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  Transgenic DNA introgressed into traditional maize in Oaxaca, Mexico

  GE Food Alert Campaign Centre, 2001

  Samples of native landraces of maize from two remote locations in Southern Mexico were tested along with a local commercial sample and seeds collected in the same area in 1971.
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  From conflict to reconstruction: reviving the social contract

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001

  What explains conflict, its intensity, and its duration? What are the chances of achieving a durable peace?
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  Common ground, common future: how ecoagriculture can help feed the world and save wild biodiversity

  Future Harvest, 2001

  Half of the worlds protected areas are being heavily used for agriculture. Malnutrition and hunger are pervasive in 16 of the worlds 25 biodiversity hotspots.
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  Making property in the Taos valleys

  Polson Institute for Global Development at Cornell University, 2001

  This article emphasises that society makes property and that when one society is displaced by another it often is the case that existing property arrangements are recast to favor the newcomers and disadvantage the former inhabitants.
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  Corruption in Nicaragua: analysis and suggestions for next steps

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2000

  This analysis addresses the state of corruption in Nicaragua, its historical roots and recent efforts by government (as well as donors and civil society) to address the issue.
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  Draft ministerial declaration: proposal from a group of developing countries.

  World Trade Organization, 2001

  Draft proposal by a grouping of less developed and developing countries for a declaration at the fourth WTO ministerial conference in Doha, Qatar. Outlines the general position of those countries with respect to implementation of the TRIPS agreement. The same URL has links to the contrasting developed countries draft proposal along with reporting on the discussion.
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  Women in war and peace: grassroots peacebuilding

  United States Institute of Peace, 2000

  Many of the efforts under way to sustain peace in countries and regions beset by or emerging from violent conflict are undertaken by grassoots organisations formed by those whose lives are most directly and significantly affected by the conflict .
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  A conceptual framework for violence reduction

  Gendernet, World Bank, 1999

  Because violence is a complex social, economic, and political problem, its resolution requires strategies integrated throughout affected communities and nations, and based on a conceptual framework that brings a holistic understanding of the causes and impacts of violence and possible interventions for reducing it.With an overall focus on the Latin American and Caribbean region this paper prese
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  Women's entrepreneurship in Latin America: an exploration of current knowledge

  2001

  Despite the increasingly important role of women in promoting growth and development in Latin America and the Caribbean there has been limited research into the role played by women entrepreneurs in the region, and few programmes to promote them.This report, focussing on small, women-owned businesses in the formal sector aims to introduce the discussion of gender gaps in entrepreneurship develo
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  Are all men benefiting from the new economy? Male economic marginalization in Argentina, Brazil, and Costa Rica

  Gendernet, World Bank, 2000

  There is an increasing concern that the process of extensive reforms affecting the Latin America region may have deeper social ramifications in terms of gender as the new economies strain the capability of certain groups of men to work and earn good wages, allowing them to fulfill their traditional socially prescribed role as "providers".This paper uses household surveys covering broadly the pe

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