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    Biodiversity: opportunities and dilemas [access to genetic resources]

    Growing Diversity, 2002
    Senator Marina Silva of the National Congress of Brazil critically describes efforts to regulate access to genetic resources in Brazil.
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    Reconciling agriculture and biodiversity: policy and research challenges of ‘ecoagriculture’

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2002
    Paper which argues against the 'conventional wisdom' that modern agriculture and biodiversity conservation are incompatible.
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    Partnerships for strenghtening conservation biology in Africa

    American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2002
    This report records the outcomes of a workshop held in September 2001to share information about the status of conservation biology in Africa and to discuss ways to strengthen it, especially through regional and international collaboration.The report highlights areas which the workshop identified as priorities to help translate conservation research into practical action.
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    Towards Democratic Control and Participation in the Management of Agricultural Biodiversity

    Growing Diversity, 2002
    "Community based conservation" and "peoples' participation" have become part of the conventional rhetoric and more attention is being paid to this approach on the ground by international and national organisations.
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    Biological diversity - more debate than action?

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001
    Short briefing paper providing a summary of the various issues arising around the implementation (or lack of it) of the Convention on Biological Diversity. The paper outlines the various policy instruments arising from the CBD and what they have achieved to date.
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    Wildlife and poverty study: phase one report

    Department for International Development, UK, 2001
    Report aimed at producucing recommendations to DFID on an appropriate strategy for interventions which link rural livelihoods to wildlife and common natural resources.
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    Biodiversity rights legislation

    GRAIN, 2002
    Biodiversity Rights Legislation (BRL) is a collection of emerging laws that directly affect people's control over agricultural biodiversity in developing countries. It compiles those legislative texts that define rights in relation to genetic resources or to the knowledge associated with those materials.
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    Diversity on the Deccan Plateau

    GRAIN, 2002
    Case study examining the relationship between traditional rain fed agricultural methods, food security and agricultural biodiversity in the poor growing conditions on the Deccan plateau in Southern India. The article describes the implementation of careful and complex farming strategies used in the region to extract the most benefit from the fragile dryland soils.
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    Conserving biodiversity, sustaining Livlihoods: experiences from GEF-UNDP biological diversity projects

    United Nations Development Programme, 2002
    This report outlines the work of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Programme at the UNDP through a series of case studies from GEF / UNDP funded projects. Case studies are organised to highlight innovative approaches to balancing conservation and development needs according to broad ecosystem types.
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    Biodiversity management and local livelihoods: Rio plus 10

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2002
    ODI briefing paper looking at biological resources and their management, for both conservation and people's livlihoods with a view to outlining a framework for best practice.

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