Jacob I. Ricks
Singapore Management University
9 Papers
Jacob I. Ricks is an academic researcher from Singapore Management University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Ethnic group. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 6 publications.
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Papers
Assessment of the growth in social groups for sustainable agriculture and land management
Jules Pretty,Simon Attwood,Richard J Bawden,Henk van den Berg,Zareen Pervez Bharucha,John Dixon,Cornelia Butler Flora,Kevin Gallagher,Ken Genskow,Susan E. Hartley,Jan Willem Ketelaar,Japhet K. Kiara,Vijay Kumar,Y. Lu,Tom MacMillan,Anne Maréchal,Alma Linda Morales-Abubakar,Andrew Noble,P. V. Vara Prasad,Ewald Rametsteiner,John P. Reganold,Jacob I. Ricks,Johan Rockström,Osamu Saito,Peter J. Thorne,Songliang Wang,Hannah Wittman,Michael Winter,Puyun Yang +28 more
- 07 Aug 2020
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on intentionally-formed collaborative groups within specific geographic territories, focusing on integrated pest management, forests, land, water, pastures, support services, innovation platforms, and small-scale systems.
Building Participatory Organizations for Common Pool Resource Management: Water User Group Promotion in Indonesia
TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate that local political contexts condition the effectiveness of participatory irrigation policies when irrigation is politically salient, local politicians pressure bureaucrats to better engage with farmers, and also show that training programs are not as effective at increasing water user organization activity as frequent contact between bureaucrats and farmers.
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Getting institutions right: Matching institutional capacities to developmental tasks
Jacob I. Ricks,Richard F. Doner +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify five dimensions of task difficulty that affect the degree and nature of policy challenges and, as a result, the institutional capacities necessary to accomplish such challenges and assess the utility of this framework through a qualitative analysis of two cross-national/single sector comparative cases: irrigation construction and maintenance in Taiwan versus Thailand and upgrading in the natural rubber industry in Malaysia versus Thailand.
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Becoming citizens: Policy feedback and the transformation of the Thai rice farmer
TL;DR: This paper argued that the Thaksin Shinawatra government's (2001-2006) paddy pledging policy altered the mindset of Thai rice farmers, creating a new form of social contract between the rural poor and the state.
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