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    Whose harvest? The politics of organic seed certification

    GRAIN, 2008
    As the market for organic goods continues to grow, seed corporations are increasingly pushing for organic seed certification schemes, which some argue could create market opportunities for small farmers. But will the new regulations governing seeds pushing organics even further down the road of corporate control?
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    Link between spirit forest and biodiversity conservation: case study at Son la province

    Research Center for Forest Ecology and Environment, Vietnam, 2007
    This study examines spirit forest in two communities in Son la province, Vietnam.  Using a participatory approach, it analyses traditional regulation, local knowledge on spirit forest and community forest protection. Standard vegetation measurements were also carried out in several spirit forests in Son la province.
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    Sustainable management of common natural resources in Mongolia (Ph III)

    International Development Research Centre, 2007
    Communities have coped for millennia through extremes of flood and drought by cooperatively managing shared natural resources, and by cultivating a variety of robust, indigenous crop types that can survive a range of conditions. Knowledge and use of diverse plant types - either planted or foraged - could be key to survival as climate extremes widen.
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    Climate change impacts on East Africa: a review of scientific literature

    WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2006
    This report highlights some of the major impacts of climate change on conservation for East African countries including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. It also illustrates that climate change in Africa is not only a conservation issue but also a socio-economic one that must be dealt with on a global scale.
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    Legal aspects of exchange, use and conservation of farm animal genetic resources

    Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2007
    This report is a background study for the FAO commissioned study ‘Exchange, Use and
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    Farmers’ rights and agrobiodiversity

    Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2006
    In 2004, the members of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) adopted the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, which includes an article on Farmers’ Rights (FR). This paper looks at what is meant by FR, how these rights have been implemented in a different contexts and what development organisations can do to support their implementation.
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    BirdLife International

    By focusing on birds, and the sites and habitats on which they depend, the BirdLife Partnership is working to improve the quality of life for birds, for other wildlife (biodiversity), and for peopl
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    Protecting community rights over traditional knowledge: implications of customary laws and practices

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006
    This collaborative research project seeks to assist indigenous and local communities I protecting their rights over traditional knowledge (TK) relating to biological resources, in accordance with their customary laws and practices. The project further aims to inform and influence policy makers at all levels.
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    Environmental service incentives in conformity with poverty alleviation: policy implications and guidance from the ROA project

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2006
    This newsletter presents the overall conclusions from the environmental service incentive (ESIs) component of the Roles of Agriculture Project Phase II. The objective is to draw policy implications and to deliver practical policy guidance to design, implement and enforce ESIs consistent with poverty alleviation in developing countries.
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    Land Degradation and Development

    Land Degradation & Development is an international journal which seeks to promote rational study of the recognition, monitoring, control and rehabilitation of degradation in terrestrial environments.

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