This Web site is created to facilitate sharing of experiences, approaches and results among scientists working on INRM issues in the CGIAR and partner institutions.

Integrated Natural Resource Management

INRM can be defined as the responsible and broad-based management of the land, water, forest and biological resources base--including genes--needed to sustain agricultural productivity and avert degradation of potential productivity.

Current Definition

INRM is an approach to research that aims at improving livelihoods, agroecosystem resilience, agricultural productivity and environmental services. In other words, it aims to augment social, physical, human, natural and financial capital. It does this by helping solve complex real-world problems affecting natural resources in agroecosystems. Its efficiency in dealing with these problems comes from its ability to:

* empower relevant stakeholders
* resolve conflicting interests of stakeholders
* foster adaptive management capacity
* focus on key causal elements (and thereby deal with complexity)
* integrate levels of analysis
* merge disciplinary perspectives
* make use of a wide range of available technologies
* guide research on component technologies
* generate policy, technological and institutional alternatives

Links

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research CGIAR
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas ICARDA