Biodiversity conservation
- Can general budget support be used to meet environmental objectives?
- General Budget Support (GBS) is an example of an increasingly important aid instrument that emphasises domestic commitment to achieve better environmental outcomes. This policy briefing from ODI looks at whether GBS can be used to help meet environmental objectives. Case studies of GBS are given for the cases of environmental mainstreaming in Mozambique and donor harmonisation in Ghana.
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Coffee in Tanzania: key trends in sustainability standards
- ( E.,A. Lazaro;J. Makindara;F.,T.,M. Kilima / Danish Institute for International Studies , 2008)
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One of the key trends characterising the agro-food trade in the last two decades has been the increasing complexity of public and private standards that are applied to imports into developed countr...
- How will climate change impact indigenous and traditional peoples?
- ( M. Macchi;G. Oviedo;S. Gotheil / International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union) , 2008)
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Indigenous and traditional peoples are among those most at risk from climate change. This document looks in detail at the potential impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities and cul...
- How are conservation policies shaped by neoliberalism?: a collection of critical essays
- ( J. Igoe;D. Brockington / Conservation and Society , 2008)
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The growing body of work on the 'neoliberalisation of nature' has paid little attention to conservation policy and its impacts. Similarly, studies of conservation have generally overlooked the broa...
What are developing countries doing to regulate biosafety?
- ( K. Garforth;S. Manga;C. Frison / Centre for International Sustainable Development Law , 2008)
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This scoping study examines the current context for biosafety and how this has been applied in the development of new national biosafety regulatory regimes. The field of biosafety, which arose...
- Is biotechnology an effective and safe way to address global hunger?
- ( L. Orton / Open Democracy , 2003)
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This article counters the claim that biotechnology can address hunger in ways that are effective,
affordable and safe. Taking an article by Gordon Conway as a starting point, the author ... What policy approaches could minimise the impact of other sectors on forest biodiversity?
- ( I. Thompson;T. Christophersen / Convention on Biological Diversity , 2008)
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The pressures from sectors such as agriculture, mining, or energy on forest biodiversity require cross-sectoral approaches for the conservation and sustainable management of forests. This tool...
How can the "bushmeat crisis" be resolved?
- ( R. Nasi;D. Brown;D. Wilkie / Convention on Biological Diversity , 2008)
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This paper addresses the hunting of tropical forest wildlife for food (known as “bushmeat”, “wildmeat” and/or “gamemeat”). It argues that this is an issue of con...
Bt cotton in India: how credible is the official success story?
- ( SciDev.Net , 2006)
- This article explores the chequered history of GM technology in India, arguing that much of the country's GM debate (the polarised opinions of the pro-GM government and industry and anti-GM activists)...
GM crops and the environment: the need for a science-based debate
- ( W.J. van der Walt / Science in Africa , 2004)
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Assessing the environmental impact of genetically modified (GM) crops requires more than just a tunnel vision approach which looks at hypothetical risks, this article argues. Instead, it suggest th...
- How can developing countries uphold farmers' rights in the context of IPRs?
- ( R. Andersen / South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment , 2007)
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In developing countries, the vast majority of farmers still act as stewards and innovators of genetic diversity and farmers' rights are about enabling this to continue and rewarding them for their ...
