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  Agriculture and the policy environment: Zambia and Zimbabwe: political dreams and policy nightmares

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  The paper examines the effect of differing policies in the post-independence period on the agricultural and overall economic performance of Zambia and Zimbabwe. It focuses on the interaction between macroeconomic and agricultural policy reforms. It shows that macro and micro reforms need to be closely linked and that both are critical to sectoral performance.
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  ETFRN Newsletter

  European Tropical Forest Research Network, 1999

  Quarterly publication of the European Tropical Forest Research Network. Each issue contains articles dealing with research programmes and organisations involved in forest research in the tropics and subtropics, short news items, publication announcements, internet features, and requests for research cooperation. Every issue focusses on a different theme, e.g.
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  The Regional Impacts of Climate Change: An Assessment of Vulnerability: summary for policy makers (IPCC working group 2 special report, Sept 1997) html version

  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 1997

  The special report provides, on a regional basis, a review of (then) state-of-the-art information on the vulnerability to potential changes in climate of ecological systems, socioeconomic sectors (including agriculture, fisheries, water resources, and human settlements), and human health. The report reviews the sensitivity of these systems as well as options for adaptation.
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  Technologies, Policies and Measures for Mitigating Climate Change: technical paper for IPCC working group 2

  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 1996

  This Technical Paper provides an overview and analysis of technologies and measures to limit and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to enhance GHG sinks under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC).
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  Teddy Online (TERI Energy Data, Directory, and Yearbook)[India energy and environment statistics database]

  Tata Energy Research Institute, India, 1999

  Please note this resource is now only available via a subscription.
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  Forests for carbon sequestration or fossil fuel substitution?: a sensitivity analysis

  World Forestry Congress, 1997

  Among the proposals for mitigating the increase of atmospheric CO2 are the possibility of reforesting degraded lands to sequester C or of using sustainable forest harvests to displace fossil fuels.
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  Forests and climate change: role of forest lands as carbon sinks

  World Forestry Congress, 1997

  Forests potentially contribute to global climate change through their influence on the global carbon (C) cycle.
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  GIS technology transfer : an ecological approach : final report

  Office of Arid Land Studies University of Arizona, 1996

  The GIS technology transfer approach described here addresses the issue of sustainable technology transfer in a development setting. It was prompted by a growing discontent within the development community, and the Bureau for Africa, USAID in particular, with the high cost and inconsistent results of GIS technology transfer projects in the area of environmental management.
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  United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa: full text of Convention

  Convention to Combat Desertification, 1994

  Full text of the Convention to Combat Desertification, which was elaborated by the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INCD) and signed in June 1994.Also available from the CCD WWW site in French and English
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  The green revolution and the growth of the informal sector in Bangladesh

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1996

  This paper is the first in a series of papers on a restudy of a village in the Barind tract of northern Bangladesh. At the time of the original study in 1975/76 boro cultivation was negligible, due to lack ofirrigation facilities. There were few job opportunities outside agriculture in the village and in the neighbouring small town.

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