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  Questioning conservation practice and its response: the establishment of Namaqua National Park

  Current Conservation, 2009

  This article summarises research carried out in Namaqualand in South Africa that identifies the discrepancies between rhetoric and practices in conservation. The author points at an on-going conflict between conservation and redistribution of land, suggesting that powerful conservationists tend to win this competition.
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  Community Markets For Conservation Programme (COMACO) Phase II: appraisal of the proposal to the Royal Norwegian Embassy, Lusaka, Zambia

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2009

  This paper reviews the proposal for a Phase II of the Community Markets for Conservation Programme (COMACO) in Zambia. The programme is seen as a tool to offer poachers and charcoal burners incentives for abandoning illegal activities to protect wildlife and biodiversity through improved farming technologies and access to agricultural markets.
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  Home gardens sustain crop diversity and improve farm resilience in Candelaria Loxicha, Oaxaca, Mexico

  Springerlink, 2009

  The home garden is an integral part of smallholders’ production strategies. This paper investigates how home gardens are integrated into local farming practices and how these influence biodiversity in Candelaria Loxicha, Oaxaca, Mexico. The paper finds that home gardens harbour high levels of biodiversity.Further findings include:
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  The last stand of the orangutan – state of emergency: illegal logging, fire and palm oil in Indonesia’s national parks

  UNEP Environmental Law Programme, 2007

  Orangutans survive only in the dwindling tropical rainforests of Borneo and northern Sumatra, being dependent on the forest for food and nesting sites. This document describes how orangutan populations are seriously affected when their forest is destroyed or logged, not least because they are often killed for meat or to protect newly planted crops.
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  Beyond access: exploring implementation of the fair and equitable sharing commitment in the CBD

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2007

  This book seeks to analyse the application of access and benefit sharing (ABS) to genetic resources in the hands of users and researchers outside the provider country or country of origin.
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  Can community conservation bring international goals down to Earth?: Chairman’s report from a workshop on the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

  Nordic Council of Ministers, 2007

  This is a report from a workshop on the role of local communities and indigenous peoples in the follow-up of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment in environment and in development policy and practice. The event formed part of the 26th Annual Conference of the International Association of Impact Assessment in Stavanger, Norway, 23 - 25 May 2006.
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  Women in backyards: root crop production and biodiversity management in backyards: a case study in five selected woredas of Tigray regional state, Northern Ethiopia

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2007

  How can women produce and benefit better from their backyards? How to introduce drought resistant and highly nutritional root crops along while maintaining the biodiversity of plants in backyards? This paper aims to contribute to food self-sufficiency and improve the nutritional status of poor women headed households and poor families in Tigray, Ethiopia.
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  Legal aspects of exchange, use and conservation of farm animal genetic resources

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2007

  This report is a background study for the FAO commissioned study ‘Exchange, Use and
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  Farmers’ rights and agrobiodiversity

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2006

  In 2004, the members of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) adopted the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, which includes an article on Farmers’ Rights (FR). This paper looks at what is meant by FR, how these rights have been implemented in a different contexts and what development organisations can do to support their implementation.
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  Directorate for Nature Management, Norway (DN)

  DN is a national body that has the scientific responsibility for managing the Norwegian countryside. It provides nature management expertise to the Ministry of Environment.

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