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    Focus on... Neglected species

    New Agriculturalist, 2008
    Increasingly, global food security has become dependent on a shrinking basket of a select number of crops. With prices for staple crops such as rice, wheat and maize having recently doubled or even tripled, it is timely to re-focus on the neglected or underutilised crops that can provide food security and income generation, particularly for the poor.
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    Impacts of the Hutan Kamasyarakatan social forestry program in the Sumberjaya watershed, West Lampung District of Sumatra, Indonesia

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008
    This paper investigates the impacts of a social forestry programme in Hutan Kamasyarakatan (HKm), Indonesia.
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    The Katoomba Group's Ecosystem Marketplace

    The Ecosystem Marketplace provides sources of information on markets and payment schemes for ecosystem services; services such as water quality, carbon sequestration and biodiversity.
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    Biofuel and global biodiversity

    Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 2008
    How is the increasing demand of plant biomass for biofuels exacerbating agriculture’s impact on biodiversity? This document analyses how biofuels are changing land-use patterns in many regions around the world, including some of the most diverse and sensitive regions on the planet, and provides recommendations for moving biofuel production toward more sustainable systems.
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    The 2010 biodiversity target in EU development cooperation

    WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2008
    The aim of this WWF paper is to provide a brief analysis of the progress made by the EU towards the 2010 Biodiversity Target in its external development co-operation policy with a focus Africa Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries and Asia and Latin America (ALA) countries. The progress made is assessed by:
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    Organic certification schemes: managerial skills and associated costs

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007
    Certification is critical in organic markets as it enables organic producers to access new export and domestic market opportunities and premium prices due to the fact that organic quality adds value to products. Whilst in developed countries, economic incentives and enabling policies and regulations have
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    Sustainability standards and coffee exports from Tanzania

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 2008
    One of the key trends characterising the agro-food trade in the last two decades has been the increasing complexity of public and private standards that are applied to imports into developed countries. This paper aims to identify critical areas to facilitate compliance with sustainability standards in coffee, which is the major traditional export crop for Tanzania.
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    Indigenous and traditional peoples and climate change

    International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2008
    Indigenous and traditional peoples are among those most at risk from climate change. This document looks  in detail at the potential impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities and cultures and their associated ecosystems, and seeks to develop effective and culturally appropriate adaptation and mitigation measures.
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    Engaging neoliberal conservation

    Conservation and Society, 2008
    The growing body of work on the 'neoliberalisation of nature' has paid little attention to conservation policy and its impacts. Similarly, studies of conservation have generally overlooked the broader context of neoliberalism. This latest edition of Conservation and Society journal explores what can be gained by seeing conservation through a neoliberal lense.
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    Biosafety scoping study

    Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, 2008
    This scoping study examines the current context for biosafety and how this has been applied in the development of new national biosafety regulatory regimes. The field of biosafety, which arose from the development of modern biotechnology, was initially largely the domain of developed countries.

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