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  Deforestation and Land Use on the Evolving Frontier: An Empirical Assessment [in Nicaragua]

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1999

  The advance of the agricultural frontier constitutes the biggest source of deforestation in Central America today. This conversion of tropical forests into agricultural land and pasture is the direct result of individual land use decisions.
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  Same platform, different train: the politics of participation

  The Corner House, UK, 1998

  Deals with the politics of participation in the Western Ghats Forestry Project (India).
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  Intellectual property rights regime necessary for traditional livestock raisers

  Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 2001

  This article discusses the need to recognize the intellectual property rights (IPRs) of pastoralists and other traditional domestic animal raisers in the light of the growing interest in making use of the genetic traits of indigenous livestock breeds.The article laments the growing extinction of local breeds.
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  Roads, lands, markets, and deforestation: a spatial model of land use in Belize

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Will intensifying the road network around market areas produce greater economic returns and less environmental damage than extending the road network into new areas?Rural roads promote economic development but also facilitate deforestation.
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  Multiple Uses of Common Pool Resources in Semi-Arid West Africa: A Survey of Existing Practices and Options for Sustainable Resource Management

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  Common pool resources such as rangeland, forests, fallow fields and ponds provide an array of social and economic benefits for a wide variety of users in semi-arid west Africa. However, poor definition and enforcement of the institutional arrangements governing the use of these resources sometimes lead to social conflicts and resource degradation.
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  Extensive pastoral livestock systems: issues and options for the future

  Japan-FAO Association, 1999

  This article explores extensive pastoral livestock systems.The article indicates that:extensive pastoral production used some 25% of the world’s land and produces some 10% of the meat used for human consumption, while supporting some 20 million pastoral householdspastoral production is split between the extensive enclosed systems and open range systemsrangelands used by pastoral
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  Integrating gender into environmental research and policy

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1996

  The purpose of this paper is to show why gender issues are important in local natural resource management; to examine in what ways and with what effects environmental policies and programmes have attempted to incorporate concerns for women in the past; and to suggest how the situation can be improved in future.This introductory chapter discusses the importance of including the social dimension,
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  Namibia: encouraging sustainable smallholder agriculture

  Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1997

  Report recommends agriculture-sector poliy objective of risk reduction, production stability, and the diversification of agricultural and non-agricultural economic opportunities in the rural areas. The most fundamental problem remains, seven years after independence, the lack of a clear policy, administrative structures and legislation dealing with land allocation, tenure and management.
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  Exploring understandings of institutions and uncertainty: new directions in natural resource management

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  The paper examines the nexus between institutions and uncertainty in natural resources management contexts.It argues that conventional understandings of institutions fail to focus on how they deal with the ever-increasing forms of uncertainty impinging on rural livelihoods.

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