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Agroecosystems
World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2000This study analyses quantitative and qualitative information and develops selected indicators of the condition of the world's agroecosystems. It assesses condition in terms of the delivery of a number of key goods and services valued by society: food, feed and fiber; water services; biodiversity; and carbon storage.DocumentStructural adjustment and forest resources: the impact of World Bank operations
World Bank, 2001This article looks into the effect structural adjustment has had on forest resources. The article indicates that structural adjustment operations have often been controversial because they are explicitly political.DocumentReview of the TRIPS agreement: fostering the transfer of technology to developing countries
Third World Network, 2000This article examines the background and objectives of the proposals made by developing countries with an aim to reviewing the TRIPS Agreement.DocumentStudy in the relationship between the agreement on TRIPS and biodiversity related issues
European Union, 2000The main objective of the study was to provide the Commission with a comprehensive background document on the relationship between IPRs as covered by the provisions of the TRIPs agreement and biodiversity related issues.DocumentArsenic crisis today: strategy for tomorrow
Environment and Sustainable Development Programme, United Nations University, 2001This document presents ideas and concepts for ways to cope with the arsenic crisis first highlighted by the presence of arsenic in groundwater extracted from the alluvial aquifer underlying West Bengal and Bangladesh. The focus is on Bangladesh, but the findings may be applied to any other part of the world.DocumentManaging small-scale fisheries: alternative directions and methods
International Development Research Centre, 2001Paper looks beyond the scope of conventional fishery management to alternative concepts, tools, methods, and conservation strategies. There is, for example, broader emphasis on ecosystem management and participatory decision-making.DocumentTowards better woodland management in the Sahelian Mali
Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1989This article begins with an investigation into woodland management in Mali and moves onto a discussion of some of the fundamental practical problems associated with a major part of forest policy in Mali.DocumentCommodity markets: options for developing countries (ODI Briefing Paper)
Overseas Development Institute, 1999