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  Moving Towards Good Forest Governance in Asia and the Pacific

  Regional Community Forestry Training Centre for Asia and the Pacific, 2002

  A draft position paper prepared as part of Indonesian People’s Forum during PREPCOM IV of WSSD to stimulate dialogue and interest in good forest governance.
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  Multilateral environmental agreements and the WTO: building synergies

  Economics and Trade Branch,, 2002

  Short briefing paper outlining the UNEP led "MEA-WTO process" which has brought together WTO officials, representatives of governments and the secretariats of major Multilaterla Environmental Agreements.
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  Cows who chose domestication: local management of livestock variability among the Wodaabe of Niger (DPhil proposal)

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002

  By focusing on herd management strategies employed by the Wodaabe in Niger, this study aims to examine the ways in which local husbandry practices (in particular genetic resource management) influence animal variability.
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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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  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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  Controlling the international trade in illegally logged timber and wood products

  Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2002

  This report examines how importing/consuming governments might establish and operate a system for denying market access to timber and wood products produced and exported illegally. It covers processes and procedures for identifying illegal timber, methods for denying markey access to those products, effective forms of international co-operation and the implications for WTO trade rules.
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  A conceptual framework for implementing biosafety: linking policy, capacity and regulation

  International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2002

  This paper brings together contributions to a meeting held in July 2001 entitled “A Framework for Biosafety Implementation: A Tool for Capacity Building.” The purpose of this meeting was to devise a conceptual framework to address regulatory implementation and capacity-building needs of developing countries and Parties to the Biosafety Protocol. This framework consists of five elements1.
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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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  Local actors, powers and accountability in African decentralizations: a review of issues

  Overseas Development Institute, 2001

  Using a literature review of existing theory and practice in decentralisation this paper (prepared for IDRC) reviews the most recent wave of African decentralisations to determine whether the new language of democratisation, pluralism and rights is being translated into law and practice.The author finds that, although little empirical research has been done, first indications are that there are
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  Rethinking international intellectual property

  Center for Advanced Research and Study on Intellectual Property, 2001

  Proceedings of the 2000 High Technology Summit Conference at the University of Washington, Seattle.This CASRIP sypmosium publication gives access to a range of articles and presentations on each of the following issues:Extraterritorial enforcementThe doctrine of equivalents and prosecution history estoppelThe WTO and IPRs: Biodiversty and developing countriesRethinking the

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