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    Uña de Gato: Fate and Future of a Peruvian Forest Resource

    Center for International Forestry Research, 1999
    Uncaria tomentosa and U. guíanensis have been important in traditional healing in many South American countries. These species contain some sixty active substances which are widely tested for possible medical treatments. U. tomentosa has been traded from Peru until it reached a peak export of 726 tonnes in 1996.
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    A Methodology to Analyze Divergent Case Studies of Non-Timber Forest Products and Their Development Potential

    Center for International Forestry Research, 1999
    Debate currently rages over the development potential of Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFP) in tropical forests. Proponents of particular “solutions” can refer to evidence (case studies, data) which tend to support their interpretation of events and relationships. Recommendations thus frequently depend on how data are classified and interpreted.
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    Land Tenancy in Asia, Africa and Latin America: A Look to the Past and a View to the Future

    Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999
    Literature review, focusing on recent and contemporary tenancy structures in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Tenancy for purposes of this review is broadly defined to include different leasing arrangements such sharecropping, labor tenancy, fixed cash rentals, and reverse leasing.
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    Rethinking the Causes of Deforestation: Lessons from Economic Models

    World Bank Research Observer, 1999
    Synthesizes the results of more than 140 economic models analyzing the causes of tropical deforestation. Raises significant doubts about many conventional hypotheses in the debate about deforestation. More roads, higher agricultural prices, lower wages, and a shortage of off-farm employment generally lead to more deforestation.
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    The Socio-Economic Dynamics of Farmers' Management of Local Plant Genetic Resources: A Framework for Analysis with Examples from a Tanzanian Case

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999
    Discusses the debate around farmers' management of local plant genetic resources. It seek to develop a theoretical framework for analysing farmers management of plant genetic resources using examples from fieldwork carried out in 1995-1997 among farmers in Tanzania with a focus on the 1994/95 growing season.
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    Green Politics: Global Environmental Negotiations

    Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, 1999
    Rather than promoting democracy and equality and building a just framework for future governance, environmental negotiations have turned into business transactions, where the rich and powerful often trample on the poor and weak.
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    Environmental governance series: Capacity 21

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 1999
    Capacity 21 project initiated by the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests UNDP sponsorship to explore inter-linkages between environment and economics. The project aims to build capacity for introduction of environmental economics in to decision making at various strata of environmental governance viz.
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    An ecological and historical perspective on agricultural development in Southeast Asia

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
    Looks at location, natural resources, and different policies toward the elite's preemption of unused land shaped the historical development of different agrarian structures across Southeast Asia, conditioning agricultural growth performance until today.Aims to give a broad perspective on the process by which different agrarian structures developed in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, alo
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    Engendering development

    Gendernet, World Bank, 2000
    Draft Policy Research Report examines the conceptual and empirical links between gender, public policy, and development outcomes and demonstrates the value of applying a gender perspective to the design of development policies.The evidence presented shows that societies that discriminate by gender pay a high price in terms of their ability to develop and to reduce poverty.
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    Land management programme in Tanzania

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2000
    Evaluation of LAMP in different contexts:broader change processesdevelopment thinkingcomparative analysis of different conditions of LAMP in the four districts it has been implemented inFindings include: recommending that the programme shifts focus from considering its core as natural resources management to one of support to the empowerment, mobilisation and capaci

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