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  Can intellectual property rights encourage farmers to conserve biodiversity?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Debates are raging about the benefits of extending intellectual property rights (IPRs) to agriculture. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) argues that this is necessary to encourage private investment in plant breeding and enable the transfer of IPR-protected varieties from developed to developing countries.
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  Local institutions and rehabilitation of common lands in the Aravalli hills, Haryana

  Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2003

  Legislation was passed in India in 1992 imparting constitutional status on Panchayati Raj (village-level local government) institutions.
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  Institutionalising participation and people-centred processes in natural resource management: research and publications highlights

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004

  This report presents background and rationale for the IIED's action research on institutionalising participatory approaches and people centred processes in natural resource management.
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  At the crossroads: participatory forest management in Karnataka

  Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Development, Bangalore, 2003

  This article attempts to assess whether the promises of the Joint Forest Planning and Management (JFPM) programme initiated in the Indian state of Karnataka in 1993 have materialised in terms of villagers managing their common lands sustainably, equitably and autonomously.
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  The role of registers and databases in the protection of traditional knowledge: a comparative analysis

  Institute of Advanced Studies. United Nations University,, 2004

  There are various mechanisms which can be used to protect Traditional Knowledge (TK).
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  Operational model of adaptive co-management of Indian forests based on criteria and indicators

  Indian Institute of Forest Management, 2003

  This paper describes a system called "adaptive management" and its role in the implementation of Joint Forest Management (JFM) programmes in India. People living in and near to forests in India are very dependent on the forests for food, fuel, fodder, medicines and other necessities.
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  Facilitating conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity

  Convention on Biological Diversity, 2003

  Science and technology have long been recognised as essential driving forces in the development process.
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  Participatory biodiversity conservation in the South Asia region : proceedings of Regional Networking Seminar and Second General Assembly : February 2001, Kathmandu, Nepal

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2001

  This report documents the keynote presentations of the South Asian Participatory Biodiversity Conservation Forum in February 2001, Kathmandu, Nepal.The themes of the working papers include:participatory biodiversity conservation in the traditional farming systems of Kerala, southern Indiabiodiversity resource management in Bangladesh with special emphasis on ricelandscape biodiv
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  Issues related to India’s energy trading with Central Asian countries

  Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2004

  India, with its rapidly increasing energy demand and stagnating domestic oil reserves offers a large potential for energy trading for the Central Asian countries, which have oil and gas reserves.
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  Poverty and Environment Times (no. 2)

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2004

  A collection of articles on poverty and the environment. Content includes:understanding of environment and poverty linksenvironment and health: HIV/AIDS and the environmentIsraelis and Palestinians share water in a Friends of the Earth water project.

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