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Policy Briefs archive results 1-7 of 7 in Agriculture & Environment and Biodiversity
Looking after local interests in protected areas
Involving local communities in biodiversity protection from the outset can boost both conservation and empowerment of local people.
POLICY BRIEF | 27 March 2009 | EN
The case for joint action on biotechnology in Africa
What are the main issues that African nations face in forthcoming negotiations on biotechnology and biosafety?
POLICY BRIEF | 4 June 2007 | EN
Putting the right price on nature: environmental economics
Valuing the benefits ecosystems give us is a vital step in ensuring their sustainable use and conservation. Anantha Duraiappah shows how environmental economics offers the best way yet to tackle the job.
POLICY BRIEF | 1 October 2006 | EN
Convention on Biological Diversity: a progress report
Policy analyst, Stas Burgiel, charts the progress of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, and discusses the relative successes and many difficulties it has had to weather.
How biodiversity and climate change interact
Hannah Reid, Balakrishna Pisupati and Helen Baulch explore the inextricable links between biodiversity and climate, and explain why an integrated policy approach is required.
Modern agriculture and biodiversity: uneasy neighbours
In recent times, agriculture and biodiversity have coexisted uneasily. Barbara Gemmill and Ana Milena Varela describe how the future of each is intimately bound up in the other.
POLICY BRIEF | 1 February 2004 | EN
How biodiversity loss affects the health of ecosystems
Some environmental researchers take the view that species-rich ecosystems function better than those that are species-poor. Others disagree. Shahid Naeem assesses the arguments.
POLICY BRIEF | 1 February 2004 | 中文
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Missed the Global Health Forum 2009?
Our blog, by SciDev.Net columnist Priya Shetty, will fill you in, as will our interview with the Global Forum's Gill Samuels
