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    Forests and the biodiversity convention: independent monitoring of the implementation of the expanded programme of work: summary report

    Convention on Biological Diversity, 2008
    This paper assesses what progress different countries have made over recent years on preserving, protecting and restoring forest biological diversity.
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    Biofuel and global biodiversity

    Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 2008
    How is the increasing demand of plant biomass for biofuels exacerbating agriculture’s impact on biodiversity? This document analyses how biofuels are changing land-use patterns in many regions around the world, including some of the most diverse and sensitive regions on the planet, and provides recommendations for moving biofuel production toward more sustainable systems.
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    Organic certification schemes: managerial skills and associated costs

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007
    Certification is critical in organic markets as it enables organic producers to access new export and domestic market opportunities and premium prices due to the fact that organic quality adds value to products. Whilst in developed countries, economic incentives and enabling policies and regulations have
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    Food and energy sovereignty now: Brazilian grassroots position on agroenergy

    The Oakland Institute, 2008
    Brazil is the global leader in ethanol exports, providing 70% of the world's supply in 2006. While official accounts of the Brazilian government’s experiment with biofuels laud it as a global model for sustainable biomass production, it is increasingly being criticised and opposed by national social movements.
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    Who benefits from GM crops?

    Friends of the Earth International, 2008
    This paper provides a fact-based assessment of Genetically Modified (GM) crops around the world.
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    Amazonia

    This site makes information on the Amazon region available to the public, with the aim of helping to make clear the structure of public and private agencies, both Brazilian and foreign, that are activ
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    Local sustainable development effects of forest carbon projects in Brazil and Bolivia: a view from the field

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004
    This study seeks to bridge critical gaps that remain in the understanding of social and environmental incentives and impacts at the interface between people, forests, and carbon. It explores the extent to which carbon sequestration projects can contribute to national sustainable development, and suggests avenues for project design and implementation to proactively enhance local benefits.
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    Innovative financing mechanisms for conservation and sustainable forest management

    European Tropical Forest Research Network, 2002
    This newletter contains four short articles discussing the potential for financing carbon sequestration services. The articles particularly focus on this issue in the context of the Kyoto protocol and Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). Below are the titles of the four articles and some of the key points made by their authors: 
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    Peri-urban water conflicts: supporting dialogue and negotiation

    IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, 2007
    As cities expand, a key challenge is securing water supplies for urban populations and disposing of pollution while minimising impacts on peri-urban communities and the environment.  This book describes the conflicts, dialogues and negotiations underway in peri-urban areas of many cities in the South. 
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    Cutting edge: how community forest enterprises lead the way on poverty reduction and avoided deforestation

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007
    Forests are not just crucial for keeping the global environment stable; they are also a lifeline for hundreds of millions of the world's poor. This paper presents community forest enterprise as a possible solution, which combines both avoided deforestation (the concept of richer nations paying poorer ones to halt planned logging) and poverty reduction.

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