating methods and approaches to increase gender/stakeholder involvement, collaborative management of natural resource management, and decision-making support -- 10 Farmer participatory experiments in pest management -- 11 Farmers' ability to manage a devastating plant disease - potato late blight -- 12 Developing and implementing an innovative community approach to the control of bacterial wilt (Pseudomonas solanacearum) of potatoes (Solanum tuberosum) -- 13 Participatory management of Kapuwai's wetland (Pallisa District, Uganda): A clear need and some steps towards fulfilling it -- 14 Participatory research at the landscape level: The Kumbhan water trough case -- 15 Participatory research at landscape level: Flood-prone ecosystems in Bangladesh and Vietnam -- 16 Water management, agricultural development and poverty eradication in the former Homelands of South Africa -- 17 Innovation in irrigation - working in a 'participation complex' -- 18 Methods used to address resource issues in integrated watershed management in Nepalese watersheds -- 19 A comparison of farmer participatory research methods -- 20 Soil and water conservation - historical and geographical perspectives on participation.

21 Improving farmers' risk management strategies for resource-poor and drought-prone farming systems in southern Africa -- 22 Participatory mapping, analysis and monitoring of the natural resource base in small watersheds: Insights from Nicaragua -- 23 Observations on the use of information tools in participatory contexts: Access to information and empowerment -- Index.