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  Capacity building material for the realization of farmers rights in Malawi: farmers' rights related to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture in Malawi

  Development Fund, Norway, 2015

  The capacity building material on Farmers’ Rights is framed within the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
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  Social-ecological changes in a Quilombola community in the Atlantic Forest of Southeastern Brazil

  Springerlink, 2014

  Through a combined adaptive cycle and political ecology approach, this article explores how the Afro-Brazilian Quilombolas of Bombas, living inside the protected area of PETAR, respond to and shape social-ecological changes in the Atlantic Forest.
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  Nile issues: small streams from the Nile Basin Research Programme

  Nile Basin Research Programme, University of Bergen, 2010

  The Nile Basin Research Programme (NBRP), as a strategic, multidisciplinary programme for research and higher education on topics related to the Nile Basin, has had the overall aim to enhance and promote quality research on Nile-related issues and to support research collaboration between institutions in the Nile Basin region.
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  The Plant Treaty and farmers’ rights: implementation issues for South Asia

  Farmers' Rights, 2009

  This paper demonstrates the importance of harmonising other international agreements with the Plant Treaty. In this sense, the author believes that the International Regime on Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will not affect the maintenance of crop genetic resources negatively.
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  Balancing building blocks of a functional ABS system

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2009

  This report seeks to identify a balanced approach to the components ‘building blocks’ of access and benefit sharing (ABS) of genetic resources for the purpose of making it functional and implementable at all levels (legal certainty). In order to achieve that, the paper identifies several possible ‘building blocks’ that may be useful in creating a balanced ABS regime.
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  Genetic resources in the CBD: the wording, the past, the present and the future

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2010

  This paper aims at contributing to the development of an international regime on access and benefit sharing (ABS) by clarifying the concept of ‘genetic resources’ as it has emerged and keeps evolving.
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  Management of Natural Resources Programme, Tanzania TAN-0092 : final evaluation

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2007

  This paper presents the findings of the final evaluation of the Management of Natural Resources Programme (MNRP) in Tanzania. The evaluation consisted of site visits to the programme’s eleven projects, interviews with project managers and beneficiaries, and a review of programme documents and other relevant literature.
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  The role of garsa (dobera glabra) for household food security at times of food shortage in Aba'ala Wereda, North Afar: ecological adaptation and socio-economic value: a study from Ethiopia

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2007

  The endangered Dobera glabra plant species is highly valued for its diverse importance, including as a drought food and feed source and as a tool for forecasting the coming of drought. This paper assesses the role of D. glabra for household food security. The study was based on a combination of research methods, including:
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  The role of social relations in farmer seed systems and reconstruction of agricultural production in a post-disaster situation

  LinKS Project: Gender, Biodiversity and Local Knowledge Systems for Food Security, FAO, 2004

  This article looks at seed flow in the post-flood situation experienced by Southern Mozambique in the year 2000. It looks at the local processes of seed acquisition based on the traditional values of help and solidarity. Too often seed relief programmes are based on the assumption that farmers themselves are not able to rehabilitate their seeds in times of crisis.