Traditional Knowledge 
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Prospects of bamboo shoot processing in north-east India
India has a vast bamboo cover of about 100,000 km which constitutes about
12.8% of the country’s forest area. It is represented by 23 genera and 128 species of which 15 genera and 50 species are in Arunachal Pradesh. A few species of bamboo are edible and are also of medicinal value.
- Date:
- Feb 2010
- Source:
- Current Science Vol: 98 Issue: 3 pp: 288-289
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- Reports and Documents
Clean development mechanism (CDM) carbon markets opportunities for investments and sustainable development in local communities
The objectives of the case studies are to determine the potential of indigenous knowledge in strategically
contributing to mitigation and adaptation to climate change. The case studies assess the indigenous
knowledge practiced and applied by local communities in East, West and Southern Africa regions and
- Date:
- Feb 2010
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- Bureau of Environmental Analysis (BEA) International
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Climate change and health: A native American perspective
The intricate, intertwined forces driving global climate change are mirrored by similar complexity in the human response to it. That makes it nearly impossible to anticipate the stance of any one group based solely on a label such as nationality, race, or economic class.
- Date:
- Feb 2010
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- Environmental Health Perspectives Vol: 118 Issue: 2 pp: A64-A65
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- News
Copenhagen to Nagoya
Diversity of opinion blocking deal on diversity
- Date:
- 14/01/2010
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- Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Negotiating participatory irrigation management in the Indian Himalayas
Participatory irrigation management (PIM) reforms are implemented in India to facilitate farmers’ participation in irrigation management, through water user groups.
- Date:
- Jan 2010
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- Agricultural Water Management pp: 1-8
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India to host 11th COP on biodiversity in 2012
As a mark of its commitment to biodiversity conservation, India will host the eleventh Conference of Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in October 2012. Called ‘Rio + 20’ CBD Conference, the COP, to be held in New Delhi, will also commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit, held in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro.
- Date:
- 05/01/2010
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- Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Rich & poor countries now don’t agree on biodiversity
Fate of Nagoya hanging in balance as developed nations resist legal framework for use of biological resources
- Date:
- 05/01/2010
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- Economic Times (New Delhi)
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Call to brand State’s organic agriculture
The organic agriculture of the State needs to be branded for economic uplift of the people of this part of the globe. This was the observation made by Prof Anil Gupta, one of the leading innovation experts of the country.
- Date:
- 05/01/2010
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- Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
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Africa's land and family farms - up for grabs?
Over the years many Big Ideas have been imposed on Africa from outside. The latest is that the region should sell or lease millions of hectares of land to foreign investors, who will bring resources and up-to-date technology. None of the blueprints has worked, and African farmers have become increasingly impoverished.
- Date:
- Jan 2010
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- Seedling pp: 13-16
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Culture and sustainable livelihoods
The sustainable livelihoods (SL) approach offers a practical means of addressing some critical aspects of sustainable development. In this research, the SL framework is applied to an analysis of tourism development among the Shanmei Cou in Taiwan.
- Date:
- Jan 2010
- Source:
- Journal of Human Ecology Vol: 29 Issue: 1 pp: 1-21
