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  Livestock's long shadow: environmental issues and options

  Livestock, Environment and Development, Virtual Research and Development Centre, 2006

  The global livestock sector is socially and politically very significant, creating livelihoods for one billion of the world’s poor and accounting for 40% of agricultural gross demestic product (GDP). This report finds that the value of the sector is countered by an often extremely high environmental impact.
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  Down on the farm: the impact of nano-scale technologies on food and agriculture

  Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration formerly RAFI, 2004

  This report examines applications of nanotechnology to food and agriculture, which have the potential to revolutionise and further consolidate power over the global food supply.
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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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  Biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes: are we asking the right questions?

  Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Programme, Kenya, 2004

  This paper sheds new light on the relationship between the global loss of biodiversity and agricultural productivity.
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  Paying for biodiversity conservation services in agricultural landscapes

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004

  This paper describes the contract mechanism developed for the Regional Integrated Silvopastoral Ecosystem Management Project (RISEMP). The project is testing the use of the payment-for-service mechanism to encourage the adoption of silvopastoral practices in three countries of central and south America, namely, Colombia, Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
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  Biodiversity rights legislation

  GRAIN, 2002

  Biodiversity Rights Legislation (BRL) is a collection of emerging laws that directly affect people's control over agricultural biodiversity in developing countries. It compiles those legislative texts that define rights in relation to genetic resources or to the knowledge associated with those materials.
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  Verdict on world's most precious nature reserves: overpopulated, overfarmed and under threat

  The Independent and Independent on Sunday, 2001

  Details new report 'Common Ground, Common Future' aiming to promote 'ecoagriculture'; the unity of farming and conservation. The recommendations of the report are simple: if farmers can double or even treble food production on land they already use, they will have less need to encroach on pristine areas.