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  Whose forest tenure reform is it? Lessons from case studies in Vietnam

  Regional Community Forestry Training Centre for Asia and the Pacific, 2008

  In Vietnam, forest area under the management of local people has expanded from almost nothing in the early 1990s to nearly 3.5 million hectares (27% of the national forest area) in 2006. This study looks at the extent to which such tenure reform has worked in practice and how it has affected local people’s livelihoods and well being. The study finds that:
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  The governance of nature and the nature of governance: policy that works for biodiversity and livelihoods

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008

  This report is an output of IIED’s collaborative research project “Policy that works for biodiversity and poverty reduction” and is based on a literature review and three country case studies (India, Peru and Tanzania).
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  From conflict to peacebuilding: the role of natural resources and the environment

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2009

  Conflicts associated with natural resources are twice as likely to relapse into conflict in the first five years, an imminent report suggests. Indeed the natural resource curse has been a primary determinant of intra-state conflict in terrible theatres of war such as the Democratic Republic of Congo and Liberia. Yet it extends far beyond the battle to acquire precious commodities.
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  Agriculture in urban planning: generating livelihoods and food security

  International Development Research Centre, 2009

  This report, by researchers working in urban agriculture (UA), examines concrete strategies to integrate city farming into the urban landscape. Drawing on original field work in cities across the rapidly urbanising global South, the book examines the contribution of UA and city farming to livelihoods and food security.
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  Towards integrated natural resources management (INRM) in dry areas subject to land degradation: the example of the Khanasser valley in Syria

  International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, 2008

  Using the Khanasser Valley in Syria as an example, this paper looks at Integrated Natural Resource management (INRM) as an approach to tackle land degradation. The authors argue that INRM is a better approach because of its comprehensive nature and simplification of the inherently complex socio-ecological systems.
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  People-centred climate change adaptation: integrating gender issues

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007

  This two page briefing paper documents how, as awareness of climate change has grown, so too has the gendered dimensions of its effects on people. It provides an overview of concepts and practical guidelines for implementing gender sensitive responses to climate change in the context of the livelihoods approach.
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  Securing water to enhance local livelihoods: guidelines for implementing a water and livelihoods planning process

  Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2004

  This file, designed for water sector and rural development practitioners, contains detailed guidelines for implementing a water and livelihoods planning process.
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  How can the rural poor participate in global economic processes?

  Overseas Development Institute, 2006

  Should processes of globalisation and economic development inevitably bypass many of the world’s rural poor? Does economic globalisation always have negligible or negative consequences for the rural poor? Or, is there a way in which to forge policy that creates positive economic outcomes?
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  Rural livelihoods, poverty, and the Millennium Development Goals: evidence from Ethiopian survey data

  Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 2008

  This paper analyses the nature of rural poverty in Ethiopia. It situates this analysis within the context of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which provide an umbrella for efforts to increase incomes and improve the quality of life of poor people.
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  Livelihoods, community well-being, and species conservation: a guide for understanding, evaluating and improving the links in the context of Marine Turtle programs

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2006

  How can we identify and monitor the relationships between livelihoods and conservation? What framework can best capture these links? This WWF publication takes marine turtle conservation as a thread to illustrate the linkages between community well-being and the state of the natural environment, and the impacts that each has on the other.

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