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  Incentives for sustainable hunting of bushmeat in Rio Muni, Equatorial Guinea

  Imperial College, University of London, 2006

  Bushmeat hunting is thought to be becoming increasingly unsustainable in west and central Africa, but true assessment of sustainability and consequently appropriate management, is constrained by poor understanding of cause and effect.
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  Prunus africana: money growing on trees? a plant that can boost rural economies in the Cameroon highlands

  Forestry Department, FAO, 2007

  Cameroon supports some of the largest populations of the Afromontane hardwood pygeum (Prunus africana), a tree used traditionally for timber, fuel-wood and medicine. It is one of the major income sources for forest based communities in the highlands areas of Cameroon.
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  Balancing development and conservation? an assessment of livelihood and environmental outcomes of non-timber forest product trade in Asia, Africa and Latin America

  Ecology and Society, 2006

  This article evaluates the extent to which Non Timber Forest Product (NTFP) trade leads to both livelihood improvement and forest conservation. The analysis is based on a standardised expert-judgment assessment of the livelihood and environmental outcomes of 55 cases of NTFP trade from Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
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  Evaluating dependence on wildlife products in rural Equatorial Guinea

  Zoological Society of London, 2009

  This thesis shows that two rural villages in continental Equatorial Guinea consume, produce and earn significant amounts from wildlife resources, particularly bushmeat.
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  NTFPs and poverty alleviation in Kyrgyzstan: potential and critical issues

  Intercooperation, 2006

  NTFPs from walnut-fruit forests in rural Kyrgyzstan have the potential to contribute to poverty alleviation in the region. This can only occur through the reform of institutional arrangements regarding access to these products. The author uses the three dimensions of the World Bank’s definition of poverty to raise some important issues about this matter:Opportunity
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  Poverty and forestry: A case study of Kyrgyzstan with reference to other countries in West and Central Asia

  Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Document Repository, 2004

  Though forests occupy a relatively small proportion of West and Central Asia, they have historically been important to the people living in and around them.This paper examines the potential of forestry in Kyrgyzstan for poverty reduction, with a further discussion about these issues more generally in the region. Key points made:
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  A disharmonious trade: China and the continued destruction of Burma’s northern frontier forests

  Global Witness, 2009

  The report documents on illegal logging and illegal export of timber to China in Kachin State in Burma, which is on the border of China and where deforestation is at its worst.
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  Incentives to sustain forest ecosystem services. A review and lessons for REDD

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2009

  Tropical deforestation and forest degradation contributes to global greenhouse gas emissions. Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) is an important component of a viable global climate policy framework.
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  Wireless technology for social change: trends in NGO mobile use

  United Nations Foundation, 2008

  This report, published by the UN Foundation, examines real life examples of and trends in wireless technology solutions being used to drive change in the areas of health, humanitarian assistance, and environmental conservation. Largely using case studies, the authors find that NGOs’ use of mobile technology is very widespread and indispensable.
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  Lessons from citizen activism in Uganda

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008

  This paper highlights the role played by citizens who launched a campaign to prevent Uganda’s celebrated natural forest, the Mabira Central Forest Reserve, from being donated to a private sugar-growing and processing company. The paper presents tactics from this campaign as a lesson for approaching broader issues of governance.

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