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    Producing localized commodity frontiers at the end of cheap nature: an analysis of eco‐scalar carbon fixes and their consequences

    Wiley Online Library, 2018
    There is no single ‘great’ commodity frontier whose exploitation under current socio‐technical conditions could fuel capital accumulation at the global scale. According to Jason Moore, this represents the ‘end of Cheap Nature’ and signals a terminal crisis for capitalism as we know it.
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    South-south technology transfer low carbon building technologies: inception report

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    This high rate of urbanisation puts tremendous pressure on the entire building material sector. With constraints in supply of material both the quality of material (brick) and the application (house) has degrade d to an alarming extent resulting in poor quality and increasing construction costs. Most often it has reached beyond the means of common beneficiaries.
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    Pro-Poor Value Chain Development for High ValueProducts in Mountain Regions: Indian Bay Leaf

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2011
    Production of high value products and services can help reduce poverty in mountain regions. Value chains can be used to describe the activities and benefits involved in bringing such a product from the producer to the market, and analysed to identify improvements along the chain which, if addressed, yield the highest positive outcome for small producers, traders, and processors.
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    Governing the forests: an institutional analysis of REDD+ and community forest management in Asia

    International Tropical Timber Organization, 2013
    This report examines the history, structure and monitoring mechanisms of REDD+ to better understand how it impacts upon, and interacts with, Community Forest Management (CFM). It presents case studies of CFM and REDD+ governance from Bangladesh, Indonesia and India, and concludes with some lessons learned.
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    Respecting rights, delivering development: forest tenure reform since Rio 1992

    The Rights and Resources Initiative, 2012
    This report evaluates the progress achieved in forest management by indigenous people and local communities, which was set as a key objective at the 1992 Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It presents new findings and identifies what needs to done to protect global forest areas and ensure their contributions to social, environmental and economic development.
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    The reality of trying to transform structures and processes: forestry in rural livelihoods

    Overseas Development Institute, 2000
    What are the key constraints to improving forest based livelihoods within the forest sector? What are the key relationships that provide the institutional context in which forest based livelihoods operate? The authors focus on a forestry project in Karnataka, India to illustrate the processes and problems of supporting livelihood change in the forestry institutional environment.
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    Rights-based approaches to forest conservation

    International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2008
    In context of the recent emergence of the debate on rights-based approaches (RBA) to conservation, this paper provides a collaborative piece of work on the constitution of RBA’s and some of the key issues surrounding them. It also looks at some examples from countries where there is a need for RBA’s.
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    Conserving biodiversity resources on small farms in India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    In regions where plant genetic diversity is high, farmers’ fields are important for conserving plant genetic resources (PGR). Poor women farmers play an essential role in this conservation. Recognising this role is vital for the sustainable management of agrobiodiversity.
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    ETFRN News 43/44: forests and conflicts

    European Tropical Forest Research Network, 2006
    This newsletter highlights the theme of forests and conflict. While there is much international debate on security and governance issues, sustainable management of natural resources appears to receive inadequate attention.
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    Women and land rights in India – competing and changing interests

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Policy support for women’s land rights in India has not translated into title deeds in women’s names. When agriculture depends heavily on women’s labour, why have women not joined together to demand rights to land?

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