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In December 2006, IDRC launched Comanagement of Natural Resources: Local Learning for Poverty Reduction, the latest book in its in_focus series, at the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research’s (CGIAR) Annual General Meeting in Washington, DC.

Author Stephen Tyler and the director of IDRC’s Environment and Natural Resource Management program area, Jean Lebel, led three separate events on December 4 and 5:

• A session at the Washington offices of Rights and Resources, a coalition of various NGOs,
• A presentation as part of the World Bank Info Shop sessions,
• A lunch organized with the CGIAR.

Among those attending were representatives from the World Wildlife Fund, the International Food Policy Research Institute, Forest Trends, the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development, the World Bank and its Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Working Group, and the Rare Conservation Group.

IDRC’s in_focus collection contains special thematic books and Websites on selected activities supported by the Centre. Each one tackles a pressing issue in sustainable international development. IDRC’s experience is distilled and organized in such as way as to draw out important lessons, observations, and recommendations for decision-makers and policy advisors.

Read the book online

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