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  Teddy Online (TERI Energy Data, Directory, and Yearbook)[India energy and environment statistics database]

  Tata Energy Research Institute, India, 1999

  Please note this resource is now only available via a subscription.
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  Forests for carbon sequestration or fossil fuel substitution?: a sensitivity analysis

  World Forestry Congress, 1997

  Among the proposals for mitigating the increase of atmospheric CO2 are the possibility of reforesting degraded lands to sequester C or of using sustainable forest harvests to displace fossil fuels.
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  Forests and climate change: role of forest lands as carbon sinks

  World Forestry Congress, 1997

  Forests potentially contribute to global climate change through their influence on the global carbon (C) cycle.
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  GIS technology transfer : an ecological approach : final report

  Office of Arid Land Studies University of Arizona, 1996

  The GIS technology transfer approach described here addresses the issue of sustainable technology transfer in a development setting. It was prompted by a growing discontent within the development community, and the Bureau for Africa, USAID in particular, with the high cost and inconsistent results of GIS technology transfer projects in the area of environmental management.
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  Targeting assistance to the poor and food insecure: a literature review

  The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 1995

  This report is a comprehensive review of the literature and summary of “targeting” programs that deliver food assistance to the poor and food insecure. It provides definitions, ra-tionales for targeting, analysis of benefits and costs (political and administrative) of various targeting mechanisms, and descriptions of targeting methods.
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  Promoting food security in Rwanda through sustainable agricultural productivity : meeting the challenges of population pressure, land degradation, and poverty / Daniel C. Clay ... [et al.]

  The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 1996

  The objective of this technical paper is to shed insights on ways of reversing the spiraling decline of the land and the economy in rural Rwanda, with focus on the forces behind productivity decline in the Rwandan agricultural sector.
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  United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa: full text of Convention

  Convention to Combat Desertification, 1994

  Full text of the Convention to Combat Desertification, which was elaborated by the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INCD) and signed in June 1994.Also available from the CCD WWW site in French and English
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  Women's Work and the Household in Latin America. A discussion of the literature

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999

  The paper discusses the existing literature on women's work and the household in Latin America. This should be seen in the context of women increasingly entering the labour market in Latin America - as increasing interest among academics for exploring the complexities of the household. One can distinguish between three 'angles' taken by the studies.
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  The green revolution and the growth of the informal sector in Bangladesh

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1996

  This paper is the first in a series of papers on a restudy of a village in the Barind tract of northern Bangladesh. At the time of the original study in 1975/76 boro cultivation was negligible, due to lack ofirrigation facilities. There were few job opportunities outside agriculture in the village and in the neighbouring small town.
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  The determinants of the national position of Brazil on climate change : empirical reflections

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997

  International negotiations on the Framework Convention on Climate Change have been characterized by severe polarization between developed and developing countries. The G77, led by major countries such as Brazil, India, and China, illustrated a remarkable capacity to manifest its importance in the final text of the Convention.

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