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    Global financial and food crisis: a Malysian perspective

    Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia, 2009
    High food prices from 2007 through mid-2008 spawned serious implications for food security, macroeconomic stability and even political stability in many countries, especially developing ones.
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    The economics of ecosystems and biodiversity. An interim report

    European Commission Directorate-General Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability, 2008
    This document aims to promote a better understanding of the true economic value of ecosystem services and to offer economic tools that take proper account of this value. The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) is split in two phases and this interim report summarises the results of Phase I.
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    Practical approaches to transboundary water benefit sharing

    Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2008
    The emergence and maintenance of transboundary water management regimes rests on a complex web of inter-related factors that define incentives for cooperation. This paper considers practical mechanisms towards an operationalisation of benefit sharing in transboundary water by focusing on steps for putting the concept into practice and the lessons learned from existing cooperative efforts.
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    Community-based natural resource management and poverty alleviation in Namibia: a case study

    Mercatus Center, George Mason University, 2007
    Can indigenous people protect their environment and, at the same time, develop strong businesses that help diversify their livelihoods and alleviate poverty? In Namibia, this paper argues, the answer is yes. Through community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), it describes how Namibians who form conservancies now have legal rights to manage wildlife and benefit from tourism.
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    Markets for ecosystem services: a potential tool for multilateral environmental agreements

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2006
    This paper discusses markets for ecosystem services (MES), which is an alternative approach for dealing with the way ecosystem services are used.
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    Agricultural insurance revisited: new developments and perspectives in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Sustainable Development Department, Inter-American Development Bank, 2005
    This paper focuses on agricultural production risk management, explaining key concepts, understanding why crop insurance markets have been slow to develop, and making recommendations about how to build sustainable markets in developing country contexts, with information drawn from Latin America and the Caribbean.
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    Structural change and market opening in agriculture: Turkey towards EU accession

    Economic Research Center, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, 2004
    The purpose of this study is to identify major elements in the pre-accession period through a description of the agricultural environment in Turkey, together with the possible effects of accession on agriculture.
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    Agricultural growth and rural poverty: a review of evidence

    Asian Development Bank Institute, 2005
    This report examines the apparent paradox that emerged over the 1990s of relatively good reported agricultural growth accompanied by increasing levels of poverty.
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    Communication strategies in the age of decentralisation and privatisation of rural services: lessons from two African experiences

    Overseas Development Institute, 2004
    This paper describes the challenges of decentralisation and privatisation of rural services from the perspective of communication strategy development. The author argues that the wave of decentralisation and privatisation in rural services worldwide has created a challenge for rural communities, service providers and local governments.
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    Availability, access and usability of land for urban agriculture

    RUAF Urban Agriculture Magazine, 2003
    The report by the Urban Agriculture Magazine draws on numerous case studies from around the world in discussing issues of availability, access and usability of land for urban agriculture.Rapid urbanisation has lead to an increasing demand for urban agricultural land.

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