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  Distinguishing community forest products in the market: industrial demand for a mechanism that brings together forest certification and fair trade

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008

  Using cases from Mexico, Guatemala, Brazil and Papua New Guinea, this report looks at the demand for mechanisms that bring together forest certification and fair trade. It particularly focuses on the gap in detail about industrial demand to distinguish community forest products in the market.
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  A cut above: building the market for fair trade timber

  Sustainable Markets Group, IIED, 2008

  Unlike coffee and cotton, timber has yet to become a fair trade commodity. This two-page briefing argues that the time has now come to change this.
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  Cutting edge: how community forest enterprises lead the way on poverty reduction and avoided deforestation

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007

  Forests are not just crucial for keeping the global environment stable; they are also a lifeline for hundreds of millions of the world's poor. This paper presents community forest enterprise as a possible solution, which combines both avoided deforestation (the concept of richer nations paying poorer ones to halt planned logging) and poverty reduction.
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  The implications of carbon financing for pro-poor community forestry

  Overseas Development Institute, 2008

  This paper explores the implications of new financing mechanisms, carbon markets and increased investment in forestry for community forestry. The main focus of the discussion is on ‘Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation’ (REDD).
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  Monitoring land cover dynamics in sub-saharan Africa

  European Commission Directorate-General Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability, 2006

  Over the last 25 years civil disturbances, drought, population increases and global market pressures have all contributed in direct and indirect ways to a modification of Sub saharan African land cover. 
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  Local communities and natural products: a manual for organising natural resource management groups for resource management planning, enterprise development and integration into value chains

  FRAME, 2007

  Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) is key to ensuring that local communities' livelihoods needs are met through the sustainable management of natural resources. Policies promoting CBNRM mean that government agencies, non-governmental organisations and other service providers are increasingly becoming involved in supporting these communities to form natural resour
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  Water and energy futures in an urbanised Asia: sustaining the tiger

  Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, 2007

  This collaborative paper addresses the problems of water shortages in Asia. Focusing on urbanisation, it discusses China’s plan to lead the world in science and technology. It also proposes new modes of environmental governance that can be implemented in China and its neighbouring developing countries.
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  Strengthening environmental law compliance and enforcement in Indonesia: towards improved environmental stringency and environmental performance

  International Development Law Organisation, 2006

  This paper outlines the major challenges to environmental law and enforcement in Indonesia. It reviews environmental issues and highlights conflicts between economic growth and managing natural ecosystems whilst suggesting strategies learned from an Indonesia-Australia training project.
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  Access to water - the impact of climate change on small municipalities

  Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2007

  Although there are many uncertainties around quantitative assessments of climate change impact and water resource management, what is certain is that the climate is changing and this will have an effect on water resources.
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  Water requirements of floodplain rivers and fisheries: existing decision support tools and pathways for development

  International Water Management Institute, 2007

  Fisheries are some of the most valuable natural resources that depend upon natural regimes of

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