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  Operational model of adaptive co-management of Indian forests based on criteria and indicators

  Indian Institute of Forest Management, 2003

  This paper describes a system called "adaptive management" and its role in the implementation of Joint Forest Management (JFM) programmes in India. People living in and near to forests in India are very dependent on the forests for food, fuel, fodder, medicines and other necessities.
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  Far less than the sum of its parts: an analysis of recommendations made for remediation in individual projects as part of the Independent Forestry Review

  The Papua New Guinea Eco-Forestry Forum, 2001

  An Independent Forestry Review Team appointed by the Government in Papua New Guinea in 2000 investigated 32 proposed new logging concessions to ascertain whether due processes had been followed and whether landowners in the forests were properly involved in decision making.
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  Land literacy improvement: key to sustainable natural resource management

  Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Collaborative Research Support Program, 2003

  This policy brief argues for the large scale implementation of land literacy programmes in order to address land degradation in rapidly changing societies.
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  Using wood products to mitigate climate change: a review of evidence and key issues for sustainable development

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004

  This document argues that as part of the important role that forests can play in providing wealth and well-being to countries and their citizens, forests can make an important contribution towards tackling the problem of climate change.
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  Counting on the environment: forest incomes and the rural poor

  Environment Department, World Bank, 2004

  This report investigates the extent to which people in rural areas of developing countries depend on income from forest environmental resources, and how this dependence is conditioned by different political, economic, ecological, and socio-cultural factors.
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  Agricultural biotechnology for developing countries: results of an electronic forum

  Electronic Forum on Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture, FAO, 2001

  This document is a report of the first six conferences of the FAO’s Electronic Forum on Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture, ruuning between March 2000 and May 2001. The first four conferences dealt with the appropriateness of currently available biotechnologies in the crop, forestry, livestock and fishery sectors, respectively for food and agriculture in developing countries.
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  Impact of carbon value on profitability of improved fallow agroforestry systems in Kigezi highlands, Uganda

  Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, 2004

  The economic advantages of improved agro forestry fallow systems over traditional continuous cropping systems are important tools that can be used to influence the choice of land use options at household levels. In Kigezi highlands Uganda, the upper parts of farmers’ crop field terraces are degraded due to continuous cropping.
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  Greasy palms – palm oil, the environment and big business

  Friends of the Earth, 2003

  This report summarises two separate Friends of the Earth reports on, respectively, the increasing demand for palm oil in developed countries, and the social and environmental impacts of palm oil cultivation in Southeast Asia - focussing particularly on Indonesia.
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  Conflicts in Joint Forest Management: cases from South Rajasthan, India

  Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network, 2003

  Joint Forest Management (JFM) has been an important step for improving amangement and governance of forests in India. However, conflicts and conflict resolution arrangements in the JFM framework are one area where there is urgent need for attention.
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  Deforestation, floods and state reactions in China and Thailand

  Southeast Asia Research Centre, City University, Hong Kong, 2002

  What factors motivate developing countries to prevent deforestation, which can cause serious environmental damage, such as flooding? Do democratic states take action more effectively than authoritarian states?

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