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Untangling the environmentalist's paradox: Better data, better accounting, and better technology will help by Nelson, Gerald C.

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A double honour by Lawrence, Frank E.

“…Lawrence, priest and environmentalist Lawrence has spent a lifetime helping rural people in his native Jamaica to understand more about sustainable community development.…”
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Opportunities and issues for biometry in a rapidly changing environment by Nokoe, S., Ojurongbe, T., Bamiduro, T.

“…Tools for such estimations need In be developed jointly by the environmentalist and statistician.…”
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How institutions and beliefs affect environmental discourse: Evidence from an eight-country survey on REDD+ by Gregorio, M. di, Gallemore, C., Brockhaus, Maria, Fatorelli, L., Muharrom, E.

“…This discourse is challenged primarily by a minority reformist civic environmentalist discourse put forward primarily by domestic NGOs. …”
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Zimbabwe to phase out DDT by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…DDT is to be phased out of the anti-tsetse campaign in Zimbabwe: environmentalists have found traces of the chemical, and shell thinning, in the eggs of the fish eagle population of Lake Kariba. …”
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Approaches to sustainable forest management by Putz, F.E.

“…Participation of forest managers, timber importers, researchers, and environmentalists in the development of methods for assessing the social and ecological impacts of tropical forestry operations inspires hope for sustainability.…”
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NTFP commercialisation in Zimbabwe by Braedt, O., Campbell, Bruce M.

“…Possible social and ecological impacts originating from this informal commerce have alarmed environmentalists, governmental and non-governmental intitutions, and policy makers. …”
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CGIAR International Center Directors Meeting Minutes, Presiding Chair: N. Brady by CGIAR Center Directors Committee

“…The center directors discuss criticism by environmentalists that plant breeding varieties lack genetic diversity, rely on heavy use of inputs, lead to greater prevalence of insects and diseases, benefit the large more than the small farmers and are inferior to traditional varieties in nutritional qualities. …”
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Paying for agricultural productivity by Alston, Julian M., Pardey, Philip G., Smith, Vincent H.

“…Paying for Agricultural Productivity will be an invaluable resource for economic and development specialists concerned with agricultural research and development, as well as for farmers, food processors, agricultural wholesalers and retailers, environmentalists, and research scientists.…”
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Fast-wood forestry: myths and realities by Cossalter, C., Pye-Smith, Charlie

“…It separates fact from fiction, science from speculation, truth from misinformation. Environmentalists have frequently exaggerated the malign impact of fast-wood plantations. …”
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Fast-wood forestry: myths and realities [Japanese] by Cossalter, C., Pye-Smith, Charlie

“…It separates fact from fiction, science from speculation, truth from misinformation. Environmentalists have frequently exaggerated the malign impact of fast-wood plantations. …”
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Sustainable Farming: A Political Geography by Paarlberg, Robert L.

“…If regional precision is maintained, paralyzing technical arguments between powerful agriculturalists and environmentalists can be minimized, and important reform imperatives that go beyond technical choice can be highlighted as well.…”
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Livestock Policy Analysis Brief no. 9 . Fertiliser use in semi-arid West Africa: Profitability and supporting policy by Shapiro, Barry I., Sanders, J.H.

“…An important debate is currently under way among researchers and policy makers about the relative merits of using organic versus inorganic fertilisers to improve soil fertility in semi-arid areas of sub-Saharan Africa. Environmentalists argue that use of inorganic fertiliser contributes to natural resource degradation and recommend use of organic fertilisers as a means of promoting sustainable agriculture. …”
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The Elite Choice : ’Unpacking the elite’ in Mukungule Chiefdom, Zambia by Mwale, Gilbert

“…Community-based natural resource management has been advocated for by many scholar and environmentalists to improve natural resources management, equity, and justice for local people. …”

Biotechnology, trade, and hunger: IFPRI 2000-2001 Annual Report Essay by Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio, Robinson, Sherman

“…But the new genetic modification (GM) technologies that many expect will help the world meet its food needs — not only through quantity, but nutritional quality as well — raise critical issues for international trade, including this key question: What will happen if pressure from consumers and environmentalists in the developed world leads to a new generation of trade restrictions, or to the segmentation of GM-food product markets, as appears to be happening in Europe and Japan? …”
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Managing biodiversity in agricultural ecosystems by Jarvis, Devra I., Padoch, Christine, Cooper, H.D.

“…Thus this text is mandatory reading for conservationists, environmentalists, botanists, zoologists, geneticists, and anyone interested in the health of our ecosystem. …”
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Decentralization and environmental conservation: gender effects from participation in joint forest management by Agrawal, Arun, Yadama, Gautam, Andrade, Raul, Bhattacharya, Ajoy

“…We also find that the “action effect” is more important than the “representation effect,” confirming some major arguments advanced by feminist environmentalists. Our statistical results are robust to different specifications and provide considerable empirical support for promoting women’s participation in community-based protection of natural resources.…”
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To fly or not to fly by Snippe, Jara

“…With the global temperature rising and the fight to stay below a 2-degree global warming, environmentalists, environmental organizations and climate scientists are arguing that there is a need to reduce global carbon emissions to mitigate climate change. …”
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Managing biodiversity in agricultural ecosystems [Arabic version]: إدارة التنوع الحيوي في النظم البيئية الزراعية by Jarvis, Devra I., Padoch, Christine, Cooper, H.D., Bioversity International

“…Thus this text is mandatory reading for conservationists, environmentalists, botanists, zoologists, geneticists, and anyone interested in the health of our ecosystem. …”
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Woodfuel in a global change context by Gazull, L., Gautier, D.

“…Many forestry specialists and environmentalists are putting up ideological resistance. …”
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