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nature: poor people's wealth

preface nature: poor people’s wealth

1. introduction
   • cameroon what poverty means to the bagyeli people
   • chile quin-quen win rights to trees and pine-nuts
2. introduction , poverty and natural resources
   • threatened forests
     • malaysia mapping their rights: sarawak forest communities
     • indonesia communities care for forests
     • china greening the mongolian desert
   • fisheries in trouble
     • togo the best fish is a local one: global trade creates poverty on togo's coastlines
     • nigeria shrimp farming threatens local fishing rights in the niger delta
     • indonesia better shrimp farming in java
     • middle east sharing water
   • water woes
3. introduction how neoliberalism fails to alleviate poverty
   • trade liberalization: the ‘trickle down’myth
   • corporate greenwash allows business-as-usual
   • the failure of development aid
     • russia sakhalin sickens fish and people
     • laos nam theun mega dam: bad news for laotian farmers
   • privatization puts nature up for sale
   • corporate-driven agriculture does not feed the poor
     • colombia bogotá: city without hunger?
   • millennium goals fall short
4. introduction : how people can prevail in poverty eradication
   • community-based resource management
     • ghana sustainable jobs contribute to harmony in northern ghana
     • el salvador medicinal plants create jobs and alleviate poverty
     • timor leste community self-determination on paradise island of atauro
     • paraguay ancient solutions for today’s headaches promoting medicinal plants in paraguay
     • mauritius building houses from the bottom up
   • fighting for environmental rights
     • scotland coal mining communities seek environmental justice
     • paraguay getting to know poverty: paraguay’s ayoreo forced out of isolation
     • india land rights empower the katkari of india
   • mainstreaming gender into poverty eradication
     • ghana environmental empowerment for young women
     • india women forest guards in indian tiger reserve
   • sustainable energy and climate justice
     • argentina burning clean in argentina
     • el salvador biking out of poverty
     • malaysia community lights the way with renewable energy
   • people’s food sovereignty and sustainable agriculture
     • latin america farmer-led food sovereignty
     • uruguay protecting local varieties for family farms
   • cancellation of the external debt and recognition