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  REDD: A Collection of Conflicts, Contradictions and Lies

  World Rainforest Movement, 2015

  The complexity of REDD initiatives from another perspective.
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  Forests and water

  Unasylva, FAO, 2008

  Water-related problems are an increasingly important challenge to sustainable development, and the availability and quality of water are strongly influenced by forests.
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  Cutting edge: how community forest enterprises lead the way on poverty reduction and avoided deforestation

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007

  Forests are not just crucial for keeping the global environment stable; they are also a lifeline for hundreds of millions of the world's poor. This paper presents community forest enterprise as a possible solution, which combines both avoided deforestation (the concept of richer nations paying poorer ones to halt planned logging) and poverty reduction.
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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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  Vulnerability to climate stress:local and regional perspectives: proceedings of two workshops

  Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2005

  This report discusses the proceedings of two related workshops, which presented the findings of the project “Adaptation as a livelihood struggle: conflict and vulnerability among dryland populations in Kenya”. This research looked at how conflicts shape adaptation and contribute to vulnerability in the face of climate stresses, such as drought.
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  Rehabilitation of degraded lands in Sub-Saharan Africa: lessons learned from selected case studies

  European Tropical Forest Research Network, 2004

  This synthesis document brings together the findings of African forest scientists operating under the umbrella of the Forestry Research Network of Sub-Saharan Africa who compiled case studies of land rehabilitation from all major ecological regions in Western- Eastern and Southern Africa.
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  Men, women and water – how can a community improve their water supply?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Improvements to rural water supplies benefit health and economies. However, despite the availability of simple technology, many rural communities have not made changes to their water infrastructure.
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  The effects of decentralization on Kenya’s forestry sector: cases from forests studied by the IRFI collaborating research centre in Kenya

  Kenya Forestry Research Institute, 2004

  Decentralisation and devolution have become dominant themes in the management of natural resources in the less developed countries.
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  Mangroves: local livelihoods vs. corporate profits

  World Rainforest Movement, 2003

  This book gathers a selection of articles published in the monthly electronic bulletin of the World Rainforest Movement (WRM), addressing the issue of the processes leading to the destruction of mangrove forests and the struggles developed at the local and global levels to protect and use these forests in a socially equitable and environmentally adequate manner.The articles give an overview of
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  Indigenous knowledge, policy and institutional issues for collaboration between mountain adjacent communities and management agencies

  Mountain Forum, 2002

  This paper looks at possibilities existing within the indigenous knowledge systems, community structures, institutional management agencies and other resource users for sustainable mountain and site-based resources conservation.

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