The discussion in the recent COP 8 meeting ending on March 31,2006 the subject of prior Informed Consent and protection of intellectual property rights of knowledge holders remained very contentious. Here discuss various ...

Externalities can be internalized through market mechanism, government regulation, or self-governing institutions or a mix of these institutions. We recommend the institutional route which minimizes total cost (sum of ...

Policy goals of efficiency, equity, and sustainability may not be independent. Also the policy instruments. i.e. price mechanism, fiscal policy, and scale may be related. We need to find answers about who shall decide the ...

Ethical dilemma arise in pursing conservation of environment at different levels. In this paper, we review various ethical philosophies and identify the determinants of responsibility. Boundary of pain, responsibility ...

The ten myths discussed in this paper are: 1) Privatization of common lands leads to sustainable agro-forestry based land use, 2) Poor people have shorter time frame and have lesser trees in and around their fields, 3) ...

In the current euphoric mood of economic growth, many times we forget that there has been another extraordinary growth which should cause us concern. This is the growth in the number of districts affected by naxalite ...

Large number of local communities have conserved biodiversity and the associated knowledge systems despite remaining very poor. Sometimes, they have refused to receive any compensation in view of sharing the information. ...

A simple search on the web about unaided technological innovations by common people from the unorganized sector will reveal the paucity of information worldwide. It is this gap, which Honey Bee Network started at IIMA ...

Participatory plant breeding has attracted lot of attention in the recent past. However, most of the time, farmers’ involvement has been restricted to selections from the material generated by plant breeders as a part of ...

The dominant model of globalisation creates considerable anxiety and stress in the minds of small-scale entrepreneurs and civil society organisations. In this model, choices for small entrepreneurs are very limited. The ...