| Integrated Seawater Forestry Farming falls under the category of Adaptive Management, as it seeks to bridge traditional manners of food acquisition and indigenous ways of knowing with Western ways of knowing, expressed through field experimentation based off of decades of research. A pilot project in Eritrea has demonstrated the potential for success that these projects, managed by the local population in caring for their resources in a common property management institution, is capable of showing. Strategies of cooperation and the Tragedy of the Commons can be used to understand how to design a system that will best fit within the existing environment and social institutions.;Many countries have been experimenting with halophytes, or salt-tolerant plants, in the hopes of discovering successful crops for uncultivable land in an effort to prevent food and water shortages. Using saline or brackish water to grow crops is one way to prevent risks, and this type of project has been planned for an environmentally degraded part of Mexico. Changes in subsistence will be directed toward the growth of these new cash crops, forest production, and renewable fuels. Under what criteria will these changes toward a novel type of market-oriented economy with novel products be welcome and successful? These projects may be considered an example of sustainable development. |
