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  Reforming policies to end extreme poverty and hunger

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  The world produces more than enough food for every person. Modern information systems can identify where food is needed and transport systems can move food to these places. Despite this, the number of undernourished people in developing countries increased by 18 million between 1995 and 2002.
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  Towards greater access to justice in environmental disputes in Kenya: opportunities for intervention

  International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2005

  This paper discusses recommendations for enhancing environmental justice in Kenya.Concern for the environment has increased over the years since the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in 1972. Kenya has signed, acceded to or ratified many international instruments providing for access to justice for its citizenry generally and in environmental decision-making specifically.
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  Why ignore tropical deforestation?: a proposal for including forest conservation in the Kyoto Protocol

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005

  This paper argues that though greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are the principal causes of global warming, tropical deforestation is responsible for 20 to 25 percent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions.
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  Genetic resource policies: what is diversity worth to farmers?

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005

  This set of six briefings sheds light on questions regarding who maintains diversity, where it is maintained, and how farmers value this diversity as societies and economies change. These briefs present syntheses and synopses of research conducted by IFPRI’s Environment and Production Technology Division along with multiple collaborators.
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  A capability centred approach to environmental sustainability: is productive employment the missing link between micro- and macro policies?

  WebEc World Wide Web Resources in Economics, 2006

  The central premise of this paper is that there is a strong synergy between economic, social and environmental interventions. Focusing development analysis and policy on merely increasing income and material wealth is misguided, as standards of living are also determined by access to social services and the health and sustainability of the environment.
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  Ecosystems and biodiversity in deep waters and high seas

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2006

  With the world’s continually dwindling ocean resources and ecosystem biodiversity, how can we improve the management and regulation of people’s ever-expanding footprint on the oceans?
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  Implementing the Ecosystem Approach in open ocean and deep sea environments: an analysis of stakeholders, their interests and existing approaches

  Institute of Advanced Studies. United Nations University,, 2006

  This report describes an ecosystem approach for managing the often divergent interests of stakeholders in open-water resources, in order to better combat the steadily decreasing levels of marine biodiversity.
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  The Western Sahara conflict: the role of natural resources in decolonization

  Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2006

  This collection of articles looks at the role of natural resources in Western Sahara and outlines the framework for Western Sahara’s independence from Morocco.There is no doubt that the question of the natural resources of Western Sahara such as fish, oil and phosphates has been the main reason for the interest in the area in question.
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  Using eminent domain powers to acquire private lands for protected area wildlife conservation: a survey under Kenyan law

  Law Environment and Development Journal, 2006

  This paper critically examines the potential of using eminent domain (compulsory purchase ) for acquiring lands for protected area conservation and makes recommendations for reforms.Under Kenyan law, the provisioning for eminent domain is in the Constitution, as well as in legislation.
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  Ecosystems and human well-being: health synthesis

  Knowledge Economy Node, Development Gateway, 2005

  This report synthesises the findings from the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment’s (MA) global and sub-global assessments of how ecosystems changes do, or could, affect human health and well-being.Some findings and policy implications that emerge from the report include:where ill-health is a result of excessive consumption of food and energy, a reduction in consumption would bring health b

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