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    Crackdown or Pause: A Chance for Forestry Reform in Cambodia

    Global Witness, 1999
    Brief analysis of the situation within Cambodia’s forestry sector, and a round up of information obtained during Global Witness’ investigations.
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    The untouchables: Forest crimes and the concessionaires - can Cambodia afford to keep them?

    Global Witness, 1999
    An historical record of concessionaire activity in Cambodian forests since 1995, and a critique of the ADB-funded concession review carried out in late 1999.Available in Word and Text verisons and in Khmer at: http://www.fatbeehive.com/globalwitness/text/campaigns/forests/cambodia/reports.html
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    Privatising the means for survival: the commercialisation of Africa's biodiversity

    GRAIN, 2000
    Reviews the policy options open to African governments and civil society groups in resisting the appropriation of African biological resources by transnational corporations.Policy recommendations include:Build on local knowledgeAfrica's biodiversity based food and health systems should be strengthened and enhanced.
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    Sustainable use of wild species: a draft guide for decision makers

    World Conservation Union, 2000
    Aims to identify and review the major issues relating to the sustainable use of wild species that confront decision makers in government, bilateral and multilateral development assistance agencies, and international conventions.Information Paper prepared by IUCN for the Fifth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (Nairobi, Kenya 15-26 May 2000)
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    Trial by fire: forest fires and forestry policy in Indonesia's era of crisis and reform

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2000
    This report examines the destruction and systematic plunder of Asia's greatest rainforests under former Indonesian president Suharto. The report focuses on the 1997-1998 forest fires in Indonesia that resulted in the burning of 10 million hectares of forests.
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    Biodiversity conservation and use: local and global considerations

    Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2000
    Based on field research in the Andes and Amazonia, this paper questions the ability of global intellectual property rights over life forms to improve the livelihood and development of the powerless indigenous and peasant people. Instead, the cross-cultural expansion of the public domain over biodiversity flows and biotechnological processes seems a critical task.
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    Company-community forestry partnerships: a growing phenomenon

    Unasylva, FAO, 2000
    This article examines the relatively new, but growing, range of company-community relationships for the production of forest goods- out-grower schemes, joint ventures, other contracts and informal arrangements - and discusses their advantages and disadvantages in relation to trees outside forests.
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    Webs of power: forest loss in Guinea

    Seminar [Indian journal], 2000
    Examines the contrast between the formulation of problems in development policy, and the perspectives of villagers in Kissidougou (Guinea) in relationship to 'demonstrably' false ideas about environmental change.
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    Same platform, different train: the politics of participation

    The Corner House, UK, 1998
    Deals with the politics of participation in the Western Ghats Forestry Project (India).
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    Intellectual property rights regime necessary for traditional livestock raisers

    Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 2001
    This article discusses the need to recognize the intellectual property rights (IPRs) of pastoralists and other traditional domestic animal raisers in the light of the growing interest in making use of the genetic traits of indigenous livestock breeds.The article laments the growing extinction of local breeds.

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