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FAO Plan of Action for Women in Development
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999DocumentGuidelines for aid agencies on global environmental problems
Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1992Problems offer ways that developed countries can promote international collaboration on environmental problems which transcend boundaries to become regional or global in nature. Aid agencies are taking steps to help developing countries participate in the world-wide response, including ways to assist them to meet their obligations under international environmental agreements.DocumentHow prices and macroeconomic policies affect agricultural supply and the environment
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996There is clearly a link between agricultural incentives and the environment, but quantitative data on such topics as soil quality and land use are inadequate for sound analysis.Mamingi studies the literature on how agricultural prices and macroeconomic policies affect agricultural supply and how that supply affects the environment.DocumentAgriculture and the policy environment: Zambia and Zimbabwe: political dreams and policy nightmares
OECD Development Centre, 1992The paper examines the effect of differing policies in the post-independence period on the agricultural and overall economic performance of Zambia and Zimbabwe. It focuses on the interaction between macroeconomic and agricultural policy reforms. It shows that macro and micro reforms need to be closely linked and that both are critical to sectoral performance.DocumentETFRN Newsletter
European Tropical Forest Research Network, 1999Quarterly publication of the European Tropical Forest Research Network. Each issue contains articles dealing with research programmes and organisations involved in forest research in the tropics and subtropics, short news items, publication announcements, internet features, and requests for research cooperation. Every issue focusses on a different theme, e.g.DocumentThe Regional Impacts of Climate Change: An Assessment of Vulnerability: summary for policy makers (IPCC working group 2 special report, Sept 1997) html version
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 1997The special report provides, on a regional basis, a review of (then) state-of-the-art information on the vulnerability to potential changes in climate of ecological systems, socioeconomic sectors (including agriculture, fisheries, water resources, and human settlements), and human health. The report reviews the sensitivity of these systems as well as options for adaptation.DocumentTechnologies, Policies and Measures for Mitigating Climate Change: technical paper for IPCC working group 2
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 1996This Technical Paper provides an overview and analysis of technologies and measures to limit and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to enhance GHG sinks under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC).DocumentTeddy Online (TERI Energy Data, Directory, and Yearbook)[India energy and environment statistics database]
Tata Energy Research Institute, India, 1999Please note this resource is now only available via a subscription.DocumentForests for carbon sequestration or fossil fuel substitution?: a sensitivity analysis
World Forestry Congress, 1997Among the proposals for mitigating the increase of atmospheric CO2 are the possibility of reforesting degraded lands to sequester C or of using sustainable forest harvests to displace fossil fuels.