Co-management agreements among indigenous people, state agencies, and other stakeholders offer substantial promise as a way of dealing with natural resource conflicts in a participatory and equitable manner. However, experience shows that co-management regimes can set into motion new conflicts or cause old ones to escalate. In practice the result may not be power sharing but rather a strengthening of the state's control over resource policy, management, and allocation. Instead of contributing to local empowerment, such arrangements may further marginalize communities and resource users. We use case material, primarily from northern Canada and South Asia, to explore the pervasive role of conflict in generating, shaping, and influencing the performance of co-management regimes. The paper analyzes the divergent interests and motives of state agencies in planning and implementing co-management arrangements. It highlights the cultural, political, and legal obstacles encountered by indigenous people and other rural communities in trying to negotiate co-management arrangements. We also explore the conflicts that can arise in co-management regimes where local participation in decision making is very limited. General lessons and recommendations are drawn from our analysis.

Journal article"This article discusses the impact of drought on poverty dynamics in the South Wollo area of northeastern Ethiopia. Using both survey and anthropological/qualitative data covering a six-year period, the paper assesses which households were able to hold on to assets and recover from the 1999–2000 drought and which were not." -- from Author's AbstractISI; IFPRI3; DCADSGDP

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* Autor a quien debe ser dirigida la correspondenciaRecibido Oct. 5, 2017; Aceptado Nov. 14, 2017; Versión final Dic. 13, 2017, Publicado Jun. 2018 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ResumenEste artículo presenta el procedimiento para la selección de un conjunto de criterios para tener en cuenta en proyectos de planificación energética para las zonas rurales de Colombia utilizando fuentes renovables de energía. La implementación de programas de electrificación en las zonas rurales colombianas se enfrenta a diversos obstáculos, entre los que se destaca la inadecuada selección de criterios para valorar la pertinencia de los proyectos. A partir de una revisión bibliográfica se identificaron 33 criterios que fueron sometidos al juicio de expertos con un cuestionario basado en la escala de Likert. Para la selección se utilizó como referente la media aritmética y el nivel de significancia. Se seleccionaron 20 subcriterios agrupados en 5 criterios: técnicos, económicos, sociales, ambientales y riesgo; los cuales permiten una evaluación integral de proyectos de planificación energética. Palabras clave: planificación energética; electrificación rural; proyectos energéticos; fuentes renovables de energía; políticas energéticas A Procedure for Criteria Selection in the Energy Planning of Colombian Rural Areas AbstractThis paper presents the process of selecting a set of criteria for use in energy planning processes using renewable energy sources in rural areas of Colombia. The implementation of renewable energies in the electrification programs of rural areas in Colombia has several obstacles, among which the inadequate selection of criteria to assess the relevance of projects is highlighted. From a bibliographic review, 33 criteria were identified and submitted to expert judgment with a questionnaire based on the Likert scale. For the selection process, the arithmetic mean and the level of significance were used as reference. After processing the results, 20 subcriteria were selected and grouped into five criteria: technical, economic, social, environmental and risk; which allow a comprehensive evaluation of energy planning projects.