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    A review of selected multi-country agricultural and natural resources management research programmes and projects in Africa: lessons for the future

    Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa, 2008
    African agriculture is characterised by a high degree of social, market and environmental diversity which calls for innovations that are adapted to specific contexts. However, there are opportunities for collaboration and task sharing to make best use of the limited resources due to the fact that social and ecological circumstances extend well beyond national boundaries.
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    SAFIRE (SAFIRE)

    Southern Alliance for Indigenous Resources (SAFIRE) aims to promote rural development through the sustainable utilisation, commercialisation and management of natural resources.
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    Community-based ecological monitoring: manual for practitioners

    SAFIRE, 2007
    The process of continuous observation of the environment and adaptation of action is at the core of ecological monitoring which is the issue of this manual. Ecological monitoring is not intended to limit the use of natural resources and to limit options for development, but is a way of wise long-term development planning.
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    Locally managed marine areas: a guide to supporting community-based adaptive management

    Locally-Managed Marine Area Network, 2008
    Throughout Southeast Asia and the Pacific, coastal communities are experiencing dwindling supplies of marine resources. Locally-managed approaches to coastal protection and management have become prominent.
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    Hidden costs: the underside of economic transformation in the Greater Mekong Subregion

    Oxfam Australia, 2007
    The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) framework, a programme for regional development by the Asian Development Bank, has brought about fast paced economic growth. However, poor people's livelihoods, culture and environment have been seriously compromised:
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    Governance of renewable natural resources: concepts, methods and tools

    Agence française de développement, 2007
    This publication provides a compilation of historical and recent developments in renewable natural resources governance. The paper analyses: the main management principles the typical incentive measures for the management of renewable natural resources relevant models of governance
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    Corruption in natural resource management: an introduction

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2008
    Natural resources often provide fertile ground for corruption. Since a substantial number of partner countries in development cooperation are richly endowed with natural resources, these contexts pose a particular challenge for effective donor action.
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    Knowledge systems and deliberative interface in natural resource governance: an overview

    International Development Research Centre, 2007
    The focus of the publication is to analyse and understand how different groups of social agents engage in the diverse knowledge systems operating in the natural resource sector in Nepal. It examines how knowledge is developed, documented and applied at different levels of natural resource governance using six case studies from forest, agriculture and water sectors.
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    Carbon market opportunities for the forestry sector of Africa

    Winrock International, 2008
    African countries have not benefited greatly from the carbon market. This publication analyses how the implementation of the forestry carbon projects could be a major strategy to combat climate change in Africa.
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    Engaging neoliberal conservation

    Conservation and Society, 2008
    The growing body of work on the 'neoliberalisation of nature' has paid little attention to conservation policy and its impacts. Similarly, studies of conservation have generally overlooked the broader context of neoliberalism. This latest edition of Conservation and Society journal explores what can be gained by seeing conservation through a neoliberal lense.

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