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  Implementing the proposals for action of the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests and the Intergovernmental Forum on Forests

  Program on Forests, 2003

  This booklet is a consolidated summary of the IPF/IFF proposals for action aimed at facilitating national-level assessment and implementation.
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  New instruments for monitoring and evaluation [forestry newsletter]

  European Tropical Forest Research Network, 2002

  In this edition, the guest editors’ article ‘Forest Resources Assessment: Issues and Perspectives’ presents the objectives for this issue, highlighting the challenges in forest resources assessment.
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  Innovative financing mechanisms for conservation and sustainable forest management

  European Tropical Forest Research Network, 2001

  This issue of ETFRN News explores innovative financing mechanisms for conservation and sustainable forest management, whether in conceptual stage, under development, or operational.The newsletter defines innovative forest financing mechanisms as new ways and institutional set-ups to transfer financial resources from actors who are willing to pay for the generation and maintenance of ecological
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  Forestry, forest users and research: new ways of learning

  European Tropical Forest Research Network, 2000

  This book shows three ways in which the boundaries of forestry are changing, perhaps even disappearing:forestry is coming out of isolation; it is not only becoming a multidisciplinary sector, it is also accepting the legitimate participation of a much wider range of actors than before, both directly as resource users, and indirectly as having an interest in the fate or impact of forest man
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  Alternatives to slash-and-burn

  Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Programme, Kenya, 2003

  This Policy Brief is the first in the series and introduces ASB and the issues it deals with.
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  Reducing smoke pollution from tropical fires

  Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Programme, Kenya, 2002

  This paper assesses the effects of smoke pollution on human health, biodiversity and global warming, and it makes recommendations to donors on how to control it.The paper argues that focusing on the smoke and its effects during crises will not solve the problem and indeed can divert attention from its real causes.
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  The use of genetically modified crops in developing countries

  Nuffield Council on Bioethics, UK, 2003

  This discussion paper is a follow-up to the 1999 Report, Genetically modified crops: the ethical and social issues. Contributed as part of the UK public consultation on GM it aims to assess the potential risks and benefits associated with the use of genetically modified (GM) crops in developing countries in relation to improving food security and economically valuable agriculture.
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  Squandering the seas: how shrimp trawling is threatening ecological integrity and food security around the world

  Environmental Justice Foundation, 2003

  This paper examines the waste and destruction behind prawn (shrimp) trawling. It assesses levels of shrimp production and consumption and the practice of shrimp trawling.
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  GM crops: going against the grain

  ActionAid International, 2003

  This paper asks: Do GM crops help eradicate poverty? Do GM crops meet the needs of poor farmers? Do they threaten basic rights? Do GM crops threaten biodiversity? Do GM crops enhance informed choice and participation for poor people?Conclusion: The widespread adoption of GM crops seems likely to exacerbate the underlying causes of food insecurity, leading to more hungry people, not fewer.
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  Wildlife and people: conflict and conservation in Masai Mara, Kenya

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003

  This paper reports on the proceedings of two one-day workshops held with communities in the TransMara District where a human-elephant conflict study has taken place.

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