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  Tanzania: communicating local farming knowledge

  Gender and Development, FAO Sustainable Dimensions, 2001

  This paper explains the participatory process used in the development of communication material to promote local knowledge and practices on natural crop protection.
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  Deforestation without limits: How the Cambodian government failed to tackle the untouchables

  Global Witness, 2002

  This report examines evidence of illegal logging that Global Witness has submitted to the Royal Government of Cambodia as part of the Forest Crimes Monitoring and Reporting Project and reviews the action and inaction of the government in each of the cases
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  Review of USAID’s Natural Forest Management Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002

  This assessment documents the insights of a range of stakeholders on achieving tangible results in NFM.. In the main text, authors’ findings and recommendations are presented under four categories: policy and institutional development, forest management, business and market development, and social and community development.
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  Balancing agricultural development and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002

  Using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model this report identifies the links among economic growth, poverty alleviation, and natural resource degradation in Brazil.
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  Agricultural intensification by smallholders in the Western Brazilian Amazon: from deforestation to sustainable land use

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002

  Focusing on smallholders’ decision making, this report presents trade-offs among the key development objectives - environmental sustainability, economic growth, and poverty alleviation - affecting forest use in two settlements in the western Brazilian Amazon.
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  Winners & losers: investigating the human and ecological impacts of the commercialisation of non-timber forest products (NTFPs)

  Department for International Development, UK, 2003

  This project, led by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in the UK, examines the economic and social impacts of commercialisation of non-timber forest products on resource poor farmers and landless people, and on artisans, traders and small-scale entrepreneurs who make use of such products.
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  FSC social strategy: building and implementing a social agenda [version 2.1]

  Forest Stewardship Council, 2003

  This strategy document from FSC is an attempt to “recognize the concerns of FSC’s ‘social constituencies”, to formulate core social values for the organisation, and to translate these ideals into specific objectives, outputs and activities that are closely connected with the organization’s core business, of standards, accreditation, and labelling.The strategy draws on ideas and comments express
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  Status of implementation of forest-related clauses in the CBD

  Fern, 2002

  This report presents the results of research co-ordinated by Fern on the implementation, in 21 countries, of those CBD commitments which relate to forests.
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  Bolivia country analysis of tropical forestry and biological diversity

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002

  This report contributes to the USAID 5 year strategic plan for Bolivia and examines the interaction between forest management, conservation and rural livelihoods in Bolivia’s tropical forest regions.The four main areas of study are:Status of Forest ManagementBiodiversity EndowmentStatus of Protected AreasStatus of the Forest IndustryThe report identifies significant
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  Devolution as a threat to democratic decision-making in forestry?: findings from three states in India

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper looks at two interfacing trends shaping devolution of forest management in India: appropriation of space for forest management by diverse self-initiated community formations; and state-driven devolution where government policies define the scope of local authority in forest management.

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