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  Lessons learnt from new initiatives in forest management for bio-diversity enrichment, poverty reduction and sustainable livelihoods: case studies from India, China, Nepal and Laos

  Eldis Document Store, 2005

  This paper draws lessons from indigenous perspectives of forest communities in India, China and Nepal which are involved in relatively new initiatives in local forest management for over-arching goals such as enrichment of bio-diversity, poverty reduction and sustainable livelihoods.
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  Sustainable energy for the poor

  International Policy Network, 2003

  This paper explores how millions of poor people in India rely on low-intensity traditional fuels – mostly wood and cow dung – and how regulations have prevented them from accessing cleaner energy.
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  An activist approach to biodiversity planning: a handbook of participatory tools used to prepare India’s national biodiversity strategy and action Plan

  Policy Power tools, 2005

  This handbook presents tools that were used to elicit participation in the planning process for India's National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP). It describes these tools with a view to make it easier for readers to adapt them to their own settings, as well as understand the strengths and weaknesses of the tools.
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  In search of excellence: exemplary forest management in Asia and the Pacific

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005

  This publication reflects the outcome of an initiative to identify instances of exemplary forest management in the region and examine the core components of high quality forest management in an effort to illustrate good forest management to a wide audience and encourage others to take up some of the most promising ideas, methods and approaches.
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  Access to water: a woman’s right?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Having enough water for food production is a key issue in many countries. As water becomes scarce and food requirements increase, there will be a need to produce more food using less water, to protect the quality of water and the environment, particularly in Africa. To achieve this, it will be necessary to improve women’s access rights to water.
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  Farmers and plant breeders: an essential partnership for poverty reduction

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Farmers understand seeds and crop varieties, knowing how and when to use them. They are often willing to try out new varieties, but often plant breeding systems and the new seeds they produce do not reach farmers. In particular, resource-poor farmers in marginal areas rarely benefit from new high-yielding varieties.
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  Formal and informal governance in rural India

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  There are several reports of atrocities committed by village councils against low-caste people and women in India. These councils often deal out harsh punishments to villagers who disobey recognised social behaviour, especially those who defy caste boundaries. Punishments include forcing people out of villages and even death sentences.
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  An overview of glaciers, glacier retreat, and subsequent impacts in Nepal, India and China

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2005

  This paper exposes the rate of retreat of Himalayan glaciers accelerating as global warming increases. The report states that glaciers in the region are now receding at an average rate of 10-15 metres per year. There are several problems associated with retreating glaciers that need to be understood in order to proceed to the next stage of quantifying research and mitigating disaster.
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  Indigenous control and sustainability of common resources in the hills of North East India

  Gauhati University, Assam, India, 2005

  The Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India, enacted fifty years ago, allows autonomy to tribal communities in administrative, legislative and financial matters and was supposed to protect them from domination and exploitation by external forces.
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  Can economic instruments mitigate carbon emissions? An Indian perspective

  National Council of Applied Economic Research, India, 2005

  This paper analyses energy usage patterns in several sectors of the Indian economy; considers the rationale for various instruments for mitigating carbon emissions; and attempts to analyse the impact of tax changes on future carbon emissions.

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