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    Climate change impacts on East Africa: a review of scientific literature

    WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2006
    This report highlights some of the major impacts of climate change on conservation for East African countries including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. It also illustrates that climate change in Africa is not only a conservation issue but also a socio-economic one that must be dealt with on a global scale.
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    Legal aspects of exchange, use and conservation of farm animal genetic resources

    Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2007
    This report is a background study for the FAO commissioned study ‘Exchange, Use and
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    Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development (LI-BIRD)

    LI-BIRD is committed to capitalise on local initiatives for the sustainable management of renewable natural resources and an improved livelihood for people in Nepal .
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    Farmers’ rights and agrobiodiversity

    Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2006
    In 2004, the members of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) adopted the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, which includes an article on Farmers’ Rights (FR). This paper looks at what is meant by FR, how these rights have been implemented in a different contexts and what development organisations can do to support their implementation.
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    The Chad-Cameroon oil & pipeline project: a project non-compliance report

    Forest Peoples Programme, 2007
    This report assesses the role of the World Bank in the funding and management of the Chad-Cameroon oil and pipeline project. The report argues that the project has fueled violence, impoverished people in the oil fields and along the pipeline route, exacerbated the pressures on indigenous peoples and created new environmental problems.
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    BirdLife International

    By focusing on birds, and the sites and habitats on which they depend, the BirdLife Partnership is working to improve the quality of life for birds, for other wildlife (biodiversity), and for peopl
  • Organisation

    Cape Flats Nature

    This partnership builds good practice in sustainable management of nature sites in the City of Cape Town’s Biodiversity Network in a people-centred way that develops local leadership for conserv
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    Networking people and nature in the city: inspiration, issues and challenges

    Cape Flats Nature, 2006
    This booklet discusses the work being done by Cape Flats Nature to build a pioneering partnership that tests, experiments and develops an alternative, social nature conservation practice in impoverished urban areas.
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    Is biodiversity a material risk for companies?

    F&C Asset Management plc, 2004
    This report examines the nature of the relationship between biodiversity and business, the specific sectors and risks involved, and whether the risks are material. It looks at:
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    An exploration of tools and methodologies for valuation of biodiversity and biodiversity resources and functions

    Convention on Biological Diversity, 2007
    Most of the benefits we derive from biologically diverse ecosystems are not traded on markets and thus do not bear a price tag, making it difficult to make informed choices about their conservation and sustainable use.

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