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  People, protected areas and global change: participatory conservation in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe

  NCCR North South, 2008

  This document compares findings from in-depth research on protected area (PA) management in Latin America Africa, Asia and Europe. It describes how PAs have been managed over the last 50-100 years and considers the ecological, social and economic benefits brought by enhanced participation.
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  The Great Green Wall initiative for the Sahara and the Sahel

  Sahara and Sahel Observatory, 2008

  Desertification has had an acute impact in Africa, particularly in the Community of the Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD), which is characterised by climate ranging from hyper-arid to dry sub-humid. The local communities and their livelihoods are heavily dependent on the increasingly fragile natural resources.
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  G8 and the food crisis: the real solutions

  Greenpeace International, 2008

  Millions of people around the world are suffering food shortages, unaffordable food prices and hunger, primarily due to industrial farming, bad harvests related to climate change, unjust terms of trade and the rush for biofuels.
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  The Key Steps in establishing Participatory Forest Management: a field manual to guide practitioners in Ethiopia

  Farm Africa, 2007

  Participatory Forest Management (PFM) describes systems in which communities (forest users and managers) and government services (forest departments) work together to define rights of forest resource use, identify and develop forest management responsibilities, and agree on how forest benefits will be shared.
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  Environment and development decision making in Africa 2006-2008

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2008

  The African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) is the primary ministerial level forum for environment and development issues in Africa. It has helped launch various environmental initiatives at the regional level, and these have greatly influenced environmental policy in Africa.
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  Where community-based water resource management has gone too far: poverty and disempowerment in southern Madagascar

  Conservation and Society, 2007

  Madagascar has struggled with the question of decentralisation for more than three decades. Since coming to power in 2002, President Ravalomanana has both reformed and accelerated this process, granting new roles and responsibilities to regional and community leadership.
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  Accounting for the ecological dimension in participatory research and development: lessons learned from Indonesia and Madagascar

  Ecology and Society, 2008

  At the interface of environmental and social issues, not enough is known about the links between policies, regionally important biophysical factors, local natural resource management sustainability,
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  Will agroforests vanish? The case of Damar Agroforests in Indonesia

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2008

  Resin producing agroforestry in the Krui area of Sumatra in Indonesia is presented as an environmentally friendly, income generating land-use system which contributes to both development and conservation objectives. This paper studies the change in household income portfolios in three communities in the Krui area with the aim of answering five research questions:
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  Local governance institutions for sustainable natural resource management in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger

  Royal Tropical Institute, 2008

  This paper reflects on experiences from research and interventions in the Sahel on management of renewable natural resources - soils, water, forests, and biodiversity - for the purpose of food and income generation. It focuses on local governance institutions in relation to natural resource entitlements, use and decision-making on management in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.
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  Links between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation: situation analysis for arid and semi-arid lands in southern Africa

  Eldis Poverty Resource Guide, 2008

  Humans have always depended upon natural ecosystems to supply a range of services useful for their survival and well-being. However, with widespread urbanisation, modernisation, and globalisation, along with the primacy of capitalist economic models, the obvious reliance of humans on ecosystems has become diluted for many, and difficult to maintain for others.

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