The authors and sponsoring agencies for this volume would like to gratefully acknowledge the contributions made by others toward the publication process. Both the International Development Research Center (IDRC) and the International Bo ard for Soil Research and Management (IBSRAM) collaborated in this effort and supported the work of Brenda Heald in compiling some of the original annotations. During the project Julian Dumanski was partly supported by the Danish Trust Funds, in cooperati on with John Dixon of the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Network of the World Bank Group. The report was reviewed by D. F. Acton, G. Roloff, and Valerie Kirkwood of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, and Paul O'Connell and David Gray of the World Bank. Word processing was done by Sarian Akibo-Betts. Entry of the document on the WWW and hyperlinking it with other source documents in the 'Land and Water Knowledge Management Node' was achieved by staff from the Center for Internation al Earth Science Network (CIESIN). Alison Raphael copyedited the volume, with editorial contributions by Alicia Hetzner and Virginia Hitchcock. The report was desktopped by Gaudencio Dizon.