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    Institute of Development Research, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia (IDR)

    The Institute of Development Research (IDR) is a pioneer development research institute in Ethiopia, and has been carrying out and promoting development research, teaching and research in social scien
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    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN)

    Food Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Network (FANRPAN) was established to enhance the capacity for policy formulation and analysis in the region.The core activities of FANRPAN are:t
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    CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action (CAPRi)

    An intercenter initiative of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), this programme fosters research and promotes collaboration on institutional aspects of natural resou
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    Gerster Consulting

    Conducting research, policy analysis and advocacy as well as the dissemination of information on all these aspects of international cooperation, on North-South-relations and on achievements and proble
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    Third World Network Africa

    Third World Network-Africa is a research and advocacy organisation based in Accra,Ghana.
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    Chronic poverty and the environment: a vulnerability perspective

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2006
    The relationships between poverty and the environment are highly contested. This paper highlights some of the key thinking on poverty-environment relationships, and introduces a framework focusing on the importance of environmental vulnerability in explaining poverty dynamics. The relationship between environmental sustainability and poverty is two-fold.
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    Shortcomings of linkages between environmental conservation initiatives and poverty alleviation in Tanzania

    Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2003
    There are few studies on poverty and the environment that have addressed the question of how measures geared towards solving environmental degradation can also be used as a means of combating poverty. This paper is a survey of conservation initiatives and interventions that can be used as entry points for addressing issues of poverty alleviation in Tanzania.
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    World resources 2005: the wealth of the poor - managing ecosystems to fight poverty

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2005
    Income from ecosystems - which the World Resources Institute calls "environmental income" - can act as a fundamental stepping stone in the economic empowerment of the rural poor. However, that authors argue that for this to become a reality, the impoverished must be in a position to exercise control and stewardship over their resources, which is rarely the case.
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    Poverty and conservation: landscapes, people and power

    World Conservation Union, 2005
    This book focuses on conservation’s potential to contribute actively to long-term sustainable development and, more immediately, to poverty reduction. Conservation has, at times, contributed to local poverty by denying poor people control over and access to the natural resources that underpin their livelihoods.
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    Poverty-conservation mapping applications

    World Conservation Union, 2004
    Poverty-conservation mapping is a useful approach to explore linkages between development (people) and conservation (nature). Although poverty-environment mapping in biodiversity applications has been limited, there are numerous potential applications that are of use to IUCN and its members.

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