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    Environment and development decision making in Africa 2006-2008

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2008
    The African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) is the primary ministerial level forum for environment and development issues in Africa. It has helped launch various environmental initiatives at the regional level, and these have greatly influenced environmental policy in Africa.
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    Links between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation: situation analysis for arid and semi-arid lands in southern Africa

    Eldis Poverty Resource Guide, 2008
    Humans have always depended upon natural ecosystems to supply a range of services useful for their survival and well-being. However, with widespread urbanisation, modernisation, and globalisation, along with the primacy of capitalist economic models, the obvious reliance of humans on ecosystems has become diluted for many, and difficult to maintain for others.
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    Gender and natural resource management: livelihoods, mobility and interventions

    International Development Research Centre, 2008
    This book examines the gender dimensions of natural resource exploitation and management, with a focus on Asia. It explores the uneasy negotiations between theory, policy, and practice that are often evident within the realm of gender, environment, and natural resource management.
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    Trends in sustainable development

    Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2008
    This report highlights key developments and recent sustainability trends in agriculture, rural development, land, desertification and drought, five of the six themes being considered by the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) at its 16th and 17th sessions (2008-2009).
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    Focus on... Neglected species

    New Agriculturalist, 2008
    Increasingly, global food security has become dependent on a shrinking basket of a select number of crops. With prices for staple crops such as rice, wheat and maize having recently doubled or even tripled, it is timely to re-focus on the neglected or underutilised crops that can provide food security and income generation, particularly for the poor.
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    Impacts of the Hutan Kamasyarakatan social forestry program in the Sumberjaya watershed, West Lampung District of Sumatra, Indonesia

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008
    This paper investigates the impacts of a social forestry programme in Hutan Kamasyarakatan (HKm), Indonesia.
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    Sustainability standards and coffee exports from Tanzania

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 2008
    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 countries. This paper aims to identify critical areas to facilitate compliance with sustainability standards in coffee, which is the major traditional export crop for Tanzania.
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    Ending African hunger: GM or agro-ecology?

    Open Democracy, 2003
    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 addresses a number of key issues, arguing for the need for great caution before we encourage poor, vulnerable farmers to chance their livelihoods on GM crops.
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    Who benefits from GM crops?

    Friends of the Earth International, 2008
    This paper provides a fact-based assessment of Genetically Modified (GM) crops around the world.
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    Cross-sectoral toolkit for the conservation and sustainable management of forest biodiversity

    Convention on Biological Diversity, 2008
    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-kit summarises information on policy approaches that aim to minimize the negative impacts of other sectoral policies on forests and forest biodiversity. 

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