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  Biodiversity and its value [in Australia]

  Biodiversity Group, Environment Australia, 1993

  Explains biodiversity and the three levels at which it is usually considered: genetic, species and ecosystem diversity. It also briefly discusses why biodiversity is important, especially the value of its components and diversity itself.
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  People and protected areas in India

  Unasylva, FAO, 1999

  The author critically examines recent participatory ecodevelopment approaches to the management of Protected Areas in India.
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  Verdict on world's most precious nature reserves: overpopulated, overfarmed and under threat

  The Independent and Independent on Sunday, 2001

  Details new report 'Common Ground, Common Future' aiming to promote 'ecoagriculture'; the unity of farming and conservation. The recommendations of the report are simple: if farmers can double or even treble food production on land they already use, they will have less need to encroach on pristine areas.
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  Agroecosystems

  World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2000

  This study analyses quantitative and qualitative information and develops selected indicators of the condition of the world's agroecosystems. It assesses condition in terms of the delivery of a number of key goods and services valued by society: food, feed and fiber; water services; biodiversity; and carbon storage.
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  Management Options for Biodiversity Protection and Population

  American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995

  This overview paper stresses what most of the authors believe: that in order to successfully manage biodiversity, local residents and resource users must be involved, and the people who are affected by conservation projects must be partners in the projects, otherwise they will not succeed.
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  Compensating local communities for conserving biodiversity: how much, who will, how and when

  Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions, 1999

  Large number of local communities across the world have shared unhesitatingly their knowledge about local biodiversity and its different uses with outsiders including researchers, corporations, gene collectors and of course, activists. Many continue to share despite knowing that by withholding this knowledge they could receive pecuniary advantage.
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  Biodiversity Conservation and its Opponents

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  Arguments over biodiversity conservation continue to generate more heat than light. This paper reviews pro-conservation arguments, concluding that the main policy requirements are to improve the scientific basis of our understanding, and to popularise up-to-date knowledge among a wide audience.
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  Biodiversity and the appropriation of women's knowledge

  Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1997

  In the past few years research institutions and development organizations have 'discovered' the relevance of men farmers' indigenous knowledge of genetic resource management and, after some delay, that of women farmers as well. At the same time, attention has been drawn to the global need to conserve biological diversity.
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  Rethinking the decentralisation and devolution of biodiversity conservation

  Unasylva, FAO, 1999

  This article challenges devolution and populist approaches to biodiversity conservation and forest management by examining several of the main assumptions on which they are based.The concept of partnership in conservation is based on the following, often contested,assumptions: local populations are interested and skilled in sustainable forest resource use and conservation;contempo
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  People, plants, and patents: the impact of intellectual property on trade, plant biodiversity, and rural society

  International Development Research Centre, 1994

  The purpose of this book is to identify key IPR issues and choices and to describe the broader context within which decisions are being made.

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