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Rich countries launch great land grab to safeguard food supply (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
Julian Borger, diplomatic editor guardian.co.uk, Saturday November 22 2008 00.01 GMT The Guardian, Saturday November 22 2008 Rich governments and corporations are triggering alarm for the poor as they buy up the rights to millions of hectares of agricultural land in developing ...
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Saving the Wildlife of Madagascar (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1844474,00.html?iid=spherein linebottom By Bryan Walsh / Andasibe Thursday, Sep. 25, 2008 When you're on the lookout for lemurs — the unusually cute and endangered group of primates found only on the African island of Madagascar — it helps ...
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MADAGASCAR, Balancing poor communities and conservation (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79578  TOLIARA, 1 August 2008 (IRIN) Madagascar is entering uncharted waters in its bid to implement ambitious projects in partnership with poor local communities that will more than triple existing conservation areas ...
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ECSP Blog - Increasing Human Security through Water and Sanitation (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
Source: The New Security Beat (Blog hosted by Woodrow Wilson Center's Environmental Change and Security Program) Posted: July 3, 2008  {}Guest Contributor Alex Fischer on Increasing Human Security through Water and Sanitation Services in Rural ...
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Madagascar to Sell Carbon Credits to Protect Forest (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/48759/story.htm\\ \\ MADAGASCAR: June 13, 2008 \\ \\ {}PORT LOUIS Madagascar will sell nine million tons of carbon offsets in a voluntary scheme to help protect one of its biggest and most pristine forests, a conservation group ...
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Future 'Battlegrounds' for Habitat Conservation Very Different to Those in Past (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
From: UniversityofCalifornia San Diego Published March 2, 2008 08:30 AM  http://www.enn.com/ecosystems/article/32104 Their study, published online February 28 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, provides a guide for conservationists of the areas ...
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Gems rush destroys Madagascar's green paradise (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
Independent News and Media Limited By Kim Sengupta in Ilakaka, Madagascar Published: 03 November 2006 The young woman in a red and green dress clutched a fistful of grubby notes in one hand. The other clung to her boyfriend, who was leaning against ...
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Madagascar- Twelve sentenced to death over 2006 land clash (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
16 November 2007 BBC Monitoring Africa Text of report by Radio France Internationale on 16 November In Madagascar, 12 peasants have been sentenced to death for not wanting to leave lands on which they had been living for years. Six others ...
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High stakes in dangerous Madagascar town producing 30 percent of world's sapphires (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
JONNY HOGG Associated Press Writer 19 November 2007 ILAKAKA, Madagascar (AP) Everyone plays for high stakes in Ilakaka. You can get rich or you can die. Even for experienced gamblers, the odds of getting killed are high ...
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