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  Disclosure requirements: ensuring mutual supportiveness between the WTO TRIPS agreement and the CBD

  World Conservation Union, 2005

  The misappropriation of genetic resources and traditional knowledge continues to elicit serious misgivings among the biodiversity community and indigenous peoples. High-profile cases – such as the neem tree, basmati rice and maca – fuelled calls for a more effective system to prevent such illegal access and ensure fair and equitable benefit-sharing.
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  Global forest resources assessment 2005: progress towards sustainable forest management

  Forestry Department, FAO, 2005

  This extensive FAO assessment of global forest resources, describes the extent, uses and value of forest resources covering 229 countries and territories between 1990 and 2005.
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  Payments for environmental services: some nuts and bolts

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2005

  Payments for environmental services (PES) is an emerging economics based methodology of conservation management.
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  Increasing the resilience of tropical hillside communities through forest landscape restoration

  Climate Change, International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2003

  Tropical hillsides in Latin America, Africa and Asia cover 9% of the world’s landmass and hold 20% of the world’s fresh water. These ecosystems, however, are fragile and vulnerable to unstable climatic conditions and human impacts.Nearly half of hillside inhabitants live in absolute poverty.
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  Maize farming in Kenya: where did it go wrong?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Maize is an important food crop for almost everyone in Kenya. The development of new technologies and farming methods during the 1960s and 1970s saw large improvements in crop production, but this growth has not been sustained. What caused this decline in maize production and what can be learnt for the global fight against poverty and hunger?
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  Economic benefits of biodiversity exceed costs of conservation at an African rainforest reserve

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2005

  This paper quantifies the costs and benefits of avian biodiversity at a rainforest reserve in Uganda through a combination of economic surveys of tourists, spatial land-use analyses, and species-area relationships.
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  The complex links between governance and biodiversity

  Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 2005

  Although it might seem self-evident that corrupt politicians and bureaucrats in developing countries often exploit their positions of power, this document argues that there are two problems which weaken the claims of those who link corruption and the exploitation of natural resources.The first argument is conceptual, in that studies that use national level indicators of corruption fail to note
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  A methodological guide on how to identify trends and linkages between changes in land use, biodiversity and land degradation

  Land Use Change, Impacts and Dynamics, 2004

  Land quality in the man-modified agricultural landscapes of eastern Africa has been shown to degrade over time, resulting in higher demands for farm inputs in order to sustain productivity. Loss of biodiversity has also been observed in all these areas of land use change.
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  Shortcomings of linkages between environmental conservation initiatives and poverty alleviation in Tanzania

  Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2003

  There are few studies on poverty and the environment that have addressed the question of how measures geared towards solving environmental degradation can also be used as a means of combating poverty. This paper is a survey of conservation initiatives and interventions that can be used as entry points for addressing issues of poverty alleviation in Tanzania.
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  Conservation in conflict: the impact of the Maoist-Government conflict on conservation and biodiversity in Nepal

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2005

  Now in its ninth year of conflict between Maoists rebels and the government, Nepal has seen more than 12,000 people killed and worsening political, social, and economic instability.

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