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WORLD RESOURCES 2005
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Index
A
Access
Access Principles (Rio Declaration), 71
common pool resources, 40–41
as determinant of rural wealth, 16
effectiveness of efforts to improve, 71
to financing and credit, 86, 98–99, 109
governance issues, 3–4, 19, 23, 70–71, 75–76
to information, 56, 71, 73–75, 159
to justice, 71, 76–77
Millennium Development Goals, 159
obstacles to, 71, 74
in poverty reduction strategy papers, 165, 167–168, 170
privatization of resources, 42
women’s, 75–76, 170
See also Tenure
Accountability
in democratic processes, 69
in governance, 64, 69, 73
information needs for, 73–74
in Millennium Development Goals, 154, 157
Africa
agricultural economy, 4, 31, 35
common pool resources, 40
fisheries incomes, 35
Millennium Development Goals, 154
poverty trends, 7, 10
See also specific country
Agriculture
climate change and, 16
economic significance of, for poor, 35, 39, 45
ecosystem management to improve, 81–82
environmental income and, 34, 35, 39, 45
export economy, 35
fair-trade certification, 94–95
Green Revolution, 18–19, 45
information needs of rural poor, 73, 75
organic products, 95, 100–101
productivity, 17
product losses in storage and processing, 99
strategies for poverty reduction, 18–19
trade and subsidization policies, 30–31
watershed management in India and, 127
woodlands management in Tanzania and, 131, 136
AIDS/HIV, 10–11, 22
Argentina, 14
Asia
Millennium Development Goals, 154
See also specific country
B
Bangladesh, 68–69
household spending patterns, 14
Bioprospecting, 72, 149–150
Bolivia, 63, 67, 87, 105
environmental income, 46
poverty profile, 6
poverty reduction strategy papers, 166, 168–169, 170
Botswana
common pool resources, 40
environmental income, 44
Brazil, 25, 75, 98, 104
environmental income, 48
payment for environmental service programs, 108
C
Cambodia, 27, 159
common pool resources, 40
environmental income, 49
fisheries, 38, 158
poverty reduction strategy papers, 166, 169, 170
Cameroon, 67, 86
Caribbean countries. See Latin America and Caribbean
Chad, 50
Children
educational attainment, 52
health risks for, 21
household responsibilities, 52
malnutrition effects, 21
Millennium Development Goals, 154
Chile, 25
poverty trends, 10
China
experimental land reforms, 86
poverty trends, 7, 10, 11
Climate change, 13, 16, 22
Coffee, 94, 98, 99
Colombia, 69
payment for environmental services in, 106, 107
Co-management partnerships, 93–96
Commercialization and marketing
commodity chain, 99
cooperatives, 94–95, 99–100
fair-trade certification, 94–95, 100
information needs, 73, 97, 102–103
infrastructure needs, 97
niche products and services, 17–18
obstacles to improving environmental income, 97
organic products, 94–95, 100–101
private sector partnerships, 101–104
problems of ecosystem commercialization, 105
product processing strategies, 99
training and support, 97