This article estimates the economic rents received by the 10 mines that comprise Chile’s large-scale private-sector copper-mining industry. The methodology used produces a conservative calculation and includes two corrections that have hitherto been ignored in the literature: the reimbursement of...
It is estimated that shifting cultivation accounts for about 70 percent of the deforestation in Africa, 50 percent in Asia, and 30 percent in Latin America of the 14 million hectares of tropical moist forests currently destroyed every year. Tropical deforestation is responsible for 18 percent of ...
International Center for Tropical Agriculture
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[Alternatives to slash & burn: a global strategy: special project for presentation to the global steering group (GSG): first phase January 1993-December 1997]
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Alternatives to slash & burn: a global strategy: special project for presentation to the global steering group (GSG): first phase January 1993-December 1997
Recovering nutrients, water and energy from domestic waste streams, including wastewater and faecal sludge, is slowly gaining momentum in low-income countries. Resource recovery and reuse (RRR) offers value beyond environmental benefits through cost recovery. An expected game changer in sanitatio...
Rao, Krishna C.
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Otoo, Miriam
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Drechsel, Pay
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Hanjra, Munir A.
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[Resource recovery and reuse as an incentive for a more viable sanitation service chain]
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Resource recovery and reuse as an incentive for a more viable sanitation service chain
Identifies some of the factors which affect decisions on the absolute level and structure of financing livestock services, on cost recovery and privatization as well as the direction policy is likely to take as a result. Explores instruments available to directors of veterinary services and hence...
Anteneh, A.
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[Financing livestock services: Do directors of veterinary services have a distinct role in policy-making?]
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Financing livestock services: Do directors of veterinary services have a distinct role in policy-making?
Doshi, K.
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Rao, Krishna C.
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Parthan, B.
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[Biogas from kitchen waste for internal consumption (Wipro Employees Canteen, India) - Case Study]
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Biogas from kitchen waste for internal consumption (Wipro Employees Canteen, India) - Case Study
Otoo, Miriam
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Gebrezgabher, Solomie A.
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Drechsel, Pay
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Rao, Krishna C.
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Fernando, Sudarshana
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Pradhan, S. K.
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Hanjra, Munir A.
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Qadir, Manzoor
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Winkler, M.
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[Defining and analyzing RRR business cases and models]
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Defining and analyzing RRR business cases and models
Allan, T.
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Matthews, Nathaniel
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[The water, energy and food nexus and ecosystems: the political economy of food non-food supply chains]
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The water, energy and food nexus and ecosystems: the political economy of food non-food supply chains
With current rates of land degradation reaching ten to twelve million ha per year, there is an urgent need to scale up and out successful, profitable and resource-efficient sustainable land management practices to maintain the health and resilience of the land that humans depend on. As much as 50...
Thomas, Richard J.
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Reed, M.
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Clifton, K.
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Appadurai, Arivudai Nambi
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Mills, A. J.
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Zucca, Claudio
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Kodsi, E.
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Sircely, Jason A.
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Haddad, F.
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Hagen, C. von
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Mapedza, Everisto
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Wolderegay, K.
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Shalander, K.
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Bellon, M.
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Le, Q. B.
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Mabikke, Samuel
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Alexander, S.
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Leu, S.
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Schlingloff, S.
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Lala-Pritchard, T.
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Mares, V.
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Quiróz, R.
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[Scaling up sustainable land management and restoration of degraded land]
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Scaling up sustainable land management and restoration of degraded land
Otoo, Miriam
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Drechsel, Pay
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[Resource recovery from waste: business models for energy, nutrient and water reuse in low- and middle-income countries]
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Resource recovery from waste: business models for energy, nutrient and water reuse in low- and middle-income countries
