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  People, Parks and Biodiversity: Issues in Population-Environment Dynamics

  American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995

  This overview paper broadly addresses the complex relationship between biodiversity, people and protected areas.
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  Management Options for Biodiversity Protection and Population

  American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995

  This overview paper stresses what most of the authors believe: that in order to successfully manage biodiversity, local residents and resource users must be involved, and the people who are affected by conservation projects must be partners in the projects, otherwise they will not succeed.
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  Two Way Track - Biodiversity Conservation and Ecotourism: an investigation of linkages, mutual benefits and future opportunities

  Biodiversity Group, Environment Australia, 1995

  Report investigates the strategic linkages, mutual benefits and future opportunities of strengthening the integration of biodiversity conservation requirements with the current and future needs of the nature-based tourism industry. Focuses on Australia
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  The impact of commercialization on the role of labour in African pastoral societies

  Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1991

  As pastoral systems undergo commercialisation, all parts of those systems (livestock productivity, range use, household economies and the socio-cultural system itself) adjust to the new goals of production. This paper considers one of the elements in this adjustment, that of the changing role of labour.
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  Neglected Species, Livelihoods and Biodiversity in Difficult Areas: How should the Public Sector Respond?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997

  Recent research on neglected crop and animal species suggests that there exists an important gap between the priorities of development and research agencies and the way small farmers, both in Africa and elsewhere in the world, treat such species.
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  Supporting sustainable agriculture through extension in Asia

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997

  There are widespread concerns about the environmental impact of agricultural technologies and over the long-term sustainability of farming systems in Asia. Although the content of extension programmes includes sustainable technologies, extension approaches and methods in the public sector continue to reflect a technology transfer paradigm.
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  Spilling the Beans: What's wrong with the coffee trade?

  Fairtrade Foundation, 1998

  Highlights the problems facing coffee farmers as a result of the way we trade in coffee. After examining how the trade operates, the report illustrates with testimonies its impact on the lives of farmers.
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  IATP Food Safety & Health

  Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 1999

  Monthly news bulletin about food safety issues such as dioxin, pesticides and other endocrine disrupters; bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), and genetically engineered foods.
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  The controversy surrounding eucalypts in social forestry programs of Asia

  National Centre for Development Studies, Australia, 1997

  Social forestry emerged amidst important changes in thinking about the role of forestry in rural development and a growing need for fuelwood. In an attempt to alleviate the fuelwood crisis, the World Bank encouraged the planting of Eucalyptus species in its social forestry programs in the 1980s.
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  The Mossi indigenous soil classification in Burkina Faso

  Stockholm Environment Institute, 1993

  A growing number of field studies has focussed on the importance and usefulness of indigenous soil taxonomies as they relate to agricultural production. Drawing upon a dissertation on indigenous soil taxonomies and conservation, this article describes the Mossi indigenous soil classification system.

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