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    Biodiversity Conservation and its Opponents

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998
    Arguments over biodiversity conservation continue to generate more heat than light. This paper reviews pro-conservation arguments, concluding that the main policy requirements are to improve the scientific basis of our understanding, and to popularise up-to-date knowledge among a wide audience.
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    Ethical trade and export horticulture in sub-Saharan Africa: The development of tools for ethical trading of horticultural exports by resource poor groups

    Ethical Trade and Natural Resources Programme, NRI, 1998
    Short report covering: the role of export horticulture in sub-Saharan Africa and its variable impact on the resource-poor; moves towards ethical trade in export horticulture, focusing on limitations of current approaches; a research agenda for developing appropriate criteria for ethical trade in horticultural products [author]
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    Nutrient balance

    Land Quality Indicators Project, 1997
    Guidelines for estimating the soil nutrient balance at the continental, regional, and national level are presented. Indicators for soil nutrient depletion are evaluated and procedures for their quantification are discussed.
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    Yield gap indicators

    Land Quality Indicators Project, 1997
    Covers methods for indicating between land's biological yield-capacity and its actual yield. Considers both biophysical and socio-economic factors
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    Employment opportunities with the FAO

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999
    Vacancy announcements from the FAO
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    Rural Poverty: Population Dynamics, Local Institutions and Access to Resources

    Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 1998
    Analyses two examples of changing institution-resource access relationships in Africa and Latin America. The Africa case (Kakamega, Western Kenya) highlights the resource endowments and problems associated with the participation of individuals in multiple institutions, whereas the Latin America case (Oaxaca, Mexico) focuses on the changes in a single institution in response to population growth.
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    Industrial Reliance on Biodiversity

    UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 1997
    Overview of the extent to which industry in the developed world relies on the biodiversity of the developing world. Primitive human societies rely almost entirely on wild species for food, draught, building materials and other products, and such direct use continues in modern society.
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    Urban Agriculture in Drylands: articles from Arid Lands Newsletter

    Office of Arid Land Studies University of Arizona, 1997
    Series of articles on importance of urban agriculture in areas subject to desertification.
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    Biodiversity and the appropriation of women's knowledge

    Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1997
    In the past few years research institutions and development organizations have 'discovered' the relevance of men farmers' indigenous knowledge of genetic resource management and, after some delay, that of women farmers as well. At the same time, attention has been drawn to the global need to conserve biological diversity.
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    Maintaining seed diversity during the Green Revolution [in West Java]

    Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1997
    Many studies on the consequences of the Green Revolution mention the decline in the diversity of rice varieties as a result of the introduction of high-yielding varieties. Research among rice farmers on the north coast of West Java (Indonesia) has not only confirmed this decline, but also shed some light on the reasons why farmers have tended to opt for certain varieties.

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