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  Cities versus agriculture: revisiting intersectoral water transfers, potential gains and conflicts

  International Water Management Institute, 2006

  Making better use of the water we have- instead of increasing and diversifying supply, is proposed by many as a way of mitigating water-scarcity problems. Moving water away from agriculture to uses with higher economic value is widely seen as desirable. But does this notion really hold water?
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  Lupande CBNRM land use planning project ZM003801 WWF Zambia coordination office: mid term internal progress review

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004

  This paper reports on a participatory progress review of the Norad funded WWF CBNRM Lupande Game Management Area (GMA) Land Use Planning Project.
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  The Sinkat community development project and Port Sudan Organizational Development Program in Red Sea State in Sudan 1997 - 2003

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2005

  The Sinkat Community Development Project was implemented, in 1986, to re-establish the means of subsistence for 250,000 Beja nomads. Its aim is to reduce their vulnerability, and that of their environment, to future climatic extremes. The project additionally aimed to strengthen the capacity of the Sudan Red Crescent Society.
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  Free-flowing rivers: economic luxury or ecological necessity?

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2006

  This report assesses the state of the world’s remaining free-flowing rivers and seeks to answer the question why we should maintain our last free-flowing rivers. Most of the world’s largest rivers are losing their connection to the sea, and only a third of the world’s 177 large rivers remain free-flowing, unimpeded by dams or other barriers.
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  Of global concern: rural livelihood dynamics and natural resource governance

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2006

  The global challenges of hunger, poverty and disease have led to an increasing focus within global initiatives - policies and strategies - on conditions and developments in rural areas in the South. The aim of this paper is to analyse and understand the rural livelihood dynamics and natural resource governance that are unfolding across continents.
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  Poverty environment linkages: a study of use and management of forest resources in Mahabharat tract, west Nepal

  Eldis Document Store, 2004

  The author explores the socio-economic dimension of forest resource use and management in the Mahabharat hill track of Arghakhanchi district in west Nepal.Analysis focuses on:various attributes of forest resources use and variation between regions, socio-economic and demographic groupslocal forest management systems and practices forest resource use and its related management
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  Parks, people and professionals: putting 'participation' into protected area management

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 1995

  The historically dominant ideology underpinning conservation has been that people are bad for natural resources. Policies and practice have, therefore, sought to exclude people and so discourage all forms of local participation in protected areas.
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  Beyond more crop for drop: water management for food and the environment

  International Water Management Institute, 2006

  Why is so much water used for irrigation?
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  Exploring the linkages between poverty, marine protected area management, and the use of destructive fishing gear in Tanzania

  Tanzania Online, 2006

  This paper is a World Bank Policy Research Working Paper focusing on the use of destructive fishing gear, which has been identified as one of the most critical issues being faced by the Marine Protective Area (MPAs) in Tanzania.
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  Integrating indigenous and gender aspects in natural resource management

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2005

  This guide aims to offer some conceptual and practical tools for improving natural resource management activities by incorporating a gender perspective. It argues that in most developing countries, women, particularly indigenous women, are responsible for obtaining water and fuel and for managing household consumption.

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