1. Grounds for pessimism and optimism -- 2. Theses and theory of change -- 3. REDD's path to date -- 4. What do Pygmies circa Mobutu's Zaire have to do with REDD? -- 5. Science and policy -- 6. Stakeholders and REDD -- 7. Social feasibility and its components -- 8. Capacity building: often...

India has one of the most advanced pharmaceutical industries among developing countires. Yet India is critically dependent on China for supplies of build drugs and drug intermediates with China accounting for about two-thirds of the total imports. In the early 1990s, China was relatively a minor...

Understanding the problem of land degradation in a given spatial and temporal context, requires looking at the community baseline conditions such as the natural resource base, human resources, existing institutions and infrastructure base, and how these conditions interact with policies and...