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    From Dutch disease to deforestation - a macroeconomic link? A case study from Ecuador

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997
    In the literature about macroeconomics and deforestation, it is often supposed that strong foreign exchange outflows (e.g. debt service) increase deforestation, as higher poverty augments frontier migration and natural resources are squeezed to generate export revenues. This paper analyses the opposite phenomenon, i.e.
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    People, Parks and Biodiversity: Issues in Population-Environment Dynamics

    American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995
    This overview paper broadly addresses the complex relationship between biodiversity, people and protected areas.
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    Management Options for Biodiversity Protection and Population

    American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995
    This overview paper stresses what most of the authors believe: that in order to successfully manage biodiversity, local residents and resource users must be involved, and the people who are affected by conservation projects must be partners in the projects, otherwise they will not succeed.
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    Neglected Species, Livelihoods and Biodiversity in Difficult Areas: How should the Public Sector Respond?

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997
    Recent research on neglected crop and animal species suggests that there exists an important gap between the priorities of development and research agencies and the way small farmers, both in Africa and elsewhere in the world, treat such species.
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    Supporting sustainable agriculture through extension in Asia

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997
    There are widespread concerns about the environmental impact of agricultural technologies and over the long-term sustainability of farming systems in Asia. Although the content of extension programmes includes sustainable technologies, extension approaches and methods in the public sector continue to reflect a technology transfer paradigm.
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    Spilling the Beans: What's wrong with the coffee trade?

    Fairtrade Foundation, 1998
    Highlights the problems facing coffee farmers as a result of the way we trade in coffee. After examining how the trade operates, the report illustrates with testimonies its impact on the lives of farmers.
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    The controversy surrounding eucalypts in social forestry programs of Asia

    National Centre for Development Studies, Australia, 1997
    Social forestry emerged amidst important changes in thinking about the role of forestry in rural development and a growing need for fuelwood. In an attempt to alleviate the fuelwood crisis, the World Bank encouraged the planting of Eucalyptus species in its social forestry programs in the 1980s.
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    Mulching in Burkina Faso.

    Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1996
    In the Central Mossi-dominated area of Burkina Faso, most fields have become semi-permanently or permanently cultivated under conditions of increased demographic pressure. At the end of the dry season most crop residues are used as animal feeds, fuel or thatching material.
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    Rethinking Policy Options for Watershed Management by Local Communities: Combining Equity, Efficiency and Ecological-Economic Viability

    Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions, 1999
    Argues for certain basic re-thinking in the policy options for viable watershed management by combining local knowledge with the formal science through rejuvenated or revitalized traditional institutions. Part one reviews the policy environment in the light of some of the recent reports in India which have a major bearing on watershed development programs.
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    Compensating local communities for conserving biodiversity: how much, who will, how and when

    Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions, 1999
    Large number of local communities across the world have shared unhesitatingly their knowledge about local biodiversity and its different uses with outsiders including researchers, corporations, gene collectors and of course, activists. Many continue to share despite knowing that by withholding this knowledge they could receive pecuniary advantage.

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