PLEC
NEWS
AND
VIEWS
No. 6, March 1996
CONTENTS
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NEWS OF THE PROJECT AND THE CLUSTERS
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News of the Project: a Progress Report
by the Editor
WAPLEC Activities in 1995 and early 1996, including a Workshop in Northern Ghana
by Edwin Gyasi
The Regional Symposium on Montane Mainland Southeast Asia in Transition, Chiang Mai ,
November 12-16 1995
by Benjavan Rerkasem and Harold Brookfield
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The Upper Amazon Várzea (Iquitos, Peru) Team in the Amazonian Cluster
by Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez
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A Journey to Baoshan and Gaoligong Mountain (Gaoligongshan), Western Yunnan
by Harold Brookfield
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News of the South-South Programme (The South-South Cooperation Programme on
Environmentally Sound Socio-Economic Development in the Humid Tropics)
by Miguel Clüsener-Godt (with an Explanatory Note by J.I. Uitto)
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PAPERS BY PROJECT MEMBERS
Collaborative Agroecosystems Management Project (‘CAMP’): A Proposed CommunityBased Initiative in Ghana, by WAPLEC in Collaboration with the Chief and People of
Gyamfiase
by Edwin Gyasi and Lewis Enu-Kwesi
Agrodiversity and Biodiversity on the Ground and among the People: Methodology from
Yunnan
by Guo Huijun, Dao Zhiling and Harold Brookfield, with a comment by Daniel Zarin
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Indigenous Knowledge: a Long History and an Uncertain Future
by Muriel Brookfield
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Local Experts and Local Leaders: Lessons from Amazonia
by Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez
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