Information and Communication for Natural Resource Management in agriculture

Information and Communication for Natural Resource Management in agriculture

[2006] This training sourcebook is the result of a collective undertaking by the College of Development Communication of the University of Los Baños the Philippines, and FAO ComDev, in their effort to support collaborative natural resource management in agriculture in Cambodia. It is meant to be ready reference material for communication specialists and facilitators organizing training and capability building in ComDev as a strategic component of sustainable NRM and rural livelihood initiatives.

The sourcebook introduces the strategic and participatory frameworks of information and communication in natural resource management in agriculture, presents the main phases of communication for development process applied to NRM (situation assessment; strategy design; materials development; management and implementation; and monitoring and evaluation) and concludes with lessons learned and recommendations from project experience in Cambodia.