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Focus areas and issues
A list of some areas and issues that are being addressed by the World Bank Group and that have a CPR angle or connection, and the specific nature of these issues (including concerns, interests and requirements), would include the following (see Table 1):
Table 1. CPRs in the World Bank Group: Areas and issues
Agriculture, Fisheries, Food security, Forestry, Rangeland mgmt. and Water:
Agricultural intensification, Agroforestry, Crop-livestock complementarities, CPR-PPR complementarities (CPRs as support lands for croplands), Diversified agriculture; Integrated coastal zone mgmt., Irrigation, Rangeland mgmt., Resource-centered research and development, River basin mgmt., Water resources mgmt., Watershed mgmt., etc.
Biodiversity and Environment:
Annual-perennial linkages and biomass stability, Biodiversity outside protected areas, Biophysical rehabilitation of degraded/waste lands, Deforestation and overgrazing, Economic benefits of CPRs, Environmental law, IPRs, Future of marginal lands, Medical anthropology, Micro-environment issues and land degradation, Micro watershed (hydrology) stability, Natural resource management, Participatory approaches, Public forests and parks, TRIP, TRRs, etc.
Poverty and Policy Work:
Gender, Indigenous peoples; Land intensification programs, Land policies, Land titling, Open access resources and options for rural poor, Tenure security, Resettlement, Resource access and autonomy issues, etc.
Social Policy and Programs:
Beneficiary assessment and public consultation, Civil society and grassroots level initiatives and group action, Community-based development, Community-based natural resource mgmt., Conflicts and conflict mgmt., Gender, Indigenous peoples, Indigenous resource use systems and their relevance, Intellectual property rights, Internal equity and access, Local and traditional institutions, Local-level initiatives on resource upgrading and regulation, Participatory approaches, Resettlement, Social assessment, Traditional knowledge, User groups and NGOs, etc.
Notes: This table does not aim to be exhaustive. Also, the available terminology is not always clear, and some Issues for this reason will be partly overlapping. Finally, the relationship between Areas and Issues is not definite, and there is permeability of Issues across the Areas.
Within this very broad set of areas and issues, CPRNet will focus on a smaller set of selected issues. The actual focus of CPRNet's work will depend on the interest of the members, and the expertise and resources at disposal. Over time the focus is likely to change, reflecting changing priorities and interests on the part of members as well as changing external priorities.