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  The case for bushmeat as a component of development policy: issues and challenges

  Policy and Environment Programme, ODI, 2003

  This paper makes a case for bushmeat as a topic of interest to development policy.
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  Tourism, local livelihoods, and the private sector in South Africa: case studies on the growing role of the private sector in Natural Resources Management

  Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003

  Looks at how changing institutional arrangements and policies affect poor people's livelihoods and access to natural resources.It addresses tourism in South Africa, and the growing role of the private sector in natural resource management.
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  Fuel substitution: poverty impacts on biomass fuel suppliers

  Department for International Development, UK, 2003

  This paper reports on a project to determine the full livelihood and poverty impacts of fuel substitution. The paper makes recommendations to policy makers on how negative impacts can be mitigated.The project focused on traditional fuel suppliers in Addis Ababa, Nairobi and Kampala in order to identify and characterise the traditional fuel supply sector from a livelihood point of view.
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  Making a killing or making a living: wildlife trade, trade controls and rural livelihoods

  Traffic International, 2002

  This document discusses the importance of wildlife trade for many rural livelihoods and the impact that wildlife trade regulations has on them.The paper begins by outlining trade in wildlife which can occur both nationally and internationally and takes many forms.
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  Conserving the peace: resources, livelihoods and security

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2002

  This book developed from meetings between conservationists and those in the UK government concerned with security and conflict prevention.The book is based on the premise that environmental mismanagement and resource scarcity, alone or in conjunction with other forces, can have such a destabilizing impact on communities and societies that they may experience high levels of insecurity and even s
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  Fire use, peatland transformation and local livelihoods

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2001

  The biodiversity and carbon sequestration value of tropical peatlands is damaged by logging, burning, drainage and other activities. In many cases this may also damage local livelihood benefits such as fisheries support.
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  Forest carbon and local livelihoods: assessment of opportunities and policy recommendations

  Future Harvest, 2002

  In preparation for the eighth session of the conference of the parties (COP8) to the Climate Change Convention, this report argues that businesses looking to buy carbon credits should do so by funding forests planted and managed by local people. It is argued that forest planting can mitigate global warming and that carbon producing business can mitigate their impact on the global climate by buy
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  Biodiversity management and local livelihoods: Rio plus 10

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2002

  ODI briefing paper looking at biological resources and their management, for both conservation and people's livlihoods with a view to outlining a framework for best practice.
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  Forests, food security and sustainable livelihoods

  Unasylva, FAO, 2000

  Unasylva issue looking at different perpectives on issues of physical and economic access to food for forest dependent peoples. Articles are structured as a series of case studies from around the world to analyse the linkages between food security and problems such as degradation and deforestation.
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  Linking development with democratic processes in India: political capital and sustainable livelihoods analysis

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2001

  This paper examines how far Sustainable Livelihoods analysis helps in understanding the complex power relations influencing the rightful access by the poor to assets and entitlements. Paper asserts that these power relations also influence the range of feasible livelihood options, and the type and level of benefits they generate.

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