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    Farmers' rights in India: a case study

    Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2006
    India is among the first countries in the world to have passed Farmers’ Rights and plant variety protection legislation. This study analyses the achievements, barriers and limitations of India’s approach so far.
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    Water management, livestock and the opium economy: opium poppy cultivation in kunduz and balkh

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2006
    This report draws together an initial set of field observations and working arguments in relation to the drivers of opium poppy cultivation in Kunduz and Balkh, Afghanistan.The authors note that Kunduz is valuable as a research location because of the current general absence of opium poppy cultivation, while in contrast, Balkh, with comparable conditions to Kunduz, is an area of expanding opium
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    Farmers' rights in Peru: a case study

    Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2006
    This case study provides an overview of the state of Farmers’ Rights in Peru and of the perceptions of central stakeholders in this regard.The study offers an analysis of the various and complex issues and problems which arise with regard to understanding and, especially, implementing farmers’ rights at the national level.
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    The economic value of the environment – a missing component in the MDGs?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) provide targets for reducing the poverty of people living in the world’s poorest communities. However, it is unlikely that these targets will be met without increased investments to improve environmental management in ways that benefit poor people.
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    Monitoring the role of environmental management in the MDGs

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set targets to reduce poverty and sustain the environment. MDG 7 challenges policymakers to ‘ensure environmental sustainability’. Poverty and the environment are closely linked: natural resources provide benefits including food, shelter and resources from which people can generate income.
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    Small-scale irrigation dams, agricultural production, and health: theory and evidence from Ethiopia

    World Bank Research, 2005
    Using the case study of the Sustainable Agricultural and Environmental Rehabilitation (SAERT) program in the northern Ethiopia regional state of Tigray, the author examines the potential and significance of installing small-scale irrigation dams to increase agricultural productivity and food production, particularly in areas prone to waterborne diseases.Some of the findings and policy implicati
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    Environmental histories, access to resources and landscape change: an introduction

    Land Degradation and Development, 1999
    This paper outlines a framework for understanding the complexity of land degradation processes, their impacts, and offers insights into their remediation.
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    Agroecology and the struggle for food sovereignty in the Americas

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006
    The authors of this book believe that the search for a more ‘liveable world’ must find alternatives to the corporate capture of food, land, biodiversity and the environment. This needs to build on the potential offered by more autonomous local food systems and organisations.
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    Special ministerial event on food security and sustainable development in small island developing states

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005
    This paper presented to a special FAO ministerial session in 2005 outlines policies for food security in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) based around three main criteria:food availability – depends on domestic food production or food importation, with vulnerability to, respectively, macro-economic factors or natural disastersfood access – depends on the availability of income to
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    Cities versus agriculture: revisiting intersectoral water transfers, potential gains and conflicts

    International Water Management Institute, 2006
    Making better use of the water we have- instead of increasing and diversifying supply, is proposed by many as a way of mitigating water-scarcity problems. Moving water away from agriculture to uses with higher economic value is widely seen as desirable. But does this notion really hold water?

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