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Climate change and the current 'food crisis'.
Many reasons are being advanced for the current 'food crisis' including financial speculation, increased demand for grains, export bans on selected ...
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Multilateral responses to the global food crisis.
Skyrocketing food prices in 2007 and 2008 have produced social and political unrest in many developing countries and threaten to precipitate an unpre...
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The causes and consequences of the food crisis.
The origins of the sharp rise in food prices towards a peak in mid-2008 are evaluated and analyzed. The food crisis has been felt not only among the...
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Slicing the REDD+ pie: controversies around the distribution of benefits
This review presents some main themes in the debates that are currently ongoing on the subject of distribution of benefits under new international policy on reduci...
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Current status of coffee genetic resources and implications for conservation.
Coffee genetic resources are being lost at a rapid pace, leading to loss of genetic diversity. Some of the threats contributing to the erosion of coff...
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Tourism and biodiversity conservation: the case of community-based natural resource management in So
This review analyses the potential of tourism to contribute to biodiversity conservation with particular reference to developing countries. In the l...
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TB vaccines in the era of HIV: new developments.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) infection is a global problem, which is exacerbated by human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) co-infection. Despite ...
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Life Cycle Assessment as applied to environmental choices regarding farmed or wild-caught fish
Fish production is facing increasing worldwide demand while fish landings are plateauing. Fish production is the only kind of animal production that...
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Health impacts of eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid.
Long chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC n-3 PUFA) particularly, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA, 22: 5n-3) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, 22: 6n...
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DNA barcoding for plant protection: applications and summary of available data for arthropod pests.
Over the last decade, DNA barcoding -the use of short, standardized DNA sequences for species identification -has emerged as an important tool to stud...
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