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  Agricultural biotechnology: technology policy brief

  United Nations University Institute for New technologies, 2002

  This is a collection of articles making up the UNU/INTECH technology policy brief on the subject of agricultural biotechnology.
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  Improving the management of sustainable development: towards a new strategic framework for large developing countries: China, India, and Indonesia

  Institute of Advanced Studies. United Nations University,, 2002

  Based on the case study analyses of China, India, and Indonesia, this report introduces and examines some of the important issues related to developing a national strategy for sustainable development.
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  Environment, livelihoods and local institutions: Decentralization in Mainland Southeast Asia

  World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2002

  This report provides an overview of the decentralisation of natural resources decision-making and management in mainland Southeast Asia during the past 20 years. It is based upon seven in-depth case studies from Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Yunnan, China and comparative material from ongoing collaborative work with partners in Northern Thailand.
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  Agricultural biotechnology, poverty reduction, and food security

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2001

  This working paper from the Asian Development Bank examines the risks and benefits of biotechnology in relation to human health, the environment, and Agriculture.
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  Devolution and community-based natural resource management: creating space for local people to participate and benefit?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2002

  This paper draws together evidence from a number of studies on the impacts of natural resource devolution policies in several Asian and southern African countries from the perspective of local people. Devolution outcomes are assessed in terms of who has greater benefits and decision-making authority.
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  World Development Report 2003: sustainable development in a dynamic economy (draft)

  World Development Report, World Bank, 2002

  This year's WDR looks at how to manage the substantial growth in output and productivity which is predicted for developing countries in the next 50 years.The problem:Key change processes are technological innovation, income growth, demographic change and urban transitions.
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  When is deliberative democracy possible?

  Governance and Development Review, IDS, 2001

  It is widely accepted that conventional electoral democracy lacks much of the essence of 'genuine' democratic governance. Citizens hand over decision-making power to a handful of elected representatives, and are rarely engaged in debating and understanding the choices that those representatives make.There is no shortage of normative models of more engaged, participatory governance.
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  Limitations of grassroot organisations

  Governance and Development Review, IDS, 2002

  A recent review has focused on how authority and control are exercised within civil society institutions and between civil society and the state.
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  Local governance for poverty reduction in Africa

  Global March Against Child Labour, 2002

  Concept paper for the Fifth Africa Governance Forum Maputo, Mozambique, 23-25 May 2002The paper argues for decentralization as an important first step in creating regular, predictable opportunities for citizen-state interaction, despite its limited application and success record in Africa.
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  Multi-Stakeholder processes for governance and sustainability: beyond deadlock and conflict

  Stakeholder Forum, 2002

  Written in preaparation for the WSSD in September 2002 this manual discusses how multi-stakeholder processes (MSPs) can be organized and implemented in order to resolve complex issues in and around sustainable forms of development.

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