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Technologies, institutions, and incentives for conservation of biodiversity in non-OECD countries: assessing needs for technical cooperation
(1996-10-07)
Building technical competence and providing institutional incentives for conservation of diversity have to
go hand-in-hand. Communities and individuals can conserve diversity without being aware of the value of
the ...
Pastoral adaptation to risks in dry regions: a framework for analysis
(1991-09-29)
Pastoralism, for many, is a profession destined to die. To them the purpose of social enquiry should be make the process of annihilation less painful and perhaps even slower. Improvement in the conditions of a pastoral way ...
Survival under stress in India: a socio-ecological perspective on farmer risk adjustment and innovations
(1990-09-29)
It has been suggested that it did not matter if the natural scientists did not interact with the farmers as long as they were developing technologies relevant for ecologically uniform and well-endowed conditions such as ...
Science, sustainability and social purpose: barriers to effective articulation, dialogue and utilization of formal and informal science in public policy
(1999-10-13)
The communication among scientists, policy makers, public policy analysts and the
common people in society is often fraught with ambiguity, anxiety and some times clear
confusion. Not to mention the times when it is very ...
A river without tributaries: liberating the mind through harnessing grassroots creativity
(1996-10-07)
The authors, in an apparent bid to emphasise the critical need for assimilation of the logic and sprit behind the drive of liberalization by the common man in the street in the minds of realities that mark our present ...
Suggested ethical guidelines for accessing and exploring Biodiversity: the new conservation scholars initiative
(1995-10-05)
Biodiversity in both developing and developed countries has been accessed for a long time by outside
researchers and corporate prospectors as well as by local communities. Such activities are carried out for
various ...
Honey bee: a voice of creative farmers, artisans, pastoralists and other grassroots innovation
(1995-10-05)
With this issue, we complete five years. Five years in the
life of a journal of this kind are just sufficient to move from
a crawling to walking stage. With your continued support,
we are sure that the newsletter will ...
Poverty abounds in Biodiversity - rich areas
(1992-10-01)
PEOPLE who live in areas prone to droughts, floods and cyclones or amidst hills and forests have
developed lifestyles best suited to their natural resources, thereby enriching the biodiversity of their
areas.
Diversity ...
The honey bee network: voices from grassroots innovators
(1996-07-15)
An assumption behind most approaches to the alleviation of poverty is that poor people are
too poor to be able to think and plan on their own. The result is that most interventions are
designed by others: civil servants, ...