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  What Role for Tropical Forests in Climate Change Mitigation? The Case of Costa Rica

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1999

  Land and forestry-based activities could in principle play important roles as climate change mitigation strategies. In practice, however, several questions have been raised about their feasibility. Therefore, understanding the processes and determinants of land use changes is critical.
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  Social and economic incentives for smallholder tree growing: A Case Study from Murang'a District, Kenya

  Forests, Trees and People Programme and Network, FAO - SLU, 1995

  Seeks to provide a better understanding of the economic framework of smallholder agriculture in Kenya, particularly in relation to tree growing management and practices.
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  Self-Governance and Forest Resources

  Center for International Forestry Research, 1999

  Outline of theory on community-based institutions and IFPRI’s ongoing efforts to test empirically the theory’s relevance for forest management.Destruction or degradation of forest resources is most likely to occur in open-access forests where those involved, or external authorities, have not established effective governance.
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  Forest cleansing: racial oppression in scientific nature conservation

  The Corner House, UK, 1999

  Article looks at a specific case of racial oppression manifesting itself within development programs. At a more general level, the article looks at how ecological project can become politicised.An example of this is South-East Asia, where valley-based states have regularly attempted to sedentarize or repress hill-dwelling ethnic minorities.
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  From users to custodians: changing relations between people and the state in forest management in Tanzania

  World Bank, 2001

  This paper begins by discussing Tanzania's increasing recognition of the need to bring individuals, local groups, and communities into the policy, planning, and management process if woodlands are to remain productive in the coming decades.The article finds that:central control of forests takes management responsibility away from the communities most dependent on them, inevitably resul
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  Towards Sustainable Development in Rural Africa

  OECD Development Centre, 1999

  A growing recognition of the need to delimit the role of the government, to promote the market framework, and to rely on the private sector as the engine of growth, offers the prospect of a new beginning in rural development in Africa.
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  Managing the environment in developing countries

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  Environmental policy should be inspired by the recognition that the environment is everyone’s business; all social actors must be involved in environmental management. Policies that implicitly subsidize a wasteful and environmentally destructive use of resources are pervasive: reforms should command a high priority on economic as well as environmental grounds.
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  Biotechnology and sustainable crop production in Zimbabwe

  OECD Development Centre, 1995

  This case study of Zimbabwe has examined developments in biotechnology against the background of a well-developed national agricultural research, plant breeding and seeds system.
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  Considerations of wildlife resources and land use in Chad

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1997

  Planning and education are needed on options for numbers of animals. land use in Chad to ensure that development considers the proper use, maintenance, and enhancement of its remaining natural resources, and especially the needs of fish and wildlife populations and their habitats. Chadians traditionally have harvested wildlife and their very rich fisheries to supplement their diets.
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  The Economic Valuation of Tropical Forest Land Use Options: A Manual for Researchers

  IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 1998

  Manual for researchers in Southeast Asia involved in the economic evaluation of tropical forest land use options. It was developed initially to serve as an aid to Cambodian researchers in the execution of an EEPSEA-financed study of non-timber forest values in Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia.

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