Environment
- Conserving ecosystems with market systems
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The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) concludes that some two-thirds of the world’s ecosystem services are degraded or being used unsustainably. This briefing paper outlines the potential for mobilising business and markets to conserve nature. It argues that market mechanisms can be a powerful complement to existing strategies for conserving ecosystems, if used in the right way.
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- How can Community Forest Enterprises contribute to development in tropical countries?
- ( A. Molnar;M. Liddle;B. Bracer / Amazonia , 2007)
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This study examines promising trends regarding the emergence and development of community forestry enterprises (CFEs) in a range of tropical countries. It looks at the social and politica...
What support is needed to build a market for fair trade timber?
- ( D. Macqueen / Sustainable Markets Group, IIED , 2008)
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Unlike coffee and cotton, timber has yet to become a fair trade commodity. This two-page briefing argues that the time has now come to change this. It argues that a partnership with the fair trade ...
- Exploring the links between trade and climate change
- ( A. Cosbey / International Institute for Sustainable Development [ES] , 2007)
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This paper sets out to scope the linkages between trade and investment and climate change. It aims to draw a broad picture on how trade and investment policy might contribute to efforts to address ...
- Can improved natural resource exploitation and trade help reduce poverty in the Great Lakes region?
- ( Department for International Development, UK , 2007)
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This document analyses natural resource exploitation and trade at four main border areas in the Great Lakes region. It looks at the mechanisms of exploitation for cassiterite, coltan, gold, copper ...
- Market approaches for ecosystem conservation
- ( J. Bishop;L. Timberlake / World Business Council for Sustainable Development , 2007)
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The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) concludes that some two-thirds of the world’s ecosystem services are degraded or being used unsustainably. This briefing paper outlines the potential ...
- The status of environmental goods (EGs) produced by developing Asian countries
- ( R. Alavi / International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development , 2007)
- This paper examines the status and trend of environmental goods (EGs) produced by developing Asian countries and analyses major trade barriers faced by Asian EGs exporters. The sectors examined includ...
- Guide for BioTrade programmes
- ( Biotrade Initiative, UNCTAD , 2007)
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The BioTrade principles and criteria have been defined by the UNCTAD BioTrade Initiative and the BioTrade national programmes, and provide the core of the conceptual framework underlying the BioTra...
- Redressing the balance between the water rich and the water poor
- ( L. Horlemann;S. Neubert / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI) , 2007)
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The concept of Virtual Water Trade (VWT) is based on the idea that water-poor developing countries are increasingly importing their food from water-rich countries. in order to conserve their...
- Zambia's refusal of American GM food aid highlights the complexity of food issues
- ( C. Bergstrom / Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences , 2007)
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A failure to recongnise the complexity of food issues has led to the development of diverse and conflicting regulatory systems to address food trade and food safety. This paper uses the exampl...
- The impact of trade policies and practices on the rights of communities in Africa
- ( P. Burnett;F. Manjii / Fahamu , 2007)
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Puiblished by Pambazuka to mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade and the 50th anniversary of Ghana’s independence this series of articles seeks to raise awarenes...
