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Searching with a thematic focus on Environment, Biodiversity and environment, Agriculture and food, Agricultural biodiversity and natural resource management

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    Biodiversity rights legislation

    GRAIN, 2002
    Biodiversity Rights Legislation (BRL) is a collection of emerging laws that directly affect people's control over agricultural biodiversity in developing countries. It compiles those legislative texts that define rights in relation to genetic resources or to the knowledge associated with those materials.
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    Global change and ecological complexity (GCTE)

    Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems, 1999
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    Verdict on world's most precious nature reserves: overpopulated, overfarmed and under threat

    The Independent and Independent on Sunday, 2001
    Details new report 'Common Ground, Common Future' aiming to promote 'ecoagriculture'; the unity of farming and conservation. The recommendations of the report are simple: if farmers can double or even treble food production on land they already use, they will have less need to encroach on pristine areas.
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    Agroecosystems

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2000
    This study analyses quantitative and qualitative information and develops selected indicators of the condition of the world's agroecosystems. It assesses condition in terms of the delivery of a number of key goods and services valued by society: food, feed and fiber; water services; biodiversity; and carbon storage.
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    Compensating local communities for conserving biodiversity: how much, who will, how and when

    Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions, 1999
    Large number of local communities across the world have shared unhesitatingly their knowledge about local biodiversity and its different uses with outsiders including researchers, corporations, gene collectors and of course, activists. Many continue to share despite knowing that by withholding this knowledge they could receive pecuniary advantage.

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