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  Participatory Biodiversity Conservation: Rethinking the Strategy in the Low Tourist Potential Areas of Tropical Africa

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  Converting international interest in biodiversity conservation into a positive development strategy represents a major challenge for governments and the donor community. While defensive strategies in line with the ‘fines and fences’ approach are now widely rejected, attempts to provide positive incentives through alternative income generating strategies have not proven very effective.
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  Sweatwash: The Apparel Industry's Efforts to Co-opt Human Rights

  Corporate Watch, 1998

  Commentary on the formation of the USA Fair Labor Association (FLA) to monitor use of sweatshop labour in the textile/clothing industry. Argues that their award of fair trade labels will only lead to cosmetic changes in working practices
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  Democratization and Ethnic Rivalries in Cameroon / Démocratisation et Rivalités Ethniques au Cameroon

  Ethno-Net Africa, 1998

  Collection of papers denouncing the different faces of the political corruption of ethnicity in Cameroon, since the early hours of democracy.
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  The 12 Misconceptions About The Right to Food

  FoodFirst Information and Action Network, 1999

  Brief answers to the following misconceptions that need to be addressed by recognizing economic human rights and using this knowledge to struggle against economic oppression of the poor and future generations:1. We do not need rights but food.2. Modern western agriculture will eventually produce enough food for everyone.3.
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  The right to food Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

  United Nations [UN] High Commission for Refugees, 1999

  Question of the realization in all countries of the economic, social and cultural rights contained in the universal declaration of human rights and in the international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights, and study of special problems which the developing countries face in their efforts to achieve these human rights.A mandate was given to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
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  FAO Mandate in the World Food Summit Plan of Action (1996)

  FAO Right to Food, 1999

  Paragraph 61 of the World Food Summit Plan of Action, describes recommendations to governments and Civil Society to develop intruments to implement the right to food for everybody.
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  NGOs and the right to adequate food - Hunger and malnutrition: the human rights approach

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999

  Chapter from the FAO publication "The right to food in theory and practice" (see separate entry) about the position of NGOs and Civil Society in the debate, containing extracts from a draft "Code of Conduct on the human right to adequate food" which summarises responsibilities of stakeholders at local, national and international level.Despite the recognition of the right to adequate food in the
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  The right to food in theory and practice

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999

  FAO (ed), contributions from different authors from UN, academia and NGO-sector. In this publication, the rights related to food are examined from both the human rights and the operational points of view. Distinguished human rights expert A.
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  Country Profiles of Land Tenure: Africa, 1996

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998

  These Country Profiles represent a new edition of a continent-wide set of profiles prepared and published by the Land Tenure Center in 1986. This new volume reflects a decade of intensive work on the continent by LTC and a very considerable deepening of knowledge and understanding of land tenure issues in Africa.
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  Incentives for Fertilizer Use in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Empirical Evidence on Fertilizer Response and Profitability

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1998

  Why is fertilizer not yet fulfilling its potential as a major stimulus to agricultural productivity in SSA?

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