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  Tree Maps: A Tool for Structuring, Exploring and Summarising Qualitative Information

  Centre for Development Studies, Swansea, 1997

  Tool makes use of qualitative information. This is in the form of important distinctions or differences that people see in the world around them. Important differences are those that make a difference. Differences that make a difference can be described as information.
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  The EU Tropical Forestry Sourcebook

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  Analyses EU policy and investment in tropical forests.Five chapters examine the various EC Directorates-General with forestry interests, a sixth deals with elements common to several of them. Fifteen investigate each Member State’s policies and activities in tropical forestry, both country and DG chapters being written in collaboration with in-country research associates.
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  Uña de Gato: Fate and Future of a Peruvian Forest Resource

  Center for International Forestry Research, 1999

  Uncaria tomentosa and U. guíanensis have been important in traditional healing in many South American countries. These species contain some sixty active substances which are widely tested for possible medical treatments. U. tomentosa has been traded from Peru until it reached a peak export of 726 tonnes in 1996.
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  A Methodology to Analyze Divergent Case Studies of Non-Timber Forest Products and Their Development Potential

  Center for International Forestry Research, 1999

  Debate currently rages over the development potential of Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFP) in tropical forests. Proponents of particular “solutions” can refer to evidence (case studies, data) which tend to support their interpretation of events and relationships. Recommendations thus frequently depend on how data are classified and interpreted.
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  Land Tenancy in Asia, Africa and Latin America: A Look to the Past and a View to the Future

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999

  Literature review, focusing on recent and contemporary tenancy structures in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Tenancy for purposes of this review is broadly defined to include different leasing arrangements such sharecropping, labor tenancy, fixed cash rentals, and reverse leasing.
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  Rethinking the Causes of Deforestation: Lessons from Economic Models

  World Bank Research Observer, 1999

  Synthesizes the results of more than 140 economic models analyzing the causes of tropical deforestation. Raises significant doubts about many conventional hypotheses in the debate about deforestation. More roads, higher agricultural prices, lower wages, and a shortage of off-farm employment generally lead to more deforestation.
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  Environmental governance series: Capacity 21

  Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 1999

  Capacity 21 project initiated by the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests UNDP sponsorship to explore inter-linkages between environment and economics. The project aims to build capacity for introduction of environmental economics in to decision making at various strata of environmental governance viz.
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  An ecological and historical perspective on agricultural development in Southeast Asia

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  Looks at location, natural resources, and different policies toward the elite's preemption of unused land shaped the historical development of different agrarian structures across Southeast Asia, conditioning agricultural growth performance until today.Aims to give a broad perspective on the process by which different agrarian structures developed in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, alo
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  Engendering development

  Gendernet, World Bank, 2000

  Draft Policy Research Report examines the conceptual and empirical links between gender, public policy, and development outcomes and demonstrates the value of applying a gender perspective to the design of development policies.The evidence presented shows that societies that discriminate by gender pay a high price in terms of their ability to develop and to reduce poverty.
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  Land management programme in Tanzania

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2000

  Evaluation of LAMP in different contexts:broader change processesdevelopment thinkingcomparative analysis of different conditions of LAMP in the four districts it has been implemented inFindings include: recommending that the programme shifts focus from considering its core as natural resources management to one of support to the empowerment, mobilisation and capaci

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