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  African water development report

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003

  The African Water Development Report (AWDR) presents status reports prepared by African countries around eleven themes related to water, selected in consonance with the World Water Development Report (WWDR).
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  Conflicts in Joint Forest Management: cases from South Rajasthan, India

  Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network, 2003

  Joint Forest Management (JFM) has been an important step for improving amangement and governance of forests in India. However, conflicts and conflict resolution arrangements in the JFM framework are one area where there is urgent need for attention.
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  Water for people, water for life: the United Nations world water development report [executive summary]

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2003

  This document presents the key points of the first World Water Development Report, a joint undertaking of twenty-three United Nations (UN) agencies under the guidance of the new World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP). The report explores the state of the world’s water resources, and tries to identify the causes and consequences of the world’s current water crisis.
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  Bangladesh: Boosting food security for poor farmers: Netrakona integrated agricultural production and water management project

  Office of Evaluation and Studies, IFAD, 2004

  This document presents the key findings of the evaluation of an integrated agricultural production and water management project implemented by IFAD in Netrakona district, in northern Bangladesh.
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  Philippines fisheries in crisis: a framework for management

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003

  This book analyses fisheries in the Philippines, arguing that there is an urgent need for better management and protection of the fisheries, which contribute substantially to the economy, food security and livelihood of many Filipinos.The book looks at the causes of overfishing in relation to the biology and ecology of the stocks, and how fisheries operate in their ocean environment.
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  The emergence and spreading of an improved traditional soil and water conservation practice in Burkina Faso

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This paper examines the advantages, disadvantages and impacts of improved traditional planting pits (zaï) in Burkina Faso from the early 1980s.The zaï emerged in a context of recurrent droughts and frequent harvest failures, which triggered farmers to start improving this local practice.
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  Participatory conservation co-management: a component description

  Mekonginfo, 2000

  This paper describes the Lao-Swedish Forestry Programme’s overall approach to participatory National Biodiversity Conservation Areas (NBCA) co-management in Laos.This approach involves the development of co-management systems with guardian villagers, who are provided with a stake in the resources they are being asked to help protect.
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  Social forestry in south Asia: myths and realities

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003

  The present study draws on research and field experience in social forestry in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka since the mid 90s. It focuses on some of the major issues in relation to popular thinking about the theory of social forestry development in South Asia, including deforestation, community participation and appropriate forest policy.
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  Nkhalango!: a social forestry model: expereinces from Blantyre city fuelwood project in southern Malawi

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003

  This book records the successes and failures from the Blantyre City Fuel Wood Project (BCFP) in Southern Malawi. It focuses on the transfer of responsibilities for plantations and indigenous forests to newly created village institutions set up to manage these assets sustainably.It presents a model of best practice, NKHALANGO!
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  Biodiversity protection and the search for sustainability in Tibetan Plateau Grasslands (Qinghai, China)

  Plateau Perspectives, 2000

  This PhD dissertation looks at policies for protecting the native biodiversity of the Tibetan plateau and seeking sustainable development opportunities for this economically poor region Grassroots participation in conservation and development now is increasing in China.

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