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  Privatising the means for survival: the commercialisation of Africa's biodiversity

  GRAIN, 2000

  Reviews the policy options open to African governments and civil society groups in resisting the appropriation of African biological resources by transnational corporations.Policy recommendations include:Build on local knowledgeAfrica's biodiversity based food and health systems should be strengthened and enhanced.
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  Trial by fire: forest fires and forestry policy in Indonesia's era of crisis and reform

  World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2000

  This report examines the destruction and systematic plunder of Asia's greatest rainforests under former Indonesian president Suharto. The report focuses on the 1997-1998 forest fires in Indonesia that resulted in the burning of 10 million hectares of forests.
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  Biodiversity conservation and use: local and global considerations

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2000

  Based on field research in the Andes and Amazonia, this paper questions the ability of global intellectual property rights over life forms to improve the livelihood and development of the powerless indigenous and peasant people. Instead, the cross-cultural expansion of the public domain over biodiversity flows and biotechnological processes seems a critical task.
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  Company-community forestry partnerships: a growing phenomenon

  Unasylva, FAO, 2000

  This article examines the relatively new, but growing, range of company-community relationships for the production of forest goods- out-grower schemes, joint ventures, other contracts and informal arrangements - and discusses their advantages and disadvantages in relation to trees outside forests.
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  People and protected areas in India

  Unasylva, FAO, 1999

  The author critically examines recent participatory ecodevelopment approaches to the management of Protected Areas in India.
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  Rural water tenure in East Africa: a comparative study of legal regimes and community responses to changing tenure patterns in Tanzania and Kenya

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000

  This paper looks at the water policy of Tanzania, and makes comparisons with the situation in Kenya. It focuses especially on recent attempts to move towards a participatory, demand-management approach to rural water supply.
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  Reasons for resiliency: toward a sustainable recovery after Hurricane Mitch

  World Neighbors, 2000

  Report presents the methods and findings of an action research effort to measure and compare the impact of Hurricane Mitch on conventionally and agroecologically farmed lands in Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
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  Institutions, politics, and contracts: the attempt to privatize the water and sanitation utility of Lima, Peru

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  This article deals with various issues surrounding the privatization of the the Water and Sanitation Utility of Lima, Peru. Lima's water system was in near-crisis, but this was not enough to bring about radical change. Partial reforms to reduce many of the city's worst problems were carried out under public management.
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  The Forest Industry in the 21st Century

  Global Forest and Trade Network GFTN/WWF, 2000

  Report argues that it is in the industry's interests to demonstrate responsible management, and that this can be achieved through certification schemes such as the Forest Stewardship Council's.Report suggests that despite huge losses from raging forest fires, likely future needs for wood and wood fibre can be met.
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  Webs of power: forest loss in Guinea

  Seminar [Indian journal], 2000

  Examines the contrast between the formulation of problems in development policy, and the perspectives of villagers in Kissidougou (Guinea) in relationship to 'demonstrably' false ideas about environmental change.

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