West Papua

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• A culprit and a PhD student on Resilience Alliance

  14 October, 2008 in 4. Other News, Fish

  are sought on the Resilience Alliance Blog:
  Decline in salmon causes decline in cultural ecosystem services
  Agriculture increases the supply of food supplied by an ecosystem, but often decreases its ability to supply other services. …

• IUCN Red List

  13 October, 2008 in 4. Other News

  The 2008 IUCN “Red List” was released last week. It tries to provide a comprehensive review of the conservation status of the world’s plants and animals, classifying each species reviewed with reference to how close…

• Mining, Gender and Sustainable Livelihoods Workshop, 6-7 November 2008

  10 October, 2008 in 1. RMAP News, Gender, Minerals

  What is the case for gender mainstreaming in the mining sector? How can addressing gender equity lead to sustainable livelihoods? What changes in policy or practice have arisen from the growing…

• People’s willingness? Prospect of PWRM in rural Bangladesh.

  8 October, 2008 in 1. RMAP News, Bangladesh, Biodiversity, Climate, Crops, Equity and Rights, Gender, Land, RMAP Home, Water

  It is quite challenging to motivate rural people to participate in local water resource management in Bangladesh. There are different reasons for this being such a challenge. However, there…

• Gassing about the God of a Small Province

  3 October, 2008 in Energy, Papua New Guinea

  Flag, anthem, motto - the bare essentials for an independence movement, ay bro. But your own God? This innovation was the implication of a letter in the largest selling Pacific Island newspaper this week.

  The…