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Agriculture & Environment: Biodiversity

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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?

Source: The International Institute for Sustainable Development

4 June 2007 | EN

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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.

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.

1 February 2004 | EN | 中文

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.

1 February 2004 | EN | 中文

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.

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.

1 February 2004 | 中文