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    Farm ponds for water, fish and livelihoods

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
    Aquaculture has been recognized as an important component of rural development, aimed at improving food supply and generating more income for poor farming households. Ponds add value to farming activities: water from ponds can serve domestic and livestock water supplies as well as irrigation for crops.
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    Development support monitor 2009: Africa in our hands

    African Monitor, 2009
    Although Africa attracted $43 billion in private capital, $40 billion in remittances and $38 billion in aid in 2008 it still faces a considerable resource gap. Such financial support, some would argue, is needed to ensure progressive mobilisation of Africa’s domestic resources and, in turn, social and economic development.
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    Teaching climate change and health: the contribution of development studies and sustainable development

    European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes, 2008
    This paper focuses on development, sustainable development and the relationship between them with respect to climate change and health. The paper presents three cases created to bring together both development and sustainable development perspective.
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    Food crisis and the global land grab

    This website contains news and commentary about the global rush to buy up or lease farmlands abroad as a strategy to secure basic food supplies or simply for profit.
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    Tenure security and forest tenure reform in China

    Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2009
    This study assesses the determinants of forestland allocation to households in the forest tenure reforms in China in the period 1980-2005. It also examines the current level of tenure security on forestland and how this tenure security is affected by past and more recent policy changes.
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    Rights-based approaches: exploring issues and opportunities for conservation

    Center for International Forestry Research, 2009
    The links between the realisation of human rights and the conservation of natural resources and biodiversity are receiving increasing attention worldwide. Experience has demonstrated that exclusionary approaches to conservation can undermine those same rights of affected communities and can undermine conservation objectives.
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    Agribusiness and Society: Corporate Responses to Environmentalism, Market Opportunities and Public Regulation

    Zed Books, 2004
    How far are agribusiness corporations responding to emerging environmental awareness to play their part in the 'greening' of agriculture and food? Are they developing new environmentally-friendly products, services and production methods?
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    Local and global elites join hands: development and diffusion of Bt cotton technology in Gujarat

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2005
    While experts and activists question genetically engineered seed technology in the name of farmers’ interests and a greater democratic future, farmers themselves are voting with their feet in its favour.
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    Climate change and indigenous peoples

    Tebtebba Foundation, Phillippines, 2008
    This manual has been written to empower indigenous peoples to participate more effectively in shaping relevant policies and actions taken to address issues related to climate change. It also aims to enlighten non-indigenous peoples on indigenous peoples’ experiences and perspectives on climate change.
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    SpringerLink is an integrated full-text database for journals and books published by Springer. SpringerLink currently offers fully peer-reviewed journals and more than 10,000 books online.

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