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New technologies and the global race for knowledge
Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1999The recent great strides in technology present tremendous opportunities for human developmenbut achieving that potential depends on how technology is used.DocumentWhat's Special About Wildlife Management In Forests?: Concepts And Models Of Rights-Based Management, With Recent Evidence From West-Central Africa
Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999Wildlife consumption is an integral part of the livelihood and trade patterns of many peoples in the developing world, and highly valued by them. Yet to date the dominant models of wildlife management in areas of high – and allegedly unsustainable – consumptive use have favoured the exclusion of the users from the resource and the denial of its local values.DocumentTree Planting in Indonesia: Trends, Impacts and Directions
Center for International Forestry Research, 1998The aims of the project were as a follows: to identify tree planting activities currently prominent in Indonesiato seek reasons for their ascendancy, with specific reference to influential actors capable of favouring certain activities and holding back others; of particular interest were the activities of regional government agencies which were hypothesised to be more instrumental thaDocumentSelf-Governance and Forest Resources
Center for International Forestry Research, 1999Outline of theory on community-based institutions and IFPRI’s ongoing efforts to test empirically the theory’s relevance for forest management.Destruction or degradation of forest resources is most likely to occur in open-access forests where those involved, or external authorities, have not established effective governance.DocumentPromoting Forest Conservation through Ecotourism Income?: a case study from the Ecuadorian Amazon region
Center for International Forestry Research, 1999A principal criterion for classifying a tourism operation as ‘ecotourism’ is that local residents at the site should receive substantial economic benefits, which serve both to raise local living standards and as enhanced incentives for nature conservation.DocumentKrismon, farmers and forests: the effects of the economic crisis on farmers’ livelihoods and forest use in the outer islands of Indonesia
Center for International Forestry Research, 1999Presents some preliminary results on the impact of the economic crisis on farmers’ livelihood and forest use, based on fieldwork in four provinces in Indonesia (Riau, West and East Kalimantan, Central Sulawesi). Stresses the great variation throughout the country, and the volatility of the situation.DocumentKnowledge and Information for Food Security in Africa: from traditional Media to the Internet
Communication for Development (ComDev), FAO, 1998Draws on experiences with a range of communication technologies in Africa - from traditional media to the Internet - to examine the important role of knowledge and information for food security.DocumentFailed Magic or Social Context?: Market Liberalization and the Rural Poor in Malawi
Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1996One of the key questions in the debates swirling around structural adjustment programs in Africa is their effects on the poor. Have these programs "benefited ... the rural poor disproportionately", as concluded in Adjustment in Africa (World Bank 1994)? The answer for rural families studied over a period of years in Malawi is no.DocumentExternal Evaluation of IMF Surveillance
International Monetary Fund, 1999Independent report of the policy impact of IMF monitoring reports on the economic policy of its member countries.DocumentEntering the 21st Century: World Development Report 1999/2000
World Development Report, World Bank, 1999Localization—the growing economic and political power of cities, provinces, and other sub-national entities—will be one of the most important new trends in the 21st century.Pages