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  Guidelines for establishing audits of agricultural–environmental hotspots

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003

  This report outlines guidelines for assessing Agriculture-Environmental Hotspots.
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  Down on the farm: the impact of nano-scale technologies on food and agriculture

  Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration formerly RAFI, 2004

  This report examines applications of nanotechnology to food and agriculture, which have the potential to revolutionise and further consolidate power over the global food supply.
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  Genetic resource policies: what is diversity worth to farmers?

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005

  This set of six briefings sheds light on questions regarding who maintains diversity, where it is maintained, and how farmers value this diversity as societies and economies change. These briefs present syntheses and synopses of research conducted by IFPRI’s Environment and Production Technology Division along with multiple collaborators.
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  Environmental histories, access to resources and landscape change: an introduction

  Land Degradation and Development, 1999

  This paper outlines a framework for understanding the complexity of land degradation processes, their impacts, and offers insights into their remediation.
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  Family fortunes: analysis of changing livelihoods in Maasailand

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  Working in collaboration with the Belgian funded project ‘Better policy and Management Option for Pastoral Lands: Assessing Trade off between poverty alleviation and wildlife conservation (Reto-o-Reto)’, this project aims to identify the direction and drivers of change in Maasai livelihoods and analyse at household level those factors and institutions that the Maasai consider help or hinder their
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  Greenwash: critical analysis of FSC certification of industrial tree monocultures in Uruguay

  World Rainforest Movement, 2006

  In Uruguay there is growing opposition to the large-scale monoculture plantations of Eucalyptus and Pine. This has partly originated from years of campaigning by local environmental, social and trade union organisations, who have been documenting the impacts of this forestry model.
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  Cities versus agriculture: revisiting intersectoral water transfers, potential gains and conflicts

  International Water Management Institute, 2006

  Making better use of the water we have- instead of increasing and diversifying supply, is proposed by many as a way of mitigating water-scarcity problems. Moving water away from agriculture to uses with higher economic value is widely seen as desirable. But does this notion really hold water?
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  GM crops in India: is the government's policy stance justified?

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2006

  In assessing the policy stance taking by the government of India on the issue of GM technology, the author concludes that there is not sufficient economic justification for the government to promote the use of transgenic corps.
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  The top-down global response to bird flu

  GRAIN, 2006

  This report from GRAIN looks at the power politics behind this global response to avian flu and its consequences for the poor.
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  Parks, people and professionals: putting 'participation' into protected area management

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 1995

  The historically dominant ideology underpinning conservation has been that people are bad for natural resources. Policies and practice have, therefore, sought to exclude people and so discourage all forms of local participation in protected areas.

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