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  Wildlife management and land reform in Southeastern Zimbabwe: a compatible pairing or a contradiction in terms?

  Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003

  Is land reform compatible with wildlife management? Zimbabwe is seeking to combine the redistribution of large, 'under-utilised' landholdings to smallholders, with wildlife management, which needs extensive land holdings to be viable.
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  Wildlife and people: conflict and conservation in Masai Mara, Kenya

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003

  This paper reports on the proceedings of two one-day workshops held with communities in the TransMara District where a human-elephant conflict study has taken place.
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  The process of institution building to facilitate local biodiversity management

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2002

  This paper examines theoretical approaches and practical experiences on local participation and the use of local institutions to improve biodiversity management.
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  Wildlife and poverty study

  Department for International Development, UK, 2002

  The DFID Wildlife and Poverty Study aims to assess how and why wildlife is important to the livelihoods of the poor and vulnerable, review the key underlying policy and institutional issues, investigate the synergies and trade-offs between donor strategies and draw implications for appropriate strategy and intervention.
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  Indigenous and traditional peoples and protected areas: principles, guidelines and case studies

  World Commission on Protected Areas, 2000

  This book is divided into two sections: the first discusses principles and guidelines for indigenous/traditional peoples and protected areas and the second provides case studies.The guidelines are based on the following recognition:protected areas will survive only if they are seen to be of value, in the widest sense, to the nation as a whole and to local people in particularthe rig
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  Indigenous and local communities and protected areas: rethinking the relationship

  World Commission on Protected Areas, 2002

  This interview attempts to illustrate the opportunities and obstacles involved in forging a new alliance between communities and conservation. The debate covers practical initiatives and statements of inalienable rights, emerging concepts and their political consequences, the legitimacy/legality dichotomy and the increasing number of social actors involved in protected area management.
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  Participatory monitoring and evaluation of biodiversity

  Environmental Change Institute, 2002

  The site contains a number of documents relating to an e-conference and follow up workshop on participatory biodiversity assessment.The author defines the concept as follows: 'participatory monitoring and evaluation of biodiversity involves non-scientists in observing, measuring or assessing biodiversity or its components.
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  Reconciling the needs of man and widlife in India

  Wildlife Interest Group, American Society of International Law, 1999

  Essay which discusses the contention that what gets conserved, and by whom, will ultimately be determined by social and political processes as much, if not more, than by the scientific knowledge which conservationists bring to bear on resource management.The author argues that state exclusionary policies of protected area management have largely failed to achieve conservation goals and in some
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  Towards Democratic Control and Participation in the Management of Agricultural Biodiversity

  Growing Diversity, 2002

  "Community based conservation" and "peoples' participation" have become part of the conventional rhetoric and more attention is being paid to this approach on the ground by international and national organisations.
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  Diversity on the Deccan Plateau

  GRAIN, 2002

  Case study examining the relationship between traditional rain fed agricultural methods, food security and agricultural biodiversity in the poor growing conditions on the Deccan plateau in Southern India. The article describes the implementation of careful and complex farming strategies used in the region to extract the most benefit from the fragile dryland soils.

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